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2009-03-01Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-0/+6
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry pointsHerbert Xu1-0/+6
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll. Unfortunately it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry points. The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird problems. This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points. I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code). The reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler you're going to get a nice BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26RDS: Add RDS to AF key stringsAndy Grover1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26sysctl: fix sparse warning: Should it be static?Hannes Eder1-0/+1
Impact: Include header file. Fix this sparse warning: net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:123:32: warning: symbol 'net_core_path' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26core: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()Wei Yongjun2-6/+3
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26pktgen: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()Wei Yongjun1-12/+6
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logicPablo Neira Ayuso3-6/+9
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows: If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error; else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag. This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify() wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification (including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets. This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify() (before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification fails and should resync itself. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller3-41/+56
2009-02-23net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleakEugene Teo1-1/+1
The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to leak the padded bytes to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23netns: build fix for net_alloc_genericClemens Noss1-4/+4
net_alloc_generic was defined in #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS, but used unconditionally. Move net_alloc_generic out of #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Clemens Noss <cnoss@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22netns: Remove net_aliveEric W. Biederman2-9/+0
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets while there were still packets in the network namespace. Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing packet reception run a little faster. Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have a chance of figuring it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22netns: fix double free at netns creationDaniel Lezcano1-31/+55
This patch fix a double free when a network namespace fails. The previous code does a kfree of the net_generic structure when one of the init subsystem initialization fails. The 'setup_net' function does kfree(ng) and returns an error. The caller, 'copy_net_ns', call net_free on error, and this one calls kfree(net->gen), making this pointer freed twice. This patch make the code symetric, the net_alloc does the net_generic allocation and the net_free frees the net_generic. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-21net: kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time stampingPatrick Ohly1-13/+0
The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this removal. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interfaceSantwona Behera1-10/+48
Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparisonKrishna Kumar1-6/+8
Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized. Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates different random numbers each time. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-17net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.David S. Miller2-9/+0
A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt the socket memory accounting. skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error more systematically. However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: pass new SIOCSHWTSTAMP through to device driversPatrick Ohly1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPINGPatrick Ohly1-12/+69
The overlap with the old SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] options is handled so that time stamping in software (net_enable_timestamp()) is enabled when SO_TIMESTAMP[NS] and/or SO_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE is set. It's disabled if all of these are off. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: infrastructure for hardware time stampingPatrick Ohly2-2/+71
The additional per-packet information (16 bytes for time stamps, 1 byte for flags) is stored for all packets in the skb_shared_info struct. This implementation detail is hidden from users of that information via skb_* accessor functions. A separate struct resp. union is used for the additional information so that it can be stored/copied easily outside of skb_shared_info. Compared to previous implementations (reusing the tstamp field depending on the context, optional additional structures) this is the simplest solution. It does not extend sk_buff itself. TX time stamping is implemented in software if the device driver doesn't support hardware time stamping. The new semantic for hardware/software time stamping around ndo_start_xmit() is based on two assumptions about existing network device drivers which don't support hardware time stamping and know nothing about it: - they leave the new skb_shared_tx unmodified - the keep the connection to the originating socket in skb->sk alive, i.e., don't call skb_orphan() Given that skb_shared_tx is new, the first assumption is safe. The second is only true for some drivers. As a result, software TX time stamping currently works with the bnx2 driver, but not with the unmodified igb driver (the two drivers this patch series was tested with). Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-14Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-0/+2
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-12net: 4 bytes kernel memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt try #2Clément Lecigne1-0/+2
In function sock_getsockopt() located in net/core/sock.c, optval v.val is not correctly initialized and directly returned in userland in case we have SO_BSDCOMPAT option set. This dummy code should trigger the bug: int main(void) { unsigned char buf[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; int len; int sock; sock = socket(33, 2, 2); getsockopt(sock, 1, SO_BSDCOMPAT, &buf, &len); printf("%x%x%x%x\n", buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3]); close(sock); } Here is a patch that fix this bug by initalizing v.val just after its declaration. Signed-off-by: Clément Lecigne <clement.lecigne@netasq.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-12net: Fix page seeking for skb_splice_bits().Jarek Poplawski1-1/+6
struct page walking should be done with proper accessor functions, not directly. With doubts from David S. Miller and Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-10net: Move skbuff symbol exports after each symbol's definition.David S. Miller1-43/+36
net/core/skbuff.c is a hodge-podge of symbol export placement. Some of the exports are right after the definition of the symbol being exported, others are clumped together into a big group at the end of the file. Make things consistent. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu1-21/+2
This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-08gro: Remember number of held packets instead of counting every timeHerbert Xu1-5/+7
This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller2-8/+10
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-06net_dma: call dmaengine_get only if NET_DMA enabledDavid S. Miller1-2/+2
Based upon a patch from Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> -------------------- The commit 649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872 ("net_dma: acquire/release dma channels on ifup/ifdown") added unconditional call of dmaengine_get() to net_dma. The API should be called only if NET_DMA was enabled. -------------------- Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-02-06neigh: some entries can be skipped during dumpingGautam Kachroo1-6/+8
neightbl_dump_info and neigh_dump_table can skip entries if the *fill*info functions return an error. This results in an incomplete dump ((invoked by netlink requests for RTM_GETNEIGHTBL or RTM_GETNEIGH) nidx and idx should not be incremented if the current entry was not placed in the output buffer Signed-off-by: Gautam Kachroo <gk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05gro: Fix frag_list merging on imprecisely split packetsHerbert Xu2-1/+13
The previous fix ad0f9904444de1309dedd2b9e365cae8af77d9b1 (gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets) only fixed the case of frags merging, frag_list merging in the same circumstances were still broken. In particular, the packet headers end up in the data stream. This patch fixes this plus another issue where an imprecisely split packet header may be read incorrectly (this is mostly harmless since it'll simply cause the packet to not match and be rejected for GRO). Thanks to Emil Tantilov and Jeff Kirsher for helping to track this down. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04net: Reexport sock_alloc_send_pskbHerbert Xu1-4/+4
The function sock_alloc_send_pskb is completely useless if not exported since most of the code in it won't be used as is. In fact, this code has already been duplicated in the tun driver. Now that we need accounting in the tun driver, we can in fact use this function as is. So this patch marks it for export again. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04net: Partially allow skb destructors to be used on receive pathHerbert Xu1-0/+2
As it currently stands, skb destructors are forbidden on the receive path because the protocol end-points will overwrite any existing destructor with their own. This is the reason why we have to call skb_orphan in the loopback driver before we reinject the packet back into the stack, thus creating a period during which loopback traffic isn't charged to any socket. With virtualisation, we have a similar problem in that traffic is reinjected into the stack without being associated with any socket entity, thus providing no natural congestion push-back for those poor folks still stuck with UDP. Now had we been consistent in telling them that UDP simply has no congestion feedback, I could just fob them off. Unfortunately, we appear to have gone to some length in catering for this on the standard UDP path, with skb/socket accounting so that has created a very unhealthy dependency. Alas habits are difficult to break out of, so we may just have to allow skb destructors on the receive path. It turns out that making skb destructors useable on the receive path isn't as easy as it seems. For instance, simply adding skb_orphan to skb_set_owner_r isn't enough. This is because we assume all over the IP stack that skb->sk is an IP socket if present. The new transparent proxy code goes one step further and assumes that skb->sk is the receiving socket if present. Now all of this can be dealt with by adding simple checks such as only treating skb->sk as an IP socket if skb->sk->sk_family matches. However, it turns out that for bridging at least we don't need to do all of this work. This is of interest because most virtualisation setups use bridging so we don't actually go through the IP stack on the host (with the exception of our old nemesis the bridge netfilter, but that's easily taken care of). So this patch simply adds skb_orphan to the point just before we enter the IP stack, but after we've gone through the bridge on the receive path. It also adds an skb_orphan to the one place in netfilter that touches skb->sk/skb->destructor, that is, tproxy. One word of caution, because of the internal code structure, anyone wishing to deploy this must use skb_set_owner_w as opposed to skb_set_owner_r since many functions that create a new skb from an existing one will invoke skb_set_owner_w on the new skb. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packetsHerbert Xu1-6/+10
The commit 89a1b249edcf9be884e71f92df84d48355c576aa (gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packets) only worked for packets which are either completely linear, completely non-linear, or packets which exactly split at the boundary between headers and payload. Anything else would cause bits in the header to go missing if the packet is held by GRO. This may have broken drivers such as ixgbe. This patch fixes the places that assumed or only worked with the above cases. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01net: Optimize memory usage when splicing from sockets.Jarek Poplawski1-11/+36
The recent fix of data corruption when splicing from sockets uses memory very inefficiently allocating a new page to copy each chunk of linear part of skb. This patch uses the same page until it's full (almost) by caching the page in sk_sndmsg_page field. With changes from David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-30Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-7/+8
Conflicts: drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
2009-01-29gro: Open-code memcpy in napi_fraginfo_skbHerbert Xu1-1/+9
This patch optimises napi_fraginfo_skb to only copy the bits necessary. We also open-code the memcpy so that the alignment information is always available to gcc. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29gro: Do not merge paged packets into frag_listHerbert Xu1-3/+5
gro: Do not merge paged packets into frag_list Bigger is not always better :) It was easy to continue to merged packets into frag_list after the page array is full. However, this turns out to be worse than LRO because frag_list is a much less efficient form of storage than the page array. So we're better off stopping the merge and starting a new entry with an empty page array. In future we can optimise this further by doing frag_list merging but making sure that we continue to fill in the page array. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packetsHerbert Xu2-19/+74
Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge. LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers from the frags structure. This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29gro: Move common completion code into helpersHerbert Xu1-24/+52
Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath of GRO that's shared with the common path. This patch moves them into shared helpers to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read().Shyam Iyer1-5/+5
It oopsd for me in skb_seq_read. addr2line said it was linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c:2228, which is this line: while (st->frag_idx < skb_shinfo(st->cur_skb)->nr_frags) { I added some printks in there and it looks like we hit this: } else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb && skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) { st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list; st->frag_idx = 0; goto next_skb; } Actually I did some testing and added a few printks and found that the st->cur_skb->data was 0 and hence the ptr used by iscsi_tcp was null. This caused the kernel panic. if (abs_offset < block_limit) { - *data = st->cur_skb->data + abs_offset; + *data = st->cur_skb->data + (abs_offset - st->stepped_offset); I enabled the debug_tcp and with a few printks found that the code did not go to the next_skb label and could find that the sequence being followed was this - It hit this if condition - if (st->cur_skb->next) { st->cur_skb = st->cur_skb->next; st->frag_idx = 0; goto next_skb; And so, now the st pointer is shifted to the next skb whereas actually it should have hit the second else if first since the data is in the frag_list. else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb && skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) { st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list; goto next_skb; } Reversing the two conditions the attached patch fixes the issue for me on top of Herbert's patches. Signed-off-by: Shyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-29net: Fix frag_list handling in skb_seq_readHerbert Xu1-2/+3
The frag_list handling was broken in skb_seq_read: 1) We didn't add the stepped offset when looking at the head are of fragments other than the first. 2) We didn't take the stepped offset away when setting the data pointer in the head area. 3) The frag index wasn't reset. This patch fixes both issues. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-27net: Get rid of by-hand TX queue hashing.David S. Miller1-59/+14
We now only TX hash on pre-computed SKB properties. The thinking is: 1) High performance routing and firewalling setups will have a multiqueue capable card used for receive, and therefore would have RX queue recordings made into the SKB which can be used for the TX side hash. 2) Locally generated packets will have an attached socket and thus a valid sk->sk_hash to make use of. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-27net: If SKB has attached socket, use socket's hash for TX queue selection.David S. Miller1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-27net: Allow RX queue selection to seed TX queue hashing.David S. Miller1-0/+8
The idea is that drivers which implement multiqueue RX pre-seed the SKB by recording the RX queue selected by the hardware. If such a seed is found on TX, we'll use that to select the outgoing TX queue. This helps get more consistent load balancing on router and firewall loads. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20gro: Fix merging of paged packetsHerbert Xu1-4/+5
The previous fix to paged packets broke the merging because it reset the skb->len before we added it to the merged packet. This wasn't detected because it simply resulted in the truncation of the packet while the missing bit is subsequently retransmitted. The fix is to store skb->len before we clobber it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20gro: Fix error handling on extremely short fragsHerbert Xu1-0/+1
When a frag is shorter than an Ethernet header, we'd return a zeroed packet instead of aborting. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-20NET: net_namespace, fix lock imbalanceJiri Slaby1-1/+1
register_pernet_gen_subsys omits mutex_unlock in one fail path. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-19net: Fix data corruption when splicing from sockets.Jarek Poplawski1-32/+29
The trick in socket splicing where we try to convert the skb->data into a page based reference using virt_to_page() does not work so well. The idea is to pass the virt_to_page() reference via the pipe buffer, and refcount the buffer using a SKB reference. But if we are splicing from a socket to a socket (via sendpage) this doesn't work. The from side processing will grab the page (and SKB) references. The sendpage() calls will grab page references only, return, and then the from side processing completes and drops the SKB ref. The page based reference to skb->data is not enough to keep the kmalloc() buffer backing it from being reused. Yet, that is all that the socket send side has at this point. This leads to data corruption if the skb->data buffer is reused by SLAB before the send side socket actually gets the TX packet out to the device. The fix employed here is to simply allocate a page and copy the skb->data bytes into that page. This will hurt performance, but there is no clear way to fix this properly without a copy at the present time, and it is important to get rid of the data corruption. With fixes from Herbert Xu. Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Foreseen-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Fixed-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-19net: Add debug info to track down GSO checksum bugHerbert Xu1-1/+13
I'm trying to track down why people're hitting the checksum warning in skb_gso_segment. As the problem seems to be hitting lots of people and I can't reproduce it or locate the bug, here is a patch to print out more details which hopefully should help us to track this down. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using itBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-0/+39
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations. It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add() Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14gro: Fix page ref count for skbs freed normallyHerbert Xu2-6/+6
When an skb with page frags is merged into an existing one, we cannibalise its reference count. This is OK when the skb is reused because we set nr_frags to zero in that case. However, for the case where the skb is freed through kfree_skb, we didn't clear nr_frags which causes the page to be freed prematurely. This is fixed by moving the skb resetting into skb_gro_receive. Reported-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>