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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-03-17T20:12:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2009-03-17T20:12:47+00:00</published>
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<title>netfilter: conntrack: don't deliver events for racy packets</title>
<updated>2009-03-16T14:06:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
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<published>2009-03-16T14:06:42+00:00</published>
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This patch skips the delivery of conntrack events if the packet
was drop due to a race condition in the conntrack insertion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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This patch skips the delivery of conntrack events if the packet
was drop due to a race condition in the conntrack insertion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<title>netns: Remove net_alive</title>
<updated>2009-03-03T09:14:27+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@aristanetworks.com</email>
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<published>2009-02-22T08:11:09+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;ebiederm@aristanetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;ebiederm@aristanetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't try to deliver events for untracked connections</title>
<updated>2009-02-18T14:30:34+00:00</updated>
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<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
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<published>2009-02-18T14:30:34+00:00</published>
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The untracked conntrack actually does usually have events marked for
delivery as its not special-cased in that part of the code. Skip the
actual delivery since it impacts performance noticeably.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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The untracked conntrack actually does usually have events marked for
delivery as its not special-cased in that part of the code. Skip the
actual delivery since it impacts performance noticeably.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<title>net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.</title>
<updated>2009-02-18T05:24:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2009-02-18T05:24:05+00:00</published>
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A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb-&gt;truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.

skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.

However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb-&gt;truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.

skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.

However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: don't use in_atomic() in gfp_any()</title>
<updated>2009-02-13T00:43:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-02-13T00:43:17+00:00</published>
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The problem is that in_atomic() will return false inside spinlocks if
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.  This will lead to deadlockable GFP_KERNEL allocations
from spinlocked regions.

Secondly, if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, this bug solves itself because networking
will instead use GFP_ATOMIC from this callsite.  Hence we won't get the
might_sleep() debugging warnings which would have informed us of the buggy
callsites.

Solve both these problems by switching to in_interrupt().  Now, if someone
runs a gfp_any() allocation from inside spinlock we will get the warning
if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.

I reviewed all callsites and most of them were too complex for my little
brain and none of them documented their interface requirements.  I have no
idea what this patch will do.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The problem is that in_atomic() will return false inside spinlocks if
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.  This will lead to deadlockable GFP_KERNEL allocations
from spinlocked regions.

Secondly, if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, this bug solves itself because networking
will instead use GFP_ATOMIC from this callsite.  Hence we won't get the
might_sleep() debugging warnings which would have informed us of the buggy
callsites.

Solve both these problems by switching to in_interrupt().  Now, if someone
runs a gfp_any() allocation from inside spinlock we will get the warning
if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.

I reviewed all callsites and most of them were too complex for my little
brain and none of them documented their interface requirements.  I have no
idea what this patch will do.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: wrong test in inet_ehash_locks_alloc()</title>
<updated>2009-01-28T01:45:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-28T01:45:10+00:00</published>
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In commit 9db66bdcc83749affe61c61eb8ff3cf08f42afec (net: convert
TCP/DCCP ehash rwlocks to spinlocks), I forgot to change one
occurrence of rwlock_t to spinlock_t

I believe sizeof(raw_spinlock_t) might be &gt; 0 on !CONFIG_SMP if
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK while sizeof(raw_rwlock_t) should be 0 in this
case.

Fortunatly, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK adds fields to both spinlock_t and
rwlock_t, but at this might change in the future (being able to debug
spinlocks but not rwlocks for example), better to be safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In commit 9db66bdcc83749affe61c61eb8ff3cf08f42afec (net: convert
TCP/DCCP ehash rwlocks to spinlocks), I forgot to change one
occurrence of rwlock_t to spinlock_t

I believe sizeof(raw_spinlock_t) might be &gt; 0 on !CONFIG_SMP if
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK while sizeof(raw_rwlock_t) should be 0 in this
case.

Fortunatly, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK adds fields to both spinlock_t and
rwlock_t, but at this might change in the future (being able to debug
spinlocks but not rwlocks for example), better to be safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sctp: Fix crc32c calculations on big-endian arhes.</title>
<updated>2009-01-22T22:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vladislav.yasevich@hp.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-22T22:52:23+00:00</published>
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crc32c algorithm provides a byteswaped result.  On little-endian
arches, the result ends up in big-endian/network byte order.
On big-endinan arches, the result ends up in little-endian
order and needs to be byte swapped again.  Thus calling cpu_to_le32
gives the right output.

Tested-by: Jukka Taimisto &lt;jukka.taimisto@mail.suomi.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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crc32c algorithm provides a byteswaped result.  On little-endian
arches, the result ends up in big-endian/network byte order.
On big-endinan arches, the result ends up in little-endian
order and needs to be byte swapped again.  Thus calling cpu_to_le32
gives the right output.

Tested-by: Jukka Taimisto &lt;jukka.taimisto@mail.suomi.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vladislav.yasevich@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>mac80211: more kernel-doc fixes</title>
<updated>2009-01-16T22:08:23+00:00</updated>
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<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-09T23:25:09+00:00</published>
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Fix (delete) more mac80211 kernel-doc:

Warning(linux-2.6.28-git13//include/net/mac80211.h:375): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'retry_count' description in 'ieee80211_tx_info'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git13//net/mac80211/sta_info.h:308): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'last_txrate' description in 'sta_info'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Fix (delete) more mac80211 kernel-doc:

Warning(linux-2.6.28-git13//include/net/mac80211.h:375): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'retry_count' description in 'ieee80211_tx_info'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git13//net/mac80211/sta_info.h:308): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'last_txrate' description in 'sta_info'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>wimax: fix typo in kernel-doc for debugfs_dentry in struct wimax_dev</title>
<updated>2009-01-11T08:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Inaky Perez-Gonzalez</name>
<email>inaky@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-09T07:34:00+00:00</published>
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The kernel-doc was referring to member @debufs_dentry instead of
@debugfs_dentry.

Reported by Randy Dunlap http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=123147942302885&amp;w=2

As well, escape the colon in the field's text description, as it is
causing the generated text to be erraticly broken up (with paragraphs
moved down). Could not find a reason why it is happening so, even when
other field descriptions use colons and work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The kernel-doc was referring to member @debufs_dentry instead of
@debugfs_dentry.

Reported by Randy Dunlap http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=123147942302885&amp;w=2

As well, escape the colon in the field's text description, as it is
causing the generated text to be erraticly broken up (with paragraphs
moved down). Could not find a reason why it is happening so, even when
other field descriptions use colons and work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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