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2014-12-06Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
entries" This reverts commit d32394fae95741d733b174ec1446f27765f80233. It has been reported to cause problems, Jeremiah writes: On an Acer C720 laptop if a suspend is performed the screen freezes, the machine locks up, and according to the indicator lights it does not enter suspend. A hard reset is required to get it running again. Reported-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-26ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entriesArend van Spriel
Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs file. The struct ath9k_softc pointer is set as device driver data to be obtained in the seq_file read operation. Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-26ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs filesArend van Spriel
The debugfs files that are defined in debug.c which are read-only and using a simple_open as .open file operation have been modified to use the single_open seq_file API. This simplifies the read functions defining the file contents. Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-03Merge branch 'platform/remove_owner' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux into driver-core-next Remove all .owner fields from platform drivers
2014-10-30rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Fix firmware loadingLarry Finger
An error in the code makes the allocated space for firmware to be too small. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Add missing section to read descriptor settingLarry Finger
The new version of rtlwifi needs code in rtl92ce_get_desc() that returns the buffer address for read operations. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Add missing section to read descriptor settingLarry Finger
The new version of rtlwifi needs code in rtl92se_get_desc() that returns the buffer address for read operations. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Fix duplicate calls to ieee80211_register_hw()Larry Finger
Driver rtlwifi has been modified to call ieee80211_register_hw() from the probe routine; however, the existing call in the callback routine for deferred firmware loading was not removed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: rtl8192de: rtl8192se: Fix handling for missing ↵Larry Finger
get_btc_status The recent changes in checking for Bluetooth status added some callbacks to code in rtlwifi. To make certain that all callbacks are defined, a dummy routine has been added to rtlwifi, and the drivers that need to use it are modified. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30mwifiex: restart rxreorder timer correctlyMarc Yang
During 11n RX reordering, if there is a hole in RX table, driver will not send packets to kernel until the rxreorder timer expires or the table is full. However, currently driver always restarts rxreorder timer when receiving a packet, which causes the timer hardly to expire. So while connected with to 11n AP in a busy environment, ping packets may get blocked for about 30 seconds. This patch fixes this timer restarting by ensuring rxreorder timer would only be restarted either timer is not set or start_win has changed. Signed-off-by: Chin-Ran Lo <crlo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Plus Chen <pchen@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30ath9k: fix some debugfs outputDan Carpenter
The right shift operation has higher precedence than the mask so we left shift by "(i * 3)" and then immediately right shift by "(i * 3)" then we mask. It should be left shift, mask, and then right shift. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-30wireless: rt2x00: add new rt2800usb deviceCyril Brulebois
0x1b75 0xa200 AirLive WN-200USB wireless 11b/g/n dongle References: https://bugs.debian.org/766802 Reported-by: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-27Merge tag 'iwlwifi-for-john-2014-10-23' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-fixes Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> says: "I revert here a patch that caused interoperability issues. dvm gets a fix for a bug that was reported by many users. Two minor fixes for BT Coex and platform power fix that helps reducing latency when the PCIe link goes to low power states." Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: pcie: fix polling in various placesEmmanuel Grumbach
iwl_poll_bit may return a strictly positive value when the poll doesn't match on the first try. This was caught when WoWLAN started failing upon resume even if the poll_bit actually succeeded. Also change a wrong print. If we reach the end of iwl_pcie_prepare_card_hw, it means that we couldn't get the devices. Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23Revert "iwlwifi: mvm: treat EAPOLs like mgmt frames wrt rate"Emmanuel Grumbach
This reverts commit aa11bbf3df026d6b1c6b528bef634fd9de7c2619. This commit was causing connection issues and is not needed if IWL_MVM_RS_RSSI_BASED_INIT_RATE is set to false by default. Regardless of the issues mentioned above, this patch added the following WARNING: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3946 at drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c:190 iwl_mvm_set_tx_params+0x60a/0x6f0 [iwlmvm]() Got an HT rate for a non data frame 0x8 CPU: 0 PID: 3946 Comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G O 3.17.0+ #6 Hardware name: LENOVO 20ANCTO1WW/20ANCTO1WW, BIOS GLET71WW (2.25 ) 07/02/2014 0000000000000009 ffffffff814fa911 ffff8804288db8f8 ffffffff81064f52 0000000000001808 ffff8804288db948 ffff88040add8660 ffff8804291b5600 0000000000000000 ffffffff81064fb7 ffffffffa07b73d0 0000000000000020 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814fa911>] ? dump_stack+0x41/0x51 [<ffffffff81064f52>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0x90 [<ffffffff81064fb7>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x50 [<ffffffffa07a39ea>] ? iwl_mvm_set_tx_params+0x60a/0x6f0 [iwlmvm] [<ffffffffa07a3cf8>] ? iwl_mvm_tx_skb+0x48/0x3c0 [iwlmvm] [<ffffffffa079cb9b>] ? iwl_mvm_mac_tx+0x7b/0x180 [iwlmvm] [<ffffffffa0746ce9>] ? __ieee80211_tx+0x2b9/0x3c0 [mac80211] [<ffffffffa07492f3>] ? ieee80211_tx+0xb3/0x100 [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0749c49>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x459/0xca0 [mac80211] [<ffffffff814116e7>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x337/0x5f0 [<ffffffff81430d46>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x96/0x1f0 [<ffffffff81411ba3>] ? __dev_queue_xmit+0x203/0x4f0 [<ffffffff8142f670>] ? ether_setup+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff814e96a1>] ? packet_sendmsg+0xf81/0x1110 [<ffffffff8140625c>] ? skb_free_datagram+0xc/0x40 [<ffffffff813f7538>] ? sock_sendmsg+0x88/0xc0 [<ffffffff813f7274>] ? move_addr_to_kernel.part.20+0x14/0x60 [<ffffffff811c47c2>] ? __inode_wait_for_writeback+0x62/0xb0 [<ffffffff813f7a91>] ? SYSC_sendto+0xf1/0x180 [<ffffffff813f88f9>] ? __sys_recvmsg+0x39/0x70 [<ffffffff8150066d>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f ---[ end trace cc19a150d311fc63 ]--- which was reported here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85691 CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.13+] Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: dvm: drop non VO frames when flushingEmmanuel Grumbach
When mac80211 wants to ensure that a frame is sent, it calls the flush() callback. Until now, iwldvm implemented this by waiting that all the frames are sent (ACKed or timeout). In case of weak signal, this can take a significant amount of time, delaying the next connection (in case of roaming). Many users have reported that the flush would take too long leading to the following error messages to be printed: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: fail to flush all tx fifo queues Q 2 iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Current SW read_ptr 161 write_ptr 201 iwl data: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fe ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 [snip] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: FH TRBs(0) = 0x00000000 [snip] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Q 0 is active and mapped to fifo 3 ra_tid 0x0000 [9,9] [snip] Instead of waiting for these packets, simply drop them. This significantly improves the responsiveness of the network. Note that all the queues are flushed, but the VO one. This is not typically used by the applications and it likely contains management frames that are useful for connection or roaming. This bug is tracked here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56581 But it is duplicated in distributions' trackers. A simple search in Ubuntu's database led to these bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1270808 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1305406 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1356236 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1360597 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1361809 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Depends-on: 77be2c54c5bd ("mac80211: add vif to flush call") Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: mvm: ROC - bug fixes around time events and lockingMatti Gottlieb
Don't add the time event to the list. We added it several times the same time event, which leads to an infinite loop when walking the list. Since we (currently) don't support more than one ROC for STA vif at a time, enforce this and don't add the time event to any list. We were also missing the locking of the mutex which led to a lockdep splat - fix that. Signed-off-by: Matti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: mvm: Add tx power condition to bss_info_changed_ap_ibssHaim Dreyfuss
The tx power should be limited from many reasons. currently, setting the tx power is available by the mvm only for station interface. Adding the tx power condition to bss_info_changed_ap_ibss make it available also for AP. Signed-off-by: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: mvm: BT coex - fix BT prio for probe requestsEmmanuel Grumbach
The probe requests sent during scan must get BT prio 3. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: mvm: BT Coex - update the MPLUT Boost register valueEmmanuel Grumbach
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.16+] Fixes: 2adc8949efab ("iwlwifi: mvm: BT Coex - fix boost register / LUT values") Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: 8000: fix string given to MODULE_FIRMWARELiad Kaufman
I changed the string but forgot to update the fix also to MODULE_FIRMWARE(). Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23iwlwifi: configure the LTREmmanuel Grumbach
The LTR is the handshake between the device and the root complex about the latency allowed when the bus exits power save. This configuration was missing and this led to high latency in the link power up. The end user could experience high latency in the network because of this. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+] Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
2014-10-23rtlwifi: Add check for get_btc_status callbackLarry Finger
Drivers that do not use the get_btc_status() callback may not define a dummy routine. The caller needs to check before making the call. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Thadeu Cascardo <cascardo@cascardo.eti.br> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23ath9k_common: always update value in ath9k_cmn_update_txpowFelix Fietkau
In some cases the limit may be the same as reg->power_limit, but the actual value that the hardware uses is not up to date. In that case, a wrong value for current tx power is tracked internally. Fix this by unconditionally updating it. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtl8192cu: Prevent Ooops under rtl92c_set_fw_rsvdpagepktKarsten Wiese
