linux.git/net/ipv4/ip_output.c, branch v2.6.32

net: Use sk_mark for routing lookup in more places

2009-10-01T22:16:49+00:00

This patch against v2.6.31 adds support for route lookup using sk_mark in some 
more places. The benefits from this patch are the following.
First, SO_MARK option now has effect on UDP sockets too.
Second, ip_queue_xmit() and inet_sk_rebuild_header() could fail to do routing 
lookup correctly if TCP sockets with SO_MARK were used.

Signed-off-by: Atis Elsts 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2009-09-14T17:37:28+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
  netxen: update copyright
  netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
  netxen: fix file firmware leak
  netxen: improve pci memory access
  netxen: change firmware write size
  tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
  netxen: build fix for INET=n
  cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
  Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
  Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
  ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
  net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
  mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
  ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
  ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
  phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
  drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
  drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
  net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
  Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts:

 - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h

   converted to  in the x86 tree.  The generic
   header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.

 - drivers/net/tun.c

   fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
   switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
   available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
   to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.

   Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.

ip: Report qdisc packet drops

2009-09-03T01:05:33+00:00

Christoph Lameter pointed out that packet drops at qdisc level where not
accounted in SNMP counters. Only if application sets IP_RECVERR, drops
are reported to user (-ENOBUFS errors) and SNMP counters updated.

IP_RECVERR is used to enable extended reliable error message passing,
but these are not needed to update system wide SNMP stats.

This patch changes things a bit to allow SNMP counters to be updated,
regardless of IP_RECVERR being set or not on the socket.

Example after an UDP tx flood
# netstat -s 
...
IP:
    1487048 outgoing packets dropped
...
Udp:
...
    SndbufErrors: 1487048


send() syscalls, do however still return an OK status, to not
break applications.

Note : send() manual page explicitly says for -ENOBUFS error :

 "The output queue for a network interface was full.
  This generally indicates that the interface has stopped sending,
  but may be caused by transient congestion.
  (Normally, this does not occur in Linux. Packets are just silently
  dropped when a device queue overflows.) "

This is not true for IP_RECVERR enabled sockets : a send() syscall
that hit a qdisc drop returns an ENOBUFS error.

Many thanks to Christoph, David, and last but not least, Alexey !

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

ipv4: make ip_append_data() handle NULL routing table

2009-08-27T19:23:43+00:00

Add a check in ip_append_data() for NULL *rtp to prevent future bugs in
callers from being exploitable.

Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes 
Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: ip_push_pending_frames() fix

2009-07-12T03:26:21+00:00

After commit 2b85a34e911bf483c27cfdd124aeb1605145dc80
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
we do not take any more references on sk->sk_refcnt on outgoing packets.

I forgot to delete two __sock_put() from ip_push_pending_frames()
and ip6_push_pending_frames().

Reported-by: Emil S Tantilov 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Emil S Tantilov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx

2009-06-11T09:55:43+00:00

One of the problem with sock memory accounting is it uses
a pair of sock_hold()/sock_put() for each transmitted packet.

This slows down bidirectional flows because the receive path
also needs to take a refcount on socket and might use a different
cpu than transmit path or transmit completion path. So these
two atomic operations also trigger cache line bounces.

We can see this in tx or tx/rx workloads (media gateways for example),
where sock_wfree() can be in top five functions in profiles.

We use this sock_hold()/sock_put() so that sock freeing
is delayed until all tx packets are completed.

As we also update sk_wmem_alloc, we could offset sk_wmem_alloc
by one unit at init time, until sk_free() is called.
Once sk_free() is called, we atomic_dec_and_test(sk_wmem_alloc)
to decrement initial offset and atomicaly check if any packets
are in flight.

skb_set_owner_w() doesnt call sock_hold() anymore

sock_wfree() doesnt call sock_put() anymore, but check if sk_wmem_alloc
reached 0 to perform the final freeing.

Drawback is that a skb->truesize error could lead to unfreeable sockets, or
even worse, prematurely calling __sk_free() on a live socket.

Nice speedups on SMP. tbench for example, going from 2691 MB/s to 2711 MB/s
on my 8 cpu dev machine, even if tbench was not really hitting sk_refcnt
contention point. 5 % speedup on a UDP transmit workload (depends
on number of flows), lowering TX completion cpu usage.

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

ipv4: Use frag list abstraction interfaces.

2009-06-09T07:19:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: skb->dst accessors

2009-06-03T09:51:04+00:00

Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

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

net: skb->rtable accessor

2009-06-03T09:51:02+00:00

Define skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) accessor to get rtable from skb

Delete skb->rtable field

Setting rtable is not allowed, just set dst instead as rtable is an alias.

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

snmp: add missing counters for RFC 4293

2009-04-27T09:45:02+00:00

The IP MIB (RFC 4293) defines stats for InOctets, OutOctets, InMcastOctets and
OutMcastOctets:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4293
But it seems we don't track those in any way that easy to separate from other
protocols.  This patch adds those missing counters to the stats file. Tested
successfully by me

With help from Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller