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Daniel Borkmann
5ffd5cddd4 net: netlink: filter particular protocols from analyzers
Fix finer-grained control and let only a whitelist of allowed netlink
protocols pass, in our case related to networking. If later on, other
subsystems decide they want to add their protocol as well to the list
of allowed protocols they shall simply add it. While at it, we also
need to tell what protocol is in use otherwise BPF_S_ANC_PROTOCOL can
not pick it up (as it's not filled out).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-06 14:43:48 -04:00
David S. Miller
06c54055be Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
	net/bridge/br_multicast.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The conflicts were minor:

1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature.

2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using
   msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function
   with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters.

3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated
   and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property,
   and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made.  The latter of
   which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-05 14:58:52 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
33c6b1f6b1 genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.
netlink dump operations take module as parameter to hold
reference for entire netlink dump duration.
Currently it holds ref only on genl module which is not correct
when we use ops registered to genl from another module.
Following patch adds module pointer to genl_ops so that netlink
can hold ref count on it.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28 17:19:17 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
9b96309c5b genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.
In case of genl-family with parallel ops off, dumpif() callback
is expected to run under genl_lock, But commit def3117493
(genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) changed this behaviour
where only first dumpit() op was called under genl-lock.
For subsequent dump, only nlk->cb_lock was taken.
Following patch fixes it by defining locked dumpit() and done()
callback which takes care of genl-locking.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28 17:19:17 -04:00
David S. Miller
b05930f5d1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
	include/linux/inetdevice.h

The inetdevice.h conflict involves moving the IPV4_DEVCONF values
into a UAPI header, overlapping additions of some new entries.

The iwlwifi conflict is a context overlap.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-26 16:37:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9d47b38056 Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
This reverts commit 58ad436fcf.

It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock
by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I
can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major
changes to the locking, so revert this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-22 13:24:02 -07:00
David S. Miller
2ff1cf12c9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-08-16 15:37:26 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
16b304f340 netlink: Eliminate kmalloc in netlink dump operation.
Following patch stores struct netlink_callback in netlink_sock
to avoid allocating and freeing it on every netlink dump msg.
Only one dump operation is allowed for a given socket at a time
therefore we can safely convert cb pointer to cb struct inside
netlink_sock.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-15 15:51:20 -07:00
Johannes Berg
58ad436fcf genetlink: fix family dump race
When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call
is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families,
and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking,
racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash.
Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first
time around it's already locked.

A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but
the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible,
on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking
at the current code I found the race described above, which had
also existed on the old kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-13 00:57:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
0e76a3a587 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge net into net-next to setup some infrastructure Eric
Dumazet needs for usbnet changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-03 21:36:46 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
8a849bb7f0 net: netlink: minor: remove unused pointer in alloc_pg_vec
Variable ptr is being assigned, but never used, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-02 15:26:12 -07:00
Pablo Neira
e1ee3673a8 genetlink: fix usage of NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE
Currently, it is not possible to use neither NLM_F_EXCL nor
NLM_F_REPLACE from genetlink. This is due to this checking in
genl_family_rcv_msg:

	if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP)

NLM_F_DUMP is NLM_F_MATCH|NLM_F_ROOT. Thus, if NLM_F_EXCL or
NLM_F_REPLACE flag is set, genetlink believes that you're
requesting a dump and it calls the .dumpit callback.

The solution that I propose is to refine this checking to
make it stricter:

	if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP)

And given the combination NLM_F_REPLACE and NLM_F_EXCL does
not make sense to me, it removes the ambiguity.

There was a patch that tried to fix this some time ago (0ab03c2
netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite) but it
tried to resolve this ambiguity in *all* existing netlink subsystems,
not only genetlink. That patch was reverted since it broke iproute2,
which is using NLM_F_ROOT to request the dump of the routing cache.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-30 16:43:19 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
c74f2b2678 genetlink: release cb_lock before requesting additional module
Requesting external module with cb_lock taken can result in
the deadlock like showed below:

[ 2458.111347] Showing all locks held in the system:
[ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by NetworkManager/582:
[ 2458.111347]  #0:  (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162bc79>] genl_rcv+0x19/0x40
[ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by modprobe/603:
[ 2458.111347]  #0:  (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30

[ 2461.579457] SysRq : Show Blocked State
[ 2461.580103]   task                        PC stack   pid father
[ 2461.580103] NetworkManager  D ffff880034b84500  4040   582      1 0x00000080
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197ff720 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff8800197fffd8
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197fffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff880019631700 7fffffffffffffff
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197ff880 ffff8800197ff878 ffff880019631700 ffff880019631700
[ 2461.580103] Call Trace:
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81731ad1>] schedule_timeout+0x1c1/0x360
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e69eb>] ? mark_held_locks+0xbb/0x140
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817377ac>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81736398>] wait_for_completion_killable+0xe8/0x170
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810b7fa0>] ? wake_up_state+0x20/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81095825>] call_usermodehelper_exec+0x1a5/0x210
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817362ed>] ? wait_for_completion_killable+0x3d/0x170
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81095cc3>] __request_module+0x1b3/0x370
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162c5c9>] ctrl_getfamily+0x159/0x190
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d8a4>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1f4/0x2e0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d990>] ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x2e0/0x2e0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162da1e>] genl_rcv_msg+0x8e/0xd0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162b729>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xc0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162bc88>] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162ad6d>] netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x190
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162b149>] netlink_sendmsg+0x329/0x750
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815db849>] sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xd0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e96e8>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x308/0x350
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dbc6e>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x39e/0x3b0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810565af>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x2f/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810218b9>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb2bd>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb448>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e33ad>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e3f7f>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.28+0xf/0x1a0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8120fec9>] ? fget_light+0xf9/0x510
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8120fe0c>] ? fget_light+0x3c/0x510
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dd1d2>] __sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dd222>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 2461.580103] modprobe        D ffff88000f2c8000  4632   603    602 0x00000080
[ 2461.580103]  ffff88000f04fba8 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff88000f04ffd8
[ 2461.580103]  ffff88000f04ffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff8800377d4500 ffff8800377d4500
[ 2461.580103]  ffffffff81d0b260 ffffffff81d0b268 ffffffff00000000 ffffffff81d0b2b0
[ 2461.580103] Call Trace:
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81736d4d>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0xed/0x1a0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb200>] ? update_cpu_load_active+0x10/0xb0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8137b473>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8173492d>] ? down_write+0x9d/0xb2
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162baa5>] ? genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162cbb3>] genl_register_family+0x53/0x1f0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d650>] genl_register_family_with_ops+0x20/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa017fe84>] nl80211_init+0x24/0xf0 [cfg80211]
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc043>] cfg80211_init+0x43/0xdb [cfg80211]
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810020fa>] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8105cb93>] ? set_memory_nx+0x43/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f75af>] load_module+0x1c6f/0x27f0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f2c90>] ? store_uevent+0x40/0x40
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f82c6>] SyS_finit_module+0x86/0xb0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 2461.580103] Sched Debug Version: v0.10, 3.11.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc20.x86_64 #1

Problem start to happen after adding net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211
alias name to cfg80211 module by below commit (though that commit
itself is perfectly fine):

commit fb4e156886
Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 28 16:22:06 2013 -0700

    nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211

Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-27 22:19:20 -07:00
Pablo Neira
3a36515f72 netlink: fix splat in skb_clone with large messages
Since (c05cdb1 netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space),
netlink splats if it invokes skb_clone on large netlink skbs since:

* skb_shared_info was not correctly initialized.
* skb->destructor is not set in the cloned skb.

This was spotted by trinity:

[  894.990671] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9000047b001
[  894.991034] IP: [<ffffffff81a212c4>] skb_clone+0x24/0xc0
[...]
[  894.991034] Call Trace:
[  894.991034]  [<ffffffff81ad299a>] nl_fib_input+0x6a/0x240
[  894.991034]  [<ffffffff81c3b7e6>] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x26/0x40
[  894.991034]  [<ffffffff81a5f189>] netlink_unicast+0x169/0x1e0
[  894.991034]  [<ffffffff81a601e1>] netlink_sendmsg+0x251/0x3d0

Fix it by:

1) introducing a new netlink_skb_clone function that is used in nl_fib_input,
   that sets our special skb->destructor in the cloned skb. Moreover, handle
   the release of the large cloned skb head area in the destructor path.

2) not allowing large skbuffs in the netlink broadcast path. I cannot find
   any reasonable use of the large data transfer using netlink in that path,
   moreover this helps to skip extra skb_clone handling.

I found two more netlink clients that are cloning the skbs, but they are
not in the sendmsg path. Therefore, the sole client cloning that I found
seems to be the fib frontend.

Thanks to Eric Dumazet for helping to address this issue.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-27 22:44:16 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
bcbde0d449 net: netlink: virtual tap device management
Similarly to the networking receive path with ptype_all taps, we add
the possibility to register netdevices that are for ARPHRD_NETLINK to
the netlink subsystem, so that those can be used for netlink analyzers
resp. debuggers. We do not offer a direct callback function as out-of-tree
modules could do crap with it. Instead, a netdevice must be registered
properly and only receives a clone, managed by the netlink layer. Symbols
are exported as GPL-only.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-24 16:39:05 -07:00
David S. Miller
d98cae64e4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
	drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
	net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
	net/wireless/nl80211.c

The ath9k Kconfig conflict was a change of a Kconfig option name right
next to the deletion of another option.

The xen-netback conflict was overlapping changes involving the
handling of the notify list in xen_netbk_rx_action().

Batman conflict resolution provided by Antonio Quartulli, basically
keep everything in both conflict hunks.

The nl80211 conflict is a little more involved.  In 'net' we added a
dynamic memory allocation to nl80211_dump_wiphy() to fix a race that
Linus reported.  Meanwhile in 'net-next' the handlers were converted
to use pre and post doit handlers which use a flag to determine
whether to hold the RTNL mutex around the operation.

However, the dump handlers to not use this logic.  Instead they have
to explicitly do the locking.  There were apparent bugs in the
conversion of nl80211_dump_wiphy() in that we were not dropping the
RTNL mutex in all the return paths, and it seems we very much should
be doing so.  So I fixed that whilst handling the overlapping changes.

To simplify the initial returns, I take the RTNL mutex after we try
to allocate 'tb'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-19 16:49:39 -07:00
Gao feng
ca15febfe9 netlink: make compare exist all the time
Commit da12c90e09
"netlink: Add compare function for netlink_table"
only set compare at the time we create kernel netlink,
and reset compare to NULL at the time we finially
release netlink socket, but netlink_lookup wants
the compare exist always.

So we should set compare after we allocate nl_table,
and never reset it. make comapre exist all the time.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-13 00:45:48 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
7cdbac71f9 netlink: fix error propagation in netlink_mmap()
Return the error if something went wrong instead of unconditionally
returning 0.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-11 02:52:47 -07:00
Gao feng
da12c90e09 netlink: Add compare function for netlink_table
As we know, netlink sockets are private resource of
net namespace, they can communicate with each other
only when they in the same net namespace. this works
well until we try to add namespace support for other
subsystems which use netlink.

Don't like ipv4 and route table.., it is not suited to
make these subsytems belong to net namespace, Such as
audit and crypto subsystems,they are more suitable to
user namespace.

So we must have the ability to make the netlink sockets
in same user namespace can communicate with each other.

This patch adds a new function pointer "compare" for
netlink_table, we can decide if the netlink sockets can
communicate with each other through this netlink_table
self-defined compare function.

The behavior isn't changed if we don't provide the compare
function for netlink_table.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-11 02:39:42 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
c05cdb1b86 netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space
I can hit ENOBUFS in the sendmsg() path with a large batch that is
composed of many netlink messages. Here that limit is 8 MBytes of
skbuff data area as kmalloc does not manage to get more than that.

While discussing atomic rule-set for nftables with Patrick McHardy,
we decided to put all rule-set updates that need to be applied
atomically in one single batch to simplify the existing approach.
However, as explained above, the existing netlink code limits us
to a maximum of ~20000 rules that fit in one single batch without
hitting ENOBUFS. iptables does not have such limitation as it is
using vmalloc.

This patch adds netlink_alloc_large_skb() which is only used in
the netlink_sendmsg() path. It uses alloc_skb if the memory
requested is <= one memory page, that should be the common case
for most subsystems, else vmalloc for higher memory allocations.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-07 16:26:34 -07:00
Pablo Neira
5e71d9d77c net: fix sk_buff head without data area
Eric Dumazet spotted that we have to check skb->head instead
of skb->data as skb->head points to the beginning of the
data area of the skbuff. Similarly, we have to initialize the
skb->head pointer, not skb->data in __alloc_skb_head.

After this fix, netlink crashes in the release path of the
sk_buff, so let's fix that as well.

This bug was introduced in (0ebd0ac net: add function to
allocate sk_buff head without data area).

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-04 17:26:49 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann
ee1bec9b3b netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig
Currently, in menuconfig, Netlink's new mmaped IO is the very first
entry under the ``Networking support'' item and comes even before
``Networking options'':

  [ ]   Netlink: mmaped IO
  Networking options  --->
  ...

Lets move this into ``Networking options'' under netlink's Kconfig,
since this might be more appropriate. Introduced by commit ccdfcc398
(``netlink: mmaped netlink: ring setup'').

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
ae6164adeb netlink: Fix skb ref counting.
Commit f9c2288837 (netlink:
implement memory mapped recvmsg) increamented skb->users
ref count twice for a dump op which does not look right.

Following patch fixes that.

CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-01 14:57:03 -04:00
Wei Yongjun
50754d2188 genetlink: fix possible memory leak in genl_family_rcv_msg()
'attrbuf' is malloced in genl_family_rcv_msg() when family->maxattr &&
family->parallel_ops, thus should be freed before leaving from the error
handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak.

Introduced by commit def3117493
(genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-26 23:25:39 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
def3117493 genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.
All genl callbacks are serialized by genl-mutex. This can become
bottleneck in multi threaded case.
Following patch adds an parameter to genl_family so that a
particular family can get concurrent netlink callback without
genl_lock held.
New rw-sem is used to protect genl callback from genl family unregister.
in case of parallel_ops genl-family read-lock is taken for callbacks and
write lock is taken for register or unregistration for any family.
In case of locked genl family semaphore and gel-mutex is locked for
any openration.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25 01:43:15 -04:00