kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/netconsole.c, branch v3.0.35

netconsole: enable netconsole can make net_device refcnt incorrent

2011-11-11T17:36:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit d5123480b1d6f7d1a5fe1a13520cef88fb5d4c84 ] There is no check if netconsole is enabled current. so when exec echo 1 > enabled; the reference of net_device will increment always. Signed-off-by: Gao feng Acked-by: Flavio Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: rename NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE to NETDEV_RELEASE

2011-05-23T01:01:19+00:00

s/NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE/NETDEV_RELEASE/ as Andy suggested. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Cc: Andy Gospodarek Cc: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: disable netpoll when enslave a device

2011-05-23T01:01:19+00:00

V3: rename NETDEV_ENSLAVE to NETDEV_JOIN Currently we do nothing when we enslave a net device which is running netconsole. Neil pointed out that we may get weird results in such case, so let's disable netpoll on the device being enslaved. I think it is too harsh to prevent the device being ensalved if it is running netconsole. By the way, this patch also removes the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN from netconsole netdev notifier, because netpoll will check if the device is running or not and we don't handle NETDEV_PRE_UP neither. This patch is based on net-next-2.6. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Cc: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add mac_pton() for parsing MAC address

2011-05-09T19:10:49+00:00

mac_pton() parses MAC address in form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and only in that form. mac_pton() doesn't dirty result until it's sure string representation is valid. mac_pton() doesn't care about characters _after_ last octet, it's up to caller to deal with it. mac_pton() diverges from 0/-E return value convention. Target usage: if (!mac_pton(str, whatever->mac)) return -EINVAL; /* ->mac being u8 [ETH_ALEN] is filled at this point. */ /* optionally check str[3 * ETH_ALEN - 1] for termination */ Use mac_pton() in pktgen and netconsole for start. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netconsole: switch to kstrto*() functions

2011-05-09T19:10:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netconsole: fix deadlock when removing net driver that netconsole is using (v2)

2011-04-22T21:33:51+00:00

A deadlock was reported to me recently that occured when netconsole was being used in a virtual guest. If the virtio_net driver was removed while netconsole was setup to use an interface that was driven by that driver, the guest deadlocked. No backtrace was provided because netconsole was the only console configured, but it became clear pretty quickly what the problem was. In netconsole_netdev_event, if we get an unregister event, we call __netpoll_cleanup with the target_list_lock held and irqs disabled. __netpoll_cleanup can, if pending netpoll packets are waiting call cancel_delayed_work_sync, which is a sleeping path. the might_sleep call in that path gets triggered, causing a console warning to be issued. The netconsole write handler of course tries to take the target_list_lock again, which we already hold, causing deadlock. The fix is pretty striaghtforward. Simply drop the target_list_lock and re-enable irqs prior to calling __netpoll_cleanup, the re-acquire the lock, and restart the loop. Confirmed by myself to fix the problem reported. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman CC: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netconsole: clarify stopping message

2011-01-06T19:30:23+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netconsole: don't announce stopping if nothing happened

2011-01-06T19:30:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bonding: Fix netconsole to not deadlock on rmmod

2010-10-18T15:32:08+00:00

Netconsole calls netpoll_cleanup on receipt of a NETDEVICE_UNREGISTER event. The notifier subsystem calls these event handlers with rtnl_lock held, which netpoll_cleanup also takes, resulting in deadlock. Fix this by calling the __netpoll_cleanup interior function instead, and fixing up the additional pointers. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices

2010-05-06T07:47:21+00:00

This whole patchset is for adding netpoll support to bridge and bonding devices. I already tested it for bridge, bonding, bridge over bonding, and bonding over bridge. It looks fine now. To make bridge and bonding support netpoll, we need to adjust some netpoll generic code. This patch does the following things: 1) introduce two new priv_flags for struct net_device: IFF_IN_NETPOLL which identifies we are processing a netpoll; IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL is used to disable netpoll support for a device at run-time; 2) introduce one new method for netdev_ops: ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is used to clean up netpoll when a device is removed. 3) introduce netpoll_poll_dev() which takes a struct net_device * parameter; export netpoll_send_skb() and netpoll_poll_dev() which will be used later; 4) hide a pointer to struct netpoll in struct netpoll_info, ditto. 5) introduce ->real_dev for struct netpoll. 6) introduce a new status NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAE, which is used to disable netconsole before releasing a slave, to avoid deadlocks. Cc: David Miller Cc: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller