linux-stable.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.16.6

net: fix checksum features handling in netif_skb_features()

2014-10-15T10:05:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit db115037bb57cdfe97078b13da762213f7980e81 ]

This is follow-up to

  da08143b8520 ("vlan: more careful checksum features handling")

which introduced more careful feature intersection in vlan code,
taking into account that HW_CSUM should be considered superset
of IP_CSUM/IPV6_CSUM. The same is needed in netif_skb_features()
in order to avoid offloading mismatch warning when vlan is
created on top of a bond consisting of slaves supporting IP/IPv6
checksumming but not vlan Tx offloading.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: Always untag vlan-tagged traffic on input.

2014-10-15T10:05:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0d5501c1c828fb97d02af50aa9d2b1a5498b94e4 ]

Currently the functionality to untag traffic on input resides
as part of the vlan module and is build only when VLAN support
is enabled in the kernel.  When VLAN is disabled, the function
vlan_untag() turns into a stub and doesn't really untag the
packets.  This seems to create an interesting interaction
between VMs supporting checksum offloading and some network drivers.

There are some drivers that do not allow the user to change
tx-vlan-offload feature of the driver.  These drivers also seem
to assume that any VLAN-tagged traffic they transmit will
have the vlan information in the vlan_tci and not in the vlan
header already in the skb.  When transmitting skbs that already
have tagged data with partial checksum set, the checksum doesn't
appear to be updated correctly by the card thus resulting in a
failure to establish TCP connections.

The following is a packet trace taken on the receiver where a
sender is a VM with a VLAN configued.  The host VM is running on
doest not have VLAN support and the outging interface on the
host is tg3:
10:12:43.503055 52:54:00:ae:42:3f > 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27243,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 > 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-> 0x48d9), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294837885 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
10:12:44.505556 52:54:00:ae:42:3f > 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27244,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 > 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-> 0x44ee), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294838888 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

This connection finally times out.

I've only access to the TG3 hardware in this configuration thus have
only tested this with TG3 driver.  There are a lot of other drivers
that do not permit user changes to vlan acceleration features, and
I don't know if they all suffere from a similar issue.

The patch attempt to fix this another way.  It moves the vlan header
stipping code out of the vlan module and always builds it into the
kernel network core.  This way, even if vlan is not supported on
a virtualizatoin host, the virtual machines running on top of such
host will still work with VLANs enabled.

CC: Patrick McHardy 
CC: Nithin Nayak Sujir 
CC: Michael Chan 
CC: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich 
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the forwarding path

2014-07-16T21:45:26+00:00

Fixed a bug that was introduced by my GRE-GRO patch
(bf5a755f5e9186406bbf50f4087100af5bd68e40 net-gre-gro: Add GRE
support to the GRO stack) that breaks the forwarding path
because various GSO related fields were not set. The bug will
cause on the egress path either the GSO code to fail, or a
GRE-TSO capable (NETIF_F_GSO_GRE) NICs to choke. The following
fix has been tested for both cases.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix NETDEV_CHANGE notifier usage causing spurious arp flush

2014-07-08T04:20:01+00:00

A bug was introduced in NETDEV_CHANGE notifier sequence causing the
arp table to be sometimes spuriously cleared (including manual arp
entries marked permanent), upon network link carrier changes.

The changed argument for the notifier was applied only to a single
caller of NETDEV_CHANGE, missing among others netdev_state_change().
So upon net_carrier events induced by the network, which are
triggering a call to netdev_state_change(), arp_netdev_event() would
decide whether to clear or not arp cache based on random/junk stack
values (a kind of read buffer overflow).

Fixes: be9efd365328 ("net: pass changed flags along with NETDEV_CHANGE event")
Fixes: 6c8b4e3ff81b ("arp: flush arp cache on IFF_NOARP change")
Signed-off-by: Loic Prylli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Performance fix for process_backlog

2014-07-08T02:24:34+00:00

In process_backlog the input_pkt_queue is only checked once for new
packets and quota is artificially reduced to reflect precisely the
number of packets on the input_pkt_queue so that the loop exits
appropriately.

This patches changes the behavior to be more straightforward and
less convoluted. Packets are processed until either the quota
is met or there are no more packets to process.

This patch seems to provide a small, but noticeable performance
improvement. The performance improvement is a result of staying
in the process_backlog loop longer which can reduce number of IPI's.

Performance data using super_netperf TCP_RR with 200 flows:

Before fix:

88.06% CPU utilization
125/190/309 90/95/99% latencies
1.46808e+06 tps
1145382 intrs.sec.

With fix:

87.73% CPU utilization
122/183/296 90/95/99% latencies
1.4921e+06 tps
1021674.30 intrs./sec.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...

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

2014-06-11T23:02:55+00:00

Conflicts:
	net/core/rtnetlink.c
	net/core/skbuff.c

Both conflicts were very simple overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()

2014-06-08T21:15:14+00:00

unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too
many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks.

See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD")

In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head,
just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access
the list after unregister_netdevice_many()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

2014-06-08T18:31:16+00:00

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
  ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
  powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
  cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
  idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
  nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
  mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
  MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
  mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
  fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
  fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
  mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
  mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
  mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
  mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
  lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
  mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
  mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
  ...

MPLS: Use mpls_features to activate software MPLS GSO segmentation

2014-06-05T22:05:09+00:00

If an MPLS packet requires segmentation then use mpls_features
to determine if the software implementation should be used.

As no driver advertises MPLS GSO segmentation this will always be
the case.

I had not noticed that this was necessary before as software MPLS GSO
segmentation was already being used in my test environment. I believe that
the reason for that is the skbs in question always had fragments and the
driver I used does not advertise NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (which seems to be the
case for most drivers). Thus software segmentation was activated by
skb_gso_ok().

This introduces the overhead of an extra call to skb_network_protocol()
in the case where where CONFIG_NET_MPLS_GSO is set and
skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE.

Thanks to Jesse Gross for prompting me to investigate this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman 
Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi 
Acked-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller