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Wang Chen b74ca3a896 netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08 01:14:16 -08:00
David S. Miller 730c30ec64 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
2008-12-05 22:54:40 -08:00
Chas Williams 17b24b3c97 ATM: CVE-2008-5079: duplicate listen() on socket corrupts the vcc table
As reported by Hugo Dias that it is possible to cause a local denial
of service attack by calling the svc_listen function twice on the same
socket and reading /proc/net/atm/*vc

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-04 14:58:13 -08:00
David Woodhouse 8865c418ca atm: 32-bit ioctl compatibility
We lack compat ioctl support through most of the ATM code. This patch
deals with most of it, and I can now at least use BR2684 and PPPoATM
with 32-bit userspace.

I haven't added a .compat_ioctl method to struct atm_ioctl, because
AFAICT none of the current users need any conversion -- so we can just
call the ->ioctl() method in every case. I looked at br2684, clip, lec,
mpc, pppoatm and atmtcp.

In svc_compat_ioctl() the only mangling which is needed is to change
COMPAT_ATM_ADDPARTY to ATM_ADDPARTY. Although it's defined as
	_IOW('a', ATMIOC_SPECIAL+4,struct atm_iobuf)
it doesn't actually _take_ a struct atm_iobuf as an argument -- it takes
a struct sockaddr_atmsvc, which _is_ the same between 32-bit and 64-bit
code, so doesn't need conversion.

Almost all of vcc_ioctl() would have been identical, so I converted that
into a core do_vcc_ioctl() function with an 'int compat' argument.

I've done the same with atm_dev_ioctl(), where there _are_ a few
differences, but still it's relatively contained and there would
otherwise have been a lot of duplication.

I haven't done any of the actual device-specific ioctls, although I've
added a compat_ioctl method to struct atmdev_ops.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-03 22:12:38 -08:00
Wang Chen 524ad0a791 netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-4
We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv:
1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv().
2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously
   netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv.
But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it
directly.

This patch is a safe convert for netdev->priv to netdev_priv(netdev).
Since all of the netdev->priv is only for read.
But it is too big to be sent in one mail.
I split it to 4 parts and make every part smaller than 100,000 bytes,
which is max size allowed by vger.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12 23:39:10 -08:00
Kay Sievers fb28ad3590 net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10 13:55:14 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 21454aaad3 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/*/
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-31 00:54:56 -07:00
Johannes Berg e174961ca1 net: convert print_mac to %pM
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.

I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
Julia Lawall 5e687220a0 net/atm/lec.c: drop code after return
The break after the return serves no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-22 19:24:45 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 6067804047 net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicable
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 22:20:49 -07:00
David Howells cba5cbd155 atm: fix const assignment/discard warnings in the ATM networking driver
Fix const assignment/discard warnings in the ATM networking driver.

The lane2_assoc_ind() function needed its arguments changing to match changes
in the lane2_ops struct (patch 61c33e0129
"atm: use const where reasonable").

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-30 16:31:46 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 721499e893 netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, namespace is always &init_net.
Compiler will be able to omit namespace comparisons with this patch.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
Mitchell Blank Jr 61c33e0129 atm: use const where reasonable
From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-17 16:20:06 -07:00
Eric Kinzie 7e903c2ae3 atm: [br2864] fix routed vcmux support
From: Eric Kinzie <ekinzie@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-16 17:18:18 -07:00
Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] 27141666b6 atm: [br2684] Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL
It happens that if a packet arrives in a VC between the call to open it on
the hardware and the call to change the backend to br2684, br2684_regvcc
processes the packet and oopses dereferencing skb->dev because it is
NULL before the call to br2684_push().

Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
2008-06-16 17:15:33 -07:00
David S. Miller 5f6b1ea41b Revert "atm: Do not free already unregistered net device."
This reverts commit 65e4113684.

Unlike the other cases Pavel fixed, this case did not
setup a netdev->destructor of free_netdev, therefore this
change was not correct.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-06 00:00:16 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 1e0ba0060f atm: Bad locking on br2684_devs modifications.
The list_del happens under read-locked devs_lock.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-04 18:00:36 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 65e4113684 atm: Do not free already unregistered net device.
Both br2684_push and br2684_exit do so, but unregister_netdev()
releases the device itself.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-04 18:00:05 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 0c89652a74 atm: assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc tree
Simply replace proc_create and further data assigned with proc_create_data.
proc_atm_dev_ops holds proper referrence.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02 04:08:30 -07:00
David S. Miller df39e8ba56 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
	net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
	net/ipv6/raw.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
2008-04-14 02:30:23 -07:00
Joe Perches 2e1e9848ac [ATM]: Use SEQ_START_TOKEN
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-10 03:33:03 -07:00
David S. Miller 21f644f3ea [NET]: Undo code bloat in hot paths due to print_mac().
If print_mac() is used inside of a pr_debug() the compiler
can't see that the call is redundant so still performs it
even of pr_debug() ends up being a nop.

So don't use print_mac() in such cases in hot code paths,
use MAC_FMT et al. instead.

As noted by Joe Perches, pr_debug() could be modified to
handle this better, but that is a change to an interface
used by the entire kernel and thus needs to be validated
carefully.  This here is thus the less risky fix for
2.6.25

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-08 16:50:44 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 3b1e0a655f [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
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>
2008-03-26 04:39:55 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_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>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
David S. Miller 06802a819a Merge branch 'master' of ../net-2.6/
Conflicts:

	net/ipv6/ndisc.c
2008-03-23 22:54:03 -07:00
Wang Chen dbee0d3f46 [ATM]: When proc_create() fails, do some error handling work and return -ENOMEM.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23 21:45:36 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 9a8c09e73b [ATM]: Use seq_open/release_privade instead of manual manipulations.
lec_seq_open/lec_seq_release and __vcc_seq_open/vcc_seq_release
do seq_open/release_private's job.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29 11:37:02 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 5811769c78 [IPV4]: Remove check for ifa->ifa_dev != NULL.
This is a callback registered to inet address notifier chain.
The check is useless as:
- ifa->ifa_dev is always != NULL
- similar checks are abscent in all other notifiers.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-28 20:45:00 -08:00
Wang Chen 16e297b358 [ATM]: Use proc_create() to setup ->proc_fops first
Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing
PDE to main tree.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-28 13:55:45 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev f206351a50 [NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_route_output_key.
Needed to propagate it down to the ip_route_output_flow.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:07 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 5c17d5f112 [ATM]: Suppress some sparse warnings
CHECK   net/atm/br2684.c
net/atm/br2684.c:665:13: warning: context imbalance in 'br2684_seq_start' - wrong count at exit
net/atm/br2684.c:676:13: warning: context imbalance in 'br2684_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock
  CHECK   net/atm/lec.c
net/atm/lec.c:196:23: warning: expensive signed divide
  CHECK   net/atm/proc.c
net/atm/proc.c:151:14: warning: context imbalance in 'vcc_seq_start' - wrong count at exit
net/atm/proc.c:154:13: warning: context imbalance in 'vcc_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:43 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev ae22120ad8 [ATM]: Simplify /proc/net/atm/arp opening
The iterator state->ns.neigh_sub_iter initialization is moved from
arp_seq_open to clip_seq_start for convinience. This should not be a
problem as the iterator will be used only after the seq_start
callback.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:36 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev e5d69b9f4a [ATM]: Oops reading net/atm/arp
cat /proc/net/atm/arp causes the NULL pointer dereference in the
get_proc_net+0xc/0x3a. This happens as proc_get_net believes that the
parent proc dir entry contains struct net.

Fix this assumption for "net/atm" case.

The problem is introduced by the commit c0097b07abf5f92ab135d024dd41bd2aada1512f
from Eric W. Biederman/Daniel Lezcano.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:36 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6b175b26c1 [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to inet_(dev_)add_type.
The patch extends the inet_addr_type and inet_dev_addr_type with the
network namespace pointer. That allows to access the different tables
relatively to the network namespace.

The modification of the signature function is reported in all the
callers of the inet_addr_type using the pointer to the well known
init_net.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:27 -08:00
Chas Williams fb64c735a5 [ATM]: [br2864] whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:14 -08:00
Eric Kinzie 097b19a998 [ATM]: [br2864] routed support
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:13 -08:00
Kay Sievers ef39592f78 [ATM]: Convert struct class_device to struct device
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
2008-01-28 15:00:12 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day 6fe5452b3b [ATM]: atm is no longer experimental
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:11 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 426b5303eb [NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network namespaces
I'm actually surprised at how much was involved.  At first glance it
appears that the neighbour table data structures are already split by
network device so all that should be needed is to modify the user
interface commands to filter the set of neighbours by the network
namespace of their devices.

However a couple things turned up while I was reading through the
code.  The proxy neighbour table allows entries with no network
device, and the neighbour parms are per network device (except for the
defaults) so they now need a per network namespace default.

So I updated the two structures (which surprised me) with their very
own network namespace parameter.  Updated the relevant lookup and
destroy routines with a network namespace parameter and modified the
code that interacts with users to filter out neighbour table entries
for devices of other namespaces.

I'm a little concerned that we can modify and display the global table
configuration and from all network namespaces.  But this appears good
enough for now.

I keep thinking modifying the neighbour table to have per network
namespace instances of each table type would should be cleaner.  The
hash table is already dynamically sized so there are it is not a
limiter.  The default parameter would be straight forward to take care
of.  However when I look at the how the network table is built and
used I still find some assumptions that there is only a single
neighbour table for each type of table in the kernel.  The netlink
operations, neigh_seq_start, the non-core network users that call
neigh_lookup.  So while it might be doable it would require more
refactoring than my current approach of just doing a little extra
filtering in the code.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:03 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 8d8ad9d7c4 [NET]: Name magic constants in sock_wake_async()
The sock_wake_async() performs a bit different actions
depending on "how" argument. Unfortunately this argument
ony has numerical magic values.

I propose to give names to their constants to help people
reading this function callers understand what's going on
without looking into this function all the time.

I suppose this is 2.6.25 material, but if it's not (or the
naming seems poor/bad/awful), I can rework it against the
current net-2.6 tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:03 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov b24b8a247f [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
Herbert Xu 1c9b7aa1eb [ATM]: Check IP header validity in mpc_send_packet
Al went through the ip_fast_csum callers and found this piece of code
that did not validate the IP header.  While root crashing the machine
by sending bogus packets through raw or AF_PACKET sockets isn't that
serious, it is still nice to react gracefully.

This patch ensures that the skb has enough data for an IP header and
that the header length field is valid.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-09 03:51:59 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 6257ff2177 [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()
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>
2007-11-01 00:39:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger be07664599 [BR2684]: get rid of broken header code.
Recent header_ops change would break the following dead
code in br2684. Maintaining conditonal code in mainline is wrong.

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" 

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:39:22 -07:00
Kay Sievers 7eff2e7a8b Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger cfcabdcc2d [NET]: sparse warning fixes
Fix a bunch of sparse warnings. Mostly about 0 used as
NULL pointer, and shadowed variable declarations.
One notable case was that hash size should have been unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Andrew Morton 58c14a8fe6 [ATM] net/atm/lec.c: printk warning fix
net/atm/lec.c: In function 'lec_start_xmit':
net/atm/lec.c:371: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:54 -07:00
Joe Perches 0795af5729 [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()
This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
Denis Cheng 8b14a53670 [NET]: all net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZE
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
2007-10-10 16:51:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00