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<title>linux-stable.git/net/sctp, branch v3.4</title>
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<title>sctp: check cached dst before using it</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T03:15:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-04T05:24:54+00:00</published>
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dst_check() will take care of SA (and obsolete field), hence
IPsec rekeying scenario is taken into account.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yaseivch &lt;vyasevich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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dst_check() will take care of SA (and obsolete field), hence
IPsec rekeying scenario is taken into account.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yaseivch &lt;vyasevich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sctp: Allow struct sctp_event_subscribe to grow without breaking binaries</title>
<updated>2012-04-04T22:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-03T22:17:53+00:00</published>
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getsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) performs a length check and returns
an error if the user provides less bytes than the size of struct
sctp_event_subscribe.

Struct sctp_event_subscribe needs to be extended by an u8 for every
new event or notification type that is added.

This obviously makes getsockopt fail for binaries that are compiled
against an older versions of &lt;net/sctp/user.h&gt; which do not contain
all event types.

This patch changes getsockopt behaviour to no longer return an error
if not enough bytes are being provided by the user. Instead, it
returns as much of sctp_event_subscribe as fits into the provided buffer.

This leads to the new behavior that users see what they have been aware
of at compile time.

The setsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) API is already behaving like this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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getsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) performs a length check and returns
an error if the user provides less bytes than the size of struct
sctp_event_subscribe.

Struct sctp_event_subscribe needs to be extended by an u8 for every
new event or notification type that is added.

This obviously makes getsockopt fail for binaries that are compiled
against an older versions of &lt;net/sctp/user.h&gt; which do not contain
all event types.

This patch changes getsockopt behaviour to no longer return an error
if not enough bytes are being provided by the user. Instead, it
returns as much of sctp_event_subscribe as fits into the provided buffer.

This leads to the new behavior that users see what they have been aware
of at compile time.

The setsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) API is already behaving like this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sctp: Export sctp_do_peeloff</title>
<updated>2012-03-08T21:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Poirier</name>
<email>bpoirier@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-08T05:55:58+00:00</published>
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lookup sctp_association within sctp_do_peeloff() to enable its use outside of
the sctp code with minimal knowledge of the former.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier &lt;bpoirier@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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lookup sctp_association within sctp_do_peeloff() to enable its use outside of
the sctp code with minimal knowledge of the former.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier &lt;bpoirier@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-01-08T21:21:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-08T21:21:22+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits)
  Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment.
  misc latin1 to utf8 conversions
  devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment
  btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon.
  fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g
  SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call
  tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage
  mac80211: drop spelling fix
  types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures'
  typo fixes: aera -&gt; area, exntension -&gt; extension
  devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'.
  sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status'
  decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline
  treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer'
  hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS
  treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.
  clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR
  gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO'
  leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2'
  sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new
kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits)
  Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment.
  misc latin1 to utf8 conversions
  devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment
  btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon.
  fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g
  SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call
  tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage
  mac80211: drop spelling fix
  types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures'
  typo fixes: aera -&gt; area, exntension -&gt; extension
  devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'.
  sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status'
  decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline
  treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer'
  hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS
  treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.
  clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR
  gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO'
  leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2'
  sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new
kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2011-12-23T22:13:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-23T22:13:56+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c

Just two overlapping changes, one added an initialization of
a local variable, and another change added a new local variable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c

Just two overlapping changes, one added an initialization of
a local variable, and another change added a new local variable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sctp: Do not account for sizeof(struct sk_buff) in estimated rwnd</title>
<updated>2011-12-20T18:58:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-19T04:11:40+00:00</published>
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When checking whether a DATA chunk fits into the estimated rwnd a
full sizeof(struct sk_buff) is added to the needed chunk size. This
quickly exhausts the available rwnd space and leads to packets being
sent which are much below the PMTU limit. This can lead to much worse
performance.

The reason for this behaviour was to avoid putting too much memory
pressure on the receiver. The concept is not completely irational
because a Linux receiver does in fact clone an skb for each DATA chunk
delivered. However, Linux also reserves half the available socket
buffer space for data structures therefore usage of it is already
accounted for.

When proposing to change this the last time it was noted that this
behaviour was introduced to solve a performance issue caused by rwnd
overusage in combination with small DATA chunks.

Trying to reproduce this I found that with the sk_buff overhead removed,
the performance would improve significantly unless socket buffer limits
are increased.

The following numbers have been gathered using a patched iperf
supporting SCTP over a live 1 Gbit ethernet network. The -l option
was used to limit DATA chunk sizes. The numbers listed are based on
the average of 3 test runs each. Default values have been used for
sk_(r|w)mem.

Chunk
Size    Unpatched     No Overhead
-------------------------------------
   4    15.2 Kbit [!]   12.2 Mbit [!]
   8    35.8 Kbit [!]   26.0 Mbit [!]
  16    95.5 Kbit [!]   54.4 Mbit [!]
  32   106.7 Mbit      102.3 Mbit
  64   189.2 Mbit      188.3 Mbit
 128   331.2 Mbit      334.8 Mbit
 256   537.7 Mbit      536.0 Mbit
 512   766.9 Mbit      766.6 Mbit
1024   810.1 Mbit      808.6 Mbit

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When checking whether a DATA chunk fits into the estimated rwnd a
full sizeof(struct sk_buff) is added to the needed chunk size. This
quickly exhausts the available rwnd space and leads to packets being
sent which are much below the PMTU limit. This can lead to much worse
performance.

The reason for this behaviour was to avoid putting too much memory
pressure on the receiver. The concept is not completely irational
because a Linux receiver does in fact clone an skb for each DATA chunk
delivered. However, Linux also reserves half the available socket
buffer space for data structures therefore usage of it is already
accounted for.

When proposing to change this the last time it was noted that this
behaviour was introduced to solve a performance issue caused by rwnd
overusage in combination with small DATA chunks.

Trying to reproduce this I found that with the sk_buff overhead removed,
the performance would improve significantly unless socket buffer limits
are increased.

The following numbers have been gathered using a patched iperf
supporting SCTP over a live 1 Gbit ethernet network. The -l option
was used to limit DATA chunk sizes. The numbers listed are based on
the average of 3 test runs each. Default values have been used for
sk_(r|w)mem.

Chunk
Size    Unpatched     No Overhead
-------------------------------------
   4    15.2 Kbit [!]   12.2 Mbit [!]
   8    35.8 Kbit [!]   26.0 Mbit [!]
  16    95.5 Kbit [!]   54.4 Mbit [!]
  32   106.7 Mbit      102.3 Mbit
  64   189.2 Mbit      188.3 Mbit
 128   331.2 Mbit      334.8 Mbit
 256   537.7 Mbit      536.0 Mbit
 512   766.9 Mbit      766.6 Mbit
1024   810.1 Mbit      808.6 Mbit

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sctp: fix incorrect overflow check on autoclose</title>
<updated>2011-12-19T21:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xi Wang</name>
<email>xi.wang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-16T12:44:15+00:00</published>
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Commit 8ffd3208 voids the previous patches f6778aab and 810c0719 for
limiting the autoclose value.  If userspace passes in -1 on 32-bit
platform, the overflow check didn't work and autoclose would be set
to 0xffffffff.

This patch defines a max_autoclose (in seconds) for limiting the value
and exposes it through sysctl, with the following intentions.

1) Avoid overflowing autoclose * HZ.

2) Keep the default autoclose bound consistent across 32- and 64-bit
   platforms (INT_MAX / HZ in this patch).

3) Keep the autoclose value consistent between setsockopt() and
   getsockopt() calls.

Suggested-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang &lt;xi.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit 8ffd3208 voids the previous patches f6778aab and 810c0719 for
limiting the autoclose value.  If userspace passes in -1 on 32-bit
platform, the overflow check didn't work and autoclose would be set
to 0xffffffff.

This patch defines a max_autoclose (in seconds) for limiting the value
and exposes it through sysctl, with the following intentions.

1) Avoid overflowing autoclose * HZ.

2) Keep the default autoclose bound consistent across 32- and 64-bit
   platforms (INT_MAX / HZ in this patch).

3) Keep the autoclose value consistent between setsockopt() and
   getsockopt() calls.

Suggested-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang &lt;xi.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)</title>
<updated>2011-12-11T23:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-10T09:48:31+00:00</published>
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Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.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>2011-12-02T18:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-02T18:49:21+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.</title>
<updated>2011-12-02T13:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin P. Mattock</name>
<email>justinmattock@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-29T04:31:00+00:00</published>
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The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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