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Jan Engelhardt
4b560b447d netfilter: xtables: substitute temporary defines by final name
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-05-11 18:31:17 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
6291055465 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c
	net/netfilter/xt_limit.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-04-20 16:02:01 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jan Engelhardt
d6b00a5345 netfilter: xtables: change targets to return error code
Part of the transition of done by this semantic patch:
// <smpl>
@ rule1 @
struct xt_target ops;
identifier check;
@@
 ops.checkentry = check;

@@
identifier rule1.check;
@@
 check(...) { <...
-return true;
+return 0;
 ...> }

@@
identifier rule1.check;
@@
 check(...) { <...
-return false;
+return -EINVAL;
 ...> }
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-03-25 16:55:49 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
135367b8f6 netfilter: xtables: change xt_target.checkentry return type
Restore function signatures from bool to int so that we can report
memory allocation failures or similar using -ENOMEM rather than
always having to pass -EINVAL back.

// <smpl>
@@
type bool;
identifier check, par;
@@
-bool check
+int check
 (struct xt_tgchk_param *par) { ... }
// </smpl>

Minus the change it does to xt_ct_find_proto.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-03-25 16:04:33 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
ff67e4e42b netfilter: xt extensions: use pr_<level> (2)
Supplement to 1159683ef4.

Downgrade the log level to INFO for most checkentry messages as they
are, IMO, just an extra information to the -EINVAL code that is
returned as part of a parameter "constraint violation". Leave errors
to real errors, such as being unable to create a LED trigger.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-03-25 15:00:04 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
739674fb7f netfilter: xtables: constify args in compat copying functions
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-15 16:59:28 +01:00
Joe Perches
3666ed1c48 netfilter: net/ipv[46]/netfilter: Move && and || to end of previous line
Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-11-23 23:17:06 +01:00
Eric Leblond
ca735b3aaa netfilter: use a linked list of loggers
This patch modifies nf_log to use a linked list of loggers for each
protocol. This list of loggers is read and write protected with a
mutex.

This patch separates registration and binding. To be used as
logging module, a module has to register calling nf_log_register()
and to bind to a protocol it has to call nf_log_bind_pf().
This patch also converts the logging modules to the new API. For nfnetlink_log,
it simply switchs call to register functions to call to bind function and
adds a call to nf_log_register() during init. For other modules, it just
remove a const flag from the logger structure and replace it with a
__read_mostly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16 14:54:21 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
af5d6dc200 netfilter: xtables: move extension arguments into compound structure (5/6)
This patch does this for target extensions' checkentry functions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:19 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
7eb3558655 netfilter: xtables: move extension arguments into compound structure (4/6)
This patch does this for target extensions' target functions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:19 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
ee999d8b95 netfilter: x_tables: use NFPROTO_* in extensions
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:01 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
76108cea06 netfilter: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf vars
and (try to) consistently use u_int8_t for the L3 family.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Denis V. Lunev
b7c6ba6eb1 [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just
let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal
inside a namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:07 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
2ae15b64e6 [NETFILTER]: Update modules' descriptions
Updates the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() tags for all Netfilter modules,
actually describing what the module does and not just
"netfilter XYZ target".

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f01ffbd6e7 [NETFILTER]: nf_log: move logging stuff to seperate header
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:58 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
d3c5ee6d54 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: consistent and unique symbol names
Give all Netfilter modules consistent and unique symbol names.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:53 -08:00
Herbert Xu
3db05fea51 [NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:29 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
0d53778e81 [NETFILTER]: Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug
Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug and fix lots of non-compiling debug statements.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
9f15c5302d [NETFILTER]: x_tables: mark matches and targets __read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:15 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
7c4e36bc17 [NETFILTER]: Remove redundant parentheses/braces
Removes redundant parentheses and braces (And add one pair in a
xt_tcpudp.c macro).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:11 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
a47362a226 [NETFILTER]: add some consts, remove some casts
Make a number of variables const and/or remove unneeded casts.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:01 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
e1931b784a [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_target->checkentry to bool
Switch the return type of target checkentry functions to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b076deb849 [NETFILTER]: ipt_ULOG: add compat conversion functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e6f689db51 [NETFILTER]: Use setup_timer
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
1b53d9042c [NETFILTER]: Remove changelogs and CVS IDs
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:35 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b0e380b1d8 [SK_BUFF]: unions of just one member don't get anything done, kill them
Renaming skb->h to skb->transport_header, skb->nh to skb->network_header and
skb->mac to skb->mac_header, to match the names of the associated helpers
(skb[_[re]set]_{transport,network,mac}_header).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:20 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
98e399f82a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to
touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my
regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
b7aa0bf70c [NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_t
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain
'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct
sock.

This has some drawbacks :
- Fixed resolution of micro second.
- Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16

I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution
time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution.

As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits
a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other
structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in
ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...)

Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide
nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or
SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS)

Note : this patch includes a bug correction in
compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this
syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
01102e7ca2 [NETFILTER]: ipt_ULOG: use put_unaligned
Use put_unaligned to fix warnings about unaligned accesses.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-12 14:27:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e92ad99c78 [NETFILTER]: nf_log: minor cleanups
- rename nf_logging to nf_loggers since its an array of registered loggers

- rename nf_log_unregister_logger() to nf_log_unregister() to make it
  symetrical to nf_log_register() and convert all users

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 11:11:55 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
e905a9edab [NET] IPV4: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:39 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
6709dbbb19 [NETFILTER]: {ip,ip6}_tables: remove x_tables wrapper functions
Use the x_tables functions directly to make it better visible which
parts are shared between ip_tables and ip6_tables.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:19 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
e1fd0586b0 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: fix return values for LOG/ULOG
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:18 -08:00
Thomas Graf
82e91ffef6 [NET]: Turn nfmark into generic mark
nfmark is being used in various subsystems and has become
the defacto mark field for all kinds of packets. Therefore
it makes sense to rename it to `mark' and remove the
dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:38 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
efa741656e [NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove unused size argument to check/destroy functions
The size is verified by x_tables and isn't needed by the modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
fe1cb10873 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove unused argument to target functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:33 -07:00
Mark Huang
dcb7cd97f1 [NETFILTER]: ulog: fix panic on SMP kernels
Fix kernel panic on various SMP machines. The culprit is a null
ub->skb in ulog_send(). If ulog_timer() has already been scheduled on
one CPU and is spinning on the lock, and ipt_ulog_packet() flushes the
queue on another CPU by calling ulog_send() right before it exits,
there will be no skbuff when ulog_timer() acquires the lock and calls
ulog_send(). Cancelling the timer in ulog_send() doesn't help because
it has already been scheduled and is running on the first CPU.

Similar problem exists in ebt_ulog.c and nfnetlink_log.c.

Signed-off-by: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-13 18:57:54 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Andrew Morton
65b4b4e81a [NETFILTER]: Rename init functions.
Every netfilter module uses `init' for its module_init() function and
`fini' or `cleanup' for its module_exit() function.

Problem is, this creates uninformative initcall_debug output and makes
ctags rather useless.

So go through and rename them all to $(filename)_init and
$(filename)_fini.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-28 17:02:48 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
c498673474 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add xt_{match,target} arguments to match/target functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:02:56 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
1d5cd90976 [NETFILTER]: Convert ip_tables matches/targets to centralized error checking
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:01:14 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
ad2ad0f965 [NETFILTER]: Fix undersized skb allocation in ipt_ULOG/ebt_ulog/nfnetlink_log
The skb allocated is always of size nlbufsize, even if that is smaller than
the size needed for the current packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:19 -08:00
Holger Eitzenberger
c2db292438 [NETFILTER]: ULOG/nfnetlink_log: Use better default value for 'nlbufsiz'
Performance tests showed that ULOG may fail on heavy loaded systems
because of failed order-N allocations (N >= 1).

The default value of 4096 is not optimal in the sense that it actually
allocates _two_ contigous physical pages.  Reasoning: ULOG uses
alloc_skb(), which adds another ~300 bytes for skb_shared_info.

This patch sets the default value to NLMSG_GOODSIZE and adds some
documentation at the top.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <heitzenberger@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-04 23:51:18 -08:00
Harald Welte
2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables.  In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.

o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
  wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
  are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
  to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
  include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
  around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers

Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
e7be6994ec [NETFILTER]: Fix module_param types and permissions
Fix netfilter module_param types and permissions. Also fix an off-by-one in
the ipt_ULOG nlbufsiz < 128k check.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:19:46 -08:00
Herbert Xu
325ed82393 [NET]: Fix packet timestamping.
I've found the problem in general.  It affects any 64-bit
architecture.  The problem occurs when you change the system time.

Suppose that when you boot your system clock is forward by a day.
This gets recorded down in skb_tv_base.  You then wind the clock back
by a day.  From that point onwards the offset will be negative which
essentially overflows the 32-bit variables they're stored in.

In fact, why don't we just store the real time stamp in those 32-bit
variables? After all, we're not going to overflow for quite a while
yet.

When we do overflow, we'll need a better solution of course.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03 13:57:23 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
066286071d [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00