ipv4: fib: Allow for consistent FIB dumping
authorIdo Schimmel <[email protected]>
Sat, 3 Dec 2016 15:45:06 +0000 (16:45 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>
Sun, 4 Dec 2016 00:29:35 +0000 (19:29 -0500)
commitcacaad11f43aefbbe5fca00af3b9c16e6aee1ba4
treeca7600f9e865f6bfef8ce60a9c1d1ddd34acba96
parentd3f706f68e2fd93f1172fe7fd6f16ba70cc52b31
ipv4: fib: Allow for consistent FIB dumping

The next patch will enable listeners of the FIB notification chain to
request a dump of the FIB tables. However, since RTNL isn't taken during
the dump, it's possible for the FIB tables to change mid-dump, which
will result in inconsistency between the listener's table and the
kernel's.

Allow listeners to know about changes that occurred mid-dump, by adding
a change sequence counter to each net namespace. The counter is
incremented just before a notification is sent in the FIB chain.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
include/net/netns/ipv4.h
net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c