linux.git/net/core, branch v3.0-rc3

netpoll: call dev_put() on error in netpoll_setup()

2011-06-12T01:55:22+00:00

There is a dev_put(ndev) missing on an error path.  This was
introduced in 0c1ad04aecb "netpoll: prevent netpoll setup on slave
devices".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check

2011-06-11T23:15:50+00:00

Testing of VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR does not belong in vlan_untag
but rather in vlan_do_receive.  Otherwise the vlan header
will not be properly put on the packet in the case of
vlan header accelleration.

As we remove the check from vlan_check_reorder_header
rename it vlan_reorder_header to keep the naming clean.

Fix up the skb->pkt_type early so we don't look at the packet
after adding the vlan tag, which guarantees we don't goof
and look at the wrong field.

Use a simple if statement instead of a complicated switch
statement to decided that we need to increment rx_stats
for a multicast packet.

Hopefully at somepoint we will just declare the case where
VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR is cleared as unsupported and remove
the code.  Until then this keeps it working correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Acked-by: Changli Gao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: prevent netpoll setup on slave devices

2011-06-09T07:28:13+00:00

In commit 8d8fc29d02a33e4bd5f4fa47823c1fd386346093
(netpoll: disable netpoll when enslave a device), we automatically
disable netpoll when the underlying device is being enslaved,
we also need to prevent people from setuping netpoll on
devices that are already enslaved.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cpu offline cause napi stall

2011-06-07T08:01:22+00:00

Frank Blaschka reported :

  During heavy network load we turn off/on cpus.
  Sometimes this causes a stall on the network device.
  Digging into the dump I found out following:

  napi is scheduled but does not run. From the I/O buffers
  and the napi state I see napi/rx_softirq processing has stopped
  because the budget was reached. napi stays in the
  softnet_data poll_list and the rx_softirq was raised again.

  I assume at this time the cpu offline comes in,
  the rx softirq is raised/moved to another cpu but napi stays in the
  poll_list of the softnet_data of the now offline cpu.

  Reviewing dev_cpu_callback (net/core/dev.c) I did not find the
  poll_list is transfered to the new cpu.


This patch is a straightforward implementation of Frank suggestion :

Transfert poll_list and trigger NET_RX_SOFTIRQ on new cpu.

Reported-by: Frank Blaschka 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Rework netdev_drivername() to avoid warning.

2011-06-06T23:41:33+00:00

This interface uses a temporary buffer, but for no real reason.
And now can generate warnings like:

net/sched/sch_generic.c: In function dev_watchdog
net/sched/sch_generic.c:254:10: warning: unused variable drivername

Just return driver->name directly or "".

Reported-by: Connor Hansen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

get_net_ns_by_fd() oopses if proc_ns_fget() returns an error

2011-06-05T21:11:09+00:00

BTW, looking through the code related to struct net lifetime rules has
caught something else:

struct net *get_net_ns_by_fd(int fd)
{
        ...
        file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
        if (!file)
                goto out;

        ei = PROC_I(file->f_dentry->d_inode);

while in proc_ns_fget() we have two return ERR_PTR(...) and not a single
path that would return NULL.  The other caller of proc_ns_fget() treats
ERR_PTR() correctly...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2011-06-04T14:16:00+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  tg3: Fix tg3_skb_error_unmap()
  net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
  drivers/net/can/flexcan.c: add missing clk_put
  net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts
  drivers/net/davinci_emac.c: add missing clk_put
  af-packet: Add flag to distinguish VID 0 from no-vlan.
  caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
  usbnet/cdc_ncm: add missing .reset_resume hook
  vlan: fix typo in vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit()
  net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
  iwl4965: correctly validate temperature value
  bluetooth l2cap: fix locking in l2cap_global_chan_by_psm
  ath9k: fix two more bugs in tx power
  cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
  Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
  drivers/net/usb/catc.c: Fix potential deadlock in catc_ctrl_run()
  sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc
  drivers/net: ks8842 Fix crash on received packet when in PIO mode.
  ip_options_compile: properly handle unaligned pointer
  iwlagn: fix incorrect PCI subsystem id for 6150 devices
  ...

net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic

2011-06-02T21:06:31+00:00

Because there is a possibility that skb is kfree_skb()ed and zero cleared
after ndo_start_xmit, we should not see the contents of skb like skb->len and
skb->dev->name after ndo_start_xmit. But trace_net_dev_xmit does that
and causes panic by NULL pointer dereference.
This patch fixes trace_net_dev_xmit not to see the contents of skb directly.

If you want to reproduce this panic,

1. Get tracepoint of net_dev_xmit on
2. Create 2 guests on KVM
2. Make 2 guests use virtio_net
4. Execute netperf from one to another for a long time as a network burden
5. host will panic(It takes about 30 minutes)

Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2011-05-27T18:16:27+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: Kill ratelimit.h dependency in linux/net.h
  net: Add linux/sysctl.h includes where needed.
  net: Kill ether_table[] declaration.
  inetpeer: fix race in unused_list manipulations
  atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs
  IPVS: bug in ip_vs_ftp, same list heaad used in all netns.
  bug.h: Move ratelimit warn interfaces to ratelimit.h
  bonding: cleanup module option descriptions
  net:8021q:vlan.c Fix pr_info to just give the vlan fullname and version.
  net: davinci_emac: fix dev_err use at probe
  can: convert to %pK for kptr_restrict support
  net: fix ETHTOOL_SFEATURES compatibility with old ethtool_ops.set_flags
  netfilter: Fix several warnings in compat_mtw_from_user().
  netfilter: ipset: fix ip_set_flush return code
  netfilter: ipset: remove unused variable from type_pf_tdel()
  netfilter: ipset: Use proper timeout value to jiffies conversion

net: Kill ratelimit.h dependency in linux/net.h

2011-05-27T17:41:33+00:00

Ingo Molnar noticed that we have this unnecessary ratelimit.h
dependency in linux/net.h, which hid compilation problems from
people doing builds only with CONFIG_NET enabled.

Move this stuff out to a seperate net/net_ratelimit.h file and
include that in the only two places where this thing is needed.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar