- 30 Aug, 2016 1 commit
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Liping Zhang authored
We have already use skb_header_pointer to get the ip header pointer, so there's no need to use ip_hdr again. Moreover, in NETDEV INGRESS hook, ip header maybe not linear, so use ip_hdr is not appropriate, remove it. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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- 25 Aug, 2016 6 commits
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Sabrina Dubroca authored
commit bcf49342 ("netfilter: ebtables: Fix extension lookup with identical name") added a second lookup in case the extension that was found during the first lookup matched another extension with the same name, but didn't release the reference on the incorrect module. Fixes: bcf49342 ("netfilter: ebtables: Fix extension lookup with identical name") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Liping Zhang authored
"meta pkttype set" is only supported on prerouting chain with bridge family and ingress chain with netdev family. But the validate check is incomplete, and the user can add the nft rules on input chain with bridge family, for example: # nft add table bridge filter # nft add chain bridge filter input {type filter hook input \ priority 0 \;} # nft add chain bridge filter test # nft add rule bridge filter test meta pkttype set unicast # nft add rule bridge filter input jump test This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Liping Zhang authored
KASAN reported this bug: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in icmp_packet+0x25/0x50 [nf_conntrack_ipv4] at addr ffff880002db08c8 Read of size 4 by task lt-nf-queue/19041 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff815eeebb>] dump_stack+0x63/0x88 [<ffffffff813386f8>] kasan_report_error+0x528/0x560 [<ffffffff81338cc8>] kasan_report+0x58/0x60 [<ffffffffa07393f5>] ? icmp_packet+0x25/0x50 [nf_conntrack_ipv4] [<ffffffff81337551>] __asan_load4+0x61/0x80 [<ffffffffa07393f5>] icmp_packet+0x25/0x50 [nf_conntrack_ipv4] [<ffffffffa06ecaa0>] nf_conntrack_in+0x550/0x980 [nf_conntrack] [<ffffffffa06ec550>] ? __nf_conntrack_confirm+0xb10/0xb10 [nf_conntrack] [ ... ] The main reason is that we missed to unlink the timeout objects in the unconfirmed ct lists, so we will access the timeout objects that have already been freed. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Liping Zhang authored
We forget to call nf_ct_l4proto_put when replacing the existing timeout policy. Acctually, there's no need to get ct l4proto before doing replace, so we can move it to a later position. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Liping Zhang authored
cttimeout and acct objects are deleted from the list while traversing it, so use list_for_each_entry is unsafe here. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Liping Zhang authored
After I add the nft rule "nft add rule filter prerouting reject with tcp reset", kernel panic happened on my system: NULL pointer dereference at ... IP: [<ffffffff81b9db2f>] nf_send_reset+0xaf/0x400 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81b9da80>] ? nf_reject_ip_tcphdr_get+0x160/0x160 [<ffffffffa0928061>] nft_reject_ipv4_eval+0x61/0xb0 [nft_reject_ipv4] [<ffffffffa08e836a>] nft_do_chain+0x1fa/0x890 [nf_tables] [<ffffffffa08e8170>] ? __nft_trace_packet+0x170/0x170 [nf_tables] [<ffffffffa06e0900>] ? nf_ct_invert_tuple+0xb0/0xc0 [nf_conntrack] [<ffffffffa07224d4>] ? nf_nat_setup_info+0x5d4/0x650 [nf_nat] [...] Because in the PREROUTING chain, routing information is not exist, then we will dereference the NULL pointer and oops happen. So we restrict reject expression to INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chain. This is consistent with iptables REJECT target. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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- 24 Aug, 2016 8 commits
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Yotam Gigi authored
Make the function mlxsw_router_neigh_construct search the rif according to the neighbour dev other than the dev that was passed to the ndo, thus allowing creating neigbhours upon stacked devices. Fixes: 6cf3c971 ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Add private neigh table") Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ido Schimmel authored
In case we have a layer 3 interface on top of a bridge (VLAN / FID RIF), then we should flood the following packet types to the router: * Broadcast: If DIP is the broadcast address of the interface, then we need to be able to get it to CPU by trapping it following route lookup. * Reserved IP multicast (224.0.0.X): Some control packets (e.g. OSPF) use this range and are trapped in the router block. Fixes: 99f44bb3 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Enable L3 interfaces on top of bridge devices") Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Ahern authored
inet_diag_find_one_icsk takes a reference to a socket that is not released if sock_diag_destroy returns an error. Fix by changing tcp_diag_destroy to manage the refcnt for all cases and remove the sock_put calls from tcp_abort. Fixes: c1e64e29 ("net: diag: Support destroying TCP sockets") Reported-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Soheil Hassas Yeganeh authored
Instead of using sock_tx_timestamp, use skb_tx_timestamp to record software transmit timestamp of a packet. sock_tx_timestamp resets and overrides the tx_flags of the skb. The function is intended to be called from within the protocol layer when creating the skb, not from a device driver. This is inconsistent with other drivers and will cause issues for TCP. In TCP, we intend to sample the timestamps for the last byte for each sendmsg/sendpage. For that reason, tcp_sendmsg calls tcp_tx_timestamp only with the last skb that it generates. For example, if a 128KB message is split into two 64KB packets we want to sample the SND timestamp of the last packet. The current code in the tun driver, however, will result in sampling the SND timestamp for both packets. Also, when the last packet is split into smaller packets for retranmission (see tcp_fragment), the tun driver will record timestamps for all of the retransmitted packets and not only the last packet. Fixes: eda29772 (tun: Support software transmit time stamping.) Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Francis Yan <francisyyan@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
After commit ca065d0c ("udp: no longer use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU") we do not need this special allocation mode anymore, even if it is harmless. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Lance Richardson authored
The function sctp_diag_dump_one() currently performs a memcpy() of 64 bytes from a 16 byte field into another 16 byte field. Fix by using correct size, use sizeof to obtain correct size instead of using a hard-coded constant. Fixes: 8f840e47 ("sctp: add the sctp_diag.c file") Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rabin Vincent authored
We currently enable interrupts before we enable NAPI. If an RX interrupt hits before we enabled NAPI then the NAPI callback is never called and we leave the hardware with RX interrupts disabled, which of course leads us to never handling received packets. Fix this by moving the interrupt enable to after we've enable NAPI and the reclaim tasklet. Fixes: cd5e4123 ("dwc_eth_qos: do phy_start before resetting hardware") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@axis.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fabio Estevam authored
clk_prepare_enable() may fail, so we should better check its return value and propagate it in the case of failure While at it, replace __lpc_eth_clock_enable() with a plain clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare() call in order to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 23 Aug, 2016 9 commits
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Jamie Lentin authored
The PORT_RATE_CONTROL register works differently on 88e6095/6095f/6131 in comparison to 6123/61/65, and 0x0 disables. The distinction was lost Linux 4.1 --> 4.2 Signed-off-by: Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Xander Huff authored
Like the ksz8081, the ksz9031 has the behavior where it will clear the interrupt enable bits when leaving power down. This takes advantage of the solution provided by f5aba91d. Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@ni.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
When sending an ack in SYN_RECV state, we must scale the offered window if wscale option was negotiated and accepted. Tested: Following packetdrill test demonstrates the issue : 0.000 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3 +0 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 +0 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0 +0 listen(3, 1) = 0 // Establish a connection. +0 < S 0:0(0) win 20000 <mss 1000,sackOK,wscale 7, nop, TS val 100 ecr 0> +0 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1 win 28960 <mss 1460,sackOK, TS val 100 ecr 100, nop, wscale 7> +0 < . 1:11(10) ack 1 win 156 <nop,nop,TS val 99 ecr 100> // check that window is properly scaled ! +0 > . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 226 <nop,nop,TS val 200 ecr 100> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@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>
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Zefir Kurtisi authored
The current scatter-gather logic in gianfar is flawed, since it does not consider the eTSEC's RxBD 'Data Length' field is context depening: for the last fragment it contains the full frame size, while fragments contain the fragment size, which equals the value written to register MRBLR. This causes data corruption as soon as the hardware starts to fragment receiving frames. As a result, the size of fragmented frames is increased by (nr_frags - 1) * MRBLR We first noticed this issue working with DSA, where an ICMP request sized 1472 bytes causes the scatter-gather logic to kick in. The full Ethernet frame (1518) gets increased by DSA (4), GMAC_FCB_LEN (8), and FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER (priv->padding=8) to a total of 1538 octets, which is fragmented by the hardware and reconstructed by the driver to a 3074 octet frame. This patch fixes the problem by adjusting the size of the last fragment. It was tested by setting MRBLR to different multiples of 64, proving correct scatter-gather operation on frames with up to 9000 octets in size. Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Zefir Kurtisi authored
The eTSEC register MRBLR defines the maximum space in the RX buffers and is set to 1536 by gianfar. This reasonably covers the common use case where the MTU is kept at default 1500. In that case, the largest Ethernet frame size of 1518 plus an optional GMAC_FCB_LEN of 8, and an additional padding of 8 to handle FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER totals to 1534 and nicely fit within the chosen MRBLR. Alas, if the eTSEC is attached to a DSA enabled switch, the (E)DSA header extension (4 or 8 bytes) causes every maximum sized frame to be fragmented by the hardware. This patch increases the maximum RX buffer size by 8 and rounds up to the next multiple of 64, which the hardware's defines as RX buffer granularity. Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Laura tracked poll() [and friends] regression caused by commit e6afc8ac ("udp: remove headers from UDP packets before queueing") udp_poll() needs to know if there is a valid packet in receive queue, even if its payload length is 0. Change first_packet_length() to return an signed int, and use -1 as the indication of an empty queue. Fixes: e6afc8ac ("udp: remove headers from UDP packets before queueing") Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jamal Hadi Salim authored
Encoding of the metadata was using the padded length as opposed to the real length of the data which is a bug per specification. This has not been an issue todate because all metadatum specified so far has been 32 bit where aligned and data length are the same width. This also includes a bug fix for validating the length of a u16 field. But since there is no metadata of size u16 yes we are fine to include it here. While at it get rid of magic numbers. Fixes: ef6980b6 ("net sched: introduce IFE action") Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuval Mintz authored
Driver never bothered marking the VF's vport with the VF's sw_fid. As a result, FLR flows are not going to clean those vports. If the vport was active when FLRed, re-activating it would lead to a FW assertion. Fixes: dacd88d6 ("qed: IOV l2 functionality") Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Shmulik Ladkani authored
In b8247f09, "net: ip_finish_output_gso: If skb_gso_network_seglen exceeds MTU, allow segmentation for local udp tunneled skbs" gso skbs arriving from an ingress interface that go through UDP tunneling, are allowed to be fragmented if the resulting encapulated segments exceed the dst mtu of the egress interface. This aligned the behavior of gso skbs to non-gso skbs going through udp encapsulation path. However the non-gso vs gso anomaly is present also in the following cases of a GRE tunnel: - ip_gre in collect_md mode, where TUNNEL_DONT_FRAGMENT is not set (e.g. OvS vport-gre with df_default=false) - ip_gre in nopmtudisc mode, where IFLA_GRE_IGNORE_DF is set In both of the above cases, the non-gso skbs get fragmented, whereas the gso skbs (having skb_gso_network_seglen that exceeds dst mtu) get dropped, as they don't go through the segment+fragment code path. Fix: Setting IPSKB_FRAG_SEGS if the tunnel specified IP_DF bit is NOT set. Tunnels that do set IP_DF, will not go to fragmentation of segments. This preserves behavior of ip_gre in (the default) pmtudisc mode. Fixes: b8247f09 ("net: ip_finish_output_gso: If skb_gso_network_seglen exceeds MTU, allow segmentation for local udp tunneled skbs") Reported-by: wenxu <wenxu@ucloud.cn> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> Tested-by: wenxu <wenxu@ucloud.cn> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 Aug, 2016 9 commits
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Mike Manning authored
If DAD fails with accept_dad set to 2, global addresses and host routes are incorrectly left in place. Even though disable_ipv6 is set, contrary to documentation, the addresses are not dynamically deleted from the interface. It is only on a subsequent link down/up that these are removed. The fix is not only to set the disable_ipv6 flag, but also to call addrconf_ifdown(), which is the action to carry out when disabling IPv6. This results in the addresses and routes being deleted immediately. The DAD failure for the LL addr is determined as before via netlink, or by the absence of the LL addr (which also previously would have had to be checked for in case of an intervening link down and up). As the call to addrconf_ifdown() requires an rtnl lock, the logic to disable IPv6 when DAD fails is moved to addrconf_dad_work(). Previous behavior: root@vm1:/# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth3.accept_dad=2 net.ipv6.conf.eth3.accept_dad = 2 root@vm1:/# ip -6 addr add 2000::10/64 dev eth3 root@vm1:/# ip link set up eth3 root@vm1:/# ip -6 addr show dev eth3 5: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000 inet6 2000::10/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe43:dd5a/64 scope link tentative dadfailed valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever root@vm1:/# ip -6 route show dev eth3 2000::/64 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 proto kernel metric 256 root@vm1:/# ip link set down eth3 root@vm1:/# ip link set up eth3 root@vm1:/# ip -6 addr show dev eth3 root@vm1:/# ip -6 route show dev eth3 root@vm1:/# New behavior: root@vm1:/# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth3.accept_dad=2 net.ipv6.conf.eth3.accept_dad = 2 root@vm1:/# ip -6 addr add 2000::10/64 dev eth3 root@vm1:/# ip link set up eth3 root@vm1:/# ip -6 addr show dev eth3 root@vm1:/# ip -6 route show dev eth3 root@vm1:/# Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes these compiler warnings via libc-compat.h when glibc netipx/ipx.h is included before linux/ipx.h: ./linux/ipx.h:9:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct sockaddr_ipx’ ./linux/ipx.h:26:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_route_definition’ ./linux/ipx.h:32:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_interface_definition’ ./linux/ipx.h:49:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_config_data’ ./linux/ipx.h:58:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_route_def’ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Kernel uapi header are supposed to use them. Fixes userspace compile error: linux/openvswitch.h:583:2: error: unknown type name ‘uint32_t’ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compile error: error: field ‘real’ has incomplete type struct timeval real; /* real (wall-clock) time */ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compiler error: error: unknown type name ‘uint32_t’ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compilation errors: error: field ‘addr’ has incomplete type struct sockaddr_in addr; /* IP address and port to send to */ error: field ‘addr’ has incomplete type struct sockaddr_in6 addr; /* IP address and port to send to */ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compilation errors like: error: field ‘addr’ has incomplete type struct sockaddr_in addr; /* IP address and port to send to */ ^ error: field ‘addr’ has incomplete type struct sockaddr_in6 addr; /* IP address and port to send to */ Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compilation errors like: error: field ‘iph’ has incomplete type error: field ‘prefix’ has incomplete type Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mikko Rapeli authored
Fixes userspace compilation error: error: ‘IFNAMSIZ’ undeclared here (not in a function) Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 21 Aug, 2016 2 commits
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Colin Ian King authored
trivial typo fix in pr_err message Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Romell authored
If the address configured in the device tree is invalid, the driver will fallback to using a random address from the locally administered range. Signed-off-by: Daniel Romell <daro@hms.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 20 Aug, 2016 5 commits
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Shrikrishna Khare authored
'Commit 3c8b3efc ("vmxnet3: allow variable length transmit data ring buffer")' changed the size of the buffers in the tx data ring from a fixed size of 128 bytes to a variable size. However, while copying data to the data ring, vmxnet3_copy_hdr continues to carry the old code that assumes fixed buffer size of 128. This patch fixes it by adding correct offset based on the actual data ring buffer size. Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexander Duyck authored
The RAR entry for the SAN MAC address was being cleared when we were clearing the VMDq pool bits. In order to prevent this we need to add an extra check to protect the SAN MAC from being cleared. Fixes: 6e982aea ("ixgbe: Clear stale pool mappings") Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jiri Pirko authored
Pool index has to be converted by get_pool helper to work correctly for egress pool. In mlxsw the egress pool index starts from 0. Fixes: 0f433fa0 ("mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Implement shared buffer configuration") Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gao Feng authored
The sk->sk_state is bits flag, so need use bit operation check instead of value check. Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com> Tested-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Marcelo Ricardo Leitner authored
Because otherwise when crc computation is still needed it's way more expensive than on a linear buffer to the point that it affects performance. It's so expensive that netperf test gives a perf output as below: Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol 18,62% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] crc32_generic_shift 2,57% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __pskb_pull_tail 1,94% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] fib_table_lookup 1,90% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string 1,66% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle 1,63% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock 1,59% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_packet_transmit 1,55% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] memcpy_erms 1,42% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_rcv # netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000 SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB 212992 212992 12000 10.00 3016.42 2.88 3.78 1.874 2.462 After patch: Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol 2,75% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] memcpy_erms 2,63% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string 2,39% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] fib_table_lookup 2,04% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __pskb_pull_tail 1,91% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock 1,91% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_packet_transmit 1,72% netserver [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq 1,68% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_rcv # netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000 SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB 212992 212992 12000 10.00 3681.77 3.83 3.46 2.045 1.849 Fixes: 3acb50c1 ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize") Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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