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<entry>
<title>balloon: check the number of available pages in leak balloon</title>
<updated>2016-08-19T07:51:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Neumoin</name>
<email>kneumoin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-11T12:28:59+00:00</published>
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commit 37cf99e08c6fb4dcea0f9ad2b13b6daa8c76a711 upstream.

The balloon has a special mechanism that is subscribed to the oom
notification which leads to deflation for a fixed number of pages.
The number is always fixed even when the balloon is fully deflated.
But leak_balloon did not expect that the pages to deflate will be more
than taken, and raise a "BUG" in balloon_page_dequeue when page list
will be empty.

So, the simplest solution would be to check that the number of releases
pages is less or equal to the number taken pages.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Neumoin &lt;kneumoin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 37cf99e08c6fb4dcea0f9ad2b13b6daa8c76a711 upstream.

The balloon has a special mechanism that is subscribed to the oom
notification which leads to deflation for a fixed number of pages.
The number is always fixed even when the balloon is fully deflated.
But leak_balloon did not expect that the pages to deflate will be more
than taken, and raise a "BUG" in balloon_page_dequeue when page list
will be empty.

So, the simplest solution would be to check that the number of releases
pages is less or equal to the number taken pages.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Neumoin &lt;kneumoin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T13:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>k.khlebnikov@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:27+00:00</published>
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commit d6d86c0a7f8ddc5b38cf089222cb1d9540762dc2 upstream.

Sasha Levin reported KASAN splash inside isolate_migratepages_range().
Problem is in the function __is_movable_balloon_page() which tests
AS_BALLOON_MAP in page-&gt;mapping-&gt;flags.  This function has no protection
against anonymous pages.  As result it tried to check address space flags
inside struct anon_vma.

Further investigation shows more problems in current implementation:

* Special branch in __unmap_and_move() never works:
  balloon_page_movable() checks page flags and page_count.  In
  __unmap_and_move() page is locked, reference counter is elevated, thus
  balloon_page_movable() always fails.  As a result execution goes to the
  normal migration path.  virtballoon_migratepage() returns
  MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS,
  move_to_new_page() thinks this is an error code and assigns
  newpage-&gt;mapping to NULL.  Newly migrated page lose connectivity with
  balloon an all ability for further migration.

* lru_lock erroneously required in isolate_migratepages_range() for
  isolation ballooned page.  This function releases lru_lock periodically,
  this makes migration mostly impossible for some pages.

* balloon_page_dequeue have a tight race with balloon_page_isolate:
  balloon_page_isolate could be executed in parallel with dequeue between
  picking page from list and locking page_lock.  Race is rare because they
  use trylock_page() for locking.

This patch fixes all of them.

Instead of fake mapping with special flag this patch uses special state of
page-&gt;_mapcount: PAGE_BALLOON_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -256.  Buddy allocator uses
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -128 for similar purpose.  Storing mark
directly in struct page makes everything safer and easier.

PagePrivate is used to mark pages present in page list (i.e.  not
isolated, like PageLRU for normal pages).  It replaces special rules for
reference counter and makes balloon migration similar to migration of
normal pages.  This flag is protected by page_lock together with link to
the balloon device.

[js] backport to 3.12. MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS had to be removed
     from one more place. VM_BUG_ON_PAGE does not exist in 3.12 yet,
     use plain VM_BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/53E6CEAA.9020105@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gavin Guo &lt;gavin.guo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit d6d86c0a7f8ddc5b38cf089222cb1d9540762dc2 upstream.

Sasha Levin reported KASAN splash inside isolate_migratepages_range().
Problem is in the function __is_movable_balloon_page() which tests
AS_BALLOON_MAP in page-&gt;mapping-&gt;flags.  This function has no protection
against anonymous pages.  As result it tried to check address space flags
inside struct anon_vma.

Further investigation shows more problems in current implementation:

* Special branch in __unmap_and_move() never works:
  balloon_page_movable() checks page flags and page_count.  In
  __unmap_and_move() page is locked, reference counter is elevated, thus
  balloon_page_movable() always fails.  As a result execution goes to the
  normal migration path.  virtballoon_migratepage() returns
  MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS,
  move_to_new_page() thinks this is an error code and assigns
  newpage-&gt;mapping to NULL.  Newly migrated page lose connectivity with
  balloon an all ability for further migration.

* lru_lock erroneously required in isolate_migratepages_range() for
  isolation ballooned page.  This function releases lru_lock periodically,
  this makes migration mostly impossible for some pages.

* balloon_page_dequeue have a tight race with balloon_page_isolate:
  balloon_page_isolate could be executed in parallel with dequeue between
  picking page from list and locking page_lock.  Race is rare because they
  use trylock_page() for locking.

This patch fixes all of them.

Instead of fake mapping with special flag this patch uses special state of
page-&gt;_mapcount: PAGE_BALLOON_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -256.  Buddy allocator uses
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -128 for similar purpose.  Storing mark
directly in struct page makes everything safer and easier.

PagePrivate is used to mark pages present in page list (i.e.  not
isolated, like PageLRU for normal pages).  It replaces special rules for
reference counter and makes balloon migration similar to migration of
normal pages.  This flag is protected by page_lock together with link to
the balloon device.

[js] backport to 3.12. MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS had to be removed
     from one more place. VM_BUG_ON_PAGE does not exist in 3.12 yet,
     use plain VM_BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/53E6CEAA.9020105@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gavin Guo &lt;gavin.guo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: fix memory leak of virtio ida cache layers</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T11:45:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suman Anna</name>
<email>s-anna@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-17T00:29:17+00:00</published>
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commit c13f99b7e945dad5273a8b7ee230f4d1f22d3354 upstream.

The virtio core uses a static ida named virtio_index_ida for
assigning index numbers to virtio devices during registration.
The ida core may allocate some internal idr cache layers and
an ida bitmap upon any ida allocation, and all these layers are
truely freed only upon the ida destruction. The virtio_index_ida
is not destroyed at present, leading to a memory leak when using
the virtio core as a module and atleast one virtio device is
registered and unregistered.

Fix this by invoking ida_destroy() in the virtio core module
exit.

Signed-off-by: Suman Anna &lt;s-anna@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit c13f99b7e945dad5273a8b7ee230f4d1f22d3354 upstream.

The virtio core uses a static ida named virtio_index_ida for
assigning index numbers to virtio devices during registration.
The ida core may allocate some internal idr cache layers and
an ida bitmap upon any ida allocation, and all these layers are
truely freed only upon the ida destruction. The virtio_index_ida
is not destroyed at present, leading to a memory leak when using
the virtio core as a module and atleast one virtio device is
registered and unregistered.

Fix this by invoking ida_destroy() in the virtio core module
exit.

Signed-off-by: Suman Anna &lt;s-anna@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_pci: fix virtio spec compliance on restore</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T18:02:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-14T00:10:29+00:00</published>
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commit 6fbc198cf623944ab60a1db6d306a4d55cdd820d upstream.

On restore, virtio pci does the following:
+ set features
+ init vqs etc - device can be used at this point!
+ set ACKNOWLEDGE,DRIVER and DRIVER_OK status bits

This is in violation of the virtio spec, which
requires the following order:
- ACKNOWLEDGE
- DRIVER
- init vqs
- DRIVER_OK

This behaviour will break with hypervisors that assume spec compliant
behaviour.  It seems like a good idea to have this patch applied to
stable branches to reduce the support butden for the hypervisors.

Cc: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 6fbc198cf623944ab60a1db6d306a4d55cdd820d upstream.

On restore, virtio pci does the following:
+ set features
+ init vqs etc - device can be used at this point!
+ set ACKNOWLEDGE,DRIVER and DRIVER_OK status bits

This is in violation of the virtio spec, which
requires the following order:
- ACKNOWLEDGE
- DRIVER
- init vqs
- DRIVER_OK

This behaviour will break with hypervisors that assume spec compliant
behaviour.  It seems like a good idea to have this patch applied to
stable branches to reduce the support butden for the hypervisors.

Cc: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_balloon: don't softlockup on huge balloon changes.</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T11:38:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T00:53:38+00:00</published>
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commit 1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 upstream.

When adding or removing 100G from a balloon:

    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367]

We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true
(more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep.  We also have a
wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU
is synchronous for balloon operations.

Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary &lt;gopchaud@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 upstream.

When adding or removing 100G from a balloon:

    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367]

We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true
(more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep.  We also have a
wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU
is synchronous for balloon operations.

Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary &lt;gopchaud@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_pci: pm: Use CONFIG_PM_SLEEP instead of CONFIG_PM</title>
<updated>2013-09-09T00:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Lu</name>
<email>aaron.lu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-09T00:27:12+00:00</published>
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The virtio_pci_freeze/restore are defined under CONFIG_PM but is used
by SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS macro, which is defined under
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP. So if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not cofigured but
CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is, the following warning message appeared:

drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c:770:12: warning: ‘virtio_pci_freeze’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static int virtio_pci_freeze(struct device *dev)
            ^
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c:790:12: warning: ‘virtio_pci_restore’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static int virtio_pci_restore(struct device *dev)
            ^
Fix it by changing CONFIG_PM to CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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The virtio_pci_freeze/restore are defined under CONFIG_PM but is used
by SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS macro, which is defined under
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP. So if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not cofigured but
CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is, the following warning message appeared:

drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c:770:12: warning: ‘virtio_pci_freeze’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static int virtio_pci_freeze(struct device *dev)
            ^
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c:790:12: warning: ‘virtio_pci_restore’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static int virtio_pci_restore(struct device *dev)
            ^
Fix it by changing CONFIG_PM to CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2013-07-10T21:50:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T21:50:58+00:00</published>
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Pull virtio updates from Rusty Russell:
 "No real surprises"

* tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MAINTAINERS: add tools/virtio/ under virtio
  tools/virtio: move module license stub to module.h
  virtio: include asm/barrier explicitly
  virtio: VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT feature
  lguest: fix example launcher compilation for broken glibc headers.
  virtio-net: fix the race between channels setting and refill
  tools/lguest: real barriers.
  tools/lguest: fix missing rmb().
  virtio_balloon: leak_balloon(): only tell host if we got pages deflated
  virtio-pci: fix leaks of msix_affinity_masks
  Fix comment typo "CONFIG_PAE"
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Pull virtio updates from Rusty Russell:
 "No real surprises"

* tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MAINTAINERS: add tools/virtio/ under virtio
  tools/virtio: move module license stub to module.h
  virtio: include asm/barrier explicitly
  virtio: VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT feature
  lguest: fix example launcher compilation for broken glibc headers.
  virtio-net: fix the race between channels setting and refill
  tools/lguest: real barriers.
  tools/lguest: fix missing rmb().
  virtio_balloon: leak_balloon(): only tell host if we got pages deflated
  virtio-pci: fix leaks of msix_affinity_masks
  Fix comment typo "CONFIG_PAE"
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2013-07-10T01:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T01:24:39+00:00</published>
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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
  ...
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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
  ...
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<title>virtio: support unlocked queue poll</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T19:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-09T10:19:18+00:00</published>
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This adds a way to check ring empty state after enable_cb outside any
locks. Will be used by virtio_net.

Note: there's room for more optimization: caller is likely to have a
memory barrier already, which means we might be able to get rid of a
barrier here.  Deferring this optimization until we do some
benchmarking.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This adds a way to check ring empty state after enable_cb outside any
locks. Will be used by virtio_net.

Note: there's room for more optimization: caller is likely to have a
memory barrier already, which means we might be able to get rid of a
barrier here.  Deferring this optimization until we do some
benchmarking.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T00:12:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T00:12:13+00:00</published>
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
   distracted.  There has been quite a bit of activity.
 - About half the MM queue
 - Some backlight bits
 - Various lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - zillions more little rtc patches
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - exec
 - procfs
 - rapidio
 - nbd
 - aoe
 - pps
 - memstick
 - tools/testing/selftests updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (445 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
  selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
  selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
  selftests: add .gitignore for vm
  selftests: add hugetlbfstest
  self-test: fix make clean
  selftests: exit 1 on failure
  kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
  aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
  drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
  drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
  pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
  drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
  aoe: update internal version number to v83
  aoe: update copyright date
  aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
  ...
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
   distracted.  There has been quite a bit of activity.
 - About half the MM queue
 - Some backlight bits
 - Various lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - zillions more little rtc patches
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - exec
 - procfs
 - rapidio
 - nbd
 - aoe
 - pps
 - memstick
 - tools/testing/selftests updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (445 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
  selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
  selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
  selftests: add .gitignore for vm
  selftests: add hugetlbfstest
  self-test: fix make clean
  selftests: exit 1 on failure
  kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
  aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
  drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
  drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
  pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
  drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
  aoe: update internal version number to v83
  aoe: update copyright date
  aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
  ...
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