linux-stable.git/Documentation/networking, branch v3.11.2

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2013-07-10T01:24:39+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge
window. The only difference from the one I made the other day is that
this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes
made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have
trickeled in.

Highlights:

1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt
handling and context switches. Allows direct polling of a network
device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll().

Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature.

Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in
commit 0a4db187a999 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'")

From Eliezer Tamir.

2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised
more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast
addresses. Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from
Eric Dumazet.

3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from
Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski,
Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan.

4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from
Pavel Emelyanov.

5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from
Rony Efraim.

6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar.

7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from
Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet.

8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis,
from Cong Wang.

9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen
Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport. In particular,
support receiving on multiple UDP ports.

10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie
lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code. From Daniel
Borkmann.

11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel
devices. From Nicolas Dichtel.

12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a
manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all.
From Daniel Borkmann.

13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver,
from Johannes Berg.

14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue,
by using an rbtree. From Eric Dumazet.

15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung
Cheng.

16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon
Horman.

17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque
pointer that's passed into them. Use this to properly handle
network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event(). From Jiri
Pirko and Timo Teräs.

18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter
Huewe.

19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a
O(1) calculation instead. From Eric Dumazet.

20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just
like ipv4. From Nicolas Dichtel.

21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet.

22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu
during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding. From
Willem de Bruijn.

23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric
Dumazet.

24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's
burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead. Also
from Eric Dumazet.

25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix
from Vlad Yasevich.

26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets. From Lorenzo Colitti.

27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time
too, from David Majnemer.

28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due
to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs.

29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in
upd_v6_push_pending_frames(). From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits)
drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage
drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path
vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush
net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id
net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress
virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
virtio: support unlocked queue poll
net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit
Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org
net/fs: change busy poll time accounting
net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll
bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer
sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets
sit: fix tunnel update via netlink
dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support.
dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710
dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL.
net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method
ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available
net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value
...

Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org

2013-07-09T19:42:19+00:00

linux-net@vger.kernel.org was replaced by netdev@oss.sgi.com was replaced
by netdev@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-07-04T18:40:58+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual stuff from trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  treewide: relase -> release
  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
  sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
  spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
  treewide: Fix typo in printk
  doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
  open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
  md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
  irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
  frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
  Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
  Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
  lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
  ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-07-03T21:55:13+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
	net/ipv4/gre.c

The GRE conflict is between a bug fix (kfree_skb --> kfree_skb_list)
and the splitting of the gre.c code into seperate files.

The FEC conflict was two sets of changes adding ethtool support code
in an "!CONFIG_M5272" CPP protected block.

Finally the sh_eth.c conflict was between one commit add bits set
in the .eesr_err_check mask whilst another commit removed the
.tx_error_check member and assignments.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next

2013-07-01T00:35:13+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next,
they are:

* Enforce policy to several nfnetlink subsystem, from Daniel
  Borkmann.

* Use xt_socket to match the third packet (to perform simplistic
  socket-based stateful filtering), from Eric Dumazet.

* Avoid large timeout for picked up from the middle TCP flows,
  from Florian Westphal.

* Exclude IPVS from struct net if IPVS is disabled and removal
  of unnecessary included header file, from JunweiZhang.

* Release SCTP connection immediately under load, to mimic current
  TCP behaviour, from Julian Anastasov.

* Replace and enhance SCTP state machine, from Julian Anastasov.

* Add tweak to reduce sync traffic in the presence of persistence,
  also from Julian Anastasov.

* Add tweak for the IPVS SH scheduler not to reject connections
  directed to a server, choose a new one instead, from Alexander
  Frolkin.

* Add support for sloppy TCP and SCTP modes, that creates state
  information on any packet, not only initial handshake packets,
  from Alexander Frolkin.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flag

2013-06-26T09:01:46+00:00

Add sync_persist_mode flag to reduce sync traffic
by syncing only persistent templates.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov 
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman

bonding: add an option to fail when any of arp_ip_target is inaccessible

2013-06-25T23:58:38+00:00

Currently, we fail only when all of the ips in arp_ip_target are gone.
However, in some situations we might need to fail if even one host from
arp_ip_target becomes unavailable.

All situations, obviously, rely on the idea that we need *completely*
functional network, with all interfaces/addresses working correctly.

One real world example might be:
vlans on top on bond (hybrid port). If bond and vlans have ips assigned
and we have their peers monitored via arp_ip_target - in case of switch
misconfiguration (trunk/access port), slave driver malfunction or
tagged/untagged traffic dropped on the way - we will be able to switch
to another slave.

Though any other configuration needs that if we need to have access to all
arp_ip_targets.

This patch adds this possibility by adding a new parameter -
arp_all_targets (both as a module parameter and as a sysfs knob). It can be
set to:

	0 or any (the default) - which works exactly as it's working now -
	the slave is up if any of the arp_ip_targets are up.

	1 or all - the slave is up if all of the arp_ip_targets are up.

This parameter can be changed on the fly (via sysfs), and requires the mode
to be active-backup and arp_validate to be enabled (it obeys the
arp_validate config on which slaves to validate).

Internally it's done through:

1) Add target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS] array to slave struct. It's
   an array of jiffies, meaning that slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] is the
   last time we've received arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] on this
   slave.

2) If we successfully validate an arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] in
   bond_validate_arp() - update the slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] with the
   current jiffies value.

3) When getting slave's last_rx via slave_last_rx(), we return the oldest
   time when we've received an arp from any address in
   bond->params.arp_targets[].

If the value of arp_all_targets == 0 - we still work the same way as
before.

Also, update the documentation to reflect the new parameter.

v3->v4:
Kill the forgotten rtnl_unlock(), rephrase the documentation part to be
more clear, don't fail setting arp_all_targets if arp_validate is not set -
it has no effect anyway but can be easier to set up. Also, print a warning
if the last arp_ip_target is removed while the arp_interval is on, but not
the arp_validate.

v2->v3:
Use _bh spinlock, remove useless rtnl_lock() and use jiffies for new
arp_ip_target last arp, instead of slave_last_rx(). On bond_enslave(),
use the same initialization value for target_last_arp_rx[] as is used
for the default last_arp_rx, to avoid useless interface flaps.

Also, instead of failing to remove the last arp_ip_target just print a
warning - otherwise it might break existing scripts.

v1->v2:
Correctly handle adding/removing hosts in arp_ip_target - we need to
shift/initialize all slave's target_last_arp_rx. Also, don't fail module
loading on arp_all_targets misconfiguration, just disable it, and some
minor style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation

2013-06-25T23:58:38+00:00

Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp
validation works.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc: fix some syntax errors in netlink mmap sample code

2013-06-25T23:47:02+00:00

Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value

2013-06-24T07:26:26+00:00

syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901
(tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).

And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller