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<title>linux-stable.git/net/core/skbuff.c, branch v4.7</title>
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<title>net_sched: fix mirrored packets checksum</title>
<updated>2016-07-01T20:19:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>WANG Cong</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-30T17:15:22+00:00</published>
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Similar to commit 9b368814b336 ("net: fix bridge multicast packet checksum validation")
we need to fixup the checksum for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE when
pushing skb on RX path. Otherwise we get similar splats.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Similar to commit 9b368814b336 ("net: fix bridge multicast packet checksum validation")
we need to fixup the checksum for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE when
pushing skb on RX path. Otherwise we get similar splats.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>skbuff: remove unused variable `doff'</title>
<updated>2016-05-10T20:05:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T16:38:08+00:00</published>
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There are two instances of an unused variable, `doff' added by
commit 6fa01ccd8830 ("skbuff: Add pskb_extract() helper function")
in pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear().
Remove these instances, they are not used.

Reported by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There are two instances of an unused variable, `doff' added by
commit 6fa01ccd8830 ("skbuff: Add pskb_extract() helper function")
in pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear().
Remove these instances, they are not used.

Reported by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>gso: Only allow GSO_PARTIAL if we can checksum the inner protocol</title>
<updated>2016-05-04T17:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>aduyck@mirantis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-02T16:38:18+00:00</published>
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This patch addresses a possible issue that can occur if we get into any odd
corner cases where we support TSO for a given protocol but not the checksum
or scatter-gather offload.  There are few drivers floating around that
setup their tunnels this way and by enforcing the checksum piece we can
avoid mangling any frames.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch addresses a possible issue that can occur if we get into any odd
corner cases where we support TSO for a given protocol but not the checksum
or scatter-gather offload.  There are few drivers floating around that
setup their tunnels this way and by enforcing the checksum piece we can
avoid mangling any frames.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>gso: Do not perform partial GSO if number of partial segments is 1 or less</title>
<updated>2016-05-04T17:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>aduyck@mirantis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-02T16:38:12+00:00</published>
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In the event that the number of partial segments is equal to 1 we don't
really need to perform partial segmentation offload.  As such we should
skip multiplying the MSS and instead just clear the partial_segs value
since it will not provide any gain to advertise the frame as being GSO when
it is a single frame.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In the event that the number of partial segments is equal to 1 we don't
really need to perform partial segmentation offload.  As such we should
skip multiplying the MSS and instead just clear the partial_segs value
since it will not provide any gain to advertise the frame as being GSO when
it is a single frame.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>skbuff: Add pskb_extract() helper function</title>
<updated>2016-04-25T20:54:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-23T01:36:35+00:00</published>
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A pattern of skb usage seen in modules such as RDS-TCP is to
extract `to_copy' bytes from the received TCP segment, starting
at some offset `off' into a new skb `clone'. This is done in
the -&gt;data_ready callback, where the clone skb is queued up for rx on
the PF_RDS socket, while the parent TCP segment is returned unchanged
back to the TCP engine.

The existing code uses the sequence
	clone = skb_clone(..);
	pskb_pull(clone, off, ..);
	pskb_trim(clone, to_copy, ..);
with the intention of discarding the first `off' bytes. However,
skb_clone() + pskb_pull() implies pksb_expand_head(), which ends
up doing a redundant memcpy of bytes that will then get discarded
in __pskb_pull_tail().

To avoid this inefficiency, this commit adds pskb_extract() that
creates the clone, and memcpy's only the relevant header/frag/frag_list
to the start of `clone'. pskb_trim() is then invoked to trim clone
down to the requested to_copy bytes.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A pattern of skb usage seen in modules such as RDS-TCP is to
extract `to_copy' bytes from the received TCP segment, starting
at some offset `off' into a new skb `clone'. This is done in
the -&gt;data_ready callback, where the clone skb is queued up for rx on
the PF_RDS socket, while the parent TCP segment is returned unchanged
back to the TCP engine.

The existing code uses the sequence
	clone = skb_clone(..);
	pskb_pull(clone, off, ..);
	pskb_trim(clone, to_copy, ..);
with the intention of discarding the first `off' bytes. However,
skb_clone() + pskb_pull() implies pksb_expand_head(), which ends
up doing a redundant memcpy of bytes that will then get discarded
in __pskb_pull_tail().

To avoid this inefficiency, this commit adds pskb_extract() that
creates the clone, and memcpy's only the relevant header/frag/frag_list
to the start of `clone'. pskb_trim() is then invoked to trim clone
down to the requested to_copy bytes.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-04-23T22:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-23T22:26:24+00:00</published>
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Conflicts were two cases of simple overlapping changes,
nothing serious.

In the UDP case, we need to add a hlist_add_tail_rcu()
to linux/rculist.h, because we've moved UDP socket handling
away from using nulls lists.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts were two cases of simple overlapping changes,
nothing serious.

In the UDP case, we need to add a hlist_add_tail_rcu()
to linux/rculist.h, because we've moved UDP socket handling
away from using nulls lists.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vlan: pull on __vlan_insert_tag error path and fix csum correction</title>
<updated>2016-04-16T03:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-16T00:27:58+00:00</published>
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When __vlan_insert_tag() fails from skb_vlan_push() path due to the
skb_cow_head(), we need to undo the __skb_push() in the error path
as well that was done earlier to move skb-&gt;data pointer to mac header.

Moreover, I noticed that when in the non-error path the __skb_pull()
is done and the original offset to mac header was non-zero, we fixup
from a wrong skb-&gt;data offset in the checksum complete processing.

So the skb_postpush_rcsum() really needs to be done before __skb_pull()
where skb-&gt;data still points to the mac header start and thus operates
under the same conditions as in __vlan_insert_tag().

Fixes: 93515d53b133 ("net: move vlan pop/push functions into common code")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When __vlan_insert_tag() fails from skb_vlan_push() path due to the
skb_cow_head(), we need to undo the __skb_push() in the error path
as well that was done earlier to move skb-&gt;data pointer to mac header.

Moreover, I noticed that when in the non-error path the __skb_pull()
is done and the original offset to mac header was non-zero, we fixup
from a wrong skb-&gt;data offset in the checksum complete processing.

So the skb_postpush_rcsum() really needs to be done before __skb_pull()
where skb-&gt;data still points to the mac header start and thus operates
under the same conditions as in __vlan_insert_tag().

Fixes: 93515d53b133 ("net: move vlan pop/push functions into common code")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>GSO: Support partial segmentation offload</title>
<updated>2016-04-14T20:23:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>aduyck@mirantis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-11T01:45:03+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for something I am referring to as GSO partial.
The basic idea is that we can support a broader range of devices for
segmentation if we use fixed outer headers and have the hardware only
really deal with segmenting the inner header.  The idea behind the naming
is due to the fact that everything before csum_start will be fixed headers,
and everything after will be the region that is handled by hardware.

With the current implementation it allows us to add support for the
following GSO types with an inner TSO_MANGLEID or TSO6 offload:
NETIF_F_GSO_GRE
NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_CSUM
NETIF_F_GSO_IPIP
NETIF_F_GSO_SIT
NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL
NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM

In the case of hardware that already supports tunneling we may be able to
extend this further to support TSO_TCPV4 without TSO_MANGLEID if the
hardware can support updating inner IPv4 headers.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds support for something I am referring to as GSO partial.
The basic idea is that we can support a broader range of devices for
segmentation if we use fixed outer headers and have the hardware only
really deal with segmenting the inner header.  The idea behind the naming
is due to the fact that everything before csum_start will be fixed headers,
and everything after will be the region that is handled by hardware.

With the current implementation it allows us to add support for the
following GSO types with an inner TSO_MANGLEID or TSO6 offload:
NETIF_F_GSO_GRE
NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_CSUM
NETIF_F_GSO_IPIP
NETIF_F_GSO_SIT
NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL
NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM

In the case of hardware that already supports tunneling we may be able to
extend this further to support TSO_TCPV4 without TSO_MANGLEID if the
hardware can support updating inner IPv4 headers.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: remove a dubious unlikely() clause</title>
<updated>2016-03-20T20:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-20T18:27:47+00:00</published>
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TCP protocol is still used these days, and TCP uses
clones in its transmit path. We can not optimize linux
stack assuming it is mostly used in routers, or that TCP
is dead.

Fixes: 795bb1c00d ("net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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TCP protocol is still used these days, and TCP uses
clones in its transmit path. We can not optimize linux
stack assuming it is mostly used in routers, or that TCP
is dead.

Fixes: 795bb1c00d ("net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: adjust napi_consume_skb to handle non-NAPI callers</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T02:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jesper Dangaard Brouer</name>
<email>brouer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-11T08:43:58+00:00</published>
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Some drivers reuse/share code paths that free SKBs between NAPI
and non-NAPI calls. Adjust napi_consume_skb to handle this
use-case.

Before, calls from netpoll (w/ IRQs disabled) was handled and
indicated with a budget zero indication.  Use the same zero
indication to handle calls not originating from NAPI/softirq.
Simply handled by using dev_consume_skb_any().

This adds an extra branch+call for the netpoll case (checking
in_irq() + irqs_disabled()), but that is okay as this is a slowpath.

Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Some drivers reuse/share code paths that free SKBs between NAPI
and non-NAPI calls. Adjust napi_consume_skb to handle this
use-case.

Before, calls from netpoll (w/ IRQs disabled) was handled and
indicated with a budget zero indication.  Use the same zero
indication to handle calls not originating from NAPI/softirq.
Simply handled by using dev_consume_skb_any().

This adds an extra branch+call for the netpoll case (checking
in_irq() + irqs_disabled()), but that is okay as this is a slowpath.

Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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