Herbert Xu [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:54:09 +0000 (21:54 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Consolidate common SNMP code
This patch moves the non-proc SNMP code into addrconf.c and reuses
IPv4 SNMP code where applicable.
As a result we can skip proc.o if /proc is disabled.
Note that I've made a number of functions static since they're only
used by addrconf.c for now. If they ever get used elsewhere we can
always remove the static.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:53:35 +0000 (21:53 -0700)]
[IPV4]: Consolidate common SNMP code
This patch moves the SNMP code shared between IPv4/IPv6 from proc.c
into net/ipv4/af_inet.c. This makes sense because these functions
aren't specific to /proc.
As a result we can again skip proc.o if /proc is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allan Stephens [Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:51:55 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
[TIPC]: Enhancements to msg_set_bits() routine
This patch makes two enhancements to msg_set_bits():
1) It now ignores any bits of the new field value that are not
covered by the mask being used. (Previously, if the new value
exceeded the size of the mask the extra bits could corrupt
other fields in the message header word being updated.)
2) The code has been optimized to minimize the number of run-time
endianness conversion operations by leveraging the fact that the
mask (and, in some cases, the value as well) is constant and the
necessary conversion can be performed by the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:27 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
[WIRELESS] cfg80211: Update comment for locking.
This patch adds a comment that was part of my rtnl locking patch for
cfg80211 but which I forgot for the merge.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:36:13 +0000 (22:36 -0700)]
[NET]: Warn about GSO/checksum abuse
Now that Patrick has added the code to deal with GSO in netfilter,
we no longer need the crutch that computes partial checksums just
before transmission.
This patch turns this into a warning again. If this goes OK, we
can then turn it into a BUG_ON and remove the gso_send_check cruft.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Do some simple changes to make congestion control API faster/cleaner.
* use ktime_t rather than timeval
* merge rtt sampling into existing ack callback
this means one indirect call versus two per ack.
* use flags bits to store options/settings
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:20:55 +0000 (12:20 -0700)]
[WIRELESS]: Remove wext over netlink.
As scheduled, this patch removes the pointless wext over netlink code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:20:05 +0000 (12:20 -0700)]
[WIRELESS] cfg80211: New wireless config infrastructure.
This patch creates the core cfg80211 code along with some sysfs bits.
This is a stripped down version to allow mac80211 to function, but
doesn't include any configuration yet except for creating and removing
virtual interfaces.
This patch includes the nl80211 header file but it only contains the
interface types which the cfg80211 interface for creating virtual
interfaces relies on.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:19:12 +0000 (12:19 -0700)]
[WIRELESS]: Refactor wireless Kconfig.
This patch refactors the wireless Kconfig all over and already
introduces net/wireless/Kconfig with just the WEXT bit for now,
the cfg80211 patch will add to that as well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:18:20 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
[WIRELESS]: Update MAINTAINERS for wireless mailing list.
This patch adds the linux-wireless mailing list to all appropriate
entries in the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Olaf Kirch [Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:08:15 +0000 (22:08 -0700)]
[IrDA] af_irda: Silence kernel message in irda_recvmsg_stream
This patch silences an IRDA_ASSERT in irda_recvmsg_stream, as described in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7512 irda_disconnect_indication
would set sk->sk_err to ECONNRESET, and a subsequent call to recvmsg
would print an irritating kernel message and return -1.
When a connected socket is closed by the peer, recvmsg should return 0
rather than an error. This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Olaf Kirch [Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:05:27 +0000 (22:05 -0700)]
[IrDA] af_irda: irda_recvmsg_stream cleanup
This patch cleans up some code in irda_recvmsg_stream, replacing some
homebrew code with prepare_to_wait/finish_wait, and by making the
code honor sock_rcvtimeo.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There seems to be a lot of places in the network code that have
extra bogus semicolons after conditionals. Most commonly is a
bogus semicolon after: switch() { }
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is an implementation of TCP Illinois invented by Shao Liu
at University of Illinois. It is a another variant of Reno which adapts
the alpha and beta parameters based on RTT. The basic idea is to increase
window less rapidly as delay approaches the maximum. See the papers
and talks to get a more complete description.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michal Ostrowski [Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:59:24 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
[PPPOE]: Fix device tear-down notification.
pppoe_flush_dev() kicks all sockets bound to a device that is going down.
In doing so, locks must be taken in the right order consistently (sock lock,
followed by the pppoe_hash_lock). However, the scan process is based on
us holding the sock lock. So, when something is found in the scan we must
release the lock we're holding and grab the sock lock.
This patch fixes race conditions between this code and pppoe_release(),
both of which perform similar functions but would naturally prefer to grab
locks in opposing orders. Both code paths are now going after these locks
in a consistent manner.
pppoe_hash_lock protects the contents of the "pppox_sock" objects that reside
inside the hash. Thus, NULL'ing out the pppoe_dev field should be done
under the protection of this lock.
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[PPPOE]: memory leak when socket is release()d before PPPIOCGCHAN has been called on it
below you find a patch that fixes a memory leak when a PPPoE socket is
release()d after it has been connect()ed, but before the PPPIOCGCHAN ioctl
ever has been called on it.
This is somewhat of a security problem, too, since PPPoE sockets can be
created by any user, so any user can easily allocate all the machine's
RAM to non-swappable address space and thus DoS the system.
Is there any specific reason for PPPoE sockets being available to any
unprivileged process, BTW? After all, you need a packet socket for the
discovery stage anyway, so it's unlikely that any unprivileged process
will ever need to create a PPPoE socket, no? Allocating all session IDs
for a known AC is a kind of DoS, too, after all - with Juniper ERXes,
this is really easy, actually, since they don't ever assign session ids
above 8000 ...
Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de> Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[PPPOE]: race between interface going down and connect()
below you find a patch that (hopefully) fixes a race between an interface
going down and a connect() to a peer on that interface. Before,
connect() would determine that an interface is up, then the interface
could go down and all entries referring to that interface in the
item_hash_table would be marked as ZOMBIEs and their references to
the device would be freed, and after that, connect() would put a new
entry into the hash table referring to the device that meanwhile is
down already - which also would cause unregister_netdevice() to wait
until the socket has been release()d.
This patch does not suffice if we are not allowed to accept connect()s
referring to a device that we already acked a NETDEV_GOING_DOWN for
(that is: all references are only guaranteed to be freed after
NETDEV_DOWN has been acknowledged, not necessarily after the
NETDEV_GOING_DOWN already). And if we are allowed to, we could avoid
looking through the hash table upon NETDEV_GOING_DOWN completely and
only do that once we get the NETDEV_DOWN ...
mostrows:
pppoe_flush_dev is called on NETDEV_GOING_DOWN and NETDEV_DOWN to deal with
this "late connect" issue. Ideally one would hope to notify users at the
"NETDEV_GOING_DOWN" phase (just to pretend to be nice). However, it is the
NETDEV_DOWN scan that takes all the responsibility for ensuring nobody is
hanging around at that time.
Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de> Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
below is a patch that just removes dead code/initializers without any
effect (first access is an assignment) that I stumbled accross while
reading the source.
Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de> Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[AF_PACKET]: Add option to return orig_dev to userspace.
Add a packet socket option to allow the orig_dev index to be returned
to userspace when passing traffic through a decapsulated device, such
as the bonding driver.
This is very useful for layer 2 traffic being able to report which
physical device actually received the traffic, instead of having the
encapsulating device hide that information.
The new option is called PACKET_ORIGDEV.
Signed-off-by: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
John Heffner [Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:53:27 +0000 (15:53 -0700)]
[INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBE
Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_PROBE value for IP(V6)_MTU_DISCOVER. This option forces
us not to fragment, but does not make use of the kernel path MTU discovery.
That is, it allows for user-mode MTU probing (or, packetization-layer path
MTU discovery). This is particularly useful for diagnostic utilities, like
traceroute/tracepath.
Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:07:08 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
[NET_SCHED]: ingress: switch back to using ingress_lock
Switch ingress queueing back to use ingress_lock. qdisc_lock_tree now locks
both the ingress and egress qdiscs on the device. All changes to data that
might be used on both ingress and egress needs to be protected by using
qdisc_lock_tree instead of manually taking dev->queue_lock. Additionally
the qdisc stats_lock needs to be initialized to ingress_lock for ingress
qdiscs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:02:10 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
[NET_SCHED]: Eliminate qdisc_tree_lock
Since we're now holding the rtnl during the entire dump operation, we
can remove qdisc_tree_lock, whose only purpose is to protect dump
callbacks from concurrent changes to the qdisc tree.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:01:17 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
[NETLINK]: don't reinitialize callback mutex
Don't reinitialize the callback mutex the netlink_kernel_create caller
handed in, it is supposed to already be initialized and could already
be held by someone.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:53 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
[RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks
Since we're now holding the rtnl during the entire dump operation, we can
remove additional locking for rtnl protected data. This patch does that
for all simple cases (dev_base_lock for dev_base walking, RCU protection
for FIB rule dumping).
