linux.git/net/mac802154, branch v4.13

net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.

2017-06-07T19:53:24+00:00

Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops->ndo_init().  However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.

Either netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() or netdev->destructor().

The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.

netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.

netdev->destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.

Further complicating the situation is that netdev->destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().

This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.

If netdev_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops->ndo_uninit().  But
it is not able to invoke netdev->destructor().

This is because netdev->destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.

However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev->destructor() will not be.

Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.

Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.

Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev->destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().

netdev->priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev->destructor(), except for
free_netdev().

netdev->needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().

Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops->ndo_uninit()
and netdev->priv_destructor().

And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev->priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers: add explicit interrupt.h includes

2017-03-30T18:05:34+00:00

These files all use functions declared in interrupt.h, but currently rely
on implicit inclusion of this file (via netns/xfrm.h).

That won't work anymore when the flow cache is removed so include that
header where needed.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sched/headers: Prepare to use instead of in

2017-03-02T07:42:38+00:00

We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage

2016-12-25T16:21:22+00:00

ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still
useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value
needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this
is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

Makefile: drop -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ from cflags

2016-12-15T22:13:43+00:00

That's the default now, no need for makefiles to set it.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Acked-by: Kalle Valo 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel

mac802154: use rate limited warnings for malformed frames

2016-09-19T18:19:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski 
Acked-by: Alexander Aring 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann

mac802154: don't warn on unsupported frames

2016-09-19T18:19:34+00:00

Just because we don't support certain types of frames yet doesn't mean
we have to flood the message log with warnings about "invalid" frames.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski 
Acked-by: Alexander Aring 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann

mac802154: set phy net namespace for new ifaces

2016-09-19T18:19:34+00:00

This patch sets the net namespace when creating SoftMAC interfaces. This
is important if the namespace at phy layer was switched before.
Currently we losing interfaces in some namespace and it's not possible
to recover that.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann

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

2016-03-19T17:05:34+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...

mac802154: Fixes kernel oops when unloading a radio driver

2016-02-23T19:29:40+00:00

Destroying the workqueue before unregistering the net device caused a
kernel oops

Signed-off-by: Koen Zandberg 
Acked-by: Alexander Aring 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann