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<title>linux.git/net/netlink, branch v2.6.35-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>netlink: Implment netlink_broadcast_filtered</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T16:37:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-05T00:36:46+00:00</published>
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When netlink sockets are used to convey data that is in a namespace
we need a way to select a subset of the listening sockets to deliver
the packet to.  For the network namespace we have been doing this
by only transmitting packets in the correct network namespace.

For data belonging to other namespaces netlink_bradcast_filtered
provides a mechanism that allows us to examine the destination
socket and to decide if we should transmit the specified packet
to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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When netlink sockets are used to convey data that is in a namespace
we need a way to select a subset of the listening sockets to deliver
the packet to.  For the network namespace we have been doing this
by only transmitting packets in the correct network namespace.

For data belonging to other namespaces netlink_bradcast_filtered
provides a mechanism that allows us to examine the destination
socket and to decide if we should transmit the specified packet
to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-04-11T21:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-11T21:53:53+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-04-07T06:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-07T06:53:30+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
	drivers/net/via-velocity.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
	drivers/net/via-velocity.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-04-06T15:34:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-06T15:34:06+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
  smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
  r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
  net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
  cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
  cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
  cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
  cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
  cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
  netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
  bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
  net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
  stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
  stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
  be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
  be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
  bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
  drivers/net: Add missing unlock
  net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
  net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
  smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
  r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
  net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
  cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
  cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
  cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
  cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
  cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
  netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
  bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
  net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
  stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
  stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
  be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
  be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
  bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
  drivers/net: Add missing unlock
  net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
  net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modules</title>
<updated>2010-04-03T21:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Chapman</name>
<email>jchapman@katalix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-02T06:19:05+00:00</published>
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This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman &lt;jchapman@katalix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman &lt;jchapman@katalix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)</title>
<updated>2010-04-02T00:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changli Gao</name>
<email>xiaosuo@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-31T22:58:26+00:00</published>
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check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2).

Check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2). If the
length is invalid, -EINVAL will be returned.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao &lt;xiaosuo@gmail.com&gt;
----
net/bluetooth/l2cap.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/sco.c | 3 ++-
net/can/bcm.c | 3 +++
net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c | 3 +++
net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 5 +++++
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 +++
7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2).

Check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2). If the
length is invalid, -EINVAL will be returned.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao &lt;xiaosuo@gmail.com&gt;
----
net/bluetooth/l2cap.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/sco.c | 3 ++-
net/can/bcm.c | 3 +++
net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c | 3 +++
net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 5 +++++
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 +++
7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: use the appropriate namespace pid</title>
<updated>2010-03-27T03:13:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Goff</name>
<email>thomas.goff@boeing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-19T15:38:50+00:00</published>
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This was included in OpenVZ kernels but wasn't integrated upstream.
&gt;From git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.24-openvz:

	commit 5c69402f18adf7276352e051ece2cf31feefab02
	Author: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
	Date:   Mon Dec 24 14:37:45 2007 +0300

	    netlink: fixup -&gt;tgid to work in multiple PID namespaces

Signed-off-by: Tom Goff &lt;thomas.goff@boeing.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This was included in OpenVZ kernels but wasn't integrated upstream.
&gt;From git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.24-openvz:

	commit 5c69402f18adf7276352e051ece2cf31feefab02
	Author: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
	Date:   Mon Dec 24 14:37:45 2007 +0300

	    netlink: fixup -&gt;tgid to work in multiple PID namespaces

Signed-off-by: Tom Goff &lt;thomas.goff@boeing.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: fix NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS in netlink_set_err()</title>
<updated>2010-03-20T21:29:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-18T14:24:42+00:00</published>
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Currently, ENOBUFS errors are reported to the socket via
netlink_set_err() even if NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS is set. However,
that should not happen. This fixes this problem and it changes the
prototype of netlink_set_err() to return the number of sockets that
have set the NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option. This return
value is used in the next patch in these bugfix series.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently, ENOBUFS errors are reported to the socket via
netlink_set_err() even if NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS is set. However,
that should not happen. This fixes this problem and it changes the
prototype of netlink_set_err() to return the number of sockets that
have set the NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option. This return
value is used in the next patch in these bugfix series.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T09:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masatake YAMATO</name>
<email>yamato@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-27T19:45:37+00:00</published>
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The Inode field in /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...} is useful to know the types of
file descriptors associated to a process. Actually lsof utility uses the field.
Unfortunately, unlike /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...}, /proc/net/netlink doesn't have the field.
This patch adds the field to /proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO &lt;yamato@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The Inode field in /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...} is useful to know the types of
file descriptors associated to a process. Actually lsof utility uses the field.
Unfortunately, unlike /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...}, /proc/net/netlink doesn't have the field.
This patch adds the field to /proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO &lt;yamato@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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