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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c, branch v4.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: coding style: comparison for equality with NULL</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T16:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Morris</name>
<email>ipm@chirality.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T08:17:26+00:00</published>
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The ipv4 code uses a mixture of coding styles. In some instances check
for NULL pointer is done as x == NULL and sometimes as !x. !x is
preferred according to checkpatch and this patch makes the code
consistent by adopting the latter form.

No changes detected by objdiff.

Signed-off-by: Ian Morris &lt;ipm@chirality.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The ipv4 code uses a mixture of coding styles. In some instances check
for NULL pointer is done as x == NULL and sometimes as !x. !x is
preferred according to checkpatch and this patch makes the code
consistent by adopting the latter form.

No changes detected by objdiff.

Signed-off-by: Ian Morris &lt;ipm@chirality.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: implement nla_get_in_addr and nla_get_in6_addr</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T17:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Benc</name>
<email>jbenc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-29T14:59:26+00:00</published>
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Those are counterparts to nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Those are counterparts to nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T17:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Benc</name>
<email>jbenc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-29T14:59:25+00:00</published>
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IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Kill hold_net release_net</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T18:39:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T04:04:08+00:00</published>
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hold_net and release_net were an idea that turned out to be useless.
The code has been disabled since 2008.  Kill the code it is long past due.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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hold_net and release_net were an idea that turned out to be useless.
The code has been disabled since 2008.  Kill the code it is long past due.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fib_trie: Convert fib_alias to hlist from list</title>
<updated>2015-02-27T21:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-25T23:31:31+00:00</published>
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There isn't any advantage to having it as a list and by making it an hlist
we make the fib_alias more compatible with the list_info in terms of the
type of list used.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There isn't any advantage to having it as a list and by making it an hlist
we make the fib_alias more compatible with the list_info in terms of the
type of list used.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fib_trie: Move fib_find_alias to file where it is used</title>
<updated>2015-01-25T22:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-22T23:51:39+00:00</published>
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The function fib_find_alias is only accessed by functions in fib_trie.c as
such it makes sense to relocate it and cast it as static so that the
compiler can take advantage of optimizations it can do to it as a local
function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The function fib_find_alias is only accessed by functions in fib_trie.c as
such it makes sense to relocate it and cast it as static so that the
compiler can take advantage of optimizations it can do to it as a local
function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void</title>
<updated>2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T21:09:00+00:00</published>
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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(...) &lt; 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-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 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 &lt;0 or &lt;=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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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(...) &lt; 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-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 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 &lt;0 or &lt;=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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>net: tcp: add RTAX_CC_ALGO fib handling</title>
<updated>2015-01-06T03:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-05T22:57:47+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: fix nexthop attlen check in fib_nh_match</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T19:59:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T14:34:10+00:00</published>
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fib_nh_match does not match nexthops correctly. Example:

ip route add 172.16.10/24 nexthop via 192.168.122.12 dev eth0 \
                          nexthop via 192.168.122.13 dev eth0
ip route del 172.16.10/24 nexthop via 192.168.122.14 dev eth0 \
                          nexthop via 192.168.122.15 dev eth0

Del command is successful and route is removed. After this patch
applied, the route is correctly matched and result is:
RTNETLINK answers: No such process

Please consider this for stable trees as well.

Fixes: 4e902c57417c4 ("[IPv4]: FIB configuration using struct fib_config")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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fib_nh_match does not match nexthops correctly. Example:

ip route add 172.16.10/24 nexthop via 192.168.122.12 dev eth0 \
                          nexthop via 192.168.122.13 dev eth0
ip route del 172.16.10/24 nexthop via 192.168.122.14 dev eth0 \
                          nexthop via 192.168.122.15 dev eth0

Del command is successful and route is removed. After this patch
applied, the route is correctly matched and result is:
RTNETLINK answers: No such process

Please consider this for stable trees as well.

Fixes: 4e902c57417c4 ("[IPv4]: FIB configuration using struct fib_config")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: fix a race in update_or_create_fnhe()</title>
<updated>2014-09-06T00:15:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-04T05:21:56+00:00</published>
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nh_exceptions is effectively used under rcu, but lacks proper
barriers. Between kzalloc() and setting of nh-&gt;nh_exceptions(),
we need a proper memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 4895c771c7f00 ("ipv4: Add FIB nexthop exceptions.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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nh_exceptions is effectively used under rcu, but lacks proper
barriers. Between kzalloc() and setting of nh-&gt;nh_exceptions(),
we need a proper memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 4895c771c7f00 ("ipv4: Add FIB nexthop exceptions.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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