linux/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.6

net: do not disable sg for packets requiring no checksum

2012-09-21T02:23:40Z

A change in a series of VLAN-related changes appears to have inadvertently disabled the use of the scatter gather feature of network cards for transmission of non-IP ethernet protocols like ATA over Ethernet (AoE). Below is a reference to the commit that introduces a "harmonize_features" function that turns off scatter gather when the NIC does not support hardware checksumming for the ethernet protocol of an sk buff. commit f01a5236bd4b140198fbcc550f085e8361fd73fa Author: Jesse Gross Date: Sun Jan 9 06:23:31 2011 +0000 net offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features(). The can_checksum_protocol function is not equipped to consider a protocol that does not require checksumming. Calling it for a protocol that requires no checksum is inappropriate. The patch below has harmonize_features call can_checksum_protocol when the protocol needs a checksum, so that the network layer is not forced to perform unnecessary skb linearization on the transmission of AoE packets. Unnecessary linearization results in decreased performance and increased memory pressure, as reported here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg15184.html The problem has probably not been widely experienced yet, because only recently has the kernel.org-distributed aoe driver acquired the ability to use payloads of over a page in size, with the patchset recently included in the mm tree: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/28/140 The coraid.com-distributed aoe driver already could use payloads of greater than a page in size, but its users generally do not use the newest kernels. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix memory leak on oom with zerocopy

2012-09-18T20:24:00Z

If orphan flags fails, we don't free the skb on receive, which leaks the skb memory. Return value was also wrong: netif_receive_skb is supposed to return NET_RX_DROP, not ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: small bug on rxhash calculation

2012-09-08T22:41:48Z

In the current rxhash calculation function, while the sorting of the ports/addrs is coherent (you get the same rxhash for packets sharing the same 4-tuple, in both directions), ports and addrs are sorted independently. This implies packets from a connection between the same addresses but crossed ports hash to the same rxhash. For example, traffic between A=S:l and B=L:s is hashed (in both directions) from {L, S, {s, l}}. The same rxhash is obtained for packets between C=S:s and D=L:l. This patch ensures that you either swap both addrs and ports, or you swap none. Traffic between A and B, and traffic between C and D, get their rxhash from different sources ({L, S, {l, s}} for A<->B, and {L, S, {s, l}} for C<->D) The patch is co-written with Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Chema Gonzalez Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core/dev.c: fix kernel-doc warning

2012-08-20T10:00:55Z

Fix kernel-doc warning: Warning(net/core/dev.c:5745): No description found for parameter 'dev' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

2012-08-20T09:37:29Z

If a packet is emitted on one socket in one group of fanout sockets, it is transmitted again. It is thus read again on one of the sockets of the fanout group. This result in a loop for software which generate packets when receiving one. This retransmission is not the intended behavior: a fanout group must behave like a single socket. The packet should not be transmitted on a socket if it originates from a socket belonging to the same fanout group. This patch fixes the issue by changing the transmission check to take fanout group info account. Reported-by: Aleksandr Kotov Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set_alias()

2012-08-08T23:06:23Z

Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb

2012-08-02T07:19:17Z

A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps). Given that we have a sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough, it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once. This results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments. In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than a full ring. The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the TX reset). This particularly affects sfc, for which the issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412. Therefore: 1. Add the field net_device::gso_max_segs holding the device-specific limit. 2. In netif_skb_features(), if the number of segments is too high then mask out GSO features to force fall back to software GSO. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-08-01T02:25:39Z

Merge Andrew's second set of patches: - MM - a few random fixes - a couple of RTC leftovers * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (120 commits) rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes mm: remove redundant initialization mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type ...

Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

2012-08-01T02:07:42Z

Pull random subsystem patches from Ted Ts'o: "This patch series contains a major revamp of how we collect entropy from interrupts for /dev/random and /dev/urandom. The goal is to addresses weaknesses discussed in the paper "Mining your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices", by Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, J. Alex Halderman, which will be published in the Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Security Symposium, August 2012. (See https://factorable.net for more information and an extended version of the paper.)" Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby changes in drivers/{mfd/ab3100-core.c, usb/gadget/omap_udc.c} * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: (33 commits) random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver random: Add comment to random_initialize() random: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM um: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op sparc/ldc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op [ARM] pxa: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op board-palmz71: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op isp1301_omap: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op pxa25x_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op omap_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op goku_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which was commented out uartlite: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op drivers: hv: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op xen-blkfront: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op n2_crypto: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op i2c-pmcmsp: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op input/serio/hp_sdc.c: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op mfd: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op ...

netvm: set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing

2012-08-01T01:42:46Z

In order to make sure pfmemalloc packets receive all memory needed to proceed, ensure processing of pfmemalloc SKBs happens under PF_MEMALLOC. This is limited to a subset of protocols that are expected to be used for writing to swap. Taps are not allowed to use PF_MEMALLOC as these are expected to communicate with userspace processes which could be paged out. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches] [jslaby@suse.cz: Lock imbalance fix] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds