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<title>linux-stable.git/net/phonet, branch v3.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-15T15:47:34+00:00</published>
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These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix files explicitly needing to include module.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-27T13:12:25+00:00</published>
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With calls to modular infrastructure, these files really
needs the full module.h header.  Call it out so some of the
cleanups of implicit and unrequired includes elsewhere can be
cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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With calls to modular infrastructure, these files really
needs the full module.h header.  Call it out so some of the
cleanups of implicit and unrequired includes elsewhere can be
cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER</title>
<updated>2011-08-02T11:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-01T16:19:00+00:00</published>
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When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.

Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

//smpl
@@ expression P; @@

- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.

Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

//smpl
@@ expression P; @@

- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size</title>
<updated>2011-06-10T03:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Rose</name>
<email>gregory.v.rose@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-10T01:27:09+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: convert %p usage to %pK</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T05:13:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Rosenberg</name>
<email>drosenberg@vsecurity.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T12:17:35+00:00</published>
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The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces.  Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers.  The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.

If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs.  If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
 If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges.  Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".

The supporting code for kptr_restrict and %pK are currently in the -mm
tree.  This patch converts users of %p in net/ to %pK.  Cases of printing
pointers to the syslog are not covered, since this would eliminate useful
information for postmortem debugging and the reading of the syslog is
already optionally protected by the dmesg_restrict sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg &lt;drosenberg@vsecurity.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces.  Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers.  The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.

If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs.  If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
 If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges.  Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".

The supporting code for kptr_restrict and %pK are currently in the -mm
tree.  This patch converts users of %p in net/ to %pK.  Cases of printing
pointers to the syslog are not covered, since this would eliminate useful
information for postmortem debugging and the reading of the syslog is
already optionally protected by the dmesg_restrict sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg &lt;drosenberg@vsecurity.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T20:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T20:43:21+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
  macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
  tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
  tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
  macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
  networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
  irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
  be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
  irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
  atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
  pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
  isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
  tg3: Update version to 3.119
  tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
  macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
  tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
  tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
  macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
  networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
  irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
  be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
  irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
  atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
  pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
  isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
  tg3: Update version to 3.119
  tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()</title>
<updated>2011-05-08T05:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-18T04:09:03+00:00</published>
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The rcu callback phonet_device_rcu_free() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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The rcu callback phonet_device_rcu_free() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks</title>
<updated>2011-05-02T22:26:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-27T22:56:07+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Phonet: convert bound sockets hash list to RCU</title>
<updated>2011-04-15T04:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rémi Denis-Courmont</name>
<email>remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-12T23:27:36+00:00</published>
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This gets rid of the last spinlock in the Phonet stack proper.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This gets rid of the last spinlock in the Phonet stack proper.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T21:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rémi Denis-Courmont</name>
<email>remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-15T21:55:49+00:00</published>
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When the pipe uses aligned-mode data packets, we must reserve 4 bytes
instead of 3 for the pipe protocol header. Otherwise the Phonet header
would not be aligned, resulting in potentially corrupted headers with
later unaligned memory writes.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When the pipe uses aligned-mode data packets, we must reserve 4 bytes
instead of 3 for the pipe protocol header. Otherwise the Phonet header
would not be aligned, resulting in potentially corrupted headers with
later unaligned memory writes.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont &lt;remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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