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<title>rxrpc: Fix races between skb free, ACK generation and replying</title>
<updated>2016-08-06T04:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T13:11:40+00:00</published>
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Inside the kafs filesystem it is possible to occasionally have a call
processed and terminated before we've had a chance to check whether we need
to clean up the rx queue for that call because afs_send_simple_reply() ends
the call when it is done, but this is done in a workqueue item that might
happen to run to completion before afs_deliver_to_call() completes.

Further, it is possible for rxrpc_kernel_send_data() to be called to send a
reply before the last request-phase data skb is released.  The rxrpc skb
destructor is where the ACK processing is done and the call state is
advanced upon release of the last skb.  ACK generation is also deferred to
a work item because it's possible that the skb destructor is not called in
a context where kernel_sendmsg() can be invoked.

To this end, the following changes are made:

 (1) kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() is added.  This should be called whenever
     an skb is emptied so as to crank the ACK and call states.  This does
     not release the skb, however.  kernel_rxrpc_free_skb() must now be
     called to achieve that.  These together replace
     rxrpc_kernel_data_delivered().

 (2) kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() is wrapped by afs_data_consumed().

     This makes afs_deliver_to_call() easier to work as the skb can simply
     be discarded unconditionally here without trying to work out what the
     return value of the -&gt;deliver() function means.

     The -&gt;deliver() functions can, via afs_data_complete(),
     afs_transfer_reply() and afs_extract_data() mark that an skb has been
     consumed (thereby cranking the state) without the need to
     conditionally free the skb to make sure the state is correct on an
     incoming call for when the call processor tries to send the reply.

 (3) rxrpc_recvmsg() now has to call kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() when it
     has finished with a packet and MSG_PEEK isn't set.

 (4) rxrpc_packet_destructor() no longer calls rxrpc_hard_ACK_data().

     Because of this, we no longer need to clear the destructor and put the
     call before we free the skb in cases where we don't want the ACK/call
     state to be cranked.

 (5) The -&gt;deliver() call-type callbacks are made to return -EAGAIN rather
     than 0 if they expect more data (afs_extract_data() returns -EAGAIN to
     the delivery function already), and the caller is now responsible for
     producing an abort if that was the last packet.

 (6) There are many bits of unmarshalling code where:

 		ret = afs_extract_data(call, skb, last, ...);
		switch (ret) {
		case 0:		break;
		case -EAGAIN:	return 0;
		default:	return ret;
		}

     is to be found.  As -EAGAIN can now be passed back to the caller, we
     now just return if ret &lt; 0:

 		ret = afs_extract_data(call, skb, last, ...);
		if (ret &lt; 0)
			return ret;

 (7) Checks for trailing data and empty final data packets has been
     consolidated as afs_data_complete().  So:

		if (skb-&gt;len &gt; 0)
			return -EBADMSG;
		if (!last)
			return 0;

     becomes:

		ret = afs_data_complete(call, skb, last);
		if (ret &lt; 0)
			return ret;

 (8) afs_transfer_reply() now checks the amount of data it has against the
     amount of data desired and the amount of data in the skb and returns
     an error to induce an abort if we don't get exactly what we want.

Without these changes, the following oops can occasionally be observed,
particularly if some printks are inserted into the delivery path:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: kafs(E) af_rxrpc(E) [last unloaded: af_rxrpc]
CPU: 0 PID: 1305 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G            E   4.7.0-fsdevel+ #1303
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
Workqueue: kafsd afs_async_workfn [kafs]
task: ffff88040be041c0 ti: ffff88040c070000 task.ti: ffff88040c070000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8108fd3c&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8108fd3c&gt;] __lock_acquire+0xcf/0x15a1
RSP: 0018:ffff88040c073bc0  EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88040d29a710
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88040d29a710
RBP: ffff88040c073c70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88040be041c0 R15: ffffffff814c928f
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa4595f4750 CR3: 0000000001c14000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
Stack:
 0000000000000006 000000000be04930 0000000000000000 ffff880400000000
 ffff880400000000 ffffffff8108f847 ffff88040be041c0 ffffffff81050446
 ffff8803fc08a920 ffff8803fc08a958 ffff88040be041c0 ffff88040c073c38
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8108f847&gt;] ? mark_held_locks+0x5e/0x74
 [&lt;ffffffff81050446&gt;] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x9b/0xa1
 [&lt;ffffffff8108f9ca&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16d/0x189
 [&lt;ffffffff810915f4&gt;] lock_acquire+0x122/0x1b6
 [&lt;ffffffff810915f4&gt;] ? lock_acquire+0x122/0x1b6
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] ? skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffff81609dbf&gt;] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x49
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] ? skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffffa009aa92&gt;] afs_deliver_to_call+0x344/0x39d [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffffa009ab37&gt;] afs_process_async_call+0x4c/0xd5 [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffffa0099e9c&gt;] afs_async_workfn+0xe/0x10 [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffff81063a3a&gt;] process_one_work+0x29d/0x57c
 [&lt;ffffffff81064ac2&gt;] worker_thread+0x24a/0x385
 [&lt;ffffffff81064878&gt;] ? rescuer_thread+0x2d0/0x2d0
 [&lt;ffffffff810696f5&gt;] kthread+0xf3/0xfb
 [&lt;ffffffff8160a6ff&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffff81069602&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1cf/0x1cf

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Inside the kafs filesystem it is possible to occasionally have a call
processed and terminated before we've had a chance to check whether we need
to clean up the rx queue for that call because afs_send_simple_reply() ends
the call when it is done, but this is done in a workqueue item that might
happen to run to completion before afs_deliver_to_call() completes.

Further, it is possible for rxrpc_kernel_send_data() to be called to send a
reply before the last request-phase data skb is released.  The rxrpc skb
destructor is where the ACK processing is done and the call state is
advanced upon release of the last skb.  ACK generation is also deferred to
a work item because it's possible that the skb destructor is not called in
a context where kernel_sendmsg() can be invoked.

To this end, the following changes are made:

 (1) kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() is added.  This should be called whenever
     an skb is emptied so as to crank the ACK and call states.  This does
     not release the skb, however.  kernel_rxrpc_free_skb() must now be
     called to achieve that.  These together replace
     rxrpc_kernel_data_delivered().

 (2) kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() is wrapped by afs_data_consumed().

     This makes afs_deliver_to_call() easier to work as the skb can simply
     be discarded unconditionally here without trying to work out what the
     return value of the -&gt;deliver() function means.

     The -&gt;deliver() functions can, via afs_data_complete(),
     afs_transfer_reply() and afs_extract_data() mark that an skb has been
     consumed (thereby cranking the state) without the need to
     conditionally free the skb to make sure the state is correct on an
     incoming call for when the call processor tries to send the reply.

 (3) rxrpc_recvmsg() now has to call kernel_rxrpc_data_consumed() when it
     has finished with a packet and MSG_PEEK isn't set.

 (4) rxrpc_packet_destructor() no longer calls rxrpc_hard_ACK_data().

     Because of this, we no longer need to clear the destructor and put the
     call before we free the skb in cases where we don't want the ACK/call
     state to be cranked.

 (5) The -&gt;deliver() call-type callbacks are made to return -EAGAIN rather
     than 0 if they expect more data (afs_extract_data() returns -EAGAIN to
     the delivery function already), and the caller is now responsible for
     producing an abort if that was the last packet.

 (6) There are many bits of unmarshalling code where:

 		ret = afs_extract_data(call, skb, last, ...);
		switch (ret) {
		case 0:		break;
		case -EAGAIN:	return 0;
		default:	return ret;
		}

     is to be found.  As -EAGAIN can now be passed back to the caller, we
     now just return if ret &lt; 0:

 		ret = afs_extract_data(call, skb, last, ...);
		if (ret &lt; 0)
			return ret;

 (7) Checks for trailing data and empty final data packets has been
     consolidated as afs_data_complete().  So:

		if (skb-&gt;len &gt; 0)
			return -EBADMSG;
		if (!last)
			return 0;

     becomes:

		ret = afs_data_complete(call, skb, last);
		if (ret &lt; 0)
			return ret;

 (8) afs_transfer_reply() now checks the amount of data it has against the
     amount of data desired and the amount of data in the skb and returns
     an error to induce an abort if we don't get exactly what we want.

Without these changes, the following oops can occasionally be observed,
particularly if some printks are inserted into the delivery path:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: kafs(E) af_rxrpc(E) [last unloaded: af_rxrpc]
CPU: 0 PID: 1305 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G            E   4.7.0-fsdevel+ #1303
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
Workqueue: kafsd afs_async_workfn [kafs]
task: ffff88040be041c0 ti: ffff88040c070000 task.ti: ffff88040c070000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8108fd3c&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8108fd3c&gt;] __lock_acquire+0xcf/0x15a1
RSP: 0018:ffff88040c073bc0  EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88040d29a710
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88040d29a710
RBP: ffff88040c073c70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88040be041c0 R15: ffffffff814c928f
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa4595f4750 CR3: 0000000001c14000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
Stack:
 0000000000000006 000000000be04930 0000000000000000 ffff880400000000
 ffff880400000000 ffffffff8108f847 ffff88040be041c0 ffffffff81050446
 ffff8803fc08a920 ffff8803fc08a958 ffff88040be041c0 ffff88040c073c38
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8108f847&gt;] ? mark_held_locks+0x5e/0x74
 [&lt;ffffffff81050446&gt;] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x9b/0xa1
 [&lt;ffffffff8108f9ca&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16d/0x189
 [&lt;ffffffff810915f4&gt;] lock_acquire+0x122/0x1b6
 [&lt;ffffffff810915f4&gt;] ? lock_acquire+0x122/0x1b6
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] ? skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffff81609dbf&gt;] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x49
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] ? skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffff814c928f&gt;] skb_dequeue+0x18/0x61
 [&lt;ffffffffa009aa92&gt;] afs_deliver_to_call+0x344/0x39d [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffffa009ab37&gt;] afs_process_async_call+0x4c/0xd5 [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffffa0099e9c&gt;] afs_async_workfn+0xe/0x10 [kafs]
 [&lt;ffffffff81063a3a&gt;] process_one_work+0x29d/0x57c
 [&lt;ffffffff81064ac2&gt;] worker_thread+0x24a/0x385
 [&lt;ffffffff81064878&gt;] ? rescuer_thread+0x2d0/0x2d0
 [&lt;ffffffff810696f5&gt;] kthread+0xf3/0xfb
 [&lt;ffffffff8160a6ff&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffff81069602&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1cf/0x1cf

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Limit the listening backlog</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T01:14:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-10T21:30:37+00:00</published>
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Limit the socket incoming call backlog queue size so that a remote client
can't pump in sufficient new calls that the server runs out of memory.  Note
that this is partially theoretical at the moment since whilst the number of
calls is limited, the number of packets trying to set up new calls is not.
This will be addressed in a later patch.

If the caller of listen() specifies a backlog INT_MAX, then they get the
current maximum; anything else greater than max_backlog or anything
negative incurs EINVAL.

The limit on the maximum queue size can be set by:

	echo N &gt;/proc/sys/net/rxrpc/max_backlog

where 4&lt;=N&lt;=32.

Further, set the default backlog to 0, requiring listen() to be called
before we start actually queueing new calls.  Whilst this kind of is a
change in the UAPI, the caller can't actually *accept* new calls anyway
unless they've first called listen() to put the socket into the LISTENING
state - thus the aforementioned new calls would otherwise just sit there,
eating up kernel memory.  (Note that sockets that don't have a non-zero
service ID bound don't get incoming calls anyway.)

Given that the default backlog is now 0, make the AFS filesystem call
kernel_listen() to set the maximum backlog for itself.

Possible improvements include:

 (1) Trimming a too-large backlog to max_backlog when listen is called.

 (2) Trimming the backlog value whenever the value is used so that changes
     to max_backlog are applied to an open socket automatically.  Note that
     the AFS filesystem opens one socket and keeps it open for extended
     periods, so would miss out on changes to max_backlog.

 (3) Having a separate setting for the AFS filesystem.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Limit the socket incoming call backlog queue size so that a remote client
can't pump in sufficient new calls that the server runs out of memory.  Note
that this is partially theoretical at the moment since whilst the number of
calls is limited, the number of packets trying to set up new calls is not.
This will be addressed in a later patch.

If the caller of listen() specifies a backlog INT_MAX, then they get the
current maximum; anything else greater than max_backlog or anything
negative incurs EINVAL.

The limit on the maximum queue size can be set by:

	echo N &gt;/proc/sys/net/rxrpc/max_backlog

where 4&lt;=N&lt;=32.

Further, set the default backlog to 0, requiring listen() to be called
before we start actually queueing new calls.  Whilst this kind of is a
change in the UAPI, the caller can't actually *accept* new calls anyway
unless they've first called listen() to put the socket into the LISTENING
state - thus the aforementioned new calls would otherwise just sit there,
eating up kernel memory.  (Note that sockets that don't have a non-zero
service ID bound don't get incoming calls anyway.)

Given that the default backlog is now 0, make the AFS filesystem call
kernel_listen() to set the maximum backlog for itself.

Possible improvements include:

 (1) Trimming a too-large backlog to max_backlog when listen is called.

 (2) Trimming the backlog value whenever the value is used so that changes
     to max_backlog are applied to an open socket automatically.  Note that
     the AFS filesystem opens one socket and keeps it open for extended
     periods, so would miss out on changes to max_backlog.

 (3) Having a separate setting for the AFS filesystem.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses</title>
<updated>2016-05-27T22:26:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T21:23:25+00:00</published>
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Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they
pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
unsigned type.

However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that
were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any
users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments.

This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find
on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the
moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE()
because there are probably still architecture specific users
elsewhere.

Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off
using 'if (err)' or 'if (err &lt; 0)'.
The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for
is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove
the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'.
For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions
are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior.

I was using this definition for testing:

 #define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL &amp;&amp; \
       unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) &gt;= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO))

which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with
the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed
to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time
warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument.

I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended
up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After
the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion
(fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus
asked me to send the whole thing again.

[ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andrzej Hajda &lt;a.hajda@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt; # For nvmem part
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they
pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
unsigned type.

However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that
were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any
users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments.

This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find
on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the
moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE()
because there are probably still architecture specific users
elsewhere.

Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off
using 'if (err)' or 'if (err &lt; 0)'.
The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for
is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove
the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'.
For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions
are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior.

I was using this definition for testing:

 #define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL &amp;&amp; \
       unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) &gt;= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO))

which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with
the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed
to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time
warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument.

I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended
up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After
the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion
(fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus
asked me to send the whole thing again.

[ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andrzej Hajda &lt;a.hajda@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt; # For nvmem part
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T23:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-17T23:26:30+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

   2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

   3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

   4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

   5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

   6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
      actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous.  From Eric
      Dumazet.

   7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
      driver, from Gal Pressman.

   9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

  10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

  11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

  12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

  13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
      coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
      socket timestamp sampling.  From Martin KaFai Lau.

  15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
      Nicolas Dichtel.

  16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

  17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
      Reynes.

  18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

  19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
      Vivien Didelot

  20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
  Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
  Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
  r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
  phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
  phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
  bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
  asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
  switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
  net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
  tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
  drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
  qed: add support for dcbx.
  ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
  qed: Remove a stray tab
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
  bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
  stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

   2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

   3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

   4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

   5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

   6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
      actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous.  From Eric
      Dumazet.

   7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
      driver, from Gal Pressman.

   9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

  10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

  11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

  12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

  13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
      coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
      socket timestamp sampling.  From Martin KaFai Lau.

  15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
      Nicolas Dichtel.

  16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

  17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
      Reynes.

  18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

  19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
      Vivien Didelot

  20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
  Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
  Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
  r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
  phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
  phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
  bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
  asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
  switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
  net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
  tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
  drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
  qed: add support for dcbx.
  ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
  qed: Remove a stray tab
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
  bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
  stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: switch to -&gt;iterate_shared()</title>
<updated>2016-05-10T18:27:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T18:27:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=29884eff1f0f7b03417eaaffa898f9d9d53b0203'/>
<id>29884eff1f0f7b03417eaaffa898f9d9d53b0203</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>make ext2_get_page() and friends work without external serialization</title>
<updated>2016-05-02T23:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-22T19:06:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=be5b82dbfec2a900925da4437af3c60b61f4c53d'/>
<id>be5b82dbfec2a900925da4437af3c60b61f4c53d</id>
<content type='text'>
Right now ext2_get_page() (and its analogues in a bunch of other filesystems)
relies upon the directory being locked - the way it sets and tests Checked and
Error bits would be racy without that.  Switch to a slightly different scheme,
_not_ setting Checked in case of failure.  That way the logics becomes
	if Checked =&gt; OK
	else if Error =&gt; fail
	else if !validate =&gt; fail
	else =&gt; OK
with validation setting Checked or Error on success and failure resp. and
returning which one had happened.  Equivalent to the current logics, but unlike
the current logics not sensitive to the order of set_bit, test_bit getting
reordered by CPU, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Right now ext2_get_page() (and its analogues in a bunch of other filesystems)
relies upon the directory being locked - the way it sets and tests Checked and
Error bits would be racy without that.  Switch to a slightly different scheme,
_not_ setting Checked in case of failure.  That way the logics becomes
	if Checked =&gt; OK
	else if Error =&gt; fail
	else if !validate =&gt; fail
	else =&gt; OK
with validation setting Checked or Error on success and failure resp. and
returning which one had happened.  Equivalent to the current logics, but unlike
the current logics not sensitive to the order of set_bit, test_bit getting
reordered by CPU, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Differentiate local and remote abort codes in structs</title>
<updated>2016-04-11T19:34:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T16:23:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dc44b3a09aec9ac57c1e7410677c87c0e6453624'/>
<id>dc44b3a09aec9ac57c1e7410677c87c0e6453624</id>
<content type='text'>
In the rxrpc_connection and rxrpc_call structs, there's one field to hold
the abort code, no matter whether that value was generated locally to be
sent or was received from the peer via an abort packet.

Split the abort code fields in two for cleanliness sake and add an error
field to hold the Linux error number to the rxrpc_call struct too
(sometimes this is generated in a context where we can't return it to
userspace directly).

Furthermore, add a skb mark to indicate a packet that caused a local abort
to be generated so that recvmsg() can pick up the correct abort code.  A
future addition will need to be to indicate to userspace the difference
between aborts via a control message.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In the rxrpc_connection and rxrpc_call structs, there's one field to hold
the abort code, no matter whether that value was generated locally to be
sent or was received from the peer via an abort packet.

Split the abort code fields in two for cleanliness sake and add an error
field to hold the Linux error number to the rxrpc_call struct too
(sometimes this is generated in a context where we can't return it to
userspace directly).

Furthermore, add a skb mark to indicate a packet that caused a local abort
to be generated so that recvmsg() can pick up the correct abort code.  A
future addition will need to be to indicate to userspace the difference
between aborts via a control message.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Wait for outstanding async calls before closing rxrpc socket</title>
<updated>2016-04-11T19:34:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T16:23:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2f02f7aea7b6c9a9312846c006e076ae6ad026a4'/>
<id>2f02f7aea7b6c9a9312846c006e076ae6ad026a4</id>
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The afs filesystem needs to wait for any outstanding asynchronous calls
(such as FS.GiveUpCallBacks cleaning up the callbacks lodged with a server)
to complete before closing the AF_RXRPC socket when unloading the module.

This may occur if the module is removed too quickly after unmounting all
filesystems.  This will produce an error report that looks like:

	AFS: Assertion failed
	1 == 0 is false
	0x1 == 0x0 is false
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at ../fs/afs/rxrpc.c:135!
	...
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa004111c&gt;] afs_close_socket+0xec/0x107 [kafs]
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [&lt;ffffffffa004a160&gt;] afs_exit+0x1f/0x57 [kafs]
	 [&lt;ffffffff810c30a0&gt;] SyS_delete_module+0xec/0x17d
	 [&lt;ffffffff81610417&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6b

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The afs filesystem needs to wait for any outstanding asynchronous calls
(such as FS.GiveUpCallBacks cleaning up the callbacks lodged with a server)
to complete before closing the AF_RXRPC socket when unloading the module.

This may occur if the module is removed too quickly after unmounting all
filesystems.  This will produce an error report that looks like:

	AFS: Assertion failed
	1 == 0 is false
	0x1 == 0x0 is false
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at ../fs/afs/rxrpc.c:135!
	...
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa004111c&gt;] afs_close_socket+0xec/0x107 [kafs]
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [&lt;ffffffffa004a160&gt;] afs_exit+0x1f/0x57 [kafs]
	 [&lt;ffffffff810c30a0&gt;] SyS_delete_module+0xec/0x17d
	 [&lt;ffffffff81610417&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6b

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=09cbfeaf1a5a67bfb3201e0c83c810cecb2efa5a'/>
<id>09cbfeaf1a5a67bfb3201e0c83c810cecb2efa5a</id>
<content type='text'>
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T20:40:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5955102c9984fa081b2d570cfac75c97eecf8f3b'/>
<id>5955102c9984fa081b2d570cfac75c97eecf8f3b</id>
<content type='text'>
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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