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Patrick McHardy add6746124 netfilter: add struct net * to target parameters
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03 13:45:12 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan f54e9367f8 netfilter: xtables: add struct xt_mtdtor_param::net
Add ->net to match destructor list like ->net in constructor list.

Make sure it's set in ebtables/iptables/ip6tables, this requires to
propagate netns up to *_unregister_table().

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-18 08:25:47 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan a83d8e8d09 netfilter: xtables: add struct xt_mtchk_param::net
Some complex match modules (like xt_hashlimit/xt_recent) want netns
information at constructor and destructor time. We propably can play
games at match destruction time, because netns can be passed in object,
but I think it's cleaner to explicitly pass netns.

Add ->net, make sure it's set from ebtables/iptables/ip6tables code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-18 08:21:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d7fc02c7ba Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
  mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
  iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
  iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
  iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
  iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
  iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
  b43: fix two warnings
  ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
  cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
  iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
  mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
  ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
  airo: Fix integer overflow warning
  rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
  WE: Fix set events not propagated
  b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
  b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
  tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
  ...

Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
	kernel/sysctl_check.c
	net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
	net/sctp/sysctl.c
2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
Joe Perches f64f9e7192 net: Move && and || to end of previous line
Not including net/atm/

Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only
Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-29 16:55:45 -08:00
Johannes Berg ad4bb6f888 cfg80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface
(in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it
doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11
networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such
need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't
help here. The wireless address format used for these
links has only space for three addresses, the
 * transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin)
 * receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in
   the case of managed mode
 * the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local
   network segment

In an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient
must match and the third address is used as the BSSID.

To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
wireless interface to a bridge.

Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:54 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman bb9074ff58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7'
Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
2009-11-17 01:01:34 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman f8572d8f2a sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
David S. Miller 230f9bb701 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c

All CDC ethernet devices of type USB_CLASS_COMM need to use
'&mbm_info'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 00:55:55 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 31ef30c760 bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if()
add_del_if() is called with RTNL, we can use __dev_get_by_index()
instead of [dev_get_by_index() + dev_put()]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 22:34:16 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 1056bd5167 bridge: prevent bridging wrong device
The bridge code assumes ethernet addressing, so be more strict in
the what is allowed. This showed up when GRE had a bug and was not
using correct address format.

Add some more comments for increased clarity.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 20:46:52 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 8c56ba0530 bridge: Optimize multiple unregistration
Speedup module unloading by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:13:48 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala 72dad218f8 bridge: Allow enable/disable UFO on bridge device via ethtool
Allow enable/disable UFO on bridge device via ethtool

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 22:00:24 -07:00
Jeff Hansen 30df94f800 bridge: Fix double-free in br_add_if.
There is a potential double-kfree in net/bridge/br_if.c.  If br_fdb_insert
fails, then the kobject is put back (which calls kfree due to the kobject
release), and then kfree is called again on the net_bridge_port.  This
patch fixes the crash.

Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for the one-line fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-28 12:54:25 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Marcel Holtmann 384912ed19 net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
David S. Miller 9a0da0d19c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-09-10 18:17:09 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 8a56df0ae1 netfilter: ebt_ulog: fix checkentry return value
Commit 19eda87 (netfilter: change return types of check functions for
Ebtables extensions) broke the ebtables ulog module by missing a return
value conversion.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-09-01 14:34:01 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger 6fef4c0c8e netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet f3abc9b963 netfilter: bridge: refcount fix
commit f216f082b2
([NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly)
added a refcount leak on in_dev.

Instead of using in_dev_get(), we can use __in_dev_get_rcu(),
as netfilter hooks are running under rcu_read_lock(), as pointed
by Patrick.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-24 19:35:38 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 35aad0ffdf netfilter: xtables: mark initial tables constant
The inputted table is never modified, so should be considered const.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-24 14:56:30 +02:00
Fischer, Anna 3982d3d28b net/bridge: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode
This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port the frame was received on.

Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual
Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities.

You can find additional information on VEPA here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/evb/
http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2009/new-hudson-vepa_seminar-20090514d.pdf
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2009jul/20090719-congdon.pdf

An additional patch 'bridge-utils: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode'
is provided to allow configuring hairpin mode from userspace tools.

Signed-off-by: Paul Congdon <paul.congdon@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Fischer <anna.fischer@hp.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-13 16:26:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy dc05a564ab Merge branch 'master' of git://dev.medozas.de/linux 2009-08-10 17:14:59 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 24c232d8e9 netfilter: xtables: switch hook PFs to nfproto
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2009-08-10 13:35:21 +02:00
Tobias Klauser be39ee11cd netfilter: ebtables: Use %pM conversion specifier
ebt_log uses its own implementation of print_mac to print MAC addresses.
This patch converts it to use the %pM conversion specifier for printk.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <klto@zhaw.ch>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-10 10:10:55 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt 36cbd3dcc1 net: mark read-only arrays as const
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05 10:42:58 -07:00
David S. Miller df597efb57 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-07-30 19:22:43 -07:00
Xiaotian Feng c587aea951 net/bridge: use kobject_put to release kobject in br_add_if error path
kobject_init_and_add will alloc memory for kobj->name, so in br_add_if
error path, simply use kobject_del will not free memory for kobj->name.
Fix by using kobject_put instead, kobject_put will internally calls
kobject_del and frees memory for kobj->name.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-26 19:20:51 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 1490fd8947 net, bridge: align br_nf_ops assignment
No functional change -- just for easier reading.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:14 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer 473c22d759 bridge: Use rcu_barrier() instead of syncronize_net() on unload.
When unloading modules that uses call_rcu() callbacks, then we must
use rcu_barrier().  This module uses syncronize_net() which is not
enough to be sure that all callback has been completed.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-26 13:51:32 -07:00
Michał Mirosław da6782927d bridge: Simplify interface for ATM LANE
This patch changes FDB entry check for ATM LANE bridge integration.
There's no point in holding a FDB entry around SKB building.

br_fdb_get()/br_fdb_put() pair are changed into single br_fdb_test_addr()
hook that checks if the addr has FDB entry pointing to other port
to the one the request arrived on.

FDB entry refcounting is removed as it's not used anywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11 21:03:21 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 36432dae73 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-06-11 16:00:49 +02:00
Evgeniy Polyakov a5e7882096 netfilter: x_tables: added hook number into match extension parameter structure.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-06-04 16:54:42 +02:00
Eric Dumazet adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 511c3f92ad net: skb->rtable accessor
Define skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) accessor to get rtable from skb

Delete skb->rtable field

Setting rtable is not allowed, just set dst instead as rtable is an alias.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 8cc848fa34 Merge branch 'master' of git://dev.medozas.de/linux 2009-06-02 13:44:56 +02:00
Jiri Pirko 0bb32417ff bridge: avoid an extra space in br_fdb_update()
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 15:46:54 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman af38f29895 net: Fix bridgeing sysfs handling of rtnl_lock
Holding rtnl_lock when we are unregistering the sysfs files can
deadlock if we unconditionally take rtnl_lock in a sysfs file.  So fix
it with the now familiar patter of: rtnl_trylock and syscall_restart()

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:15:59 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 4f0611af47 bridge: fix initial packet flood if !STP
If bridge is configured with no STP and forwarding delay of 0 (which
is typical for virtualization) then when link starts it will flood all
packets for the first 20 seconds.

This bug was introduced by a combination of earlier changes:
  * forwarding database uses hold time of zero to indicate
    user wants to always flood packets
  * optimzation of the case of forwarding delay of 0 avoids the initial
    timer tick

The fix is to just skip all the topology change detection code if
kernel STP is not being used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:12:55 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger a598f6aebe bridge: relay bridge multicast pkgs if !STP
Currently the bridge catches all STP packets; even if STP is turned
off.  This prevents other systems (which do have STP turned on)
from being able to detect loops in the network.

With this patch, if STP is off, then any packet sent to the STP
multicast group address is forwarded to all ports.

Based on earlier patch by Joakim Tjernlund with changes
to go through forwarding (not local chain), and optimization
that only last octet needs to be checked.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:12:54 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 98e8640316 netfilter: xtables: consolidate open-coded logic
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2009-05-08 10:30:48 +02:00
hummerbliss@gmail.com c197facc8e netfilter: bridge: allow fragmentation of VLAN packets traversing a bridge
br_nf_dev_queue_xmit only checks for ETH_P_IP packets for fragmenting but not
VLAN packets. This results in dropping of large VLAN packets. This can be
observed when connection tracking is enabled. Connection tracking re-assembles
fragmented packets, and these have to re-fragmented when transmitting out. Also,
make sure only refragmented packets are defragmented as per suggestion from
Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-20 17:12:35 +02:00
David S. Miller f0de70f8bb Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-03-26 01:22:01 -07:00
Eric Leblond 7249dee5bd netfilter: fix nf_logger name in ebt_ulog.
This patch renames the ebt_ulog nf_logger from "ulog" to "ebt_ulog" to
be in sync with other modules naming. As this name was currently only
used for informational purpose, the renaming should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26 01:04:28 -07:00
Eric Leblond 3b334d427c netfilter: fix warning in ebt_ulog init function.
The ebt_ulog module does not follow the fixed convention about function
return. Loading the module is triggering the following message:

sys_init_module: 'ebt_ulog'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention
sys_init_module: loading module anyway...
Pid: 2334, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.29-rc5edenwall0-00883-g199e57b #146
Call Trace:
 [<c0441b81>] ? printk+0xf/0x16
 [<c02311af>] sys_init_module+0x107/0x186
 [<c0202cfa>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

The following patch fixes the return treatment in ebt_ulog_init()
function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26 01:04:02 -07:00
Eric Leblond 704b3ea3b9 netfilter: fix warning about invalid const usage
This patch fixes the declaration of the logger structure in ebt_log
and ebt_ulog: I forgot to remove the const option from their declaration
in the commit ca735b3aaa ("netfilter:
use a linked list of loggers").

Pointed-out-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26 01:03:23 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger cda6d377ec bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
This fixes an crash when empty bond device is added to a bridge.
If an interface with invalid ethernet address (all zero) is added
to a bridge, then bridge code detects it when setting up the forward
databas entry. But the error unwind is broken, the bridge port object 
can get freed twice: once when ref count went to zeo, and once by kfree.
Since object is never really accessible, just free it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-25 21:01:47 -07:00
David S. Miller b5bb14386e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-24 13:24:36 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00