linux-stable.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.4.12

net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head

2012-10-02T17:30:35+00:00

commit 734b65417b24d6eea3e3d7457e1f11493890ee1d upstream.

This change eliminates an initialization-order hazard most
recently seen when netprio_cgroup is built into the kernel.

With thanks to Eric Dumazet for catching a bug.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

2012-10-02T17:29:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit c0de08d04215031d68fa13af36f347a6cfa252ca ]

If a packet is emitted on one socket in one group of fanout sockets,
it is transmitted again. It is thus read again on one of the sockets
of the fanout group. This result in a loop for software which
generate packets when receiving one.
This retransmission is not the intended behavior: a fanout group
must behave like a single socket. The packet should not be
transmitted on a socket if it originates from a socket belonging
to the same fanout group.

This patch fixes the issue by changing the transmission check to
take fanout group info account.

Reported-by: Aleksandr Kotov 
Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set_alias()

2012-10-02T17:29:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7364e445f62825758fa61195d237a5b8ecdd06ec ]

Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb

2012-10-02T17:29:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 30b678d844af3305cda5953467005cebb5d7b687 ]

A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little
as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps).  Given that we have a
sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough,
it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection
to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once.  This
results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments.

In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of
DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than
a full ring.  The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger
the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried
after the TX reset).  This particularly affects sfc, for which the
issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412.

Therefore:
1. Add the field net_device::gso_max_segs holding the device-specific
   limit.
2. In netif_skb_features(), if the number of segments is too high then
   mask out GSO features to force fall back to software GSO.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device

2012-08-15T15:10:28+00:00

commit 7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd upstream.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: remove skb_orphan_try()

2012-07-16T16:03:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit 62b1a8ab9b3660bb820d8dfe23148ed6cda38574 ]

Orphaning skb in dev_hard_start_xmit() makes bonding behavior
unfriendly for applications sending big UDP bursts : Once packets
pass the bonding device and come to real device, they might hit a full
qdisc and be dropped. Without orphaning, the sender is automatically
throttled because sk->sk_wmemalloc reaches sk->sk_sndbuf (assuming
sk_sndbuf is not too big)

We could try to defer the orphaning adding another test in
dev_hard_start_xmit(), but all this seems of little gain,
now that BQL tends to make packets more likely to be parked
in Qdisc queues instead of NIC TX ring, in cases where performance
matters.

Reverts commits :
fc6055a5ba31 net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()
87fd308cfc6b net: skb_tx_hash() fix relative to skb_orphan_try()
and removes SKBTX_DRV_NEEDS_SK_REF flag

Reported-and-bisected-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real device"

2012-05-11T03:03:34+00:00

This reverts commit 8a83a00b0735190384a348156837918271034144.

It causes regressions for S390 devices, because it does an
unconditional DST drop on SKBs for vlans and the QETH device
needs the neighbour entry hung off the DST for certain things
on transmit.

Arnd can't remember exactly why he even needed this change.

Conflicts:

	drivers/net/macvlan.c
	net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
	net/core/dev.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices.

2012-04-13T15:01:43+00:00

We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing
events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for
special case cleanup code.

This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers
of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix /proc/net/dev regression

2012-04-03T21:23:23+00:00

Commit f04565ddf52 (dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops) added a second
regression, as some devices are missing from /proc/net/dev if many
devices are defined.

When seq_file buffer is filled, the last ->next/show() method is
canceled (pos value is reverted to value prior ->next() call)

Problem is after above commit, we dont restart the lookup at right
position in ->start() method.

Fix this by removing the internal 'pos' pointer added in commit, since
we need to use the 'loff_t *pos' provided by seq_file layer.

This also reverts commit 5cac98dd0 (net: Fix corruption
in /proc/*/net/dev_mcast), since its not needed anymore.

Reported-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Mihai Maruseac 
Tested-by:  Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2012-04-03T00:53:39+00:00

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Provide device string properly for USB i2400m wimax devices, also
    don't OOPS when providing firmware string.  From Phil Sutter.

 2) Add support for sh_eth SH7734 chips, from Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.

 3) Add another device ID to USB zaurus driver, from Guan Xin.

 4) Loop index start in pool vector iterator is wrong causing MAC to not
    get configured in bnx2x driver, fix from Dmitry Kravkov.

 5) EQL driver assumes HZ=100, fix from Eric Dumazet.

 6) Now that skb_add_rx_frag() can specify the truesize increment
    separately, do so in f_phonet and cdc_phonet, also from Eric
    Dumazet.

 7) virtio_net accidently uses net_ratelimit() not only on the kernel
    warning but also the statistic bump, fix from Rick Jones.

 8) ip_route_input_mc() uses fixed init_net namespace, oops, use
    dev_net(dev) instead.  Fix from Benjamin LaHaise.

 9) dev_forward_skb() needs to clear the incoming interface index of the
    SKB so that it looks like a new incoming packet, also from Benjamin
    LaHaise.

10) iwlwifi mistakenly initializes a channel entry as 2GHZ instead of
    5GHZ, fix from Stanislav Yakovlev.

11) Missing kmalloc() return value checks in orinoco, from Santosh
    Nayak.

12) ath9k doesn't check for HT capabilities in the right way, it is
    checking ht_supported instead of the ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT flag.  Fix from
    Sujith Manoharan.

13) Fix x86 BPF JIT emission of 16-bit immediate field of AND
    instructions, from Feiran Zhuang.

14) Avoid infinite loop in GARP code when registering sysfs entries.
    From David Ward.

15) rose protocol uses memcpy instead of memcmp in a device address
    comparison, oops.  Fix from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Fix build of lpc_eth due to dev_hw_addr_rancom() interface being
    renamed to eth_hw_addr_random().  From Roland Stigge.

17) Make ipv6 RTM_GETROUTE interpret RTA_IIF attribute the same way
    that ipv4 does.  Fix from Shmulik Ladkani.

18) via-rhine has an inverted bit test, causing suspend/resume
    regressions.  Fix from Andreas Mohr.

19) RIONET assumes 4K page size, fix from Akinobu Mita.

20) Initialization of imask register in sky2 is buggy, because bits are
    "or'd" into an uninitialized local variable.  Fix from Lino
    Sanfilippo.

21) Fix FCOE checksum offload handling, from Yi Zou.

22) Fix VLAN processing regression in e1000, from Jiri Pirko.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (52 commits)
  sky2: dont overwrite settings for PHY Quick link
  tg3: Fix 5717 serdes powerdown problem
  net: usb: cdc_eem: fix mtu
  net: sh_eth: fix endian check for architecture independent
  usb/rtl8150 : Remove duplicated definitions
  rionet: fix page allocation order of rionet_active
  via-rhine: fix wait-bit inversion.
  ipv6: Fix RTM_GETROUTE's interpretation of RTA_IIF to be consistent with ipv4
  net: lpc_eth: Fix rename of dev_hw_addr_random
  net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c: use linux/atomic.h
  rose_dev: fix memcpy-bug in rose_set_mac_address
  Fix non TBI PHY access; a bad merge undid bug fix in a previous commit.
  net/garp: avoid infinite loop if attribute already exists
  x86 bpf_jit: fix a bug in emitting the 16-bit immediate operand of AND
  bonding: emit event when bonding changes MAC
  mac80211: fix oper channel timestamp updation
  ath9k: Use HW HT capabilites properly
  MAINTAINERS: adding maintainer for ipw2x00
  net: orinoco: add error handling for failed kmalloc().
  net/wireless: ipw2x00: fix a typo in wiphy struct initilization
  ...