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2008-12-16gianfar: Convert gianfar to an of_platform_driverAndy Fleming
Does the same for the accompanying MDIO driver, and then modifies the TBI configuration method. The old way used fields in einfo, which no longer exists. The new way is to create an MDIO device-tree node for each instance of gianfar, and create a tbi-handle property to associate ethernet controllers with the TBI PHYs they are connected to. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/enc28j60.c
2008-12-16ipv6: Add IPV6_PKTINFO sticky option support to setsockopt()Yang Hongyang
There are three reasons for me to add this support: 1.When no interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data item, the interface specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO sticky optionis is used. RFC3542: 6.7. Summary of Outgoing Interface Selection This document and [RFC-3493] specify various methods that affect the selection of the packet's outgoing interface. This subsection summarizes the ordering among those in order to ensure deterministic behavior. For a given outgoing packet on a given socket, the outgoing interface is determined in the following order: 1. if an interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data item, the interface is used. 2. otherwise, if an interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO sticky option, the interface is used. 2.When no IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data is received,getsockopt() should return the sticky option value which set with setsockopt(). RFC 3542: Issuing getsockopt() for the above options will return the sticky option value i.e., the value set with setsockopt(). If no sticky option value has been set getsockopt() will return the following values: 3.Make the setsockopt implementation POSIX compliant. Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16net: Refactor full duplex flow control resolutionSteve Glendinning
These 4 drivers have identical full duplex flow control resolution functions. This patch changes them all to use one common function. The function in question decides whether a device should enable TX and RX flow control in a standard way (IEEE 802.3-2005 table 28B-3), so this should also be useful for other drivers. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16net: Move flow control definitions to mii.hSteve Glendinning
flags used within drivers for indicating tx and rx flow control are defined in 4 drivers (and probably more), move these constants to mii.h. The 3 SMSC drivers use the same constants (FLOW_CTRL_TX), but TG3 uses TG3_FLOW_CTRL_TX, so this patch also renames the constants within TG3. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPECPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch fixes an inconsistency in nfnetlink_conntrack.h that I introduced myself. The problem is that CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC is missing from enum ctattr_natseq. This inconsistency may lead to problems in the message parsing in userspace (if the message contains the CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes, of course). This patch breaks backward compatibility, however, the only known client of this code is libnetfilter_conntrack which indeed crashes because it assumes the existence of CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC to do the parsing. The CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes were introduced in 2.6.25. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15ethtool: Add GGRO and SGRO opsHerbert Xu
This patch adds the ethtool ops to enable and disable GRO. It also makes GRO depend on RX checksum offload much the same as how TSO depends on SG support. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15tcp: Add GRO supportHerbert Xu
This patch adds the TCP-specific portion of GRO. The criterion for merging is extremely strict (the TCP header must match exactly apart from the checksum) so as to allow refragmentation. Otherwise this is pretty much identical to LRO, except that we support the merging of ECN packets. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15net: Add skb_gro_receiveHerbert Xu
This patch adds the helper skb_gro_receive to merge packets for GRO. The current method is to allocate a new header skb and then chain the original packets to its frag_list. This is done to make it easier to integrate into the existing GSO framework. In future as GSO is moved into the drivers, we can undo this and simply chain the original packets together. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15ipv4: Add GRO infrastructureHerbert Xu
This patch adds GRO support for IPv4. The criteria for merging is more stringent than LRO, in particular, we require all fields in the IP header to be identical except for the length, ID and checksum. In addition, the ID must form an arithmetic sequence with a difference of one. The ID requirement might seem overly strict, however, most hardware TSO solutions already obey this rule. Linux itself also obeys this whether GSO is in use or not. In future we could relax this rule by storing the IDs (or rather making sure that we don't drop them when pulling the aggregate skb's tail). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructureHerbert Xu
This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure. This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent. Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in napi_struct. For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx. The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically. When napi_gro_receive is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives __napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete. Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in order to participate in this scheme. In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held packets. Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero if it is a potential match for the new packet. For each packet that may match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet must not be merged with the new packet. Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet, the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be merged with it. In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to the existing skb in gro_list. Otherwise the new skb should be merged into the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where the merged skb should be returned. Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow. Note that if an skb merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then this shouldn't be set. If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging, it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush. Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by napi_complete and napi_rx_complete. Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO. The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries. In future, this may be expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15net: Add frag_list support to GSOHerbert Xu
This patch allows GSO to handle frag_list in a limited way for the purposes of allowing packets merged by GRO to be refragmented on output. Most hardware won't (and aren't expected to) support handling GRO frag_list packets directly. Therefore we will perform GSO in software for those cases. However, for drivers that can support it (such as virtual NICs) we may not have to segment the packets at all. Whether the added overhead of GRO/GSO is worthwhile for bridges and routers when weighed against the benefit of potentially increasing the MTU within the host is still an open question. However, for the case of host nodes this is undoubtedly a win. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
2008-12-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: Phonet: keep TX queue disabled when the device is off SCHED: netem: Correct documentation comment in code. netfilter: update rwlock initialization for nat_table netlabel: Compiler warning and NULL pointer dereference fix e1000e: fix double release of mutex IA64: HP_SIMETH needs to depend upon NET netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry ipv6: silence log messages for locally generated multicast sungem: improve ethtool output with internal pcs and serdes tcp: tcp_vegas cong avoid fix sungem: Make PCS PHY support partially work again.
2008-12-15Define smp_call_function_many for UPRusty Russell
Otherwise those using it in transition patches (eg. kvm) can't compile with CONFIG_SMP=n: arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'make_all_cpus_request': arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:380: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_many' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-12rfkill: strip pointless notifier chainJohannes Berg
No users, so no reason to have it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12mac80211: integrate sta_notify_ps cmds into sta_notifyChristian Lamparter
This patch replaces the newly introduced sta_notify_ps function, which can be used to notify the driver about every power state transition for all associated stations, by integrating its functionality back into the original sta_notify callback. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12mac80211: remove fragmentation offload functionalityJohannes Berg
There's no driver that actually does fragmentation on the device, and the callback is buggy (when it returns an error, mac80211's fragmentation status is changed so reading the frag threshold from userspace reads the new value despite the error). Let's just remove it, if we really find some hardware supporting it we can add it back later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12ieee80211_security: correct warning about width of auth_modeJohn W. Linville
Also remove auth_algo which is unused. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12mac80211: improve sta_notify documentationJohannes Berg
Mention more possible STA entries and document the atomic requirement. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12wireless: Incorrect LEAP authentication algorithm identifier.Senthil Balasubramanian
This patch fixes a regression introduced by "wireless: avoid some net/ieee80211.h vs. linux/ieee80211.h conflicts" LEAP authentication algorithm identifier should be 128. Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-10Revert "radeonfb: accelerate imageblit and other improvements"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit b1ee26bab14886350ba12a5c10cbc0696ac679bf, along with the "fixes" for it that all just caused problems: - c4c6fa9891f3d1bcaae4f39fb751d5302965b566 "radeonfb: fix problem with color expansion & alignment" - f3179748a157c21d44d929fd3779421ebfbeaa93 "radeonfb: Disable new color expand acceleration unless explicitely enabled" because even when disabled, it breaks for people. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12191 for the latest example. Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Cc: Jean-Luc Coulon <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: enable namespace support in ipv6 multicast forwarding codeBenjamin Thery
This last patch makes the appropriate changes to use and propagate the network namespace where needed in IPv6 multicast forwarding code. This consists mainly in replacing all the remaining init_net occurences with current netns pointer retrieved from sockets, net devices or mfc6_caches depending on the routines' contexts. Some routines receive a new 'struct net' parameter to propagate the current netns: * ip6mr_get_route * ip6mr_cache_report * ip6mr_cache_find * ip6mr_cache_unresolved * mif6_add/mif6_delete * ip6mr_mfc_add/ip6mr_mfc_delete * ip6mr_reg_vif All the IPv6 multicast forwarding variables moved to struct netns_ipv6 by the previous patches are now referenced in the correct namespace. Changelog: ========== * Take into account the net associated to mfc6_cache when matching entries in mfc_unres_queue list. * Call mroute_clean_tables() in ip6mr_net_exit() to free memory allocated per-namespace. * Call dev_net_set() in ip6mr_reg_vif() to initialize dev->nd_net correctly. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: declare reg_vif_num per-namespaceBenjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Declare variable 'reg_vif_num' per-namespace, moves into struct netns_ipv6. At the moment, this variable is only referenced in init_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: declare mroute_do_assert and mroute_do_pim per-namespaceBenjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Declare IPv6 multicast forwarding variables 'mroute_do_assert' and 'mroute_do_pim' per-namespace in struct netns_ipv6. At the moment, these variables are only referenced in init_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: declare counter cache_resolve_queue_len per-namespaceBenjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Declare variable cache_resolve_queue_len per-namespace: moves it into struct netns_ipv6. This variable counts the number of unresolved cache entries queued in the list mfc_unres_queue. This list is kept global to all netns as the number of entries per namespace is limited to 10 (hardcoded in routine ip6mr_cache_unresolved). Entries belonging to different namespaces in mfc_unres_queue will be identified by matching the mfc_net member introduced previously in struct mfc6_cache. Keeping this list global to all netns, also allows us to keep a single timer (ipmr_expire_timer) to handle their expiration. In some places cache_resolve_queue_len value was tested for arming or deleting the timer. These tests were equivalent to testing mfc_unres_queue value instead and are replaced in this patch. At the moment, cache_resolve_queue_len is only referenced in init_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: dynamically allocate mfc6_cache_arrayBenjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Dynamically allocates IPv6 multicast forwarding cache, mfc6_cache_array, and moves it to struct netns_ipv6. At the moment, mfc6_cache_array is only referenced in init_net. Replace 'ARRAY_SIZE(mfc6_cache_array)' with mfc6_cache_array size: MFC6_LINES. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: store netns in struct mfc6_cacheBenjamin Thery
This patch stores into struct mfc6_cache the network namespace each mfc6_cache belongs to. The new member is mfc6_net. mfc6_net is assigned at cache allocation and doesn't change during the rest of the cache entry life. This will help to retrieve the current netns around the IPv6 multicast forwarding code. At the moment, all mfc6_cache are allocated in init_net. Changelog: ========== * Use write_pnet()/read_pnet() to set and get mfc6_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: dynamically allocates vif6_tableBenjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Dynamically allocates interface table vif6_table and moves it to struct netns_ipv6, and updates MIF_EXISTS() macro. At the moment, vif6_table is only referenced in init_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10netns: ip6mr: allocate mroute6_socket per-namespace.Benjamin Thery
Preliminary work to make IPv6 multicast forwarding netns-aware. Make IPv6 multicast forwarding mroute6_socket per-namespace, moves it into struct netns_ipv6. At the moment, mroute6_socket is only referenced in init_net. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10smsc911x: add dynamic bus configurationSteve Glendinning
Convert the driver to select 16-bit or 32-bit bus access at runtime, at a small performance cost. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10MN10300: Fix __put_user_asm8()Akira Takeuchi
Fix __put_user_asm8() by jumping to the end label (3:) from the exception handler, rather than jumping back to retry the second store instruction (label 2:). Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixesHugh Dickins
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() - kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was beyond the end of page provided. The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before. Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10atomic: fix a typo in atomic_long_xchg()Eric Dumazet
atomic_long_xchg() is not correctly defined for 32bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10revert "percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set"Andrew Morton
Revert commit e8ced39d5e8911c662d4d69a342b9d053eaaac4e Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jul 11 19:27:31 2008 -0400 percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set As described in revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()" the new percpu_counter_sum_and_set() is racy against updates to the cpu-local accumulators on other CPUs. Revert that change. This means that ext4 will be slow again. But correct. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()"Andrew Morton
Revert commit 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354 Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu Oct 9 12:50:59 2008 -0400 percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Before this patch we had the following: percpu_counter_sum(): return the percpu_counter's value percpu_counter_sum_and_set(): return the percpu_counter's value, copying that value into the central value and zeroing the per-cpu counters before returning. After this patch, percpu_counter_sum_and_set() has gone, and percpu_counter_sum() gets the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set() functionality. Problem is, as Eric points out, the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set() functionality was racy and wrong. It zeroes out counters on "other" cpus, without holding any locks which will prevent races agaist updates from those other CPUS. This patch reverts 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354. This means that percpu_counter_sum_and_set() still has the race, but percpu_counter_sum() does not. Note that this is not a simple revert - ext4 has since started using percpu_counter_sum() for its dirty_blocks counter as well. Note that this revert patch changes percpu_counter_sum() semantics. Before the patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will bring the counter's central counter mostly up-to-date, so a following percpu_counter_read() will return a close value. After this patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will leave the counter's central accumulator unaltered, so a subsequent call to percpu_counter_read() can now return a significantly inaccurate result. If there is any code in the tree which was introduced after e8ced39d5e8911c662d4d69a342b9d053eaaac4e was merged, and which depends upon the new percpu_counter_sum() semantics, that code will break. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-09netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entryNeil Horman
A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service path, and the fast path through net_rx_action: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470 A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case. Consider the following scenario: INITIAL STATE CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list CPU0 CPU1 net_rx_action poll_napi !list_empty (returns true) locks poll_lock for A poll_one_napi napi->poll netif_rx_complete __napi_complete (removes A from poll_list) list_entry(list->next) In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is exclusive to that cpu. netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by the time it calls list_entry. Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage is. Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu. To do this I've implemented the patch below. It adds an additional bit to the state field in the napi_struct. When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not remove the napi_struct from the poll_list. That work will be saved for the next iteration of net_rx_action. I've tested this and it seems to work well. About the biggest drawback I can see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from the poll_list. However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given that the alternative is a crash. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-09Merge branch 'audit.b59' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threads [patch 1/1] audit: remove excess kernel-doc [PATCH] asm/generic: fix bug - kernel fails to build when enable some common audit code on Blackfin [PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parent [PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off audit
2008-12-09[PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threadsAl Viro
Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09[PATCH] asm/generic: fix bug - kernel fails to build when enable some common ↵Mike Frysinger
audit code on Blackfin If you enable some common audit code, the kernel fails to build. In file included from lib/audit.c:17: include/asm-generic/audit_write.h:3: error: '__NR_swapon' undeclared here (not in a function) make[1]: *** [lib/audit.o] Error 1 make: *** [lib] Error 2 So do not use __NR_swapon if it isnt defined for a port. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09[PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parentAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: tproxy: fixe a possible read from an invalid location in the socket match zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr() mac80211: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr() ipw2200: fix netif_*_queue() removal regression iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table function tcp: tcp_vegas ssthresh bug fix can: omit received RTR frames for single ID filter lists ATM: CVE-2008-5079: duplicate listen() on socket corrupts the vcc table netx-eth: initialize per device spinlock tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time enc28j60: Fix sporadic packet loss (corrected again) hysdn: fix writing outside the field on 64 bits b1isa: fix b1isa_exit() to really remove registered capi controllers can: Fix CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG handling in can_filter Phonet: do not dump addresses from other namespaces netlabel: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference bnx2: Add workaround to handle missed MSI. xfrm: Fix kernel panic when flush and dump SPD entries
2008-12-08dccp ccid-2: Phase out the use of boolean Ack Vector sysctlGerrit Renker
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack Vector feature, as it now is handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation (i.e. when CCID-2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled as per RFC 4341, 4.). Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock / sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector) /* ... */ with if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL) /* ... */ The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection. Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child), so that the test is a valid one. The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature negotiation has concluded at the * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives; * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN. Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been removed, since (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received; (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e. this entry will always be ignored; (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks. There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails. I removed this after finding out that: * the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier, * this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets, * so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08dccp: Remove manual influence on NDP Count featureGerrit Renker
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now: * for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts; * for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths. Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they are needed (e.g. in CCID-3). This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking), hence this form of support is redundant. At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature uses the default value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08dccp: Remove obsolete parts of the old CCID interfaceGerrit Renker
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of feature negotiation may be something different. The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs. Also removed are the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the switch "rx <-> non-rx" is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08netdevice: Kill netdev->privWang Chen
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
2008-12-05Enforce a minimum SG_IO timeoutLinus Torvalds
There's no point in having too short SG_IO timeouts, since if the command does end up timing out, we'll end up through the reset sequence that is several seconds long in order to abort the command that timed out. As a result, shorter timeouts than a few seconds simply do not make sense, as the recovery would be longer than the timeout itself. Add a BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT to match the existign BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT. Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-05mac80211: document ieee80211_tx_info.padKalle Valo
Fixes htmldocs warning: Warning(mac80211.h:379): No description found for parameter 'pad[2]' Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05mac80211: add sta_notify_ps callbackChristian Lamparter
This patch is necessary in order to provide a proper Access point support for p54. Unfortunately for us, there is no documented way to disable the interfering power save buffering mechanism in firmware completely. Therefore we give in and notify the driver through our new sta_notify_ps callback, so that we can update the filter state. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>