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<title>linux.git/net/tipc/core.c, branch v5.2-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration</title>
<updated>2019-05-20T17:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junwei Hu</name>
<email>hujunwei4@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-20T06:43:59+00:00</published>
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Error message printed:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tipc': Address family not
supported by protocol.
when modprobe tipc after the following patch: switch order of
device registration, commit 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")

Because sock_create_kern(net, AF_TIPC, ...) called by
tipc_topsrv_create_listener() in the initialization process
of tipc_init_net(), so tipc_socket_init() must be execute before that.
Meanwhile, tipc_net_id need to be initialized when sock_create()
called, and tipc_socket_init() is no need to be called for each namespace.

I add a variable tipc_topsrv_net_ops, and split the
register_pernet_subsys() of tipc into two parts, and split
tipc_socket_init() with initialization of pernet params.

By the way, I fixed resources rollback error when tipc_bcast_init()
failed in tipc_init_net().

Fixes: 7e27e8d6130c ("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+1e8114b61079bfe9cbc5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Kang Zhou &lt;zhoukang7@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suanming Mou &lt;mousuanming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Error message printed:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tipc': Address family not
supported by protocol.
when modprobe tipc after the following patch: switch order of
device registration, commit 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")

Because sock_create_kern(net, AF_TIPC, ...) called by
tipc_topsrv_create_listener() in the initialization process
of tipc_init_net(), so tipc_socket_init() must be execute before that.
Meanwhile, tipc_net_id need to be initialized when sock_create()
called, and tipc_socket_init() is no need to be called for each namespace.

I add a variable tipc_topsrv_net_ops, and split the
register_pernet_subsys() of tipc into two parts, and split
tipc_socket_init() with initialization of pernet params.

By the way, I fixed resources rollback error when tipc_bcast_init()
failed in tipc_init_net().

Fixes: 7e27e8d6130c ("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+1e8114b61079bfe9cbc5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Kang Zhou &lt;zhoukang7@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suanming Mou &lt;mousuanming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration"</title>
<updated>2019-05-17T19:15:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-17T19:15:05+00:00</published>
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<id>5593530e56943182ebb6d81eca8a3be6db6dbba4</id>
<content type='text'>
This reverts commit 532b0f7ece4cb2ffd24dc723ddf55242d1188e5e.

More revisions coming up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This reverts commit 532b0f7ece4cb2ffd24dc723ddf55242d1188e5e.

More revisions coming up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration</title>
<updated>2019-05-17T18:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junwei Hu</name>
<email>hujunwei4@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-17T11:27:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=532b0f7ece4cb2ffd24dc723ddf55242d1188e5e'/>
<id>532b0f7ece4cb2ffd24dc723ddf55242d1188e5e</id>
<content type='text'>
Error message printed:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tipc': Address family not
supported by protocol.
when modprobe tipc after the following patch: switch order of
device registration, commit 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")

Because sock_create_kern(net, AF_TIPC, ...) is called by
tipc_topsrv_create_listener() in the initialization process
of tipc_net_ops, tipc_socket_init() must be execute before that.

I move tipc_socket_init() into function tipc_init_net().

Fixes: 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kang Zhou &lt;zhoukang7@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suanming Mou &lt;mousuanming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Error message printed:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tipc': Address family not
supported by protocol.
when modprobe tipc after the following patch: switch order of
device registration, commit 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")

Because sock_create_kern(net, AF_TIPC, ...) is called by
tipc_topsrv_create_listener() in the initialization process
of tipc_net_ops, tipc_socket_init() must be execute before that.

I move tipc_socket_init() into function tipc_init_net().

Fixes: 7e27e8d6130c
("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kang Zhou &lt;zhoukang7@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suanming Mou &lt;mousuanming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T19:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junwei Hu</name>
<email>hujunwei4@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-16T02:51:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7e27e8d6130c5e88fac9ddec4249f7f2337fe7f8'/>
<id>7e27e8d6130c5e88fac9ddec4249f7f2337fe7f8</id>
<content type='text'>
When tipc is loaded while many processes try to create a TIPC socket,
a crash occurs:
 PANIC: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
 address "dfff20000000021d"
 pc : tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
 lr : tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
 Call trace:
  tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
  __sock_create+0x1cc/0x408
  __sys_socket+0xec/0x1f0
  __arm64_sys_socket+0x74/0xa8
 ...

This is due to race between sock_create and unfinished
register_pernet_device. tipc_sk_insert tries to do
"net_generic(net, tipc_net_id)".
but tipc_net_id is not initialized yet.

So switch the order of the two to close the race.

This can be reproduced with multiple processes doing socket(AF_TIPC, ...)
and one process doing module removal.

Fixes: a62fbccecd62 ("tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiaogang Wang &lt;wangxiaogang3@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When tipc is loaded while many processes try to create a TIPC socket,
a crash occurs:
 PANIC: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
 address "dfff20000000021d"
 pc : tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
 lr : tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
 Call trace:
  tipc_sk_create+0x374/0x1180 [tipc]
  __sock_create+0x1cc/0x408
  __sys_socket+0xec/0x1f0
  __arm64_sys_socket+0x74/0xa8
 ...

This is due to race between sock_create and unfinished
register_pernet_device. tipc_sk_insert tries to do
"net_generic(net, tipc_net_id)".
but tipc_net_id is not initialized yet.

So switch the order of the two to close the race.

This can be reproduced with multiple processes doing socket(AF_TIPC, ...)
and one process doing module removal.

Fixes: a62fbccecd62 ("tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Wang &lt;wangwang2@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiaogang Wang &lt;wangxiaogang3@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: introduce new capability flag for cluster</title>
<updated>2019-03-19T20:56:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hoang Le</name>
<email>hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-19T11:49:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ff2ebbfba6186adf3964eb816f8f255c6e664dc4'/>
<id>ff2ebbfba6186adf3964eb816f8f255c6e664dc4</id>
<content type='text'>
As a preparation for introducing a smooth switching between replicast
and broadcast method for multicast message, We have to introduce a new
capability flag TIPC_MCAST_RBCTL to handle this new feature.

During a cluster upgrade a node can come back with this new capabilities
which also must be reflected in the cluster capabilities field.
The new feature is only applicable if all node in the cluster supports
this new capability.

Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As a preparation for introducing a smooth switching between replicast
and broadcast method for multicast message, We have to introduce a new
capability flag TIPC_MCAST_RBCTL to handle this new feature.

During a cluster upgrade a node can come back with this new capabilities
which also must be reflected in the cluster capabilities field.
The new feature is only applicable if all node in the cluster supports
this new capability.

Acked-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le &lt;hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Drop pernet_operations::async</title>
<updated>2018-03-27T17:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-27T15:02:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2f635ceeb22ba13c307236d69795fbb29cfa3e7c'/>
<id>2f635ceeb22ba13c307236d69795fbb29cfa3e7c</id>
<content type='text'>
Synchronous pernet_operations are not allowed anymore.
All are asynchronous. So, drop the structure member.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Synchronous pernet_operations are not allowed anymore.
All are asynchronous. So, drop the structure member.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: handle collisions of 32-bit node address hash values</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T17:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T19:42:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=25b0b9c4e835ffaa65b61c3efe2e28acf84d0259'/>
<id>25b0b9c4e835ffaa65b61c3efe2e28acf84d0259</id>
<content type='text'>
When a 32-bit node address is generated from a 128-bit identifier,
there is a risk of collisions which must be discovered and handled.

We do this as follows:
- We don't apply the generated address immediately to the node, but do
  instead initiate a 1 sec trial period to allow other cluster members
  to discover and handle such collisions.

- During the trial period the node periodically sends out a new type
  of message, DSC_TRIAL_MSG, using broadcast or emulated broadcast,
  to all the other nodes in the cluster.

- When a node is receiving such a message, it must check that the
  presented 32-bit identifier either is unused, or was used by the very
  same peer in a previous session. In both cases it accepts the request
  by not responding to it.

- If it finds that the same node has been up before using a different
  address, it responds with a DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG containing that
  address.

- If it finds that the address has already been taken by some other
  node, it generates a new, unused address and returns it to the
  requester.

- During the trial period the requesting node must always be prepared
  to accept a failure message, i.e., a message where a peer suggests a
  different (or equal)  address to the one tried. In those cases it
  must apply the suggested value as trial address and restart the trial
  period.

This algorithm ensures that in the vast majority of cases a node will
have the same address before and after a reboot. If a legacy user
configures the address explicitly, there will be no trial period and
messages, so this protocol addition is completely backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
When a 32-bit node address is generated from a 128-bit identifier,
there is a risk of collisions which must be discovered and handled.

We do this as follows:
- We don't apply the generated address immediately to the node, but do
  instead initiate a 1 sec trial period to allow other cluster members
  to discover and handle such collisions.

- During the trial period the node periodically sends out a new type
  of message, DSC_TRIAL_MSG, using broadcast or emulated broadcast,
  to all the other nodes in the cluster.

- When a node is receiving such a message, it must check that the
  presented 32-bit identifier either is unused, or was used by the very
  same peer in a previous session. In both cases it accepts the request
  by not responding to it.

- If it finds that the same node has been up before using a different
  address, it responds with a DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG containing that
  address.

- If it finds that the address has already been taken by some other
  node, it generates a new, unused address and returns it to the
  requester.

- During the trial period the requesting node must always be prepared
  to accept a failure message, i.e., a message where a peer suggests a
  different (or equal)  address to the one tried. In those cases it
  must apply the suggested value as trial address and restart the trial
  period.

This algorithm ensures that in the vast majority of cases a node will
have the same address before and after a reboot. If a legacy user
configures the address explicitly, there will be no trial period and
messages, so this protocol addition is completely backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: add 128-bit node identifier</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T17:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T19:42:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d50ccc2d3909fc1b4d40e4af16b026f05dc68707'/>
<id>d50ccc2d3909fc1b4d40e4af16b026f05dc68707</id>
<content type='text'>
We add a 128-bit node identity, as an alternative to the currently used
32-bit node address.

For the sake of compatibility and to minimize message header changes
we retain the existing 32-bit address field. When not set explicitly by
the user, this field will be filled with a hash value generated from the
much longer node identity, and be used as a shorthand value for the
latter.

We permit either the address or the identity to be set by configuration,
but not both, so when the address value is set by a legacy user the
corresponding 128-bit node identity is generated based on the that value.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
We add a 128-bit node identity, as an alternative to the currently used
32-bit node address.

For the sake of compatibility and to minimize message header changes
we retain the existing 32-bit address field. When not set explicitly by
the user, this field will be filled with a hash value generated from the
much longer node identity, and be used as a shorthand value for the
latter.

We permit either the address or the identity to be set by configuration,
but not both, so when the address value is set by a legacy user the
corresponding 128-bit node identity is generated based on the that value.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Convert tipc_net_ops</title>
<updated>2018-03-13T15:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-13T10:37:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=afbbc374ab1281f2e5c18278a62a47fb906f0fa4'/>
<id>afbbc374ab1281f2e5c18278a62a47fb906f0fa4</id>
<content type='text'>
TIPC looks concentrated in itself, and other pernet_operations
seem not touching its entities.

tipc_net_ops look pernet-divided, and they should be safe to
be executed in parallel for several net the same time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
TIPC looks concentrated in itself, and other pernet_operations
seem not touching its entities.

tipc_net_ops look pernet-divided, and they should be safe to
be executed in parallel for several net the same time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T15:59:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-17T01:58:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c7d03a00b56fc23c3a01a8353789ad257363e281'/>
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<content type='text'>
Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned.

There are 2 reasons to do so:

1)
This field is really an index into an zero based array and
thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound
access by definition.

2)
On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers
via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers
are preffered to signed 32-bit data.

"int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended
to 64-bit before being used.

	void f(long *p, int i)
	{
		g(p[i]);
	}

  roughly translates to

	movsx	rsi, esi
	mov	rdi, [rsi+...]
	call 	g

MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is
unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default.

Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses
"int" as an array index:

	static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id)
	{
		...
		ptr = ng-&gt;ptr[id - 1];
		...
	}

And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up.

Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk
messing with code generation):

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)

Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger.
This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register
allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable
needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX
prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be
used which is longer than [r8]

However, overall balance is in negative direction:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nfsd4_lock                                  3886    3959     +73
	tipc_link_build_proto_msg                   1096    1140     +44
	mac80211_hwsim_new_radio                    2776    2808     +32
	tipc_mon_rcv                                1032    1058     +26
	svcauth_gss_legacy_init                     1413    1429     +16
	tipc_bcbase_select_primary                   379     392     +13
	nfsd4_exchange_id                           1247    1260     +13
	nfsd4_setclientid_confirm                    782     793     +11
		...
	put_client_renew_locked                      494     480     -14
	ip_set_sockfn_get                            730     716     -14
	geneve_sock_add                              829     813     -16
	nfsd4_sequence_done                          721     703     -18
	nlmclnt_lookup_host                          708     686     -22
	nfsd4_lockt                                 1085    1063     -22
	nfs_get_client                              1077    1050     -27
	tcf_bpf_init                                1106    1076     -30
	nfsd4_encode_fattr                          5997    5930     -67
	Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned.

There are 2 reasons to do so:

1)
This field is really an index into an zero based array and
thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound
access by definition.

2)
On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers
via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers
are preffered to signed 32-bit data.

"int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended
to 64-bit before being used.

	void f(long *p, int i)
	{
		g(p[i]);
	}

  roughly translates to

	movsx	rsi, esi
	mov	rdi, [rsi+...]
	call 	g

MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is
unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default.

Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses
"int" as an array index:

	static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id)
	{
		...
		ptr = ng-&gt;ptr[id - 1];
		...
	}

And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up.

Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk
messing with code generation):

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)

Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger.
This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register
allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable
needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX
prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be
used which is longer than [r8]

However, overall balance is in negative direction:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nfsd4_lock                                  3886    3959     +73
	tipc_link_build_proto_msg                   1096    1140     +44
	mac80211_hwsim_new_radio                    2776    2808     +32
	tipc_mon_rcv                                1032    1058     +26
	svcauth_gss_legacy_init                     1413    1429     +16
	tipc_bcbase_select_primary                   379     392     +13
	nfsd4_exchange_id                           1247    1260     +13
	nfsd4_setclientid_confirm                    782     793     +11
		...
	put_client_renew_locked                      494     480     -14
	ip_set_sockfn_get                            730     716     -14
	geneve_sock_add                              829     813     -16
	nfsd4_sequence_done                          721     703     -18
	nlmclnt_lookup_host                          708     686     -22
	nfsd4_lockt                                 1085    1063     -22
	nfs_get_client                              1077    1050     -27
	tcf_bpf_init                                1106    1076     -30
	nfsd4_encode_fattr                          5997    5930     -67
	Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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