18 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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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 writeif (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 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
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:@change@
expression E1,E2;
@@(
- (jiffies - E1) < E2
+ time_before(jiffies, E1+E2)
)Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi
Acked-by: Julia Lawall
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
25 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 Dec, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
13 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Reduce the uses of this unnecessary typedef.
Done via perl script:
$ git grep --name-only -w ctl_table net | \
xargs perl -p -i -e '\
sub trim { my ($local) = @_; $local =~ s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g; return $local; } \
s/\b(?<!struct\s)ctl_table\b(\s*\*\s*|\s+\w+)/"struct ctl_table " . trim($1)/ge'Reflow the modified lines that now exceed 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
22 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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With decnet converted, we can finally get rid of rta_buf and its
computations around it. It also gets rid of the minimal header
length verification since all message handlers do that explicitly
anyway.Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
19 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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proc_net_remove is only used to remove proc entries
that under /proc/net,it's not a general function for
removing proc entries of netns. if we want to remove
some proc entries which under /proc/net/stat/, we still
need to call remove_proc_entry.this patch use remove_proc_entry to replace proc_net_remove.
we can remove proc_net_remove after this patch.Signed-off-by: Gao feng
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Right now, some modules such as bonding use proc_create
to create proc entries under /proc/net/, and other modules
such as ipv4 use proc_net_fops_create.It looks a little chaos.this patch changes all of
proc_net_fops_create to proc_create. we can remove
proc_net_fops_create after this patch.Signed-off-by: Gao feng
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
19 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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- In rtnetlink_rcv_msg convert the capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check
to ns_capable(net->user-ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN). Allowing unprivileged
users to make netlink calls to modify their local network
namespace.- In the rtnetlink doit methods add capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) so
that calls that are not safe for unprivileged users are still
protected.Later patches will remove the extra capable calls from methods
that are safe for unprivilged users.Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Apr, 2012
2 commits
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Using an ascii path to register_net_sysctl as opposed to the slightly
awkward ctl_path allows for much simpler code.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
This makes it clearer which sysctls are relative to your current network
namespace.This makes it a little less error prone by not exposing sysctls for the
initial network namespace in other namespaces.This is the same way we handle all of our other network interfaces to
userspace and I can't honestly remember why we didn't do this for
sysctls right from the start.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 Apr, 2012
1 commit
02 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
29 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells
13 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
CC: Stephen Hemminger
CC: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
02 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.
//smpl
@@ expression P; @@- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)//
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
02 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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Make the case labels the same indent as the switch.
git diff -w shows differences for line wrapping.
(fit multiple lines to 80 columns, join where possible)Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
17 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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Unnecessary casts of void * clutter the code.
These are the remainder casts after several specific
patches to remove netdev_priv and dev_priv.Done via coccinelle script:
$ cat cast_void_pointer.cocci
@@
type T;
T *pt;
void *pv;
@@- pt = (T *)pv;
+ pt = pv;Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Acked-by: Paul Moore
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
10 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page. This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.Signed-off-by: Greg Rose
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
21 May, 2011
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
tg3: Update version to 3.119
tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
...Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
08 May, 2011
1 commit
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The rcu callback dn_dev_free_ifa_rcu() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(dn_dev_free_ifa_rcu).Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
03 May, 2011
1 commit
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Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink
dump callbacks.I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making
good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations.This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow
on a workload adding/removing network devices in background.All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does
roughly a revert of commits :1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacksThis let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed.
It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu
read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu()Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Fix spelling mistakes in comments
Revert conflicting V4L changes
i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
mm/rmap.c: fix comment
sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
init/Kconfig: fix typo
anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
poll: fix a typo in comment
...Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
- fs/ext4/ext4.hAlso fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
09 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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While tracking dev_base_lock users, I found decnet used it in
dnet_select_source(), but for a wrong purpose:Writers only hold RTNL, not dev_base_lock, so readers must use RCU if
they cannot use RTNL.Adds an rcu_head in struct dn_ifaddr and handle proper RCU management.
Adds __rcu annotation in dn_route as well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
02 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
18 May, 2010
1 commit
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This patch removes from net/ (but not any netfilter files)
all the unnecessary return; statements that precede the
last closing brace of void functions.It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
12 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
net/core/ethtool.c
net/mac80211/scan.c
04 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.
+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it 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 allmodconfig8. 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>
08 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
b43: fix two warnings
ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
airo: Fix integer overflow warning
rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
WE: Fix set events not propagated
b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
...Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
kernel/sysctl_check.c
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/addrconf.c
net/sctp/sysctl.c
26 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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Generated with the following semantic patch
@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 == n2
+ net_eq(n1, n2)@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 != n2
+ !net_eq(n1, n2)applied over {include,net,drivers/net}.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
12 Nov, 2009
3 commits
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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 -
There is no reason for this lock to be reader/writer since
the reader only has lock held for a very brief period.
The overhead of read_lock is more expensive than spinlock.Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Add missing locking in the case of auto binding to the
default device. The address list might change while this code is looking
at the list.Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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When showing device statistics use RCU rather than read_lock(&dev_base_lock)
Compile tested only.Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
05 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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It's unused.
It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: David Howells
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: James Morris
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Feb, 2009
2 commits
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Impact: Remove redundant variable declarations, resp. rename
inner scope variable.Fix this sparse warnings:
net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1252:40: warning: symbol 'skb' shadows an earlier one
net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1223:24: originally declared here
net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1582:29: warning: symbol 'val' shadows an earlier one
net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1527:22: originally declared here
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:687:21: warning: symbol 'err' shadows an earlier one
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:670:13: originally declared here
net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:182:21: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:173:16: originally declared hereSigned-off-by: Hannes Eder
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Impact: Attribute functions with __acquires(...) resp. __releases(...).
Fix this sparse warnings:
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1324:13: warning: context imbalance in 'dn_dev_seq_start' - wrong count at exit
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1366:13: warning: context imbalance in 'dn_dev_seq_stop' - unexpected unlockSigned-off-by: Hannes Eder
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
