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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Fix IFB net driver input device crashes</title>
<updated>2007-04-13T20:47:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
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<published>2007-04-10T20:29:44+00:00</published>
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[IFB]: Fix crash on input device removal

The input_device pointer is not refcounted, which means the device may
disappear while packets are queued, causing a crash when ifb passes packets
with a stale skb-&gt;dev pointer to netif_rx().

Fix by storing the interface index instead and do a lookup where neccessary.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[IFB]: Fix crash on input device removal

The input_device pointer is not refcounted, which means the device may
disappear while packets are queued, causing a crash when ifb passes packets
with a stale skb-&gt;dev pointer to netif_rx().

Fix by storing the interface index instead and do a lookup where neccessary.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>NET: Fix FIB rules compatability</title>
<updated>2007-04-06T10:43:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-29T19:34:13+00:00</published>
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[NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage

Based upon a patch from Patrick McHardy.

The fib_rules netlink attribute policy introduced in 2.6.19 broke
userspace compatibilty. When specifying a rule with "from all"
or "to all", iproute adds a zero byte long netlink attribute,
but the policy requires all addresses to have a size equal to
sizeof(struct in_addr)/sizeof(struct in6_addr), resulting in a
validation error.

Check attribute length of FRA_SRC/FRA_DST in the generic framework
by letting the family specific rules implementation provide the
length of an address. Report an error if address length is non
zero but no address attribute is provided. Fix actual bug by
checking address length for non-zero instead of relying on
availability of attribute.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage

Based upon a patch from Patrick McHardy.

The fib_rules netlink attribute policy introduced in 2.6.19 broke
userspace compatibilty. When specifying a rule with "from all"
or "to all", iproute adds a zero byte long netlink attribute,
but the policy requires all addresses to have a size equal to
sizeof(struct in_addr)/sizeof(struct in6_addr), resulting in a
validation error.

Check attribute length of FRA_SRC/FRA_DST in the generic framework
by letting the family specific rules implementation provide the
length of an address. Report an error if address length is non
zero but no address attribute is provided. Fix actual bug by
checking address length for non-zero instead of relying on
availability of attribute.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>IPV6: Fix ipv6 round-robin locking.</title>
<updated>2007-04-06T10:43:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-27T01:56:59+00:00</published>
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[IPV6]: Fix routing round-robin locking.

As per RFC2461, section 6.3.6, item #2, when no routers on the
matching list are known to be reachable or probably reachable we
do round robin on those available routes so that we make sure
to probe as many of them as possible to detect when one becomes
reachable faster.

Each routing table has a rwlock protecting the tree and the linked
list of routes at each leaf.  The round robin code executes during
lookup and thus with the rwlock taken as a reader.  A small local
spinlock tries to provide protection but this does not work at all
for two reasons:

1) The round-robin list manipulation, as coded, goes like this (with
   read lock held):

	walk routes finding head and tail

	spin_lock();
	rotate list using head and tail
	spin_unlock();

   While one thread is rotating the list, another thread can
   end up with stale values of head and tail and then proceed
   to corrupt the list when it gets the lock.  This ends up causing
   the OOPS in fib6_add() later onthat many people have been hitting.

2) All the other code paths that run with the rwlock held as
   a reader do not expect the list to change on them, they
   expect it to remain completely fixed while they hold the
   lock in that way.

So, simply stated, it is impossible to implement this correctly using
a manipulation of the list without violating the rwlock locking
semantics.

Reimplement using a per-fib6_node round-robin pointer.  This way we
don't need to manipulate the list at all, and since the round-robin
pointer can only ever point to real existing entries we don't need
to perform any locking on the changing of the round-robin pointer
itself.  We only need to reset the round-robin pointer to NULL when
the entry it is pointing to is removed.

The idea is from Thomas Graf and it is very similar to how this
was implemented before the advanced router selection code when in.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;

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[IPV6]: Fix routing round-robin locking.

As per RFC2461, section 6.3.6, item #2, when no routers on the
matching list are known to be reachable or probably reachable we
do round robin on those available routes so that we make sure
to probe as many of them as possible to detect when one becomes
reachable faster.

Each routing table has a rwlock protecting the tree and the linked
list of routes at each leaf.  The round robin code executes during
lookup and thus with the rwlock taken as a reader.  A small local
spinlock tries to provide protection but this does not work at all
for two reasons:

1) The round-robin list manipulation, as coded, goes like this (with
   read lock held):

	walk routes finding head and tail

	spin_lock();
	rotate list using head and tail
	spin_unlock();

   While one thread is rotating the list, another thread can
   end up with stale values of head and tail and then proceed
   to corrupt the list when it gets the lock.  This ends up causing
   the OOPS in fib6_add() later onthat many people have been hitting.

2) All the other code paths that run with the rwlock held as
   a reader do not expect the list to change on them, they
   expect it to remain completely fixed while they hold the
   lock in that way.

So, simply stated, it is impossible to implement this correctly using
a manipulation of the list without violating the rwlock locking
semantics.

Reimplement using a per-fib6_node round-robin pointer.  This way we
don't need to manipulate the list at all, and since the round-robin
pointer can only ever point to real existing entries we don't need
to perform any locking on the changing of the round-robin pointer
itself.  We only need to reset the round-robin pointer to NULL when
the entry it is pointing to is removed.

The idea is from Thomas Graf and it is very similar to how this
was implemented before the advanced router selection code when in.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Fix timewait jiffies</title>
<updated>2007-03-13T18:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-08T02:48:44+00:00</published>
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[INET]: twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[INET]: twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>conntrack: fix {nf, ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops</title>
<updated>2007-03-13T18:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-07T21:34:27+00:00</published>
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[NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops

Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling:

- unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on
  confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means
  we might iterate forever without making forward progress.

  This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which
  holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when
  the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different
  packet is handled.

- taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the
  locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and
  another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry

What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash
table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be
destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped.

Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark
them as dying and skip confirmation based on that.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops

Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling:

- unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on
  confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means
  we might iterate forever without making forward progress.

  This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which
  holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when
  the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different
  packet is handled.

- taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the
  locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and
  another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry

What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash
table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be
destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped.

Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark
them as dying and skip confirmation based on that.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>[TCP]: Restore SKB socket owner setting in tcp_transmit_skb().</title>
<updated>2007-01-26T09:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@sunset.davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-26T09:04:55+00:00</published>
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Revert 931731123a103cfb3f70ac4b7abfc71d94ba1f03

We can't elide the skb_set_owner_w() here because things like certain
netfilter targets (such as owner MATCH) need a socket to be set on the
SKB for correct operation.

Thanks to Jan Engelhardt and other netfilter list members for
pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Revert 931731123a103cfb3f70ac4b7abfc71d94ba1f03

We can't elide the skb_set_owner_w() here because things like certain
netfilter targets (such as owner MATCH) need a socket to be set on the
SKB for correct operation.

Thanks to Jan Engelhardt and other netfilter list members for
pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SCTP]: Correctly handle unexpected INIT-ACK chunk.</title>
<updated>2007-01-24T04:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vladislav.yasevich@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-16T03:18:30+00:00</published>
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Consider the chunk as Out-of-the-Blue if we don't have
an endpoint.  Otherwise discard it as before.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala &lt;sri@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Consider the chunk as Out-of-the-Blue if we don't have
an endpoint.  Otherwise discard it as before.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala &lt;sri@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETFILTER]: fix xt_state compile failure</title>
<updated>2007-01-24T04:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikael Pettersson</name>
<email>mikpe@it.uu.se</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-16T01:17:31+00:00</published>
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In file included from net/netfilter/xt_state.c:13:
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h: In function 'nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_get':
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: 'PF_INET' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: for each function it appears in.)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:71: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
make[2]: *** [net/netfilter/xt_state.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2

A simple fix is to have nf_conntrack_compat.h #include &lt;linux/socket.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In file included from net/netfilter/xt_state.c:13:
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h: In function 'nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_get':
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: 'PF_INET' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:70: error: for each function it appears in.)
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_compat.h:71: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
make[2]: *** [net/netfilter/xt_state.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2

A simple fix is to have nf_conntrack_compat.h #include &lt;linux/socket.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes</title>
<updated>2007-01-08T03:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-08T03:44:56+00:00</published>
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<title>[TCP]: Use old definition of before</title>
<updated>2007-01-04T20:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-04T20:25:16+00:00</published>
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This reverts the new (unambiguous) definition of the TCP `before'
relation. As pointed out in an example by Herbert Xu, there is 
existing code which implicitly requires the old definition in order
to work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This reverts the new (unambiguous) definition of the TCP `before'
relation. As pointed out in an example by Herbert Xu, there is 
existing code which implicitly requires the old definition in order
to work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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