linux/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.16

net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the forwarding path

2014-07-16T21:45:26Z

Fixed a bug that was introduced by my GRE-GRO patch (bf5a755f5e9186406bbf50f4087100af5bd68e40 net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack) that breaks the forwarding path because various GSO related fields were not set. The bug will cause on the egress path either the GSO code to fail, or a GRE-TSO capable (NETIF_F_GSO_GRE) NICs to choke. The following fix has been tested for both cases. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix NETDEV_CHANGE notifier usage causing spurious arp flush

2014-07-08T04:20:01Z

A bug was introduced in NETDEV_CHANGE notifier sequence causing the arp table to be sometimes spuriously cleared (including manual arp entries marked permanent), upon network link carrier changes. The changed argument for the notifier was applied only to a single caller of NETDEV_CHANGE, missing among others netdev_state_change(). So upon net_carrier events induced by the network, which are triggering a call to netdev_state_change(), arp_netdev_event() would decide whether to clear or not arp cache based on random/junk stack values (a kind of read buffer overflow). Fixes: be9efd365328 ("net: pass changed flags along with NETDEV_CHANGE event") Fixes: 6c8b4e3ff81b ("arp: flush arp cache on IFF_NOARP change") Signed-off-by: Loic Prylli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Performance fix for process_backlog

2014-07-08T02:24:34Z

In process_backlog the input_pkt_queue is only checked once for new packets and quota is artificially reduced to reflect precisely the number of packets on the input_pkt_queue so that the loop exits appropriately. This patches changes the behavior to be more straightforward and less convoluted. Packets are processed until either the quota is met or there are no more packets to process. This patch seems to provide a small, but noticeable performance improvement. The performance improvement is a result of staying in the process_backlog loop longer which can reduce number of IPI's. Performance data using super_netperf TCP_RR with 200 flows: Before fix: 88.06% CPU utilization 125/190/309 90/95/99% latencies 1.46808e+06 tps 1145382 intrs.sec. With fix: 87.73% CPU utilization 122/183/296 90/95/99% latencies 1.4921e+06 tps 1021674.30 intrs./sec. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-06-12T21:27:40Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J Benniston. 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn Mork. 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez. 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee. 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia. 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy. 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli. 10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu. 11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses, from Lorenzo Colitti. 12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal Cardwell. 13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman. 14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru. 15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich. 16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits) rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery net: fec: Add software TSO support net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number net: fec: Factorize feature setting net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem net/core: Add VF link state control policy net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving ...

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

2014-06-11T23:02:55Z

Conflicts: net/core/rtnetlink.c net/core/skbuff.c Both conflicts were very simple overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()

2014-06-08T21:15:14Z

unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks. See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD") In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head, just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access the list after unregister_netdevice_many() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

2014-06-08T18:31:16Z

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master', bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the merge window. * accumulated work in next: (6809 commits) ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion cris: update comments for generic idle conversion idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT. mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum ...

MPLS: Use mpls_features to activate software MPLS GSO segmentation

2014-06-05T22:05:09Z

If an MPLS packet requires segmentation then use mpls_features to determine if the software implementation should be used. As no driver advertises MPLS GSO segmentation this will always be the case. I had not noticed that this was necessary before as software MPLS GSO segmentation was already being used in my test environment. I believe that the reason for that is the skbs in question always had fragments and the driver I used does not advertise NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (which seems to be the case for most drivers). Thus software segmentation was activated by skb_gso_ok(). This introduces the overhead of an extra call to skb_network_protocol() in the case where where CONFIG_NET_MPLS_GSO is set and skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE. Thanks to Jesse Gross for prompting me to investigate this. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi Acked-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use the new API kvfree()

2014-06-05T07:49:51Z

It is available since v3.15-rc5. Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-06-04T06:32:12Z

Conflicts: include/net/inetpeer.h net/ipv6/output_core.c Changes in net were fixing bugs in code removed in net-next. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller