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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/rxrpc, branch v3.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>RxRPC: Fix missing __user annotation</title>
<updated>2014-09-10T03:39:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-09T14:19:44+00:00</published>
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Fix a missing __user annotation in a cast of a user space pointer (found by
checker).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fix a missing __user annotation in a cast of a user space pointer (found by
checker).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T16:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-06T16:38:14+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Steady transitioning of the BPF instructure to a generic spot so
      all kernel subsystems can make use of it, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   2) SFC driver supports busy polling, from Alexandre Rames.

   3) Take advantage of hash table in UDP multicast delivery, from David
      Held.

   4) Lighten locking, in particular by getting rid of the LRU lists, in
      inet frag handling.  From Florian Westphal.

   5) Add support for various RFC6458 control messages in SCTP, from
      Geir Ola Vaagland.

   6) Allow to filter bridge forwarding database dumps by device, from
      Jamal Hadi Salim.

   7) virtio-net also now supports busy polling, from Jason Wang.

   8) Some low level optimization tweaks in pktgen from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

   9) Add support for ipv6 address generation modes, so that userland
      can have some input into the process.  From Jiri Pirko.

  10) Consolidate common TCP connection request code in ipv4 and ipv6,
      from Octavian Purdila.

  11) New ARP packet logger in netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  12) Generic resizable RCU hash table, with intial users in netlink and
      nftables.  From Thomas Graf.

  13) Maintain a name assignment type so that userspace can see where a
      network device name came from (enumerated by kernel, assigned
      explicitly by userspace, etc.) From Tom Gundersen.

  14) Automatic flow label generation on transmit in ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  15) New packet timestamping facilities from Willem de Bruijn, meant to
      assist in measuring latencies going into/out-of the packet
      scheduler, latency from TCP data transmission to ACK, etc"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1536 commits)
  cxgb4 : Disable recursive mailbox commands when enabling vi
  net: reduce USB network driver config options.
  tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings
  amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop
  amd-xgbe: Use dma_set_mask_and_coherent to set DMA mask
  net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet
  sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit()
  Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device"
  cxgb4vf: Turn off SGE RX/TX Callback Timers and interrupts in PCI shutdown routine
  team: Simplify return path of team_newlink
  bridge: Update outdated comment on promiscuous mode
  net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for bytestreams
  net-timestamp: TCP timestamping
  net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler
  net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams
  net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags
  net-timestamp: extend SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary data struct
  cxgb4i : Move stray CPL definitions to cxgb4 driver
  tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging
  qlcnic: Initialize dcbnl_ops before register_netdev
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Steady transitioning of the BPF instructure to a generic spot so
      all kernel subsystems can make use of it, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   2) SFC driver supports busy polling, from Alexandre Rames.

   3) Take advantage of hash table in UDP multicast delivery, from David
      Held.

   4) Lighten locking, in particular by getting rid of the LRU lists, in
      inet frag handling.  From Florian Westphal.

   5) Add support for various RFC6458 control messages in SCTP, from
      Geir Ola Vaagland.

   6) Allow to filter bridge forwarding database dumps by device, from
      Jamal Hadi Salim.

   7) virtio-net also now supports busy polling, from Jason Wang.

   8) Some low level optimization tweaks in pktgen from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

   9) Add support for ipv6 address generation modes, so that userland
      can have some input into the process.  From Jiri Pirko.

  10) Consolidate common TCP connection request code in ipv4 and ipv6,
      from Octavian Purdila.

  11) New ARP packet logger in netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  12) Generic resizable RCU hash table, with intial users in netlink and
      nftables.  From Thomas Graf.

  13) Maintain a name assignment type so that userspace can see where a
      network device name came from (enumerated by kernel, assigned
      explicitly by userspace, etc.) From Tom Gundersen.

  14) Automatic flow label generation on transmit in ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  15) New packet timestamping facilities from Willem de Bruijn, meant to
      assist in measuring latencies going into/out-of the packet
      scheduler, latency from TCP data transmission to ACK, etc"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1536 commits)
  cxgb4 : Disable recursive mailbox commands when enabling vi
  net: reduce USB network driver config options.
  tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings
  amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop
  amd-xgbe: Use dma_set_mask_and_coherent to set DMA mask
  net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet
  sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit()
  Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device"
  cxgb4vf: Turn off SGE RX/TX Callback Timers and interrupts in PCI shutdown routine
  team: Simplify return path of team_newlink
  bridge: Update outdated comment on promiscuous mode
  net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for bytestreams
  net-timestamp: TCP timestamping
  net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler
  net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams
  net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags
  net-timestamp: extend SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary data struct
  cxgb4i : Move stray CPL definitions to cxgb4 driver
  tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging
  qlcnic: Initialize dcbnl_ops before register_netdev
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: RxRPC: Use key preparsing</title>
<updated>2014-07-22T20:46:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-18T17:56:36+00:00</published>
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Make use of key preparsing in the RxRPC protocol so that quota size
determination can take place prior to keyring locking when a key is being
added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
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Make use of key preparsing in the RxRPC protocol so that quota size
determination can take place prior to keyring locking when a key is being
added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/rxrpc/ar-key.c: drop negativity check on unsigned value</title>
<updated>2014-07-21T04:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Utkin</name>
<email>andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-18T15:31:57+00:00</published>
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Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80611
Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin &lt;andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80611
Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin &lt;andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_rxrpc: Fix XDR length check in rxrpc key demarshalling.</title>
<updated>2014-05-16T19:24:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathaniel W Filardo</name>
<email>nwf@cs.jhu.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-15T14:51:22+00:00</published>
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There may be padding on the ticket contained in the key payload, so just ensure
that the claimed token length is large enough, rather than exactly the right
size.

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Wesley Filardo &lt;nwf@cs.jhu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There may be padding on the ticket contained in the key payload, so just ensure
that the claimed token length is large enough, rather than exactly the right
size.

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Wesley Filardo &lt;nwf@cs.jhu.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.</title>
<updated>2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00</published>
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Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&amp;sk-&gt;s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk-&gt;sk_data_ready(sk, skb-&gt;len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb-&gt;len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb-&gt;len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&amp;sk-&gt;s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk-&gt;sk_data_ready(sk, skb-&gt;len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb-&gt;len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb-&gt;len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_rxrpc: Keep rxrpc_call pointers in a hashtable</title>
<updated>2014-03-04T10:36:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Smith</name>
<email>tim@electronghost.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T23:04:45+00:00</published>
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Keep track of rxrpc_call structures in a hashtable so they can be
found directly from the network parameters which define the call.

This allows incoming packets to be routed directly to a call without walking
through hierarchy of peer -&gt; transport -&gt; connection -&gt; call and all the
spinlocks that that entailed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith &lt;tim@electronghost.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Keep track of rxrpc_call structures in a hashtable so they can be
found directly from the network parameters which define the call.

This allows incoming packets to be routed directly to a call without walking
through hierarchy of peer -&gt; transport -&gt; connection -&gt; call and all the
spinlocks that that entailed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith &lt;tim@electronghost.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_rxrpc: Request an ACK for every alternate DATA packet</title>
<updated>2014-02-26T17:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-14T20:05:32+00:00</published>
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Set the RxRPC header flag to request an ACK packet for every odd-numbered DATA
packet unless it's the last one (which implicitly requests an ACK anyway).
This is similar to how librx appears to work.

If we don't do this, we'll send out a full window of packets and then just sit
there until the other side gets bored and sends an ACK to indicate that it's
been idle for a while and has received no new packets.

Requesting a lot of ACKs shouldn't be a problem as ACKs should be merged when
possible.

As AF_RXRPC currently works, it will schedule an ACK to be generated upon
receipt of a DATA packet with the ACK-request packet set - and in the time
taken to schedule this in a work queue, several other packets are likely to
arrive and then all get ACK'd together.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Set the RxRPC header flag to request an ACK packet for every odd-numbered DATA
packet unless it's the last one (which implicitly requests an ACK anyway).
This is similar to how librx appears to work.

If we don't do this, we'll send out a full window of packets and then just sit
there until the other side gets bored and sends an ACK to indicate that it's
been idle for a while and has received no new packets.

Requesting a lot of ACKs shouldn't be a problem as ACKs should be merged when
possible.

As AF_RXRPC currently works, it will schedule an ACK to be generated upon
receipt of a DATA packet with the ACK-request packet set - and in the time
taken to schedule this in a work queue, several other packets are likely to
arrive and then all get ACK'd together.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_rxrpc: Expose more RxRPC parameters via sysctls</title>
<updated>2014-02-26T17:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-07T18:10:30+00:00</published>
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Expose RxRPC parameters via sysctls to control the Rx window size, the Rx MTU
maximum size and the number of packets that can be glued into a jumbo packet.

More info added to Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Expose RxRPC parameters via sysctls to control the Rx window size, the Rx MTU
maximum size and the number of packets that can be glued into a jumbo packet.

More info added to Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_rxrpc: Improve ACK production</title>
<updated>2014-02-26T17:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-07T18:58:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9823f39a1719dce0da8a47cdd5c66ff8831f03f2'/>
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Improve ACK production by the following means:

 (1) Don't send an ACK_REQUESTED ack immediately even if the RXRPC_MORE_PACKETS
     flag isn't set on a data packet that has also has RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK set.

     MORE_PACKETS just means that the sender just emptied its Tx data buffer.
     More data will be forthcoming unless RXRPC_LAST_PACKET is also flagged.

     It is possible to see runs of DATA packets with MORE_PACKETS unset that
     aren't waiting for an ACK.

     It is therefore better to wait a small instant to see if we can combine an
     ACK for several packets.

 (2) Don't send an ACK_IDLE ack immediately unless we're responding to the
     terminal data packet of a call.

     Whilst sending an ACK_IDLE mid-call serves to let the other side know
     that we won't be asking it to resend certain Tx buffers and that it can
     discard them, spamming it with loads of acks just because we've
     temporarily run out of data just distracts it.

 (3) Put the ACK_IDLE ack generation timeout up to half a second rather than a
     single jiffy.  Just because we haven't been given more data immediately
     doesn't mean that more isn't forthcoming.  The other side may be busily
     finding the data to send to us.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Improve ACK production by the following means:

 (1) Don't send an ACK_REQUESTED ack immediately even if the RXRPC_MORE_PACKETS
     flag isn't set on a data packet that has also has RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK set.

     MORE_PACKETS just means that the sender just emptied its Tx data buffer.
     More data will be forthcoming unless RXRPC_LAST_PACKET is also flagged.

     It is possible to see runs of DATA packets with MORE_PACKETS unset that
     aren't waiting for an ACK.

     It is therefore better to wait a small instant to see if we can combine an
     ACK for several packets.

 (2) Don't send an ACK_IDLE ack immediately unless we're responding to the
     terminal data packet of a call.

     Whilst sending an ACK_IDLE mid-call serves to let the other side know
     that we won't be asking it to resend certain Tx buffers and that it can
     discard them, spamming it with loads of acks just because we've
     temporarily run out of data just distracts it.

 (3) Put the ACK_IDLE ack generation timeout up to half a second rather than a
     single jiffy.  Just because we haven't been given more data immediately
     doesn't mean that more isn't forthcoming.  The other side may be busily
     finding the data to send to us.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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