[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface

Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The
message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The
applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast
back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the
multicast to avoid duplicated notifications.

nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to
allow notification in atomic contexts.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

5 files changed, 42 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 8c22872..97d6d3a 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -133,11 +133,12 @@ static inline int genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr)
  * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
  * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
  * @group: multicast group id
+ * @flags: allocation flags
  */
 static inline int genlmsg_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
-				    unsigned int group)
+				    unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
 {
-	return nlmsg_multicast(genl_sock, skb, pid, group);
+	return nlmsg_multicast(genl_sock, skb, pid, group, flags);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 3a5e40b..b154b81 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
  * Message Sending:
  *   nlmsg_multicast()			multicast message to several groups
  *   nlmsg_unicast()			unicast a message to a single socket
+ *   nlmsg_notify()			send notification message
  *
  * Message Length Calculations:
  *   nlmsg_msg_size(payload)		length of message w/o padding
@@ -545,15 +546,16 @@ static inline void nlmsg_free(struct sk_buff *skb)
  * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
  * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
  * @group: multicast group id
+ * @flags: allocation flags
  */
 static inline int nlmsg_multicast(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
-				  u32 pid, unsigned int group)
+				  u32 pid, unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	int err;
 
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = group;
 
-	err = netlink_broadcast(sk, skb, pid, group, GFP_KERNEL);
+	err = netlink_broadcast(sk, skb, pid, group, flags);
 	if (err > 0)
 		err = 0;
 
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c
index 8002222..73cbe66 100644
--- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c
+++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c
@@ -154,5 +154,5 @@ int netlbl_netlink_snd(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
  */
 int netlbl_netlink_snd_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 group)
 {
-	return genlmsg_multicast(skb, pid, group);
+	return genlmsg_multicast(skb, pid, group, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 0f36ddc..a80e445 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1549,6 +1549,38 @@ void netlink_queue_skip(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	skb_pull(skb, msglen);
 }
 
+/**
+ * nlmsg_notify - send a notification netlink message
+ * @sk: netlink socket to use
+ * @skb: notification message
+ * @pid: destination netlink pid for reports or 0
+ * @group: destination multicast group or 0
+ * @report: 1 to report back, 0 to disable
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ */
+int nlmsg_notify(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
+		 unsigned int group, int report, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	int err = 0;
+
+	if (group) {
+		int exclude_pid = 0;
+
+		if (report) {
+			atomic_inc(&skb->users);
+			exclude_pid = pid;
+		}
+
+		/* errors reported via destination sk->sk_err */
+		nlmsg_multicast(sk, skb, exclude_pid, group, flags);
+	}
+
+	if (report)
+		err = nlmsg_unicast(sk, skb, pid);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 struct nl_seq_iter {
 	int link;
@@ -1802,4 +1834,4 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_set_err);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_set_nonroot);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_unicast);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_unregister_notifier);
-
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nlmsg_notify);
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 75bb47a..d325991 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int genl_ctrl_event(int event, void *data)
 		if (IS_ERR(msg))
 			return PTR_ERR(msg);
 
-		genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, GENL_ID_CTRL);
+		genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, GENL_ID_CTRL, GFP_KERNEL);
 		break;
 	}