linux.git/net/irda, branch v2.6.16

[IRDA]: out of range array access

2006-02-10T00:59:48+00:00

This patch fixes an out of range array access in irnet_irda.c.

Author: David Binderman 
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IRDA]: Set proper IrLAP device address length

2006-02-10T00:58:46+00:00

This patch set IrDA's addr_len properly, i.e to 4 bytes, the size of the
IrLAP device address.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)

2006-01-12T02:42:14+00:00

net: Use  where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET]: Remove more unneeded typecasts on *malloc()

2006-01-12T00:32:14+00:00

This removes more unneeded casts on the return value for kmalloc(),
sock_kmalloc(), and vmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2006-01-05T00:34:57+00:00

[NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()

2006-01-03T22:18:33+00:00

Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default
fallback in their ioctl implementations.  This patch adds a fallback
to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD.
This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't
need to export dev_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const

2006-01-03T21:11:15+00:00

I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

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

[NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case

2006-01-03T21:10:44+00:00

It also looks like there were 2 places where the test on sk_err was
missing from the event wait logic (in sk_stream_wait_connect and
sk_stream_wait_memory), while the rest of the sock_error() users look
to be doing the right thing.  This version of the patch fixes those,
and cleans up a few places that were testing ->sk_err directly.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

s/retreiv/retriev/g

2006-01-03T12:27:11+00:00

As everyone knows, the rule is: "i before e.. um.. always."

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[NET]: kfree cleanup

2005-11-08T17:41:34+00:00

From: Jesper Juhl 

This is the net/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in net/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton