linux.git/net/core, branch v3.5-rc6

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

2012-07-04T01:01:54+00:00

Pull networking update from David Miller:

 1) Fix RX sequence number handling in mwifiex, from Stone Piao.

 2) Netfilter ipset mis-compares device names, fix from Florian
    Westphal.

 3) Fix route leak in ipv6 IPVS, from Eric Dumazet.

 4) NFS fixes.  Several buffer overflows in NCI layer from Dan
    Rosenberg, and release sock OOPS'er fix from Eric Dumazet.

 5) Fix WEP handling ath9k, we started using a bit the chip provides to
    indicate undecrypted packets but that bit turns out to be unreliable
    in certain configurations.  Fix from Felix Fietkau.

 6) Fix Kconfig dependency bug in wlcore, from Randy Dunlap.

 7) New USB IDs for rtlwifi driver from Larry Finger.

 8) Fix crashes in qmi_wwan usbnet driver when disconnecting, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 9) Gianfar driver programs coalescing settings properly in single queue
    mode, but does not do so in multi-queue mode.  Fix from Claudiu
    Manoil.

10) Missing module.h include in davinci_cpdma.c, from Daniel Mack.

11) Need dummy handler for IPSET_CMD_NONE otherwise we crash in ipset if
    we get this via nfnetlink, fix from Tomasz Bursztyka.

12) Missing RCU unlock in nfnetlink error path, also from Tomasz.

13) Fix divide by zero in igbvf when the user tries to set an RX
    coalescing value of 0 usecs, from Mitch A Williams.

14) We can process SCTP sacks for the wrong transport, oops.  Fix from
    Neil Horman.

15) Remove hw IP payload checksumming from e1000e driver.  This has zery
    value in our stack, and turning it on creates a very unintuitive
    restriction for users when using jumbo MTUs.

    Specifically, when IP payload checksums are on you cannot use both
    receive hashing offload and jumbo MTU.  Fix from Bruce Allan.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (27 commits)
  e1000e: remove use of IP payload checksum
  sctp: be more restrictive in transport selection on bundled sacks
  igbvf: fix divide by zero
  netfilter: nfnetlink: fix missing rcu_read_unlock in nfnetlink_rcv_msg
  netfilter: ipset: fix crash if IPSET_CMD_NONE command is sent
  davinci_cpdma: include linux/module.h
  gianfar: Fix RXICr/TXICr programming for multi-queue mode
  net: Downgrade CAP_SYS_MODULE deprecated message from error to warning.
  net: qmi_wwan: fix Oops while disconnecting
  mwifiex: fix memory leak associated with IE manamgement
  ath9k: fix panic caused by returning a descriptor we have queued for reuse
  mac80211: correct behaviour on unrecognised action frames
  ath9k: enable serialize_regmode for non-PCIE AR9287
  rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: New USB IDs
  NFC: Return from rawsock_release when sk is NULL
  iwlwifi: fix activating inactive stations
  wlcore: drop INET dependency
  ath9k: fix dynamic WEP related regression
  NFC: Prevent multiple buffer overflows in NCI
  netfilter: update location of my trees
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-07-03T22:45:10+00:00

Pull block bits from Jens Axboe:
 "As vacation is coming up, thought I'd better get rid of my pending
  changes in my for-linus branch for this iteration.  It contains:

   - Two patches for mtip32xx.  Killing a non-compliant sysfs interface
     and moving it to debugfs, where it belongs.

   - A few patches from Asias.  Two legit bug fixes, and one killing an
     interface that is no longer in use.

   - A patch from Jan, making the annoying partition ioctl warning a bit
     less annoying, by restricting it to !CAP_SYS_RAWIO only.

   - Three bug fixes for drbd from Lars Ellenberg.

   - A fix for an old regression for umem, it hasn't really worked since
     the plugging scheme was changed in 3.0.

   - A few fixes from Tejun.

   - A splice fix from Eric Dumazet, fixing an issue with pipe
     resizing."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
  block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue()
  block: Mitigate lock unbalance caused by lock switching
  block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue
  umem: fix up unplugging
  splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses
  drbd: fix null pointer dereference with on-congestion policy when diskless
  drbd: fix list corruption by failing but already aborted reads
  drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic
  xen/blkfront: Add WARN to deal with misbehaving backends.
  blkcg: drop local variable @q from blkg_destroy()
  mtip32xx: Create debugfs entries for troubleshooting
  mtip32xx: Remove 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs
  blkcg: fix blkg_alloc() failure path
  block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
  block: fix return value on cfq_init() failure
  mtip32xx: Remove version.h header file inclusion
  xen/blkback: Copy id field when doing BLKIF_DISCARD.

net: Downgrade CAP_SYS_MODULE deprecated message from error to warning.

2012-06-28T23:55:05+00:00

Make logging level consistent with other deprecation messages in net
subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee 
Cc: David Mackey 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove skb_orphan_try()

2012-06-15T22:30:15+00:00

Orphaning skb in dev_hard_start_xmit() makes bonding behavior
unfriendly for applications sending big UDP bursts : Once packets
pass the bonding device and come to real device, they might hit a full
qdisc and be dropped. Without orphaning, the sender is automatically
throttled because sk->sk_wmemalloc reaches sk->sk_sndbuf (assuming
sk_sndbuf is not too big)

We could try to defer the orphaning adding another test in
dev_hard_start_xmit(), but all this seems of little gain,
now that BQL tends to make packets more likely to be parked
in Qdisc queues instead of NIC TX ring, in cases where performance
matters.

Reverts commits :
fc6055a5ba31 net: Introduce skb_orphan_try()
87fd308cfc6b net: skb_tx_hash() fix relative to skb_orphan_try()
and removes SKBTX_DRV_NEEDS_SK_REF flag

Reported-and-bisected-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs

2012-06-13T22:57:31+00:00

Bogdan Hamciuc diagnosed and fixed following bug in netpoll_send_udp() :

"skb->len += len;" instead of "skb_put(skb, len);"

Meaning that _if_ a network driver needs to call skb_realloc_headroom(),
only packet headers would be copied, leaving garbage in the payload.

However the skb_realloc_headroom() must be avoided as much as possible
since it requires memory and netpoll tries hard to work even if memory
is exhausted (using a pool of preallocated skbs)

It appears netpoll_send_udp() reserved 16 bytes for the ethernet header,
which happens to work for typicall drivers but not all.

Right thing is to use LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev)
(And also add dev->needed_tailroom of tailroom)

This patch combines both fixes.

Many thanks to Bogdan for raising this issue.

Reported-by: Bogdan Hamciuc 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Bogdan Hamciuc 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman 
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses

2012-06-13T19:16:42+00:00

Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered
by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe()

commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes)
added capability to adjust pipe->buffers.

Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers
doesn't change for their duration.

Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and
use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate.

splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument.

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: stable  # 2.6.35
Tested-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

net/core: fix kernel-doc warnings

2012-06-09T05:20:58+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warnings in net/core:

Warning(net/core/skbuff.c:3368): No description found for parameter 'delta_truesize'
Warning(net/core/filter.c:628): No description found for parameter 'pfp'
Warning(net/core/filter.c:628): Excess function parameter 'sk' description in 'sk_unattached_filter_create'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: neighbour: fix neigh_dump_info()

2012-06-07T20:02:21+00:00

Denys found out "ip neigh" output was truncated to
about 54 neighbours.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drop_monitor: dont sleep in atomic context

2012-06-04T15:42:01+00:00

drop_monitor calls several sleeping functions while in atomic context.

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:943
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2103, name: kworker/0:2
 Pid: 2103, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+ #55
 Call Trace:
  [] __might_sleep+0xca/0xf0
  [] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1b3/0x1c0
  [] ? queue_delayed_work_on+0x11c/0x130
  [] __alloc_skb+0x4b/0x230
  [] ? reset_per_cpu_data+0x160/0x160 [drop_monitor]
  [] reset_per_cpu_data+0x2f/0x160 [drop_monitor]
  [] send_dm_alert+0x4b/0xb0 [drop_monitor]
  [] process_one_work+0x130/0x4c0
  [] worker_thread+0x159/0x360
  [] ? manage_workers.isra.27+0x240/0x240
  [] kthread+0x93/0xa0
  [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x80/0x80
  [] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb

Rework the logic to call the sleeping functions in right context.

Use standard timer/workqueue api to let system chose any cpu to perform
the allocation and netlink send.

Also avoid a loop if reset_per_cpu_data() cannot allocate memory :
use mod_timer() to wait 1/10 second before next try.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb()

2012-05-31T22:22:45+00:00

We need to validate the number of pages consumed by data_len, otherwise frags
array could be overflowed by userspace. So this patch validate data_len and
return -EMSGSIZE when data_len may occupies more frags than MAX_SKB_FRAGS.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller