12 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
    all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
    entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
    revmoed.

    In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
    take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
    to pass one.

    Cc: "David Miller"
    Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     

18 Feb, 2009

1 commit


04 Nov, 2008

1 commit

  • I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
    stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
    will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
    compilation.

    So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
    handler, it was never needed in fact.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

08 Oct, 2008

1 commit


14 Apr, 2008

1 commit


01 Feb, 2008

1 commit


29 Jan, 2008

1 commit


19 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • No one has bothered to set strategy routine for the the netfilter sysctls that
    return jiffies to be sysctl_jiffies.

    So it appears the sys_sysctl path is unused and untested, so this patch
    removes the binary sysctl numbers.

    Which fixes the netfilter oops in 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 for me.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     

15 Jul, 2007

1 commit


26 Apr, 2007

1 commit


15 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • 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

    Tim Schmielau
     

03 Dec, 2006

3 commits


23 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • Change some netfilter tunables to __read_mostly. Also fixed some
    incorrect file reference comments while I was in there.

    (this will be my last __read_mostly patch unless someone points out
    something else that needs it)

    Signed-off-by: Brian Haley
    Acked-by: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Brian Haley
     

11 Jan, 2006

1 commit


10 Nov, 2005

1 commit

  • The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
    handle ipv4. There were basically two choices present to add
    connection tracking support for ipv6. We could either duplicate all
    of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
    choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
    could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
    (TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

    In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
    protocol.

    The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
    with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
    which is also cured here. For example, these issues include:

    1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
    ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
    in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
    messages

    2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
    the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
    (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
    isn't feasible in ipv6

    3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
    before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
    no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
    design

    4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

    The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
    the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
    and it is feature complete. Once that occurs, the old conntrack
    stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
    fully kill it off 6 months later.

    Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai
    Signed-off-by: Harald Welte
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Yasuyuki Kozakai