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  1. Apr 24, 2006
  2. Apr 20, 2006
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [NET]: Add skb->truesize assertion checking. · dc6de336
      David S. Miller authored
      
      
      Add some sanity checking.  truesize should be at least sizeof(struct
      sk_buff) plus the current packet length.  If not, then truesize is
      seriously mangled and deserves a kernel log message.
      
      Currently we'll do the check for release of stream socket buffers.
      
      But we can add checks to more spots over time.
      
      Incorporating ideas from Herbert Xu.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      dc6de336
  3. Apr 19, 2006
  4. Apr 18, 2006
  5. Apr 14, 2006
    • Jamal Hadi Salim's avatar
      [XFRM]: Fix aevent timer. · 2717096a
      Jamal Hadi Salim authored
      
      
      Send aevent immediately if we have sent nothing since last timer and
      this is the first packet.
      
      Fixes a corner case when packet threshold is very high, the timer low
      and a very low packet rate input which is bursty.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2717096a
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      [IPV4]: Possible cleanups. · 6c97e72a
      Adrian Bunk authored
      
      
      This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
      - make the following needlessly global function static:
        - arp.c: arp_rcv()
      - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
        - devinet.c: devinet_ioctl
        - fib_frontend.c: ip_rt_ioctl
        - inet_hashtables.c: inet_bind_bucket_create
        - inet_hashtables.c: inet_bind_hash
        - tcp_input.c: sysctl_tcp_abc
        - tcp_ipv4.c: sysctl_tcp_tw_reuse
        - tcp_output.c: sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing
        - tcp_output.c: sysctl_tcp_base_mss
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6c97e72a
  6. Apr 10, 2006
  7. Apr 01, 2006
  8. Mar 31, 2006
  9. Mar 29, 2006
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6 · d2acc347
      Herbert Xu authored
      
      
      Basically this patch moves the generic tunnel protocol stuff out of
      xfrm4_tunnel/xfrm6_tunnel and moves it into the new files of tunnel4.c
      and tunnel6 respectively.
      
      The reason for this is that the problem that Hugo uncovered is only
      the tip of the iceberg.  The real problem is that when we removed the
      dependency of ipip on xfrm4_tunnel we didn't really consider the module
      case at all.
      
      For instance, as it is it's possible to build both ipip and xfrm4_tunnel
      as modules and if the latter is loaded then ipip simply won't load.
      
      After considering the alternatives I've decided that the best way out of
      this is to restore the dependency of ipip on the non-xfrm-specific part
      of xfrm4_tunnel.  This is acceptable IMHO because the intention of the
      removal was really to be able to use ipip without the xfrm subsystem.
      This is still preserved by this patch.
      
      So now both ipip/xfrm4_tunnel depend on the new tunnel4.c which handles
      the arbitration between the two.  The order of processing is determined
      by a simple integer which ensures that ipip gets processed before
      xfrm4_tunnel.
      
      The situation for ICMP handling is a little bit more complicated since
      we may not have enough information to determine who it's for.  It's not
      a big deal at the moment since the xfrm ICMP handlers are basically
      no-ops.  In future we can deal with this when we look at ICMP caching
      in general.
      
      The user-visible change to this is the removal of the TUNNEL Kconfig
      prompts.  This makes sense because it can only be used through IPCOMP
      as it stands.
      
      The addition of the new modules shouldn't introduce any problems since
      module dependency will cause them to be loaded.
      
      Oh and I also turned some unnecessary pskb's in IPv6 related to this
      patch to skb's.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d2acc347
    • Denis Vlasenko's avatar
      [NET]: deinline 200+ byte inlines in sock.h · f0088a50
      Denis Vlasenko authored
      
      
      Sizes in bytes (allyesconfig, i386) and files where those inlines
      are used:
      
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/x25/x25_in.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/rose/rose_in.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/packet/af_packet.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/netrom/nr_in.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/llc/llc_sap.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/llc/llc_conn.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/irda/af_irda.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipx/af_ipx.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipv6/udp.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipv6/raw.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipv4/udp.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipv4/raw.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ipv4/ipmr.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/econet/econet.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/econet/af_econet.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/bluetooth/sco.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/bluetooth/l2cap.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ax25/ax25_in.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/ax25/af_ax25.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/net/appletalk/ddp.o
      238 sock_queue_rcv_skb 2.6.16/drivers/net/pppoe.o
      
      276 sk_receive_skb 2.6.16/net/decnet/dn_nsp_in.o
      276 sk_receive_skb 2.6.16/net/dccp/ipv6.o
      276 sk_receive_skb 2.6.16/net/dccp/ipv4.o
      276 sk_receive_skb 2.6.16/net/dccp/dccp_ipv6.o
      276 sk_receive_skb 2.6.16/drivers/net/pppoe.o
      
      209 sk_dst_check 2.6.16/net/ipv6/ip6_output.o
      209 sk_dst_check 2.6.16/net/ipv4/udp.o
      209 sk_dst_check 2.6.16/net/decnet/dn_nsp_out.o
      
      Large inlines with multiple callers:
      Size  Uses Wasted Name and definition
      ===== ==== ====== ================================================
        238   21   4360 sock_queue_rcv_skb    include/net/sock.h
        109   10    801 sock_recv_timestamp   include/net/sock.h
        276    4    768 sk_receive_skb        include/net/sock.h
         94    8    518 __sk_dst_check        include/net/sock.h
        209    3    378 sk_dst_check  include/net/sock.h
        131    4    333 sk_setup_caps include/net/sock.h
        152    2    132 sk_stream_alloc_pskb  include/net/sock.h
        125    2    105 sk_stream_writequeue_purge    include/net/sock.h
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f0088a50
  10. Mar 27, 2006
    • Alan Stern's avatar
      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern authored
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
    • Norbert Kiesel's avatar
      [NET]: drop duplicate assignment in request_sock · 3eb4801d
      Norbert Kiesel authored
      
      
      Just noticed that request_sock.[ch] contain a useless assignment of
      rskq_accept_head to itself.  I assume this is a typo and the 2nd one
      was supposed to be _tail.  However, setting _tail to NULL is not
      needed, so the patch below just drops the 2nd assignment.
      
      Signed-off-By: default avatarNorbert Kiesel <nkiesel@tbdnetworks.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3eb4801d
  11. Mar 25, 2006
    • Ilia Sotnikov's avatar
      [IPV4]: Aggregate route entries with different TOS values · cef2685e
      Ilia Sotnikov authored
      
      
      When we get an ICMP need-to-frag message, the original TOS value in the
      ICMP payload cannot be used as a key to look up the routes to update.
      This is because the TOS field may have been modified by routers on the
      way.  Similarly, ip_rt_redirect should also ignore the TOS as the router
      that gave us the message may have modified the TOS value.
      
      The patch achieves this objective by aggregating entries with different
      TOS values (but are otherwise identical) into the same bucket.  This
      makes it easy to update them at the same time when an ICMP message is
      received.
      
      In future we should use a twin-hashing scheme where teh aggregation
      occurs at the entry level.  That is, the TOS goes back into the hash
      for normal lookups while ICMP lookups will end up with a node that
      gives us a list that contains all other route entries that differ
      only by TOS.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIlia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      cef2685e
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