kernel.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch linux-2.6.21.y

[PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit

2007-03-27T18:10:26Z

Johannes Berg discovered that kernel space was leaking to userspace on 64 bit platform. He made a first patch to fix that. This is an improved version of his patch. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54Z

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET] CORE: Fix whitespace errors.

2007-02-11T07:19:25Z

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations

2007-02-08T20:38:41Z

Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug, its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present. This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnl_put_cacheinfo() to unify some code

2006-12-03T05:30:44Z

IPv4, IPv6, and DECNet all use struct rta_cacheinfo in a similiar way, therefore rtnl_put_cacheinfo() is added to reuse code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPv6] prefix: Convert RTM_NEWPREFIX notifications to use the new netlink api

2006-12-03T05:22:45Z

RTM_GETPREFIX is completely unused and is thus removed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible

2006-12-03T05:22:11Z

Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Fix use of wrong skb in do_getlink()

2006-10-12T08:50:30Z

skb is the netlink query, nskb is the reply message. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Possible dereference in net/core/rtnetlink.c

2006-09-29T01:01:23Z

another possible dereference spotted by coverity (#cid 1390). if the nlmsg_parse() call fails, we goto errout, where we call dev_put(), with dev still initialized to NULL. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Fix netdevice name corruption

2006-09-22T22:18:50Z

When changing a device by ifindex without including a IFLA_IFNAME attribute, the ifname variable contains random garbage and is used to change the device name. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller