kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.6.8

af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

2012-08-20T09:37:29+00:00

If a packet is emitted on one socket in one group of fanout sockets, it is transmitted again. It is thus read again on one of the sockets of the fanout group. This result in a loop for software which generate packets when receiving one. This retransmission is not the intended behavior: a fanout group must behave like a single socket. The packet should not be transmitted on a socket if it originates from a socket belonging to the same fanout group. This patch fixes the issue by changing the transmission check to take fanout group info account. Reported-by: Aleksandr Kotov Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup()

2012-08-14T21:33:30+00:00

slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup(). Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: "David S. Miller" Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb

2012-08-02T07:19:17+00:00

A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps). Given that we have a sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough, it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once. This results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments. In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than a full ring. The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the TX reset). This particularly affects sfc, for which the issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412. Therefore: 1. Add the field net_device::gso_max_segs holding the device-specific limit. 2. In netif_skb_features(), if the number of segments is too high then mask out GSO features to force fall back to software GSO. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: honour netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() retval

2012-07-20T18:06:59+00:00

In netif_copy_real_num_queues() the return value of netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() should be checked. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-next: Add netif_get_num_default_rss_queues

2012-07-05T10:06:44+00:00

Most multi-queue networking driver consider the number of online cpus when configuring RSS queues. This patch adds a wrapper to the number of cpus, setting an upper limit on the number of cpus a driver should consider (by default) when allocating resources for his queues. Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-next: add dev_loopback_xmit() to avoid duplicate code

2012-06-13T01:51:09+00:00

Add dev_loopback_xmit() in order to deduplicate functions ip_dev_loopback_xmit() (in net/ipv4/ip_output.c) and ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() (in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c). I was about to reinvent the wheel when I noticed that ip_dev_loopback_xmit() and ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() do exactly what I need and are not IP-only functions, but they were not available to reuse elsewhere. ip6_dev_loopback_xmit() does not have line "skb_dst_force(skb);", but I understand that this is harmless, and should be in dev_loopback_xmit(). Signed-off-by: Michel Machado CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Alexey Kuznetsov CC: James Morris CC: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI CC: Patrick McHardy CC: Eric Dumazet CC: Jiri Pirko CC: "Michał Mirosław" CC: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: keep name_hlist close to name

2012-06-11T20:11:28+00:00

__dev_get_by_name() is slow because pm_qos_req has been inserted between name[] and name_hlist, adding cache misses. pm_qos_req has nothing to do at the beginning of struct net_device Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdevice: Update netif_dbg for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG

2012-05-30T20:34:27+00:00

Make netif_dbg use dynamic debugging whenever CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled. commit b558c96ffa53 ("dynamic_debug: make dynamic-debug supersede DEBUG ccflag") missed updating the netif_dbg variant. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: napi_frags_skb() is static

2012-05-19T06:51:00+00:00

No need to export napi_frags_skb() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove netdevice ec_ptr, no longer used.

2012-05-18T05:39:43+00:00

ECONET is gone, thus this can be deleted as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller