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2867 Commits (8abbbe8ff572fd84d1b98eb9acf30611a97cf72e)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Molnar 8d06afab73 [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 55faed1e60 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-07 17:22:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0a3f4358ac [NET]: proto_unregister: fix sleeping while atomic
proto_unregister holds a lock while calling kmem_cache_destroy, which
can sleep.

Noticed by Daniele Orlandi <daniele@orlandi.com>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-06 19:47:50 -07:00
Jean Tourrilhes 6582c164f2 [PATCH] WE-19 for kernel 2.6.13
Hi Jeff,

	This is version 19 of the Wireless Extensions. It was supposed
to be the fallback of the WPA API changes, but people seem quite happy
about it (especially Jouni), so the patch is rather small.
	The patch has been fully tested with 2.6.13 and various
wireless drivers, and is in its final version. Would you mind pushing
that into Linus's kernel so that the driver and the apps can take
advantage ot it ?

	It includes :
	o iwstat improvement (explicit dBm). This is the result of
long discussions with Dan Williams, the authors of
NetworkManager. Thanks to him for all the fruitful feedback.
	o remove pointer from event stream. I was not totally sure if
this pointer was 32-64 bits clean, so I'd rather remove it and be at
peace with it.
	o remove linux header from wireless.h. This has long been
requested by people writting user space apps, now it's done, and it
was not even painful.
	o final deprecation of spy_offset. You did not like it, it's
now gone for good.
	o Start deprecating dev->get_wireless_stats -> debloat netdev
	o Add "check" version of event macros for ieee802.11
stack. Jiri Benc doesn't like the current macros, we aim to please ;-)
	All those changes, except the last one, have been bit-roting on
my web pages for a while...

	Patches for most kernel drivers will follow. Patches for the
Orinoco and the HostAP drivers have been sent to their respective
maintainers.

	Have fun...

	Jean
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-06 22:40:24 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 9261c9b042 [NET]: Make sure l_linger is unsigned to avoid negative timeouts
One of my x86_64 (linux 2.6.13) server log is filled with :

schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca

This is because some application does a

struct linger li;
li.l_onoff = 1;
li.l_linger = -1;
setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, &li, sizeof(li));

And unfortunatly l_linger is defined as a 'signed int' in
include/linux/socket.h:

struct linger {
         int             l_onoff;        /* Linger active                */
         int             l_linger;       /* How long to linger for       */
};

I dont know if it's safe to change l_linger to 'unsigned int' in the
include file (It might be defined as int in ABI specs)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-06 14:51:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5bcaa15579 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-06 00:47:18 -07:00
Herbert Xu 1198ad002a [NET]: 2.6.13 breaks libpcap (and tcpdump)
Patrick McHardy says:

  Never mind, I got it, we never fall through to the second switch
  statement anymore. I think we could simply break when load_pointer
  returns NULL. The switch statement will fall through to the default
  case and return 0 for all cases but 0 > k >= SKF_AD_OFF.

Here's a patch to do just that.

I left BPF_MSH alone because it's really a hack to calculate the IP
header length, which makes no sense when applied to the special data.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 18:44:37 -07:00
David S. Miller 6baf1f417d [NET]: Do not protect sysctl_optmem_max with CONFIG_SYSCTL
The ipv4 and ipv6 protocols need to access it unconditionally.
SYSCTL=n build failure reported by Russell King.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 18:14:11 -07:00
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk 0bf0519d2b [PATCH] (7/7) __user annotations (ethtool)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-05 17:57:23 -04:00
Eric Dumazet ba89966c19 [NET]: use __read_mostly on kmem_cache_t , DEFINE_SNMP_STAT pointers
This patch puts mostly read only data in the right section
(read_mostly), to help sharing of these data between CPUS without
memory ping pongs.

On one of my production machine, tcp_statistics was sitting in a
heavily modified cache line, so *every* SNMP update had to force a
reload.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:11:18 -07:00
Jon Wetzel a6f9a70578 [NET]: Add support for getting the permanent hardware address.
This patch adds a new field to net device to hold the permanent
hardware address, and adds a new generic ethtool_op function to
get that address.

Signed-off-by: Jon Wetzel <jon_wetzel@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:02:44 -07:00
David S. Miller d179cd1292 [NET]: Implement SKB fast cloning.
Protocols that make extensive use of SKB cloning,
for example TCP, eat at least 2 allocations per
packet sent as a result.

To cut the kmalloc() count in half, we implement
a pre-allocation scheme wherein we allocate
2 sk_buff objects in advance, then use a simple
reference count to free up the memory at the
correct time.

Based upon an initial patch by Thomas Graf and
suggestions from Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:54 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 20380731bc [NET]: Fix sparse warnings
Of this type, mostly:

CHECK   net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 066286071d [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ac6d439d20 [NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:00:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy a61bbcf28a [NET]: Store skb->timestamp as offset to a base timestamp
Reduces skb size by 8 bytes on 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:58:24 -07:00
Harald Welte f6ebe77f95 [NETFILTER]: split net/core/netfilter.c into net/netfilter/*.c
This patch doesn't introduce any code changes, but merely splits the
core netfilter code into four separate files.  It also moves it from
it's old location in net/core/ to the recently-created net/netfilter/
directory.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:51:11 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 295f7324ff [ICSK]: Introduce reqsk_queue_prune from code in tcp_synack_timer
With this we're very close to getting all of the current TCP
refactorings in my dccp-2.6 tree merged, next changeset will export
some functions needed by the current DCCP code and then dccp-2.6.git
will be born!

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:49:29 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 87d11ceb9d [SOCK]: Introduce sk_clone
Out of tcp_create_openreq_child, will be used in
dccp_create_openreq_child, and is a nice sock function anyway.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:42:36 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 8feaf0c0a5 [INET]: Generalise tcp_tw_bucket, aka TIME_WAIT sockets
This paves the way to generalise the rest of the sock ID lookup
routines and saves some bytes in TCPv4 TIME_WAIT sockets on distro
kernels (where IPv6 is always built as a module):

[root@qemu ~]# grep tw_sock /proc/slabinfo
tw_sock_TCPv6  0  0  128  31  1
tw_sock_TCP    0  0   96  41  1
[root@qemu ~]#

Now if a protocol wants to use the TIME_WAIT generic infrastructure it
only has to set the sk_prot->twsk_obj_size field with the size of its
inet_timewait_sock derived sock and proto_register will create
sk_prot->twsk_slab, for now its only for INET sockets, but we can
introduce timewait_sock later if some non INET transport protocolo
wants to use this stuff.

Next changesets will take advantage of this new infrastructure to
generalise even more TCP code.

[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$ grep built-in /tmp/before.size /tmp/after.size
/tmp/before.size: 188646   11764    5068  205478   322a6 net/ipv4/built-in.o
/tmp/after.size:  188144   11764    5068  204976   320b0 net/ipv4/built-in.o
[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$

Tested with both IPv4 & IPv6 (::1 (localhost) & ::ffff:172.20.0.1
(qemu host)).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:42:13 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c752f0739f [TCP]: Move the tcp sock states to net/tcp_states.h
Lots of places just needs the states, not even linux/tcp.h, where this
enum was, needs it.

This speeds up development of the refactorings as less sources are
rebuilt when things get moved from net/tcp.h.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:41:54 -07:00
Harald Welte 608c8e4f7b [NETFILTER]: Extend netfilter logging API
This patch is in preparation to nfnetlink_log:
- loggers now have to register struct nf_logger instead of nf_logfn
- nf_log_unregister() replaced by nf_log_unregister_pf() and
  nf_log_unregister_logger()
- add comment to ip[6]t_LOG.h to assure nobody redefines flags
- add /proc/net/netfilter/nf_log to tell user which logger is currently
  registered for which address family
- if user has configured logging, but no logging backend (logger) is
  available, always spit a message to syslog, not just the first time.
- split ip[6]t_LOG.c into two parts:
  Backend: Always try to register as logger for the respective address family
  Frontend: Always log via nf_log_packet() API
- modify all users of nf_log_packet() to accomodate additional argument

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:38:07 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo e6848976b7 [NET]: Cleanup INET_REFCNT_DEBUG code
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:37:29 -07:00
Harald Welte 0ab43f8499 [NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue code
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number
- add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue
- move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define
- introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules
- add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro
- add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given
  nf_queue_outfn_t
- add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c
- make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists
- add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:36:49 -07:00
Harald Welte 2cc7d57309 [NETFILTER]: Move reroute-after-queue code up to the nf_queue layer.
The rerouting functionality is required by the core, therefore it has
to be implemented by the core and not in individual queue handlers.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:36:19 -07:00
Harald Welte 4fdb3bb723 [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
  protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
  as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:35:08 -07:00
Harald Welte 020b4c12db [NETFILTER]: Move ipv4 specific code from net/core/netfilter.c to net/ipv4/netfilter.c
Netfilter cleanup
- Move ipv4 code from net/core/netfilter.c to net/ipv4/netfilter.c
- Move ipv6 netfilter code from net/ipv6/ip6_output.c to net/ipv6/netfilter.c

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:35:01 -07:00
Harald Welte 089af26c70 [NETFILTER]: Rename skb_ip_make_writable() to skb_make_writable()
There is nothing IPv4-specific in it.  In fact, it was already used by
IPv6, too...  Upcoming nfnetlink_queue code will use it for any kind
of packet.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:34:40 -07:00
David S. Miller 86e65da9c1 [NET]: Remove explicit initializations of skb->input_dev
Instead, set it in one place, namely the beginning of
netif_receive_skb().

Based upon suggestions from Jamal Hadi Salim.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:33:26 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0742fd53a3 [IPV4]: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 the following unused global function:
  - xfrm4_state.c: xfrm4_state_fini
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - ip_output.c: ip_finish_output
  - ip_output.c: sysctl_ip_default_ttl
  - fib_frontend.c: ip_dev_find
  - inetpeer.c: inet_peer_idlock
  - ip_options.c: ip_options_compile
  - ip_options.c: ip_options_undo
  - net/core/request_sock.c: sysctl_max_syn_backlog

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:33:20 -07:00
David S. Miller f2ccd8fa06 [NET]: Kill skb->real_dev
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
device into packet_type->func() as an argument.

It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:32:25 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 83e3609eba [REQSK]: Move the syn_table destroy from tcp_listen_stop to reqsk_queue_destroy
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:32:11 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 6f1cf16582 [NET]: Remove HIPPI private from skbuff.h
This removes the private element from skbuff, that is only used by
HIPPI. Instead it uses skb->cb[] to hold the additional data that is
needed in the output path from hard_header to device driver.

PS: The only qdisc that might potentially corrupt this cb[] is if
netem was used over HIPPI. I will take care of that by fixing netem
to use skb->stamp. I don't expect many users of netem over HIPPI

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b0573dea1f [NET]: Introduce SO_{SND,RCV}BUFFORCE socket options
Allows overriding of sysctl_{wmem,rmrm}_max

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy abc3bc5804 [NET]: Kill skb->tc_classid
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:18 -07:00
David S. Miller 8728b834b2 [NET]: Kill skb->list
Remove the "list" member of struct sk_buff, as it is entirely
redundant.  All SKB list removal callers know which list the
SKB is on, so storing this in sk_buff does nothing other than
taking up some space.

Two tricky bits were SCTP, which I took care of, and two ATM
drivers which Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> fixed
up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
2005-08-29 15:31:14 -07:00
Harald Welte 6869c4d8e0 [NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement
As discussed at netconf'05, we're trying to save every bit in sk_buff.
The patch below makes sk_buff 8 bytes smaller.  I did some basic
testing on my notebook and it seems to work.

The only real in-tree user of nfcache was IPVS, who only needs a
single bit.  Unfortunately I couldn't find some other free bit in
sk_buff to stuff that bit into, so I introduced a separate field for
them.  Maybe the IPVS guys can resolve that to further save space.

Initially I wanted to shrink pkt_type to three bits (PACKET_HOST and
alike are only 6 values defined), but unfortunately the bluetooth code
overloads pkt_type :(

The conntrack-event-api (out-of-tree) uses nfcache, but Rusty just
came up with a way how to do it without any skb fields, so it's safe
to remove it.

- remove all never-implemented 'nfcache' code
- don't have ipvs code abuse 'nfcache' field. currently get's their own
  compile-conditional skb->ipvs_property field.  IPVS maintainers can
  decide to move this bit elswhere, but nfcache needs to die.
- remove skb->nfcache field to save 4 bytes
- move skb->nfctinfo into three unused bits to save further 4 bytes

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:04 -07:00
Matt Mackall d7b9dfc8ea [NETPOLL]: remove unused variable
Remove unused variable

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:28:05 -07:00
Matt Mackall 53fb95d3c1 [NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI race
This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq
processing by using an RCU approach.

This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to
the setup code.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:27:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 2652076507 [NETPOLL]: pre-fill skb pool
we could do one thing (see the patch below): i think it would be useful 
to fill up the netlogging skb queue straight at initialization time.  
Especially if netpoll is used for dumping alone, the system might not be 
in a situation to fill up the queue at the point of crash, so better be 
a bit more prepared and keep the pipeline filled.

[ I've modified this to be called earlier - mpm ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:26:42 -07:00
Matt Mackall 0db1d6fc1e [NETPOLL]: add retry timeout
Add limited retry logic to netpoll_send_skb

Each time we attempt to send, decrement our per-device retry counter.
On every successful send, we reset the counter. 

We delay 50us between attempts with up to 20000 retries for a total of
1 second. After we've exhausted our retries, subsequent failed
attempts will try only once until reset by success.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:25:54 -07:00
Matt Mackall f0d3459d07 [NETPOLL]: netpoll_send_skb simplify
Minor netpoll_send_skb restructuring

Restructure to avoid confusing goto and move some bits out of the
retry loop.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:25:11 -07:00
Jeff Moyer a636e13579 [NETPOLL]: deadlock bugfix
This fixes an obvious deadlock in the netpoll code.  netpoll_rx takes the
npinfo->rx_lock.  netpoll_rx is also the only caller of arp_reply (through
__netpoll_rx).  As such, it is not necessary to take this lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:23:50 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 11513128bb [NETPOLL]: rx_flags bugfix
Initialize npinfo->rx_flags.  The way it stands now, this will have random
garbage, and so will incur a locking penalty even when an rx_hook isn't
registered and we are not active in the netpoll polling code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11 19:23:04 -07:00
Denis Lunev f0098f7863 [NET] Fix too aggressive backoff in dst garbage collection
The bug is evident when it is seen once. dst gc timer was backed off,
when gc queue is not empty. But this means that timer quickly backs off,
if at least one destination remains in use. Normally, the bug is invisible,
because adding new dst entry to queue cancels the backoff. But it shots
deadly with destination cache overflow when new destinations are not released
for long time f.e. after an interface goes down.

The fix is to cancel backoff when something was released.

Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-30 17:47:25 -07:00
David S. Miller 6192b54b84 [NET]: Fix busy waiting in dev_close().
If the current task has signal_pending(), the loop we have
to wait for the __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit to clear becomes
a pure busy-loop.

Fixed by using msleep() instead of the hand-crafted version.

Noticed by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-28 12:12:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 839c5d2511 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-07-27 16:37:59 -07:00
Jesper Juhl 77933d7276 [PATCH] clean up inline static vs static inline
`gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of
the declaration.  This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline
static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in
47 files).

While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace
that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here
and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:20 -07:00
Matt Mackall 5e43db7730 [NET]: Move in_aton from net/ipv4/utils.c to net/core/utils.c
Move in_aton to allow netpoll and pktgen to work without the rest of
the IPv4 stack. Fix whitespace and add comment for the odd placement.

Delete now-empty net/ipv4/utils.c

Re-enable netpoll/netconsole without CONFIG_INET

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-27 15:24:42 -07:00
Kyle Moffett a77be819f9 [NET]: Fix setsockopt locking bug
On Sparc, SO_DONTLINGER support resulted in sock_reset_flag being 
called without lock_sock().

Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-27 14:22:30 -07:00
David S. Miller b72f6eccb0 [NET]: Fix tc_verd thinko in skb_clone()
It was overwriting the computer n->tc_verd value over
and over with skb->tc_verd, by mistake.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-19 14:13:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6aef4fdfea [NET]: Only build flow.o if CONFIG_XFRM=y
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-19 13:58:40 -07:00
Victor Fusco 86a76caf87 [NET]: Fix sparse warnings
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>

Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08 14:57:47 -07:00
David Chau 52609c0b56 [NET]: improve readability of dev_set_promiscuity() in net/core/dev.c
A trivial patch to improve the readability of dev_set_promiscuity()
in net/core/dev.c. New code does exactly the same thing as original
code.

Signed-off-by: David Chau <ddcc@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 15:11:06 -07:00
Thomas Graf e176fe8954 [NET]: Remove unused security member in sk_buff
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 14:12:44 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3154e540e3 [NET]: net/core/filter.c: make len cover the entire packet
As suggested by Herbert Xu:

Since we don't require anything to be in the linear packet range
anymore make len cover the entire packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 14:10:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0b05b2a49e [NET]: Consolidate common code in net/core/filter.c
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 14:10:21 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6935d46c2d [NET]: Remove redundant code in net/core/filter.c
skb_header_pointer handles linear and non-linear data, no need to handle
linear data again.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 14:08:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 9ef1d4c7c7 [NETLINK]: Missing initializations in dumped data
Mostly missing initialization of padding fields of 1 or 2 bytes length,
two instances of uninitialized nlmsgerr->msg of 16 bytes length.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28 12:55:30 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b3563c4fbf [NETLINK]: Clear padding in netlink messages
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28 12:54:43 -07:00
Robert Olsson 64053beeb5 [PKTGEN]: Fix random packet sizes causing panic
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-26 15:27:10 -07:00
Thomas Graf 3fc7e8a6d8 [NET]: skb_find_text() - Find a text pattern in skb data
Finds a pattern in the skb data according to the specified
textsearch configuration. Use textsearch_next() to retrieve
subsequent occurrences of the pattern. Returns the offset
to the first occurrence or UINT_MAX if no match was found.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 21:00:17 -07:00
Thomas Graf 677e90eda3 [NET]: Zerocopy sequential reading of skb data
Implements sequential reading for both linear and non-linear
skb data at zerocopy cost. The data is returned in chunks of
arbitary length, therefore random access is not possible.

Usage:
	from	 := 0
	to	 := 128
	state	 := undef
	data	 := undef
	len	 := undef
	consumed := 0

	skb_prepare_seq_read(skb, from, to, &state)
	while (len = skb_seq_read(consumed, &data, &state)) != 0 do
		/* do something with 'data' of length 'len' */
		if abort then
			/* abort read if we don't wait for
			 * skb_seq_read() to return 0 */
			skb_abort_seq_read(&state)
			return
		endif
		/* not necessary to consume all of 'len' */
		consumed += len
	done

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:59:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 51b0bdedb8 [NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.
Separate out the two uses of netdev_max_backlog. One controls the
upper bound on packets processed per softirq, the new name for this is
netdev_budget; the other controls the limit on packets queued via
netif_rx.

Increase the max_backlog default to account for faster processors.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:14:40 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 31aa02c53c [NET]: Eliminate netif_rx massive packet drops.
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills
because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load.
The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into
slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and
H-TCP as well as part of Web100.

The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills;
this changes it to individual packet drop-tail. 

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:12:48 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 34008d8c63 [NET]: Remove obsolete netif_rx congestion sensing mechanism.
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always
return either full or empty.  Almost no driver checks the return value
from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages.

The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the
receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the
feedback.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:10:00 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger c1ebcdb8c4 [NET]: Remove obsolete fastroute stats.
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:08:59 -07:00
Paulo Marques 543537bd92 [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:18 -07:00
Jeff Moyer fbeec2e155 [NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interface
This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the
same network device.  Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook,
however.  In practice, this restriction has not been problematic.  It is
worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to
allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks.

The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info
structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in.  Aside
from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct
net_device to an individual struct netpoll.

A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx
pointer.  The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module
removal, and the lock should be uncontested.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:59 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 115c1d6e61 [NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info struct
This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device
will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll.  The reason for
this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock
should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll;  and 2) this is a first
step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the
same net_device.

The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure.  As
such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:05:31 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 18b8afc771 [NETFILTER]: Kill nf_debug
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:01:57 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 9ed19f339e [NETLINK]: Set correct pid for ioctl originating netlink events
This patch ensures that netlink events created as a result of programns
using ioctls (such as ifconfig, route etc) contains the correct PID of
those events.
 
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:55:51 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim b6544c0b4c [NETLINK]: Correctly set NLM_F_MULTI without checking the pid
This patch rectifies some rtnetlink message builders that derive the
flags from the pid. It is now explicit like the other cases
which get it right. Also fixes half a dozen dumpers which did not
set NLM_F_MULTI at all.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:54:12 -07:00
Thomas Graf 1797754ea7 [NETLINK]: Introduce NLMSG_NEW macro to better handle netlink flags
Introduces a new macro NLMSG_NEW which extends NLMSG_PUT but takes
a flags argument. NLMSG_PUT stays there for compatibility but now
calls NLMSG_NEW with flags == 0. NLMSG_PUT_ANSWER is renamed to
NLMSG_NEW_ANSWER which now also takes a flags argument.

Also converts the users of NLMSG_PUT_ANSWER to use NLMSG_NEW_ANSWER
and fixes the two direct users of __nlmsg_put to either provide
the flags or use NLMSG_NEW(_ANSWER).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:53:48 -07:00
Thomas Graf e386c6eb43 [NEIGH]: Fix use of uninitialized variable when trimming in neightbl_fill_parms
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:52:09 -07:00
Thomas Graf 4b6ea82dd1 [NETLINK]: Kill bogus NLMSG_SET_MULTIPART uses.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:51:43 -07:00
Thomas Graf c7fb64db00 [NETLINK]: Neighbour table configuration and statistics via rtnetlink
To retrieve the neighbour tables send RTM_GETNEIGHTBL with the
NLM_F_DUMP flag set. Every neighbour table configuration is
spread over multiple messages to avoid running into message
size limits on systems with many interfaces. The first message
in the sequence transports all not device specific data such as
statistics, configuration, and the default parameter set.
This message is followed by 0..n messages carrying device
specific parameter sets.

Although the ordering should be sufficient, NDTA_NAME can be
used to identify sequences. The initial message can be identified
by checking for NDTA_CONFIG. The device specific messages do
not contain this TLV but have NDTPA_IFINDEX set to the
corresponding interface index.

To change neighbour table attributes, send RTM_SETNEIGHTBL
with NDTA_NAME set. Changeable attribute include NDTA_THRESH[1-3],
NDTA_GC_INTERVAL, and all TLVs in NDTA_PARMS unless marked
otherwise. Device specific parameter sets can be changed by
setting NDTPA_IFINDEX to the interface index of the corresponding
device.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:50:55 -07:00
David S. Miller e52c1f17e4 [NET]: Move sysctl_max_syn_backlog into request_sock.c
This fixes the CONFIG_INET=n build failure noticed
by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:49:40 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2ad69c55a2 [NET] rename struct tcp_listen_opt to struct listen_sock
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:48:55 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0e87506fcc [NET] Generalise tcp_listen_opt
This chunks out the accept_queue and tcp_listen_opt code and moves
them to net/core/request_sock.c and include/net/request_sock.h, to
make it useful for other transport protocols, DCCP being the first one
to use it.

Next patches will rename tcp_listen_opt to accept_sock and remove the
inline tcp functions that just call a reqsk_queue_ function.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:47:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2e6599cb89 [NET] Generalise TCP's struct open_request minisock infrastructure
Kept this first changeset minimal, without changing existing names to
ease peer review.

Basicaly tcp_openreq_alloc now receives the or_calltable, that in turn
has two new members:

->slab, that replaces tcp_openreq_cachep
->obj_size, to inform the size of the openreq descendant for
  a specific protocol

The protocol specific fields in struct open_request were moved to a
class hierarchy, with the things that are common to all connection
oriented PF_INET protocols in struct inet_request_sock, the TCP ones
in tcp_request_sock, that is an inet_request_sock, that is an
open_request.

I.e. this uses the same approach used for the struct sock class
hierarchy, with sk_prot indicating if the protocol wants to use the
open_request infrastructure by filling in sk_prot->rsk_prot with an
or_calltable.

Results? Performance is improved and TCP v4 now uses only 64 bytes per
open request minisock, down from 96 without this patch :-)

Next changeset will rename some of the structs, fields and functions
mentioned above, struct or_calltable is way unclear, better name it
struct request_sock_ops, s/struct open_request/struct request_sock/g,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:46:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0e396ee43e Manual merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
This is a fixed-up version of the broken "upstream-2.6.13" branch, where
I re-did the manual merge of drivers/net/r8169.c by hand, and made sure
the history is all good.
2005-06-18 11:42:35 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger e387660545 [NET]: Fix sysctl net.core.dev_weight
Changing the sysctl net.core.dev_weight has no effect because the weight
of the backlog devices is set during initialization and never changed.

This patch propagates any changes to the global value affected by sysctl
to the per-cpu devices. It is done every time the packet handler
function is run.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-08 14:56:01 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 699a411451 [NET]: Allow controlling NAPI device weight with sysfs
Simple interface to allow changing network device scheduling weight
with sysfs. Please consider this for 2.6.12, since risk/impact is small.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-08 14:55:42 -07:00
David S. Miller fa04ae5c09 [ETHTOOL]: Check correct pointer in ethtool_set_coalesce().
It was checking the "GET" function pointer instead of
the "SET" one.  Looks like a cut&paste error :-)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-06 15:07:19 -07:00
91bcc018f9 Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch we18 2005-06-04 17:08:24 -04:00
David S. Miller d1102b59ca [NET]: Use %lx for netdev->features sysfs formatting.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:28:25 -07:00
Jon Mason 69f6a0fafc [NET]: Add ethtool support for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:27:24 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 81e8157583 [BRIDGE]: make dev->features unsigned
The features field in netdevice is really a bitmask, and bitmask's should
be unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 14:14:35 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger d8a33ac435 [BRIDGE]: features change notification
Resend of earlier patch (no changes) from Catalin used to provide
device feature change notification.

Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 14:13:47 -07:00
fff9cfd99c [PATCH] Wireless Extensions 18 (aka WPA)
This is version 18 of the Wireless Extensions. The main change
  is that it adds all the necessary APIs for WPA and WPA2 support. This
  work was entirely done by Jouni Malinen, so let's thank him for both
  his hard work and deep expertise on the subject ;-)
        This APIs obviously doesn't do much by itself and works in
  concert with driver support (Jouni already sent you the HostAP
  changes) and userspace (Jouni is updating wpa_supplicant). This is
  also orthogonal with the ongoing work on in-kernel IEEE support (but
  potentially useful).
        The patch is attached, tested with 2.6.11. Normally, I would
  ask you to push that directly in the kernel (99% of the patch has been
  on my web page for ages and it does not affect non-WPA stuff), but
  Jouni convinced me that it should bake a few weeks in wireless-2.6
  first, so that other driver maintainers can get up to speed with it.
  
  Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-05-12 20:24:19 -04:00
Jesper Juhl 02c30a84e6 [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email address
Ross moved.  Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 476e19cfa1 [IPV6]: Fix OOPS when using IPV6_ADDRFORM
This causes sk->sk_prot to change, which makes the socket
release free the sock into the wrong SLAB cache.  Fix this
by introducing sk_prot_creator so that we always remember
where the sock came from.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 13:35:15 -07:00
Patrick McHardy bd96535b81 [NETFILTER]: Drop conntrack reference in ip_dev_loopback_xmit()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:21:37 -07:00
Patrick McHardy e4f8ab00cf [NETFILTER]: Fix nf_debug_ip_local_deliver()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:20:39 -07:00
Tommy S. Christensen cacaddf57e [NET]: Disable queueing when carrier is lost.
Some network drivers call netif_stop_queue() when detecting loss of
carrier. This leads to packets being queued up at the qdisc level for
an unbound period of time. In order to prevent this effect, the core
networking stack will now cease to queue packets for any device, that
is operationally down (i.e. the queue is flushed and disabled).

Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:18:52 -07:00
David S. Miller 0f4821e7b9 [XFRM/RTNETLINK]: Decrement qlen properly in {xfrm_,rt}netlink_rcv().
If we free up a partially processed packet because it's
skb->len dropped to zero, we need to decrement qlen because
we are dropping out of the top-level loop so it will do
the decrement for us.

Spotted by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:15:59 -07:00
David S. Miller 09e1430598 [NETLINK]: Fix infinite loops in synchronous netlink changes.
The qlen should continue to decrement, even if we
pop partially processed SKBs back onto the receive queue.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 15:30:05 -07:00
Herbert Xu 2a0a6ebee1 [NETLINK]: Synchronous message processing.
Let's recap the problem.  The current asynchronous netlink kernel
message processing is vulnerable to these attacks:

1) Hit and run: Attacker sends one or more messages and then exits
before they're processed.  This may confuse/disable the next netlink
user that gets the netlink address of the attacker since it may
receive the responses to the attacker's messages.

Proposed solutions:

a) Synchronous processing.
b) Stream mode socket.
c) Restrict/prohibit binding.

2) Starvation: Because various netlink rcv functions were written
to not return until all messages have been processed on a socket,
it is possible for these functions to execute for an arbitrarily
long period of time.  If this is successfully exploited it could
also be used to hold rtnl forever.

Proposed solutions:

a) Synchronous processing.
b) Stream mode socket.

Firstly let's cross off solution c).  It only solves the first
problem and it has user-visible impacts.  In particular, it'll
break user space applications that expect to bind or communicate
with specific netlink addresses (pid's).

So we're left with a choice of synchronous processing versus
SOCK_STREAM for netlink.

For the moment I'm sticking with the synchronous approach as
suggested by Alexey since it's simpler and I'd rather spend
my time working on other things.

However, it does have a number of deficiencies compared to the
stream mode solution:

1) User-space to user-space netlink communication is still vulnerable.

2) Inefficient use of resources.  This is especially true for rtnetlink
since the lock is shared with other users such as networking drivers.
The latter could hold the rtnl while communicating with hardware which
causes the rtnetlink user to wait when it could be doing other things.

3) It is still possible to DoS all netlink users by flooding the kernel
netlink receive queue.  The attacker simply fills the receive socket
with a single netlink message that fills up the entire queue.  The
attacker then continues to call sendmsg with the same message in a loop.

Point 3) can be countered by retransmissions in user-space code, however
it is pretty messy.

In light of these problems (in particular, point 3), we should implement
stream mode netlink at some point.  In the mean time, here is a patch
that implements synchronous processing.  

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:55:09 -07:00
Thomas Graf db46edc6d3 [RTNETLINK] Cleanup rtnetlink_link tables
Converts remaining rtnetlink_link tables to use c99 designated
initializers to make greping a little bit easier.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:29:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf f90a0a74b8 [RTNETLINK] Fix & cleanup rtm_min/rtm_max
Converts rtm_min and rtm_max arrays to use c99 designated
initializers for easier insertion of new message families.
RTM_GETMULTICAST and RTM_GETANYCAST did not have the minimal
message size specified which means that the netlink message
was parsed for routing attributes starting from the header.
Adds the proper minimal message sizes for these messages
(netlink header + common rtnetlink header) to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:29:00 -07:00
Martin Waitz 67be2dd1ba [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions
Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07:00
Pavel Pisa 4dc3b16ba1 [PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our
university students again.  The documentation could be extended for more
sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels.  I
have tried to proceed with that task.  I have done that more times from 2.6.0
time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again.  Linux kernel
compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets.  I have added references to
some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well.
 So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are
not too much skewed.

I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved
by kernel convention.  Most of the other changes are modifications in the
comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do
not bail out on errors.  Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some
#ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc.

You can see result of the modified documentation build at
  http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz

Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated
documentation.  Sources has been added into kernel-api for now.  Some more
section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick
cleanup work.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:25 -07:00
Jesper Juhl e49332bd12 [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups
There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two
functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding
access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for
access_ok - deprecate those.

There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out
code, fix those up to use access_ok.

After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally
removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release
or two.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:08 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney fbd568a3e6 [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
Olaf Rempel 5bec0039f4 [NET]: /proc/net/stat/* header cleanup
Signed-off-by: Olaf Rempel <razzor@kopf-tisch.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-28 12:16:08 -07:00
Al Viro b453257f05 [PATCH] kill gratitious includes of major.h under net/*
A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason whatsoever.
Removed.  And yes, it still builds. 

The history of that stuff is often amusing.  E.g.  for net/core/sock.c
the story looks so, as far as I've been able to reconstruct it: we used
to need major.h in net/socket.c circa 1.1.early.  In 1.1.13 that need
had disappeared, along with register_chrdev(SOCKET_MAJOR, "socket",
&net_fops) in sock_init().  Include had not.  When 1.2 -> 1.3 reorg of
net/* had moved a lot of stuff from net/socket.c to net/core/sock.c,
this crap had followed... 

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-25 18:32:13 -07:00
Ben Greear af191367a7 [NET]: Document ->hard_start_xmit() locking in comments.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-24 20:12:36 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 26095455ac [NET]: Add missing newline for skb_*_panic
While we're at it, lets also replace KERN_INFO by KERN_EMERG to
make sure the user gets to see it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-21 16:43:02 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 88a6685825 [SOCK]: on failure free the sock from the right place
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19 22:41:54 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 9c2b3328f7 [NET]: skbuff: remove old NET_CALLER macro
Here is a revised alternative that uses BUG_ON/WARN_ON
(as suggested by Herbert Xu) to eliminate NET_CALLER.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19 22:39:42 -07:00
David S. Miller 98f245e797 [RTNETLINK]: Add comma to final entry in link_rtnetlink_table
Noticed by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19 22:37:04 -07:00
Thomas Graf 240eed95eb [RTNETLINK]: Protocol family wildcard dumping for routing rules
Be kind to userspace and don't force them to hardcode protocol
families just to have it changed again once we support routing
rules for more than one protocol family.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19 22:35:07 -07:00
Herbert Xu 357b40a18b [IPV6]: IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option can corrupt kernel memory
So here is a patch that introduces skb_store_bits -- the opposite of
skb_copy_bits, and uses them to read/write the csum field in rawv6.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19 22:30:14 -07:00
Herbert Xu 6775cab98b [PATCH] Fix dst_destroy() race
When we are not the real parent of the dst (e.g., when we're xfrm_dst and
the child is an rtentry), it may already be on the GC list.

In fact the current code is buggy to, we need to check dst->flags before
the dec as dst may no longer be valid afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:24:10 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2a27805127 [PATCH] net: don't call kmem_cache_create with a spinlock held
This fixes the warning reported by Marcel Holtmann (Thanks!).
  
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:24:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00