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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4, branch v2.6.23.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>IPV4: ip_gre: set mac_header correctly in receive path</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T20:01:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Timo Teras</name>
<email>timo.teras@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-11T09:30:35+00:00</published>
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[IPV4] ip_gre: set mac_header correctly in receive path

[ Upstream commit: 1d0691674764098304ae4c63c715f5883b4d3784 ]

mac_header update in ipgre_recv() was incorrectly changed to
skb_reset_mac_header() when it was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teras &lt;timo.teras@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[IPV4] ip_gre: set mac_header correctly in receive path

[ Upstream commit: 1d0691674764098304ae4c63c715f5883b4d3784 ]

mac_header update in ipgre_recv() was incorrectly changed to
skb_reset_mac_header() when it was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teras &lt;timo.teras@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IPV4 ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T20:01:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-11T09:42:12+00:00</published>
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[IPV4] ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow

[ Upstream commit: d8c9283089287341c85a0a69de32c2287a990e71 ]

I noticed "ip route list cache x.y.z.t" can be *very* slow.

While strace-ing -T it I also noticed that first part of route cache
is fetched quite fast :

recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 &lt;0.000047&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 &lt;0.000042&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3740 &lt;0.000055&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 &lt;0.000043&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3732 &lt;0.000053&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3708 &lt;0.000052&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3680 &lt;0.000041&gt;

while the part at the end of the table is more expensive:

recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3656 &lt;0.003857&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 &lt;0.003891&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 &lt;0.003765&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3700 &lt;0.003879&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3676 &lt;0.003797&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3724 &lt;0.003856&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 &lt;0.003848&gt;

The following patch corrects this performance/latency problem,
removing quadratic behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[IPV4] ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow

[ Upstream commit: d8c9283089287341c85a0a69de32c2287a990e71 ]

I noticed "ip route list cache x.y.z.t" can be *very* slow.

While strace-ing -T it I also noticed that first part of route cache
is fetched quite fast :

recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 &lt;0.000047&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 &lt;0.000042&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3740 &lt;0.000055&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 &lt;0.000043&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3732 &lt;0.000053&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3708 &lt;0.000052&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3680 &lt;0.000041&gt;

while the part at the end of the table is more expensive:

recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3656 &lt;0.003857&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 &lt;0.003891&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 &lt;0.003765&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3700 &lt;0.003879&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3676 &lt;0.003797&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3724 &lt;0.003856&gt;
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2  \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 &lt;0.003848&gt;

The following patch corrects this performance/latency problem,
removing quadratic behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>INET: Fix netdev renaming and inet address labels</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T20:01:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark McLoughlin</name>
<email>markmc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-11T09:13:17+00:00</published>
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[INET]: Fix netdev renaming and inet address labels

[ Upstream commit: 44344b2a85f03326c7047a8c861b0c625c674839 ]

When re-naming an interface, the previous secondary address
labels get lost e.g.

  $&gt; brctl addbr foo
  $&gt; ip addr add 192.168.0.1 dev foo
  $&gt; ip addr add 192.168.0.2 dev foo label foo:00
  $&gt; ip addr show dev foo | grep inet
    inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global foo
    inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global foo:00
  $&gt; ip link set foo name bar
  $&gt; ip addr show dev bar | grep inet
    inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global bar
    inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global bar:2

Turns out to be a simple thinko in inetdev_changename() - clearly we
want to look at the address label, rather than the device name, for
a suffix to retain.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin &lt;markmc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[INET]: Fix netdev renaming and inet address labels

[ Upstream commit: 44344b2a85f03326c7047a8c861b0c625c674839 ]

When re-naming an interface, the previous secondary address
labels get lost e.g.

  $&gt; brctl addbr foo
  $&gt; ip addr add 192.168.0.1 dev foo
  $&gt; ip addr add 192.168.0.2 dev foo label foo:00
  $&gt; ip addr show dev foo | grep inet
    inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global foo
    inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global foo:00
  $&gt; ip link set foo name bar
  $&gt; ip addr show dev bar | grep inet
    inet 192.168.0.1/32 scope global bar
    inet 192.168.0.2/32 scope global bar:2

Turns out to be a simple thinko in inetdev_changename() - clearly we
want to look at the address label, rather than the device name, for
a suffix to retain.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin &lt;markmc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IPV4 raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph-&gt;ihl</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T20:01:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-11T09:09:46+00:00</published>
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[IPV4] raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph-&gt;ihl

[ Upstream commit: f844c74fe07321953e2dd227fe35280075f18f60 ]

We currently check that iph-&gt;ihl is bounded by the real length and that
the real length is greater than the minimum IP header length.  However,
we did not check the caes where iph-&gt;ihl is less than the minimum IP
header length.

This breaks because some ip_fast_csum implementations assume that which
is quite reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[IPV4] raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph-&gt;ihl

[ Upstream commit: f844c74fe07321953e2dd227fe35280075f18f60 ]

We currently check that iph-&gt;ihl is bounded by the real length and that
the real length is greater than the minimum IP header length.  However,
we did not check the caes where iph-&gt;ihl is less than the minimum IP
header length.

This breaks because some ip_fast_csum implementations assume that which
is quite reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>TCP: illinois: Incorrect beta usage</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-11T01:39:37+00:00</published>
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[TCP] illinois: Incorrect beta usage

[ Upstream commit: a357dde9df33f28611e6a3d4f88265e39bcc8880 ]

Lachlan Andrew observed that my TCP-Illinois implementation uses the
beta value incorrectly:
The parameter  beta  in the paper specifies the amount to decrease
*by*:  that is, on loss,
 W &lt;-  W -  beta*W
but in   tcp_illinois_ssthresh() uses  beta  as the amount
to decrease  *to*: W &lt;- beta*W

This bug makes the Linux TCP-Illinois get less-aggressive on uncongested network,
hurting performance. Note: since the base beta value is .5, it has no
impact on a congested network.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[TCP] illinois: Incorrect beta usage

[ Upstream commit: a357dde9df33f28611e6a3d4f88265e39bcc8880 ]

Lachlan Andrew observed that my TCP-Illinois implementation uses the
beta value incorrectly:
The parameter  beta  in the paper specifies the amount to decrease
*by*:  that is, on loss,
 W &lt;-  W -  beta*W
but in   tcp_illinois_ssthresh() uses  beta  as the amount
to decrease  *to*: W &lt;- beta*W

This bug makes the Linux TCP-Illinois get less-aggressive on uncongested network,
hurting performance. Note: since the base beta value is .5, it has no
impact on a congested network.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>TCP: MTUprobe: fix potential sk_send_head corruption</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-29T12:07:58+00:00</published>
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[TCP] MTUprobe: fix potential sk_send_head corruption

[ Upstream commit: 6e42141009ff18297fe19d19296738b742f861db ]

When the abstraction functions got added, conversion here was
made incorrectly. As a result, the skb may end up pointing
to skb which got included to the probe skb and then was freed.
For it to trigger, however, skb_transmit must fail sending as
well.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[TCP] MTUprobe: fix potential sk_send_head corruption

[ Upstream commit: 6e42141009ff18297fe19d19296738b742f861db ]

When the abstraction functions got added, conversion here was
made incorrectly. As a result, the skb may end up pointing
to skb which got included to the probe skb and then was freed.
For it to trigger, however, skb_transmit must fail sending as
well.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>TCP: Problem bug with sysctl_tcp_congestion_control function</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Jansen</name>
<email>sjansen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-29T12:07:57+00:00</published>
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[TCP]: Problem bug with sysctl_tcp_congestion_control function

[ Upstream commit: 5487796f0c9475586277a0a7a91211ce5746fa6a ]

sysctl_tcp_congestion_control seems to have a bug that prevents it
from actually calling the tcp_set_default_congestion_control
function. This is not so apparent because it does not return an error
and generally the /proc interface is used to configure the default TCP
congestion control algorithm.  This is present in 2.6.18 onwards and
probably earlier, though I have not inspected 2.6.15--2.6.17.

sysctl_tcp_congestion_control calls sysctl_string and expects a successful
return code of 0. In such a case it actually sets the congestion control
algorithm with tcp_set_default_congestion_control. Otherwise, it returns the
value returned by sysctl_string. This was correct in 2.6.14, as sysctl_string
returned 0 on success. However, sysctl_string was updated to return 1 on
success around about 2.6.15 and sysctl_tcp_congestion_control was not updated.
Even though sysctl_tcp_congestion_control returns 1, do_sysctl_strategy
converts this return code to '0', so the caller never notices the error.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[TCP]: Problem bug with sysctl_tcp_congestion_control function

[ Upstream commit: 5487796f0c9475586277a0a7a91211ce5746fa6a ]

sysctl_tcp_congestion_control seems to have a bug that prevents it
from actually calling the tcp_set_default_congestion_control
function. This is not so apparent because it does not return an error
and generally the /proc interface is used to configure the default TCP
congestion control algorithm.  This is present in 2.6.18 onwards and
probably earlier, though I have not inspected 2.6.15--2.6.17.

sysctl_tcp_congestion_control calls sysctl_string and expects a successful
return code of 0. In such a case it actually sets the congestion control
algorithm with tcp_set_default_congestion_control. Otherwise, it returns the
value returned by sysctl_string. This was correct in 2.6.14, as sysctl_string
returned 0 on success. However, sysctl_string was updated to return 1 on
success around about 2.6.15 and sysctl_tcp_congestion_control was not updated.
Even though sysctl_tcp_congestion_control returns 1, do_sysctl_strategy
converts this return code to '0', so the caller never notices the error.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>IPV4: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-29T12:07:57+00:00</published>
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[IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process

[ Upstream commit: 3660019e5f96fd9a8b7d4214a96523c0bf7b676d ]

The #ifdef's in arp_process() were not only a mess, they were also wrong
in the CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=n and (CONFIG_NETDEV_1000=y or
CONFIG_NETDEV_10000=y) cases.

Since they are not required this patch removes them.

Also removed are some #ifdef's around #include's that caused compile
errors after this change.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process

[ Upstream commit: 3660019e5f96fd9a8b7d4214a96523c0bf7b676d ]

The #ifdef's in arp_process() were not only a mess, they were also wrong
in the CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=n and (CONFIG_NETDEV_1000=y or
CONFIG_NETDEV_10000=y) cases.

Since they are not required this patch removes them.

Also removed are some #ifdef's around #include's that caused compile
errors after this change.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>NET: Corrects a bug in ip_rt_acct_read()</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-29T12:07:57+00:00</published>
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[NET]: Corrects a bug in ip_rt_acct_read()

[ Upstream commit: 483b23ffa3a5f44767038b0a676d757e0668437e ]

It seems that stats of cpu 0 are counted twice, since
for_each_possible_cpu() is looping on all possible cpus, including 0

Before percpu conversion of ip_rt_acct, we should also remove the
assumption that CPU 0 is online (or even possible)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[NET]: Corrects a bug in ip_rt_acct_read()

[ Upstream commit: 483b23ffa3a5f44767038b0a676d757e0668437e ]

It seems that stats of cpu 0 are counted twice, since
for_each_possible_cpu() is looping on all possible cpus, including 0

Before percpu conversion of ip_rt_acct, we should also remove the
assumption that CPU 0 is online (or even possible)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>netfilter: Fix kernel panic with REDIRECT target.</title>
<updated>2007-12-14T17:51:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Evgeniy Polyakov</name>
<email>johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-28T08:56:54+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a NAT regression in 2.6.23, resulting in a
crash when a connection is NATed and matches a conntrack
helper after NAT.

Please apply, thanks.
[NETFILTER]: Fix kernel panic with REDIRECT target.

Upstream commit 1f305323ff5b9ddc1a4346d36072bcdb58f3f68a

When connection tracking entry (nf_conn) is about to copy itself it can
have some of its extension users (like nat) as being already freed and
thus not required to be copied.

Actually looking at this function I suspect it was copied from
nf_nat_setup_info() and thus bug was introduced.

Report and testing from David &lt;david@unsolicited.net&gt;.

[ Patrick McHardy states:

        I now understand whats happening:

        - new connection is allocated without helper
        - connection is REDIRECTed to localhost
        - nf_nat_setup_info adds NAT extension, but doesn't initialize it yet
        - nf_conntrack_alter_reply performs a helper lookup based on the
           new tuple, finds the SIP helper and allocates a helper extension,
           causing reallocation because of too little space
        - nf_nat_move_storage is called with the uninitialized nat extension

        So your fix is entirely correct, thanks a lot :)  ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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This patch fixes a NAT regression in 2.6.23, resulting in a
crash when a connection is NATed and matches a conntrack
helper after NAT.

Please apply, thanks.
[NETFILTER]: Fix kernel panic with REDIRECT target.

Upstream commit 1f305323ff5b9ddc1a4346d36072bcdb58f3f68a

When connection tracking entry (nf_conn) is about to copy itself it can
have some of its extension users (like nat) as being already freed and
thus not required to be copied.

Actually looking at this function I suspect it was copied from
nf_nat_setup_info() and thus bug was introduced.

Report and testing from David &lt;david@unsolicited.net&gt;.

[ Patrick McHardy states:

        I now understand whats happening:

        - new connection is allocated without helper
        - connection is REDIRECTed to localhost
        - nf_nat_setup_info adds NAT extension, but doesn't initialize it yet
        - nf_conntrack_alter_reply performs a helper lookup based on the
           new tuple, finds the SIP helper and allocates a helper extension,
           causing reallocation because of too little space
        - nf_nat_move_storage is called with the uninitialized nat extension

        So your fix is entirely correct, thanks a lot :)  ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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