linux-stable.git/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c, branch linux-3.0.y

ipv6: don't stop backtracking in fib6_lookup_1 if subtree does not match

2013-09-14T12:50:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3e3be275851bc6fc90bfdcd732cd95563acd982b ]

In case a subtree did not match we currently stop backtracking and return
NULL (root table from fib_lookup). This could yield in invalid routing
table lookups when using subtrees.

Instead continue to backtrack until a valid subtree or node is found
and return this match.

Also remove unneeded NULL check.

Reported-by: Teco Boot 
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Cc: David Lamparter 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

2013-01-17T16:43:58+00:00

commit c7ac8679bec9397afe8918f788cbcef88c38da54 upstream.

The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir()

2012-02-13T19:06:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit d3aaeb38c40e5a6c08dd31a1b64da65c4352be36, along
  with dependent backports of commits:
     69cce1d1404968f78b177a0314f5822d5afdbbfb
     9de79c127cccecb11ae6a21ab1499e87aa222880
     218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e
     580da35a31f91a594f3090b7a2c39b85cb051a12
     f7e57044eeb1841847c24aa06766c8290c202583
     e049f28883126c689cf95859480d9ee4ab23b7fa ]

Gergely Kalman reported crashes in check_peer_redir().

It appears commit f39925dbde778 (ipv4: Cache learned redirect
information in inetpeer.) added a race, leading to possible NULL ptr
dereference.

Since we can now change dst neighbour, we should make sure a reader can
safely use a neighbour.

Add RCU protection to dst neighbour, and make sure check_peer_redir()
can be called safely by different cpus in parallel.

As neighbours are already freed after one RCU grace period, this patch
should not add typical RCU penalty (cache cold effects)

Many thanks to Gergely for providing a pretty report pointing to the
bug.

Reported-by: Gergely Kalman 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks

2011-05-02T22:26:28+00:00

Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink
dump callbacks.

I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making
good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations.

This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow
on a workload adding/removing network devices in background.

All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does
roughly a revert of commits :

1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks

This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed.

It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu
read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: constify ip headers and in6_addr

2011-04-22T18:04:14+00:00

Add const qualifiers to structs iphdr, ipv6hdr and in6_addr pointers
where possible, to make code intention more obvious.

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

ipv6: Convert to use flowi6 where applicable.

2011-03-12T23:08:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

fib: avoid false sharing on fib_table_hash

2010-10-16T18:13:23+00:00

While doing profile analysis, I found fib_hash_table was sometime in a
cache line shared by a possibly often written kernel structure.

(CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH || !CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES)

It's hard to detect because not easily reproductible.

Make sure we allocate a full cache line to keep this shared in all cpus
caches.

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

net-next: remove useless union keyword

2010-06-11T06:31:35+00:00

remove useless union keyword in rtable, rt6_info and dn_route.

Since there is only one member in a union, the union keyword isn't useful.

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

net: Fix various endianness glitches

2010-04-21T02:06:52+00:00

Sparse can help us find endianness bugs, but we need to make some
cleanups to be able to more easily spot real bugs.

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

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-04-11T21:53:53+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c