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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T21:36:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>tom@herbertland.com</email>
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<published>2016-03-07T22:11:06+00:00</published>
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This module implements the Kernel Connection Multiplexor.

Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) is a facility that provides a
message based interface over TCP for generic application protocols.
With KCM an application can efficiently send and receive application
protocol messages over TCP using datagram sockets.

For more information see the included Documentation/networking/kcm.txt

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This module implements the Kernel Connection Multiplexor.

Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) is a facility that provides a
message based interface over TCP for generic application protocols.
With KCM an application can efficiently send and receive application
protocol messages over TCP using datagram sockets.

For more information see the included Documentation/networking/kcm.txt

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add MSG_BATCH flag</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T21:36:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>tom@herbertland.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-07T22:11:03+00:00</published>
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Add a new msg flag called MSG_BATCH. This flag is used in sendmsg to
indicate that more messages will follow (i.e. a batch of messages is
being sent). This is similar to MSG_MORE except that the following
messages are not merged into one packet, they are sent individually.
sendmmsg is updated so that each contained message except for the
last one is marked as MSG_BATCH.

MSG_BATCH is a performance optimization in cases where a socket
implementation can benefit by transmitting packets in a batch.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a new msg flag called MSG_BATCH. This flag is used in sendmsg to
indicate that more messages will follow (i.e. a batch of messages is
being sent). This is similar to MSG_MORE except that the following
messages are not merged into one packet, they are sent individually.
sendmmsg is updated so that each contained message except for the
last one is marked as MSG_BATCH.

MSG_BATCH is a performance optimization in cases where a socket
implementation can benefit by transmitting packets in a batch.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: msg_data_left()</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T19:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-16T02:39:31+00:00</published>
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convert open-coded instances

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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convert open-coded instances

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: socket: add support for async operations</title>
<updated>2015-03-23T20:41:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>tadeusz.struk@intel.com</name>
<email>tadeusz.struk@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T19:31:25+00:00</published>
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Add support for async operations.

Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add support for async operations.

Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mpls: Basic routing support</title>
<updated>2015-03-04T05:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-04T01:10:47+00:00</published>
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This change adds a new Kconfig option MPLS_ROUTING.

The core of this change is the code to look at an mpls packet received
from another machine.  Look that packet up in a routing table and
forward the packet on.

Support of MPLS over ATM is not considered or attempted here.  This
implemntation follows RFC3032 and implements the MPLS shim header that
can pass over essentially any network.

What RFC3021 refers to as the as the Incoming Label Map (ILM) I call
net-&gt;mpls.platform_label[].  What RFC3031 refers to as the Next Label
Hop Forwarding Entry (NHLFE) I call mpls_route.  Though calling it the
label fordwarding information base (lfib) might also be valid.

Further the implemntation forwards packets as described in RFC3032.
There is no need and given the original motivation for MPLS a strong
discincentive to have a flexible label forwarding path.  In essence
the logic is the topmost label is read, looked up, removed, and
replaced by 0 or more new lables and the sent out the specified
interface to it's next hop.

Quite a few optional features are not implemented here.  Among them
are generation of ICMP errors when the TTL is exceeded or the packet
is larger than the next hop MTU (those conditions are detected and the
packets are dropped instead of generating an icmp error).  The traffic
class field is always set to 0.  The implementation focuses on IP over
MPLS and does not handle egress of other kinds of protocols.

Instead of implementing coordination with the neighbour table and
sorting out how to input next hops in a different address family (for
which there is value).  I was lazy and implemented a next hop mac
address instead.  The code is simpler and there are flavor of MPLS
such as MPLS-TP where neither an IPv4 nor an IPv6 next hop is
appropriate so a next hop by mac address would need to be implemented
at some point.

Two new definitions AF_MPLS and PF_MPLS are exposed to userspace.

Decoding the mpls header must be done by first byeswapping a 32bit bit
endian word into the local cpu endian and then bit shifting to extract
the pieces.  There is no C bit-field that can represent a wire format
mpls header on a little endian machine as the low bits of the 20bit
label wind up in the wrong half of third byte.  Therefore internally
everything is deal with in cpu native byte order except when writing
to and reading from a packet.

For management simplicity if a label is configured to forward out
an interface that is down the packet is dropped early.  Similarly
if an network interface is removed rt_dev is updated to NULL
(so no reference is preserved) and any packets for that label
are dropped.  Keeping the label entries in the kernel allows
the kernel label table to function as the definitive source
of which labels are allocated and which are not.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This change adds a new Kconfig option MPLS_ROUTING.

The core of this change is the code to look at an mpls packet received
from another machine.  Look that packet up in a routing table and
forward the packet on.

Support of MPLS over ATM is not considered or attempted here.  This
implemntation follows RFC3032 and implements the MPLS shim header that
can pass over essentially any network.

What RFC3021 refers to as the as the Incoming Label Map (ILM) I call
net-&gt;mpls.platform_label[].  What RFC3031 refers to as the Next Label
Hop Forwarding Entry (NHLFE) I call mpls_route.  Though calling it the
label fordwarding information base (lfib) might also be valid.

Further the implemntation forwards packets as described in RFC3032.
There is no need and given the original motivation for MPLS a strong
discincentive to have a flexible label forwarding path.  In essence
the logic is the topmost label is read, looked up, removed, and
replaced by 0 or more new lables and the sent out the specified
interface to it's next hop.

Quite a few optional features are not implemented here.  Among them
are generation of ICMP errors when the TTL is exceeded or the packet
is larger than the next hop MTU (those conditions are detected and the
packets are dropped instead of generating an icmp error).  The traffic
class field is always set to 0.  The implementation focuses on IP over
MPLS and does not handle egress of other kinds of protocols.

Instead of implementing coordination with the neighbour table and
sorting out how to input next hops in a different address family (for
which there is value).  I was lazy and implemented a next hop mac
address instead.  The code is simpler and there are flavor of MPLS
such as MPLS-TP where neither an IPv4 nor an IPv6 next hop is
appropriate so a next hop by mac address would need to be implemented
at some point.

Two new definitions AF_MPLS and PF_MPLS are exposed to userspace.

Decoding the mpls header must be done by first byeswapping a 32bit bit
endian word into the local cpu endian and then bit shifting to extract
the pieces.  There is no C bit-field that can represent a wire format
mpls header on a little endian machine as the low bits of the 20bit
label wind up in the wrong half of third byte.  Therefore internally
everything is deal with in cpu native byte order except when writing
to and reading from a packet.

For management simplicity if a label is configured to forward out
an interface that is down the packet is dropped early.  Similarly
if an network interface is removed rt_dev is updated to NULL
(so no reference is preserved) and any packets for that label
are dropped.  Keeping the label entries in the kernel allows
the kernel label table to function as the definitive source
of which labels are allocated and which are not.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bury net/core/iovec.c - nothing in there is used anymore</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T06:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-28T20:53:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T03:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gu Zheng</name>
<email>guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T03:22:04+00:00</published>
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Introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr as a wrapper of the enumerating
cmsghdr from msghdr, just cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr as a wrapper of the enumerating
cmsghdr from msghdr, just cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>put iov_iter into msghdr</title>
<updated>2014-12-09T21:29:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T15:42:55+00:00</published>
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Note that the code _using_ -&gt;msg_iter at that point will be very
unhappy with anything other than unshifted iovec-backed iov_iter.
We still need to convert users to proper primitives.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Note that the code _using_ -&gt;msg_iter at that point will be very
unhappy with anything other than unshifted iovec-backed iov_iter.
We still need to convert users to proper primitives.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fold verify_iovec() into copy_msghdr_from_user()</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T21:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-11T01:23:13+00:00</published>
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... and do the same on the compat side of things.

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... and do the same on the compat side of things.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>separate kernel- and userland-side msghdr</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T21:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-06T18:03:05+00:00</published>
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Kernel-side struct msghdr is (currently) using the same layout as
userland one, but it's not a one-to-one copy - even without considering
32bit compat issues, we have msg_iov, msg_name and msg_control copied
to kernel[1].  It's fairly localized, so we get away with a few functions
where that knowledge is needed (and we could shrink that set even
more).  Pretty much everything deals with the kernel-side variant and
the few places that want userland one just use a bunch of force-casts
to paper over the differences.

The thing is, kernel-side definition of struct msghdr is *not* exposed
in include/uapi - libc doesn't see it, etc.  So we can add struct user_msghdr,
with proper annotations and let the few places that ever deal with those
beasts use it for userland pointers.  Saner typechecking aside, that will
allow to change the layout of kernel-side msghdr - e.g. replace
msg_iov/msg_iovlen there with struct iov_iter, getting rid of the need
to modify the iovec as we copy data to/from it, etc.

We could introduce kernel_msghdr instead, but that would create much more
noise - the absolute majority of the instances would need to have the
type switched to kernel_msghdr and definition of struct msghdr in
include/linux/socket.h is not going to be seen by userland anyway.

This commit just introduces user_msghdr and switches the few places that
are dealing with userland-side msghdr to it.

[1] actually, it's even trickier than that - we copy msg_control for
sendmsg, but keep the userland address on recvmsg.

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Kernel-side struct msghdr is (currently) using the same layout as
userland one, but it's not a one-to-one copy - even without considering
32bit compat issues, we have msg_iov, msg_name and msg_control copied
to kernel[1].  It's fairly localized, so we get away with a few functions
where that knowledge is needed (and we could shrink that set even
more).  Pretty much everything deals with the kernel-side variant and
the few places that want userland one just use a bunch of force-casts
to paper over the differences.

The thing is, kernel-side definition of struct msghdr is *not* exposed
in include/uapi - libc doesn't see it, etc.  So we can add struct user_msghdr,
with proper annotations and let the few places that ever deal with those
beasts use it for userland pointers.  Saner typechecking aside, that will
allow to change the layout of kernel-side msghdr - e.g. replace
msg_iov/msg_iovlen there with struct iov_iter, getting rid of the need
to modify the iovec as we copy data to/from it, etc.

We could introduce kernel_msghdr instead, but that would create much more
noise - the absolute majority of the instances would need to have the
type switched to kernel_msghdr and definition of struct msghdr in
include/linux/socket.h is not going to be seen by userland anyway.

This commit just introduces user_msghdr and switches the few places that
are dealing with userland-side msghdr to it.

[1] actually, it's even trickier than that - we copy msg_control for
sendmsg, but keep the userland address on recvmsg.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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