linux-stable.git/drivers/net/tun.c, branch linux-3.17.y

tun: Fix csum_start with VLAN acceleration

2014-11-21T17:23:09+00:00

commit a8f9bfdf982e2b1fb9f094e4de9ab08c57f3d2fd upstream.

When VLAN acceleration is in use on the xmit path, we end up
setting csum_start to the wrong place.  The result is that the
whoever ends up doing the checksum setting will corrupt the packet
instead of writing the checksum to the expected location, usually
this means writing the checksum with an offset of -4.

This patch fixes this by adjusting csum_start when VLAN acceleration
is detected.

Fixes: 6680ec68eff4 ("tuntap: hardware vlan tx support")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for virtio UFO packets

2014-11-14T18:10:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5188cd44c55db3e92cd9e77a40b5baa7ed4340f7 ]

UFO is now disabled on all drivers that work with virtio net headers,
but userland may try to send UFO/IPv6 packets anyway.  Instead of
sending with ID=0, we should select identifiers on their behalf (as we
used to).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Fixes: 916e4cf46d02 ("ipv6: reuse ip6_frag_id from ip6_ufo_append_data")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()

2014-07-15T23:12:48+00:00

Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen 
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-tun: restructure tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency

2014-05-21T19:50:28+00:00

tun_do_read always adds current thread to wait queue, even if a packet
is ready to read. This is inefficient because both sleeper and waker
want to acquire the wait queue spin lock when packet rate is high.

We restructure the read function and use common kernel networking
routines to handle receive, sleep and wakeup. With the change
available packets are checked first before the reading thread is added
to the wait queue.

Ran performance tests with the following configuration:

 - my packet generator -> tap1 -> br0 -> tap0 -> my packet consumer
 - sender pinned to one core and receiver pinned to another core
 - sender send small UDP packets (64 bytes total) as fast as it can
 - sandy bridge cores
 - throughput are receiver side goodput numbers

The results are

baseline: 731k pkts/sec, cpu utilization at 1.50 cpus
 changed: 783k pkts/sec, cpu utilization at 1.53 cpus

The performance difference is largely determined by packet rate and
inter-cpu communication cost. For example, if the sender and
receiver are pinned to different cpu sockets, the results are

baseline: 558k pkts/sec, cpu utilization at 1.71 cpus
 changed: 690k pkts/sec, cpu utilization at 1.67 cpus

Co-authored-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang 
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in tun.c

2014-03-27T04:18:09+00:00

This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure.
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize.
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tun: remove bogus hardware vlan acceleration flags from vlan_features

2014-02-20T07:15:38+00:00

Even though only the outer vlan tag can be HW accelerated in the transmission
path, in the TUN/TAP driver vlan_features mirrors hw_features, which happens
to have the NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_?TAG_TX flags set. Because of this, during packet
tranmisssion through a stacked vlan device dev_hard_start_xmit, (incorrectly)
assuming that the vlan device supports hardware vlan acceleration, does not
add the vlan header to the skb payload and the inner vlan tags are lost
(vlan_tci contains the outer vlan tag when userspace reads the packet from
the tap device).

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao 
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdevice: add queue selection fallback handler for ndo_select_queue

2014-02-17T05:36:34+00:00

Add a new argument for ndo_select_queue() callback that passes a
fallback handler. This gets invoked through netdev_pick_tx();
fallback handler is currently __netdev_pick_tx() as most drivers
invoke this function within their customized implementation in
case for skbs that don't need any special handling. This fallback
handler can then be replaced on other call-sites with different
queue selection methods (e.g. in packet sockets, pktgen etc).

This also has the nice side-effect that __netdev_pick_tx() is
then only invoked from netdev_pick_tx() and export of that
function to modules can be undone.

Suggested-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tun: add device name(iff) field to proc fdinfo entry

2014-01-29T07:46:56+00:00

A file descriptor opened for /dev/net/tun and a tun device are
connected with ioctl.  Though understanding the connection is
important for trouble shooting, no way is given to a user to know
the connected device for a given file descriptor at userland.

This patch adds a new fdinfo field for the device name connected to
a file descriptor opened for /dev/net/tun.

Here is an example of the field:

    # lsof | grep tun
    qemu-syst 4565         qemu   25u      CHR             10,200       0t138      12921 /dev/net/tun
    ...

    # cat /proc/4565/fdinfo/25
    pos:	138
    flags:	0104002
    iff:	vnet0

    # ip link show dev vnet0
    8: vnet0:  mtu 1500 ...

changelog:

    v2: indent iff just like the other fdinfo fields are.
    v3: remove unused variable.
        Both are suggested by David Miller .

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tuntap: Fix for a race in accessing numqueues

2014-01-23T05:32:56+00:00

A patch for fixing a race between queue selection and changing queues
was introduced in commit 92bb73ea2("tuntap: fix a possible race between
queue selection and changing queues").

The fix was to prevent the driver from re-reading the tun->numqueues
more than once within tun_select_queue() using ACCESS_ONCE().

We have been experiancing 'Divide-by-zero' errors in tun_net_xmit()
since we moved from 3.6 to 3.10, and believe that they come from a
simular source where the value of tun->numqueues changes to zero
between the first and a subsequent read of tun->numqueues.

The fix is a simular use of ACCESS_ONCE(), as well as a multiply
instead of a divide in the if statement.

Signed-off-by: Dominic Curran 
Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: Maxim Krasnyansky 
Acked-by: Jason Wang 
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-01-14T22:42:42+00:00