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author | Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@alpinelinux.org> | 2013-12-13 14:53:19 +0000 |
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committer | Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@alpinelinux.org> | 2013-12-13 14:54:01 +0000 |
commit | 68116ecd619f49779ae42c65a4df89e511e525aa (patch) | |
tree | 953a0568201f5e5beaf54d952aa2506f421c2937 /main/linux-virt-grsec/0001-net-inform-NETDEV_CHANGE-callbacks-which-flags-were-.patch | |
parent | 15c4f5644f5a4ceabf48320bfc7a11747d8093fa (diff) | |
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main/linux-virt-grsec: upgrade to version 3.12.4
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diff --git a/main/linux-virt-grsec/0001-net-inform-NETDEV_CHANGE-callbacks-which-flags-were-.patch b/main/linux-virt-grsec/0001-net-inform-NETDEV_CHANGE-callbacks-which-flags-were-.patch deleted file mode 100644 index 7357a330f8..0000000000 --- a/main/linux-virt-grsec/0001-net-inform-NETDEV_CHANGE-callbacks-which-flags-were-.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -From 1225b1090991bdcab819bdab96be329397563f1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 -From: =?UTF-8?q?Timo=20Ter=C3=A4s?= <timo.teras@iki.fi> -Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:30:23 +0300 -Subject: [PATCH 1/6] net: inform NETDEV_CHANGE callbacks which flags were - changed -MIME-Version: 1.0 -Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 -Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - -In certain cases (like the follow up commit to arp.c) will need to -check which flags actually changed to avoid excessive work. - -Ben Hutchings nicely worded why to put these transient flags to -struct net_device for the time being: -> It's inelegant to put transient data associated with an event in a -> persistent data structure. On the other hand, having every user cache -> the old state is pretty awful as well. -> -> Really, netdev notifiers should be changed to accept a structure that -> encapsulates the changes rather than just a pointer to the net_device. -> But making such a change would be an enormous pain and error-prone -> because notifier functions aren't type-safe. -> -> As an interim solution, I think either the general flags_changed or -> old_flags would be preferable to defining extra transient flags. - -Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi> -Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> ---- - include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 +++- - net/core/dev.c | 5 ++++- - 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) - -diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h -index 6151e90..8b3c649 100644 ---- a/include/linux/netdevice.h -+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h -@@ -1112,7 +1112,9 @@ struct net_device { - /* Hardware header description */ - const struct header_ops *header_ops; - -- unsigned int flags; /* interface flags (a la BSD) */ -+ unsigned int flags; /* interface flags (a la BSD) */ -+ unsigned int flags_changed; /* flags that are being changed -+ * valid during NETDEV_CHANGE notifier */ - unsigned int priv_flags; /* Like 'flags' but invisible to userspace. - * See if.h for definitions. */ - unsigned short gflags; -diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c -index 9a278e9..2f3feae 100644 ---- a/net/core/dev.c -+++ b/net/core/dev.c -@@ -4683,8 +4683,11 @@ void __dev_notify_flags(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int old_flags) - } - - if (dev->flags & IFF_UP && -- (changes & ~(IFF_UP | IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_VOLATILE))) -+ (changes & ~(IFF_UP | IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_VOLATILE))) { -+ dev->flags_changed = changes; - call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGE, dev); -+ dev->flags_changed = 0; -+ } - } - - /** --- -1.8.2.3 - |