linux-toradex.git/include/linux/skbuff.h, branch T20_LinuxImageV2.0Beta1_20121218

net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps

2011-11-11T17:43:08+00:00

commit da92b194cc36b5dc1fbd85206aeeffd80bee0c39 upstream.

The pair of functions,

 * skb_clone_tx_timestamp()
 * skb_complete_tx_timestamp()

were designed to allow timestamping in PHY devices. The first
function, called during the MAC driver's hard_xmit method, identifies
PTP protocol packets, clones them, and gives them to the PHY device
driver. The PHY driver may hold onto the packet and deliver it at a
later time using the second function, which adds the packet to the
socket's error queue.

As pointed out by Johannes, nothing prevents the socket from
disappearing while the cloned packet is sitting in the PHY driver
awaiting a timestamp. This patch fixes the issue by taking a reference
on the socket for each such packet. In addition, the comments
regarding the usage of these function are expanded to highlight the
rule that PHY drivers must use skb_complete_tx_timestamp() to release
the packet, in order to release the socket reference, too.

These functions first appeared in v2.6.36.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: copy userspace buffers on device forwarding

2011-09-15T18:49:44+00:00

dev_forward_skb loops an skb back into host networking
stack which might hang on the memory indefinitely.
In particular, this can happen in macvtap in bridged mode.
Copy the userspace fragments to avoid blocking the
sender in that case.

As this patch makes skb_copy_ubufs extern now,
I also added some documentation and made it clear
the SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY flag automatically instead
of doing it in all callers. This can be made into a separate
patch if people feel it's worth it.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: introduce __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align

2011-07-12T03:08:34+00:00

RX rings should use GFP_KERNEL allocations if possible, add
__netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper to ease this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

skbuff: update struct sk_buff members comments

2011-07-10T14:04:04+00:00

Rearrange struct sk_buff members comments to follow their
definition order. Also, add missing comments for ooo_okay
and dropcount members.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

skbuff: skb supports zero-copy buffers

2011-07-07T11:41:13+00:00

This patch adds userspace buffers support in skb shared info. A new
struct skb_ubuf_info is needed to maintain the userspace buffers
argument and index, a callback is used to notify userspace to release
the buffers once lower device has done DMA (Last reference to that skb
has gone).

If there is any userspace apps to reference these userspace buffers,
then these userspaces buffers will be copied into kernel. This way we
can prevent userspace apps from holding these userspace buffers too long.

Use destructor_arg to point to the userspace buffer info; a new tx flags
SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY is added for zero-copy buffer check.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2011-06-21T05:29:08+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
	net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c

net: correct comment on where to place transmit time stamp hook.

2011-06-19T23:35:30+00:00

The comment for the skb_tx_timestamp() function suggests calling it just
after a buffer is released to the hardware for transmission. However,
for drivers that free the buffer in an ISR, this produces a race between
the time stamp code and the ISR. This commit changes the comment to advise
placing the call just before handing the buffer over to the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check

2011-06-11T23:15:50+00:00

Testing of VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR does not belong in vlan_untag
but rather in vlan_do_receive.  Otherwise the vlan header
will not be properly put on the packet in the case of
vlan header accelleration.

As we remove the check from vlan_check_reorder_header
rename it vlan_reorder_header to keep the naming clean.

Fix up the skb->pkt_type early so we don't look at the packet
after adding the vlan tag, which guarantees we don't goof
and look at the wrong field.

Use a simple if statement instead of a complicated switch
statement to decided that we need to increment rx_stats
for a multicast packet.

Hopefully at somepoint we will just declare the case where
VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR is cleared as unsupported and remove
the code.  Until then this keeps it working correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Acked-by: Changli Gao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2011-05-23T15:39:24+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  bnx2x: allow device properly initialize after hotplug
  bnx2x: fix DMAE timeout according to hw specifications
  bnx2x: properly handle CFC DEL in cnic flow
  bnx2x: call dev_kfree_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb
  net: filter: move forward declarations to avoid compile warnings
  pktgen: refactor pg_init() code
  pktgen: use vzalloc_node() instead of vmalloc_node() + memset()
  net: skb_trim explicitely check the linearity instead of data_len
  ipv4: Give backtrace in ip_rt_bug().
  net: avoid synchronize_rcu() in dev_deactivate_many
  net: remove synchronize_net() from netdev_set_master()
  rtnetlink: ignore NETDEV_RELEASE and NETDEV_JOIN event
  net: rename NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE to NETDEV_RELEASE
  bridge: call NETDEV_JOIN notifiers when add a slave
  netpoll: disable netpoll when enslave a device
  macvlan: Forward unicast frames in bridge mode to lowerdev
  net: Remove linux/prefetch.h include from linux/skbuff.h
  ipv4: Include linux/prefetch.h in fib_trie.c
  netlabel: Remove prefetches from list handlers.
  drivers/net: add prefetch header for prefetch users
  ...

Fixed up prefetch parts: removed a few duplicate prefetch.h includes,
fixed the location of the igb prefetch.h, took my version of the
skbuff.h code without the extra parentheses etc.