linux.git/net/core, branch v2.6.26-rc2

net: Added ASSERT_RTNL() to dev_open() and dev_close().

2008-05-08T09:53:17+00:00

dev_open() and dev_close() must be called holding the RTNL, since they
call device functions and netdevice notifiers that are promised the RTNL.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: Fix arbitrary net_device-s corruptions on net_ns stop.

2008-05-08T08:24:25+00:00

When a net namespace is destroyed, some devices (those, not killed
on ns stop explicitly) are moved back to init_net.

The problem, is that this net_ns change has one point of failure -
the __dev_alloc_name() may be called if a name collision occurs (and
this is easy to trigger). This allocator performs a likely-to-fail
GFP_ATOMIC allocation to find a suitable number. Other possible 
conditions that may cause error (for device being ns local or not
registered) are always false in this case.

So, when this call fails, the device is unregistered. But this is
*not* the right thing to do, since after this the device may be
released (and kfree-ed) improperly. E. g. bridges require more
actions (sysfs update, timer disarming, etc.), some other devices 
want to remove their private areas from lists, etc.

I. e. arbitrary use-after-free cases may occur.

The proposed fix is the following: since the only reason for the
dev_change_net_namespace to fail is the name generation, we may
give it a unique fall-back name w/o %d-s in it - the dev
one, since ifindexes are still unique.

So make this change, raise the failure-case printk loglevel to 
EMERG and replace the unregister_netdevice call with BUG().

[ Use snprintf() -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix useless comment reference loop.

2008-05-04T03:56:42+00:00

include/linux/skbuff.h says:
        /* These elements must be at the end, see alloc_skb() for details.  */

net/core/skbuff.c says:
	* See comment in sk_buff definition, just before the 'tail' member

This patch contains my guess as to the actual reason rather than a
dead comment reference loop.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs

2008-05-03T00:00:58+00:00

When a netdev is moved across namespaces with the
'dev_change_net_namespace' function, the 'device_rename' function is
used to fixup kobject and refresh the sysfs tree. The device_rename
function will call kobject_rename and this one will check if there is
an object with the same name and this is the case because we are
renaming the object with the same name.

The use of 'device_rename' seems for me wrong because we usually don't
rename it but just move it across namespaces. As we just want to do a
mini "netdev_[un]register", IMO the functions
'netdev_[un]register_kobject' should be used instead, like an usual
network device [un]registering.

This patch replace device_rename by netdev_unregister_kobject,
followed by netdev_register_kobject.

The netdev_register_kobject will call device_initialize and will raise
a warning indicating the device was already initialized. In order to
fix that, I split the device initialization into a separate function
and use it together with 'netdev_register_kobject' into
register_netdevice. So we can safely call 'netdev_register_kobject' in
'dev_change_net_namespace'.

This fix will allow to properly use the sysfs per namespace which is
coming from -mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove NR_CPUS arrays in net/core/dev.c

2008-05-02T23:43:08+00:00

Remove the fixed size channels[NR_CPUS] array in net/core/dev.c and
dynamically allocate array based on nr_cpu_ids.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers

2008-05-02T23:26:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add missing braces to multi-statement if()s

2008-05-02T23:20:10+00:00

One finds all kinds of crazy things with some shell pipelining.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc tree

2008-05-02T09:46:22+00:00

Simply replace proc_create and further data assigned with proc_create_data.
Additionally, there is no need to assign NULL to PDE->data after creation,
/proc generic has already done this for us.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Remove duplicated unlikely() in IS_ERR()

2008-04-29T15:06:25+00:00

Some drivers have duplicated unlikely() macros.  IS_ERR() already has
unlikely() in itself.

This patch cleans up such pointless code.

Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Richard Purdie 
Cc: Alessandro Zummo 
Cc: David Brownell 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela 
Cc: Takashi Iwai 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2008-04-25T19:28:28+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  net: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to_user() results.
  xfrm: alg_key_len & alg_icv_len should be unsigned
  [netdrvr] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start
  ipv6: Fix typo in net/ipv6/Kconfig
  via-velocity: fix vlan receipt
  tg3: sparse cleanup
  forcedeth: realtek phy crossover detection
  ibm_newemac: Increase MDIO timeouts
  gianfar: Fix skb allocation strategy
  netxen: reduce stack usage of netxen_nic_flash_print
  smc911x: test after postfix decrement fails in smc911x_{reset,drop_pkt}
  net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
  forcedeth: new backoff implementation
  ehea: make things static
  phylib: Add support for board-level PHY fixups
  [netdrvr] atlx: code movement: move atl1 parameter parsing
  atlx: remove flash vendor parameter
  korina: misc cleanup
  korina: fix misplaced return statement
  WAN: Fix confusing insmod error code for C101 too.
  ...