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David S. Miller 1b93ae64ca [NET]: Validate socket filters against BPF_MAXINSNS in one spot.
Currently the checks are scattered all over and this leads
to inconsistencies and even cases where the check is not made.

Based upon a patch from Kris Katterjohn.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-27 13:57:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 246a421207 [NET]: Fix NULL pointer deref in checksum debugging.
The problem I was seeing turned out to be that skb->dev is NULL when
the checksum is being completed in user context. This happens because
the reference to the device is dropped (to allow it to be released
when packets are in the queue).

Because skb->dev was NULL, the netdev_rx_csum_fault was panicing on
deref of dev->name. How about this?

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-08 15:21:39 -08:00
Martin Waitz dab9630fb3 [NET]: make function pointer argument parseable by kernel-doc
When a function takes a function pointer as argument it should use the 'return
(*pointer)(params...)' syntax used everywhere else in the kernel as this is
recognized by kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:40:12 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn fb0d366b08 [NET]: Reject socket filter if division by constant zero is attempted.
This way we don't have to check it in sk_run_filter().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 13:41:34 -08:00
Herbert Xu fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Thomas Graf 9ac4a16983 [RTNETLINK]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf a8f74b2288 [NETLINK]: Make netlink_callback->done() optional
Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making
it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00
Jesper Juhl a51482bde2 [NET]: kfree cleanup
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

This is the net/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in net/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-11-08 09:41:34 -08:00
Herbert Xu 6151b31c96 [NET]: Fix race condition in sk_stream_wait_connect
When sk_stream_wait_connect detects a state transition to ESTABLISHED
or CLOSE_WAIT prior to it going to sleep, it will return without
calling finish_wait and decrementing sk_write_pending.

This may result in crashes and other unintended behaviour.

The fix is to always call finish_wait and update sk_write_pending since
it is safe to do so even if the wait entry is no longer on the queue.

This bug was tracked down with the help of Alex Sidorenko and the
fix is also based on his suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-05 21:05:20 -02:00
Herbert Xu c75d721c76 [NET]: Fix zero-size datagram reception
The recent rewrite of skb_copy_datagram_iovec broke the reception of
zero-size datagrams.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-02 22:25:04 -02:00
Ananda Raju e89e9cf539 [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach
Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature.

1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik.
2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload)
3. udp sendfile support with UFO

This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP
datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device
driver to use the UFO interface.

UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface:
-------------------------------------------
UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the
IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This
will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to
MTU sized packets

1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using
dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6.

2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine.
UFO packet will have a non-zero value for

"skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size"

skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP
fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware.

skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]
contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW
indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should
compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of
each fragmented IP packet.

For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in
skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating
IPv6 fragments.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
Linus Torvalds 236fa08168 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.15 2005-10-28 08:50:37 -07:00
Al Viro 7d877f3bda [PATCH] gfp_t: net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 35848e048f [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form.  Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.

Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats.  That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.

Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Randy Dunlap c83c248618 [SK_BUFF] kernel-doc: fix skbuff warnings
Add kernel-doc to skbuff.h, skbuff.c to eliminate kernel-doc warnings.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-26 01:10:18 -02:00
Stephen Hemminger d50a6b56f0 [PKTGEN]: proc interface revision
The code to handle the /proc interface can be cleaned up in several places:
* use seq_file for read
* don't need to remember all the filenames separately
* use for_online_cpu's
* don't vmalloc a buffer for small command from user.

Committer note:
This patch clashed with John Hawkes's "[NET]: Wider use of for_each_*cpu()",
so I fixed it up manually.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-26 00:12:18 -02:00
Stephen Hemminger b4099fab75 [PKTGEN]: Spelling and white space
Fix some cosmetic issues. Indentation, spelling errors, and some whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-26 00:08:10 -02:00
Stephen Hemminger 2845b63b50 [PKTGEN]: Use kzalloc
These are cleanup patches for pktgen that can go in 2.6.15
Can use kzalloc in a couple of places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-26 00:05:32 -02:00
Stephen Hemminger b7c8921bf1 [PKTGEN]: Sleeping function called under lock
pktgen is calling kmalloc GFP_KERNEL and vmalloc with lock held.
The simplest fix is to turn the lock into a semaphore, since the
thread lock is only used for admin control from user context.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-26 00:03:12 -02:00
John Hawkes 670c02c2bf [NET]: Wider use of for_each_*cpu()
In 'net' change the explicit use of for-loops and NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() or for_each_online_cpu() constructs, as
appropriate.  This widens the scope of potential future optimizations
of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage of the existing
optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is advantageous
when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25 23:54:01 -02:00
Herbert Xu 49636bb128 [NEIGH] Fix timer leak in neigh_changeaddr
neigh_changeaddr attempts to delete neighbour timers without setting
nud_state.  This doesn't work because the timer may have already fired
when we acquire the write lock in neigh_changeaddr.  The result is that
the timer may keep firing for quite a while until the entry reaches
NEIGH_FAILED.

It should be setting the nud_state straight away so that if the timer
has already fired it can simply exit once we relinquish the lock.

In fact, this whole function is simply duplicating the logic in
neigh_ifdown which in turn is already doing the right thing when
it comes to deleting timers and setting nud_state.

So all we have to do is take that code out and put it into a common
function and make both neigh_changeaddr and neigh_ifdown call it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 17:18:00 +10:00
Herbert Xu 6fb9974f49 [NEIGH] Fix add_timer race in neigh_add_timer
neigh_add_timer cannot use add_timer unconditionally.  The reason is that
by the time it has obtained the write lock someone else (e.g., neigh_update)
could have already added a new timer.

So it should only use mod_timer and deal with its return value accordingly.

This bug would have led to rare neighbour cache entry leaks.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 16:37:48 +10:00
Herbert Xu 203755029e [NEIGH] Print stack trace in neigh_add_timer
Stack traces are very helpful in determining the exact nature of a bug.
So let's print a stack trace when the timer is added twice.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-23 16:11:39 +10:00
Julian Anastasov c98d80edc8 [SK_BUFF]: ipvs_property field must be copied
IPVS used flag NFC_IPVS_PROPERTY in nfcache but as now nfcache was removed the
new flag 'ipvs_property' still needs to be copied. This patch should be
included in 2.6.14.

Further comments from Harald Welte:

Sorry, seems like the bug was introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-22 17:06:01 -02:00
Al Viro dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Herbert Xu 3e56a40bb3 [IPV4]: Get rid of bogus __in_put_dev in pktgen
This patch gets rid of a bogus __in_dev_put() in pktgen.c.  This was
spotted by Suzanne Wood.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03 14:36:32 -07:00
Herbert Xu e5ed639913 [IPV4]: Replace __in_dev_get with __in_dev_get_rcu/rtnl
The following patch renames __in_dev_get() to __in_dev_get_rtnl() and
introduces __in_dev_get_rcu() to cover the second case.

1) RCU with refcnt should use in_dev_get().
2) RCU without refcnt should use __in_dev_get_rcu().
3) All others must hold RTNL and use __in_dev_get_rtnl().

There is one exception in net/ipv4/route.c which is in fact a pre-existing
race condition.  I've marked it as such so that we remember to fix it.

This patch is based on suggestions and prior work by Suzanne Wood and
Paul McKenney.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03 14:35:55 -07:00
Herbert Xu 325ed82393 [NET]: Fix packet timestamping.
I've found the problem in general.  It affects any 64-bit
architecture.  The problem occurs when you change the system time.

Suppose that when you boot your system clock is forward by a day.
This gets recorded down in skb_tv_base.  You then wind the clock back
by a day.  From that point onwards the offset will be negative which
essentially overflows the 32-bit variables they're stored in.

In fact, why don't we just store the real time stamp in those 32-bit
variables? After all, we're not going to overflow for quite a while
yet.

When we do overflow, we'll need a better solution of course.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03 13:57:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds eb693d2994 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-29 08:56:47 -07:00
Al Viro 666002218d [PATCH] proc_mkdir() should be used to create procfs directories
A bunch of create_proc_dir_entry() calls creating directories had crept
in since the last sweep; converted to proc_mkdir().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-29 08:46:26 -07:00
Frank Filz a79af59efd [NET]: Fix module reference counts for loadable protocol modules
I have been experimenting with loadable protocol modules, and ran into
several issues with module reference counting.

The first issue was that __module_get failed at the BUG_ON check at
the top of the routine (checking that my module reference count was
not zero) when I created the first socket. When sk_alloc() is called,
my module reference count was still 0. When I looked at why sctp
didn't have this problem, I discovered that sctp creates a control
socket during module init (when the module ref count is not 0), which
keeps the reference count non-zero. This section has been updated to
address the point Stephen raised about checking the return value of
try_module_get().

The next problem arose when my socket init routine returned an error.
This resulted in my module reference count being decremented below 0.
My socket ops->release routine was also being called. The issue here
is that sock_release() calls the ops->release routine and decrements
the ref count if sock->ops is not NULL. Since the socket probably
didn't get correctly initialized, this should not be done, so we will
set sock->ops to NULL because we will not call try_module_get().

While searching for another bug, I also noticed that sys_accept() has
a possibility of doing a module_put() when it did not do an
__module_get so I re-ordered the call to security_socket_accept().

Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 15:23:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 2d7ceece08 [NET]: Prefetch dev->qdisc_lock in dev_queue_xmit()
We know the lock is going to be taken.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 15:22:58 -07:00
Daniel Phillips bc8dfcb939 [NET]: Use non-recursive algorithm in skb_copy_datagram_iovec()
Use iteration instead of recursion.  Fraglists within fraglists
should never occur, so we BUG check this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 15:22:35 -07:00
David S. Miller 667347f1ca [NEIGH]: Add debugging check when adding timers.
If we double-add a neighbour entry timer, which should be
impossible but has been reported, dump the current state of
the entry so that we can debug this.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 12:07:44 -07:00
David S. Miller 56e9b26324 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/llc-2.6 2005-09-26 15:29:31 -07:00
Amos Waterland 45fc3b11f1 [NET]: Protect neigh_stat_seq_fops by CONFIG_PROC_FS
From: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>

If CONFIG_PROC_FS is not selected, the compiler emits this warning:

 net/core/neighbour.c:64: warning: `neigh_stat_seq_fops' defined but not used

Which is correct, because neigh_stat_seq_fops is in fact only
initialized and used by code that is protected by CONFIG_PROC_FS.  So
this patch fixes that up.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-24 16:53:16 -07:00
Jochen Friedrich cf309e3fb8 [LLC]: Fix for Bugzilla ticket #5156
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-09-22 04:44:55 -03:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 121caf577d [NET]: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.  Also use
human-time conversion functions instead of hard-coded division to avoid
rounding issues.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-12 14:15:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar a9f6a0dd54 [PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversions
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8d06afab73 [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 55faed1e60 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-07 17:22:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0a3f4358ac [NET]: proto_unregister: fix sleeping while atomic
proto_unregister holds a lock while calling kmem_cache_destroy, which
can sleep.

Noticed by Daniele Orlandi <daniele@orlandi.com>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-06 19:47:50 -07:00
Jean Tourrilhes 6582c164f2 [PATCH] WE-19 for kernel 2.6.13
Hi Jeff,

	This is version 19 of the Wireless Extensions. It was supposed
to be the fallback of the WPA API changes, but people seem quite happy
about it (especially Jouni), so the patch is rather small.
	The patch has been fully tested with 2.6.13 and various
wireless drivers, and is in its final version. Would you mind pushing
that into Linus's kernel so that the driver and the apps can take
advantage ot it ?

	It includes :
	o iwstat improvement (explicit dBm). This is the result of
long discussions with Dan Williams, the authors of
NetworkManager. Thanks to him for all the fruitful feedback.
	o remove pointer from event stream. I was not totally sure if
this pointer was 32-64 bits clean, so I'd rather remove it and be at
peace with it.
	o remove linux header from wireless.h. This has long been
requested by people writting user space apps, now it's done, and it
was not even painful.
	o final deprecation of spy_offset. You did not like it, it's
now gone for good.
	o Start deprecating dev->get_wireless_stats -> debloat netdev
	o Add "check" version of event macros for ieee802.11
stack. Jiri Benc doesn't like the current macros, we aim to please ;-)
	All those changes, except the last one, have been bit-roting on
my web pages for a while...

	Patches for most kernel drivers will follow. Patches for the
Orinoco and the HostAP drivers have been sent to their respective
maintainers.

	Have fun...

	Jean
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-06 22:40:24 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 9261c9b042 [NET]: Make sure l_linger is unsigned to avoid negative timeouts
One of my x86_64 (linux 2.6.13) server log is filled with :

schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca
schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca

This is because some application does a

struct linger li;
li.l_onoff = 1;
li.l_linger = -1;
setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, &li, sizeof(li));

And unfortunatly l_linger is defined as a 'signed int' in
include/linux/socket.h:

struct linger {
         int             l_onoff;        /* Linger active                */
         int             l_linger;       /* How long to linger for       */
};

I dont know if it's safe to change l_linger to 'unsigned int' in the
include file (It might be defined as int in ABI specs)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-06 14:51:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5bcaa15579 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-06 00:47:18 -07:00
Herbert Xu 1198ad002a [NET]: 2.6.13 breaks libpcap (and tcpdump)
Patrick McHardy says:

  Never mind, I got it, we never fall through to the second switch
  statement anymore. I think we could simply break when load_pointer
  returns NULL. The switch statement will fall through to the default
  case and return 0 for all cases but 0 > k >= SKF_AD_OFF.

Here's a patch to do just that.

I left BPF_MSH alone because it's really a hack to calculate the IP
header length, which makes no sense when applied to the special data.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 18:44:37 -07:00
David S. Miller 6baf1f417d [NET]: Do not protect sysctl_optmem_max with CONFIG_SYSCTL
The ipv4 and ipv6 protocols need to access it unconditionally.
SYSCTL=n build failure reported by Russell King.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 18:14:11 -07:00
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk 0bf0519d2b [PATCH] (7/7) __user annotations (ethtool)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-05 17:57:23 -04:00
Eric Dumazet ba89966c19 [NET]: use __read_mostly on kmem_cache_t , DEFINE_SNMP_STAT pointers
This patch puts mostly read only data in the right section
(read_mostly), to help sharing of these data between CPUS without
memory ping pongs.

On one of my production machine, tcp_statistics was sitting in a
heavily modified cache line, so *every* SNMP update had to force a
reload.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:11:18 -07:00