linux/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.8

net, wireless: overwrite default_ethtool_ops

2013-01-11T23:55:48Z

Since: commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81 Author: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000 net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops. After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call: if (!dev->ethtool_ops) dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops; But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211 drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops. In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Acked-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: devnet_rename_seq should be a seqcount

2012-12-21T21:14:01Z

Using a seqlock for devnet_rename_seq is not a good idea, as device_rename() can sleep. As we hold RTNL, we dont need a protection for writers, and only need a seqcount so that readers can catch a change done by a writer. Bug added in commit c91f6df2db4972d3 (sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name) Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2012-12-13T02:07:07Z

Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database using netlink. From Cong Wang. 2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman. 4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang. 5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically, tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph Gasparakis. 6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support from Stephen Hemminger. 8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging socket layout, from Eric Dumazet. 9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and Jon Maloy. 10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse. 12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens. 13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang. 14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial namespace. From John Fastabend. 15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson. 16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin. 17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele Baldessari. And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too numerous to mention individually. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits) net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions. net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb(). uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode bnx2: Fix accidental reversions. bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1 bna: Firmware update bna: Add RX State bna: Rx Page Based Allocation bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ...

net: gro: dev_gro_receive() cleanup

2012-12-11T17:49:53Z

__napi_gro_receive() is inlined from two call sites for no good reason. Lets move the prep stuff in a function of its own, called only if/when needed. This saves 300 bytes on x86 : # size net/core/dev.o.after net/core/dev.o.before text data bss dec hex filename 51968 1238 1040 54246 d3e6 net/core/dev.o.before 51664 1238 1040 53942 d2b6 net/core/dev.o.after Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Handle encapsulated offloads before fragmentation or handing to lower dev

2012-12-09T05:20:28Z

This change allows the VXLAN to enable Tx checksum offloading even on devices that do not support encapsulated checksum offloads. The advantage to this is that it allows for the lower device to change due to routing table changes without impacting features on the VXLAN itself. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()

2012-12-07T19:39:29Z

commit 2e71a6f8084e (net: gro: selective flush of packets) added a bug for skbs using frag_list. This part of the GRO stack is rarely used, as it needs skb not using a page fragment for their skb->head. Most drivers do use a page fragment, but some of them use GFP_KERNEL allocations for the initial fill of their RX ring buffer. napi_gro_flush() overwrite skb->prev that was used for these skb to point to the last skb in frag_list. Fix this using a separate field in struct napi_gro_cb to point to the last fragment. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: call notifiers for mtu change even if iface is not up

2012-12-07T17:22:30Z

Do the same thing as in set mac. Call notifiers every time. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Acked-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dev_change_net_namespace: send a KOBJ_REMOVED/KOBJ_ADD

2012-12-04T18:25:57Z

When a new nic is created in namespace ns1, the kernel sends a KOBJ_ADD uevent to ns1. When the nic is moved to ns2, we only send a KOBJ_MOVE to ns2, and nothing to ns1. This patch changes that behavior so that when moving a nic from ns1 to ns2, we send a KOBJ_REMOVED to ns1 and KOBJ_ADD to ns2. (The KOBJ_MOVE is still sent to ns2). The effects of this can be seen when starting and stopping containers in an upstart based host. Lxc will create a pair of veth nics, the kernel sends KOBJ_ADD, and upstart starts network-instance jobs for each. When one nic is moved to the container, because no KOBJ_REMOVED event is received, the network-instance job for that veth never goes away. This was reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1065589 With this patch the networ-instance jobs properly go away. The other oddness solved here is that if a nic is passed into a running upstart-based container, without this patch no network-instance job is started in the container. But when the container creates a new nic itself (ip link add new type veth) then network-interface jobs are created. With this patch, behavior comes in line with a regular host. v2: also send KOBJ_ADD to new netns. There will then be a _MOVE event from the device_rename() call, but that should be innocuous. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

core: make GRO methods static.

2012-11-29T18:18:32Z

This patch changes three methods to be static and removes their EXPORT_SYMBOLs in core/dev.c and their external declaration in netdevice.h. The methods, dev_gro_receive(), napi_frags_finish() and napi_skb_finish(), which are in the GRO rx path, are not used outside core/dev.c. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name

2012-11-26T22:22:14Z

Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface name, have it return the name directly. This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions the argument being an interface name. If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero to indicate there is no interface name present. Added a seqlock to protect this code path, and dev_ifname(), from someone changing the device name via dev_change_name(). v2: Added seqlock protection while copying device name. v3: Fixed word wrap in patch. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller