kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.8-rc4

net, wireless: overwrite default_ethtool_ops

2013-01-11T23:55:48+00:00

Since: commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81 Author: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000 net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops. After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call: if (!dev->ethtool_ops) dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops; But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211 drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops. In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Acked-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: devnet_rename_seq should be a seqcount

2012-12-21T21:14:01+00:00

Using a seqlock for devnet_rename_seq is not a good idea, as device_rename() can sleep. As we hold RTNL, we dont need a protection for writers, and only need a seqcount so that readers can catch a change done by a writer. Bug added in commit c91f6df2db4972d3 (sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name) Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-12-13T20:00:02+00:00

Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2012-12-13T02:07:07+00:00

Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database using netlink. From Cong Wang. 2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman. 4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang. 5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically, tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph Gasparakis. 6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support from Stephen Hemminger. 8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging socket layout, from Eric Dumazet. 9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and Jon Maloy. 10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse. 12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens. 13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang. 14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial namespace. From John Fastabend. 15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson. 16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin. 17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele Baldessari. And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too numerous to mention individually. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits) net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions. net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb(). uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode bnx2: Fix accidental reversions. bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1 bna: Firmware update bna: Add RX State bna: Rx Page Based Allocation bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ...

net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation

2012-12-09T05:20:28+00:00

This patch adds support in the kernel for offloading in the NIC Tx and Rx checksumming for encapsulated packets (such as VXLAN and IP GRE). For Tx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set the right bits in netdev->hw_enc_features. The protocol driver will have to set the skb->encapsulation bit and populate the inner headers, so the NIC driver will use those inner headers to calculate the csum in hardware. For Rx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set again the skb->encapsulation flag and the skb->ip_csum to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In that case the protocol driver should push the decapsulated packet up to the stack, again with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In ether case, the protocol driver should set the skb->encapsulation flag back to zero. Finally the protocol driver should have NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag set in its features. Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()

2012-12-07T19:39:29+00:00

commit 2e71a6f8084e (net: gro: selective flush of packets) added a bug for skbs using frag_list. This part of the GRO stack is rarely used, as it needs skb not using a page fragment for their skb->head. Most drivers do use a page fragment, but some of them use GFP_KERNEL allocations for the initial fill of their RX ring buffer. napi_gro_flush() overwrite skb->prev that was used for these skb to point to the last skb in frag_list. Fix this using a separate field in struct napi_gro_cb to point to the last fragment. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

core: make GRO methods static.

2012-11-29T18:18:32+00:00

This patch changes three methods to be static and removes their EXPORT_SYMBOLs in core/dev.c and their external declaration in netdevice.h. The methods, dev_gro_receive(), napi_frags_finish() and napi_skb_finish(), which are in the GRO rx path, are not used outside core/dev.c. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name

2012-11-26T22:22:14+00:00

Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface name, have it return the name directly. This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions the argument being an interface name. If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero to indicate there is no interface name present. Added a seqlock to protect this code path, and dev_ifname(), from someone changing the device name via dev_change_name(). v2: Added seqlock protection while copying device name. v3: Fixed word wrap in patch. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.

2012-11-19T13:29:46+00:00

Some comments misspell "registered"; this fixes them. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

net: Remove code duplication between offload structures

2012-11-15T22:39:51+00:00

Move the offload callbacks into its own structure. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller