linux.git/include/net, branch v3.9-rc6

ipv4: Fix ip-header identification for gso packets.

2013-03-26T17:50:05+00:00

ip-header id needs to be incremented even if IP_DF flag is set.
This behaviour was changed in commit 490ab08127cebc25e3a26
(IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification).

Following patch fixes it so that identification is always
incremented.

Reported-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

flow_keys: include thoff into flow_keys for later usage

2013-03-20T16:14:36+00:00

In skb_flow_dissect(), we perform a dissection of a skbuff. Since we're
doing the work here anyway, also store thoff for a later usage, e.g. in
the BPF filter.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf

2013-03-20T14:23:52+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
The following patchset contains 7 Netfilter/IPVS fixes for 3.9-rc, they are:

* Restrict IPv6 stateless NPT targets to the mangle table. Many users are
  complaining that this target does not work in the nat table, which is the
  wrong table for it, from Florian Westphal.

* Fix possible use before initialization in the netns init path of several
  conntrack protocol trackers (introduced recently while improving conntrack
  netns support), from Gao Feng.

* Fix incorrect initialization of copy_range in nfnetlink_queue, spotted
  by Eric Dumazet during the NFWS2013, patch from myself.

* Fix wrong calculation of next SCTP chunk in IPVS, from Julian Anastasov.

* Remove rcu_read_lock section in IPVS while calling ipv4_update_pmtu
  not required anymore after change introduced in 3.7, again from Julian.

* Fix SYN looping in IPVS state sync if the backup is used a real server
  in DR/TUN modes, this required a new /proc entry to disable the director
  function when acting as backup, also from Julian.

* Remove leftover IP_NF_QUEUE Kconfig after ip_queue removal, noted by
  Paul Bolle.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: limit length of fragment queue hash table bucket lists

2013-03-19T14:28:36+00:00

This patch introduces a constant limit of the fragment queue hash
table bucket list lengths. Currently the limit 128 is choosen somewhat
arbitrary and just ensures that we can fill up the fragment cache with
empty packets up to the default ip_frag_high_thresh limits. It should
just protect from list iteration eating considerable amounts of cpu.

If we reach the maximum length in one hash bucket a warning is printed.
This is implemented on the caller side of inet_frag_find to distinguish
between the different users of inet_fragment.c.

I dropped the out of memory warning in the ipv4 fragment lookup path,
because we already get a warning by the slab allocator.

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipvs: add backup_only flag to avoid loops

2013-03-19T12:21:51+00:00

Dmitry Akindinov is reporting for a problem where SYNs are looping
between the master and backup server when the backup server is used as
real server in DR mode and has IPVS rules to function as director.

Even when the backup function is enabled we continue to forward
traffic and schedule new connections when the current master is using
the backup server as real server. While this is not a problem for NAT,
for DR and TUN method the backup server can not determine if a request
comes from client or from director.

To avoid such loops add new sysctl flag backup_only. It can be needed
for DR/TUN setups that do not need backup and director function at the
same time. When the backup function is enabled we stop any forwarding
and pass the traffic to the local stack (real server mode). The flag
disables the director function when the backup function is enabled.

For setups that enable backup function for some virtual services and
director function for other virtual services there should be another
more complex solution to support DR/TUN mode, may be to assign
per-virtual service syncid value, so that we can differentiate the
requests.

Reported-by: Dmitry Akindinov 
Tested-by: German Myzovsky 
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman

Fix dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb return value handling bug

2013-03-15T13:06:58+00:00

When neighbour table is full, dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb will return
-ENOBUFS which is absolutely non zero, while all the code in kernel which use
above functions assume failure only on zero return which will cause panic. (for
example: : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54731).

This patch corrects above error with smallest changes to kernel source code and
also correct two return value check missing bugs in drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c

Tested on my x86_64 SMP machine

Reported-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Tested-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: fix definition of FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ

2013-03-13T14:47:09+00:00

a long time ago by the commit

  commit 93456b6d7753def8760b423ac6b986eb9d5a4a95
  Author: Denis V. Lunev 
  Date:   Thu Jan 10 03:23:38 2008 -0800

    [IPV4]: Unify access to the routing tables.

the defenition of FIB_HASH_TABLE size has obtained wrong dependency:
it should depend upon CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES (as was in the original
code) but it was depended from CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH

This patch returns the situation to the original state.

The problem was spotted by Tingwei Liu.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: Tingwei Liu 
CC: Alexey Kuznetsov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-03-06T02:42:29+00:00

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "A moderately sized pile of fixes, some specifically for merge window
  introduced regressions although others are for longer standing items
  and have been queued up for -stable.

  I'm kind of tired of all the RDS protocol bugs over the years, to be
  honest, it's way out of proportion to the number of people who
  actually use it.

   1) Fix missing range initialization in netfilter IPSET, from Jozsef
      Kadlecsik.

   2) ieee80211_local->tim_lock needs to use BH disabling, from Johannes
      Berg.

   3) Fix DMA syncing in SFC driver, from Ben Hutchings.

   4) Fix regression in BOND device MAC address setting, from Jiri
      Pirko.

   5) Missing usb_free_urb in ISDN Hisax driver, from Marina Makienko.

   6) Fix UDP checksumming in bnx2x driver for 57710 and 57711 chips,
      fix from Dmitry Kravkov.

   7) Missing cfgspace_lock initialization in BCMA driver.

   8) Validate parameter size for SCTP assoc stats getsockopt(), from
      Guenter Roeck.

   9) Fix SCTP association hangs, from Lee A Roberts.

  10) Fix jumbo frame handling in r8169, from Francois Romieu.

  11) Fix phy_device memory leak, from Petr Malat.

  12) Omit trailing FCS from frames received in BGMAC driver, from Hauke
      Mehrtens.

  13) Missing socket refcount release in L2TP, from Guillaume Nault.

  14) sctp_endpoint_init should respect passed in gfp_t, rather than use
      GFP_KERNEL unconditionally.  From Dan Carpenter.

  15) Add AISX AX88179 USB driver, from Freddy Xin.

  16) Remove MAINTAINERS entries for drivers deleted during the merge
      window, from Cesar Eduardo Barros.

  17) RDS protocol can try to allocate huge amounts of memory, check
      that the user's request length makes sense, from Cong Wang.

  18) SCTP should use the provided KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of it's own,
      bogus, definition.  From Cong Wang.

  19) Fix deadlocks in FEC driver by moving TX reclaim into NAPI poll,
      from Frank Li.  Also, fix a build error introduced in the merge
      window.

  20) Fix bogus purging of default routes in ipv6, from Lorenzo Colitti.

  21) Don't double count RTT measurements when we leave the TCP receive
      fast path, from Neal Cardwell."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (61 commits)
  tcp: fix double-counted receiver RTT when leaving receiver fast path
  CAIF: fix sparse warning for caif_usb
  rds: simplify a warning message
  net: fec: fix build error in no MXC platform
  net: ipv6: Don't purge default router if accept_ra=2
  net: fec: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock
  sctp: use KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of its own MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE
  rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc()
  MAINTAINERS: remove eexpress
  MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/net/wan/cycx*
  MAINTAINERS: remove 3c505
  caif_dev: fix sparse warnings for caif_flow_cb
  ax88179_178a: ASIX AX88179_178A USB 3.0/2.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter driver
  sctp: use the passed in gfp flags instead GFP_KERNEL
  ipv[4|6]: correct dropwatch false positive in local_deliver_finish
  l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds
  net/phy: micrel: Disable asymmetric pause for KSZ9021
  bgmac: omit the fcs
  phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak
  bnx2x: Fix KR2 work-around condition
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-03-03T21:23:03+00:00

Pull  more VFS bits from Al Viro:
 "Unfortunately, it looks like xattr series will have to wait until the
  next cycle ;-/

  This pile contains 9p cleanups and fixes (races in v9fs_fid_add()
  etc), fixup for nommu breakage in shmem.c, several cleanups and a bit
  more file_inode() work"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  constify path_get/path_put and fs_struct.c stuff
  fix nommu breakage in shmem.c
  cache the value of file_inode() in struct file
  9p: if v9fs_fid_lookup() gets to asking server, it'd better have hashed dentry
  9p: make sure ->lookup() adds fid to the right dentry
  9p: untangle ->lookup() a bit
  9p: double iput() in ->lookup() if d_materialise_unique() fails
  9p: v9fs_fid_add() can't fail now
  v9fs: get rid of v9fs_dentry
  9p: turn fid->dlist into hlist
  9p: don't bother with private lock in ->d_fsdata; dentry->d_lock will do just fine
  more file_inode() open-coded instances
  selinux: opened file can't have NULL or negative ->f_path.dentry

(In the meantime, the hlist traversal macros have changed, so this
required a semantic conflict fixup for the newly hlistified fid->dlist)

tcp: avoid wakeups for pure ACK

2013-02-28T20:37:29+00:00

TCP prequeue mechanism purpose is to let incoming packets
being processed by the thread currently blocked in tcp_recvmsg(),
instead of behalf of the softirq handler, to better adapt flow
control on receiver host capacity to schedule the consumer.

But in typical request/answer workloads, we send request, then
block to receive the answer. And before the actual answer, TCP
stack receives the ACK packets acknowledging the request.

Processing pure ACK on behalf of the thread blocked in tcp_recvmsg()
is a waste of resources, as thread has to immediately sleep again
because it got no payload.

This patch avoids the extra context switches and scheduler overhead.

Before patch :

a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k
231676

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k':

     116251.501765 task-clock                #   11.369 CPUs utilized
         5,025,463 context-switches          #    0.043 M/sec
         1,074,511 CPU-migrations            #    0.009 M/sec
           216,923 page-faults               #    0.002 M/sec
   311,636,972,396 cycles                    #    2.681 GHz
   260,507,138,069 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   83.59% frontend cycles idle
   155,590,092,840 stalled-cycles-backend    #   49.93% backend  cycles idle
   100,101,255,411 instructions              #    0.32  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.60  stalled cycles per insn
    16,535,930,999 branches                  #  142.243 M/sec
       646,483,591 branch-misses             #    3.91% of all branches

      10.225482774 seconds time elapsed

After patch :

a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k
233297

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k':

      91084.870855 task-clock                #    8.887 CPUs utilized
         2,485,916 context-switches          #    0.027 M/sec
           815,520 CPU-migrations            #    0.009 M/sec
           216,932 page-faults               #    0.002 M/sec
   245,195,022,629 cycles                    #    2.692 GHz
   202,635,777,041 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   82.64% frontend cycles idle
   124,280,372,407 stalled-cycles-backend    #   50.69% backend  cycles idle
    83,457,289,618 instructions              #    0.34  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.43  stalled cycles per insn
    13,431,472,361 branches                  #  147.461 M/sec
       504,470,665 branch-misses             #    3.76% of all branches

      10.249594448 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller