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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-07-10 13:51:34 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-13 01:03:27 +0400
commit134e63756d5f3d0f7604dfcca847b09d1b14fd66 (patch)
treed2b5eab085d90cde0a4c0136a118800ca72b76ad /include/net/genetlink.h
parent11a28d373ed2539a110d56419457e2e7db221ac7 (diff)
downloadlinux-134e63756d5f3d0f7604dfcca847b09d1b14fd66.tar.xz
genetlink: make netns aware
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No generic netlink families except for the controller family are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by one and then set the family->netnsok member to true. A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace, for example when it applies to an object that lives in that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns() to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects that do not have an associated netns). The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast the message in just init_net, which is currently correct for all generic netlink families since they only work in init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all net namespaces because they do not care about the netns at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns aware in some way. After this patch families can easily decide whether or not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many genl families us it for objects not related to networking and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but that will have to be done on a per family basis. Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart problem where network namespaces could be used, genl families and multicast groups are numbered globally and I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces for those families that do not care about netns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h66
1 files changed, 59 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 1b0e3ee4ddd8..2a1c06874c42 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <linux/genetlink.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>
+#include <net/net_namespace.h>
/**
* struct genl_multicast_group - generic netlink multicast group
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ struct genl_multicast_group
* @name: name of family
* @version: protocol version
* @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
+ * @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network
+ * namespaces and should be presented in all of them
* @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes
* @ops_list: list of all assigned operations
* @family_list: family list
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ struct genl_family
char name[GENL_NAMSIZ];
unsigned int version;
unsigned int maxattr;
+ bool netnsok;
struct nlattr ** attrbuf; /* private */
struct list_head ops_list; /* private */
struct list_head family_list; /* private */
@@ -62,8 +66,32 @@ struct genl_info
struct genlmsghdr * genlhdr;
void * userhdr;
struct nlattr ** attrs;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
+ struct net * _net;
+#endif
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
+static inline struct net *genl_info_net(struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ return info->_net;
+}
+
+static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info *info, struct net *net)
+{
+ info->_net = net;
+}
+#else
+static inline struct net *genl_info_net(struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ return &init_net;
+}
+
+static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info *info, struct net *net)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
/**
* struct genl_ops - generic netlink operations
* @cmd: command identifier
@@ -98,8 +126,6 @@ extern int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_family *family,
extern void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family *family,
struct genl_multicast_group *grp);
-extern struct sock *genl_sock;
-
/**
* genlmsg_put - Add generic netlink header to netlink message
* @skb: socket buffer holding the message
@@ -170,7 +196,21 @@ static inline void genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr)
}
/**
- * genlmsg_multicast - multicast a netlink message
+ * genlmsg_multicast_netns - multicast a netlink message to a specific netns
+ * @net: the net namespace
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
+ * @group: multicast group id
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_multicast_netns(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ u32 pid, unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return nlmsg_multicast(net->genl_sock, skb, pid, group, flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_multicast - multicast a netlink message to the default netns
* @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
* @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
* @group: multicast group id
@@ -179,17 +219,29 @@ static inline void genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr)
static inline int genlmsg_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
{
- return nlmsg_multicast(genl_sock, skb, pid, group, flags);
+ return genlmsg_multicast_netns(&init_net, skb, pid, group, flags);
}
/**
+ * genlmsg_multicast_allns - multicast a netlink message to all net namespaces
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
+ * @group: multicast group id
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ *
+ * This function must hold the RTNL or rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+int genlmsg_multicast_allns(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
+ unsigned int group, gfp_t flags);
+
+/**
* genlmsg_unicast - unicast a netlink message
* @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
* @pid: netlink pid of the destination socket
*/
-static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
+static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
{
- return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
+ return nlmsg_unicast(net->genl_sock, skb, pid);
}
/**
@@ -199,7 +251,7 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
*/
static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
{
- return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid);
+ return genlmsg_unicast(genl_info_net(info), skb, info->snd_pid);
}
/**