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<title>net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports</title>
<updated>2009-06-18T07:29:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2009-06-18T02:05:41+00:00</published>
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commit 2b85a34e911bf483c27cfdd124aeb1605145dc80
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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commit 2b85a34e911bf483c27cfdd124aeb1605145dc80
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()</title>
<updated>2009-05-21T23:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michał Mirosław</name>
<email>mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl</email>
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<published>2009-05-21T10:34:04+00:00</published>
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This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/</title>
<updated>2009-03-26T22:23:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-26T22:23:24+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-03-26T18:04:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-03-26T18:04:34+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
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<title>netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag</title>
<updated>2009-03-24T23:37:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-24T23:37:55+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can
be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving
ENOBUFS errors.

Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things
to the listener:

a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt().
b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync.

In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example:

a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync
method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a
given buffer size.

b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag
NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as
you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered
are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization).

Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down"
effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion
control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following:

1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the
receiver buffer.
2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk-&gt;state bit 0).
3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps
dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down.
4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk-&gt;state
bit 0 is set off), goto step 1.

This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy
load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer.
You can find some results in [1] that show this problem.

[1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/

This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
/proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can
be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving
ENOBUFS errors.

Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things
to the listener:

a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt().
b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync.

In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example:

a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync
method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a
given buffer size.

b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag
NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as
you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered
are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization).

Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down"
effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion
control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following:

1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the
receiver buffer.
2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk-&gt;state bit 0).
3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps
dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down.
4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk-&gt;state
bit 0 is set off), goto step 1.

This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy
load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer.
You can find some results in [1] that show this problem.

[1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/

This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
/proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-03-24T20:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-24T20:24:36+00:00</published>
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<title>nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink</title>
<updated>2009-03-23T12:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-23T12:21:06+00:00</published>
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This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-03-05T10:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-05T10:06:47+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
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<title>netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err()</title>
<updated>2009-03-04T07:37:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-04T07:37:30+00:00</published>
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The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value
as parameter for the error code. However, sk-&gt;sk_err wants a
positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called
by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error.

Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive
error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone
to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the
(usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :).

This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format
for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value
as parameter for the error code. However, sk-&gt;sk_err wants a
positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called
by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error.

Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive
error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone
to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the
(usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :).

This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format
for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib</title>
<updated>2009-03-04T06:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-04T06:53:30+00:00</published>
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Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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