On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:49:56AM -0400, Juan Mojica wrote: J> I'm trying to programmatically create a VLAN in the kernel via ifioctl, but J> I'm hitting a "copyin" in the ioctl path, and since the address I'm passing J> in is a kernel address and not a user space address, the copyin is failing. J> J> Calling the ioctl from user space is a non-starter at this point, and I J> believe there will be other ioctls that will have to be called from the J> kernel which will hit the same issue. J> J> Any suggestions? J> J> So far I've thought about marking the ifreq flags to indicate the request J> came from the kernel and essentially bypass the copyin. Another option J> would be to make the create functions globally available, but this would J> violate the modularity of the VLAN module.
If you really want to do that you need to export the vlan_cloner and its methods, then call vlan_clone_create directly. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
