Jouni Malinen [Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:57:36 +0000 (17:57 +0200)]
nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
NL80211_CMD_GET_MESH_PARAMS and NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_PARAMS handlers
did not verify whether a function pointer is NULL (not supported by
the driver) before trying to call the function. The former nl80211
command is available for unprivileged users, too, so this can
potentially allow normal users to kill networking (or worse..) if
mac80211 is built without CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tilman Schmidt [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:44:23 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
Every USB transfer buffer has to be allocated individually by kmalloc.
Impact: bugfix, no functional change
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Tested-by: Kolja Waschk <kawk@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
smsc911x_phy_adjust_link is called periodically by the phy layer (as
it's run in polling mode), and it only updates the hardware when it sees
a change in duplex or carrier. This patch clears the last known values
every time the interface is brought up, instead of only when the module
is loaded.
Without this patch the adjust_link function never updates the hardware
after an ifconfig down; ifconfig up. On a full duplex link this causes
the tx error counter to increment, even though packets are correctly
transmitted, as the default MAC_CR register setting is for half duplex.
The tx errors are "no carrier" errors, which should be ignored in
full-duplex mode. When MAC_CR is set to "full duplex" mode they are
correctly ignored by the hardware.
Note that even with this patch the tx error counter can increment if
packets are transmitted between "ifconfig up" and the first phy poll
interval. An improved solution would use the phy interrupt with phylib,
but I haven't managed to make this work 100% robustly yet.
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Aced-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Kyle McMartin [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:49:01 +0000 (18:49 -0700)]
tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
Tulip is currently doing request_irq before it has done its
initialization. This is usually not a problem because it hasn't
enable interrupts yet, but with DEBUG_SHIRQ on, we call the irq handler
when registering the interrupt as a sanity check.
This can result in a NULL ptr dereference, so call tulip_init_ring
before request_irq, and add a free_ring function to do the freeing
now shared with tulip_close.
Tested with a shell loop running ifup, ifdown in a loop a few hundred
times with DEBUG_SHIRQ on.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
Impact: Make NetworkManager work with virtio_net
For now the semantics are simple: There is always carrier.
This allows a seamless experience with e.g., qemu/kvm
where NetworkManager just configures and sets up
everything automagically.
If/when a generally agreed-upon way to control
carrier on/off in the emulator/hypervisor level
emerges, it will be trivial to extend the driver
to support that too, but for now even this 2-liner
makes user experience that much better.
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The un-refactored code checked the link speed and duplex of
every slave on every pass; the refactored code did not do so.
The 802.3ad and balance-alb/tlb modes utilize the speed and
duplex information, and require it to be kept up to date. This patch
adds a notifier check to perform the appropriate updating when the slave
device speed changes.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Chan [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:11:51 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
bnx2: Fix problem of using wrong IRQ handler.
The MSI-X handler was chosen before the call to pci_enable_msix().
If MSI-X was not available, the wrong MSI-X handler would be used in
INTA mode. This would cause a screaming interrupt problem because
INTA would not be cleared by the MSI-X handler.
Fixed by assigning MSI-X handler after pci_enable_msix() returns
successfully. Also update version to 1.9.3.
Thomas Chenault <thomas_chenault@dell.com> helped us find this problem.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:11:29 +0000 (13:11 -0700)]
gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash
On the legacy netif_rx path, I incorrectly tried to optimise
the napi_complete call by using __napi_complete before we reenable
IRQs. This simply doesn't work since we need to flush the held
GRO packets first.
This patch fixes it by doing the obvious thing of reenabling
IRQs first and then calling napi_complete.
Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jouni Malinen [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:47:33 +0000 (21:47 +0200)]
zd1211rw: Do not panic on device eject when associated
zd_op_tx() must not return an arbitrary error value since that can
leave mac80211 trying to retransmit the frame and with the extra data
pushed into the beginning of the skb on every attempt, this will end up
causing a kernel panic (skb_under_panic from skb_push call). This can
happen, e.g., when ejecting the device when associated.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jouni Malinen [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:59:39 +0000 (13:59 +0200)]
mac80211: Fix panic on fragmentation with power saving
It was possible to hit a kernel panic on NULL pointer dereference in
dev_queue_xmit() when sending power save buffered frames to a STA that
woke up from sleep. This happened when the buffered frame was requeued
for transmission in ap_sta_ps_end(). In order to avoid the panic, copy
the skb->dev and skb->iif values from the first fragment to all other
fragments.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All 802.11n PCI devices (Cardbus, PCI, mini-PCI) require
serialization of IO when on non-uniprocessor systems. PCI
express devices not not require this.
This should fix our only last standing open ath9k kernel.org
bugzilla bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12110
A port is probably required to older kernels and I can work on
that.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When they were part of the now defunct ieee80211 component, these
messages were only visible when special debugging settings were enabled.
Let's mirror that with a new lib80211 debugging Kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Christoph Paasch [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:52:11 +0000 (15:52 +0100)]
netfilter: conntrack: check for NEXTHDR_NONE before header sanity checking
NEXTHDR_NONE doesn't has an IPv6 option header, so the first check
for the length will always fail and results in a confusing message
"too short" if debugging enabled. With this patch, we check for
NEXTHDR_NONE before length sanity checkings are done.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Christoph Paasch [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:51:29 +0000 (15:51 +0100)]
netfilter: conntrack: fix dropping packet after l4proto->packet()
We currently use the negative value in the conntrack code to encode
the packet verdict in the error. As NF_DROP is equal to 0, inverting
NF_DROP makes no sense and, as a result, no packets are ever dropped.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
françois romieu [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:10:50 +0000 (01:10 +0000)]
r8169: revert "r8169: read MAC address from EEPROM on init (2nd attempt)"
It fails on the following systems:
- RTL8169sc/8110sc (XID 18000000)
reported by Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> (x86)
- RTL8169sb/8110sb (XID 10000000)
reported by Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> (ARM)
The patch appeared to work on x86 for the following systems:
RTL8169sb/8110sb 10000000 PCI (EXT)
RTL8110s 04000000 PCI (EXT)
RTL8102e 24a00000 PCI-E (LOM)
RTL8168c/8111c 3c2000c0 PCI-E (LOM)
RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (LOM)
RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (EXT)
The patch exposes two problems:
1) while not completely wrong, mac addresses are not read correctly
from the EEPROM
2) the MAC address registers are not correctly set
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexander Duyck [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:26:40 +0000 (22:26 -0700)]
igb: remove ASPM L0s workaround
The L0s workaround should be moved into a pci quirk and so it is not
necessary in the driver. This update removes the L0s workaround from the
igb driver.
This was the second half of the PCI quirk patch that Matthew Wilcox did
not pick up when he picked up the quirk patch.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove flash size check which made sense only for ancient
boards with 1MB flash. The check is based on values read
from specific locations and fails with firmware size changes.
This prevents driver from getting right mac addresses.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mv643xx_eth: fix unicast address filter corruption on mtu change
When mv643xx_eth_open() is called to up an interface, port_start()
will first re-program the unicast address filter, and then
re-initialise the PORT_CONFIG register, but that will disable unicast
promiscuous mode if it was enabled by the unicast address filter setup.
This isn't a problem on ifconfig up, as ->set_rx_mode() will be called
shortly afterwards which will program the filters again, but it does
trigger when changing the MTU, which calls mv643xx_eth_stop() and then
mv643xx_eth_open() by hand to repopulate the receive rings with skbuffs
of the new size.
Swap the initialisation of the PORT_START register and the call to
the unicast filter setup function to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
emac: Fix clock control for 405EX and 405EXr chips
The EMAC variant in the 405EX and 405EXr chips needs the "440EP" type clock
control workaround to avoid lockups of the Rx side during reset.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Chris Leech [Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:00:24 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
ixgbe: fix multiple unicast address support
Multiple unicast address support appears to have been broken with the
change to support net_device_ops. This a regression from 2.6.28 to 2.6.29.
I'm not 100% on whether ndo_set_multicast_list can be NULL after this
or not. If ndo_set_rx_mode is set everything _should_ be using it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilya Yanok [Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:26:02 +0000 (23:26 -0700)]
dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (updated)
Driver for Dave DNET ethernet controller found on Dave/DENX QongEVB-LITE
FPGA. Heavily based on Dave sources, I've just adopted it to current
kernel version and done some code cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
John Dykstra [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:22:51 +0000 (09:22 -0700)]
ipv6: Fix BUG when disabled ipv6 module is unloaded
Do not try to "uninitialize" ipv6 if its initialization had been skipped
because module parameter disable=1 had been specified.
Reported-by: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org> Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com> Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There was a bug, which occasionally caused failure in PRAM initialization after
the cold boot.
Also incremented version number to 1.45.27.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding a proper cast to the argument of PAGE_ALIGN macro so that the output
won't depend on its original type. Without this cast aligned value will be
truncated to the size of the argument type.
Reported-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Tested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reinette Chatre [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:37:04 +0000 (11:37 -0800)]
iwlwifi: fix error flow in iwl*_pci_probe
Both the agn and 3945 drivers has some problems with dealing with
errors in their probe functions. Ensure that a goto will undo only
things that was done before the goto was called.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
add more usb_dev to rt73usb.c . IDs 'stolen' from the
windows inf file(10/21/2008, 1.03.02.0000) plus some
from the Ralink linux driver(2009_0206_RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.2.tar.bz2)
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David S. Miller [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:46:25 +0000 (23:46 -0800)]
vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
leaves the compat method pointers stale.
Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.
Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice()
will need to call this new function after doing so too.
With help from Patrick McHardy.
Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Meelis Roos [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 04:59:41 +0000 (04:59 +0000)]
tmspci: fix request_irq race
Currently, tmspci tokenring driver crashes on device initialization
because it requests its irq before initializing corresponding data
structures. Fix this by moving request_irq call to a safer place.
Signed-off-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jarek Poplawski [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:38:10 +0000 (17:38 -0800)]
pkt_sched: act_police: Fix a rate estimator test.
A commit c1b56878fb68e9c14070939ea4537ad4db79ffae "tc: policing requires
a rate estimator" introduced a test which invalidates previously working
configs, based on examples from iproute2: doc/actions/actions-general.
This is too rigorous: a rate estimator is needed only when police's
"avrate" option is used.
Reported-by: Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Matt Carlson [Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:21:20 +0000 (14:21 +0000)]
tg3: Fix 5906 link problems
Commit 6833c043f9fc03696fde623914c4a0277df2a0bc introduced the phy
auto-powerdown capability. While the APD feature only works for 5761
and 5784 asic revisions, the (harmless portion of the) code was applied
to all 5705 and newer devices. However, the 5906 phy departs from the
usual design. This commit was interfering with the 5906's ability to
negotiate link against some switches. This patch corrects the problem.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Brian Haley [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:20:26 +0000 (03:20 -0800)]
SCTP: change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 fails
Change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 socket registration
fails. Required if the IPv6 module is loaded with "disable=1", else
SCTP will fail to load.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Brian Haley [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:18:11 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
IPv6: add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko
Add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko by specifying
"disable=1" on module load. We just do the minimum of initializing
inetsw6[] so calls from other modules to inet6_register_protosw()
won't OOPs, then bail out. No IPv6 addresses or sockets can be
created as a result, and a reboot is required to enable IPv6.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value
as parameter for the error code. However, sk->sk_err wants a
positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called
by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error.
Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive
error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone
to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the
(usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :).
This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format
for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tony Breeds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:59:30 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
powerpc: Run sbc610 USB fixup code only on the appropriate platform.
commit a969e76a7101bf5f3d369563df1ca1253dd6131b (powerpc: Correct USB
support for GE Fanuc SBC610) introduced a fixup for NEC usb controllers.
This fixup should only run on GEF SBC610 boards.
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:33:20 +0000 (14:33 -0800)]
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth
sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabled
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:32:55 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: oprofile: don't set counter width from cpuid on Core2
x86: fix init_memory_mapping() to handle small ranges
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:32:37 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
Merge branch 'tracing/mmiotrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing/mmiotrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86 mmiotrace: fix race with release_kmmio_fault_page()
x86 mmiotrace: improve handling of secondary faults
x86 mmiotrace: split set_page_presence()
x86 mmiotrace: fix save/restore page table state
x86 mmiotrace: WARN_ONCE if dis/arming a page fails
x86: add far read test to testmmiotrace
x86: count errors in testmmiotrace.ko
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:32:04 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot
Russell King [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:43:47 +0000 (13:43 +0000)]
[ARM] fix lots of ARM __devexit sillyness
`iop_adma_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`mv_xor_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`mv64xxx_i2c_unmap_regs' referenced in section `.devinit.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`mv64xxx_i2c_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`orion_nand_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`pxafb_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:44:12 +0000 (11:44 +0100)]
[ARM] 5417/1: Set the correct cacheid for ARMv6 CPUs with ARMv7 style MMU
The cacheid_init() function assumes that if cpu_architecture() returns
7, the caches are VIPT_NONALIASING. The cpu_architecture() function
returns the version of the supported MMU features (e.g. TEX remapping)
but it doesn't make any assumptions about the cache type. The patch adds
the checking of the Cache Type Register for the ARMv7 format.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Seth Forshee [Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:39:36 +0000 (22:39 +0100)]
[ARM] 5416/1: Use unused address in v6_early_abort
The target of the strex instruction to clear the exlusive monitor
is currently the top of the stack. If the store succeeeds this
corrupts r0 in pt_regs. Use the next stack location instead of
the current one to prevent any chance of corrupting an in-use
address.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network
devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup. There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.
The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.
It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys. Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.
Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Daniel Lezcano [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:06:45 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
netns: fix addrconf_ifdown kernel panic
When a network namespace is destroyed the network interfaces are
all unregistered, making addrconf_ifdown called by the netdevice
notifier.
In the other hand, the addrconf exit method does a loop on the network
devices and does addrconf_ifdown on each of them. But the ordering of
the netns subsystem is not right because it uses the register_pernet_device
instead of register_pernet_subsys. If we handle the loopback as
any network device, we can safely use register_pernet_subsys.
But if we use register_pernet_subsys, the addrconf exit method will do
exactly what was already done with the unregistering of the network
devices. So in definitive, this code is pointless.
I removed the netns addrconf exit method and moved the code to the
addrconf cleanup function.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yinghai Lu [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:36:13 +0000 (23:36 -0800)]
x86: fix init_memory_mapping() to handle small ranges
Impact: fix failed EFI bootup in certain circumstances
Ying Huang found init_memory_mapping() has problem with small ranges
less than 2M when he tried to direct map the EFI runtime code out of
max_low_pfn_mapped.
It turns out we never considered that case and didn't check the range...
Reported-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ACDDED.1060508@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Russell King [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:29:37 +0000 (22:29 -0800)]
OMAP: enable smc911x support for LDP platform
The following patch enables SMC911x support to work on the OMAP LDP
board. Although the SMC911x driver will eventually be obsoleted, the
smsc911x patches are rather invasive for the -rc kernels.
Rather than risk destablising smsc911x, this simpler patch is preferred
to allow the network interface to work.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wei Yongjun [Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:46:51 +0000 (06:46 +0000)]
sctp: fix kernel panic with ERROR chunk containing too many error causes
If ERROR chunk is received with too many error causes in ESTABLISHED
state, the kernel get panic.
This is because sctp limit the max length of cmds to 14, but while
ERROR chunk is received, one error cause will add around 2 cmds by
sctp_add_cmd_sf(). So many error causes will fill the limit of cmds
and panic.
This patch fixed the problem.
This bug can be test by SCTP Conformance Test Suite
<http://networktest.sourceforge.net/>.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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