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2006-09-28	[NET_SCHED]: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change	Patrick McHardy	1	-8/+8
	The move of qdisc destruction to a rcu callback broke locking in the entire qdisc layer by invalidating previously valid assumptions about the context in which changes to the qdisc tree occur. The two assumptions were: - since changes only happen in process context, read_lock doesn't need bottem half protection. Now invalid since destruction of inner qdiscs, classifiers, actions and estimators happens in the RCU callback unless they're manually deleted, resulting in dead-locks when read_lock in process context is interrupted by write_lock_bh in bottem half context. - since changes only happen under the RTNL, no additional locking is necessary for data not used during packet processing (f.e. u32_list). Again, since destruction now happens in the RCU callback, this assumption is not valid anymore, causing races while using this data, which can result in corruption or use-after-free. Instead of "fixing" this by disabling bottem halfs everywhere and adding new locks/refcounting, this patch makes these assumptions valid again by moving destruction back to process context. Since only the dev->qdisc pointer is protected by RCU, but ->enqueue and the qdisc tree are still protected by dev->qdisc_lock, destruction of the tree can be performed immediately and only the final free needs to happen in the rcu callback to make sure dev_queue_xmit doesn't access already freed memory. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04	[PKT_SCHED]: Return ENOENT if qdisc module is unavailable	Jamal Hadi Salim	1	-1/+1
	Return ENOENT if qdisc module is unavailable Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30	Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>	Jörn Engel	1	-1/+0
	Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-09-09	[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER	Ingo Molnar	1	-1/+1
	Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been been in the -RT tree for some time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29	[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks	Patrick McHardy	1	-2/+2
	Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05	[PKT_SCHED]: Report rate estimator configuration errors during qdisc allocation	Thomas Graf	1	-5/+17
	Current behaviour is to not report an error if a rate estimator is created together with a qdisc and the configuration of the rate estimator is bogus. This leads to unexpected behaviour because the user is not notified. New behaviour is to report the error and let the whole qdisc creation operation fail so the user is able to fix his mistake. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05	[PKT_SCHED]: Cleanup qdisc creation and alignment macros	Thomas Graf	1	-32/+9
	Adds qdisc_alloc() to share code between qdisc_create() and qdisc_create_dflt(). Hides the qdisc alignment behind macros and makes use of them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28	[NETLINK]: Missing initializations in dumped data	Patrick McHardy	1	-0/+2
	Mostly missing initialization of padding fields of 1 or 2 bytes length, two instances of uninitialized nlmsgerr->msg of 16 bytes length. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18	[NETLINK]: Explicit typing	Jamal Hadi Salim	1	-6/+4
	This patch converts "unsigned flags" to use more explict types like u16 instead and incrementally introduces NLMSG_NEW(). Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03	[PKT_SCHED]: netetm: adjust parent qlen when duplicating	Stephen Hemminger	1	-0/+1
	Fix qlen underrun when doing duplication with netem. If netem is used as leaf discipline, then the parent needs to be tweaked when packets are duplicated. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+1296
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!