I have a patch against commit d378220c96
extending libnl with a facility to receive generic netlink messages sent
to multicast groups.
Essentially it add one new function genl_ctrl_resolve_grp which
prototype looks like this
int genl_ctrl_resolve_grp(struct nl_sock *sk, const char *family_name,
const char *grp_name)
It resolves the family name and the group name to group id. Then
the returned id can be used in nl_socket_add_membership to subscribe
to multicast messages.
Besides that it adds two more functions
uint32_t nl_socket_get_peer_groups(struct nl_sock *sk)
void nl_socket_set_peer_groups(struct nl_sock *sk, uint32_t groups)
allowing to modify the socket peer groups field. So it's possible to
multicast messages from the user space using the legacy interface.
Looks like there is no way (or I was not able to find one?) to modify
the netlink socket destination group from the user space, when the
group id is greater then 32.
the patch below adds the possibility to
pass user data to callbacks of type
change_func_t when using the nl_cache_mngr_*
family of functions.
If there is any better way to do this,
without duplicating the code in
cache_mngr.c please let me know.
Currently two attributes are regarded as different if they are absent in
both objects to be compared. This is obviously incorrect, change to
regard objects as different if an attribute is only present on one of
them or if the attribute data differs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
nfnl_queue_msg_send_verdict_payload() will to send the verdict, mark,
and possibly changed payload through the netlink socket.
Add a few docbook comments in other funcs.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
Create new function nl_send_iovec() to be used to send multiple 'struct iovec'
through the netlink socket. This will be used for NF_QUEUE, to send
packet payload of a modified packet.
Refactor nl_send() to use nl_send_iovec() sending a single struct iovec.
Create new function nl_auto_complete() by refactoring nl_send_auto_complete(),
so other functions that call nl_send may also use nl_auto_complete()
Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
Instead of calling the membership functions several times it is
helpfull to extend the API and make the single group functions a
special case.
The value 0 (NFNLGRP_NONE) terminates this list.
Example use:
nl_socket_add_memberships(sock, group_1, group_2, 0);
nl_socket_drop_memberships(sock, group_1, group_2, 0);
Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
commit e92539843a0c7e5116254382626cce226bf2135e
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu Oct 23 13:46:16 2008 +0200
libnl: nfqueue: add nfqueue specific socket allocation function
nfqueue users usually send verdict messages from the receive callback.
When waiting for ACKs, the receive callback might be called again
recursively until the stack blows up.
Add a nfqueue specific socket allocation function that automatically
disables ACKing for the socket.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This changes make nfnl_ct_get_src_port() and others return the value
in host byte order rather than in network byte order.
Also splits printing into details and statistical section and
improves readability.
The idea of a common handle is long revised and only misleading,
nl_handle really represents a socket with some additional
action handlers assigned to it.
Alias for nl_handle is kept for backwards compatibility.
Replaces obsolete calls to nla_get_addr() and nla_get_data()
with nl_addr_alloc_attr() respectively nl_data_alloc_attr().
Also fixes missing error handling while parsing routing multipath
configuration.
In order for the interface to become more thread safe, the error
handling was revised to no longer depend on a static errno and
error string buffer.
This patch converts all error paths to return a libnl specific
error code which can be translated to a error message using
nl_geterror(int error). The functions nl_error() and
nl_get_errno() are therefore obsolete.
This change required various sets of function prototypes to be
changed in order to return an error code, the most prominent
are:
struct nl_cache *foo_alloc_cache(...);
changed to:
int foo_alloc_cache(..., struct nl_cache **);
struct nl_msg *foo_build_request(...);
changed to:
int foo_build_request(..., struct nl_msg **);
struct foo *foo_parse(...);
changed to:
int foo_parse(..., struct foo **);
This pretty much only leaves trivial allocation functions to
still return a pointer object which can still return NULL to
signal out of memory.
This change is a serious API and ABI breaker, sorry!
Added rtnl_route_foreach_nexthop() to walk the list of nexthops invoking a
caller-provided callback for each nexthop entry, and added rtnl_route_nexthop_n()
to retrieve the Nth nexthop entry in the list.
This changesets adds the possibility to fill a nl_cache with
the contents of the route cache. It also adds the possibility
to limit route caches to certain address families.
New netem-related functionality:
Added ability to save new settings to the kernel. In netem.c, the
netem_get_opts() stub has been replaced with netem_build_msg() which
manipulates the nl_msg data directly and returns an error code instead
of a new nl_msg. Modifications to qdisc_build() in qdisc.c and struct
rtnl_qdisc_ops were necessary for this.
Added support for getting/setting corruption probability/correlation.
Added support for setting a delay distribution.
Fixed tbf_msg_parser() to call tbf_alloc() instead of tbf_qdisc() to
prevent a seg fault.
I stepped over libnl always freeing the messages and it
kind of made it awkward to reuse the message data without
reallocating.
The basic idea is: if a callback return value has a bit set,
don't free that message. The calling application owns it.
By default, things stay as before (messages are freed).
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Adds all missing routing attributes and brings the routing
related code to a working state. In the process the API
was broken several times with the justification that nobody
is using this code yet.
The changes include new example code which is also a prototype
for how plain CLI tools could look like to control routes.
[LIBNL]: Fix nfnl_queue_msg_get_packetid() return type
The packet-ID is a 32 bit value, but nfnl_queue_msg_get_packetid() returns
an uint16_t. Makes queueing fail after 2^16 packets.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
