[NETLINK]: cb_lock does not needs ref count on sk

Here is a little optimisation for the cb_lock used by netlink_dump.
While fixing that race earlier, I noticed that the reference count
held by cb_lo

[NETLINK]: cb_lock does not needs ref count on sk

Here is a little optimisation for the cb_lock used by netlink_dump.
While fixing that race earlier, I noticed that the reference count
held by cb_lock is completely useless. The reason is that in order
to obtain the protection of the reference count, you have to take
the cb_lock. But the only way to take the cb_lock is through
dereferencing the socket.

That is, you must already possess a reference count on the socket
before you can take advantage of the reference count held by cb_lock.
As a corollary, we can remve the reference count held by the cb_lock.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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netlink audit warning fix

scumbags!

net/netlink/af_netlink.c: In function `netlink_sendmsg':
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:908: warning: implicit declaration of function `audit_get_loginuid'

Signed-off

netlink audit warning fix

scumbags!

net/netlink/af_netlink.c: In function `netlink_sendmsg':
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:908: warning: implicit declaration of function `audit_get_loginuid'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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Add audit uid to netlink credentials

Most audit control messages are sent over netlink.In order to properly
log the identity of the sender of audit control messages, we would like
to add the loginui

Add audit uid to netlink credentials

Most audit control messages are sent over netlink.In order to properly
log the identity of the sender of audit control messages, we would like
to add the loginuid to the netlink_creds structure, as per the attached
patch.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[NET]: kill gratitious includes of major.h

A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason
whatsoever. Removed. And yes, it still builds.

The history of that stuff is often amusing

[NET]: kill gratitious includes of major.h

A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason
whatsoever. Removed. And yes, it still builds.

The history of that stuff is often amusing. E.g. for net/core/sock.c
the story looks so, as far as I've been able to reconstruct it: we used to
need major.h in net/socket.c circa 1.1.early. In 1.1.13 that need had
disappeared, along with register_chrdev(SOCKET_MAJOR, "socket", &net_fops)
in sock_init(). Include had not. When 1.2 -> 1.3 reorg of net/* had moved
a lot of stuff from net/socket.c to net/core/sock.c, this crap had followed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[PATCH] kill gratitious includes of major.h under net/*

A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason whatsoever.
Removed. And yes, it still builds.

The history of that stuff is of

[PATCH] kill gratitious includes of major.h under net/*

A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason whatsoever.
Removed. And yes, it still builds.

The history of that stuff is often amusing. E.g. for net/core/sock.c
the story looks so, as far as I've been able to reconstruct it: we used
to need major.h in net/socket.c circa 1.1.early. In 1.1.13 that need
had disappeared, along with register_chrdev(SOCKET_MAJOR, "socket",
&net_fops) in sock_init(). Include had not. When 1.2 -> 1.3 reorg of
net/* had moved a lot of stuff from net/socket.c to net/core/sock.c,
this crap had followed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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