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David S. Miller
f11c179eea Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
2009-02-25 00:02:05 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
bb80087a94 sit: used time_before for comparing jiffies
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:37:19 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
26d94b46d0 ipip: used time_before for comparing jiffies
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:36:47 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
da6185d874 gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:34:48 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
800d55f146 ipv6: Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression E;
@@
- if (E)
- 	kfree_skb(E);
+ kfree_skb(E);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:33:52 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
Joe Perches
a52b8bd338 tcp_scalable: Update malformed & dead url
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 16:40:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
8b6f92b1bd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-02-24 13:49:05 -08:00
Josef Drexler
325fb5b4d2 netfilter: xt_recent: fix proc-file addition/removal of IPv4 addresses
Fix regression introduded by commit 079aa88 (netfilter: xt_recent: IPv6 support):

From http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12753:

Problem Description:
An uninitialized buffer causes IPv4 addresses added manually (via the +IP
command to the proc interface) to never match any packets. Similarly, the -IP
command fails to remove IPv4 addresses.

Details:
In the function recent_entry_lookup, the xt_recent module does comparisons of
the entire nf_inet_addr union value, both for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. For
addresses initialized from actual packets the remaining 12 bytes not occupied
by the IPv4 are zeroed so this works correctly. However when setting the
nf_inet_addr addr variable in the recent_mt_proc_write function, only the IPv4
bytes are initialized and the remaining 12 bytes contain garbage.

Hence addresses added in this way never match any packets, unless these
uninitialized 12 bytes happened to be zero by coincidence. Similarly, addresses
cannot consistently be removed using the proc interface due to mismatch of the
garbage bytes (although it will sometimes work to remove an address that was
added manually).

Reading the /proc/net/xt_recent/ entries hides this problem because this only
uses the first 4 bytes when displaying IPv4 addresses.

Steps to reproduce:
$ iptables -I INPUT -m recent --rcheck -j LOG
$ echo +169.254.156.239 > /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
$ cat /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 0 last_seen: 119910 oldest_pkt: 1 119910

[At this point no packets from 169.254.156.239 are being logged.]

$ iptables -I INPUT -s 169.254.156.239 -m recent --set
$ cat /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 0 last_seen: 119910 oldest_pkt: 1 119910
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 255 last_seen: 126184 oldest_pkt: 4 125434, 125684, 125934, 126184

[At this point, adding the address via an iptables rule, packets are being
logged correctly.]

$ echo -169.254.156.239 > /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
$ cat /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 0 last_seen: 119910 oldest_pkt: 1 119910
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 255 last_seen: 126992 oldest_pkt: 10 125434, 125684, 125934, 126184, 126434, 126684, 126934, 126991, 126991, 126992
$ echo -169.254.156.239 > /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
$ cat /proc/net/xt_recent/DEFAULT
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 0 last_seen: 119910 oldest_pkt: 1 119910
src=169.254.156.239 ttl: 255 last_seen: 126992 oldest_pkt: 10 125434, 125684, 125934, 126184, 126434, 126684, 126934, 126991, 126991, 126992

[Removing the address via /proc interface failed evidently.]

Possible solutions:
- initialize the addr variable in recent_mt_proc_write
- compare only 4 bytes for IPv4 addresses in recent_entry_lookup

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-24 14:53:12 +01:00
David S. Miller
e70049b9e7 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
d18921a0e3 Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode
The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter
proc option.  Recent changes added a loose mode.
Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to
the document describing it:
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away
from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 03:47:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f7e603ad8f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak
  netns: build fix for net_alloc_generic
2009-02-23 20:29:21 -08:00
Eugene Teo
50fee1dec5 net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak
The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
leak the padded bytes to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23 15:38:41 -08:00
Clemens Noss
ebe47d47b7 netns: build fix for net_alloc_generic
net_alloc_generic was defined in #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS, but used
unconditionally. Move net_alloc_generic out of #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Noss <cnoss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23 15:37:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d38e84ee39 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  netns: fix double free at netns creation
  veth : add the set_mac_address capability
  sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring
  sungem: another error printed one too early
  ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning
  SMSC: timeout reaches -1
  smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom
  sundance: missing parentheses?
  smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout
  wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3
  vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag().
  cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35.
  tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
  TG3: &&/|| confusion
  ATM: misplaced parentheses?
  net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly
  net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic
  atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver
  net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
  net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
2009-02-23 14:36:05 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
ce16c5337a netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
6a1b3054d9 tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsys
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network
devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:49 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
959d272649 netns: Fix icmp shutdown.
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup.  There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.

The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.

It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys.  Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.

Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:48 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
a6e8f27f3c ipv4: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig.
While going through net/ipv4/Kconfig cleanup whitespaces.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:48 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
b2cc46a8ee ipv4: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig.
The reverse path filter (rp_filter) will NOT get enabled
when enabling forwarding.  Read the code and tested in
in practice.

Most distributions do enable it in startup scripts.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
0117cfabe3 snap: handle registration error and compile warning
If this module can't load, it is almost certainly because something else
is already bound to that SAP. So in that case, return the same error code
as other SAP usage, and fail the module load.

Also fixes a compiler warning about printk of non const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
01af4a0e3c llc: fix non-const printk warning
Mark some strings as const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:46 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
5747a1aacd ip: ipip compile warning
Get rid of compile warning about non-const format

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
c1cf8422f0 ip: add loose reverse path filtering
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).

For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
and 2 for loose mode.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Paul Moore
586c250037 cipso: Fix documentation comment
The CIPSO protocol engine incorrectly stated that the FIPS-188 specification
could be found in the kernel's Documentation directory.  This patch corrects
that by removing the comment and directing users to the FIPS-188 documented
hosted online.  For the sake of completeness I've also included a link to the
CIPSO draft specification on the NetLabel website.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for spotting the error and letting me know.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-23 10:05:54 +11:00
Daniel Lezcano
486a87f1e5 netns: fix double free at netns creation
This patch fix a double free when a network namespace fails.
The previous code does a kfree of the net_generic structure when
one of the init subsystem initialization fails.
The 'setup_net' function does kfree(ng) and returns an error.
The caller, 'copy_net_ns', call net_free on error, and this one
calls kfree(net->gen), making this pointer freed twice.

This patch make the code symetric, the net_alloc does the net_generic
allocation and the net_free frees the net_generic.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 00:07:53 -08:00
Herbert Xu
7691367d71 tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt
Our TCP stack does not set the urgent flag if the urgent pointer
does not fit in 16 bits, i.e., if it is more than 64K from the
sequence number of a packet.

This behaviour is different from the BSDs, and clearly contradicts
the purpose of urgent mode, which is to send the notification
(though not necessarily the associated data) as soon as possible.
Our current behaviour may in fact delay the urgent notification
indefinitely if the receiver window does not open up.

Simply matching BSD however may break legacy applications which
incorrectly rely on the out-of-band delivery of urgent data, and
conversely the in-band delivery of non-urgent data.

Alexey Kuznetsov suggested a safe solution of following BSD only
if the urgent pointer itself has not yet been transmitted.  This
way we guarantee that when the remote end sees the packet with
non-urgent data marked as urgent due to wrap-around we would have
advanced the urgent pointer beyond, either to the actual urgent
data or to an as-yet untransmitted packet.

The only potential downside is that applications on the remote
end may see multiple SIGURG notifications.  However, this would
occur anyway with other TCP stacks.  More importantly, the outcome
of such a duplicate notification is likely to be harmless since
the signal itself does not carry any information other than the
fact that we're in urgent mode.

Thanks to Ilpo Järvinen for fixing a critical bug in this and
Jeff Chua for reporting that bug.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 23:52:29 -08:00
Hannes Eder
66da8c529a ipv6: fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Fix this sparse warning:
  net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c:72:26: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 23:37:10 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
cd4d8fdad1 net: kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time stamping
The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is
faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns
successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics
seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this
removal.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21 02:42:18 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
be0c22a46c netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.

This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 01:01:08 -08:00
Santwona Behera
59089d8d16 ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interface
Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 00:58:13 -08:00
Krishna Kumar
e88721f87d net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison
Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for
every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of
the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized.

Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates
different random numbers each time.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18 17:55:02 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
5209921cf1 tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
This is obsolete since the passes got combined.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18 17:45:44 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
eb132205ca netfilter: make proc/net/ip* print names from foreign NFPROTO
When extensions were moved to the NFPROTO_UNSPEC wildcard in
ab4f21e6fb, they disappeared from the
procfs files.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 16:42:19 +01:00
Eric Leblond
2c6764b743 netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix timeout handling
NFLOG timeout was computed in timer by doing:

    flushtimeout*HZ/100

Default value of flushtimeout was HZ (for 1 second delay). This was
wrong for non 100HZ computer. This patch modify the default delay by
using 100 instead of HZ.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:29:49 +01:00
Eric Leblond
5ca431f9ae netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix per-rule qthreshold override
In NFLOG the per-rule qthreshold should overrides per-instance only
it is set. With current code, the per-rule qthreshold is 1 if not set
and it overrides the per-instance qthreshold.

This patch modifies the default xt_NFLOG threshold from 1 to
0. Thus a value of 0 means there is no per-rule setting and the instance
parameter has to apply.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:29:23 +01:00
Eric Leblond
4aa3b2ee19 netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: fix nf_log_packet message in icmpv6 conntrack
This patch fixes a trivial typo that was adding a new line at end of
the nf_log_packet() prefix. It also make the logging conditionnal by
adding a LOG_INVALID test.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18 15:28:46 +01:00
David S. Miller
92a0acce18 net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.

skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.

However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-17 21:24:05 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
1c10c49d83 net: replace commatas with semicolons
Impact: syntax fix

Interestingly enough this compiles w/o any complaints:

	orphans = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_orphan_count),
	sockets = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_sockets_allocated),

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:08:56 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
914e1c8b69 sctp: Inherit all socket options from parent correctly.
During peeloff/accept() sctp needs to save the parent socket state
into the new socket so that any options set on the parent are
inherited by the child socket.  This was found when the
parent/listener socket issues SO_BINDTODEVICE, but the
data was misrouted after a route cache flush.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:11 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
faee47cdbf sctp: Fix the RTO-doubling on idle-link heartbeats
SCTP incorrectly doubles rto ever time a Hearbeat chunk
is generated.   However RFC 4960 states:

   On an idle destination address that is allowed to heartbeat, it is
   recommended that a HEARTBEAT chunk is sent once per RTO of that
   destination address plus the protocol parameter 'HB.interval', with
   jittering of +/- 50% of the RTO value, and exponential backoff of the
   RTO if the previous HEARTBEAT is unanswered.

Essentially, of if the heartbean is unacknowledged, do we double the RTO.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:10 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
4458f04c02 sctp: Clean up sctp checksumming code
The sctp crc32c checksum is always generated in little endian.
So, we clean up the code to treat it as little endian and remove
all the __force casts.

Suggested by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:10 -08:00
Lucas Nussbaum
06e868066e sctp: Allow to disable SCTP checksums via module parameter
This is a new version of my patch, now using a module parameter instead
of a sysctl, so that the option is harder to find. Please note that,
once the module is loaded, it is still possible to change the value of
the parameter in /sys/module/sctp/parameters/, which is useful if you
want to do performance comparisons without rebooting.

Computation of SCTP checksums significantly affects the performance of
SCTP. For example, using two dual-Opteron 246 connected using a Gbe
network, it was not possible to achieve more than ~730 Mbps, compared to
941 Mbps after disabling SCTP checksums.
Unfortunately, SCTP checksum offloading in NICs is not commonly
available (yet).

By default, checksums are still enabled, of course.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@ens-lyon.fr>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-16 00:03:09 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
d24fff22d8 net: pass new SIOCSHWTSTAMP through to device drivers
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
51f31cabe3 ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW sockets
Instructions for time stamping outgoing packets are take from the
socket layer and later copied into the new skb.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
20d4947353 net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPING
The overlap with the old SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] options is handled so
that time stamping in software (net_enable_timestamp()) is
enabled when SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] and/or SO_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE
is set.  It's disabled if all of these are off.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:35 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
ac45f602ee net: infrastructure for hardware time stamping
The additional per-packet information (16 bytes for time stamps, 1
byte for flags) is stored for all packets in the skb_shared_info
struct. This implementation detail is hidden from users of that
information via skb_* accessor functions. A separate struct resp.
union is used for the additional information so that it can be
stored/copied easily outside of skb_shared_info.

Compared to previous implementations (reusing the tstamp field
depending on the context, optional additional structures) this
is the simplest solution. It does not extend sk_buff itself.

TX time stamping is implemented in software if the device driver
doesn't support hardware time stamping.

The new semantic for hardware/software time stamping around
ndo_start_xmit() is based on two assumptions about existing
network device drivers which don't support hardware time
stamping and know nothing about it:
 - they leave the new skb_shared_tx unmodified
 - the keep the connection to the originating socket in skb->sk
   alive, i.e., don't call skb_orphan()

Given that skb_shared_tx is new, the first assumption is safe.
The second is only true for some drivers. As a result, software
TX time stamping currently works with the bnx2 driver, but not
with the unmodified igb driver (the two drivers this patch series
was tested with).

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:34 -08:00
David S. Miller
5e30589521 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-14 23:12:00 -08:00
David S. Miller
ac178ef0ae Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-02-14 23:06:44 -08:00
Johannes Berg
fe3d2c3fe3 mac80211: split managed/ibss code a little more
It appears that you can completely mess up mac80211 in IBSS
mode by sending it a disassoc or deauth: it'll stop queues
and do a lot more but not ever do anything again. Fix this
by not handling all those frames in IBSS mode,

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13 13:46:03 -05:00