linux/include/net/netns, branch v3.5

netfilter: nf_ct_helper: allow to disable automatic helper assignment

2012-05-08T17:35:18Z

This patch allows you to disable automatic conntrack helper lookup based on TCP/UDP ports, eg. echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper [ Note: flows that already got a helper will keep using it even if automatic helper assignment has been disabled ] Once this behaviour has been disabled, you have to explicitly use the iptables CT target to attach helper to flows. There are good reasons to stop supporting automatic helper assignment, for further information, please read: http://www.netfilter.org/news.html#2012-04-03 This patch also adds one message to inform that automatic helper assignment is deprecated and it will be removed soon (this is spotted only once, with the first flow that gets a helper attached to make it as less annoying as possible). Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

net ipv6: Don't use sysctl tables with .child entries.

2012-04-21T01:22:29Z

The sysctl core no longer natively understands sysctl tables with .child entries. Split the ipv6_table to remove the .child entries. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

2012-04-15T16:44:40Z

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h

2012-03-04T22:54:34Z

If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then that header really should be including and not just expecting it to be implicitly present. We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have been causing compile failures/warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

netns: Fail conspicously if someone uses net_generic at an inappropriate time.

2012-01-28T02:06:02Z

By definition net_generic should never be called when it can return NULL. Fail conspicously with a BUG_ON to make it clear when people mess up that a NULL return should never happen. Recently there was a bug in the CAIF subsystem where it was registered with register_pernet_device instead of register_pernet_subsys. It was erroneously concluded that net_generic could validly return NULL and that net_assign_generic was buggy (when it was just inefficient). Hopefully this BUG_ON will prevent people to coming to similar erroneous conclusions in the futrue. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Tested-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

per-netns ipv4 sysctl_tcp_mem

2011-12-13T00:04:11Z

This patch allows each namespace to independently set up its levels for tcp memory pressure thresholds. This patch alone does not buy much: we need to make this values per group of process somehow. This is achieved in the patches that follows in this patchset. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki CC: David S. Miller CC: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)

2011-12-11T23:25:16Z

Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2011-12-02T18:49:21Z

netfilter: nf_conntrack: make event callback registration per-netns

2011-11-21T23:34:47Z

This patch fixes an oops that can be triggered following this recipe: 0) make sure nf_conntrack_netlink and nf_conntrack_ipv4 are loaded. 1) container is started. 2) connect to it via lxc-console. 3) generate some traffic with the container to create some conntrack entries in its table. 4) stop the container: you hit one oops because the conntrack table cleanup tries to report the destroy event to user-space but the per-netns nfnetlink socket has already gone (as the nfnetlink socket is per-netns but event callback registration is global). To fix this situation, we make the ctnl_notifier per-netns so the callback is registered/unregistered if the container is created/destroyed. Alex Bligh and Alexey Dobriyan originally proposed one small patch to check if the nfnetlink socket is gone in nfnetlink_has_listeners, but this is a very visited path for events, thus, it may reduce performance and it looks a bit hackish to check for the nfnetlink socket only to workaround this situation. As a result, I decided to follow the bigger path choice, which seems to look nicer to me. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Reported-by: Alex Bligh Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipv6: reduce percpu needs for icmpv6msg mibs

2011-11-14T05:12:26Z

Reading /proc/net/snmp6 on a machine with a lot of cpus is very expensive (can be ~88000 us). This is because ICMPV6MSG MIB uses 4096 bytes per cpu, and folding values for all possible cpus can read 16 Mbytes of memory (32MBytes on non x86 arches) ICMP messages are not considered as fast path on a typical server, and eventually few cpus handle them anyway. We can afford an atomic operation instead of using percpu data. This saves 4096 bytes per cpu and per network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller