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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds
b65a0e0c84 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]
2011-03-03 15:48:01 -08:00
David Howells
1362fa078d DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]
When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to
read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to
be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076].

Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in
key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing.

Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the
amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated.

The buggy code was added in:

	commit 4a2d789267
	Author: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
	Date:   Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100
	Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]

This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program
compiled with -lkeyutils:

	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>
	#include <err.h>
	static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6";
	int main()
	{
		key_serial_t key;
		key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload),
			      KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING);
		if (key == -1)
			err(1, "add_key");
		if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1)
			err(1, "read_key");
		return 0;
	}

What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user:

	dns-break: read_key: No such device or address

but instead the kernel oopses.

This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands
as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be
included in the data.  Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return
-EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read.

The oops looks like:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq
CPU 0
Modules linked in:

Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468                  /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b99f7>]  [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378
RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1
FS:  00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090)
Stack:
 ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000
 00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff811b708e>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
 [<ffffffff811b7c07>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6
 [<ffffffff81001f7b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed <41> 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48
RIP  [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
 RSP <ffff88003bf47f08>
CR2: 0000000000000010

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-03-04 09:56:19 +11:00
Randy Dunlap
a90e81579d net: update Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
Clean up entries in 00-INDEX: drop files that have been removed.

Reported-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-28 12:33:19 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
520732af91 net: fix ifenslave build flags
-I (include path) should be specified for host builds.
This one was overlooked somehow.  Fixes
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25902

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-10 20:05:25 -08:00
Peter Chubb
34a6ef381d tcp_ecn is an integer not a boolean
There was some confusion at LCA as to why the sysctl tcp_ecn took one
of three values when it was documented as a Boolean.  This patch fixes
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-02 15:39:58 -08:00
Nicolas de Pesloüan
de221bd5eb bonding: update documentation - alternate configuration.
The bonding documentation used to provide configuration
details and examples for initscripts and sysconfig only.

This patch describe the third possible configuration:
/etc/network/interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-25 13:50:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
bfbb23466a dccp: make upper bound for seq_window consistent on 32/64 bit
The 'seq_window' sysctl sets the initial value for the DCCP Sequence Window,
which may range from 32..2^46-1 (RFC 4340, 7.5.2). The patch sets the upper
bound consistently to 2^32-1 on both 32 and 64 bit systems, which should be
sufficient - with a RTT of 1sec and 1-byte packets, a seq_window of 2^32-1
corresponds to a link speed of 34 Gbps.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-01-07 12:22:44 +01:00
Jeff Kirsher
68f20d948c Documentation/networking: Update Intel Wired LAN docs
- Update the Intel Wired LAN documentation with the latest
  URL for ethtool.

- replace "Ethtool" with "ethtool"

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
2010-12-24 21:26:47 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
c6c8fea297 net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
cc6f02dd49 net: change ip_default_ttl documentation
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-13 12:50:49 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
dabee56860 Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Update documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbevf documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:23 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
872857a84e Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt: Update ixgbe documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbe documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:20 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
f2be142979 Documentation/networking/igbvf.txt: Update documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN igbvf documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:17 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
1ffd724644 Documentation/networking/igb.txt: update documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN igb documentation.

v2- Updated the ethtool support link, removed the LRO section and
    anti-spoofing sections.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:14 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
072ed34fa9 Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt: Update documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000e documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:12 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
96c3c0330d Documentation/networking/e1000.txt: Update documentation
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000 documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10 22:12:04 -08:00
David S. Miller
fe6c791570 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
	net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
Tomasz Grobelny
871a2c16c2 dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructure
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of
TX packets and provides two policies:
 * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
 * a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options).

The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-12-07 13:47:12 +01:00
Sritej Velaga
40839129f7 qlcnic: LICENSE file for qlcnic
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-03 09:33:21 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0147fc058d tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)
tcp_win_from_space() does the following:

      if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0)
              return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
      else
              return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);

"space" is int.

As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is
undefined behaviour.

Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32,
space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0.

Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf().

Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31].

Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312

Steps to reproduce:

      echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale
      wget www.kernel.org
      [softlockup]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 10:39:45 -08:00
Jeremy Eder
d67ef35fff clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships
This patch helps clarify documentation for
net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships by providing a formula for
calculating the maximum number of multicast groups that can be
subscribed to, plus defining the theoretical limit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 11:22:06 -08:00
Michael Witten
c996d8b9a8 Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.org
Some of the documentation refers to web pages under
the domain `osdl.org'. However, `osdl.org' now
redirects to `linuxfoundation.org'.

Rather than rely on redirections, this patch updates
the addresses appropriately; for the most part, only
documentation that is meant to be current has been
updated.

The patch should be pretty quick to scan and check;
each new web-page url was gotten by trying out the
original URL in a browser and then simply copying the
the redirected URL (formatting as necessary).

There is some conflict as to which one of these domain
names is preferred:

  linuxfoundation.org
  linux-foundation.org

So, I wrote:

  info@linuxfoundation.org

and got this reply:

  Message-ID: <4CE17EE6.9040807@linuxfoundation.org>
  Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:41:42 -0800
  From: David Ames <david@linuxfoundation.org>

  ...

  linuxfoundation.org is preferred. The canonical name for our web site is
  www.linuxfoundation.org. Our list site is actually
  lists.linux-foundation.org.

  Regarding email linuxfoundation.org is preferred there are a few people
  who choose to use linux-foundation.org for their own reasons.

Consequently, I used `linuxfoundation.org' for web pages and
`lists.linux-foundation.org' for mailing-list web pages and email addresses;
the only personal email address I updated from `@osdl.org' was that of
Andrew Morton, who prefers `linux-foundation.org' according `git log'.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-15 23:50:13 +01:00
David S. Miller
c25ecd0a21 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-14 11:57:05 -08:00
Ben Greear
cbaf087a9f docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 14:03:20 -08:00
Giuseppe Cavallaro
f5539b5bfa stmmac: update the driver documentation
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 12:43:34 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
b595076a18 tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
stephen hemminger
89ff05ec55 phylib: make local function static
The following functions are not used directly by any drivers:
    phy_attach_direct
    phy_device_create
    phy_prepare_link
    genphy_config_advert
    genphy_setup_forced
    phy_config_interrupt
    phy_clear_interrypt
    phy_sanitize_settings
    phy_enable_interrupts
    phy_disable_interrupts

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-24 15:07:11 -07:00
Oliver Hartkopp
1e55659ce6 can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace
to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local
host, or from a remote CAN device.

This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between
'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning
flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg().

The added documentation explains the introduced flags.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:27:03 -07:00
Kumar Sanghvi
f20ce779bb Documentation: Update Phonet doc for Pipe controller changes
Updates to Phonet doc for Pipe controller 'connect' socket
implementation and changes related to socket options.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-13 14:40:35 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
03789f2672 Phonet: cleanup pipe enable socket option
The current code works like this:

  int garbage, status;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(status);

  /* enable pipe */
  setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage));
  /* disable pipe */
  setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_DISABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage));
  /* get status */
  getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_INQ, &status, &len);

...which does not follow the usual socket option pattern. This patch
merges all three "options" into a single gettable&settable option,
before Linux 2.6.37 gets out:

  int status;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(status);

  /* enable pipe */
  status = 1;
  setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status));
  /* disable pipe */
  status = 0;
  setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status));
  /* get status */
  getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, &len);

This also fixes the error code from EFAULT to ENOTCONN.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Cc: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-08 14:09:10 -07:00
David S. Miller
69259abb64 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c
	net/caif/caif_socket.c
2010-10-06 19:39:31 -07:00
Flavio Leitner
c2952c314b bonding: add retransmit membership reports tunable
Allow sysadmins to configure the number of multicast
membership report sent on a link failure event.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 20:26:58 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
da8c01c450 e1000e.txt: Add e1000e documentation
Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:28:07 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
2bff89c3f3 e1000.txt: Update e1000 documentation
Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:27:31 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
c4b8c01112 ixgbevf.txt: Update ixgbevf documentation
Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual
function driver).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:27:30 -07:00
Kumar Sanghvi
4d443a085d Documentation: Update Phonet doc for Pipe Controller implementation
Updates the Phonet document with description related to Pipe controller
implementation

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-27 23:30:50 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
274a517ec1 Phonet: resource routing documentation
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-15 21:31:34 -07:00
Thomas Graf
ae8abfa00e ipv6: Update ip-sysctl.txt documentation for recent changes to accept_ra and forwarding
Documentation for recent changes to the tunables accept_ra and
forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-03 09:43:15 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
89858ad143 dccp ccid-3: use per-route RTO or TCP RTO as fallback
This makes RTAX_RTO_MIN also available to CCID-3, replacing the compile-time
RTO lower bound with a per-route tunable value.

The original Kconfig option solved the problem that a very low RTT (in the
order of HZ) can trigger too frequent and unnecessary reductions of the
sending rate.

This tunable does not affect the initial RTO value of 2 seconds specified in
RFC 5348, section 4.2 and Appendix B. But like the hardcoded Kconfig value,
it allows to adapt to network conditions.

The same effect as the original Kconfig option of 100ms is now achieved by

> ip route replace to unicast 192.168.0.0/24 rto_min 100j dev eth0

(assuming HZ=1000).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:28 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
4886fcad6e dccp ccid-2: Share TCP's minimum RTO code
Using a fixed RTO_MIN of 0.2 seconds was found to cause problems for CCID-2
over 802.11g: at least once per session there was a spurious timeout. It
helped to then increase the the value of RTO_MIN over this link.

Since the problem is the same as in TCP, this patch makes the solution from
commit "05bb1fad1cde025a864a90cfeb98dcbefe78a44a"
       "[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics."
available to DCCP.

This avoids reinventing the wheel, so that e.g. the following works in the
expected way now also for CCID-2:

> ip route change 10.0.0.2 rto_min 800 dev ath0

Luckily this useful rto_min function was recently moved to net/tcp.h,
which simplifies sharing code originating from TCP.

Documentation also updated (plus minor whitespace fixes).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:27 -07:00
Oliver Hartkopp
2244d07bfa net: simplify flags for tx timestamping
This patch removes the abstraction introduced by the union skb_shared_tx in
the shared skb data.

The access of the different union elements at several places led to some
confusion about accessing the shared tx_flags e.g. in skb_orphan_try().

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128084897415886&w=2

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-19 00:08:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
79872e07ab Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt: deleted, not in tree
Commit 1d794e3b35 ("Staging: wavelan: delete the driver") removed the
source, so remove the documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f6cec0ae58 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (59 commits)
  igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation
  igb.txt: Add igb documentation
  e100/e1000*/igb*/ixgb*: Add missing read memory barrier
  ixgbe: fix build error with FCOE_CONFIG without DCB_CONFIG
  netxen: protect tx timeout recovery by rtnl lock
  isdn: gigaset: use after free
  isdn: gigaset: add missing unlock
  solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling
  pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops
  net: disable preemption before call smp_processor_id()
  tcp: no md5sig option size check bug
  iwlwifi: fix locking assertions
  iwlwifi: fix TX tracer
  isdn: fix information leak
  net: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path
  usbnet: remove noisy and hardly useful printk
  rtl8180: avoid potential NULL deref in rtl8180_beacon_work
  ath9k: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS list
  libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given
  libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates
  ...
2010-08-09 21:05:52 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
c4e9b56e24 igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation
Adds documentation for the igbvf (igb virtual function driver).

  v2:
   - Removed trailing white space
   - Removed Ethtool version info

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-08 20:03:15 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
b55c52b193 igb.txt: Add igb documentation
Add documentation for the igb networking driver.

  v2:
   - Removed trailing white space
   - Removed Ethtool version info
   - Removed LRO kernel version info

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-08 20:02:45 -07:00
David Howells
ff9517a687 DNS: Fixes for the DNS query module
Fixes for the DNS query module, including:

 (1) Use 'negative' instead of '-ve' in the documentation.

 (2) Mark the kdoc comment with '/**' on dns_query().

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-06 02:26:27 +00:00
Wang Lei
1a4240f476 DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code
Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own
module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS
filesystem module.

This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have
it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel
in a useful form.  The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys
can be retained in keyrings.

Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive
description that is of the form "[<type>:]<domain_name>".  The optional <type>
indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required.  The
<domain_name> is the query to be made.

If <type> isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the
result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a
comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key
and configured through /etc/request-key.conf.  The cifs.upcall utility is
invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution.

The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function,
which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem.  This
part remains in the CIFS module for now.

See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-05 17:17:51 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
3cfc2c42c1 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: update broken web addresses.
  fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
  hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment
  Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
  Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
  fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace
  Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE
  scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE
  synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE
  block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE
  comment typo fixes: charater => character
  fix comment typos concerning "challenge"
  arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc
  reiserfs: typo comment fix
  update email address
  ...
2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00