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2008-01-20[NETFILTER]: bridge-netfilter: fix net_device refcnt leaksPatrick McHardy
When packets are flood-forwarded to multiple output devices, the bridge-netfilter code reuses skb->nf_bridge for each clone to store the bridge port. When queueing packets using NFQUEUE netfilter takes a reference to skb->nf_bridge->physoutdev, which is overwritten when the packet is forwarded to the second port. This causes refcount unterflows for the first device and refcount leaks for all others. Additionally this provides incorrect data to the iptables physdev match. Unshare skb->nf_bridge by copying it if it is shared before assigning the physoutdev device. Reported, tested and based on initial patch by Jan Christoph Nordholz <hesso@pool.math.tu-berlin.de>. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-11[NETFILTER]: bridge: fix double POST_ROUTING invocationPatrick McHardy
The bridge code incorrectly causes two POST_ROUTING hook invocations for DNATed packets that end up on the same bridge device. This happens because packets with a changed destination address are passed to dst_output() to make them go through the neighbour output function again to build a new destination MAC address, before they will continue through the IP hooks simulated by bridge netfilter. The resulting hook order is: PREROUTING (bridge netfilter) POSTROUTING (dst_output -> ip_output) FORWARD (bridge netfilter) POSTROUTING (bridge netfilter) The deferred hooks used to abort the first POST_ROUTING invocation, but since the only thing bridge netfilter actually really wants is a new MAC address, we can avoid going through the IP stack completely by simply calling the neighbour output function directly. Tested, reported and lots of data provided by: Damien Thebault <damien.thebault@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-16[BRIDGE]: Assign random address.Stephen Hemminger
Assigning a valid random address to bridge device solves problems when bridge device is brought up before adding real device to bridge. When the first real device is added to the bridge, it's address will overide the bridges random address. Note: any device added to a bridge must already have a valid ethernet address. br_add_if -> br_fdb_insert -> fdb_insert -> is_valid_ether_addr Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-07[BRIDGE]: Section fix.Andrew Morton
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x204e2): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:br_fdb_fini (between 'br_init' and 'br_fdb_init') Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-29[BRIDGE]: Properly dereference the br_should_route_hookPavel Emelyanov
This hook is protected with the RCU, so simple if (br_should_route_hook) br_should_route_hook(...) is not enough on some architectures. Use the rcu_dereference/rcu_assign_pointer in this case. Fixed Stephen's comment concerning using the typeof(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-29[BRIDGE]: Lost call to br_fdb_fini() in br_init() error pathPavel Emelyanov
In case the br_netfilter_init() (or any subsequent call) fails, the br_fdb_fini() must be called to free the allocated in br_fdb_init() br_fdb_cache kmem cache. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-19[BRIDGE]: Add missing "space"Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13[NETFILTER]: bridge: fix double POSTROUTING hook invocationPatrick McHardy
Packets routed between bridges have the POST_ROUTING hook invoked twice since bridging mistakes them for bridged packets because they have skb->nf_bridge set. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07[NETFILTER]: ebt_arp: fix --arp-gratuitous matching dependence on ↵Bart De Schuymer
--arp-ip-{src,dst} Fix --arp-gratuitous matching dependence on --arp-ip-{src,dst} Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler@SerNet.DE> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-19Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanupsJan Engelhardt
* Convert files to UTF-8. * Also correct some people's names (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file. Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss', which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to 7bit.) * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen) * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-15[BRIDGE]: Remove SKB share checks in br_nf_pre_routing().Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *Herbert Xu
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by sk_buff *. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[NETFILTER]: Avoid skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_realloc_headroomHerbert Xu
This patch replaces unnecessary uses of skb_copy, pskb_copy and skb_realloc_headroom by functions such as skb_make_writable and pskb_expand_head. This allows us to remove the double pointers later. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entryHerbert Xu
Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code). So it makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-12kobjects: fix up improper use of the kobject name fieldGreg Kroah-Hartman
A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field directly. This is not correct as the name might not be in the array. Use the proper accessor function instead.
2007-10-10[NETFILTER]: bridge: remove broken netfilter binary sysctlsJoseph Fannin
The netfilter sysctls in the bridging code don't set strategy routines: sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-arptables .3.10.1 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables .3.10.2 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-ip6tables .3.10.3 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged .3.10.4 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged .3.10.5 Missing strategy These binary sysctls can't work. The binary sysctl numbers of other netfilter sysctls with this problem are being removed. These need to go as well. Signed-off-by: Joseph Fannin <jfannin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[ETHTOOL] Provide default behaviors for a few ethtool sub-ioctlsJeff Garzik
For the operations get-tx-csum get-sg get-tso get-ufo the default ethtool_op_xxx behavior is fine for all drivers, so we permit op==NULL to imply the default behavior. This provides a more uniform behavior across all drivers, eliminating ethtool(8) "ioctl not supported" errors on older drivers that had not been updated for the latest sub-ioctls. The ethtool_op_xxx() functions are left exported, in case anyone wishes to call them directly from a driver-private implementation -- a not-uncommon case. Should an ethtool_op_xxx() helper remain unused for a while, except by net/core/ethtool.c, we can un-export it at a later date. [ Resolved conflicts with set/get value ethtool patch... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle
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[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safeEric W. Biederman
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol stack or a pseudo device. If a protocol stack that does not have support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly can get confused and do the wrong thing. To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on devices that are not in the initial network namespace. As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these checks can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make packet reception network namespace safeEric W. Biederman
This patch modifies every packet receive function registered with dev_add_pack() to drop packets if they are not from the initial network namespace. This should ensure that the various network stacks do not receive packets in a anything but the initial network namespace until the code has been converted and is ready for them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: DIV_ROUND_UP cleanup (part two)Ilpo Järvinen
Hopefully captured all single statement cases under net/. I'm not too sure if there is some policy about #includes that are "guaranteed" (ie., in the current tree) to be available through some other #included header, so I just added linux/kernel.h to each changed file that didn't #include it previously. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16[NET] skbuff: Add skb_cow_headHerbert Xu
This patch adds an optimised version of skb_cow that avoids the copy if the header can be modified even if the rest of the payload is cloned. This can be used in encapsulating paths where we only need to modify the header. As it is, this can be used in PPPOE and bridging. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16[BRIDGE]: Kill clone argument to br_flood_*Herbert Xu
The clone argument is only used by one caller and that caller can clone the packet itself. This patch moves the clone call into the caller and kills the clone argument. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-11[NETFILTER]: Fix/improve deadlock condition on module removal netfilterNeil Horman
So I've had a deadlock reported to me. I've found that the sequence of events goes like this: 1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko 2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket, increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count 3) process A acquires a file lock on the file ip_tables.ko, calls remove_module in the kernel, which in turn executes the ip_tables module cleanup routine, which calls nf_unregister_sockopt 4) nf_unregister_sockopt, seeing that the use count is non-zero, puts the calling process into uninterruptible sleep, expecting the process using the socket option code to wake it up when it exits the kernel 4) the user of the socket option code (process B) in do_ipt_get_ctl, calls ipt_find_table_lock, which in this case calls request_module to load ip_tables_nat.ko 5) request_module forks a copy of modprobe (process C) to load the module and blocks until modprobe exits. 6) Process C. forked by request_module process the dependencies of ip_tables_nat.ko, of which ip_tables.ko is one. 7) Process C attempts to lock the request module and all its dependencies, it blocks when it attempts to lock ip_tables.ko (which was previously locked in step 3) Theres not really any great permanent solution to this that I can see, but I've developed a two part solution that corrects the problem Part 1) Modifies the nf_sockopt registration code so that, instead of using a use counter internal to the nf_sockopt_ops structure, we instead use a pointer to the registering modules owner to do module reference counting when nf_sockopt calls a modules set/get routine. This prevents the deadlock by preventing set 4 from happening. Part 2) Enhances the modprobe utilty so that by default it preforms non-blocking remove operations (the same way rmmod does), and add an option to explicity request blocking operation. So if you select blocking operation in modprobe you can still cause the above deadlock, but only if you explicity try (and since root can do any old stupid thing it would like.... :) ). Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-30[BRIDGE]: Fix OOPS when bridging device without ethtool.Stephen Hemminger
Bridge code calls ethtool to get speed. The conversion to using only ethtool_ops broke the case of devices without ethtool_ops. This is a new regression in 2.6.23. Rearranged the switch to a logical order, and use gcc initializer. Ps: speed should have been part of the network device structure from the start rather than burying it in ethtool. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-30[BRIDGE]: Packets leaking out of disabled/blocked ports.Stephen Hemminger
This patch fixes some packet leakage in bridge. The bridging code was allowing forward table entries to be generated even if a device was being blocked. The fix is to not add forwarding database entries unless the port is active. The bug arose as part of the conversion to processing STP frames through normal receive path (in 2.6.17). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-26[VLAN/BRIDGE]: Fix "skb_pull_rcsum - Fatal exception in interrupt"Evgeniy Polyakov
I tried to preserve bridging code as it was before, but logic is quite strange - I think we should free skb on error, since it is already unshared and thus will just leak. Herbert Xu states: > + if ((skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL) > + goto out; If this happens it'll be a double-free on skb since we'll return NF_DROP which makes the caller free it too. We could return NF_STOLEN to prevent that but I'm not sure whether that's correct netfilter semantics. Patrick, could you please make a call on this? Patrick McHardy states: NF_STOLEN should work fine here. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-19missing return in bridge sysfs codeAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-14[BRIDGE]: Fix typo in net/bridge/br_stp_if.cJussi Kivilinna
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-14[BRIDGE]: sysfs locking fix.Stephen Hemminger
The stp change code generates "sleeping function called from invalid context" because rtnl_lock() called with BH disabled. This fixes it by not acquiring then dropping the bridge lock. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13[NET]: Share correct feature code between bridging and bondingHerbert Xu
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum flags and SG/TSO. For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that has neither flag set. If both have TSO then this produces an illegal combination. The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to deal with this. In fact, the same code can be used for both. So this patch moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both bonding and bridging. In the process I've made small adjustments such as only setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device supports it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31[NET]: ethtool ops are the only wayMatthew Wilcox
During the transition to the ethtool_ops way of doing things, we supported calling the device's ->do_ioctl method to allow unconverted drivers to continue working. Those days are long behind us, all in-tree drivers use the ethtool_ops way, and so we no longer need to support this. The bonding driver is the biggest beneficiary of this; it no longer needs to call ioctl() as a fallback if ethtool_ops aren't supported. Also put a proper copyright statement on ethtool.c. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-26net/* misc endianness annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-24[NETFILTER]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/bridge/Jesper Juhl
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in net/bridge/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24[NETFILTER]: Fix logging regressionPatrick McHardy
Loading one of the LOG target fails if a different target has already registered itself as backend for the same family. This can affect the ipt_LOG and ipt_ULOG modules when both are loaded. Reported and tested by: <t.artem@mailcity.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-18usermodehelper: Tidy up waitingJeremy Fitzhardinge
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that. I've preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should still work OK. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-07-14[NETFILTER]: Lower *tables printk severityPatrick McHardy
Lower ip6tables, arptables and ebtables printk severity similar to Dan Aloni's patch for iptables. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits) sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry() sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent() sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup() sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64 sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode() sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create() sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move ...
2007-07-11sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for ↵Zhang Rui
sysfs binary attributes Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either. What I do: Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes. In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work. But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods. I'm not sure if I missed any. :( Why I do this: For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the struct attribute in the .show/.store method, while we can't do this for the binary attributes. I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones. So I think this patch is reasonable. :) Who benefits from it: The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs requires such an improvement. All the table binary attributes share the same .read method. Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get the table signature and instance number which are used to distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes. Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods for different ACPI table binary attributes. This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-10[NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devicesStephen Hemminger
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag implies device can do any arbitrary protocol. This patch: * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO) * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31[BRIDGE]: Round off STP perodic timers.Stephen Hemminger
Peroidic STP timers don't have to be exact. The hold timer runs at 1HZ, and the hello timer normally runs at 2HZ; save power by aligning it them to next second. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31[BRIDGE]: Reduce frequency of forwarding cleanup timer in bridge.Baruch Even
The bridge cleanup timer is fired 10 times a second for timers that are at least 15 seconds ahead in time and that are not critical to be cleaned asap. This patch calculates the next time to run the timer as the minimum of all timers or a minimum based on the current state. Signed-off-by: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-03[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)Pavel Emelianov
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03[NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: consolidate header pushing/pulling codePatrick McHardy
Consolidate the common push/pull sequences into a few helper functions. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[BRIDGE]: Missing rtnl.Stephen Hemminger
Writing to /sys/class/net/brX/bridge/stp_state causes a warning because RTNL is not held when call br_stp_if.c Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>