drivers/net/nlmon.c

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/drivers/net/nlmon.c

File Facts

System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
drivers/net/nlmon.c
Extension
.c
Size
2631 bytes
Lines
117
Domain
Driver Families
Bucket
drivers/net
Inferred role
Driver Families: operation-table or driver-model contract
Status
pattern implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.

Dependency Surface

Detected Declarations

Annotated Snippet

static const struct net_device_ops nlmon_ops = {
	.ndo_open = nlmon_open,
	.ndo_stop = nlmon_close,
	.ndo_start_xmit = nlmon_xmit,
	.ndo_get_stats64 = nlmon_get_stats64,
};

static void nlmon_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
	dev->type = ARPHRD_NETLINK;
	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
	dev->lltx = true;

	dev->netdev_ops	= &nlmon_ops;
	dev->ethtool_ops = &nlmon_ethtool_ops;
	dev->needs_free_netdev = true;

	dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
	dev->flags = IFF_NOARP;
	dev->pcpu_stat_type = NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_LSTATS;

	/* That's rather a softlimit here, which, of course,
	 * can be altered. Not a real MTU, but what is to be
	 * expected in most cases.
	 */
	dev->mtu = NLMSG_GOODSIZE;
	dev->min_mtu = sizeof(struct nlmsghdr);
}

static int nlmon_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[],
			  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
	if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS])
		return -EINVAL;
	return 0;
}

static struct rtnl_link_ops nlmon_link_ops __read_mostly = {
	.kind			= "nlmon",
	.priv_size		= sizeof(struct nlmon),
	.setup			= nlmon_setup,
	.validate		= nlmon_validate,
};

static __init int nlmon_register(void)
{
	return rtnl_link_register(&nlmon_link_ops);
}

static __exit void nlmon_unregister(void)
{
	rtnl_link_unregister(&nlmon_link_ops);
}

module_init(nlmon_register);
module_exit(nlmon_unregister);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Mathieu Geli <geli@enseirb.fr>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Netlink monitoring device");
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("nlmon");

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