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<title>linux.git/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c, branch v2.6.34</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ppp_generic: handle non-linear skbs when passing them to pppd</title>
<updated>2010-05-03T20:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Arlott</name>
<email>simon@fire.lp0.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-03T10:20:27+00:00</published>
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Frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU greater than 1500,
the skb is likely to be non-linear. If the skb needs to be passed to
pppd then the skb data must be read correctly.

The previous commit fixes an issue with accidentally sending skbs
to pppd based on an invalid read of the protocol type. When that
error occurred pppd was reading invalid skb data too.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU greater than 1500,
the skb is likely to be non-linear. If the skb needs to be passed to
pppd then the skb data must be read correctly.

The previous commit fixes an issue with accidentally sending skbs
to pppd based on an invalid read of the protocol type. When that
error occurred pppd was reading invalid skb data too.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp_generic: pull 2 bytes so that PPP_PROTO(skb) is valid</title>
<updated>2010-05-03T20:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Arlott</name>
<email>simon@fire.lp0.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-03T10:19:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ea8420e9f5dff7324607671f0b7ab7fbf726339d'/>
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In ppp_input(), PPP_PROTO(skb) may refer to invalid data in the skb.

If this happens and (proto &gt;= 0xc000 || proto == PPP_CCPFRAG) then
the packet is passed directly to pppd.

This occurs frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU
greater than 1500 because the skb is more likely to be non-linear.

The next 2 bytes need to be pulled in ppp_input(). The pull of 2
bytes in ppp_receive_frame() has been removed as it is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In ppp_input(), PPP_PROTO(skb) may refer to invalid data in the skb.

If this happens and (proto &gt;= 0xc000 || proto == PPP_CCPFRAG) then
the packet is passed directly to pppd.

This occurs frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU
greater than 1500 because the skb is more likely to be non-linear.

The next 2 bytes need to be pulled in ppp_input(). The pull of 2
bytes in ppp_receive_frame() has been removed as it is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp_generic.c severly whitespace damanged by 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a</title>
<updated>2010-01-19T10:12:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lennart Sorensen</name>
<email>lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-18T12:59:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fa44a73cc766c7f3bac71a66d564e0049b800325'/>
<id>fa44a73cc766c7f3bac71a66d564e0049b800325</id>
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I was just looking at ppp_generic, and noticed that it fairly recently
(as in the last year) got rather mangled with many spaces turned into tabs
in places they very much shouldn't have been.  I tracked it down to commit
9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a (ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign).

I am amazed if that patch passed the patch checking script.  I have no
idea what kind of weird editor setting did this, but it has to have been a
weird editor setting or a very unfortunate search and replace gone wrong.
I only found it trying to apply a patch I was playing with and wondering
why it wouldn't apply.  Then I found there were tabs in the middle of
comments that used to be spaces.

Well here is a patch that should fix it up as far as I can tell.

Purely whitespace repair.  No actual code changes.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen &lt;lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
I was just looking at ppp_generic, and noticed that it fairly recently
(as in the last year) got rather mangled with many spaces turned into tabs
in places they very much shouldn't have been.  I tracked it down to commit
9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a (ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign).

I am amazed if that patch passed the patch checking script.  I have no
idea what kind of weird editor setting did this, but it has to have been a
weird editor setting or a very unfortunate search and replace gone wrong.
I only found it trying to apply a patch I was playing with and wondering
why it wouldn't apply.  Then I found there were tabs in the middle of
comments that used to be spaces.

Well here is a patch that should fix it up as far as I can tell.

Purely whitespace repair.  No actual code changes.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen &lt;lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net: Move &amp;&amp; and || to end of previous line</title>
<updated>2009-12-03T21:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-03T07:58:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8e95a2026f3b43f7c3d676adaccd2de9532e8dcc'/>
<id>8e95a2026f3b43f7c3d676adaccd2de9532e8dcc</id>
<content type='text'>
Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.

Compile tested x86 allyesconfig only
Not all files compiled (not x86 compatible)

Added a few &gt; 80 column lines, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch complaints ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.

Compile tested x86 allyesconfig only
Not all files compiled (not x86 compatible)

Added a few &gt; 80 column lines, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch complaints ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Simplify ppp_generic pernet operations.</title>
<updated>2009-12-02T00:15:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-29T15:46:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=741a6fa210c5c8828af3819134f644842e0e9c09'/>
<id>741a6fa210c5c8828af3819134f644842e0e9c09</id>
<content type='text'>
Take advantage of the new pernet automatic storage management,
and stop using compatibility network namespace functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Take advantage of the new pernet automatic storage management,
and stop using compatibility network namespace functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netns: net_identifiers should be read_mostly</title>
<updated>2009-11-18T13:03:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-17T10:42:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f99189b186f3922ede4fa33c02f6edc735b8c981'/>
<id>f99189b186f3922ede4fa33c02f6edc735b8c981</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp: fix BUG on non-linear SKB (multilink receive)</title>
<updated>2009-11-17T07:51:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben McKeegan</name>
<email>ben@netservers.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-16T03:44:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=82b3cc1a2f5e46300a9dec4a8cc8106dc20a4c23'/>
<id>82b3cc1a2f5e46300a9dec4a8cc8106dc20a4c23</id>
<content type='text'>
PPP does not correctly call pskb_may_pull() on all necessary receive paths
before reading the PPP protocol, thus causing PPP to report seemingly
random 'unsupported protocols' and eventually trigger BUG_ON(skb-&gt;len &lt;
skb-&gt;data_len) in skb_pull_rcsum() when receiving multilink protocol in
non-linear skbs.

ppp_receive_nonmp_frame() does not call pskb_may_pull() before reading the
protocol number.  For the non-mp receive path this is not a problem, as
this check is done in ppp_receive_frame().  For the mp receive path,
ppp_mp_reconstruct() usually copies the data into a new linear skb.
However, in the case where the frame is made up of a single mp fragment,
the mp header is pulled and the existing skb used.  This skb was then
passed to ppp_receive_nonmp_frame() without checking if the encapsulated
protocol header could safely be read.

Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan &lt;ben@netservers.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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PPP does not correctly call pskb_may_pull() on all necessary receive paths
before reading the PPP protocol, thus causing PPP to report seemingly
random 'unsupported protocols' and eventually trigger BUG_ON(skb-&gt;len &lt;
skb-&gt;data_len) in skb_pull_rcsum() when receiving multilink protocol in
non-linear skbs.

ppp_receive_nonmp_frame() does not call pskb_may_pull() before reading the
protocol number.  For the non-mp receive path this is not a problem, as
this check is done in ppp_receive_frame().  For the mp receive path,
ppp_mp_reconstruct() usually copies the data into a new linear skb.
However, in the case where the frame is made up of a single mp fragment,
the mp header is pulled and the existing skb used.  This skb was then
passed to ppp_receive_nonmp_frame() without checking if the encapsulated
protocol header could safely be read.

Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan &lt;ben@netservers.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdev: convert pseudo drivers to netdev_tx_t</title>
<updated>2009-09-01T08:13:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-31T19:50:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=424efe9caf6047ffbcd6b383ff4d2347254aabf1'/>
<id>424efe9caf6047ffbcd6b383ff4d2347254aabf1</id>
<content type='text'>
These are all drivers that don't touch real hardware.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
These are all drivers that don't touch real hardware.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp_generic: Help GCC see that 'flen' is always initialized.</title>
<updated>2009-08-19T20:55:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-19T20:55:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=886f9fe68310168358f55028a03553ae154dfeb6'/>
<id>886f9fe68310168358f55028a03553ae154dfeb6</id>
<content type='text'>
It's too stupid to see that we always set flen to something
before we use it in ppp_mp_explode():

drivers/net/ppp_generic.c: In function 'ppp_push':
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c:1314: warning: 'flen' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c:1314: note: 'flen' was declared here

This started warning after commit a53a8b56827cc429c6d9f861ad558beeb5f6103f
("ppp: fix lost fragments in ppp_mp_explode() (resubmit)")

So just put an explicit unconditional initialization there to
hush it up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
It's too stupid to see that we always set flen to something
before we use it in ppp_mp_explode():

drivers/net/ppp_generic.c: In function 'ppp_push':
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c:1314: warning: 'flen' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c:1314: note: 'flen' was declared here

This started warning after commit a53a8b56827cc429c6d9f861ad558beeb5f6103f
("ppp: fix lost fragments in ppp_mp_explode() (resubmit)")

So just put an explicit unconditional initialization there to
hush it up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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