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2011-07-08net: Fix default in docs for tcp_orphan_retries.David S. Miller
Default should be listed at 8 instead of 7. Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-27Merge branch 'docs-move' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs * 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-25bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmpFlavio Leitner
Improves the documentation about how IGMP resend parameter works, fix two missing checks and coding style issues. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-19Create Documentation/security/,Randy Dunlap
move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-08Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-05-08batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed to the TranslationTable style Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-04-29ipv4, ipv6, bonding: Restore control over number of peer notificationsBen Hutchings
For backward compatibility, we should retain the module parameters and sysfs attributes to control the number of peer notifications (gratuitous ARPs and unsolicited NAs) sent after bonding failover. Also, it is possible for failover to take place even though the new active slave does not have link up, and in that case the peer notification should be deferred until it does. Change ipv4 and ipv6 so they do not automatically send peer notifications on bonding failover. Change the bonding driver to send separate NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS notifications when the link is up, as many times as requested. Since it does not directly control which protocols send notifications, make num_grat_arp and num_unsol_na aliases for a single parameter. Bump the bonding version number and update its documentation. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-13igb: Add anti-spoofing feature documentationGreg Rose
Add the documentation for the anti-spoofing feature in the HW. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
2011-04-04Documentation: fix minor typos/spellingSylvestre Ledru
Fix some minor typos: * informations => information * there own => their own * these => this Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2011-03-14bonding: documentation update: mailing lists.Nicolas de Pesloüan
In commit a6c36ee677607b02d8ecc88e8a12785418b88107 ("bonding: change list contact to netdev@vger.kernel.org"), the mailing list for bonding developpement was changed from bonding-devel to netdev. Update the bonding documentation to reflect this change: - bonding-devel is used for usage discussions (despite the name). - netdev is used for developpement discussions. Also remove the reference to the sourceforge bonding page, which is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-09Phonet: kill the ST-Ericsson pipe controller KconfigRémi Denis-Courmont
This is now a run-time choice so that a single kernel can support both old and new generation ISI modems. Support for manually enabling the pipe flow is removed as it did not work properly, does not fit well with the socket API, and I am not aware of any use at the moment. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-09Phonet: support active connection without pipe controller on modemRémi Denis-Courmont
This provides support for newer ISI modems with no need for the earlier experimental compile-time alternative choice. With this, we can now use the same kernel and userspace with both types of modems. This also avoids confusing two different and incompatible state machines, actively connected vs accepted sockets, and adds connection response error handling (processing "SYN/RST" of sorts). Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-09Phonet: provide pipe socket option to retrieve the pipe identifierRémi Denis-Courmont
User-space sometimes needs this information. In particular, the GPRS context or the AT commands pipe setups may use the pipe handle as a reference. This removes the settable pipe handle with CONFIG_PHONET_PIPECTRLR. It did not handle error cases correctly. Furthermore, the kernel *could* implement a smart scheme for allocating handles (if ever needed), but userspace really cannot. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-03Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
2011-03-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]
2011-03-04DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]David Howells
When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076]. Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing. Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated. The buggy code was added in: commit 4a2d789267e00b5a1175ecd2ddefcc78b83fbf09 Author: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Date: Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100 Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2] This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program compiled with -lkeyutils: #include <stdlib.h> #include <keyutils.h> #include <err.h> static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6"; int main() { key_serial_t key; key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload), KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING); if (key == -1) err(1, "add_key"); if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1) err(1, "read_key"); return 0; } What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user: dns-break: read_key: No such device or address but instead the kernel oopses. This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be included in the data. Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return -EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read. The oops looks like: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468 /DG965RY RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b99f7>] [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378 RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1 FS: 00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090) Stack: ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000 00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff811b708e>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf [<ffffffff811b7c07>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6 [<ffffffff81001f7b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed <41> 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48 RIP [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f RSP <ffff88003bf47f08> CR2: 0000000000000010 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-02-28net: update Documentation/networking/00-INDEXRandy Dunlap
Clean up entries in 00-INDEX: drop files that have been removed. Reported-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-20tcp: document tcp_max_ssthresh (Limited Slow-Start)Ilpo Järvinen
Base on Ilpo's patch about documenting tcp_max_ssthresh. (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117950581307310&w=2) According to errata of RFC3742, fix the number of segments increased during RTT time. Just to state the occasion to use this parameter, But about how to set parameter value, maybe some others can do it. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
2011-02-10net: fix ifenslave build flagsRandy Dunlap
-I (include path) should be specified for host builds. This one was overlooked somehow. Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25902 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-04Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2011-02-02tcp_ecn is an integer not a booleanPeter Chubb
There was some confusion at LCA as to why the sysctl tcp_ecn took one of three values when it was documented as a Boolean. This patch fixes the documentation. Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-31Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-01-31batman-adv: Merge README of v2011.0.0 releaseSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-25bonding: update documentation - alternate configuration.Nicolas de Pesloüan
The bonding documentation used to provide configuration details and examples for initscripts and sysconfig only. This patch describe the third possible configuration: /etc/network/interfaces. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-13Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send. writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable. m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable. wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable. media: comment typo fix diable -> disable. remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description Fix spelling mistakes in comments Revert conflicting V4L changes i7core_edac: fix typos in comments mm/rmap.c: fix comment sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'. hrtimer: fix a typo in comment init/Kconfig: fix typo anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment fix comment typos concerning "consistent" poll: fix a typo in comment ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c) - fs/ext4/ext4.h Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-07dccp: make upper bound for seq_window consistent on 32/64 bitGerrit Renker
The 'seq_window' sysctl sets the initial value for the DCCP Sequence Window, which may range from 32..2^46-1 (RFC 4340, 7.5.2). The patch sets the upper bound consistently to 2^32-1 on both 32 and 64 bit systems, which should be sufficient - with a RTT of 1sec and 1-byte packets, a seq_window of 2^32-1 corresponds to a link speed of 34 Gbps. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-12-24Documentation/networking: Update Intel Wired LAN docsJeff Kirsher
- Update the Intel Wired LAN documentation with the latest URL for ethtool. - replace "Ethtool" with "ethtool" Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
2010-12-22Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too outdated.
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-13net: change ip_default_ttl documentationEric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbevf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt: Update ixgbe documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbe documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/igbvf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN igbvf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/igb.txt: update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN igb documentation. v2- Updated the ethtool support link, removed the LRO section and anti-spoofing sections. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000e documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/e1000.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-07dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructureTomasz Grobelny
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of TX packets and provides two policies: * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and * a priority based policy (set via socket options). Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write queue (can be overridden via socket options). The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-12-03qlcnic: LICENSE file for qlcnicSritej Velaga
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)Alexey Dobriyan
tcp_win_from_space() does the following: if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0) return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); else return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); "space" is int. As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is undefined behaviour. Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32, space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0. Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf(). Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31]. Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312 Steps to reproduce: echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale wget www.kernel.org [softlockup] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_membershipsJeremy Eder
This patch helps clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships by providing a formula for calculating the maximum number of multicast groups that can be subscribed to, plus defining the theoretical limit. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.orgMichael Witten
Some of the documentation refers to web pages under the domain `osdl.org'. However, `osdl.org' now redirects to `linuxfoundation.org'. Rather than rely on redirections, this patch updates the addresses appropriately; for the most part, only documentation that is meant to be current has been updated. The patch should be pretty quick to scan and check; each new web-page url was gotten by trying out the original URL in a browser and then simply copying the the redirected URL (formatting as necessary). There is some conflict as to which one of these domain names is preferred: linuxfoundation.org linux-foundation.org So, I wrote: info@linuxfoundation.org and got this reply: Message-ID: <4CE17EE6.9040807@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:41:42 -0800 From: David Ames <david@linuxfoundation.org> ... linuxfoundation.org is preferred. The canonical name for our web site is www.linuxfoundation.org. Our list site is actually lists.linux-foundation.org. Regarding email linuxfoundation.org is preferred there are a few people who choose to use linux-foundation.org for their own reasons. Consequently, I used `linuxfoundation.org' for web pages and `lists.linux-foundation.org' for mailing-list web pages and email addresses; the only personal email address I updated from `@osdl.org' was that of Andrew Morton, who prefers `linux-foundation.org' according `git log'. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-11-12docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.Ben Greear
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12stmmac: update the driver documentationGiuseppe Cavallaro
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-01tree-wide: fix comment/printk typosUwe Kleine-König
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address", "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already", "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest", "relative", "memory", "offset", "already", Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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