linux-stable.git/net/ethernet, branch linux-3.18.y

net: Add function for parsing the header length out of linear ethernet frames

2014-09-06T00:47:02+00:00

This patch updates some of the flow_dissector api so that it can be used to
parse the length of ethernet buffers stored in fragments.  Most of the
changes needed were to __skb_get_poff as it needed to be updated to support
sending a linear buffer instead of a skb.

I have split __skb_get_poff into two functions, the first is skb_get_poff
and it retains the functionality of the original __skb_get_poff.  The other
function is __skb_get_poff which now works much like __skb_flow_dissect in
relation to skb_flow_dissect in that it provides the same functionality but
works with just a data buffer and hlen instead of needing an skb.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks

2014-08-28T05:59:39+00:00

DSA is currently registering one packet_type function per EtherType it
needs to intercept in the receive path of a DSA-enabled Ethernet device.
Right now we have three of them: trailer, DSA and eDSA, and there might
be more in the future, this will not scale to the addition of new
protocols.

This patch proceeds with adding a new layer of abstraction and two new
functions:

dsa_switch_rcv() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
receive function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c

dsa_slave_xmit() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
transmit function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c

When we do create the per-port slave network devices, we iterate over
the switch protocol to assign the DSA-specific receive and transmit
operations.

A new fake ethertype value is used: ETH_P_XDSA to illustrate the fact
that this is no longer going to look like ETH_P_DSA or ETH_P_TRAILER
like it used to be.

This allows us to greatly simplify the check in eth_type_trans() and
always override the skb->protocol with ETH_P_XDSA for Ethernet switches
tagged protocol, while also reducing the number repetitive slave
netdevice_ops assignments.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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: eth_type_trans() should use skb_header_pointer()

2014-01-16T23:30:31+00:00

eth_type_trans() can read uninitialized memory as drivers
do not necessarily pull more than 14 bytes in skb->head before
calling it.

As David suggested, we can use skb_header_pointer() to
fix this without breaking some drivers that might not expect
eth_type_trans() pulling 2 additional bytes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ethernet: use likely() for common Ethernet encap

2013-10-01T04:52:53+00:00

Mark code path's likely/unlikely based on most common usage.
  * Very few devices use dsa tags.
  * Most traffic is Ethernet (not 802.2)
  * No sane person uses trailer type or Novell encapsulation

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ethernet: cleanup eth_type_trans

2013-10-01T04:52:52+00:00

Remove old legacy comment and weird if condition.
The comment has outlived it's stay and is throwback to some
early net code (before my time). Maybe Dave remembers what it meant.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ethernet: eth.c: removed checkpatch warnings and errors

2013-09-20T18:41:02+00:00

removed these checkpatch.pl warnings:
net/ethernet/eth.c:61: WARNING: Use #include  instead of 
net/ethernet/eth.c:136: WARNING: Prefer netdev_dbg(netdev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then pr_debug(...  to printk(KERN_DEBUG ...
net/ethernet/eth.c:181: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'

Signed-off-by: Avinash Kumar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix sysfs_format_mac() code duplication.

2013-07-17T00:09:22+00:00

It's just a duplicate implementation of "%*phC".  Thanks to Joe
Perches for showing that we had exactly this support in the
lib/vsprintf.c code already.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add ETH_P_802_3_MIN

2013-03-28T05:20:42+00:00

Add a new constant ETH_P_802_3_MIN, the minimum ethernet type for
an 802.3 frame. Frames with a lower value in the ethernet type field
are Ethernet II.

Also update all the users of this value that David Miller and
I could find to use the new constant.

Also correct a bug in util.c. The comparison with ETH_P_802_3_MIN
should be >= not >.

As suggested by Jesse Gross.

Compile tested only.

Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Jesse Gross 
Cc: Karsten Keil 
Cc: John W. Linville 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Bart De Schuymer 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: Marcel Holtmann 
Cc: Gustavo Padovan 
Cc: Johan Hedberg 
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handling

2013-01-21T19:07:44+00:00

When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac
address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow
callers to implement error handling nicely.

This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part,
then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do
the real commit if hardware address is set successfully.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller