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tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink api

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A new netlink API for tipc that can disable or enable a tipc bearer.

The new API is separated from the old API because of a bug in the
user space client (tipc-config). The problem is that older versions
of tipc-config has a very low receive limit and adding commands to
the legacy genl_opts struct causes the ctrl_getfamily() response
message to grow, subsequently breaking the tool.

The new API utilizes netlink policies for input validation. Where the
top-level netlink attributes are tipc-logical entities, like bearer.
The top level entities then contain nested attributes. In this case
a name, nested link properties and a domain.

Netlink commands implemented in this patch:
TIPC_NL_BEARER_ENABLE
TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE

Netlink logical layout of bearer enable message:
-> bearer
    -> name
    [ -> domain ]
    [
    -> properties
        -> priority
    ]

Netlink logical layout of bearer disable message:
-> bearer
    -> name

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Richard Alpe
2014-11-20 10:29:07 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 7cc76f5150
commit 0655f6a863
8 changed files with 320 additions and 3 deletions
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net/tipc/bearer.h
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* net/tipc/bearer.h: Include file for TIPC bearer code
*
* Copyright (c) 1996-2006, 2013, Ericsson AB
* Copyright (c) 1996-2006, 2013-2014, Ericsson AB
* Copyright (c) 2005, 2010-2011, Wind River Systems
* All rights reserved.
*
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
#define _TIPC_BEARER_H
#include "bcast.h"
#include "netlink.h"
#include <net/genetlink.h>
#define MAX_BEARERS 2
#define MAX_MEDIA 2
@@ -176,6 +178,9 @@ extern struct tipc_media eth_media_info;
extern struct tipc_media ib_media_info;
#endif
int tipc_nl_bearer_disable(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info);
int tipc_nl_bearer_enable(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info);
int tipc_media_set_priority(const char *name, u32 new_value);
int tipc_media_set_window(const char *name, u32 new_value);
void tipc_media_addr_printf(char *buf, int len, struct tipc_media_addr *a);