linux.git/net/core, branch v3.1-rc3

scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender

2011-08-11T12:52:57+00:00

This patch corrects an erroneous update of credential's gid with uid
introduced in commit 257b5358b32f17 since 2.6.36.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.

2011-08-07T01:33:19+00:00

Computers have become a lot faster since we compromised on the
partial MD4 hash which we use currently for performance reasons.

MD5 is a much safer choice, and is inline with both RFC1948 and
other ISS generators (OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.)

Furthermore, only having 24-bits of the sequence number be truly
unpredictable is a very serious limitation.  So the periodic
regeneration and 8-bit counter have been removed.  We compute and
use a full 32-bit sequence number.

For ipv6, DCCP was found to use a 32-bit truncated initial sequence
number (it needs 43-bits) and that is fixed here as well.

Reported-by: Dan Kaminsky 
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add kerneldoc to skb_copy_bits()

2011-08-02T01:03:06+00:00

Since skb_copy_bits() is called from assembly, add a fat comment to make
clear we should think twice before changing its prototype.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2011-07-28T12:58:19+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (32 commits)
  tg3: Remove 5719 jumbo frames and TSO blocks
  tg3: Break larger frags into 4k chunks for 5719
  tg3: Add tx BD budgeting code
  tg3: Consolidate code that calls tg3_tx_set_bd()
  tg3: Add partial fragment unmapping code
  tg3: Generalize tg3_skb_error_unmap()
  tg3: Remove short DMA check for 1st fragment
  tg3: Simplify tx bd assignments
  tg3: Reintroduce tg3_tx_ring_info
  ASIX: Use only 11 bits of header for data size
  ASIX: Simplify condition in rx_fixup()
  Fix cdc-phonet build
  bonding: reduce noise during init
  bonding: fix string comparison errors
  net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared
  net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags
  net: sock_sendmsg_nosec() is static
  forcedeth: fix vlans
  gianfar: fix bug caused by 87c288c6e9aa31720b72e2bc2d665e24e1653c3e
  gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled
  ...

net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags

2011-07-28T05:39:30+00:00

Pktgen attempts to transmit shared skbs to net devices, which can't be used by
some drivers as they keep state information in skbs.  This patch adds a flag
marking drivers as being able to handle shared skbs in their tx path.  Drivers
are defaulted to being unable to do so, but calling ether_setup enables this
flag, as 90% of the drivers calling ether_setup touch real hardware and can
handle shared skbs.  A subsequent patch will audit drivers to ensure that the
flag is set properly

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
Reported-by: Jiri Pirko 
CC: Robert Olsson 
CC: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Alexey Dobriyan 
CC: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: Convert struct net_device uc_promisc to bool

2011-07-25T23:17:35+00:00

No need to use int, its uses are boolean.
May save a few bytes one day.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: allow netif_carrier to be called safely from IRQ

2011-07-23T00:01:14+00:00

As reported by Ben Greer and Froncois Romieu. The code path in
the netif_carrier code leads it to try and disable
a late workqueue to reenable it immediately
netif_carrier_on
-> linkwatch_fire_event
   -> linkwatch_schedule_work
      -> cancel_delayed_work
         -> del_timer_sync

If __cancel_delayed_work is used instead then there is no
problem of waiting for running linkwatch_event.

There is a race between linkwatch_event running re-scheduling
but it is harmless to schedule an extra scan of the linkwatch queue.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ethtool: Allow zero-length register dumps again

2011-07-21T22:25:30+00:00

Some drivers (ab)use the ethtool_ops::get_regs operation to expose
only a hardware revision ID.  Commit
a77f5db361ed9953b5b749353ea2c7fed2bf8d93 ('ethtool: Allocate register
dump buffer with vmalloc()') had the side-effect of breaking these, as
vmalloc() returns a null pointer for size=0 whereas kmalloc() did not.

For backward-compatibility, allow zero-length dumps again.

Reported-by: Kalle Valo 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

skbuff: fix error handling in pskb_copy()

2011-07-21T21:47:54+00:00

There are two problems:
1) "n" was allocated with alloc_skb() so we should free it with
   kfree_skb() instead of regular kfree().
2) We return the freed pointer instead of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller