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Eric Dumazet
33e834ef26 tcp: tsq: restore minimal amount of queueing
[ Upstream commit 98e09386c0 ]

After commit c9eeec26e3 ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit"), several
users reported throughput regressions, notably on mvneta and wifi
adapters.

802.11 AMPDU requires a fair amount of queueing to be effective.

This patch partially reverts the change done in tcp_write_xmit()
so that the minimal amount is sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes.

It also remove the use of this sysctl while building skb stored
in write queue, as TSO autosizing does the right thing anyway.

Users with well behaving NICS and correct qdisc (like sch_fq),
can then lower the default sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes value from
128KB to 8KB.

This new usage of sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes permits each driver
authors to check how their driver performs when/if the value is set
to a minimum of 4KB.

Normally, line rate for a single TCP flow should be possible,
but some drivers rely on timers to perform TX completion and
too long TX completion delays prevent reaching full throughput.

Fixes: c9eeec26e3 ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Reported-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
Tested-by: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Change-Id: I1fab5c795148dff3da34b42c7808476f51d99f89
2020-11-30 19:35:19 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
e7e3467ab1 tcp: TCP Small Queues
This introduce TSQ (TCP Small Queues)

TSQ goal is to reduce number of TCP packets in xmit queues (qdisc &
device queues), to reduce RTT and cwnd bias, part of the bufferbloat
problem.

sk->sk_wmem_alloc not allowed to grow above a given limit,
allowing no more than ~128KB [1] per tcp socket in qdisc/dev layers at a
given time.

TSO packets are sized/capped to half the limit, so that we have two
TSO packets in flight, allowing better bandwidth use.

As a side effect, setting the limit to 40000 automatically reduces the
standard gso max limit (65536) to 40000/2 : It can help to reduce
latencies of high prio packets, having smaller TSO packets.

This means we divert sock_wfree() to a tcp_wfree() handler, to
queue/send following frames when skb_orphan() [2] is called for the
already queued skbs.

Results on my dev machines (tg3/ixgbe nics) are really impressive,
using standard pfifo_fast, and with or without TSO/GSO.

Without reduction of nominal bandwidth, we have reduction of buffering
per bulk sender :
< 1ms on Gbit (instead of 50ms with TSO)
< 8ms on 100Mbit (instead of 132 ms)

I no longer have 4 MBytes backlogged in qdisc by a single netperf
session, and both side socket autotuning no longer use 4 Mbytes.

As skb destructor cannot restart xmit itself ( as qdisc lock might be
taken at this point ), we delegate the work to a tasklet. We use one
tasklest per cpu for performance reasons.

If tasklet finds a socket owned by the user, it sets TSQ_OWNED flag.
This flag is tested in a new protocol method called from release_sock(),
to eventually send new segments.

[1] New /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_limit_output_bytes tunable
[2] skb_orphan() is usually called at TX completion time,
  but some drivers call it in their start_xmit() handler.
  These drivers should at least use BQL, or else a single TCP
  session can still fill the whole NIC TX ring, since TSQ will
  have no effect.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change-Id: I37d5e4d7c9ced1846385b6a04ae3ad134763a949
2020-11-30 19:35:00 +03:00
Eric Dumazet
e5a9f4f1cc tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing
After hearing many people over past years complaining against TSO being
bursty or even buggy, we are proud to present automatic sizing of TSO
packets.

One part of the problem is that tcp_tso_should_defer() uses an heuristic
relying on upcoming ACKS instead of a timer, but more generally, having
big TSO packets makes little sense for low rates, as it tends to create
micro bursts on the network, and general consensus is to reduce the
buffering amount.

This patch introduces a per socket sk_pacing_rate, that approximates
the current sending rate, and allows us to size the TSO packets so
that we try to send one packet every ms.

This field could be set by other transports.

Patch has no impact for high speed flows, where having large TSO packets
makes sense to reach line rate.

For other flows, this helps better packet scheduling and ACK clocking.

This patch increases performance of TCP flows in lossy environments.

A new sysctl (tcp_min_tso_segs) is added, to specify the
minimal size of a TSO packet (default being 2).

A follow-up patch will provide a new packet scheduler (FQ), using
sk_pacing_rate as an input to perform optional per flow pacing.

This explains why we chose to set sk_pacing_rate to twice the current
rate, allowing 'slow start' ramp up.

sk_pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / srtt

v2: Neal Cardwell reported a suspect deferring of last two segments on
initial write of 10 MSS, I had to change tcp_tso_should_defer() to take
into account tp->xmit_size_goal_segs

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change-Id: If293e2c6a0f52fe0e2b4ee149c9242f8c5e46ef5
2020-11-30 19:30:45 +03:00
Stephen Hemminger
39b326bec0 tcp: remove Appropriate Byte Count support
TCP Appropriate Byte Count was added by me, but later disabled.
There is no point in maintaining it since it is a potential source
of bugs and Linux already implements other better window protection
heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change-Id: Ifc93fa043256c275580a9f93611ad1d013889bc4
2020-11-30 19:26:36 +03:00
Johannes Berg
dca89a7ac0 ipv6: add option to drop unsolicited neighbor advertisements
In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be NA proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent unsolicitd advertisements on the shared medium from
being a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.

Enable this by providing an option called "drop_unsolicited_na".

Change-Id: I2567a9973e72165a8e546f3638b509fbd1c95298
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-07 21:59:38 +04:00
Johannes Berg
038345d130 ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv6 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Change-Id: I8a0b45fbd533236fbd785e6e8aa20fb780aa1397
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-07 21:59:38 +04:00
Johannes Berg
f3fab131f3 ipv4: add option to drop gratuitous ARP packets
In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be ARP proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent gratuitous ARP frames on the shared medium from being
a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.

Enable this by providing an option called "drop_gratuitous_arp".

Change-Id: Ic0ed4c7e520b1d973eb1ae206af0f882badc21ce
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-07 21:59:38 +04:00
Johannes Berg
e8958c5b2e ipv4: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv4 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Additionally, enabling this option provides compliance with a SHOULD
clause of RFC 1122.

Change-Id: Ib0c44d9e36d879be4f073db1936a986003390b78
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-12-07 21:59:38 +04:00
Artem Borisov
d7992e6feb Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1
All bluetooth-related changes were omitted because of our ancient incompatible bt stack.

Change-Id: I96440b7be9342a9c1adc9476066272b827776e64
2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
5d78b58c63 pktgen: document ability to add same device to several threads
commit 2a1ddf27e8189e1d68336c55dd2f305b224ae8f1 upstream.

The pktgen.txt documentation still claimed that adding same device to
multiple threads were not supported, but it have been since 2008 via
commit e6fce5b916 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.").

Document this and describe the naming scheme dev@X, as the procfile name
still need to be unique.

Fixes: e6fce5b916 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.")
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
2015-10-22 09:20:02 +08:00
Sowmini Varadhan
fdea68e178 RDS: Documentation: Document AF_RDS, PF_RDS and SOL_RDS correctly.
commit ebe96e641dee2cbd135ee802ae7e40c361640088 upstream.

AF_RDS, PF_RDS and SOL_RDS are available in header files,
and there is no need to get their values from /proc. Document
this correctly.

Fixes: 0c5f9b8830 ("RDS: Documentation")

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
2015-09-18 09:20:27 +08:00
Erik Kline
ab98584aef ipv6: sysctl to restrict candidate source addresses
Per RFC 6724, section 4, "Candidate Source Addresses":

    It is RECOMMENDED that the candidate source addresses be the set
    of unicast addresses assigned to the interface that will be used
    to send to the destination (the "outgoing" interface).

Add a sysctl to enable this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[Simplified back-port of net-next 3985e8a3611a93bb36789f65db862e5700aab65e]

Bug: 19470192
Bug: 21832279
Bug: 22464419
Change-Id: Icd96382f814a6f3ea53f05beb98c266b1929c5a3
2015-07-29 13:59:11 +09:00
Erik Kline
efe8261b88 net: ipv6: Add a sysctl to make optimistic addresses useful candidates
Add a sysctl that causes an interface's optimistic addresses
to be considered equivalent to other non-deprecated addresses
for source address selection purposes.  Preferred addresses
will still take precedence over optimistic addresses, subject
to other ranking in the source address selection algorithm.

This is useful where different interfaces are connected to
different networks from different ISPs (e.g., a cell network
and a home wifi network).

The current behaviour complies with RFC 3484/6724, and it
makes sense if the host has only one interface, or has
multiple interfaces on the same network (same or cooperating
administrative domain(s), but not in the multiple distinct
networks case.

For example, if a mobile device has an IPv6 address on an LTE
network and then connects to IPv6-enabled wifi, while the wifi
IPv6 address is undergoing DAD, IPv6 connections will try use
the wifi default route with the LTE IPv6 address, and will get
stuck until they time out.

Also, because optimistic nodes can receive frames, issue
an RTM_NEWADDR as soon as DAD starts (with the IFA_F_OPTIMSTIC
flag appropriately set).  A second RTM_NEWADDR is sent if DAD
completes (the address flags have changed), otherwise an
RTM_DELADDR is sent.

Also: add an entry in ip-sysctl.txt for optimistic_dad.

[backport of net-next 7fd2561e4ebdd070ebba6d3326c4c5b13942323f]

Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bug: 17769720
Bug: 18180674
Change-Id: I440a9b8c788db6767d191bbebfd2dff481aa9e0d
2014-12-01 19:37:26 +00:00
Lorenzo Colitti
2f9890617f net: add a sysctl to reflect the fwmark on replies
Kernel-originated IP packets that have no user socket associated
with them (e.g., ICMP errors and echo replies, TCP RSTs, etc.)
are emitted with a mark of zero. Add a sysctl to make them have
the same mark as the packet they are replying to.

This allows an administrator that wishes to do so to use
mark-based routing, firewalling, etc. for these replies by
marking the original packets inbound.

Tested using user-mode linux:
 - ICMP/ICMPv6 echo replies and errors.
 - TCP RST packets (IPv4 and IPv6).

Change-Id: I95d896647b278d092ef331d1377b959da1deb042
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
2014-05-12 22:39:57 -07:00
Jaime Lopez
3b6e9f543b ipv6: Enable new mode proxy_ndp == 2
This new mode allows Neighbor discovery packets to be sent to userspace
without regards to the state of the forwarding setting. Without this, NDP
packets addressed to the host are still received, but those for other
addresses are not.

Enabling this mode allows NDP proxying to be performed from userspace.

Change-Id: I69b7a7c0c42e3253c42d6f2e163c0ce1d848aed6
Signed-off-by: Jaime Lopez <jaimel@codeaurora.org>
2013-02-25 11:36:58 -08:00
Rohit Vaswani
dff77def0f net: QFEC Ethernet driver
QFEC is 1 Giga-bit Ethernet MAC module residing in FSM9XXX.

Change-Id: I718fb578cfb56d598ec5fd8b9ffebad4414a7830
Acked-by: Kaushik Sikdar <ksikdar@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@codeaurora.org>
2013-02-25 11:32:06 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
34fb350281 tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2
[ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee ]

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using RST bit.

Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence,
to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted
window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND)

If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send
a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an
RST with the appropriate sequence.

Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit
number of challenge ACK sent per second.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent.
(netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-11 09:07:14 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
b49960a05e tcp: change tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_rmem[2]
tcp_adv_win_scale default value is 2, meaning we expect a good citizen
skb to have skb->len / skb->truesize ratio of 75% (3/4)

In 2.6 kernels we (mis)accounted for typical MSS=1460 frame :
1536 + 64 + 256 = 1856 'estimated truesize', and 1856 * 3/4 = 1392.
So these skbs were considered as not bloated.

With recent truesize fixes, a typical MSS=1460 frame truesize is now the
more precise :
2048 + 256 = 2304. But 2304 * 3/4 = 1728.
So these skb are not good citizen anymore, because 1460 < 1728

(GRO can escape this problem because it build skbs with a too low
truesize.)

This also means tcp advertises a too optimistic window for a given
allocated rcvspace : When receiving frames, sk_rmem_alloc can hit
sk_rcvbuf limit and we call tcp_prune_queue()/tcp_collapse() too often,
especially when application is slow to drain its receive queue or in
case of losses (netperf is fast, scp is slow). This is a major latency
source.

We should adjust the len/truesize ratio to 50% instead of 75%

This patch :

1) changes tcp_adv_win_scale default to 1 instead of 2

2) increase tcp_rmem[2] limit from 4MB to 6MB to take into account
better truesize tracking and to allow autotuning tcp receive window to
reach same value than before. Note that same amount of kernel memory is
consumed compared to 2.6 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 21:08:58 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
e34fac1c2e doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values
Commit dc1f8bf68b ('netdev: change
transmit to limited range type') changed the required return type and
9a1654ba0b ('net: Optimize
hard_start_xmit() return checking') changed the valid numerical
return values.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 02:43:13 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
de7aca16fd doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start
Commit 08baf56108 ('net:
txq_trans_update() helper') made it unnecessary for most drivers to
set net_device::trans_start (or netdev_queue::trans_start).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 02:43:13 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
b3cf65457f doc, net: Update netdev operation names
Commits d314774cf2 ('netdev: network
device operations infrastructure') and
008298231a ('netdev: add more functions
to netdevice ops') moved and renamed net device operation pointers.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 02:43:12 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
04fd3d3515 doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue
Commits e308a5d806 ('netdev: Add
netdev->addr_list_lock protection.') and
e8a0464cc9 ('netdev: Allocate multiple
queues for TX.') introduced more fine-grained locks.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 02:43:12 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
93b6a3adbd doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll
Commit bea3348eef ('[NET]: Make NAPI
polling independent of struct net_device objects.') removed the
automatic disabling of NAPI polling by dev_close(), and drivers
must now do this themselves.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 02:43:12 -04:00
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
5d6bd8619d TCP: update ip_local_port_range documentation
The explanation of ip_local_port_range in
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt contains several factual
errors:

- The default value of ip_local_port_range does not depend on the
  amount of memory available in the system.
- tcp_tw_recycle is not enabled by default.
- 1024-4999 is not the default value.
- Etc.

Clean up the mess.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-03 17:38:55 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
78286cdf05 Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps
Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among
modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that
modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another
instance of modprobe to load the other module.

By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies
when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0)

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
970e248649 Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.

There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3556485f15 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in <net/sock.h> due to the jumo_label->static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
2012-03-21 13:25:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
69a7aebcf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
2012-03-20 21:12:50 -07:00
John W. Linville
01a2829809 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
2012-03-16 13:45:25 -04:00
Yegor Yefremov
6d430c2566 Documentation: make exists consistent
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-13 14:54:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3cd7920a2b mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram
I've been working on some documentation, so let's
add this diagram to the kernel tree where at least
it has a chance of being maintained :-)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12 14:21:50 -04:00
Masanari Iida
40e47125e6 Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
4b32da2bcf ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>
Since all that include/linux/if_ppp.h does is #include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>,
this replaces the occurrences of #include <linux/if_ppp.h> with
#include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>.

It also corrects an error in Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt, where
it referenced include/linux/if_ppp.h as the source of some definitions
that are actually now defined in include/linux/if_pppol2tp.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
bf7daebb9f ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.h
This moves the definitions of the ioctls, constants and structures
relating to the ppp_generic interface to userspace out from if_ppp.h
to a new file, ppp-ioctl.h.  The new file has my copyright since I
designed and implemented the ppp_generic interface in the late 1990s.
None of the contents of this file comes from the original if_ppp.h
published by Carnegie Mellon University.

Of the remainder of if_ppp.h, only the PPP_MTU definition was being
used, and this replaces the uses of it with PPP_MRU (which is identical).
Therefore, this replaces the entire file with the single line

#include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>

which clearly doesn't contain any CMU code.  Thus I have removed the
CMU copyright notice with its problematic advertising clause, and in
fact since it's only one trivial line I have not added any other
copyright notice.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
Ben Greear
5e0c03c8cd net: Support RX-ALL feature flag.
This flag requests that network devices pass all
received frames up the stack, even ones with errors
such as invalid FCS (frame check sum).  This will
allow sniffers to see bad packets and perhaps
give the user some idea how to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-24 01:42:07 -08:00
Ben Greear
36eabda3d0 net: Support RXFCS feature flag.
When set on hardware that supports the feature,
this causes the Ethernet FCS to be appended
to the end of the skb.

Useful for sniffing packets.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-24 01:19:59 -08:00
Sritej Velaga
97bf2262e7 qlge: Updating Schultz LICENSE.qlge file.
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-04 15:59:30 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
3396c7823e drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorg
The reorganization of the driver layout in drivers/net
left behind some stale paths in comments and in Kconfig
help text.  Bring them up to date.  No actual change to
any code takes place here.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
CC: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30 12:54:40 -05:00
David Howells
700920eb5b KEYS: Allow special keyrings to be cleared
The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS
resolver keyring :

2a93faf1 I-----     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .dns_resolver: empty

It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be
flushed by root (cache invalidation).

Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the
sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to
the keyring.

Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS
identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-01-19 14:38:51 +11:00
Nicolas de Pesloüan
1ba9ac7c35 bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.
v2, based on Jay's review.

I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-26 20:09:35 -05:00
Wei Yongjun
30e7dfe76e packet: fix typo in packet_mmap.txt
Just fixed typo of sample code in packet_mmap.txt

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23 16:50:58 -05:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
5b9932685f stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21 15:44:34 -05:00
Shan Wei
08f4fc9da9 net: doc: fix many typos in scaling.txt
Fix some trivial typos.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-20 14:11:46 -05:00
David S. Miller
c7c6575f25 Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge 2011-12-12 19:26:07 -05:00
David S. Miller
959327c784 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-12-06 21:10:05 -05:00
Peter Pan(潘卫平)
99b53bdd81 ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlog
Since commit c5ed63d66f24(tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning),
sysctl_max_syn_backlog is determined by tcp_hashinfo->ehash_mask,
and the minimal value is 128, and it will increase in proportion to the
memory of machine.
The original description for tcp_max_syn_backlog and sysctl_max_syn_backlog
are out of date.

Changelog:
V2: update description for sysctl_max_syn_backlog

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:02:28 -05:00
Jesse Gross
ccb1352e76 net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments.  In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.

The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding.  It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.

See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:17 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
d8a6e65f8b tcp: inherit listener congestion control for passive cnx
Rick Jones reported that TCP_CONGESTION sockopt performed on a listener
was ignored for its children sockets : right after accept() the
congestion control for new socket is the system default one.

This seems an oversight of the initial design (quoted from Stephen)

Based on prior investigation and patch from Rick.

Reported-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30 16:55:26 -05:00
David S. Miller
450faacc62 ifenslave: Fix unused variable warnings.
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c: In function ‘if_getconfig’:
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:508:14: warning: variable ‘mtu’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:508:6: warning: variable ‘metric’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

The purpose of this function is to simply print out the values
it probes, so...

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-26 16:54:17 -05:00
Marek Lindner
1a98489731 batman-adv: readme update (mention ap isolation and new log level)
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-11-20 13:08:37 +01:00