linux.git/net/core, branch v3.17-rc5

net: treewide: Fix typo found in DocBook/networking.xml

2014-09-06T00:35:28+00:00

This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/networking.xml.
It is because the neworking.xml is generated from comments
in the source, I have to fix typo in comments within the source.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: attempt a single high order allocation

2014-08-30T03:28:23+00:00

In commit ed98df3361f0 ("net: use __GFP_NORETRY for high order
allocations") we tried to address one issue caused by order-3
allocations.

We still observe high latencies and system overhead in situations where
compaction is not successful.

Instead of trying order-3, order-2, and order-1, do a single order-3
best effort and immediately fallback to plain order-0.

This mimics slub strategy to fallback to slab min order if the high
order allocation used for performance failed.

Order-3 allocations give a performance boost only if they can be done
without recurring and expensive memory scan.

Quoting David :

The page allocator relies on synchronous (sync light) memory compaction
after direct reclaim for allocations that don't retry and deferred
compaction doesn't work with this strategy because the allocation order
is always decreasing from the previous failed attempt.

This means sync light compaction will always be encountered if memory
cannot be defragmented or reclaimed several times during the
skb_page_frag_refill() iteration.

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

net: fix checksum features handling in netif_skb_features()

2014-08-26T00:23:03+00:00

This is follow-up to

  da08143b8520 ("vlan: more careful checksum features handling")

which introduced more careful feature intersection in vlan code,
taking into account that HW_CSUM should be considered superset
of IP_CSUM/IPV6_CSUM. The same is needed in netif_skb_features()
in order to avoid offloading mismatch warning when vlan is
created on top of a bond consisting of slaves supporting IP/IPv6
checksumming but not vlan Tx offloading.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: prevent of emerging cross-namespace symlinks

2014-08-25T22:17:43+00:00

Code manipulating sysfs symlinks on adjacent net_devices(s)
currently doesn't take into account that devices potentially
belong to different namespaces.

This patch trying to fix an issue as follows:
- check for net_ns before creating / deleting symlink.
  for now only netdev_adjacent_rename_links and
  __netdev_adjacent_dev_remove are affected, afaics
  __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert implies both net_devs
  belong to the same namespace.
- Drop all existing symlinks to / from all adj_devs before
  switching namespace and recreate them just after.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Y. Fomichev 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-08-14T00:27:40+00:00

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.
...

net: Always untag vlan-tagged traffic on input.

2014-08-11T19:16:51+00:00

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 > 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 > 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-> 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 > 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 > 10.0.100.10.ircu-2: Flags [S], cksum 0xdc39 (incorrect
-> 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 
CC: Nithin Nayak Sujir 
CC: Michael Chan 
CC: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich 
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2014-08-10T00:10:41+00:00

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//task/
  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

rtnetlink: fix VF info size

2014-08-08T17:28:09+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-08-06T16:38:14+00:00

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
  ...

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

2014-08-06T01:46:26+00:00

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