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2009-03-26GRO: Disable GRO on legacy netif_rx pathHerbert Xu
When I fixed the GRO crash in the legacy receive path I used napi_complete to replace __napi_complete. Unfortunately they're not the same when NETPOLL is enabled, which may result in us not calling __napi_complete at all. What's more, we really do need to keep the __napi_complete call within the IRQ-off section since in theory an IRQ can occur in between and fill up the backlog to the maximum, causing us to lock up. Since we can't seem to find a fix that works properly right now, this patch reverts all the GRO support from the netif_rx path. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-26net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c.Rami Rosen
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21net: remove useless prefetch() callEric Dumazet
There is no gain using prefetch() in dev_hard_start_xmit(), since we already had to read ops->ndo_select_queue pointer in dev_pick_tx(), and both pointers are probably located in the same cache line. This prefetch call slows down fast path because of a stall in address computation. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21skb: expose and constify hash primitivesStephen Hemminger
Some minor changes to queue hashing: 1. Use const on accessor functions 2. Export skb_tx_hash for use in drivers (see ixgbe) Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/virtio_net.c
2009-03-18net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skbRoel Kluin
struct sk_buff pointers should be freed with kfree_skb. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
2009-03-17gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crashHerbert Xu
On the legacy netif_rx path, I incorrectly tried to optimise the napi_complete call by using __napi_complete before we reenable IRQs. This simply doesn't work since we need to flush the held GRO packets first. This patch fixes it by doing the obvious thing of reenabling IRQs first and then calling napi_complete. Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct locationHerbert Xu
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb. This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for 2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it. This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the correct GRO_DROP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitorNeil Horman
Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitor Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/Kbuild | 1 + net/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ net/core/Makefile | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocolNeil Horman
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/net_dropmon.h | 56 +++++++++ net/core/drop_monitor.c | 263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 319 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying ↵Neil Horman
end-of-line points for skbs Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/skbuff.h | 4 +++- net/core/datagram.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ net/ipv4/arp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Add trace declaration for skb freesNeil Horman
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/trace/skb.h | 8 ++++++++ net/core/Makefile | 2 ++ net/core/net-traces.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10net: fix warning about non-const stringStephen Hemminger
Since dev_set_name takes a printf style string, new gcc complains if arg is not const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-04vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.David S. Miller
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this leaves the compat method pointers stale. Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() will need to call this new function after doing so too. With help from Patrick McHardy. Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04net: Fix missing dev->neigh_setup in register_netdevice().David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour tableEric Biederman
Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table from user space except treat an entry like you are using it. To that end implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path. This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03netns: Remove net_aliveEric W. Biederman
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets while there were still packets in the network namespace. Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing packet reception run a little faster. Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have a chance of figuring it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03net: Avoid race between network down and sysfsStephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry pointsHerbert Xu
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll. Unfortunately it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry points. The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird problems. This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points. I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code). The reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler you're going to get a nice BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26RDS: Add RDS to AF key stringsAndy Grover
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26sysctl: fix sparse warning: Should it be static?Hannes Eder
Impact: Include header file. Fix this sparse warning: net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:123:32: warning: symbol 'net_core_path' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26core: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()Wei Yongjun
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26pktgen: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()Wei Yongjun
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logicPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows: If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error; else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag. This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify() wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification (including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets. This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify() (before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification fails and should resync itself. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-02-23net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleakEugene Teo
The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to leak the padded bytes to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23netns: build fix for net_alloc_genericClemens Noss
net_alloc_generic was defined in #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS, but used unconditionally. Move net_alloc_generic out of #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Clemens Noss <cnoss@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22netns: Remove net_aliveEric W. Biederman
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets while there were still packets in the network namespace. Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing packet reception run a little faster. Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have a chance of figuring it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22netns: fix double free at netns creationDaniel Lezcano
This patch fix a double free when a network namespace fails. The previous code does a kfree of the net_generic structure when one of the init subsystem initialization fails. The 'setup_net' function does kfree(ng) and returns an error. The caller, 'copy_net_ns', call net_free on error, and this one calls kfree(net->gen), making this pointer freed twice. This patch make the code symetric, the net_alloc does the net_generic allocation and the net_free frees the net_generic. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21net: kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time ↵Patrick Ohly
stamping The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this removal. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interfaceSantwona Behera
Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparisonKrishna Kumar
Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized. Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates different random numbers each time. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-17net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.David S. Miller
A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt the socket memory accounting. skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error more systematically. However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: pass new SIOCSHWTSTAMP through to device driversPatrick Ohly
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPINGPatrick Ohly
The overlap with the old SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] options is handled so that time stamping in software (net_enable_timestamp()) is enabled when SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] and/or SO_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE is set. It's disabled if all of these are off. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: infrastructure for hardware time stampingPatrick Ohly
The additional per-packet information (16 bytes for time stamps, 1 byte for flags) is stored for all packets in the skb_shared_info struct. This implementation detail is hidden from users of that information via skb_* accessor functions. A separate struct resp. union is used for the additional information so that it can be stored/copied easily outside of skb_shared_info. Compared to previous implementations (reusing the tstamp field depending on the context, optional additional structures) this is the simplest solution. It does not extend sk_buff itself. TX time stamping is implemented in software if the device driver doesn't support hardware time stamping. The new semantic for hardware/software time stamping around ndo_start_xmit() is based on two assumptions about existing network device drivers which don't support hardware time stamping and know nothing about it: - they leave the new skb_shared_tx unmodified - the keep the connection to the originating socket in skb->sk alive, i.e., don't call skb_orphan() Given that skb_shared_tx is new, the first assumption is safe. The second is only true for some drivers. As a result, software TX time stamping currently works with the bnx2 driver, but not with the unmodified igb driver (the two drivers this patch series was tested with). Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-14Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-12net: 4 bytes kernel memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt try #2Clément Lecigne
In function sock_getsockopt() located in net/core/sock.c, optval v.val is not correctly initialized and directly returned in userland in case we have SO_BSDCOMPAT option set. This dummy code should trigger the bug: int main(void) { unsigned char buf[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; int len; int sock; sock = socket(33, 2, 2); getsockopt(sock, 1, SO_BSDCOMPAT, &buf, &len); printf("%x%x%x%x\n", buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3]); close(sock); } Here is a patch that fix this bug by initalizing v.val just after its declaration. Signed-off-by: Clément Lecigne <clement.lecigne@netasq.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-12net: Fix page seeking for skb_splice_bits().Jarek Poplawski
struct page walking should be done with proper accessor functions, not directly. With doubts from David S. Miller and Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-10net: Move skbuff symbol exports after each symbol's definition.David S. Miller
net/core/skbuff.c is a hodge-podge of symbol export placement. Some of the exports are right after the definition of the symbol being exported, others are clumped together into a big group at the end of the file. Make things consistent. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu
This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08gro: Remember number of held packets instead of counting every timeHerbert Xu
This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-06net_dma: call dmaengine_get only if NET_DMA enabledDavid S. Miller
Based upon a patch from Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> -------------------- The commit 649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872 ("net_dma: acquire/release dma channels on ifup/ifdown") added unconditional call of dmaengine_get() to net_dma. The API should be called only if NET_DMA was enabled. -------------------- Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-02-06neigh: some entries can be skipped during dumpingGautam Kachroo
neightbl_dump_info and neigh_dump_table can skip entries if the *fill*info functions return an error. This results in an incomplete dump ((invoked by netlink requests for RTM_GETNEIGHTBL or RTM_GETNEIGH) nidx and idx should not be incremented if the current entry was not placed in the output buffer Signed-off-by: Gautam Kachroo <gk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05gro: Fix frag_list merging on imprecisely split packetsHerbert Xu
The previous fix ad0f9904444de1309dedd2b9e365cae8af77d9b1 (gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets) only fixed the case of frags merging, frag_list merging in the same circumstances were still broken. In particular, the packet headers end up in the data stream. This patch fixes this plus another issue where an imprecisely split packet header may be read incorrectly (this is mostly harmless since it'll simply cause the packet to not match and be rejected for GRO). Thanks to Emil Tantilov and Jeff Kirsher for helping to track this down. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04net: Reexport sock_alloc_send_pskbHerbert Xu
The function sock_alloc_send_pskb is completely useless if not exported since most of the code in it won't be used as is. In fact, this code has already been duplicated in the tun driver. Now that we need accounting in the tun driver, we can in fact use this function as is. So this patch marks it for export again. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>