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wenxu 31aed46fed bridge: add br_vlan_get_proto()
This new function allows you to fetch the bridge port vlan protocol.

Signed-off-by: wenxu <wenxu@ucloud.cn>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-07-05 21:34:50 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 7582f5b70f bridge: add br_vlan_get_pvid_rcu()
This new function allows you to fetch bridge pvid from packet path.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
2019-07-05 21:34:48 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Florian Westphal 223fd0adfa bridge: broute: make broute a real ebtables table
This makes broute a normal ebtables table, hooking at PREROUTING.
The broute hook is removed.

It uses skb->cb to signal to bridge rx handler that the skb should be
routed instead of being bridged.

This change is backwards compatible with ebtables as no userspace visible
parts are changed.

This means we can also remove the !ops test in ebt_register_table,
it was only there for broute table sake.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-04-12 01:47:50 +02:00
Petr Machata 43920edf3b bridge: Add br_fdb_clear_offload()
When a driver unoffloads all FDB entries en bloc, it's inefficient to
send the switchdev notification one by one. Add a helper that unsets the
offload flag on FDB entries on a given bridge port and VLAN.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-07 12:59:08 -08:00
Ido Schimmel 085ddc87d0 bridge: Allow querying bridge port flags
Allow querying bridge port flags so that drivers capable of performing
VxLAN learning will update the bridge driver only if learning is enabled
on its bridge port corresponding to the VxLAN device.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-21 17:10:31 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann 000244d3dc net: bridge: fix br_vlan_get_{pvid,info} return values
These two functions return the regular -EINVAL failure in the normal
code path, but return a nonstandard '-1' error otherwise, which gets
interpreted as -EPERM.

Let's change it to -EINVAL for the dummy functions as well.

Fixes: 4d4fd36126 ("net: bridge: Publish bridge accessor functions")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-07 20:04:35 +09:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov 7d850abd5f net: bridge: add support for port isolation
This patch adds support for a new port flag - BR_ISOLATED. If it is set
then isolated ports cannot communicate between each other, but they can
still communicate with non-isolated ports. The same can be achieved via
ACLs but they can't scale with large number of ports and also the
complexity of the rules grows. This feature can be used to achieve
isolated vlan functionality (similar to pvlan) as well, though currently
it will be port-wide (for all vlans on the port). The new test in
should_deliver uses data that is already cache hot and the new boolean
is used to avoid an additional source port test in should_deliver.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-25 14:37:20 -04:00
Petr Machata 4d4fd36126 net: bridge: Publish bridge accessor functions
Add a couple new functions to allow querying FDB and vlan settings of a
bridge.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-30 12:42:40 -04:00
Yotam Gigi 0912bda436 net: bridge: Export bridge multicast router state
Add an access function that, given a bridge netdevice, returns whether the
bridge device is currently an mrouter or not. The function uses the already
existing br_multicast_is_router function to check that.

This function is needed in order to allow ports that join an already
existing bridge to know the current mrouter state of the bridge device.
Together with the bridge device mrouter ports switchdev notifications, it
is possible to have full offloading of the semantics of the bridge device
mcast router state.

Due to the fact that the bridge multicast router status can change in
packet RX path, take the multicast_router bridge spinlock to protect the
read.

Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nogah Frankel <nogahf@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-09 10:18:11 -07:00
Roopa Prabhu 821f1b21ca bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd flood
This patch adds a new bridge port flag BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS to
suppress arp and nd flood on bridge ports. It implements
rfc7432, section 10.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432#section-10
for ethernet VPN deployments. It is similar to the existing
BR_PROXYARP* flags but has a few semantic differences to conform
to EVPN standard. Unlike the existing flags, this new flag suppresses
flood of all neigh discovery packets (arp and nd) to tunnel ports.
Supports both vlan filtering and non-vlan filtering bridges.

In case of EVPN, it is mainly used to avoid flooding
of arp and nd packets to tunnel ports like vxlan.

This patch adds netlink and sysfs support to set this bridge port
flag.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-08 21:12:04 -07:00
Ido Schimmel 9341b988e6 bridge: Export multicast enabled state
During enslavement to a bridge, after the CHANGEUPPER is sent, the
multicast enabled state of the bridge isn't propagated down to the
offloading driver unless it's changed.

This patch allows such drivers to query the multicast enabled state from
the bridge, so that they'll be able to correctly configure their flood
tables during port enslavement.

In case multicast is disabled, unregistered multicast packets can be
treated as broadcast and be flooded through all the bridge ports.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-26 15:18:44 -04:00
Ido Schimmel 1f51445af3 bridge: Export VLAN filtering state
It's useful for drivers supporting bridge offload to be able to query
the bridge's VLAN filtering state.

Currently, upon enslavement to a bridge master, the offloading driver
will only learn about the bridge's VLAN filtering state after the bridge
device was already linked with its slave.

Being able to query the bridge's VLAN filtering state allows such
drivers to forbid enslavement in case resource couldn't be allocated for
a VLAN-aware bridge and also choose the correct initialization routine
for the enslaved port, which is dependent on the bridge type.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-26 15:18:44 -04:00
Mike Manning 99f906e9ad bridge: add per-port broadcast flood flag
Support for l2 multicast flood control was added in commit b6cb5ac833
("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag"). It allows broadcast
as it was introduced specifically for unknown multicast flood control.
But as broadcast is a special case of multicast, this may also need to
be disabled. For this purpose, introduce a flag to disable the flooding
of received l2 broadcasts. This approach is backwards compatible and
provides flexibility in filtering for the desired packet types.

Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-27 16:34:29 -04:00
Roopa Prabhu b3c7ef0ada bridge: uapi: add per vlan tunnel info
New nested netlink attribute to associate tunnel info per vlan.
This is used by bridge driver to send tunnel metadata to
bridge ports in vlan tunnel mode. This patch also adds new per
port flag IFLA_BRPORT_VLAN_TUNNEL to enable vlan tunnel mode.
off by default.

One example use for this is a vxlan bridging gateway or vtep
which maps vlans to vn-segments (or vnis). User can configure
per-vlan tunnel information which the bridge driver can use
to bridge vlan into the corresponding vn-segment.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-03 15:21:21 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 6db6f0eae6 bridge: multicast to unicast
Implements an optional, per bridge port flag and feature to deliver
multicast packets to any host on the according port via unicast
individually. This is done by copying the packet per host and
changing the multicast destination MAC to a unicast one accordingly.

multicast-to-unicast works on top of the multicast snooping feature of
the bridge. Which means unicast copies are only delivered to hosts which
are interested in it and signalized this via IGMP/MLD reports
previously.

This feature is intended for interface types which have a more reliable
and/or efficient way to deliver unicast packets than broadcast ones
(e.g. wifi).

However, it should only be enabled on interfaces where no IGMPv2/MLDv1
report suppression takes place. This feature is disabled by default.

The initial patch and idea is from Felix Fietkau.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
[linus.luessing@c0d3.blue: various bug + style fixes, commit message]
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 12:39:52 -05:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov b6cb5ac833 net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag
Add a per-port flag to control the unknown multicast flood, similar to the
unknown unicast flood flag and break a few long lines in the netlink flag
exports.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-01 22:48:33 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 4c656c13b2 bridge: allow zero ageing time
This fixes a regression in the bridge ageing time caused by:
commit c62987bbd8 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")

There are users of Linux bridge which use the feature that if ageing time
is set to 0 it causes entries to never expire. See:
  https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge

For a pure software bridge, it is unnecessary for the code to have
arbitrary restrictions on what values are allowable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-11 14:58:58 -05:00
Scott Feldman a79e88d9fb bridge: define some min/max/default ageing time constants
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-23 14:35:58 -07:00
Jouni Malinen 842a9ae08a bridge: Extend Proxy ARP design to allow optional rules for Wi-Fi
This extends the design in commit 958501163d ("bridge: Add support for
IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP") with optional set of rules that are needed to
meet the IEEE 802.11 and Hotspot 2.0 requirements for ProxyARP. The
previously added BR_PROXYARP behavior is left as-is and a new
BR_PROXYARP_WIFI alternative is added so that this behavior can be
configured from user space when required.

In addition, this enables proxyarp functionality for unicast ARP
requests for both BR_PROXYARP and BR_PROXYARP_WIFI since it is possible
to use unicast as well as broadcast for these frames.

The key differences in functionality:

BR_PROXYARP:
- uses the flag on the bridge port on which the request frame was
  received to determine whether to reply
- block bridge port flooding completely on ports that enable proxy ARP

BR_PROXYARP_WIFI:
- uses the flag on the bridge port to which the target device of the
  request belongs
- block bridge port flooding selectively based on whether the proxyarp
  functionality replied

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-05 14:52:23 -05:00
Jiri Pirko 3aeb66176f net: replace br_fdb_external_learn_* calls with switchdev notifier events
This patch benefits from newly introduced switchdev notifier and uses it
to propagate fdb learn events from rocker driver to bridge. That avoids
direct function calls and possible use by other listeners (ovs).

Suggested-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-18 00:23:57 -05:00
Scott Feldman efacacdaf7 bridge: add new brport flag LEARNING_SYNC
This policy flag controls syncing of learned FDB entries to bridge's FDB.  If
on, FDB entries learned on bridge port device will be synced.  If off, device
may still learn new FDB entries but they will not be synced with bridge's FDB.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-02 20:01:23 -08:00
Scott Feldman 065c212a9e bridge: move private brport flags to if_bridge.h so port drivers can use flags
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-02 20:01:22 -08:00
Scott Feldman cf6b8e1eed bridge: add API to notify bridge driver of learned FBD on offloaded device
When the swdev device learns a new mac/vlan on a port, it sends some async
notification to the driver and the driver installs an FDB in the device.
To give a holistic system view, the learned mac/vlan should be reflected
in the bridge's FBD table, so the user, using normal iproute2 cmds, can view
what is currently learned by the device.  This API on the bridge driver gives
a way for the swdev driver to install an FBD entry in the bridge FBD table.
(And remove one).

This is equivalent to the device running these cmds:

  bridge fdb [add|del] <mac> dev <dev> vid <vlan id> master

This patch needs some extra eyeballs for review, in paricular around the
locking and contexts.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-02 20:01:22 -08:00
Linus Lüssing c34963e216 bridge: export knowledge about the presence of IGMP/MLD queriers
With this patch other modules are able to ask the bridge whether an
IGMP or MLD querier exists on the according, bridged link layer.

Multicast snooping can only be performed if a valid, selected querier
exists on a link.

Just like the bridge only enables its multicast snooping if a querier
exists, e.g. batman-adv too can only activate its multicast
snooping in bridged scenarios if a querier is present.

For instance this export avoids having to reimplement IGMP/MLD
querier message snooping and parsing in e.g. batman-adv, when
multicast optimizations for bridged scenarios are added in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-08 16:12:53 -07:00
Linus Lüssing f941a6d9a9 bridge: adding stubs for multicast exports
To make users (e.g. batman-adv soon) load- and runnable even if the
bridge was compiled without snooping capabilities - or even if the
kernel was compiled without any bridge code at all.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-08 16:12:53 -07:00
Linus Lüssing 2cd4143192 bridge: memorize and export selected IGMP/MLD querier port
Adding bridge support to the batman-adv multicast optimization requires
batman-adv knowing about the existence of bridged-in IGMP/MLD queriers
to be able to reliably serve any multicast listener behind this same
bridge.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-10 23:50:47 -07:00
Linus Lüssing 07f8ac4a1e bridge: add export of multicast database adjacent to net_dev
With this new, exported function br_multicast_list_adjacent(net_dev) a
list of IPv4/6 addresses is returned. This list contains all multicast
addresses sensed by the bridge multicast snooping feature on all bridge
ports of the bridge interface of net_dev, excluding addresses from the
specified net_device itself.

Adding bridge support to the batman-adv multicast optimization requires
batman-adv knowing about the existence of bridged-in multicast
listeners to be able to reliably serve them with multicast packets.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-10 23:50:47 -07:00
David Howells 607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00
Florian Westphal 2f46e07995 netfilter: ebtables: make broute table work again
broute table init hook sets up the "br_should_route_hook" pointer,
which then gets called from br_input.

commit a386f99025
(bridge: add proper RCU annotation to should_route_hook)
introduced a typedef, and then changed this to:

br_should_route_hook_t *rhook;
[..]
rhook = rcu_dereference(br_should_route_hook);
if (*rhook(skb))

problem is that "br_should_route_hook" contains the address of the function,
so calling *rhook() results in kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2011-01-11 23:55:51 +01:00
Eric Dumazet a386f99025 bridge: add proper RCU annotation to should_route_hook
Add br_should_route_hook_t typedef, this is the only way we can
get a clean RCU implementation for function pointer.

Move route_hook to location where it is used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:13:16 -08:00
Jiri Pirko ab95bfe01f net: replace hooks in __netif_receive_skb V5
What this patch does is it removes two receive frame hooks (for bridge and for
macvlan) from __netif_receive_skb. These are replaced them with a single
hook for both. It only supports one hook per device because it makes no
sense to do bridging and macvlan on the same device.

Then a network driver (of virtual netdev like macvlan or bridge) can register
an rx_handler for needed net device.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02 07:11:15 -07:00
Eric Dumazet d94d9fee9f net: cleanup include/linux
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.

struct something
{

becomes :

struct something {

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 09:50:58 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger ae4f8fca40 bridge: forwarding table information for >256 devices
The forwarding table binary interface (my bad choice), only exposes
the port number of the first 8 bits. The bridge code was limited to
256 ports at the time, but now the kernel supports up 1024 ports, so
the upper bits are lost when doing:

   brctl showmacs

The fix is to squeeze the extra bits into small hole left in data
structure, to maintain binary compatiablity.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02 16:53:33 -07:00
Herbert Xu 3db05fea51 [NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:29 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 6229e362dd bridge: eliminate call by reference
Change the bridging hook to be simple function with return value
rather than modifying the skb argument. This could generate better
code and is cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 22:28:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00