linux/net/core, branch v3.6

net: guard tcp_set_keepalive() to tcp sockets

2012-09-24T20:51:53Z

Its possible to use RAW sockets to get a crash in tcp_set_keepalive() / sk_reset_timer() Fix is to make sure socket is a SOCK_STREAM one. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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/core: fix comment in skb_try_coalesce

2012-09-19T21:29:13Z

It should be the skb which is not cloned Signed-off-by: Li RongQing Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 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

pktgen: fix crash with vlan and packet size less than 46

2012-09-13T21:10:00Z

If vlan option is being specified in the pktgen and packet size being requested is less than 46 bytes, despite being illogical request, pktgen should not crash the kernel. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88021fb82000 Process kpktgend_0 (pid: 1184, threadinfo ffff880215f1a000, task ffff880218544530) Call Trace: [] ? pktgen_finalize_skb+0x222/0x300 [pktgen] [] ? build_skb+0x34/0x1c0 [] pktgen_thread_worker+0x5d1/0x1790 [pktgen] [] ? igb_xmit_frame_ring+0xa30/0xa30 [igb] [] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 [] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 [] ? spin+0x240/0x240 [pktgen] [] kthread+0x93/0xa0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x80/0x80 [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 The root cause of why pktgen is not able to handle this case is due to comparison of signed (datalen) and unsigned data (sizeof), which eventually passes a huge number to skb_put(). Signed-off-by: Nishank Trivedi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix net/core/sock.c build error

2012-09-10T20:44:45Z

Fix net/core/sock.c build error when CONFIG_INET is not enabled: net/built-in.o: In function `sock_edemux': (.text+0xd396): undefined reference to `inet_twsk_put' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 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: sock_edemux() should take care of timewait sockets

2012-09-03T17:22:43Z

sock_edemux() can handle either a regular socket or a timewait socket Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: revert 6bdb7fe3104 and fix be_poll() instead

2012-08-29T19:03:23Z

Against -net. In the patch "netpoll: re-enable irq in poll_napi()", I tried to fix the following warning: [100718.051041] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [100718.051048] WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:159 local_bh_enable_ip+0x7d/0xb0() (Not tainted) [100718.051049] Hardware name: ProLiant BL460c G7 ... [100718.051068] Call Trace: [100718.051073] [] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 [100718.051075] [] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [100718.051077] [] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0x7d/0xb0 [100718.051080] [] ? _spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x20 [100718.051085] [] ? be_process_mcc+0x74/0x230 [be2net] [100718.051088] [] ? be_poll_tx_mcc+0x16c/0x290 [be2net] [100718.051090] [] ? netpoll_poll_dev+0xd6/0x490 [100718.051095] [] ? bond_poll_controller+0x75/0x80 [bonding] [100718.051097] [] ? netpoll_poll_dev+0x45/0x490 [100718.051100] [] ? ksize+0x19/0x80 [100718.051102] [] ? netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x157/0x240 by reenabling IRQ before calling ->poll, but it seems more problems are introduced after that patch: http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/IMG_20120824_122054.jpg http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134563282530588&w=2 So it is safe to fix be2net driver code directly. This patch reverts the offending commit and fixes be_poll() by avoid disabling BH there, this is okay because be_poll() can be called either by poll_napi() which already disables IRQ, or by net_rx_action() which already disables BH. Reported-by: Andrew Morton Reported-by: Sylvain Munaut Cc: Sylvain Munaut Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: David Miller Cc: Sathya Perla Cc: Subbu Seetharaman Cc: Ajit Khaparde Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Tested-by: Sylvain Munaut 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