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Herbert Xu
87bdc48d30 [IPSEC]: Get rid of ipv6_{auth,esp,comp}_hdr
This patch removes the duplicate ipv6_{auth,esp,comp}_hdr structures since
they're identical to the IPv4 versions.  Duplicating them would only create
problems for ourselves later when we need to add things like extended
sequence numbers.

I've also added transport header type conversion headers for these types
which are now used by the transforms.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:55 -07:00
Herbert Xu
37fedd3aab [IPSEC]: Use IPv6 calling convention as the convention for x->mode->output
The IPv6 calling convention for x->mode->output is more general and could
help an eventual protocol-generic x->type->output implementation.  This
patch adopts it for IPv4 as well and modifies the IPv4 type output functions
accordingly.

It also rewrites the IPv6 mac/transport header calculation to be based off
the network header where practical.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:54 -07:00
Herbert Xu
7b277b1a5f [IPSEC]: Set skb->data to payload in x->mode->output
This patch changes the calling convention so that on entry from
x->mode->output and before entry into x->type->output skb->data
will point to the payload instead of the IP header.

This is essentially a redistribution of skb_push/skb_pull calls
with the aim of minimising them on the common path of tunnel +
ESP.

It'll also let us use the same calling convention between IPv4
and IPv6 with the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:54 -07:00
Herbert Xu
8bd1707504 [IPSEC] esp: Remove NAT-T checksum invalidation for BEET
I pointed this out back when this patch was first proposed but it looks like
it got lost along the way.

The checksum only needs to be ignored for NAT-T in transport mode where
we lose the original inner addresses due to NAT.  With BEET the inner
addresses will be intact so the checksum remains valid.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:53 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
1c1e87edb9 [TCP]: Separate lost_retrans loop into own function
Follows own function for each task principle, this is really
somewhat separate task being done in sacktag. Also reduces
indentation.

In addition, added ack_seq local var to break some long
lines & fixed coding style things.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:51 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e2da591338 [NETFILTER]: Make netfilter code use the seq_open_private
Just switch to the consolidated calls.

ipt_recent() has to initialize the private, so use
the __seq_open_private() helper.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:34 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
cf7732e4cc [NET]: Make core networking code use seq_open_private
This concerns the ipv4 and ipv6 code mostly, but also the netlink
and unix sockets.

The netlink code is an example of how to use the __seq_open_private()
call - it saves the net namespace on this private.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:33 -07:00
Herbert Xu
b7c6538cd8 [IPSEC]: Move state lock into x->type->output
This patch releases the lock on the state before calling x->type->output.
It also adds the lock to the spots where they're currently needed.

Most of those places (all except mip6) are expected to disappear with
async crypto.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:03 -07:00
Herbert Xu
007f0211a8 [IPSEC]: Store IPv6 nh pointer in mac_header on output
Current the x->mode->output functions store the IPv6 nh pointer in the
skb network header.  This is inconvenient because the network header then
has to be fixed up before the packet can leave the IPsec stack.  The mac
header field is unused on output so we can use that to store this instead.

This patch does that and removes the network header fix-up in xfrm_output.

It also uses ipv6_hdr where appropriate in the x->type->output functions.

There is also a minor clean-up in esp4 to make it use the same code as
esp6 to help any subsequent effort to merge the two.

Lastly it kills two redundant skb_set_* statements in BEET that were
simply copied over from transport mode.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:00 -07:00
Herbert Xu
436a0a4022 [IPSEC]: Move output replay code into xfrm_output
The replay counter is one of only two remaining things in the output code
that requires a lock on the xfrm state (the other being the crypto).  This
patch moves it into the generic xfrm_output so we can remove the lock from
the transforms themselves.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:54 -07:00
Herbert Xu
406ef77c89 [IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm_output
Most of the code in xfrm4_output_one and xfrm6_output_one are identical so
this patch moves them into a common xfrm_output function which will live
in net/xfrm.

In fact this would seem to fix a bug as on IPv4 we never reset the network
header after a transform which may upset netfilter later on.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu
bc31d3b2c7 [IPSEC] ah: Remove keys from ah_data structure
The keys are only used during initialisation so we don't need to carry them
in esp_data.  Since we don't have to allocate them again, there is no need
to place a limit on the authentication key length anymore.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu
4b7137ff8f [IPSEC] esp: Remove keys from esp_data structure
The keys are only used during initialisation so we don't need to carry them
in esp_data.  Since we don't have to allocate them again, there is no need
to place a limit on the authentication key length anymore.

This patch also kills the unused auth.icv member.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
cfcabdcc2d [NET]: sparse warning fixes
Fix a bunch of sparse warnings. Mostly about 0 used as
NULL pointer, and shadowed variable declarations.
One notable case was that hash size should have been unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
de83c058af [TCP]: "Annotate" another fackets_out state reset
This should no longer be necessary because fackets_out is
accurate. It indicates bugs elsewhere, thus report it.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
29d0a309d1 [TCP]: Fix two off-by-one errors in fackets_out adjusting logic
1) Passing wrong skb to tcp_adjust_fackets_out could corrupt
fastpath_cnt_hint as tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb) is not included
to it if hint points exactly to the next_skb (it's lagging
behind, see sacktag).

2) When fastpath_skb_hint is put backwards to avoid dangling
skb reference, the skb's pcount must also be removed from count
(not included like above).

Reported by Cedric Le Goater <legoater@free.fr>

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:47 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
3de96471bd [TCP]: Wrap-safed reordering detection FRTO check
In case somebody has a suggestion about a better place for this
check, which must guarantee execution "early enough" (i.e,
before the wrap can occur), I'm very open to them.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:00 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
0e835331e3 [TCP]: Update comment of SACK block validator
Just came across what RFC2018 states about generation of valid
SACK blocks in case of reneging. Alter comment a bit to point
out clearly.

IMHO, there isn't any reason to change code because the
validation is there for a purpose (counters will inform user
about decision TCP made if this case ever surfaces).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:59 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
95eacd27e2 [TCP]: fix comments that got messed up during code move
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:59 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
dc86967b54 [TCP]: No fackets_out/highest_sack tuning when SACK isn't enabled
This was found due to bug report from Cedric Le Goater though
it turned this turned out to be unrelated bug.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
f73e924cdd [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: use netlink policy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
fdf708322d [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: rename functions containing 'nfattr'
There is no struct nfattr anymore, rename functions to 'nlattr'.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
df6fb868d6 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: convert to generic netlink attribute functions
Get rid of the duplicated rtnetlink macros and use the generic netlink
attribute functions. The old duplicated stuff is moved to a new header
file that exists just for userspace.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b95cce3576 [NET]: Wrap hard_header_parse
Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of
header_ops conversion.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0c4e85813d [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
2774c7aba6 [NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.
This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace.  Adding
code to create a different loopback device for each network
namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
when a network namespace exits.

This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
code compiling and working.  A later pass will be needed to
update the users to use something other than the initial network
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:49 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0cc217e16c [IPV4]: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev
Now that multiple loopback devices are becoming possible it makes
the code a little cleaner and more maintainable to test if a deivice
is th a loopback device by testing dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK instead
of dev == loopback_dev.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:48 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
5967789dbc [IPV4]: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy
Currently we never call unregister_netdev for the loopback device so
it is impossible for us to reach inetdev_destroy with the loopback
device.  So the test in inetdev_destroy is unnecessary.

Further when testing with my network namespace patches removing
unregistering the loopback device and calling inetdev_destroy works
fine so there appears to be no reason for avoiding unregistering the
loopback device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:48 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
912d8f0b1f [TCP] MIB: Count FRTO's successfully detected spurious RTOs
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:39 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
93e6802029 [TCP]: Reordered ACK's (old) SACKs not included to discarded MIB
In case of ACK reordering, the SACK block might be valid in it's
time but is already obsoleted since we've received another kind
of confirmation about arrival of the segments through snd_una
advancement of an earlier packet.

I didn't bother to build distinguishing of valid and invalid
SACK blocks but simply made reordered SACK blocks that are too
old always not counted regardless of their "real" validity which
could be determined by using the ack field of the reordered
packet (won't be significant IMHO).

DSACKs can very well be considered useful even in this situation,
so won't do any of this for them.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:38 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
a6963a6b3d [TCP]: Re-place highest_sack check to a more robust position
I previously added checking to position that is rather poor as
state has already been adjusted quite a bit. Re-placing it above
all state changes should be more robust though the return should
never ever get executed regardless of its place :-).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:38 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
de3cb747ff [NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:14 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
b76892051c [TCP]: Avoid clearing sacktag hint in trivial situations
There's no reason to clear the sacktag skb hint when small part
of the rexmit queue changes. Account changes (if any) instead when
fragmenting/collapsing. RTO/FRTO do not touch SACKED_ACKED bits so
no need to discard SACK tag hint at all.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
c96fd3d461 [TCP]: Enable SACK enhanced FRTO (RFC4138) by default
Most of the description that follows comes from my mail to
netdev (some editing done):

Main obstacle to FRTO use is its deployment as it has to be on
the sender side where as wireless link is often the receiver's
access link. Take initiative on behalf of unlucky receivers and
enable it by default in future Linux TCP senders. Also IETF
seems to interested in advancing FRTO from experimental [1].

How does FRTO help?
===================

FRTO detects spurious RTOs and avoids a number of unnecessary
retransmissions and a couple of other problems that can arise
due to incorrect guess made at RTO (i.e., that segments were
lost when they actually got delayed which is likely to occur
e.g. in wireless environments with link-layer retransmission).
Though FRTO cannot prevent the first (potentially unnecessary)
retransmission at RTO, I suspect that it won't cost that much
even if you have to pay for each bit (won't be that high
percentage out of all packets after all :-)). However, usually
when you have a spurious RTO, not only the first segment
unnecessarily retransmitted but the *whole window*. It goes like
this: all cumulative ACKs got delayed due to in-order delivery,
then TCP will actually send 1.5*original cwnd worth of data in
the RTO's slow-start when the delayed ACKs arrive (basically the
original cwnd worth of it unnecessarily). In case one is
interested in minimizing unnecessary retransmissions e.g. due to
cost, those rexmissions must never see daylight. Besides, in the
worst case the generated burst overloads the bottleneck buffers
which is likely to significantly delay the further progress of
the flow. In case of ll rexmissions, ACK compression often
occurs at the same time making the burst very "sharp edged" (in
that case TCP often loses most of the segments above high_seq
=> very bad performance too). When FRTO is enabled, those
unnecessary retransmissions are fully avoided except for the
first segment and the cwnd behavior after detected spurious RTO
is determined by the response (one can tune that by sysctl).

Basic version (non-SACK enhanced one), FRTO can fail to detect
spurious RTO as spurious and falls back to conservative
behavior. ACK lossage is much less significant than reordering,
usually the FRTO can detect spurious RTO if at least 2
cumulative ACKs from original window are preserved (excluding
the ACK that advances to high_seq). With SACK-enhanced version,
the detection is quite robust.

FRTO should remove the need to set a high lower bound for the
RTO estimator due to delay spikes that occur relatively common
in some environments (esp. in wireless/cellular ones).

[1] http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg02862.html

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
009a2e3e4e [TCP] FRTO: Improve interoperability with other undo_marker users
Basically this change enables it, previously other undo_marker
users were left with nothing. Reverse undo_marker logic
completely to get it set right in CA_Loss. On the other hand,
when spurious RTO is detected, clear it. Clearing might be too
heavy for some scenarios but seems safe enough starting point
for now and shouldn't have much effect except in majority of
cases (if in any).

By adding a new FLAG_ we avoid looping through write_queue when
RTO occurs.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:11 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
7c46a03e67 [TCP]: Cleanup tcp_tso_acked and tcp_clean_rtx_queue
Implements following cleanups:
- Comment re-placement (CodingStyle)
- tcp_tso_acked() local (wrapper-like) variable removal
  (readability)
- __-types removed (IMHO they make local variables jumpy looking
  and just was space)
- acked -> flag (naming conventions elsewhere in TCP code)
- linebreak adjustments (readability)
- nested if()s combined (reduced indentation)
- clarifying newlines added

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:10 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
13fcf850cc [TCP]: Move accounting from tso_acked to clean_rtx_queue
The accounting code is pretty much the same, so it's a shame
we do it in two places.

I'm not too sure if added fully_acked check in MTU probing is
really what we want perhaps the added end_seq could be used in
the after() comparison.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:09 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
5af4ec236f [TCP]: clear_all_retrans_hints prefixed by tcp_
In addition, fix its function comment spacing.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
2007-10-10 16:52:09 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
91fed7a15c [TCP]: Make fackets_out accurate
Substraction for fackets_out is unconditional when snd_una
advances, thus there's no need to do it inside the loop. Just
make sure correct bounds are honored.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:08 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
0dde7b5404 [TCP]: Maintain highest_sack accurately to the highest skb
In general, it should not be necessary to call tcp_fragment for
already SACKed skbs, but it's better to be safe than sorry. And
indeed, it can be called from sacktag when a DSACK arrives or
some ACK (with SACK) reordering occurs (sacktag could be made
to avoid the call in the latter case though I'm not sure if it's
worth of the trouble and added complexity to cover such marginal
case).

The collapse case has return for SACKED_ACKED case earlier, so
just WARN_ON if internal inconsistency is detected for some
reason.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:08 -07:00
Rick Jones
5ee3afba88 [TCP]: Return useful listenq info in tcp_info and INET_DIAG_INFO.
Return some useful information such as the maximum listen backlog and
the current listen backlog in the tcp_info structure and
INET_DIAG_INFO.

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:35 -07:00
David L Stevens
96793b4825 [IPV4]: Add ICMPMsgStats MIB (RFC 4293)
Background: RFC 4293 deprecates existing individual, named ICMP
type counters to be replaced with the ICMPMsgStatsTable. This table
includes entries for both IPv4 and IPv6, and requires counting of all
ICMP types, whether or not the machine implements the type.

These patches "remove" (but not really) the existing counters, and
replace them with the ICMPMsgStats tables for v4 and v6.
It includes the named counters in the /proc places they were, but gets the
values for them from the new tables. It also counts packets generated
from raw socket output (e.g., OutEchoes, MLD queries, RA's from
radvd, etc).

Changes:
1) create icmpmsg_statistics mib
2) create icmpv6msg_statistics mib
3) modify existing counters to use these
4) modify /proc/net/snmp to add "IcmpMsg" with all ICMP types
        listed by number for easy SNMP parsing
5) modify /proc/net/snmp printing for "Icmp" to get the named data
        from new counters.

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:28 -07:00
Denis Cheng
c40f6fff40 [IPV4] af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:26 -07:00
Herbert Xu
0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue.  Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:24 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
76c72d4f44 [IPV4/IPV6/DECNET]: Small cleanup for fib rules.
This patch slightly cleanups FIB rules framework. rules_list as a pointer
on struct fib_rules_ops is useless. It is always assigned with a static
per/subsystem list in IPv4, IPv6 and DecNet.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:22 -07:00
Paul Moore
63d804eade [CIPSO]: remove duplicated code in the cipso_v4_*_getattr() functions
The bulk of the CIPSO option parsing/processing in the cipso_v4_sock_getattr()
and cipso_v4_skb_getattr() functions are identical, the only real difference
being where the functions obtain the CIPSO option itself.  This patch creates
a new function, cipso_v4_getattr(), which contains the common CIPSO option
parsing/processing code and modifies the existing functions to call this new
helper function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:17 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
39c90ece75 [IPV4]: Convert rt_check_expire() from softirq processing to workqueue.
On loaded/big hosts, rt_check_expire() if of litle use, because it
generally breaks out of its main loop because of a jiffies change.

It can take a long time (read : timer invocations) to actually
scan the whole hash table, freeing unused entries.

Converting it to use a workqueue instead of softirq is a nice
move because we can allow rt_check_expire() to do the scan
it is supposed to do, without hogging the CPU.

This has an impact on the average number of entries in cache,
reducing ram usage. Cache is more responsive to parameter
changes (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_timeout and
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval)

Note: Maybe the default value of gc_interval (60 seconds)
is too high, since this means we actually need 5 (300/60)
invocations to scan the whole table.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:25 -07:00
Thomas Graf
8f4c1f9b04 [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00