linux-toradex.git/net/decnet, branch v4.0-rc2

netlink: Fix bugs in nlmsg_end() conversions.

2015-01-19T04:36:08+00:00

Commit 053c095a82cf ("netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end()
void") didn't catch all of the cases where callers were breaking out
on the return value being equal to zero, which they no longer should
when zero means success.

Fix all such cases.

Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Reported-by: Scott Feldman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void

2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00

Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: tcp: add RTAX_CC_ALGO fib handling

2015-01-06T03:55:24+00:00

This patch adds the minimum necessary for the RTAX_CC_ALGO congestion
control metric to be set up and dumped back to user space.

While the internal representation of RTAX_CC_ALGO is handled as a u32
key, we avoided to expose this implementation detail to user space, thus
instead, we chose the netlink attribute that is being exchanged between
user space to be the actual congestion control algorithm name, similarly
as in the setsockopt(2) API in order to allow for maximum flexibility,
even for 3rd party modules.

It is a bit unfortunate that RTAX_QUICKACK used up a whole RTAX slot as
it should have been stored in RTAX_FEATURES instead, we first thought
about reusing it for the congestion control key, but it brings more
complications and/or confusion than worth it.

Joint work with Florian Westphal.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

new helper: memcpy_to_msg()

2014-11-24T09:28:51+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: memcpy_from_msg()

2014-11-24T09:28:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

neigh: remove dynamic neigh table registration support

2014-11-11T20:23:54+00:00

Currently there are only three neigh tables in the whole kernel:
arp table, ndisc table and decnet neigh table. What's more,
we don't support registering multiple tables per family.
Therefore we can just make these tables statically built-in.

Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af_decnet: Use time_after_eq

2014-08-22T19:23:11+00:00

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.

A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:

@change@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@
- jiffies - E1 >= (E2*E3)
+ time_after_eq(jiffies, E1+E2*E3)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi 
Acked-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

decnet: Use time_after_eq

2014-08-22T19:23:11+00:00

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.

A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:

@change@
expression E1,E2;
@@
- (jiffies - E1) >= E2
+ time_after_eq(jiffies, E1+E2)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi 
Acked-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dn_dev: Use time_before

2014-08-22T19:23:11+00:00

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.

A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:

@change@
expression E1,E2;
@@

(
- (jiffies - E1) < E2
+ time_before(jiffies, E1+E2)
)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi 
Acked-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Split sk_no_check into sk_no_check_{rx,tx}

2014-05-23T20:28:53+00:00

Define separate fields in the sock structure for configuring disabling
checksums in both TX and RX-- sk_no_check_tx and sk_no_check_rx.
The SO_NO_CHECK socket option only affects sk_no_check_tx. Also,
removed UDP_CSUM_* defines since they are no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller