linux/security
Roopa Prabhu 10c9ead9f3 rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats
This patch adds a new RTM_GETSTATS message to query link stats via netlink
from the kernel. RTM_NEWLINK also dumps stats today, but RTM_NEWLINK
returns a lot more than just stats and is expensive in some cases when
frequent polling for stats from userspace is a common operation.

RTM_GETSTATS is an attempt to provide a light weight netlink message
to explicity query only link stats from the kernel on an interface.
The idea is to also keep it extensible so that new kinds of stats can be
added to it in the future.

This patch adds the following attribute for NETDEV stats:
struct nla_policy ifla_stats_policy[IFLA_STATS_MAX + 1] = {
        [IFLA_STATS_LINK_64]  = { .len = sizeof(struct rtnl_link_stats64) },
};

Like any other rtnetlink message, RTM_GETSTATS can be used to get stats of
a single interface or all interfaces with NLM_F_DUMP.

Future possible new types of stat attributes:
link af stats:
    - IFLA_STATS_LINK_IPV6  (nested. for ipv6 stats)
    - IFLA_STATS_LINK_MPLS  (nested. for mpls/mdev stats)
extended stats:
    - IFLA_STATS_LINK_EXTENDED (nested. extended software netdev stats like bridge,
      vlan, vxlan etc)
    - IFLA_STATS_LINK_HW_EXTENDED (nested. extended hardware stats which are
      available via ethtool today)

This patch also declares a filter mask for all stat attributes.
User has to provide a mask of stats attributes to query. filter mask
can be specified in the new hdr 'struct if_stats_msg' for stats messages.
Other important field in the header is the ifindex.

This api can also include attributes for global stats (eg tcp) in the future.
When global stats are included in a stats msg, the ifindex in the header
must be zero. A single stats message cannot contain both global and
netdev specific stats. To easily distinguish them, netdev specific stat
attributes name are prefixed with IFLA_STATS_LINK_

Without any attributes in the filter_mask, no stats will be returned.

This patch has been tested with mofified iproute2 ifstat.

Suggested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-20 15:43:42 -04:00
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apparmor apparmor: clarify CRYPTO dependency 2015-10-22 11:11:28 +11:00
integrity Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-03-17 11:33:45 -07:00
keys Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-03-17 11:33:45 -07:00
selinux rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats 2016-04-20 15:43:42 -04:00
smack smack: fix cache of access labels 2016-02-16 09:56:35 -08:00
tomoyo mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote() 2016-02-16 10:04:09 +01:00
yama security: let security modules use PTRACE_MODE_* with bitmasks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
commoncap.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
device_cgroup.c security/device_cgroup: Fix RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() condition 2015-09-03 18:13:10 -07:00
inode.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
Kconfig Yama: remove needless CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA_STACKED 2015-07-28 13:18:19 +10:00
lsm_audit.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into next 2015-08-15 13:29:57 +10:00
Makefile LSM: Switch to lists of hooks 2015-05-12 15:00:41 +10:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c module: replace copy_module_from_fd with kernel version 2016-02-21 09:06:12 -05:00