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* netlink: allow empty nested attributesPatrick McHardy2008-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | validate_nla() currently doesn't allow empty nested attributes. This makes userspace code unnecessarily complicated when starting and ending the nested attribute is done by generic upper level code and the inner attributes are dumped by a module. Add a special case to accept empty nested attributes. When the nested attribute is non empty, the same checks as before are performed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()Eric Dumazet2008-11-24
| | | | | | | | | There is still a call to sock_prot_inuse_add() in af_netlink while in a preemptable section. Add explicit BH disable around this call. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()David S. Miller2008-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | The rule of calling sock_prot_inuse_add() is that BHs must be disabled. Some new calls were added where this was not true and this tiggers warnings as reported by Ilpo. Fix this by adding explicit BH disabling around those call sites. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: af_netlink should update its inuse counterEric Dumazet2008-11-23
| | | | | | | | | In order to have relevant information for NETLINK protocol, in /proc/net/protocols, we should use sock_prot_inuse_add() to update a (percpu and pernamespace) counter of inuse sockets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functionsPatrick McHardy2008-10-28
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)Johannes Berg2008-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific PartsAlan Cox2008-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where they won't risk disrupting real changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ONIlpo Järvinen2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future. I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-07-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
| * netlink: Unneeded local variableWang Chen2008-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We already have a variable, which has the same capability. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-06-28
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
| * netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.cJulius Volz2008-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix some doc comments to match function and attribute names in net/netlink/attr.c. Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-06-19
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/tx.c
| * netlink: genl: fix circular lockingPatrick McHardy2008-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered families: - dump start: genl_rcv() : take genl_mutex genl_rcv_msg() : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex netlink_dump_start(), netlink_dump() : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a second time - dump continuance: netlink_rcv() : call netlink_dump netlink_dump : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : take genl_mutex Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a seperate fix for this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-06-10
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
| * netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf2008-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and nla_nest_cancel() void functions. Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not big enough. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netlink: Remove nonblock parameter from netlink_attachskbDenis V. Lunev2008-06-05
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messagesEric Paris2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of netlink messages. This patch adds that information to netlink messages so we can audit who sent netlink messages. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-04-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable Security: Introduce security= boot parameter Audit: Final renamings and cleanup SELinux: use new audit hooks, remove redundant exports Audit: internally use the new LSM audit hooks LSM/Audit: Introduce generic Audit LSM hooks SELinux: remove redundant exports Netlink: Use generic LSM hook Audit: use new LSM hooks instead of SELinux exports SELinux: setup new inode/ipc getsecid hooks LSM: Introduce inode_getsecid and ipc_getsecid hooks
| * Netlink: Use generic LSM hookAhmed S. Darwish2008-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't use SELinux exported selinux_get_task_sid symbol. Use the generic LSM equivalent instead. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
* | [NET] NETNS: Omit namespace comparision without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an inline net_eq() to compare two namespaces. Without CONFIG_NET_NS, since no namespace other than &init_net exists, it is always 1. We do not need to convert 1) inline vs inline and 2) inline vs &init_net comparisons. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
* | [NET] NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists, no need to store net in seq_net_private. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
* | [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set() and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
* | netlink: make socket filters work on netlinkStephen Hemminger2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications. This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with messages that are then ignored. Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter state machine operations are done as network byte order. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [NET]: Make netlink_kernel_release publically available as sk_release_kernel.Denis V. Lunev2008-02-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This staff will be needed for non-netlink kernel sockets, which should also not pin a namespace like tcp_socket and icmp_socket. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [NETLINK]: No need for a separate __netlink_release call.Denis V. Lunev2008-02-29
|/ | | | | | | | Merge it to netlink_kernel_release. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.Pavel Emelyanov2008-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases this lock itself. Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() is called from genl_unregister_family() only. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] switch audit_get_loginuid() to task_struct *Al Viro2008-02-01
| | | | | | all callers pass something->audit_context Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create().Pavel Emelyanov2008-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The comment about "race free view of the set of network namespaces" was a bit hasty. Look (there even can be only one CPU, as discovered by Alexey Dobriyan and Denis Lunev): put_net() if (atomic_dec_and_test(&net->refcnt)) /* true */ __put_net(net); queue_work(...); /* * note: the net now has refcnt 0, but still in * the global list of net namespaces */ == re-schedule == register_pernet_subsys(&some_ops); register_pernet_operations(&some_ops); (*some_ops)->init(net); /* * we call netlink_kernel_create() here * in some places */ netlink_kernel_create(); sk_alloc(); get_net(net); /* refcnt = 1 */ /* * now we drop the net refcount not to * block the net namespace exit in the * future (or this can be done on the * error path) */ put_net(sk->sk_net); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&...)) /* * true. BOOOM! The net is * scheduled for release twice */ When thinking on this problem, I decided, that getting and putting the net in init callback is wrong. If some init callback needs to have a refcount-less reference on the struct net, _it_ has to be careful himself, rather than relying on the infrastructure to handle this correctly. In case of netlink_kernel_create(), the problem is that the sk_alloc() gets the given namespace, but passing the info that we don't want to get it inside this call is too heavy. Instead, I propose to crate the socket inside an init_net namespace and then re-attach it to the desired one right after the socket is created. After doing this, we also have to be careful on error paths not to drop the reference on the namespace, we didn't get the one on. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add nla_append()Patrick McHardy2008-01-28
| | | | | | | Used to append data to a message without a header or padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Namespace stop vs 'ip r l' race.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During network namespace stop process kernel side netlink sockets belonging to a namespace should be closed. They should not prevent namespace to stop, so they do not increment namespace usage counter. Though this counter will be put during last sock_put. The raplacement of the correct netns for init_ns solves the problem only partial as socket to be stoped until proper stop is a valid netlink kernel socket and can be looked up by the user processes. This is not a problem until it resides in initial namespace (no processes inside this net), but this is not true for init_net. So, hold the referrence for a socket, remove it from lookup tables and only after that change namespace and perform a last put. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal inside a namespace. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Double free in netlink_release.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | Netlink protocol table is global for all namespaces. Some netlink protocols have been virtualized, i.e. they have per/namespace netlink socket. This difference can easily lead to double free if more than 1 namespace is started. Count the number of kernel netlink sockets to track that this table is not used any more. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK] af_netlink: kill some bloatIlpo Järvinen2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_realloc_groups | -46 netlink_insert | -49 netlink_autobind | -94 netlink_clear_multicast_users | -48 netlink_bind | -55 netlink_setsockopt | -54 netlink_release | -86 netlink_kernel_create | -47 netlink_change_ngroups | -56 9 functions changed, 535 bytes removed, diff: -535 net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_table_ungrab | +53 1 function changed, 53 bytes added, diff: +53 net/netlink/af_netlink.o: 10 functions changed, 53 bytes added, 535 bytes removed, diff: -482 Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add some acquires/releases sparse annotations.Eric Dumazet2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add __acquires() and __releases() annotations to suppress some sparse warnings. example of warnings : net/ipv4/udp.c:1555:14: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_start' - wrong count at exit net/ipv4/udp.c:1571:13: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: kzalloc() conversionEric Dumazet2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | nl_pid_hash_alloc() is renamed to nl_pid_hash_zalloc(). It is now returning zeroed memory to its callers. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: af_netlink.c checkpatch cleanupsPatrick McHardy2008-01-28
| | | | | | | Fix large number of checkpatch errors. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Consolidate net namespace related proc files creation.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-28
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Move unneeded data to initdata section.Denis V. Lunev2007-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | This patch reverts Eric's commit 2b008b0a8e96b726c603c5e1a5a7a509b5f61e35 It diets .text & .data section of the kernel if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set. This is safe after list operations cleanup. Signed-of-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeoutsPatrick McHardy2007-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts by moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't propagate the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each retry we start with the full timeout again. ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this behaviour is retained. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()Pavel Emelyanov2007-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from the callers and from the function prototype. Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the assignments inside if-s. This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one. I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope this particular split helped. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Marking struct pernet_operations __net_initdata was inappropriateEric W. Biederman2007-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is not safe to to place struct pernet_operations in a special section. We need struct pernet_operations to last until we call unregister_pernet_subsys. Which doesn't happen until module unload. So marking struct pernet_operations is a disaster for modules in two ways. - We discard it before we call the exit method it points to. - Because I keep struct pernet_operations on a linked list discarding it for compiled in code removes elements in the middle of a linked list and does horrible things for linked insert. So this looks safe assuming __exit_refok is not discarded for modules. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix ACK processing after netlink_dump_startDenis V. Lunev2007-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert to original netlink behavior. Do not reply with ACK if the netlink dump has bees successfully started. libnl has been broken by the cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0 The following command reproduce the problem: /nl-route-get 192.168.1.1 Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()Jesper Juhl2007-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the if (!nl_table[unit].registered) check is false. This patch avoids the leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev2007-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognitionDenis V. Lunev2007-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | There are currently two ways to determine whether the netlink socket is a kernel one or a user one. This patch creates a single inline call for this purpose and unifies all the calls in the af_netlink.c No similar calls are found outside af_netlink.c. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskbDenis V. Lunev2007-10-11
| | | | | | | | | netlink_sendskb does not use third argument. Clean it and save a couple of bytes. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2Denis V. Lunev2007-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the original. Changes from v1: - deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make core networking code use seq_open_privatePavel Emelyanov2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | This concerns the ipv4 and ipv6 code mostly, but also the netlink and unix sockets. The netlink code is an example of how to use the __seq_open_private() call - it saves the net namespace on this private. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=nPavel Emelyanov2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section, thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before. Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot. Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes" for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS is not set to save more space in memory. The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section, as noticed by David, since the init section will have references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already done with the __init_refok. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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