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Clément Lecigne df0bca049d net: 4 bytes kernel memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt try #2
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>
2009-02-12 16:59:09 -08:00
David S. Miller b4bd07c20b net_dma: call dmaengine_get only if NET_DMA enabled
Based upon a patch from Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

--------------------
The commit 649274d993 ("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>
2009-02-06 22:06:43 -08:00
Gautam Kachroo efc683fc2a neigh: some entries can be skipped during dumping
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>
2009-02-06 00:52:04 -08:00
Shyam Iyer 71b3346d18 net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read().
It oopsd for me in skb_seq_read. addr2line said it was
linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c:2228, which is this line:


	while (st->frag_idx < skb_shinfo(st->cur_skb)->nr_frags) {


I added some printks in there and it looks like we hit this:

        } else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb &&
                   skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) {
                 st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list;
                 st->frag_idx = 0;
                 goto next_skb;
        }



Actually I did some testing and added a few printks and found that the
st->cur_skb->data was 0 and hence the ptr used by iscsi_tcp was null.
This caused the kernel panic.

 	if (abs_offset < block_limit) {
-		*data = st->cur_skb->data + abs_offset;
+		*data = st->cur_skb->data + (abs_offset - st->stepped_offset);

I enabled the debug_tcp and with a few printks found that the code did
not go to the next_skb label and could find that the sequence being
followed was this -

It hit this if condition -

        if (st->cur_skb->next) {
                st->cur_skb = st->cur_skb->next;
                st->frag_idx = 0;
                goto next_skb;

And so, now the st pointer is shifted to the next skb whereas actually
it should have hit the second else if first since the data is in the
frag_list.

        else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb &&
                 skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) {
                st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list;
                goto next_skb;
        }

Reversing the two conditions the attached patch fixes the issue for me
on top of Herbert's patches. 

Signed-off-by: Shyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29 16:12:42 -08:00
Herbert Xu 95e3b24cfb net: Fix frag_list handling in skb_seq_read
The frag_list handling was broken in skb_seq_read:

1) We didn't add the stepped offset when looking at the head
are of fragments other than the first.

2) We didn't take the stepped offset away when setting the data
pointer in the head area.

3) The frag index wasn't reset.

This patch fixes both issues.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29 16:07:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu 37fe4732b9 gro: Fix merging of paged packets
The previous fix to paged packets broke the merging because it
reset the skb->len before we added it to the merged packet.  This
wasn't detected because it simply resulted in the truncation of
the packet while the missing bit is subsequently retransmitted.

The fix is to store skb->len before we clobber it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20 14:44:03 -08:00
Herbert Xu 9a8e47ffd9 gro: Fix error handling on extremely short frags
When a frag is shorter than an Ethernet header, we'd return a
zeroed packet instead of aborting.  This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20 14:44:02 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 357f5b0b91 NET: net_namespace, fix lock imbalance
register_pernet_gen_subsys omits mutex_unlock in one fail path.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20 14:39:31 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski 8b9d372897 net: Fix data corruption when splicing from sockets.
The trick in socket splicing where we try to convert the skb->data
into a page based reference using virt_to_page() does not work so
well.

The idea is to pass the virt_to_page() reference via the pipe
buffer, and refcount the buffer using a SKB reference.

But if we are splicing from a socket to a socket (via sendpage)
this doesn't work.

The from side processing will grab the page (and SKB) references.
The sendpage() calls will grab page references only, return, and
then the from side processing completes and drops the SKB ref.

The page based reference to skb->data is not enough to keep the
kmalloc() buffer backing it from being reused.  Yet, that is
all that the socket send side has at this point.

This leads to data corruption if the skb->data buffer is reused
by SLAB before the send side socket actually gets the TX packet
out to the device.

The fix employed here is to simply allocate a page and copy the
skb->data bytes into that page.

This will hurt performance, but there is no clear way to fix this
properly without a copy at the present time, and it is important
to get rid of the data corruption.

With fixes from Herbert Xu.

Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Foreseen-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Diagnosed-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Fixed-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-19 17:03:56 -08:00
Herbert Xu 67fd1a731f net: Add debug info to track down GSO checksum bug
I'm trying to track down why people're hitting the checksum warning
in skb_gso_segment.  As the problem seems to be hitting lots of
people and I can't reproduce it or locate the bug, here is a patch
to print out more details which hopefully should help us to track
this down.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-19 16:26:44 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 937f1ba56b net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.

It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()

Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14 21:05:05 -08:00
Herbert Xu f557206800 gro: Fix page ref count for skbs freed normally
When an skb with page frags is merged into an existing one, we
cannibalise its reference count.  This is OK when the skb is
reused because we set nr_frags to zero in that case.  However,
for the case where the skb is freed through kfree_skb, we didn't
clear nr_frags which causes the page to be freed prematurely.

This is fixed by moving the skb resetting into skb_gro_receive.

Reported-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14 20:40:03 -08:00
Herbert Xu f17f5c91ae gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list
As GRO cannot be applied to packets with frag_list we need to
make sure that we reject such packets if they are fed to us,
e.g., through a tunnel device.

Also there is no point in applying GRO on GSO packets so they
too should be rejected.  This allows GRO to be used in virtio-net
which may produce GSO packets directly but may still benefit
from GRO if the other end of it doesn't support GSO.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14 14:36:12 -08:00
Dan Williams 649274d993 net_dma: acquire/release dma channels on ifup/ifdown
The recent dmaengine rework removed the capability to remove dma device
driver modules while net_dma is active.  Rather than notify
dmaengine-clients that channels are trying to be removed, we now rely on
clients to notify dmaengine when they no longer have a need for
channels.  Teach net_dma to release channels by taking dmaengine
references at netdevice open and dropping references at netdevice close.

Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11 00:20:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d9e8a3a5b8 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits)
  ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case
  dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall
  dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn
  dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers
  dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure
  ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown
  iop-adma: enable module removal
  iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON
  iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free
  dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client
  dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure
  dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure
  dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get
  atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave
  dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel
  dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels
  net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation
  dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level
  ...
2009-01-09 11:52:14 -08:00
Herbert Xu 96e93eab20 gro: Add internal interfaces for VLAN
Previously GRO's only entry point from the outside is through
napi_gro_receive and napi_gro_frags.  These interfaces are for
device drivers.

This patch rearranges things to provide a new set of interfaces
for VLANs.  These interfaces are for internal use only.  The
VLAN code itself can then provide a set of entry points for
device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06 10:49:34 -08:00
Dan Williams aa1e6f1a38 dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure
All users have been converted to either the general-purpose allocator,
dma_find_channel, or dma_request_channel.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:17 -07:00
Dan Williams 209b84a88f dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get
Now that clients no longer need to be notified of channel arrival
dma_async_client_register can simply increment the dmaengine_ref_count.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:17 -07:00
Dan Williams f67b459992 net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:15 -07:00
Dan Williams 2ba05622b8 dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation
async_tx and net_dma each have open-coded versions of issue_pending_all,
so provide a common routine in dmaengine.

The implementation needs to walk the global device list, so implement
rcu to allow dma_issue_pending_all to run lockless.  Clients protect
themselves from channel removal events by holding a dmaengine reference.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:14 -07:00
David S. Miller c276e098d3 Revert "net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28"
This reverts commit 22604c8668.

We can't fix this issue in this way, because we now can try
to take the dev_base_lock rwlock as a writer in software interrupt
context and that is not allowed without major surgery elsewhere.

This initial link state problem needs to be solved in some other
way.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-05 16:01:51 -08:00
Michael Marineau 22604c8668 net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28
From: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>

Commit b47300168e "Do not fire linkwatch
events until the device is registered." was made as a workaround for
drivers that call netif_carrier_off before registering the device.
Unfortunately this causes these drivers to incorrectly report their
link status as IF_OPER_UNKNOWN which can falsely set the IFF_RUNNING
flag when the interface is first brought up. This issues was
previously pointed out[1] but was dismissed saying that IFF_RUNNING is
not related to the link status. From my digging IFF_RUNNING, as
reported to userspace, is based on the link state. It is set based on
__LINK_STATE_START and IF_OPER_UP or IF_OPER_UNKNOWN. See [2], [3],
and [4]. (Whether or not the kernel has IFF_RUNNING set in flags is
not reported to user space so it may well be independent of the link,
I don't know if and when it may get set.)

The end result depends slightly depending on the driver. The the two I
tested were e1000e and b44. With e1000e if the system is booted
without a network cable attached the interface will falsely report
RUNNING when it is brought up causing NetworkManager to attempt to
start it and eventually time out. With b44 when the system is booted
with a network cable attached and brought up with dhcpcd it will time
out the first time.

The attached patch that will still set the operstate variable
correctly to IF_OPER_UP/DOWN/etc when linkwatch_fire_event is called
but then return rather than skipping the linkwatch_fire_event call
entirely as the previous fix did. (sorry it isn't inline, I don't have
a patch friendly email client at the moment)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-04 17:18:51 -08:00
Herbert Xu 5d38a079ce gro: Add page frag support
This patch allows GRO to merge page frags (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags)
in one skb, rather than using the less efficient frag_list.

It also adds a new interface, napi_gro_frags to allow drivers
to inject page frags directly into the stack without allocating
an skb.  This is intended to be the GRO equivalent for LRO's
lro_receive_frags interface.

The existing GSO interface can already handle page frags with
or without an appended frag_list so nothing needs to be changed
there.

The merging itself is rather simple.  We store any new frag entries
after the last existing entry, without checking whether the first
new entry can be merged with the last existing entry.  Making this
check would actually be easy but since no existing driver can
produce contiguous frags anyway it would just be mental masturbation.

If the total number of entries would exceed the capacity of a
single skb, we simply resort to using frag_list as we do now.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-04 16:13:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu b530256d2e gro: Use gso_size to store MSS
In order to allow GRO packets without frag_list at all, we need to
store the MSS in the packet itself.  The obvious place is gso_size.
The only thing to watch out for is if the packet ends up not being
GRO then we need to clear gso_size before pushing the packet into
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-04 16:13:19 -08:00
Rusty Russell 0f23174aa8 cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits: net
In future all cpumask ops will only be valid (in general) for bit
numbers < nr_cpu_ids.  So use that instead of NR_CPUS in iterators
and other comparisons.

This is always safe: no cpu number can be >= nr_cpu_ids, and
nr_cpu_ids is initialized to NR_CPUS at boot.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-29 22:44:47 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8eb7986396 netns: foreach_netdev_safe is insufficient in default_device_exit
During network namespace teardown we either move or delete
all of the network devices associated with a network namespace.
In the case of veth devices deleting one will also delete it's
pair device.  If both devices are in the same network namespace
then for_each_netdev_safe is insufficient as next may point
to the second veth device we have deleted.

To avoid problems I do what we do in __rtnl_kill_links and
restart the scan of the device list, after we have deleted
a device.

Currently dev_change_netnamespace does not appear to suffer from
this problem, but wireless devices are also paired and likely
should be moved between network namespaces together.  So I have
errored on the side of caution and restart the scan of the network
devices in that case as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-29 18:21:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0191b625ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
2008-12-28 12:49:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu 0da2afd596 gro: Fix potential use after free
The initial skb may have been freed after napi_gro_complete in
napi_gro_receive if it was merged into an existing packet.  Thus
we cannot check same_flow (which indicates whether it was merged)
after calling napi_gro_complete.

This patch fixes this by saving the same_flow status before the
call to napi_gro_complete.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-26 14:57:42 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr d7b06636be net: Init NAPI dev_list on napi_del
The recent GRO patches introduced the NAPI removal of devices in
free_netdev.  For drivers that can change the number of queues during
driver operation, the NAPI infrastructure doesn't allow the freeing and
re-addition of NAPI entities without reloading the driver.

This change reinitializes the dev_list in each NAPI struct on delete,
instead of just deleting it (and assigning the list pointers to POISON).
Drivers that wish to remove/re-add NAPI will need to re-initialize the
netdev napi_list after removing all NAPI instances, before re-adding NAPI
devices again.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-26 01:35:35 -08:00
James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Jarek Poplawski 5f2f6da76c net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
pointer before checking for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22 19:35:28 -08:00
David S. Miller 49ad9599d4 Revert "net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()"
This reverts commit 7035560287.

As pointed out by Mark McLoughlin IP_PKTINFO cmsg data is one
post-queueing user, so this optimization is not valid right
now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 22:11:38 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont 57c81fffc8 Phonet: allocate separate ARP type for GPRS over a Phonet pipe
A separate xmit lock class supports GPRS over a Phonet pipe over a TUN
device (type ARPHRD_NONE).

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 15:47:48 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont 2d91d78b68 Phonet: allocate a non-Ethernet ARP type
Also leave some room for more 802.11 types.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17 15:47:29 -08:00
Herbert Xu b240a0e564 ethtool: Add GGRO and SGRO ops
This patch adds the ethtool ops to enable and disable GRO.  It also
makes GRO depend on RX checksum offload much the same as how TSO
depends on SG support.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:44:31 -08:00
Herbert Xu 71d93b39e5 net: Add skb_gro_receive
This patch adds the helper skb_gro_receive to merge packets for
GRO.  The current method is to allocate a new header skb and then
chain the original packets to its frag_list.  This is done to
make it easier to integrate into the existing GSO framework.

In future as GSO is moved into the drivers, we can undo this and
simply chain the original packets together.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:42:33 -08:00
Herbert Xu d565b0a1a9 net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructure
This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure.
This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent.
Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in
napi_struct.

For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and
call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx.
The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically.  When napi_gro_receive
is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or
call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives
__napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete.

Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in
order to participate in this scheme.

In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held
packets.  Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero
if it is a potential match for the new packet.  For each packet that may
match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet
must not be merged with the new packet.

Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet,
the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be
merged with it.  In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to
the existing skb in gro_list.  Otherwise the new skb should be merged into
the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes
it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where
the merged skb should be returned.

Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive
function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow.  Note that if an skb
merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then
this shouldn't be set.

If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging,
it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush.

Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by
napi_complete and napi_rx_complete.

Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO.
The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries.  In future, this may be
expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:38:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu 1a881f27c5 net: Add frag_list support to GSO
This patch allows GSO to handle frag_list in a limited way for the
purposes of allowing packets merged by GRO to be refragmented on
output.

Most hardware won't (and aren't expected to) support handling GRO
frag_list packets directly.  Therefore we will perform GSO in
software for those cases.

However, for drivers that can support it (such as virtual NICs) we
may not have to segment the packets at all.

Whether the added overhead of GRO/GSO is worthwhile for bridges
and routers when weighed against the benefit of potentially
increasing the MTU within the host is still an open question.
However, for the case of host nodes this is undoubtedly a win.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:27:47 -08:00
Herbert Xu 89319d3801 net: Add frag_list support to skb_segment
This patch adds limited support for handling frag_list packets in
skb_segment.  The intention is to support GRO (Generic Receive Offload)
packets which will be constructed by chaining normal packets using
frag_list.

As such we require all frag_list members terminate on exact MSS
boundaries.  This is checked using BUG_ON.

As there should only be one producer in the kernel of such packets,
namely GRO, this requirement should not be difficult to maintain.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15 23:26:06 -08:00
David S. Miller eb14f01959 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
2008-12-15 20:03:50 -08:00
Neil Horman 7b363e4400 netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry
A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service
path, and the fast path through net_rx_action:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470

A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case.

Consider the following scenario:

INITIAL STATE
CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list
CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same
napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list



CPU0						CPU1
net_rx_action					poll_napi
!list_empty (returns true)			locks poll_lock for A
						 poll_one_napi
						  napi->poll
						   netif_rx_complete
						    __napi_complete
						    (removes A from poll_list)
list_entry(list->next)


In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is
exclusive to that cpu.  netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll
path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty
list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by
the time it calls list_entry.  Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other
structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is
garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage
is.

Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks
arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best
solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee
that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu.  To do this I've
implemented the patch below.  It adds an additional bit to the state field in
the napi_struct.  When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will
be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not
remove the napi_struct from the poll_list.  That work will be saved for the next
iteration of net_rx_action.

I've tested this and it seems to work well.  About the biggest drawback I can
see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through
net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the
netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call
to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from
the poll_list.  However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given
that the alternative is a crash.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-09 23:22:26 -08:00
Wang Chen b74ca3a896 netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08 01:14:16 -08:00
James Morris ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
David S. Miller 5b9ab2ec04 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/hp-plus.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
	net/wireless/reg.c
2008-11-26 23:48:40 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski 244e6c2d07 pkt_sched: gen_estimator: Optimize gen_estimator_active()
Since all other gen_estimator functions use bstats and rate_est params
together, and searching for them is optimized now, let's use this also
in gen_estimator_active(). The return type of gen_estimator_active()
is changed to bool, and gen_find_node() parameters to const, btw.

In tcf_act_police_locate() a check for ACT_P_CREATED is added before
calling gen_estimator_active().

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-26 15:24:32 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 7035560287 net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()
When queuing a skb to sk->sk_receive_queue, we can release its dst,
not anymore needed.  Since current cpu did the dst_hold(), refcount is
probably still hot int this cpu caches.

This avoids readers to access the original dst to decrement its
refcount, possibly a long time after packet reception. This should
speedup UDP and RAW receive path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-26 01:08:18 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 1748376b66 net: Use a percpu_counter for sockets_allocated
Instead of using one atomic_t per protocol, use a percpu_counter
for "sockets_allocated", to reduce cache line contention on
heavy duty network servers. 

Note : We revert commit (248969ae31
net: af_unix can make unix_nr_socks visbile in /proc),
since it is not anymore used after sock_prot_inuse_add() addition

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:16:35 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger c1b56878fb tc: policing requires a rate estimator
Found that while trying average rate policing, it was possible to
request average rate policing without a rate estimator. This results
in no policing which is harmless but incorrect.

Since policing could be setup in two steps, need to check
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:14:06 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 8f480c0e4e net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN()
The truesize message check is important enough to make it print "BUG"
to the user console... lets also make it important enough to spit a
backtrace/module list etc so that kerneloops.org can track them.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 21:08:13 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan b27aeadb59 netns xfrm: per-netns sysctls
Make
	net.core.xfrm_aevent_etime
	net.core.xfrm_acq_expires
	net.core.xfrm_aevent_rseqth
	net.core.xfrm_larval_drop

sysctls per-netns.

For that make net_core_path[] global, register it to prevent two
/proc/net/core antries and change initcall position -- xfrm_init() is called
from fs_initcall, so this one should be fs_initcall at least.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 18:00:48 -08:00