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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-17 09:57:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-17 09:57:45 -0700
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treec0f98d752faa37fed4d11231f08d368dce120786 /Documentation
parentMerge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/riscv-linux (diff)
parentsocket: fix compat SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW/SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Handle init flow failures properly in iwlwifi driver, from Shahar S Matityahu. 2) mac80211 TXQs need to be unscheduled on powersave start, from Felix Fietkau. 3) SKB memory accounting fix in A-MDSU aggregation, from Felix Fietkau. 4) Increase RCU lock hold time in mlx5 FPGA code, from Saeed Mahameed. 5) Avoid checksum complete with XDP in mlx5, also from Saeed. 6) Fix netdev feature clobbering in ibmvnic driver, from Thomas Falcon. 7) Partial sent TLS record leak fix from Jakub Kicinski. 8) Reject zero size iova range in vhost, from Jason Wang. 9) Allow pending work to complete before clcsock release from Karsten Graul. 10) Fix XDP handling max MTU in thunderx, from Matteo Croce. 11) A lot of protocols look at the sa_family field of a sockaddr before validating it's length is large enough, from Tetsuo Handa. 12) Don't write to free'd pointer in qede ptp error path, from Colin Ian King. 13) Have to recompile IP options in ipv4_link_failure because it can be invoked from ARP, from Stephen Suryaputra. 14) Doorbell handling fixes in qed from Denis Bolotin. 15) Revert net-sysfs kobject register leak fix, it causes new problems. From Wang Hai. 16) Spectre v1 fix in ATM code, from Gustavo A. R. Silva. 17) Fix put of BROPT_VLAN_STATS_PER_PORT in bridging code, from Nikolay Aleksandrov. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (111 commits) socket: fix compat SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW/SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW tcp: tcp_grow_window() needs to respect tcp_space() ocelot: Clean up stats update deferred work ocelot: Don't sleep in atomic context (irqs_disabled()) net: bridge: fix netlink export of vlan_stats_per_port option qed: fix spelling mistake "faspath" -> "fastpath" tipc: set sysctl_tipc_rmem and named_timeout right range tipc: fix link established but not in session net: Fix missing meta data in skb with vlan packet net: atm: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities net/core: work around section mismatch warning for ptp_classifier net: bridge: fix per-port af_packet sockets bnx2x: fix spelling mistake "dicline" -> "decline" route: Avoid crash from dereferencing NULL rt->from MAINTAINERS: normalize Woojung Huh's email address bonding: fix event handling for stacked bonds Revert "net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject" rtnetlink: fix rtnl_valid_stats_req() nlmsg_len check qed: Fix the DORQ's attentions handling qed: Fix missing DORQ attentions ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
index 2df5894353d6..cd7303d7fa25 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
@@ -1009,16 +1009,18 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
(*) Check call still alive.
- u32 rxrpc_kernel_check_life(struct socket *sock,
- struct rxrpc_call *call);
+ bool rxrpc_kernel_check_life(struct socket *sock,
+ struct rxrpc_call *call,
+ u32 *_life);
void rxrpc_kernel_probe_life(struct socket *sock,
struct rxrpc_call *call);
- The first function returns a number that is updated when ACKs are received
- from the peer (notably including PING RESPONSE ACKs which we can elicit by
- sending PING ACKs to see if the call still exists on the server). The
- caller should compare the numbers of two calls to see if the call is still
- alive after waiting for a suitable interval.
+ The first function passes back in *_life a number that is updated when
+ ACKs are received from the peer (notably including PING RESPONSE ACKs
+ which we can elicit by sending PING ACKs to see if the call still exists
+ on the server). The caller should compare the numbers of two calls to see
+ if the call is still alive after waiting for a suitable interval. It also
+ returns true as long as the call hasn't yet reached the completed state.
This allows the caller to work out if the server is still contactable and
if the call is still alive on the server while waiting for the server to