linux-toradex.git/net/bridge, branch v2.6.32

bridge: prevent bridging wrong device

2009-11-06T04:46:52+00:00

The bridge code assumes ethernet addressing, so be more strict in
the what is allowed. This showed up when GRE had a bug and was not
using correct address format.

Add some more comments for increased clarity.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bridge: Fix double-free in br_add_if.

2009-09-28T19:54:25+00:00

There is a potential double-kfree in net/bridge/br_if.c.  If br_fdb_insert
fails, then the kobject is put back (which calls kfree due to the kobject
release), and then kfree is called again on the net_bridge_port.  This
patch fixes the crash.

Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for the one-line fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler

2009-09-24T14:21:04+00:00

It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices

2009-09-11T19:54:55+00:00

The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6

2009-09-11T01:17:09+00:00

netfilter: ebt_ulog: fix checkentry return value

2009-09-01T12:34:01+00:00

Commit 19eda87 (netfilter: change return types of check functions for
Ebtables extensions) broke the ebtables ulog module by missing a return
value conversion.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t

2009-09-01T08:13:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: bridge: refcount fix

2009-08-24T17:35:38+00:00

commit f216f082b2b37c4943f1e7c393e2786648d48f6f
([NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly)
added a refcount leak on in_dev.

Instead of using in_dev_get(), we can use __in_dev_get_rcu(),
as netfilter hooks are running under rcu_read_lock(), as pointed
by Patrick.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

netfilter: xtables: mark initial tables constant

2009-08-24T12:56:30+00:00

The inputted table is never modified, so should be considered const.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

net/bridge: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode

2009-08-13T23:26:11+00:00

This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port the frame was received on.

Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual
Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities.

You can find additional information on VEPA here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/evb/
http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2009/new-hudson-vepa_seminar-20090514d.pdf
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2009jul/20090719-congdon.pdf

An additional patch 'bridge-utils: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode'
is provided to allow configuring hairpin mode from userspace tools.

Signed-off-by: Paul Congdon 
Signed-off-by: Anna Fischer 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller