linux-toradex.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.10.24

net: core: Always propagate flag changes to interfaces

2013-12-08T15:29:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit d2615bf450694c1302d86b9cc8a8958edfe4c3a4 ]

The following commit:
    b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7
    net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP

tried to fix a problem with VLAN devices and promiscuouse flag setting.
The issue was that VLAN device was setting a flag on an interface that
was down, thus resulting in bad promiscuity count.
This commit blocked flag propagation to any device that is currently
down.

A later commit:
    deede2fabe24e00bd7e246eb81cd5767dc6fcfc7
    vlan: Don't propagate flag changes on down interfaces

fixed VLAN code to only propagate flags when the VLAN interface is up,
thus fixing the same issue as above, only localized to VLAN.

The problem we have now is that if we have create a complex stack
involving multiple software devices like bridges, bonds, and vlans,
then it is possible that the flags would not propagate properly to
the physical devices.  A simple examle of the scenario is the
following:

  eth0----> bond0 ----> bridge0 ---> vlan50

If bond0 or eth0 happen to be down at the time bond0 is added to
the bridge, then eth0 will never have promisc mode set which is
currently required for operation as part of the bridge.  As a
result, packets with vlan50 will be dropped by the interface.

The only 2 devices that implement the special flag handling are
VLAN and DSA and they both have required code to prevent incorrect
flag propagation.  As a result we can remove the generic solution
introduced in b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7 and leave
it to the individual devices to decide whether they will block
flag propagation or not.

Reported-by: Stefan Priebe 
Suggested-by: Veaceslav Falico 
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vlan: mask vlan prio bits

2013-07-28T23:30:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit d4b812dea4a236f729526facf97df1a9d18e191c ]

In commit 48cc32d38a52d0b68f91a171a8d00531edc6a46e
("vlan: don't deliver frames for unknown vlans to protocols")
Florian made sure we set pkt_type to PACKET_OTHERHOST
if the vlan id is set and we could find a vlan device for this
particular id.

But we also have a problem if prio bits are set.

Steinar reported an issue on a router receiving IPv6 frames with a
vlan tag of 4000 (id 0, prio 2), and tunneled into a sit device,
because skb->vlan_tci is set.

Forwarded frame is completely corrupted : We can see (8100:4000)
being inserted in the middle of IPv6 source address :

16:48:00.780413 IP6 2001:16d8:8100:4000:ee1c:0:9d9:bc87 >
9f94:4d95:2001:67c:29f4::: ICMP6, unknown icmp6 type (0), length 64
       0x0000:  0000 0029 8000 c7c3 7103 0001 a0ae e651
       0x0010:  0000 0000 ccce 0b00 0000 0000 1011 1213
       0x0020:  1415 1617 1819 1a1b 1c1d 1e1f 2021 2223
       0x0030:  2425 2627 2829 2a2b 2c2d 2e2f 3031 3233

It seems we are not really ready to properly cope with this right now.

We can probably do better in future kernels :
vlan_get_ingress_priority() should be a netdev property instead of
a per vlan_dev one.

For stable kernels, lets clear vlan_tci to fix the bugs.

Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and netdev name retrieval.

2013-06-26T20:42:54+00:00

When the kernel (compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT=n) is performing the
rename of a network interface, it can end up waiting for a workqueue
to complete. If userland is able to invoke a SIOCGIFNAME ioctl or a
SO_BINDTODEVICE getsockopt in between, the kernel will deadlock due to
the fact that read_secklock_begin() will spin forever waiting for the
writer process (the one doing the interface rename) to update the
devnet_rename_seq sequence.

This patch fixes the problem by adding a helper (netdev_get_name())
and using it in the code handling the SIOCGIFNAME ioctl and
SO_BINDTODEVICE setsockopt.

The netdev_get_name() helper uses raw_seqcount_begin() to avoid
spinning forever, waiting for devnet_rename_seq->sequence to become
even. cond_resched() is used in the contended case, before retrying
the access to give the writer process a chance to finish.

The use of raw_seqcount_begin() will incur some unneeded work in the
reader process in the contended case, but this is better than
deadlocking the system.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

gso: Handle Trans-Ether-Bridging protocol in skb_network_protocol()

2013-05-08T20:13:30+00:00

Rather than having logic to calculate inner protocol in every
tunnel gso handler move it to gso code. This simplifies code.

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Cong Wang 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use netdev_features_t in skb_needs_linearize()

2013-05-02T17:58:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use consume_skb() to free gso segmented skb

2013-04-30T04:18:13+00:00

Use consume_skb() to free the original skb that is successfully transmitted
as gso segmented skbs so that it is not treated as a drop due to an error.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove redundant code in dev_hard_start_xmit()

2013-04-25T05:38:25+00:00

This reverts commit 068a2de57ddf4f4 (net: release dst entry while
cache-hot for GSO case too)

Before GSO packet segmentation, we already take care of skb->dst if it
can be released.

There is no point adding extra test for every segment in the gso loop.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Krishna Kumar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2013-04-23T00:32:51+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove return value from list_netdevice()

2013-04-22T20:09:24+00:00

The return value from list_netdevice() is not used and no need, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rate-limit warn-bad-offload splats.

2013-04-19T21:57:49+00:00

If one does do something unfortunate and allow a
bad offload bug into the kernel, this the
skb_warn_bad_offload can effectively live-lock the
system, filling the logs with the same error over
and over.

Add rate limitation to this so that box remains otherwise
functional in this case.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller