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Eric Dumazet
ec581f6a42 net: Fix skb_tx_hash() for forwarding workloads.
When skb_rx_queue_recorded() is true, we dont want to use jash distribution
as the device driver exactly told us which queue was selected at RX time.
jhash makes a statistical shuffle, but this wont work with 8 static inputs.

Later improvements would be to compute reciprocal value of real_num_tx_queues
to avoid a divide here. But this computation should be done once,
when real_num_tx_queues is set. This needs a separate patch, and a new
field in struct net_device.

Reported-by: Andrew Dickinson <andrew@whydna.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-01 09:05:06 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
7a67e56fd3 net: Fix oops when splicing skbs from a frag_list.
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> Since 4fb6699481 ("net: Optimize memory
> usage when splicing from sockets.") I'm seeing this oops (e.g. in
> 2.6.30-rc3) when splicing from a TCP socket to /dev/null on a driver
> (mv643xx_eth) that uses LRO in the skb mode (lro_receive_skb) rather
> than the frag mode:

My patch incorrectly assumed skb->sk was always valid, but for
"frag_listed" skbs we can only use skb->sk of their parent.

Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Debugged-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-30 05:41:19 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
bf368e4e70 net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet()
In 2.6.25 we added UDP mem accounting.

This unfortunatly added a penalty when a frame is transmitted, since
we have at TX completion time to call sock_wfree() to perform necessary
memory accounting. This calls sock_def_write_space() and utimately
scheduler if any thread is waiting on the socket.
Thread(s) waiting for an incoming frame was scheduled, then had to sleep
again as event was meaningless.

(All threads waiting on a socket are using same sk_sleep anchor)

This adds lot of extra wakeups and increases latencies, as noted
by Christoph Lameter, and slows down softirq handler.

Reference : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=124060437012283&w=2 

Fortunatly, Davide Libenzi recently added concept of keyed wakeups
into kernel, and particularly for sockets (see commit
37e5540b3c 
epoll keyed wakeups: make sockets use keyed wakeups)

Davide goal was to optimize epoll, but this new wakeup infrastructure
can help non epoll users as well, if they care to setup an appropriate
handler.

This patch introduces new DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC() helper and uses it
in wait_for_packet(), so that only relevant event can wakeup a thread
blocked in this function.

Trace of function calls from bnx2 TX completion bnx2_poll_work() is :
__kfree_skb()
 skb_release_head_state()
  sock_wfree()
   sock_def_write_space()
    __wake_up_sync_key()
     __wake_up_common()
      receiver_wake_function() : Stops here since thread is waiting for an INPUT


Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-28 02:24:21 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
5db8765a86 net: Fix GRO for multiple page fragments
This loop over fragments in napi_fraginfo_skb() was "interesting".

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:20:30 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz
eb39c57ff7 net: fix "compatibility" typos
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:15:01 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
8caf153974 net: sch_netem: Fix an inconsistency in ingress netem timestamps.
Alex Sidorenko reported:

"while experimenting with 'netem' we have found some strange behaviour. It
seemed that ingress delay as measured by 'ping' command shows up on some
hosts but not on others.

After some investigation I have found that the problem is that skbuff->tstamp
field value depends on whether there are any packet sniffers enabled. That
is:

- if any ptype_all handler is registered, the tstamp field is as expected
- if there are no ptype_all handlers, the tstamp field does not show the delay"

This patch prevents unnecessary update of tstamp in dev_queue_xmit_nit()
on ingress path (with act_mirred) adding a check, so minimal overhead on
the fast path, but only when sniffers etc. are active.

Since netem at ingress seems to logically emulate a network before a host,
tstamp is zeroed to trigger the update and pretend delays are from the
outside.

Reported-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Tested-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20 02:14:59 -07:00
Herbert Xu
fc59f9a3bf gro: Restore correct value to gso_size
Since everybody has been focusing on baremetal GRO performance
no one noticed when I added a bug that zapped gso_size for all
GRO packets.  This only gets picked up when you forward the skb
out of an interface.

Thanks to Mark Wagner for noticing this bug when testing kvm.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-14 15:11:06 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
d543103a0c net: netif_device_attach/detach should start/stop all queues
Currently netif_device_attach/detach are only stopping one queue.  They
should be starting and stopping all the queues on a given device.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-11 01:43:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef8a97bbc9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (54 commits)
  glge: remove unused #include <version.h>
  dnet: remove unused #include <version.h>
  tcp: miscounts due to tcp_fragment pcount reset
  tcp: add helper for counter tweaking due mid-wq change
  hso: fix for the 'invalid frame length' messages
  hso: fix for crash when unplugging the device
  fsl_pq_mdio: Fix compile failure
  fsl_pq_mdio: Revive UCC MDIO support
  ucc_geth: Pass proper device to DMA routines, otherwise oops happens
  i.MX31: Fixing cs89x0 network building to i.MX31ADS
  tc35815: Fix build error if NAPI enabled
  hso: add Vendor/Product ID's for new devices
  ucc_geth: Remove unused header
  gianfar: Remove unused header
  kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe
  net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO
  r8169: reset IntrStatus after chip reset
  ixgbe: Fix potential memory leak/driver panic issue while setting up Tx & Rx ring parameters
  ixgbe: fix ethtool -A|a behavior
  ixgbe: Patch to fix driver panic while freeing up tx & rx resources
  ...
2009-04-02 21:05:30 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
f2bde73286 net: allow multiple dev per napi with GRO
GRO assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship between NAPI
structure and network device. Some devices like sky2 share multiple
devices on a single interrupt so only have one NAPI handler. Rather than
split GRO from NAPI, just have GRO assume if device changes that
it is a different flow.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-02 01:07:37 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
37e5540b3c epoll keyed wakeups: make sockets use keyed wakeups
Add support for event-aware wakeups to the sockets code.  Events are
delivered to the wakeup target, so that epoll can avoid spurious wakeups
for non-interesting events.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:20 -07:00
Wei Yongjun
c9caceca25 core: remove pointless conditional before kfree()
Remove pointless conditional before kfree().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-31 15:06:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
15f7176eb1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  wireless: remove duplicated .ndo_set_mac_address
  netfilter: xtables: fix IPv6 dependency in the cluster match
  tg3: Add GRO support.
  niu: Add GRO support.
  ucc_geth: Fix use-after-of_node_put() in ucc_geth_probe().
  gianfar: Fix use-after-of_node_put() in gfar_of_init().
  kernel: remove HIPQUAD()
  netpoll: store local and remote ip in net-endian
  netfilter: fix endian bug in conntrack printks
  dmascc: fix incomplete conversion to network_device_ops
  gso: Fix support for linear packets
  skbuff.h: fix missing kernel-doc
  ni5010: convert to net_device_ops
2009-03-30 18:46:43 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
99b7623380 proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner
Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.

We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops
and ->data.

But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.

->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for
protection.

rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.

Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller.

So, let's nuke it.

Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
David S. Miller
13223cb02c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-29 01:40:34 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
e7557af56a netpoll: store local and remote ip in net-endian
Allows for the removal of byteswapping in some places and
the removal of HIPQUAD (replaced by %pI4).

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-28 23:55:58 -07:00
Herbert Xu
2f181855a0 gso: Fix support for linear packets
When GRO/frag_list support was added to GSO, I made an error
which broke the support for segmenting linear GSO packets (GSO
packets are normally non-linear in the payload).

These days most of these packets are constructed by the tun
driver, which prefers to allocate linear memory if possible.
This is fixed in the latest kernel, but for 2.6.29 and earlier
it is still the norm.

Therefore this bug causes failures with GSO when used with tun
in 2.6.29.

Reported-by: James Huang <jamesclhuang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-28 23:39:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d54b3538b0 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique
  [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
  [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices
  [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()
  [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
  [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
  [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support
  [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h
  [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions
  [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup
  [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation
  [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO
  [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout
  [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules
  [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging
  [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging
  ...
2009-03-28 13:30:43 -07:00
Herbert Xu
8f1ead2d1a GRO: Disable GRO on legacy netif_rx path
When I fixed the GRO crash in the legacy receive path I used
napi_complete to replace __napi_complete.  Unfortunately they're
not the same when NETPOLL is enabled, which may result in us
not calling __napi_complete at all.

What's more, we really do need to keep the __napi_complete call
within the IRQ-off section since in theory an IRQ can occur in
between and fill up the backlog to the maximum, causing us to
lock up.

Since we can't seem to find a fix that works properly right now,
this patch reverts all the GRO support from the netif_rx path.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26 22:24:28 -07:00
Rami Rosen
ede5ad0e29 net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c.
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26 01:11:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ed734a97c6 net: remove useless prefetch() call
There is no gain using prefetch() in dev_hard_start_xmit(), since
we already had to read ops->ndo_select_queue pointer in dev_pick_tx(),
and both pointers are probably located in the same cache line.

This prefetch call slows down fast path because of a stall in address
computation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 13:42:55 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
9247744e5e skb: expose and constify hash primitives
Some minor changes to queue hashing:
 1. Use const on accessor functions
 2. Export skb_tx_hash for use in drivers (see ixgbe)

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 13:39:26 -07:00
David S. Miller
2b1c4354de Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/virtio_net.c
2009-03-20 02:27:41 -07:00
Roel Kluin
e4a389a9b5 net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
struct sk_buff pointers should be freed with kfree_skb.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 23:12:13 -07:00
David S. Miller
2d6a5e9500 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
2009-03-17 15:01:30 -07:00
Herbert Xu
303c6a0251 gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash
On the legacy netif_rx path, I incorrectly tried to optimise
the napi_complete call by using __napi_complete before we reenable
IRQs.  This simply doesn't work since we need to flush the held
GRO packets first.

This patch fixes it by doing the obvious thing of reenabling
IRQs first and then calling napi_complete.

Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-17 13:11:29 -07:00
Herbert Xu
d1c76af9e2 GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct location
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we
need this update to move the checks into the right place.  As it
stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb.

This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO
completely if we're invoked through netpoll.  This might seem
paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's
better to be safe than sorry.  I don't think we need this for
2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it.

This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since
VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas
this seems to be the easiest way out).  This fixes a bug in VLAN
where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the
correct GRO_DROP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16 10:50:02 -07:00
Yi Zou
1c8dbcf649 [SCSI] net: add NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC to can_checksum_protocol
Add FC CRC offload check for ETH_P_FCOE.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-03-13 15:11:38 -05:00
Neil Horman
273ae44b9c Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitor
Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitor

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/Kbuild |    1 +
 net/Kconfig          |   11 +++++++++++
 net/core/Makefile    |    1 +
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:29 -07:00
Neil Horman
9a8afc8d39 Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/net_dropmon.h |   56 +++++++++
 net/core/drop_monitor.c     |  263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 319 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:29 -07:00
Neil Horman
ead2ceb0ec Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying end-of-line points for skbs
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/skbuff.h |    4 +++-
 net/core/datagram.c    |    2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c      |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/ipv4/arp.c         |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/udp.c         |    2 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:28 -07:00
Neil Horman
4893d39e86 Network Drop Monitor: Add trace declaration for skb frees
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/trace/skb.h   |    8 ++++++++
 net/core/Makefile     |    2 ++
 net/core/net-traces.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:27 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
a2205472c3 net: fix warning about non-const string
Since dev_set_name takes a printf style string, new gcc complains
if arg is not const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
David S. Miller
9d40bbda59 vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
leaves the compat method pointers stale.

Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.

Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice()
will need to call this new function after doing so too.

With help from Patrick McHardy.

Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04 23:46:25 -08:00
David S. Miller
54acd0efab net: Fix missing dev->neigh_setup in register_netdevice().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04 23:01:02 -08:00
Eric Biederman
0c5c2d3089 neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour table
Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table
from user space except treat an entry like you are using it.  To that end
implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request
treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path.

This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04 00:03:08 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
17edde5209 netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03 01:14:27 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
5a5990d309 net: Avoid race between network down and sysfs
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03 00:47:46 -08:00
David S. Miller
aa4abc9bcc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
	net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
Herbert Xu
4ead443163 netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry points
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't
receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll.  Unfortunately
it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry
points.  The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't
have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird
problems.

This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points.

I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which
apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code).  The
reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including
headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do
that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler                                             
you're going to get a nice BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01 00:11:52 -08:00
Andy Grover
cbd151bfc7 RDS: Add RDS to AF key strings
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:43:19 -08:00
Hannes Eder
63d819caeb sysctl: fix sparse warning: Should it be static?
Impact: Include header file.

Fix this sparse warning:
  net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:123:32: warning: symbol 'net_core_path' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:13:34 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
f3fbbe0f6f core: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:07:36 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
86dc1ad2be pktgen: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:07:33 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
David S. Miller
e70049b9e7 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
Eugene Teo
50fee1dec5 net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak
The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
leak the padded bytes to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23 15:38:41 -08:00
Clemens Noss
ebe47d47b7 netns: build fix for net_alloc_generic
net_alloc_generic was defined in #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS, but used
unconditionally. Move net_alloc_generic out of #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Noss <cnoss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23 15:37:35 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
ce16c5337a netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00