From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gandalf.ozlabs.org (mail.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2404:9400:2221:ea00::3]) by passt.top (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81ACD5A0271 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:09:45 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gibson.dropbear.id.au; s=201602; t=1690178979; bh=vGcGGFNBp10CBB0BXW2QelbolVh9kqDw3TljUZESpUI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=SvsC0fae8SN7Ra/lBLL5AX2jO/dTrjQp3QtDDG+7VTy3iiSl4bSHgFHT9s6HfBJ5F 2IuZRQVF5Cnjcl3ECEq0VNcNChH5LpwA0lb6UyAgefotRK5mBgJzvB7cxyLg0JwtSl xazhQANyRny/zkTR18X8ClRgHX1ZwXVQuA8WWXTM= Received: by gandalf.ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 4R8V9v3V6bz4wyZ; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:09:39 +1000 (AEST) From: David Gibson To: Stefano Brivio , passt-dev@passt.top Subject: [PATCH 00/17] netlink fixes and cleanups Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:09:19 +1000 Message-ID: <20230724060936.952659-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID-Hash: VR5US37KD4555VNBA62Z742STJ6NTOKG X-Message-ID-Hash: VR5US37KD4555VNBA62Z742STJ6NTOKG X-MailFrom: dgibson@gandalf.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: David Gibson X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussion and patches for passt Archived-At: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: We've had several bugs in the past that were quite tricky to debug, but would have been much easier if we'd known that a netlink operation had failed. So, it would be desirable to actually detect and report failures of netlink operations. While working on that, I discovered that there are a number of other issues ranging from very small to medium sized with the way we use netlink. This series addresses many of them. Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=60 Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=67 David Gibson (17): netlink: Split up functionality if nl_link() netlink: Split nl_addr() into separate operation functions netlink: Split nl_route() into separate operation functions netlink: Use struct in_addr for IPv4 addresses, not bare uint32_t netlink: Explicitly pass netlink sockets to operations netlink: Make nl_*_dup() use a separate datagram for each request netlink: Start sequence number from 1 instead of 0 netlink: Treat send() or recv() errors as fatal netlink: Fill in netlink header fields from nl_req() netlink: Add nl_do() helper for simple operations with error checking netlink: Clearer reasoning about the netlink response buffer size netlink: Split nl_req() to allow processing multiple response datagrams netlink: Add nl_foreach_oftype to filter response message types netlink: Propagate errors for "set" operations netlink: Always process all responses to a netlink request netlink: Propagate errors for "dump" operations netlink: Propagate errors for "dup" operations conf.c | 66 ++++- netlink.c | 844 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- netlink.h | 27 +- pasta.c | 75 +++-- 4 files changed, 659 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-) -- 2.41.0