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:59:10 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
[RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
Hold rtnl_mutex during the entire netlink dump operation. This allows
to simplify locking in the dump callbacks, since they can now rely on
that no concurrent changes happen.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:14:21 +0000 (14:14 -0700)]
[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:16:38 +0000 (22:16 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: remove fallback to group 0
Don't fallback to group 0 if no instance can be found for the given group.
This potentially confuses the listener and is not what the user configured.
Also remove the ring buffer spamming that happens when rules are set up
before the logging daemon is started.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:16:18 +0000 (22:16 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: {eb,ip6,ip}t_LOG: remove remains of LOG target overloading
All LOG targets always use their internal logging function nowadays, so
remove the incorrect error message and handle real errors (!= -EEXIST)
by failing to load.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The attached patch adds gratuitous arp filtering, more precisely: it
allows checking that the IPv4 source address matches the IPv4
destination address inside the ARP header. It also adds a check for the
hardware address type when matching MAC addresses (nothing critical,
just for better consistency).
Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Milner [Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:14:23 +0000 (22:14 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: bridge-nf: filter bridged IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated in pppoe traffic
The attached patch by Michael Milner adds support for using iptables and
ip6tables on bridged traffic encapsulated in ppoe frames, similar to
what's already supported for vlan.
Signed-off-by: Michael Milner <milner@blissisland.ca> Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fills in missing documentation for dccp_sock fields.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This prints the value of the parsed Elapsed Time when received via a
Timestamp Echo option [RFC 4342, 13.3].
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[DCCP]: Fix bug in the calculation of very low sending rates
This fixes an error in the calculation of t_ipi when X converges towards
very low sending rates (between 1 and 64 bytes per second).
Although this case may not sound likely, it can be reproduced by connecting,
hitting enter (1 byte sent) and waiting for some time, during which the
nofeedback timer halves the sending rate until finally it reaches the region
1..64 bytes/sec. Computing X is handled correctly (tested separately); but by
dividing X _before_ entering the calculation of t_ipi, X becomes zero as
a result. This in turn triggers a BUG condition caught in scaled_div().
Fixed by replacing with equivalent statement and explicit typecast for good
measure.
Calculation verified and effect of patch tested - reduced never below 1 byte
per 64 seconds afterwards, i.e. not allowing divide-by-zero.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patchset based on work by Aji_Srinivas@emc.com provides allows
spanning tree to be controled from userspace. Like hotplug, it
uses call_usermodehelper when spanning tree is enabled so there
is no visible API change. If call to start usermode STP fails
it falls back to existing kernel STP.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of hashing the whole Ethernet address, it should be faster
to just use the last 4 bytes. Add a random salt value to the hash
to make it more difficult to construct worst case DoS hash chains.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
While in the STP learning state, don't route packets; wait until
forwarding delay has expired. The purpose of the forwarding delay
is to detect loops in the network, and if a brouter started up
and started forwarding, it could cause a flood.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Change the bridging hook to be simple function with return value
rather than modifying the skb argument. This could generate better
code and is cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:59:39 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
[NET]: Treat CHECKSUM_PARTIAL as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
When a transmitted packet is looped back directly, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
maps to the semantics of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. Therefore we should
treat it as such in the stack.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:06:40 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
[NETDRV]: Perform missing csum_offset conversions
When csum_offset was introduced we did a conversion from csum to
csum_offset where applicable. A couple of drivers were missed in
this process.
It was harmless to begin with since the two fields coincided. Now
that we've made them different with the addition of csum_start, the
missed drivers must be converted or they can't send packets out at
all that require checksum offload.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:59:07 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
[NET]: Use csum_start offset instead of skb_transport_header
The skb transport pointer is currently used to specify the start
of the checksum region for transmit checksum offload. Unfortunately,
the same pointer is also used during receive side processing.
This creates a problem when we want to retransmit a received
packet with partial checksums since the skb transport pointer
would be overwritten.
This patch solves this problem by creating a new 16-bit csum_start
offset value to replace the skb transport header for the purpose
of checksums. This offset is calculated from skb->head so that
it does not have to change when skb->data changes.
No extra space is required since csum_offset itself fits within
a 16-bit word so we can use the other 16 bits for csum_start.
For backwards compatibility, just before we push a packet with
partial checksums off into the device driver, we set the skb
transport header to what it would have been under the old scheme.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:47:58 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
[XFRM]: beet: fix worst case header_len calculation
esp_init_state doesn't account for the beet pseudo header in the header_len
calculation, which may result in undersized skbs hitting xfrm4_beet_output,
causing unnecessary reallocations in ip_finish_output2.
The skbs should still always have enough room to avoid causing
skb_under_panic in skb_push since we have at least 16 bytes available
from LL_RESERVED_SPACE in xfrm_state_check_space.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:47:18 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
[XFRM]: Optimize MTU calculation
Replace the probing based MTU estimation, which usually takes 2-3 iterations
to find a fitting value and may underestimate the MTU, by an exact calculation.
Also fix underestimation of the XFRM trailer_len, which causes unnecessary
reallocations.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Graf [Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:35:52 +0000 (14:35 -0700)]
[RTNL]: Improve error codes for unsupported operations
The most common trigger of these errors is that the
config option hasn't been enable wich would make the
functionality available. Therefore returning EOPNOTSUPP
gives a better idea on what is going wrong.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Howells [Tue, 3 Apr 2007 03:19:53 +0000 (20:19 -0700)]
[NET]: Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code
Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code so that
AF_RXRPC can use it too.
The kdoc comments I've attached to the functions needs to be checked
by whoever wrote them as I had to make some guesses about the workings
of these functions.
Signed-off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:29:08 +0000 (14:29 -0700)]
[NET]: Inline net_device_stats
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them. It would be nice if
this were done by default.
1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
->get_stats is set.
This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.
Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:22:33 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
[NET]: random functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec
In order to get more randomness for secure_tcpv6_sequence_number(),
secure_tcp_sequence_number(), secure_dccp_sequence_number() functions,
we can use the high resolution time services, providing nanosec
resolution.
I've also done two kmalloc()/kzalloc() conversions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:58:31 +0000 (13:58 -0700)]
[TCP]: tcp_memory_pressure and tcp_socket are__read_mostly candidates
tcp_memory_pressure and tcp_socket currently share a cache line with tcp_memory_allocated, tcp_sockets_allocated.
(Very hot cache line)
It makes sense to declare these variables as __read_mostly, to avoid false sharing on SMP.
Thomas Graf [Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:56:52 +0000 (13:56 -0700)]
[NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications
The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
of this concept.
This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
or deleting a rule.
Thanks to Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> for catching a bug
in the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:22:20 +0000 (23:22 -0700)]
[NET]: Allow forwarding of ip_summed except CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Right now Xen has a horrible hack that lets it forward packets with
partial checksums. One of the reasons that CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and
CHECKSUM_COMPLETE were added is so that we can get rid of this hack
(where it creates two extra bits in the skbuff to essentially mirror
ip_summed without being destroyed by the forwarding code).
I had forgotten that I've already gone through all the deivce drivers
last time around to make sure that they're looking at ip_summed ==
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL rather than ip_summed != 0 on transmit. In any case,
I've now done that again so it should definitely be safe.
Unfortunately nobody has yet added any code to update CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
values on forward so we I'm setting that to CHECKSUM_NONE. This should
be safe to remove for bridging but I'd like to check that code path
first.
So here is the patch that lets us get rid of the hack by preserving
ip_summed (mostly) on forwarded packets.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[IPV4] LVS: Allow to send ICMP unreachable responses when real-servers are removed
this is a small patch by Janusz Krzysztofik to ip_route_output_slow()
that allows VIP-less LVS linux director to generate packets
originating >From VIP if sysctl_ip_nonlocal_bind is set.
In a nutshell, the intention is for an LVS linux director to be able
to send ICMP unreachable responses to end-users when real-servers are
removed.
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