linux.git/net/decnet/dn_dev.c, branch v2.6.21.7

[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tables

2007-02-14T16:10:00+00:00

It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table
initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are
initializing.

[akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: "John W. Linville" 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET] DECNET: Fix whitespace errors.

2007-02-11T07:19:29+00:00

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations

2007-02-08T20:38:41+00:00

Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event
notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug,
its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially
when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in
the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present.

This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification
functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations
using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DECNET]: Handle a failure in neigh_parms_alloc (take 2)

2007-01-25T23:51:51+00:00

While enhancing the neighbour code to handle multiple network
namespaces I noticed that decnet is assuming neigh_parms_alloc
will allways succeed, which is clearly wrong.  So handle the
failure.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" param

2006-12-10T17:55:41+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[DECNET] address: Convert to new netlink interface

2006-12-03T05:30:30+00:00

Extends the netlink interface to support the __le16 type and
converts address addition, deletion and, dumping to use the
new netlink interface.

Fixes multiple occasions of possible illegal memory references
due to not validated netlink attributes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DECNET] address: Rename rtmsg_ifa() to dn_ifaddr_notify()

2006-12-03T05:30:29+00:00

The name rtmsg_ifa is heavly overused and confusing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DECNET] address: Calculate accurate message size for netlink notifications

2006-12-03T05:30:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller