linux.git/net/socket.c, branch v2.6.17

[PATCH] sockaddr patch

2006-05-01T10:06:10+00:00

On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:08, John D. Ramsdell wrote:
>  I noticed that a socketcall(bind) and socketcall(connect) event contain a
>  record of type=SOCKADDR, but I cannot see one for a system call event
>  associated with socketcall(accept).  Recording the sockaddr of an accepted
>  socket is important for cross platform information flow analys

Thanks for pointing this out. The following patch should address this.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[NET]: sockfd_lookup_light() returns random error for -EBADFD

2006-04-19T22:25:02+00:00

This applies to 2.6.17-rc2.

There is a missing initialization of err in sockfd_lookup_light() that
could return random error for an invalid file handle.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

2006-04-11T13:34:02+00:00

* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
  [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_*
  [PATCH] splice: warning fix
  [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
  [PATCH] splice: comment styles
  [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder
  [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations
  [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations
  [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
  [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
  [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read
  [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support
  [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
  [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
  [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead()
  [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping
  [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read()
  [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to
  [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference
  [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed

[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: network codes

2006-04-11T13:18:31+00:00

for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs.  We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs.  This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.

We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.

This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu under /net

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] splice: warning fix

2006-04-11T11:59:36+00:00

From: Andrew Morton 

net/socket.c:148: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

extern declarations in .c files!  Bad boy.

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[NET]: Fully fix the memory leaks in sys_accept().

2006-04-01T20:48:36+00:00

Andi Kleen was right, fput() on sock->file will end up calling
sock_release() if necessary.  So here is the rest of his version
of the fix for these leaks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Fix dentry leak in sys_accept().

2006-04-01T09:00:14+00:00

This regression was added by commit:
39d8c1b6fbaeb8d6adec4a8c08365cc9eaca6ae4
("Do not lose accepted socket when -ENFILE/-EMFILE.")

This is based upon a patch from Andi Kleen.

Thanks to Adrian Bridgett for narrowing down a good test case, and to
Andi Kleen and Andrew Morton for eyeballing this code.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call

2006-03-30T20:28:18+00:00

This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).

From the splice.c comments:

   "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.

   This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
   an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
   buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.

   The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
   that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.

   Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
   Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
   bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

2006-03-28T17:16:06+00:00

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format

2006-03-24T15:33:23+00:00

Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD.  This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds