Matt Carlson [Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:08:00 +0000 (20:08 -0800)]
[TG3]: Add 1000T & 1000X flowctl adv helpers
This patch adds two functions designed to convert abstract TX & RX
flow control parameters to 1000-BaseT and 1000-BaseX autonegotiation
advertisements. Code that uses standard definitions which statically
advertises TX & RX flow control has been replaced with code that
configures the advertisements based on administrator dictated
preferences.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Matt Carlson [Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:06:19 +0000 (20:06 -0800)]
[TG3]: Add 1000T & 1000X flowctrl resolvers
This patch adds two new utility functions to resolve flow control. One
function resolves flow control based on 1000-BaseT register definitions.
The other resolves flow control based on 1000-Base X register
definitions.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Matt Carlson [Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:05:44 +0000 (20:05 -0800)]
[TG3]: Separate requested and actual flow control parameters
This patch removes the TX and RX flow control flags from tg3_flags and
adds two new flow control variables, flowctrl and active_flowctrl.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:49:05 +0000 (15:49 -0800)]
[NEIGH]: Make neigh_add_timer symmetrical to neigh_del_timer.
The neigh_del_timer() looks sane - it removes the timer and
(conditionally) puts the neighbor. I expected, that the
neigh_add_timer() is symmetrical to the del one - i.e. it
holds the neighbor and arms the timer - but it turned out
that it was not so.
I think, that making them look symmetrical makes the code
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:31:33 +0000 (15:31 -0800)]
[INET]: Uninline the __inet_hash function.
This one is used in quite many places in the networking code and
seems to big to be inline.
After the patch net/ipv4/build-in.o loses ~650 bytes:
add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/5 up/down: 461/-1114 (-653)
function old new delta
__inet_hash_nolisten - 282 +282
__inet_hash - 179 +179
tcp_sacktag_write_queue 2255 2254 -1
__inet_lookup_listener 284 274 -10
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock 755 493 -262
tcp_v4_hash 389 35 -354
inet_hash_connect 1086 599 -487
This version addresses the issue pointed by Eric, that
while being inline this function was optimized by gcc
in respect to the 'listen_possible' argument.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Security Considerations section of RFC 5061 has the following
text:
If an SCTP endpoint that supports this extension receives an INIT
that indicates that the peer supports the ASCONF extension but does
NOT support the [RFC4895] extension, the receiver of such an INIT
MUST send an ABORT in response. Note that an implementation is
allowed to silently discard such an INIT as an option as well, but
under NO circumstance is an implementation allowed to proceed with
the association setup by sending an INIT-ACK in response.
An implementation that receives an INIT-ACK that indicates that the
peer does not support the [RFC4895] extension MUST NOT send the
COOKIE-ECHO to establish the association. Instead, the
implementation MUST discard the INIT-ACK and report to the upper-
layer user that an association cannot be established destroying the
Transmission Control Block (TCB).
Follow the recomendations.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:12:59 +0000 (14:12 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Implement ADD-IP special case processing for ABORT chunk
ADD-IP spec has a special case for processing ABORTs:
F4) ... One special consideration is that ABORT
Chunks arriving destined to the IP address being deleted MUST be
ignored (see Section 5.3.1 for further details).
Check if the address we received on is in the DEL state, and if
so, ignore the ABORT.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:11:47 +0000 (14:11 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Update ASCONF processing to conform to spec.
The processing of the ASCONF chunks has changed a lot in the
spec. New items are:
1. A list of ASCONF-ACK chunks is now cached
2. The source of the packet is used in response.
3. New handling for unexpect ASCONF chunks.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:10:38 +0000 (14:10 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Update association lookup to look at ASCONF chunks as well
ADD-IP draft section 5.2 specifies that if an association can not
be found using the source and destination of the IP packet,
then, if the packet contains ASCONF chunks, the Address Parameter
TLV should be used to lookup an association.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:08:56 +0000 (14:08 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Handle the wildcard ADD-IP Address parameter
The Address Parameter in the parameter list of the ASCONF chunk
may be a wildcard address. In this case special processing
is required. For the 'add' case, the source IP of the packet is
added. In the 'del' case, all addresses except the source IP
of packet are removed. In the "mark primary" case, the source
address is marked as primary.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:53:40 +0000 (13:53 -0800)]
[IPSEC]: Rename tunnel-mode functions to avoid collisions with tunnels
It appears that I've managed to create two different functions both
called xfrm6_tunnel_output. This is because we have the plain tunnel
encapsulation named xfrmX_tunnel as well as the tunnel-mode encapsulation
which lives in the files xfrmX_mode_tunnel.c.
This patch renames functions from the latter to use the xfrmX_mode_tunnel
prefix to avoid name-space conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mattias Nissler [Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:25:57 +0000 (01:25 +0100)]
mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm
Add a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the
percentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and
uses its output to control the TX rate.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mattias Nissler [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:50:07 +0000 (13:50 +0100)]
mac80211: clean up rate selection
Move some code out of rc80211_simple since it's probably needed for all rate
selection algorithms, and fix iwlwifi accordingly. While at it, clean up the
rate_control_get_rate() interface.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ron Rindjunsky [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:23:53 +0000 (17:23 +0200)]
mac80211: pass in PS_POLL frames
This patch fixes should_drop_frame function to pass in ps poll control
frames required for power save functioanlity. Interface types that do not
have interest for PS POLL frames now drop it in handler.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Acked-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 [Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:14:25 +0000 (22:14 -0800)]
[IPSEC]: Do xfrm_state_check_space before encapsulation
While merging the IPsec output path I moved the encapsulation output
operation to the top of the loop so that it sits outside of the locked
section. Unfortunately in doing so it now sits in front of the space
check as well which could be a fatal error.
This patch rearranges the calls so that the space check happens as
the thing on the output path.
This patch also fixes an incorrect goto should the encapsulation output
fail.
Thanks to Kazunori MIYAZAWA for finding this bug.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:47:05 +0000 (22:47 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Add CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED option
The NETFILTER_ADVANCED option hides lots of the rather obscure netfilter
options when disabled and provides defaults (M) that should allow to
run a distribution firewall without further thinking.
Defaults to 'y' to avoid breaking current configurations.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:52 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: non-power-of-two jhash optimizations
Apply Eric Dumazet's jhash optimizations where applicable. Quoting Eric:
Thanks to jhash, hash value uses full 32 bits. Instead of returning
hash % size (implying a divide) we return the high 32 bits of the
(hash * size) that will give results between [0 and size-1] and same
hash distribution.
On most cpus, a multiply is less expensive than a divide, by an order
of magnitude.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:28 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit: reduce overhead without IPv6
This patch generalizes the (CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES || CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES_MODULE)
test done in hashlimit_init_dst() to all the xt_hashlimit module.
This permits a size reduction of "struct dsthash_dst". This saves memory and
cpu for IPV4 only hosts.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:13 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit: speedup hash_dst()
1) Using jhash2() instead of jhash() is a litle bit faster if applicable.
2) Thanks to jhash, hash value uses full 32 bits.
Instead of returning hash % size (implying a divide)
we return the high 32 bits of the (hash * size) that will
give results between [0 and size-1] and same hash distribution.
On most cpus, a multiply is less expensive than a divide, by an order
of magnitude.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Engelhardt [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:44:47 +0000 (22:44 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: xt_connlimit: use the new union nf_inet_addr
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Engelhardt [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:44:06 +0000 (22:44 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Parenthesize macro parameters
Parenthesize macro parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Engelhardt [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:43:50 +0000 (22:43 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Introduce nf_inet_address
A few netfilter modules provide their own union of IPv4 and IPv6
address storage. Will unify that in this patch series.
(1/4): Rename union nf_conntrack_address to union nf_inet_addr and
move it to x_tables.h.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Engelhardt [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:43:15 +0000 (22:43 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: x_tables: use %u format specifiers
Use %u format specifiers as ->family is unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:39:55 +0000 (22:39 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix checks in nfulnl_recv_config
Similar to the nfnetlink_queue fixes:
The peer_pid must be checked in all cases when a logging instance exists,
additionally we must check whether an instance exists before attempting
to configure it to avoid NULL ptr dereferences.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:38:20 +0000 (22:38 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: pass manip type instead of hook to nf_nat_setup_info
nf_nat_setup_info gets the hook number and translates that to the
manip type to perform. This is a relict from the time when one
manip per hook could exist, the exact hook number doesn't matter
anymore, its converted to the manip type. Most callers already
know what kind of NAT they want to perform, so pass the maniptype
in directly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sctp: add ctnetlink support
This patch adds support for SCTP to ctnetlink.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds support for James Morris' connsecmark.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for master tuple event notification and dumping
This patch adds support for master tuple event notification and
dumping. Conntrackd needs this information to recover related
connections appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for NAT sequence adjustments
The combination of NAT and helpers may produce TCP sequence adjustments.
In failover setups, this information needs to be replicated in order to
achieve a successful recovery of mangled, related connections. This patch is
particularly useful for conntrackd, see:
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Benjamin LaHaise [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:27:36 +0000 (22:27 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: xt_TCPMSS: don't allow netfilter --setmss to increase mss
When terminating DSL connections for an assortment of random customers, I've
found it necessary to use iptables to clamp the MSS used for connections to
work around the various ICMP blackholes in the greater net. Unfortunately,
the current behaviour in Linux is imperfect and actually make things worse,
so I'm proposing the following: increasing the MSS in a packet can never be
a good thing, so make --set-mss only lower the MSS in a packet.
Yes, I am aware of --clamp-mss-to-pmtu, but it doesn't work for outgoing
connections from clients (ie web traffic), as it only looks at the PMTU on
the destination route, not the source of the packet (the DSL interfaces in
question have a 1442 byte MTU while the destination ethernet interface is
1500 -- there are problematic hosts which use a 1300 byte MTU). Reworking
that is probably a good idea at some point, but it's more work than this is.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:47:32 +0000 (21:47 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: ip_tables: fix compat types
Use compat types and compat iterators when dealing with compat entries for
clarity. This doesn't actually make a difference for ip_tables, but is
needed for ip6_tables and arp_tables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:47:14 +0000 (21:47 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: ip_tables: account for struct ipt_entry/struct compat_ipt_entry size diff
Account for size differences when dumping entries or calculating the
entry positions. This doesn't actually make any difference for IPv4
since the structures have the same size, but its logically correct
and needed for IPv6.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:33:40 +0000 (20:33 +0100)]
wireless: make drivers include the TSF RX flag where appropriate
These drivers pass full mactime information to the stack, make them
indicate this via the new RX_FLAG_TSFT to get mac80211 to show this
information in monitor mode.
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>
Dan Williams [Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:25:07 +0000 (10:25 -0500)]
introduce WEXT scan capabilities
Introduce scan capabilities to WEXT so that userspace can do intelligent
things with scan behavior such as handling hidden SSIDs more gracefully.
If the driver reports a specific scan capability, the driver must
respect the options specified in the iw_scan_req structure when handling
the SIOCSIWSCAN call, unless it's mode or state does not allow it to do
so, in which case it must return an error.
This version switches to Dave Kilroy's suggestion of claiming unused
padding space for the scan_capa field.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:33:42 +0000 (21:33 +0100)]
mac80211: conditionally include timestamp in radiotap information
This makes mac80211 include the low-level MAC timestamp
in the radiotap header if the driver indicated (by a new
RX flag) that the timestamp is valid.
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>
Gerrit Renker [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:58:04 +0000 (12:58 -0200)]
[DCCP]: Remove unused inline function
The function follows48(), which is a special-case of dccp_delta_seqno(),
is nowhere used in the DCCP code, thus removed by this patch.
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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gerrit Renker [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:57:43 +0000 (12:57 -0200)]
[CCID3]: Nofeedback timer according to rfc3448bis
This implements the changes to the nofeedback timer handling suggested
in draft rfc3448bis00, section 4.4. In particular, these changes mean:
* better handling of the lossless case (p == 0)
* the timestamp for computing t_ld becomes obsolete
* much more recent document (RFC 3448 is almost 5 years old)
* concepts in rfc3448bis arose from a real, working implementation
(cf. sec. 12)
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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gerrit Renker [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:48:47 +0000 (12:48 -0200)]
[CCID3]: Implement rfc3448bis changes to feedback reception
This implements the algorithm to update the allowed sending rate X upon
receiving feedback packets, as described in draft rfc3448bis, 4.2/4.3.
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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gerrit Renker [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:25:06 +0000 (10:25 -0200)]
[CCID3]: Remove two irrelevant states in TX feedback handling
* the NO_SENT state is only triggered in bidirectional mode,
costing unnecessary processing.
* the TERM (terminating) state is irrelevant.
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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gerrit Renker [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:07:44 +0000 (10:07 -0200)]
[CCID3]: Use a function to update p_inv, and p is never used
This patch
1) concentrates previously scattered computation of p_inv into one function;
2) removes the `p' element of the CCID3 RX sock (it is redundant);
3) makes the tfrc_rx_info structure standalone, only used on demand.
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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich [Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:06:41 +0000 (14:06 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Use crc32c library for checksum calculations.
The crc32c library used an identical table and algorithm
as SCTP. Switch to using the library instead of carrying
our own table. Using crypto layer proved to have too
much overhead compared to using the library directly.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:04:02 +0000 (14:04 -0800)]
[PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer
The seq_open_net patch changed the meaning of seq->private.
Unfortunately it missed two spots in AF_PACKET, which still
used the old way of dereferencing seq->private, thus causing
weird and wonderful crashes when reading /proc/net/packet.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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