Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.
This makes the very common pattern of
if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }
be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do
return nlmsg_end(...);
and the caller is expected to deal with it.
This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write
if (my_function(...))
/* error condition */
and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.
Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.
Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did
- return nlmsg_end(...);
+ nlmsg_end(...);
+ return 0;
I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.
One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As rhashtable_lookup_compare_insert() can guarantee the process
of search and insertion is atomic, it's safe to eliminate the
nl_sk_hash_lock. After this, object insertion or removal will
be protected with per bucket lock on write side while object
lookup is guarded with rcu read lock on read side.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is in preparation to introduce per bucket spinlocks. It
extends all iterator macros to take the bucket table and bucket
index. It also introduces a new rht_dereference_bucket() to
handle protected accesses to buckets.
It introduces a barrier() to the RCU iterators to the prevent
the compiler from caching the first element.
The lockdep verifier is introduced as stub which always succeeds
and properly implement in the next patch when the locks are
introduced.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Although RCU protection would be possible during diag dump, doing
so allows for concurrent table mutations which can render the
in-table offset between individual Netlink messages invalid and
thus cause legitimate sockets to be skipped in the dump.
Since the diag dump is relatively low volume and consistency is
more important than performance, the table mutex is held during
dump.
Reported-by: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Fixes: e341694e3e ("netlink: Convert netlink_lookup() to use RCU protected hash table")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Heavy Netlink users such as Open vSwitch spend a considerable amount of
time in netlink_lookup() due to the read-lock on nl_table_lock. Use of
RCU relieves the lock contention.
Makes use of the new resizable hash table to avoid locking on the
lookup.
The hash table will grow if entries exceeds 75% of table size up to a
total table size of 64K. It will automatically shrink if usage falls
below 30%.
Also splits nl_table_lock into a separate mutex to protect hash table
mutations and allow synchronize_rcu() to sleep while waiting for readers
during expansion and shrinking.
Before:
9.16% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] masked_flow_lookup
6.42% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] mod_cur_headers
6.26% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] pktgen_thread_worker
6.23% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset
4.79% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netlink_lookup
4.37% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcpy
3.60% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] ovs_flow_extract
2.69% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] jhash2
After:
15.26% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] masked_flow_lookup
8.12% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] pktgen_thread_worker
7.92% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] mod_cur_headers
5.11% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset
4.11% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] ovs_flow_extract
4.06% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
3.90% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] jhash2
[...]
0.67% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netlink_lookup
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netlink/diag.c: In function 'sk_diag_put_rings_cfg':
net/netlink/diag.c:28:17: error: 'struct netlink_sock' has no member named 'pg_vec_lock'
net/netlink/diag.c:29:29: error: 'struct netlink_sock' has no member named 'rx_ring'
net/netlink/diag.c:31:30: error: 'struct netlink_sock' has no member named 'tx_ring'
net/netlink/diag.c:33:19: error: 'struct netlink_sock' has no member named 'pg_vec_lock'
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The netlink_diag can be built as a module, just like it's done in
unix sockets.
The core dumping message carries the basic info about netlink sockets:
family, type and protocol, portis, dst_group, dst_portid, state.
Groups can be received as an optional parameter NETLINK_DIAG_GROUPS.
Netlink sockets cab be filtered by protocols.
The socket inode number and cookie is reserved for future per-socket info
retrieving. The per-protocol filtering is also reserved for future by
requiring the sdiag_protocol to be zero.
The file /proc/net/netlink doesn't provide enough information for
dumping netlink sockets. It doesn't provide dst_group, dst_portid,
groups above 32.
v2: fix NETLINK_DIAG_MAX. Now it's equal to the last constant.
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg
Ying Xue
Thomas Graf
David S. Miller
Patrick McHardy
Andrey Vagin