delta/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h, branch proc-cmdline

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: introduce IFA_F_STABLE_PRIVACY flag

2015-03-24T02:12:09+00:00

We need to mark appropriate addresses so we can do retries in case their
DAD failed.

Cc: Erik Kline 
Cc: Fernando Gont 
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti 
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

multicast: Extend ip address command to enable multicast group join/leave on

2015-02-27T21:25:25+00:00

Joining multicast group on ethernet level via "ip maddr" command would
not work if we have an Ethernet switch that does igmp snooping since
the switch would not replicate multicast packets on ports that did not
have IGMP reports for the multicast addresses.

Linux vxlan interfaces created via "ip link add vxlan" have the group option
that enables then to do the required join.

By extending ip address command with option "autojoin" we can get similar
functionality for openvswitch vxlan interfaces as well as other tunneling
mechanisms that need to receive multicast traffic. The kernel code is
structured similar to how the vxlan driver does a group join / leave.

example:
ip address add 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5 autojoin
ip address del 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5

Signed-off-by: Madhu Challa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6 addrconf: add IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag to suppress creation of IP6 routes

2014-01-16T01:00:40+00:00

When adding/modifying an IPv6 address, the userspace application needs
a way to suppress adding a prefix route. This is for example relevant
together with IFA_F_MANAGERTEMPADDR, where userspace creates autoconf
generated addresses, but depending on on-link, no route for the
prefix should be added.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6 addrconf: introduce IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR to tell kernel to manage temporary addresses

2013-12-06T21:34:43+00:00

Creating an address with this flag set will result in kernel taking care
of temporary addresses in the same way as if the address was created by
kernel itself (after RA receive). This allows userspace applications
implementing the autoconfiguration (NetworkManager for example) to
implement ipv6 addresses privacy.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32

2013-12-06T21:34:43+00:00

There is no more space in u8 ifa_flags. So do what davem suffested and
add another netlink attr called IFA_FLAGS for carry more flags.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones