1.) There is objection against this change by at least one developer.
2.) These changes cause repeatable system lockups and crashes for
at least four people.
to check if interface exists, as (1) if_index has different meaning
(2) ifindex2ifnet could become NULL when interface gets destroyed,
since when we have introduced dynamically-created interfaces. from kame
Gone are the old kern_sysctl(), cpu_sysctl(), hw_sysctl(),
vfs_sysctl(), etc, routines, along with sysctl_int() et al. Now all
nodes are registered with the tree, and nodes can be added (or
removed) easily, and I/O to and from the tree is handled generically.
Since the nodes are registered with the tree, the mapping from name to
number (and back again) can now be discovered, instead of having to be
hard coded. Adding new nodes to the tree is likewise much simpler --
the new infrastructure handles almost all the work for simple types,
and just about anything else can be done with a small helper function.
All existing nodes are where they were before (numerically speaking),
so all existing consumers of sysctl information should notice no
difference.
PS - I'm sorry, but there's a distinct lack of documentation at the
moment. I'm working on sysctl(3/8/9) right now, and I promise to
watch out for buses.
The code was assuming that interface addresses are removed one-by-one.
With IPv6 and multicasts, removal of one address can remove other
addresses as side effect, which caused accesses of free()d memory.
sysctl. Add a protocol-independent sysctl handler to show the per-protocol
"struct ifq' statistics. Add IP(v4) specific call to the handler.
Other protocols can show their per-protocol input statistics by
allocating a sysclt node and calling sysctl_ifq() with their own struct ifq *.
As posted to tech-kern plus improvements/cleanup suggested by Andrew Brown.
did not fit in struct osockaddr. Fixes linux emulation issue where bogus
addresses where returned for the interfaces [AF_LINK, AF_INET6]. While
I am here, change ioctl, so if the ifconf buffer passed is NULL, then it
computes how much space is needed and returns it in ifc_len.
be inserted into ktrace records. The general change has been to replace
"struct proc *" with "struct lwp *" in various function prototypes, pass
the lwp through and use l_proc to get the process pointer when needed.
Bump the kernel rev up to 1.6V
malloc types into a structure, a pointer to which is passed around,
instead of an int constant. Allow the limit to be adjusted when the
malloc type is defined, or with a function call, as suggested by
Jonathan Stone.
variant also zeroes the counters after copying them). In ifunit, add
support for dealing all numeric ifname by treating them as an ifindex
which is used to look up the interface.
that other parts of the kernel won't lose gratuitously. There are
places where it's assumed that it won't grow that large.
(2) Avoid accidental reuse of occupied slots in the ifindex2ifnet[]
table.
