linux/net/core/dev.c, branch v4.0

ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack

2015-04-06T20:12:49Z

We should not consult skb->sk for output decisions in xmit recursion levels > 0 in the stack. Otherwise local socket settings could influence the result of e.g. tunnel encapsulation process. ipv6 does not conform with this in three places: 1) ip6_fragment: we do consult ipv6_npinfo for frag_size 2) sk_mc_loop in ipv6 uses skb->sk and checks if we should loop the packet back to the local socket 3) ip6_skb_dst_mtu could query the settings from the user socket and force a wrong MTU Furthermore: In sk_mc_loop we could potentially land in WARN_ON(1) if we use a PF_PACKET socket ontop of an IPv6-backed vxlan device. Reuse xmit_recursion as we are currently only interested in protecting tunnel devices. Cc: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

2015-02-22T02:45:25Z

colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core: Fix warning while make xmldocs caused by dev.c

2015-02-15T04:34:49Z

This patch fix following warning wile make xmldocs. Warning(.//net/core/dev.c:5345): No description found for parameter 'bonding_info' Warning(.//net/core/dev.c:5345): Excess function parameter 'netdev_bonding_info' description in 'netdev_bonding_info_change' This warning starts to appear after following patch was added into Linus's tree during merger period. commit 61bd3857ff2c7daf756d49b41e6277bbdaa8f789 net/core: Add event for a change in slave state Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Infrastructure for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL with remote checsum offload

2015-02-11T23:12:12Z

This patch adds infrastructure so that remote checksum offload can set CHECKSUM_PARTIAL instead of calling csum_partial and writing the modfied checksum field. Add skb_remcsum_adjust_partial function to set an skb for using CHECKSUM_PARTIAL with remote checksum offload. Changed skb_remcsum_process and skb_gro_remcsum_process to take a boolean argument to indicate if checksum partial can be set or the checksum needs to be modified using the normal algorithm. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2015-02-09T22:35:57Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rfs: add hash collision detection

2015-02-09T00:53:57Z

Receive Flow Steering is a nice solution but suffers from hash collisions when a mix of connected and unconnected traffic is received on the host, when flow hash table is populated. Also, clearing flow in inet_release() makes RFS not very good for short lived flows, as many packets can follow close(). (FIN , ACK packets, ...) This patch extends the information stored into global hash table to not only include cpu number, but upper part of the hash value. I use a 32bit value, and dynamically split it in two parts. For host with less than 64 possible cpus, this gives 6 bits for the cpu number, and 26 (32-6) bits for the upper part of the hash. Since hash bucket selection use low order bits of the hash, we have a full hash match, if /proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries is big enough. If the hash found in flow table does not match, we fallback to RPS (if it is enabled for the rxqueue). This means that a packet for an non connected flow can avoid the IPI through a unrelated/victim CPU. This also means we no longer have to clear the table at socket close time, and this helps short lived flows performance. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use netif_rx_ni() from process context

2015-02-08T06:43:52Z

Hotpluging a cpu might be rare, yet we have to use proper handlers when taking over packets found in backlog queues. dev_cpu_callback() runs from process context, thus we should call netif_rx_ni() to properly invoke softirq handler. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2015-02-05T22:33:28Z

Conflicts: drivers/net/vxlan.c drivers/vhost/net.c include/linux/if_vlan.h net/core/dev.c The net/core/dev.c conflict was the overlap of one commit marking an existing function static whilst another was adding a new function. In the include/linux/if_vlan.h case, the type used for a local variable was changed in 'net', whereas the function got rewritten to fix a stacked vlan bug in 'net-next'. In drivers/vhost/net.c, Al Viro's iov_iter conversions in 'net-next' overlapped with an endainness fix for VHOST 1.0 in 'net'. In drivers/net/vxlan.c, vxlan_find_vni() added a 'flags' parameter in 'net-next' whereas in 'net' there was a bug fix to pass in the correct network namespace pointer in calls to this function. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove some sparse warnings

2015-02-05T08:41:17Z

netdev_adjacent_add_links() and netdev_adjacent_del_links() are static. queue->qdisc has __rcu annotation, need to use RCU_INIT_POINTER() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core: Add event for a change in slave state

2015-02-05T00:14:24Z

Add event which provides an indication on a change in the state of a bonding slave. The event handler should cast the pointer to the appropriate type (struct netdev_bonding_info) in order to get the full info about the slave. Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: David S. Miller