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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T00:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-14T00:27:40+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Several networking final fixes and tidies for the merge window:

   1) Changes during the merge window unintentionally took away the
      ability to build bluetooth modular, fix from Geert Uytterhoeven.

   2) Several phy_node reference count bug fixes from Uwe Kleine-König.

   3) Fix ucc_geth build failures, also from Uwe Kleine-König.

   4) Fix klog false positivies when netlink messages go to network
      taps, by properly resetting the network header.  Fix from Daniel
      Borkmann.

   5) Sizing estimate of VF netlink messages is too small, from Jiri
      Benc.

   6) New APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver, from Iyappan Subramanian.

   7) VLAN untagging is erroneously dependent upon whether the VLAN
      module is loaded or not, but there are generic dependencies that
      matter wrt what can be expected as the SKB enters the stack.
      Make the basic untagging generic code, and do it unconditionally.
      From Vlad Yasevich.

   8) xen-netfront only has so many slots in it's transmit queue so
      linearize packets that have too many frags.  From Zoltan Kiss.

   9) Fix suspend/resume PHY handling in bcmgenet driver, from Florian
      Fainelli"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (55 commits)
  net: bcmgenet: correctly resume adapter from Wake-on-LAN
  net: bcmgenet: update UMAC_CMD only when link is detected
  net: bcmgenet: correctly suspend and resume PHY device
  net: bcmgenet: request and enable main clock earlier
  net: ethernet: myricom: myri10ge: myri10ge.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  xen-netfront: Fix handling packets on compound pages with skb_linearize
  net: fec: Support phys probed from devicetree and fixed-link
  smsc: replace WARN_ON() with WARN_ON_SMP()
  xen-netback: Don't deschedule NAPI when carrier off
  net: ethernet: qlogic: qlcnic: Remove duplicate object file from Makefile
  wan: wanxl: Remove typedefs from struct names
  m68k/atari: EtherNEC - ethernet support (ne)
  net: ethernet: ti: cpmac.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  hdlc: Remove typedefs from struct names
  airo_cs: Remove typedef local_info_t
  atmel: Remove typedef atmel_priv_ioctl
  com20020_cs: Remove typedef com20020_dev_t
  ethernet: amd: Remove typedef local_info_t
  net: Always untag vlan-tagged traffic on input.
  drivers: net: Add APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver support.
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Several networking final fixes and tidies for the merge window:

   1) Changes during the merge window unintentionally took away the
      ability to build bluetooth modular, fix from Geert Uytterhoeven.

   2) Several phy_node reference count bug fixes from Uwe Kleine-König.

   3) Fix ucc_geth build failures, also from Uwe Kleine-König.

   4) Fix klog false positivies when netlink messages go to network
      taps, by properly resetting the network header.  Fix from Daniel
      Borkmann.

   5) Sizing estimate of VF netlink messages is too small, from Jiri
      Benc.

   6) New APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver, from Iyappan Subramanian.

   7) VLAN untagging is erroneously dependent upon whether the VLAN
      module is loaded or not, but there are generic dependencies that
      matter wrt what can be expected as the SKB enters the stack.
      Make the basic untagging generic code, and do it unconditionally.
      From Vlad Yasevich.

   8) xen-netfront only has so many slots in it's transmit queue so
      linearize packets that have too many frags.  From Zoltan Kiss.

   9) Fix suspend/resume PHY handling in bcmgenet driver, from Florian
      Fainelli"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (55 commits)
  net: bcmgenet: correctly resume adapter from Wake-on-LAN
  net: bcmgenet: update UMAC_CMD only when link is detected
  net: bcmgenet: correctly suspend and resume PHY device
  net: bcmgenet: request and enable main clock earlier
  net: ethernet: myricom: myri10ge: myri10ge.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  xen-netfront: Fix handling packets on compound pages with skb_linearize
  net: fec: Support phys probed from devicetree and fixed-link
  smsc: replace WARN_ON() with WARN_ON_SMP()
  xen-netback: Don't deschedule NAPI when carrier off
  net: ethernet: qlogic: qlcnic: Remove duplicate object file from Makefile
  wan: wanxl: Remove typedefs from struct names
  m68k/atari: EtherNEC - ethernet support (ne)
  net: ethernet: ti: cpmac.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  hdlc: Remove typedefs from struct names
  airo_cs: Remove typedef local_info_t
  atmel: Remove typedef atmel_priv_ioctl
  com20020_cs: Remove typedef com20020_dev_t
  ethernet: amd: Remove typedef local_info_t
  net: Always untag vlan-tagged traffic on input.
  drivers: net: Add APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver support.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>net: Always untag vlan-tagged traffic on input.</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T19:16:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vyasevic@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T18:42:13+00:00</published>
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Currently the functionality to untag traffic on input resides
as part of the vlan module and is build only when VLAN support
is enabled in the kernel.  When VLAN is disabled, the function
vlan_untag() turns into a stub and doesn't really untag the
packets.  This seems to create an interesting interaction
between VMs supporting checksum offloading and some network drivers.

There are some drivers that do not allow the user to change
tx-vlan-offload feature of the driver.  These drivers also seem
to assume that any VLAN-tagged traffic they transmit will
have the vlan information in the vlan_tci and not in the vlan
header already in the skb.  When transmitting skbs that already
have tagged data with partial checksum set, the checksum doesn't
appear to be updated correctly by the card thus resulting in a
failure to establish TCP connections.

The following is a packet trace taken on the receiver where a
sender is a VM with a VLAN configued.  The host VM is running on
doest not have VLAN support and the outging interface on the
host is tg3:
10:12:43.503055 52:54:00:ae:42:3f &gt; 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27243,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 &gt; 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-&gt; 0x48d9), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294837885 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
10:12:44.505556 52:54:00:ae:42:3f &gt; 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27244,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 &gt; 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-&gt; 0x44ee), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294838888 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

This connection finally times out.

I've only access to the TG3 hardware in this configuration thus have
only tested this with TG3 driver.  There are a lot of other drivers
that do not permit user changes to vlan acceleration features, and
I don't know if they all suffere from a similar issue.

The patch attempt to fix this another way.  It moves the vlan header
stipping code out of the vlan module and always builds it into the
kernel network core.  This way, even if vlan is not supported on
a virtualizatoin host, the virtual machines running on top of such
host will still work with VLANs enabled.

CC: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
CC: Nithin Nayak Sujir &lt;nsujir@broadcom.com&gt;
CC: Michael Chan &lt;mchan@broadcom.com&gt;
CC: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently the functionality to untag traffic on input resides
as part of the vlan module and is build only when VLAN support
is enabled in the kernel.  When VLAN is disabled, the function
vlan_untag() turns into a stub and doesn't really untag the
packets.  This seems to create an interesting interaction
between VMs supporting checksum offloading and some network drivers.

There are some drivers that do not allow the user to change
tx-vlan-offload feature of the driver.  These drivers also seem
to assume that any VLAN-tagged traffic they transmit will
have the vlan information in the vlan_tci and not in the vlan
header already in the skb.  When transmitting skbs that already
have tagged data with partial checksum set, the checksum doesn't
appear to be updated correctly by the card thus resulting in a
failure to establish TCP connections.

The following is a packet trace taken on the receiver where a
sender is a VM with a VLAN configued.  The host VM is running on
doest not have VLAN support and the outging interface on the
host is tg3:
10:12:43.503055 52:54:00:ae:42:3f &gt; 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27243,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 &gt; 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-&gt; 0x48d9), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294837885 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
10:12:44.505556 52:54:00:ae:42:3f &gt; 28:d2:44:7d:c2:de, ethertype 802.1Q
(0x8100), length 78: vlan 100, p 0, ethertype IPv4, (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27244,
offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    10.0.100.1.58545 &gt; 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-&gt; 0x44ee), seq 1069378582, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val
4294838888 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

This connection finally times out.

I've only access to the TG3 hardware in this configuration thus have
only tested this with TG3 driver.  There are a lot of other drivers
that do not permit user changes to vlan acceleration features, and
I don't know if they all suffere from a similar issue.

The patch attempt to fix this another way.  It moves the vlan header
stipping code out of the vlan module and always builds it into the
kernel network core.  This way, even if vlan is not supported on
a virtualizatoin host, the virtual machines running on top of such
host will still work with VLANs enabled.

CC: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
CC: Nithin Nayak Sujir &lt;nsujir@broadcom.com&gt;
CC: Michael Chan &lt;mchan@broadcom.com&gt;
CC: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2014-08-10T00:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-10T00:10:41+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a bunch of small changes built against 3.16-rc6.  The most
  significant change for users is the first patch which makes setns
  drmatically faster by removing unneded rcu handling.

  The next chunk of changes are so that "mount -o remount,.." will not
  allow the user namespace root to drop flags on a mount set by the
  system wide root.  Aks this forces read-only mounts to stay read-only,
  no-dev mounts to stay no-dev, no-suid mounts to stay no-suid, no-exec
  mounts to stay no exec and it prevents unprivileged users from messing
  with a mounts atime settings.  I have included my test case as the
  last patch in this series so people performing backports can verify
  this change works correctly.

  The next change fixes a bug in NFS that was discovered while auditing
  nsproxy users for the first optimization.  Today you can oops the
  kernel by reading /proc/fs/nfsfs/{servers,volumes} if you are clever
  with pid namespaces.  I rebased and fixed the build of the
  !CONFIG_NFS_FS case yesterday when a build bot caught my typo.  Given
  that no one to my knowledge bases anything on my tree fixing the typo
  in place seems more responsible that requiring a typo-fix to be
  backported as well.

  The last change is a small semantic cleanup introducing
  /proc/thread-self and pointing /proc/mounts and /proc/net at it.  This
  prevents several kinds of problemantic corner cases.  It is a
  user-visible change so it has a minute chance of causing regressions
  so the change to /proc/mounts and /proc/net are individual one line
  commits that can be trivially reverted.  Unfortunately I lost and
  could not find the email of the original reporter so he is not
  credited.  From at least one perspective this change to /proc/net is a
  refgression fix to allow pthread /proc/net uses that were broken by
  the introduction of the network namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts
  proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
  proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
  proc: Have net show up under /proc/&lt;tgid&gt;/task/&lt;tid&gt;
  NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
  mnt: Add tests for unprivileged remount cases that have found to be faulty
  mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value
  mnt: Correct permission checks in do_remount
  mnt: Move the test for MNT_LOCK_READONLY from change_mount_flags into do_remount
  mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount
  namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
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<pre>
Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a bunch of small changes built against 3.16-rc6.  The most
  significant change for users is the first patch which makes setns
  drmatically faster by removing unneded rcu handling.

  The next chunk of changes are so that "mount -o remount,.." will not
  allow the user namespace root to drop flags on a mount set by the
  system wide root.  Aks this forces read-only mounts to stay read-only,
  no-dev mounts to stay no-dev, no-suid mounts to stay no-suid, no-exec
  mounts to stay no exec and it prevents unprivileged users from messing
  with a mounts atime settings.  I have included my test case as the
  last patch in this series so people performing backports can verify
  this change works correctly.

  The next change fixes a bug in NFS that was discovered while auditing
  nsproxy users for the first optimization.  Today you can oops the
  kernel by reading /proc/fs/nfsfs/{servers,volumes} if you are clever
  with pid namespaces.  I rebased and fixed the build of the
  !CONFIG_NFS_FS case yesterday when a build bot caught my typo.  Given
  that no one to my knowledge bases anything on my tree fixing the typo
  in place seems more responsible that requiring a typo-fix to be
  backported as well.

  The last change is a small semantic cleanup introducing
  /proc/thread-self and pointing /proc/mounts and /proc/net at it.  This
  prevents several kinds of problemantic corner cases.  It is a
  user-visible change so it has a minute chance of causing regressions
  so the change to /proc/mounts and /proc/net are individual one line
  commits that can be trivially reverted.  Unfortunately I lost and
  could not find the email of the original reporter so he is not
  credited.  From at least one perspective this change to /proc/net is a
  refgression fix to allow pthread /proc/net uses that were broken by
  the introduction of the network namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts
  proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
  proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
  proc: Have net show up under /proc/&lt;tgid&gt;/task/&lt;tid&gt;
  NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
  mnt: Add tests for unprivileged remount cases that have found to be faulty
  mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value
  mnt: Correct permission checks in do_remount
  mnt: Move the test for MNT_LOCK_READONLY from change_mount_flags into do_remount
  mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount
  namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: fix VF info size</title>
<updated>2014-08-08T17:28:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Benc</name>
<email>jbenc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T14:44:32+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Commit 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control") added new
attribute to IFLA_VF_INFO group in rtnl_fill_ifinfo but did not adjust size
of the allocated memory in if_nlmsg_size/rtnl_vfinfo_size. As the result, we
may trigger warnings in rtnl_getlink and similar functions when many VF
links are enabled, as the information does not fit into the allocated skb.

Fixes: 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control")
Reported-by: Yulong Pei &lt;ypei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Commit 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control") added new
attribute to IFLA_VF_INFO group in rtnl_fill_ifinfo but did not adjust size
of the allocated memory in if_nlmsg_size/rtnl_vfinfo_size. As the result, we
may trigger warnings in rtnl_getlink and similar functions when many VF
links are enabled, as the information does not fit into the allocated skb.

Fixes: 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control")
Reported-by: Yulong Pei &lt;ypei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T16:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-06T16:38:14+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Steady transitioning of the BPF instructure to a generic spot so
      all kernel subsystems can make use of it, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   2) SFC driver supports busy polling, from Alexandre Rames.

   3) Take advantage of hash table in UDP multicast delivery, from David
      Held.

   4) Lighten locking, in particular by getting rid of the LRU lists, in
      inet frag handling.  From Florian Westphal.

   5) Add support for various RFC6458 control messages in SCTP, from
      Geir Ola Vaagland.

   6) Allow to filter bridge forwarding database dumps by device, from
      Jamal Hadi Salim.

   7) virtio-net also now supports busy polling, from Jason Wang.

   8) Some low level optimization tweaks in pktgen from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

   9) Add support for ipv6 address generation modes, so that userland
      can have some input into the process.  From Jiri Pirko.

  10) Consolidate common TCP connection request code in ipv4 and ipv6,
      from Octavian Purdila.

  11) New ARP packet logger in netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  12) Generic resizable RCU hash table, with intial users in netlink and
      nftables.  From Thomas Graf.

  13) Maintain a name assignment type so that userspace can see where a
      network device name came from (enumerated by kernel, assigned
      explicitly by userspace, etc.) From Tom Gundersen.

  14) Automatic flow label generation on transmit in ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  15) New packet timestamping facilities from Willem de Bruijn, meant to
      assist in measuring latencies going into/out-of the packet
      scheduler, latency from TCP data transmission to ACK, etc"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1536 commits)
  cxgb4 : Disable recursive mailbox commands when enabling vi
  net: reduce USB network driver config options.
  tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings
  amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop
  amd-xgbe: Use dma_set_mask_and_coherent to set DMA mask
  net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet
  sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit()
  Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device"
  cxgb4vf: Turn off SGE RX/TX Callback Timers and interrupts in PCI shutdown routine
  team: Simplify return path of team_newlink
  bridge: Update outdated comment on promiscuous mode
  net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for bytestreams
  net-timestamp: TCP timestamping
  net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler
  net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams
  net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags
  net-timestamp: extend SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary data struct
  cxgb4i : Move stray CPL definitions to cxgb4 driver
  tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging
  qlcnic: Initialize dcbnl_ops before register_netdev
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Steady transitioning of the BPF instructure to a generic spot so
      all kernel subsystems can make use of it, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   2) SFC driver supports busy polling, from Alexandre Rames.

   3) Take advantage of hash table in UDP multicast delivery, from David
      Held.

   4) Lighten locking, in particular by getting rid of the LRU lists, in
      inet frag handling.  From Florian Westphal.

   5) Add support for various RFC6458 control messages in SCTP, from
      Geir Ola Vaagland.

   6) Allow to filter bridge forwarding database dumps by device, from
      Jamal Hadi Salim.

   7) virtio-net also now supports busy polling, from Jason Wang.

   8) Some low level optimization tweaks in pktgen from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

   9) Add support for ipv6 address generation modes, so that userland
      can have some input into the process.  From Jiri Pirko.

  10) Consolidate common TCP connection request code in ipv4 and ipv6,
      from Octavian Purdila.

  11) New ARP packet logger in netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  12) Generic resizable RCU hash table, with intial users in netlink and
      nftables.  From Thomas Graf.

  13) Maintain a name assignment type so that userspace can see where a
      network device name came from (enumerated by kernel, assigned
      explicitly by userspace, etc.) From Tom Gundersen.

  14) Automatic flow label generation on transmit in ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  15) New packet timestamping facilities from Willem de Bruijn, meant to
      assist in measuring latencies going into/out-of the packet
      scheduler, latency from TCP data transmission to ACK, etc"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1536 commits)
  cxgb4 : Disable recursive mailbox commands when enabling vi
  net: reduce USB network driver config options.
  tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings
  amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop
  amd-xgbe: Use dma_set_mask_and_coherent to set DMA mask
  net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet
  sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit()
  Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device"
  cxgb4vf: Turn off SGE RX/TX Callback Timers and interrupts in PCI shutdown routine
  team: Simplify return path of team_newlink
  bridge: Update outdated comment on promiscuous mode
  net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for bytestreams
  net-timestamp: TCP timestamping
  net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler
  net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams
  net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags
  net-timestamp: extend SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary data struct
  cxgb4i : Move stray CPL definitions to cxgb4 driver
  tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging
  qlcnic: Initialize dcbnl_ops before register_netdev
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T01:46:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-06T01:46:26+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/Makefile
	net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c

Two ipv6_table_template[] additions overlap, so the index
of the ipv6_table[x] assignments needed to be adjusted.

In the drivers/net/Makefile case, we've gotten rid of the
garbage whereby we had to list every single USB networking
driver in the top-level Makefile, there is just one
"USB_NETWORKING" that guards everything.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/Makefile
	net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c

Two ipv6_table_template[] additions overlap, so the index
of the ipv6_table[x] assignments needed to be adjusted.

In the drivers/net/Makefile case, we've gotten rid of the
garbage whereby we had to list every single USB networking
driver in the top-level Makefile, there is just one
"USB_NETWORKING" that guards everything.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-timestamp: TCP timestamping</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T02:11:49+00:00</published>
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TCP timestamping extends SO_TIMESTAMPING to bytestreams.

Bytestreams do not have a 1:1 relationship between send() buffers and
network packets. The feature interprets a send call on a bytestream as
a request for a timestamp for the last byte in that send() buffer.

The choice corresponds to a request for a timestamp when all bytes in
the buffer have been sent. That assumption depends on in-order kernel
transmission. This is the common case. That said, it is possible to
construct a traffic shaping tree that would result in reordering.
The guarantee is strong, then, but not ironclad.

This implementation supports send and sendpages (splice). GSO replaces
one large packet with multiple smaller packets. This patch also copies
the option into the correct smaller packet.

This patch does not yet support timestamping on data in an initial TCP
Fast Open SYN, because that takes a very different data path.

If ID generation in ee_data is enabled, bytestream timestamps return a
byte offset, instead of the packet counter for datagrams.

The implementation supports a single timestamp per packet. It silenty
replaces requests for previous timestamps. To avoid missing tstamps,
flush the tcp queue by disabling Nagle, cork and autocork. Missing
tstamps can be detected by offset when the ee_data ID is enabled.

Implementation details:

- On GSO, the timestamping code can be included in the main loop. I
moved it into its own loop to reduce the impact on the common case
to a single branch.

- To avoid leaking the absolute seqno to userspace, the offset
returned in ee_data must always be relative. It is an offset between
an skb and sk field. The first is always set (also for GSO &amp; ACK).
The second must also never be uninitialized. Only allow the ID
option on sockets in the ESTABLISHED state, for which the seqno
is available. Never reset it to zero (instead, move it to the
current seqno when reenabling the option).

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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TCP timestamping extends SO_TIMESTAMPING to bytestreams.

Bytestreams do not have a 1:1 relationship between send() buffers and
network packets. The feature interprets a send call on a bytestream as
a request for a timestamp for the last byte in that send() buffer.

The choice corresponds to a request for a timestamp when all bytes in
the buffer have been sent. That assumption depends on in-order kernel
transmission. This is the common case. That said, it is possible to
construct a traffic shaping tree that would result in reordering.
The guarantee is strong, then, but not ironclad.

This implementation supports send and sendpages (splice). GSO replaces
one large packet with multiple smaller packets. This patch also copies
the option into the correct smaller packet.

This patch does not yet support timestamping on data in an initial TCP
Fast Open SYN, because that takes a very different data path.

If ID generation in ee_data is enabled, bytestream timestamps return a
byte offset, instead of the packet counter for datagrams.

The implementation supports a single timestamp per packet. It silenty
replaces requests for previous timestamps. To avoid missing tstamps,
flush the tcp queue by disabling Nagle, cork and autocork. Missing
tstamps can be detected by offset when the ee_data ID is enabled.

Implementation details:

- On GSO, the timestamping code can be included in the main loop. I
moved it into its own loop to reduce the impact on the common case
to a single branch.

- To avoid leaking the absolute seqno to userspace, the offset
returned in ee_data must always be relative. It is an offset between
an skb and sk field. The first is always set (also for GSO &amp; ACK).
The second must also never be uninitialized. Only allow the ID
option on sockets in the ESTABLISHED state, for which the seqno
is available. Never reset it to zero (instead, move it to the
current seqno when reenabling the option).

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T02:11:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e7fd2885385157d46c85f282fc6d7d297db43e1f'/>
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Kernel transmit latency is often incurred in the packet scheduler.
Introduce a new timestamp on transmission just before entering the
scheduler. When data travels through multiple devices (bonding,
tunneling, ...) each device will export an individual timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Kernel transmit latency is often incurred in the packet scheduler.
Introduce a new timestamp on transmission just before entering the
scheduler. When data travels through multiple devices (bonding,
tunneling, ...) each device will export an individual timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T02:11:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=09c2d251b70723650ba47e83571ff49281320f7c'/>
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Datagrams timestamped on transmission can coexist in the kernel stack
and be reordered in packet scheduling. When reading looped datagrams
from the socket error queue it is not always possible to unique
correlate looped data with original send() call (for application
level retransmits). Even if possible, it may be expensive and complex,
requiring packet inspection.

Introduce a data-independent ID mechanism to associate timestamps with
send calls. Pass an ID alongside the timestamp in field ee_data of
sock_extended_err.

The ID is a simple 32 bit unsigned int that is associated with the
socket and incremented on each send() call for which software tx
timestamp generation is enabled.

The feature is enabled only if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID is set, to
avoid changing ee_data for existing applications that expect it 0.
The counter is reset each time the flag is reenabled. Reenabling
does not change the ID of already submitted data. It is possible
to receive out of order IDs if the timestamp stream is not quiesced
first.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Datagrams timestamped on transmission can coexist in the kernel stack
and be reordered in packet scheduling. When reading looped datagrams
from the socket error queue it is not always possible to unique
correlate looped data with original send() call (for application
level retransmits). Even if possible, it may be expensive and complex,
requiring packet inspection.

Introduce a data-independent ID mechanism to associate timestamps with
send calls. Pass an ID alongside the timestamp in field ee_data of
sock_extended_err.

The ID is a simple 32 bit unsigned int that is associated with the
socket and incremented on each send() call for which software tx
timestamp generation is enabled.

The feature is enabled only if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID is set, to
avoid changing ee_data for existing applications that expect it 0.
The counter is reset each time the flag is reenabled. Reenabling
does not change the ID of already submitted data. It is possible
to receive out of order IDs if the timestamp stream is not quiesced
first.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T02:11:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b9f40e21ef4298650ab33e35740fa85bd57706d5'/>
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sk_flags is reaching its limit. New timestamping options will not fit.
Move all of them into a new field sk-&gt;sk_tsflags.

Added benefit is that this removes boilerplate code to convert between
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_.. and SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_.. in getsockopt/setsockopt.

SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE is also used to toggle the receive
timestamp logic (netstamp_needed). That can be simplified and this
last key removed, but will leave that for a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;

----

The u16 in sock can be moved into a 16-bit hole below sk_gso_max_segs,
though that scatters tstamp fields throughout the struct.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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sk_flags is reaching its limit. New timestamping options will not fit.
Move all of them into a new field sk-&gt;sk_tsflags.

Added benefit is that this removes boilerplate code to convert between
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_.. and SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_.. in getsockopt/setsockopt.

SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE is also used to toggle the receive
timestamp logic (netstamp_needed). That can be simplified and this
last key removed, but will leave that for a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;

----

The u16 in sock can be moved into a 16-bit hole below sk_gso_max_segs,
though that scatters tstamp fields throughout the struct.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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