Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269173AbTGORbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:31:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269211AbTGORbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:31:35 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:54689 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269173AbTGORbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:31:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F143D0A.A052F0B6@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:42:34 -0700 From: Jim Keniston X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Morris CC: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rddunlap@osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jkenisto@us.ibm.com Subject: [PATCH] [1/2] kernel error reporting (revised) References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------0BE7F200693D6C2244226BA0" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 7557 Lines: 234 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0BE7F200693D6C2244226BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim Keniston wrote: > Subject: [PATCH - RFC] [1/2] 2.6 must-fix list - kernel error reporting > > Andrew Morton's 2.6 must-fix list includes the following item: > > o We need a kernel side API for reporting error events to userspace (could > > be async to 2.6 itself) > > > > (Prototype core based on netlink exists) > > The enclosed patches provide a mechanism for reporting error events > to user-mode applications via netlink. This mechanism supplements > the text-oriented printk mechanism, providing a way to log binary > data or a mixture of text+binary. > ... > Here are updated patches, reflecting the following changes: Patch #1 (kerror.c et al): - Given James Morris's patch to af_netlink.c (Rev 1.30 in BitKeeper), I was able to remove kerror_netlink_rcv(). (My patches work fine without this, except that any packets sent to the NETLINK_KERROR socket by an ill-behaved, root-owned application would accumulate in the kernel's socket buffer.) Patch #2 (evlog.c et al -- see accompanying post): - Paraphrase dropped packets via printk() when nobody's listening to netlink socket. - Added support for 'z' qualifier, to resync with vsnprintf(). - In evlog.h, reordered members of struct kern_log_entry to address alignment worries. These patches work for both 2.5.74 and 2.5.75. Jim Keniston IBM Linux Technology Center http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/evlog/kerror-2.5.75.patch?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/evlog/evlog-2.5.75.patch?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/evlog/kerrord.tar.gz?download --------------0BE7F200693D6C2244226BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="kerror-2.5.75.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="kerror-2.5.75.patch" diff -Naur linux.org/include/linux/kerror.h linux.kerror.patched/include/linux/kerror.h --- linux.org/include/linux/kerror.h Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969 +++ linux.kerror.patched/include/linux/kerror.h Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +#ifndef _KERROR_H +#define _KERROR_H + +#ifdef __KERNEL__ +#include +#include +#include + +#ifdef CONFIG_NET +extern int kernel_error_event(void *data, size_t len, __u32 groups); +extern int kernel_error_event_iov(const struct iovec *iov, + unsigned int nseg, __u32 groups); +#else +static inline int kernel_error_event(void *data, size_t len, __u32 groups) + { return -ENOSYS; } +static inline int kernel_error_event_iov(const struct iovec *iov, + unsigned int nseg, __u32 groups) + { return -ENOSYS; } +#endif /* CONFIG_NET */ +#endif /* __KERNEL__ */ + +#define KERROR_GROUP_RAW 0x00000001 +#define KERROR_GROUP_EVLOG 0x00000002 + +#define KERROR_GROUP_ALL (~(u32)0) + +#endif /* _KERROR_H */ diff -Naur linux.org/include/linux/netlink.h linux.kerror.patched/include/linux/netlink.h --- linux.org/include/linux/netlink.h Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 +++ linux.kerror.patched/include/linux/netlink.h Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #define NETLINK_TCPDIAG 4 /* TCP socket monitoring */ #define NETLINK_NFLOG 5 /* netfilter/iptables ULOG */ #define NETLINK_XFRM 6 /* ipsec */ +#define NETLINK_KERROR 7 /* kernel error event facility */ #define NETLINK_ARPD 8 #define NETLINK_ROUTE6 11 /* af_inet6 route comm channel */ #define NETLINK_IP6_FW 13 diff -Naur linux.org/net/netlink/Makefile linux.kerror.patched/net/netlink/Makefile --- linux.org/net/netlink/Makefile Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 +++ linux.kerror.patched/net/netlink/Makefile Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 @@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ # Makefile for the netlink driver. # -obj-y := af_netlink.o +obj-y := af_netlink.o kerror.o obj-$(CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV) += netlink_dev.o diff -Naur linux.org/net/netlink/kerror.c linux.kerror.patched/net/netlink/kerror.c --- linux.org/net/netlink/kerror.c Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969 +++ linux.kerror.patched/net/netlink/kerror.c Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +/* kerror.c: Kernel error event logging facility. + * + * Copyright (C) 2003 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) + * June 2003 - Jim Keniston and Dan Stekloff (kenistoj and dsteklof@us.ibm.com) + * Fixed a couple of bugs and added iovec interface. + */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +static struct sock *kerror_nl; + +/** + * kernel_error_event_iov() - Broadcast packet to NETLINK_KERROR sockets. + * @iov: the packet's data + * @nseg: number of segments in iov[] + * @groups: as with kernel_error_event() + */ +int kernel_error_event_iov(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned int nseg, + u32 groups) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb; + struct nlmsghdr *nlh; + unsigned char *b, *p; + size_t len; + unsigned int seg; + + if (!groups) + return -EINVAL; + + len = iov_length(iov, nseg); + skb = alloc_skb(NLMSG_SPACE(len), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (skb == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; + + b = skb->tail; + + nlh = NLMSG_PUT(skb, current->pid, 0, 0, len); + nlh->nlmsg_flags = 0; + + p = NLMSG_DATA(nlh); + for (seg = 0; seg < nseg; seg++) { + memcpy(p, (const void*)iov[seg].iov_base, iov[seg].iov_len); + p += iov[seg].iov_len; + } + nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->tail - b; + + NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_groups = groups; + + return netlink_broadcast(kerror_nl, skb, 0, ~0, GFP_ATOMIC); + +nlmsg_failure: + kfree_skb(skb); + return -EINVAL; +} + +/** + * kernel_error_event() - Broadcast packet to NETLINK_KERROR sockets. + * @data, @len: the packet's data + * @groups: the group(s) to which the packet pertains -- e.g., + * KERROR_GROUP_EVLOG. On a recvmsg(), this shows up in + * ((struct sockaddr_nl*)(msg->msg_name))->nl_groups. + */ +int kernel_error_event(void *data, size_t len, u32 groups) +{ + struct iovec iov; + iov.iov_base = data; + iov.iov_len = len; + return kernel_error_event_iov(&iov, 1, groups); +} + +static int __init kerror_init(void) +{ + printk(KERN_INFO "Initializing KERROR netlink socket\n"); + + /* Note that we ignore all incoming messages on this socket. */ + kerror_nl = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KERROR, NULL); + if (kerror_nl == NULL) + panic("kerror_init: cannot initialize kerror_nl\n"); + + return 0; +} + +static void __exit kerror_exit(void) +{ + sock_release(kerror_nl->sk_socket); +} + +module_init(kerror_init); +module_exit(kerror_exit); diff -Naur linux.org/net/netsyms.c linux.kerror.patched/net/netsyms.c --- linux.org/net/netsyms.c Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 +++ linux.kerror.patched/net/netsyms.c Mon Jul 14 09:53:00 2003 @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ #endif #include +#include #ifdef CONFIG_IPX_MODULE extern struct datalink_proto *make_EII_client(void); @@ -505,6 +506,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_set_nonroot); EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_register_notifier); EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_unregister_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_error_event); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_error_event_iov); #if defined(CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV) || defined(CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV_MODULE) EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_attach); EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_detach); --------------0BE7F200693D6C2244226BA0-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/