linux.git/net/econet, branch v2.6.25

[NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer

2008-01-28T22:53:35+00:00

Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()

2007-11-01T07:39:31+00:00

Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from
the callers and from the function prototype.

Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the
assignments inside if-s.

This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one.
I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope 
this particular split helped.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.

2007-10-10T23:52:50+00:00

Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

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

[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.

2007-10-10T23:49:10+00:00

This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe

2007-10-10T23:49:09+00:00

Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Make packet reception network namespace safe

2007-10-10T23:49:08+00:00

This patch modifies every packet receive function
registered with dev_add_pack() to drop packets if they
are not from the initial network namespace.

This should ensure that the various network stacks do
not receive packets in a anything but the initial network
namespace until the code has been converted and is ready
for them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe.

2007-10-10T23:49:07+00:00

This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting.  By
virtue of this all socket create methods are touched.  In addition
the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
exotic protocols are supported.

Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

[ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[ECONET]: remove econet_packet_type on unload

2007-08-15T00:25:20+00:00

Steps to reproduce:

	modprobe econet
	rmmod econet
	modprobe econet

Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8870a098 RIP: 
 [] dev_add_pack+0x48/0x90
PGD 203067 PUD 207063 PMD 7817f067 PTE 0
Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT SMP 
CPU 1 
Modules linked in: econet [maaaany]
Pid: 10671, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.23-rc3-bloat #6
RIP: 0010:[]  [] dev_add_pack+0x48/0x90
RSP: 0000:ffff810076293df8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffffffff88659090 RBX: ffffffff88659060 RCX: ffffffff8870a090
RDX: 0000000000000080 RSI: ffffffff805ec660 RDI: ffff810078ce4680
RBP: ffff810076293e08 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff8040bf88 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff810076293e18
R13: 000000000000001b R14: ffff810076dd06b0 R15: ffffffff886590c0
FS:  00002b96a525dae0(0000) GS:ffff81007e0e2138(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffffffff8870a098 CR3: 000000007bb67000 CR4: 00000000000026e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 10671, threadinfo ffff810076292000, task ffff810078ce4680)
Stack:  ffff810076dd06b0 0000000000000000 ffff810076293e38 ffffffff8865b180
 0000000000800000 0000000000000000 ffffffff886590c0 ffff810076dd01c8
 ffff810076293f78 ffffffff8026723c ffff810076293e48 ffffffff886590d8
Call Trace:
 [] :econet:econet_proto_init+0x180/0x1da
 [] sys_init_module+0x15c/0x19e0
 [] system_call+0x7e/0x83


Code: 48 89 41 08 48 89 82 e0 c5 5e 80 48 c7 c7 a0 08 5d 80 e8 f1 
RIP  [] dev_add_pack+0x48/0x90
 RSP 
CR2: ffffffff8870a098

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t

2007-04-26T05:26:28+00:00

So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes
on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the
layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4
64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN...
:-)

Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network,
mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being
meaningful as offsets or pointers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_transport_header(skb)

2007-04-26T05:25:31+00:00

For the places where we need a pointer to the transport header, it is
still legal to touch skb->h.raw directly if just adding to,
subtracting from or setting it to another layer header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller