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* tun: Fix unicast filter overflowAlex Williamson2009-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tap devices can make use of a small MAC filter set via the TUNSETTXFILTER ioctl. The filter has a set of exact matches plus a hash for imperfect filtering of additional multicast addresses. The current code is unbalanced, adding unicast addresses to the multicast hash, but only checking the hash against multicast addresses. This results in the filter dropping unicast addresses that overflow the exact filter. The fix is simply to disable the filter by leaving count set to zero if we find non-multicast addresses after the exact match table is filled. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: Eliminate sparse signedness warningGerrit Renker2009-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | register_pernet_gen_device() expects 'int*', found via sparse. CHECK drivers/net/tun.c drivers/net/tun.c:1245:36: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different signedness) drivers/net/tun.c:1245:36: expected int *id drivers/net/tun.c:1245:36: got unsigned int static [toplevel] *<noident> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: Fix SIOCSIFHWADDR error.Kusanagi Kouichi2008-12-29
| | | | | | | Set proper operations. Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ma.neweb.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-12-28
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits) net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular. igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled. net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes. gro: Fix potential use after free sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues 802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header 802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer 802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer 802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system 802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool 802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool 802.3ad: make ntt bool ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools. ... Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
| * netdev: add more functions to netdevice opsStephen Hemminger2008-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * tun: convert to net_device_opsStephen Hemminger2008-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the TUN/TAP tunnel driver to net_device_ops. Split the ops in two, and retain compatability. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-11-07
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c
| * | drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller2008-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Drivers need not do it any more. Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | net: convert print_mac to %pMJohannes Berg2008-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for now, no harm done. I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessorsDavid Howells2008-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual implementation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the network device driversDavid Howells2008-11-13
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | saner FASYNC handling on file closeAl Viro2008-11-01
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync() need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget. So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set. And lose that crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we don't have to bother anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tun: fallback if skb_alloc() fails on big packetsRusty Russell2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | skb_alloc produces linear packets (using kmalloc()). That can fail, so should we fall back to making paged skbs. My original version of this patch always allocate paged skbs for big packets. But that made performance drop from 8.4 seconds to 8.8 seconds on 1G lguest->Host TCP xmit. So now we only do that as a fallback. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: TUNGETIFF interface to query name and flagsMark McLoughlin2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a TUNGETIFF interface so that userspace can query a tun/tap descriptor for its name and flags. This is needed because it is common for one app to create a tap interface, exec another app and pass it the file descriptor for the interface. Without TUNGETIFF the spawned app has no way of detecting wheter the interface has e.g. IFF_VNET_HDR set. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: tun.c fix castHarvey Harrison2008-07-22
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-07-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt drivers/atm/Makefile drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c net/8021q/vlan.c net/iucv/iucv.c
| * Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removalJonathan Corbet2008-07-14
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| * | tun: fasync BKL pushdownJonathan Corbet2008-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | net-tun: BKL pushdownArnd Bergmann2008-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | | tun: Fix/rewrite packet filtering logicMax Krasnyansky2008-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Please see the following thread to get some context on this http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121564433018903&w=2 Basically the issue is that current multi-cast filtering stuff in the TUN/TAP driver is seriously broken. Original patch went in without proper review and ACK. It was broken and confusing to start with and subsequent patches broke it completely. To give you an idea of what's broken here are some of the issues: - Very confusing comments throughout the code that imply that the character device is a network interface in its own right, and that packets are passed between the two nics. Which is completely wrong. - Wrong set of ioctls is used for setting up filters. They look like shortcuts for manipulating state of the tun/tap network interface but in reality manipulate the state of the TX filter. - ioctls that were originally used for setting address of the the TX filter got "fixed" and now set the address of the network interface itself. Which made filter totaly useless. - Filtering is done too late. Instead of filtering early on, to avoid unnecessary wakeups, filtering is done in the read() call. The list goes on and on :) So the patch cleans all that up. It introduces simple and clean interface for setting up TX filters (TUNSETTXFILTER + tun_filter spec) and does filtering before enqueuing the packets. TX filtering is useful in the scenarios where TAP is part of a bridge, in which case it gets all broadcast, multicast and potentially other packets when the bridge is learning. So for example Ethernet tunnelling app may want to setup TX filters to avoid tunnelling multicast traffic. QEMU and other hypervisors can push RX filtering that is currently done in the guest into the host context therefore saving wakeups and unnecessary data transfer. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-07-14
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
| * | tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff stateMax Krasnyansky2008-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The scenario goes like this. App stops reading from tun/tap. TX queue gets full and driver does netif_stop_queue(). App closes fd and TX queue gets flushed as part of the cleanup. Next time the app opens tun/tap and starts reading from it but the xoff state is not cleared. We're stuck. Normally xoff state is cleared when netdev is brought up. But in the case of persistent devices this happens only during initial setup. The fix is trivial. If device is already up when an app opens it we clear xoff state and that gets things moving again. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | tun: Allow GSO using virtio_net_hdrRusty Russell2008-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a IFF_VNET_HDR flag. This uses the same ABI as virtio_net (ie. prepending struct virtio_net_hdr to packets) to indicate GSO and checksum information. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | tun: TUNSETFEATURES to set gso features.Rusty Russell2008-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ethtool is useful for setting (some) device fields, but it's root-only. Finer feature control is available through a tun-specific ioctl. (Includes Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>'s fix to hold rtnl sem). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | tun: Interface to query tun/tap features.Rusty Russell2008-07-03
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem with introducing checksum offload and gso to tun is they need to set dev->features to enable GSO and/or checksumming, which is supposed to be done before register_netdevice(), ie. as part of TUNSETIFF. Unfortunately, TUNSETIFF has always just ignored flags it doesn't understand, so there's no good way of detecting whether the kernel supports new IFF_ flags. This patch implements a TUNGETFEATURES ioctl which returns all the valid IFF flags. It could be extended later to include other features. Here's an example program which uses it: #include <linux/if_tun.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdio.h> static struct { unsigned int flag; const char *name; } known_flags[] = { { IFF_TUN, "TUN" }, { IFF_TAP, "TAP" }, { IFF_NO_PI, "NO_PI" }, { IFF_ONE_QUEUE, "ONE_QUEUE" }, }; int main() { unsigned int features, i; int netfd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR); if (netfd < 0) err(1, "Opening /dev/net/tun"); if (ioctl(netfd, TUNGETFEATURES, &features) != 0) { printf("Kernel does not support TUNGETFEATURES, guessing\n"); features = (IFF_TUN|IFF_TAP|IFF_NO_PI|IFF_ONE_QUEUE); } printf("Available features are: "); for (i = 0; i < sizeof(known_flags)/sizeof(known_flags[0]); i++) { if (features & known_flags[i].flag) { features &= ~known_flags[i].flag; printf("%s ", known_flags[i].name); } } if (features) printf("(UNKNOWN %#x)", features); printf("\n"); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* / tun: Proper handling of IPv6 header in tun driver when TUN_NO_PI is setAng Way Chuang2008-06-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | By default, tun.c running in TUN_TUN_DEV mode will set the protocol of packet to IPv4 if TUN_NO_PI is set. My program failed to work when I assumed that the driver will check the first nibble of packet, determine IP version and set the appropriate protocol. Signed-off-by: Ang Way Chuang <wcang@nav6.org> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: Multicast handling in tun_chr_ioctl() needs proper locking.David S. Miller2008-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | Since these operations don't go through the normal device calls, we have to ensure we synchronize with those paths. Noticed by Alan Cox. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: Fix minor race in TUNSETLINK ioctl handling.David S. Miller2008-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | Noticed by Alan Cox. The IFF_UP test is a bit racey, because other entities outside of this driver's ioctl handler can modify that state, even though this ioctl handler runs under lock_kernel(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TUN]: Allow to register tun devices in namespace.Pavel Emelyanov2008-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is basically means that a net is set for a new device, but actually also involves two more steps: 1. mark the tun device as "local", i.e. do not allow for it to move across namespaces. This is done so, since tun device is most often associated to some file (and thus to some process) and moving the device alone is not valid while keeping the file and the process outside. The need in ability to move a detached persistent device is to be investigated later. 2. get the tun device's net when tun becomes attached and put one when it becomes detached. This is needed to handle the case when a task owning the tun dies, but a files lives for some more time - in this case we must not allow for net to be freed, since its exit hook will spoil that file's private data by unregistering the tun from under tun_chr_close. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TUN]: Make the tun_dev_list per-net.Pavel Emelyanov2008-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the static tun_dev_list and replace its occurrences in driver with per-net one. It is used in two places - in tun_set_iff and tun_cleanup. In the first case it's legal to use current net_ns. In the cleanup call - move the loop, that unregisters all devices in net exit hook. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TUN]: Introduce the tun_net structure and init/exit net ops.Pavel Emelyanov2008-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | This is the first step in making tuntap devices work in net namespaces. The structure mentioned is pointed by generic net pointer with tun_net_id id, and tun driver fills one on its load. It will contain only the tun devices list. So declare this structure and introduce net init and exit hooks. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: check for underlength tap writesRusty Russell2008-04-12
| | | | | | | | | If the user gives a packet under 14 bytes, we'll end up reading off the end of the skb (not oopsing, just reading off the end). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: make struct tun_struct private to tun.cRusty Russell2008-04-12
| | | | | | | | | There's no reason for this to be in the header, and it just hurts recompile time. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TUN]: Fix RTNL-locking in tun/tap driverKim B. Heino2008-02-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current tun/tap driver sets also net device's hw address when asked to change character device's hw address. This is a good idea, but it misses RTLN-locking, resulting following error message in 2.6.25-rc3's inetdev_event() function: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1050) Attached patch fixes this problem. Signed-off-by: Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tun: impossible to deassert IFF_ONE_QUEUE or IFF_NO_PINathaniel Filardo2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: "Nathaniel Filardo" <nwfilardo@gmail.com> Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9806 The TUN/TAP driver only permits one-way transitions of IFF_NO_PI or IFF_ONE_QUEUE during the lifetime of a tap/tun interface. Note that tun_set_iff contains 541 if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_NO_PI) 542 tun->flags |= TUN_NO_PI; 543 544 if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_ONE_QUEUE) 545 tun->flags |= TUN_ONE_QUEUE; This is easily fixed by adding else branches which clear these bits. Steps to reproduce: This is easily reproduced by setting an interface persistant using tunctl then attempting to open it as IFF_TAP or IFF_TUN, without asserting the IFF_NO_PI flag. The ioctl() will succeed and the ifr.flags word is not modified, but the interface remains in IFF_NO_PI mode (as it was set by tunctl). Acked-by: Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* annotate tunAl Viro2008-01-28
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [TUN]: Use iov_length()Akinobu Mita2008-01-28
| | | | | | | Use iov_length() instead of tun's homemade iov_total(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TUNTAP]: Fix wrong debug message.Toyo Abe2007-12-26
| | | | | | | | This is a trivial fix of debug message. When a persist flag is set, the message should say "enabled". Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe <tabe@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()Joe Perches2007-10-10
| | | | | | | This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TAP]: Configurable interface MTU.Ed Swierk2007-10-10
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink codeJeff Garzik2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device, and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us. Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable. This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers remain to be updated. [ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build regression... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to remove it. The number of people that could object because they're maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small. [ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.Guido Guenther2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to match. Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] tun/tap: fixed hw address handlingBrian Braunstein2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is stored in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields were not kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to the same value. Now during both init and when performing SIOCSIFHWADDR on the tun device these values are both updated. However, if SIOCSIFHWADDR is performed on the net device directly (for instance, setting the hw address using ifconfig), the tun device does not get updated. Perhaps the tun.dev_addr field should be removed completely at some point, as it is redundant and net_device.dev_addr can be used anywhere it is used. Signed-off-by: Brian Braunstein <linuxkernel@bristyle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5Arjan van de Ven2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pidEric W. Biederman2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By tracking the destination processes using struct pid instead of pid_t we make the interface safe from all potential pid wrap around problems. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>