linux-stable.git/Documentation/networking, branch v4.12.2

net: fix up hash documentation

2017-06-07T17:00:41+00:00

commit 61b905da33 ("net: Rename skb->rxhash to skb->hash")
didn't update the documentation, fix this up.

Cc: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Update TCP congestion control documentation

2017-06-05T14:53:24+00:00

Update tcp.txt to fix mandatory congestion control ops and default
CCA selection. Also, fix comment in tcp.h for undo_cwnd.

Signed-off-by: Anmol Sarma 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Documentation: networking: add DPAA Ethernet document

2017-05-30T16:36:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur 
Signed-off-by: Camelia Groza 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Millar:
 "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that
  happened this development cycle:

   1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri)

   2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they
      lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support
      (me).

   3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me)

   4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei
      Starovoitov)

   5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian
      Westphal)

   6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana)

   7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger)

   8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky)

   9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto)

  10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work
      well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any
      hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh)

  11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay
      Aleksandrov)

  12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala)

  13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
      and several others)

  14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits)
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
  net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP
  net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP
  net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support
  net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation
  net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling
  net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling
  net: thunderx: Support for page recycling
  ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
  net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions
  qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation.
  qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing.
  stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform
  net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver
  tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp
  bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64
  bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD
  ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2017-05-02T17:21:17+00:00

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a
  new guide for user-space API documents, rather sparsely populated at
  the moment, but it's a start. Markus improved the infrastructure for
  converting diagrams. Mauro has converted much of the USB documentation
  over to RST. Plus the usual set of fixes, improvements, and tweaks.

  There's a bit more than the usual amount of reaching out of
  Documentation/ to fix comments elsewhere in the tree; I have acks for
  those where I could get them"

* tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
  docs: Fix a couple typos
  docs: Fix a spelling error in vfio-mediated-device.txt
  docs: Fix a spelling error in ioctl-number.txt
  MAINTAINERS: update file entry for HSI subsystem
  Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory
  Doc/PM: Sync with intel_powerclamp code behavior
  zr364xx.rst: usb/devices is now at /sys/kernel/debug/
  usb.rst: move documentation from proc_usb_info.txt to USB ReST book
  convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs
  docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation
  arm: Documentation: update a path name
  docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refs
  docs-rst: fix usb cross-references
  usb: gadget.h: be consistent at kernel doc macros
  usb: composite.h: fix two warnings when building docs
  usb: get rid of some ReST doc build errors
  usb.rst: get rid of some Sphinx errors
  usb/URB.txt: convert to ReST and update it
  usb/persist.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book
  usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book
  ...

switchdev: documentation: fix whitespace issues

2017-05-01T17:52:43+00:00

Figure 1 is full of whitespaces; fix it

Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin 
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Lemieux 
Acked-by: Ivan Vecera 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/tcp_fastopen: Disable active side TFO in certain scenarios

2017-04-24T18:27:17+00:00

Middlebox firewall issues can potentially cause server's data being
blackholed after a successful 3WHS using TFO. Following are the related
reports from Apple:
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Paasch_Network_Support.pdf
Slide 31 identifies an issue where the client ACK to the server's data
sent during a TFO'd handshake is dropped.
C ---> syn-data ---> S
C <--- syn/ack ----- S
C (accept & write)
C <---- data ------- S
C ----- ACK -> X     S
		[retry and timeout]

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tcpm-13.pdf
Slide 5 shows a similar situation that the server's data gets dropped
after 3WHS.
C ---- syn-data ---> S
C <--- syn/ack ----- S
C ---- ack --------> S
S (accept & write)
C?  X <- data ------ S
		[retry and timeout]

This is the worst failure b/c the client can not detect such behavior to
mitigate the situation (such as disabling TFO). Failing to proceed, the
application (e.g., SSL library) may simply timeout and retry with TFO
again, and the process repeats indefinitely.

The proposed solution is to disable active TFO globally under the
following circumstances:
1. client side TFO socket detects out of order FIN
2. client side TFO socket receives out of order RST

We disable active side TFO globally for 1hr at first. Then if it
happens again, we disable it for 2h, then 4h, 8h, ...
And we reset the timeout to 1hr if a client side TFO sockets not opened
on loopback has successfully received data segs from server.
And we examine this condition during close().

The rational behind it is that when such firewall issue happens,
application running on the client should eventually close the socket as
it is not able to get the data it is expecting. Or application running
on the server should close the socket as it is not able to receive any
response from client.
In both cases, out of order FIN or RST will get received on the client
given that the firewall will not block them as no data are in those
frames.
And we want to disable active TFO globally as it helps if the middle box
is very close to the client and most of the connections are likely to
fail.

Also, add a debug sysctl:
  tcp_fastopen_blackhole_detect_timeout_sec:
    the initial timeout to use when firewall blackhole issue happens.
    This can be set and read.
    When setting it to 0, it means to disable the active disable logic.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang 
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bpf, doc: update list of architectures that do eBPF JIT

2017-04-23T19:56:48+00:00

update the list and remove 'in the future' statement,
since all still alive 64-bit architectures now do eBPF JIT.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation

2017-04-20T21:30:33+00:00

There's no usbfs anymore. The old features are now either
exported to /dev/bus/usb or via debugfs.

Update documentation accordingly, pointing to the new
places where the character devices and usb/devices are
now placed.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org

2017-03-29T21:46:06+00:00

As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in
documents to use www.kernel.org instead.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park 
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet