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2023-06-21Remove DECnet support from kernelStephen Hemminger
commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f upstream. DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol history museum not in Linux kernel. It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well. Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. This means that there is still an empty neighbour table for AF_DECNET. The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-01-06uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>Petr Vorel
commit a85cbe6159ffc973e5702f70a3bd5185f8f3c38d upstream. and include <linux/const.h> in UAPI headers instead of <linux/kernel.h>. The reason is to avoid indirect <linux/sysinfo.h> include when using some network headers: <linux/netlink.h> or others -> <linux/kernel.h> -> <linux/sysinfo.h>. This indirect include causes on MUSL redefinition of struct sysinfo when included both <sys/sysinfo.h> and some of UAPI headers: In file included from x86_64-buildroot-linux-musl/sysroot/usr/include/linux/kernel.h:5, from x86_64-buildroot-linux-musl/sysroot/usr/include/linux/netlink.h:5, from ../include/tst_netlink.h:14, from tst_crypto.c:13: x86_64-buildroot-linux-musl/sysroot/usr/include/linux/sysinfo.h:8:8: error: redefinition of `struct sysinfo' struct sysinfo { ^~~~~~~ In file included from ../include/tst_safe_macros.h:15, from ../include/tst_test.h:93, from tst_crypto.c:11: x86_64-buildroot-linux-musl/sysroot/usr/include/sys/sysinfo.h:10:8: note: originally defined here Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201015190013.8901-1-petr.vorel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> Acked-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-12-14net: netlink: rename NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK -> NETLINK_GET_STRICT_CHKJakub Kicinski
NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK can be used for all GET requests, dumps as well as doit handlers. Replace the DUMP in the name with GET make that clearer. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-08netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumpsDavid Ahern
Add a new socket option, NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK, that userspace can use via setsockopt to request strict checking of headers and attributes on dump requests. To get dump features such as kernel side filtering based on data in the header or attributes appended to the dump request, userspace must call setsockopt() for NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK and a non-zero value. Since the netlink sock and its flags are private to the af_netlink code, the strict checking flag is passed to dump handlers via a flag in the netlink_callback struct. For old userspace on new kernel there is no impact as all of the data checks in later patches are wrapped in a check on the new strict flag. For new userspace on old kernel, the setsockopt will fail and even if new userspace sets data in the headers and appended attributes the kernel will silently ignore it. Moving forward when the setsockopt succeeds, the new userspace on old kernel means the dump request can pass an attribute the kernel does not understand. The dump will then fail as the older kernel does not understand it. New userspace on new kernel setting the socket option gets the benefit of the improved data dump. Kernel side the NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK uapi is converted to a generic NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK flag which can potentially be leveraged for tighter checking on the NEW, DEL, and SET commands. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
license Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default are files without license information under the default license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception which is in the kernels COPYING file: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". otherwise syscall usage would not be possible. Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-04netlink: add NLM_F_NONREC flag for deletion requestsPablo Neira Ayuso
In the last NFWS in Faro, Portugal, we discussed that netlink is lacking the semantics to request non recursive deletions, ie. do not delete an object iff it has child objects that hang from this parent object that the user requests to be deleted. We need this new flag to solve a problem for the iptables-compat backward compatibility utility, that runs iptables commands using the existing nf_tables netlink interface. Specifically, custom chains in iptables cannot be deleted if there are rules in it, however, nf_tables allows to remove any chain that is populated with content. To sort out this asymmetry, iptables-compat userspace sets this new NLM_F_NONREC flag to obtain the same semantics that iptables provides. This new flag should only be used for deletion requests. Note this new flag value overlaps with the existing: * NLM_F_ROOT for get requests. * NLM_F_REPLACE for new requests. However, those flags should not ever be used in deletion requests. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2017-07-30net netlink: Add new type NLA_BITFIELD32Jamal Hadi Salim
Generic bitflags attribute content sent to the kernel by user. With this netlink attr type the user can either set or unset a flag in the kernel. The value is a bitmap that defines the bit values being set The selector is a bitmask that defines which value bit is to be considered. A check is made to ensure the rules that a kernel subsystem always conforms to bitflags the kernel already knows about. i.e if the user tries to set a bit flag that is not understood then the _it will be rejected_. In the most basic form, the user specifies the attribute policy as: [ATTR_GOO] = { .type = NLA_BITFIELD32, .validation_data = &myvalidflags }, where myvalidflags is the bit mask of the flags the kernel understands. If the user _does not_ provide myvalidflags then the attribute will also be rejected. Examples: value = 0x0, and selector = 0x1 implies we are selecting bit 1 and we want to set its value to 0. value = 0x2, and selector = 0x2 implies we are selecting bit 2 and we want to set its value to 1. Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-13netlink: allow sending extended ACK with cookie on successJohannes Berg
Now that we have extended error reporting and a new message format for netlink ACK messages, also extend this to be able to return arbitrary cookie data on success. This will allow, for example, nl80211 to not send an extra message for cookies identifying newly created objects, but return those directly in the ACK message. The cookie data size is currently limited to 20 bytes (since Jamal talked about using SHA1 for identifiers.) Thanks to Jamal Hadi Salim for bringing up this idea during the discussions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-13netlink: extended ACK reportingJohannes Berg
Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't get extended ACK reporting. Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr passing trick and various other ideas. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-08netlink: uapi: use hex numbers for NLM_F_* flagsJohannes Berg
It's rather confusing that the netlink message flags are numbered 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, <unused>, 0x100. Make that more understandable by numbering the lower ones with hex constants as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-09smc: netlink interface for SMC socketsUrsula Braun
Support for SMC socket monitoring via netlink sockets of protocol NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-18netlink: remove mmapped netlink supportFlorian Westphal
mmapped netlink has a number of unresolved issues: - TX zerocopy support had to be disabled more than a year ago via commit 4682a0358639b29cf ("netlink: Always copy on mmap TX.") because the content of the mmapped area can change after netlink attribute validation but before message processing. - RX support was implemented mainly to speed up nfqueue dumping packet payload to userspace. However, since commit ae08ce0021087a5d812d2 ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: zero copy support") we avoid one copy with the socket-based interface too (via the skb_zerocopy helper). The other problem is that skbs attached to mmaped netlink socket behave different from normal skbs: - they don't have a shinfo area, so all functions that use skb_shinfo() (e.g. skb_clone) cannot be used. - reserving headroom prevents userspace from seeing the content as it expects message to start at skb->head. See for instance commit aa3a022094fa ("netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump"). - skbs handed e.g. to netlink_ack must have non-NULL skb->sk, else we crash because it needs the sk to check if a tx ring is attached. Also not obvious, leads to non-intuitive bug fixes such as 7c7bdf359 ("netfilter: nfnetlink: use original skbuff when acking batches"). mmaped netlink also didn't play nicely with the skb_zerocopy helper used by nfqueue and openvswitch. Daniel Borkmann fixed this via commit 6bb0fef489f6 ("netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue zero-copy")' but at the cost of also needing to provide remaining length to the allocation function. nfqueue also has problems when used with mmaped rx netlink: - mmaped netlink doesn't allow use of nfqueue batch verdict messages. Problem is that in the mmap case, the allocation time also determines the ordering in which the frame will be seen by userspace (A allocating before B means that A is located in earlier ring slot, but this also means that B might get a lower sequence number then A since seqno is decided later. To fix this we would need to extend the spinlocked region to also cover the allocation and message setup which isn't desirable. - nfqueue can now be configured to queue large (GSO) skbs to userspace. Queing GSO packets is faster than having to force a software segmentation in the kernel, so this is a desirable option. However, with a mmap based ring one has to use 64kb per ring slot element, else mmap has to fall back to the socket path (NL_MMAP_STATUS_COPY) for all large packets. To use the mmap interface, userspace not only has to probe for mmap netlink support, it also has to implement a recv/socket receive path in order to handle messages that exceed the size of an rx ring element. Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <chamaken@gmail.com> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-29net: Add support for filtering neigh dump by master deviceDavid Ahern
Add support for filtering neighbor dumps by master device by adding the NDA_MASTER attribute to the dump request. A new netlink flag, NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED, is added to indicate the kernel supports the request and output is filtered as requested. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-28netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket optionChristophe Ricard
Since commit c05cdb1b864f ("netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space"), the kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the acknowledgment message back to userspace. This patch introduces a new socket option that trims off the payload of the original netlink message. The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from the sequence number what is the message that has triggered the acknowledgment. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <christophe-h.ricard@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-21netlink: add API to retrieve all group membershipsDavid Herrmann
This patch adds getsockopt(SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS) to retrieve all groups a socket is a member of. Currently, we have to use getsockname() and look at the nl.nl_groups bitmask. However, this mask is limited to 32 groups. Hence, similar to NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, this adds a separate sockopt to manager higher groups IDs than 32. This new NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS option takes a pointer to __u32 and the size of the array. The array is filled with the full membership-set of the socket, and the required array size is returned in optlen. Hence, user-space can retry with a properly sized array in case it was too small. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-09netlink: allow to listen "all" netnsNicolas Dichtel
More accurately, listen all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns where the netlink socket is opened. For this purpose, a netlink socket option is added: NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID. When this option is set on a netlink socket, this socket will receive netlink notifications from all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns where the socket has been opened. The nsid is sent to userland via an anscillary data. With this patch, a daemon needs only one socket to listen many netns. This is useful when the number of netns is high. Because 0 is a valid value for a nsid, the field nsid_is_set indicates if the field nsid is valid or not. skb->cb is initialized to 0 on skb allocation, thus we are sure that we will never send a nsid 0 by error to the userland. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19netlink: mmaped netlink: ring setupPatrick McHardy
Add support for mmap'ed RX and TX ring setup and teardown based on the af_packet.c code. The following patches will use this to add the real mmap'ed receive and transmit functionality. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-26netlink: remove duplicated NLMSG_ALIGNHong zhi guo
NLMSG_HDRLEN is already aligned value. It's for directly reference without extra alignment. The redundant alignment here may confuse the API users. Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
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>