rtl92c_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt is used by rtl8192cu and its pci sibling rtl8192ce. rtl_cmd_send_packet crashes when called inside rtl8192cu because it works on memory allocated only by rtl8192ce. Fix the crash by calling a dummy function when used in rtl8192cu. Comparision with the realtek vendor driver makes me think, something is missing in the dummy function. Short test as WPA2 station show good results connected to an 802.11g basestation. Traffic stops after few MBytes as WPA2 station connected to an 802.11n basestation. Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzuuzf@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtl8192cu: Call ieee80211_register_hw from rtl_usb_probeKarsten Wiese
In a previous patch the call to ieee80211_register_hw was moved from the load firmware callback to the rtl_pci_probe only. rt8192cu also uses this callback. Currently it doesnt create a wlan%d device. Fill in the call to ieee80211_register_hw in rtl_usb_probe. Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzuuzf@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtl8192cu: Fix for rtlwifi's bluetooth coexist functionalityKarsten Wiese
Initialize function pointer with a function indicating bt coexist is not there. Prevents Ooops. Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzuuzf@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23ath: use CTL region from cfg80211 if unset in EEPROMFelix Fietkau
Many AP devices do not have the proper regulatory domain programmed in EEPROM. Instead they expect the software to set the appropriate region. For these devices, the country code defaults to US, and the driver uses the US CTL tables as well. On devices bought in Europe this can lead to tx power being set too high on the band edges, even if the cfg80211 regdomain is set correctly. Fix this issue by taking into account the DFS region, but only when the EEPROM regdomain is set to default. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix possible array overrunLarry Finger
The kbuild test robot reported a possible array overrun. The affected code checks for overruns, but fails to take the steps necessary to fix them. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23ath9k: Enable HW queue control only for MCCSujith Manoharan
Enabling HW queue control for normal (non-mcc) mode causes problems with queue management, resulting in traffic stall. Since it is mainly required for fairness in MCC mode, disable it for the general case. Bug: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18164 Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtlwifi: prevent format string usage from leakingKees Cook
Use "%s" in the workqueue allocation to make sure the rtl_hal_cfg name can never accidentally leak information via a format string. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23brcmfmac: dhd_sdio.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with ↵Rickard Strandqvist
strncpy Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate. And changed from using strncat to strlcat to simplify code. Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-23rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Prevent log spamming for switch statementsLarry Finger
The driver logs a message when the default branch of switch statements are taken. Such information is useful when debugging, but these log items should not be seen for standard usage. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-20net: wireless: ti: wl18xx: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: ti: wl12xx: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: rt2x00: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: brcm80211: brcmfmac: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: ath: wcn36xx: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: ath: ath9k: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-20net: wireless: drop owner assignment from platform_driversWolfram Sang
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2014-10-14wireless: hostap: proc: print properly escaped SSIDAndy Shevchenko
Instead of substituting non-printable characters by '_' let's print SSID properly escaped by using recently added %*pE specifier. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk type warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused local `i'] Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-14wireless: ipw2x00: print SSID via %*pEAndy Shevchenko
Instead of custom approach this allows to print escaped strings via recently added kernel extension: %*pE. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-14wireless: libertas: print esaped string via %*pEAndy Shevchenko
Instead of custom approach this allows to print escaped strings via recently added kernel extension: %*pE. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-10Merge tag 'master-2014-10-08' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next John W. Linville says: ==================== pull request: wireless-next 2014-10-09 Please pull this batch of fixes intended for the 3.18 stream! Andrea Merello makes rtl818x_pci use a more reasonable transmission rate for HW generated frames. Fabian Frederick tweaks some kernel-doc bits to avoid warnings. Larry Finger corrects a possible unaligned access in the rtlwifi code. Marek Puzyniak avoids a kernel panic in ath9k_hw_reset. Sujith Manoharan goes for the hat trick -- he fixes a smatch warning in the shared ath code, he fixes a crash in ath9k, and he corrects a sequence number assignment problem in ath9k too. For ease of merging, I pulled the last bits of the wireless tree as well... Please let me know if there are problems! ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Most notable changes in here: 1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit. This is the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of several individuals. Now, when the ->ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees skb->xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires. skb->xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to call the driver immediately with another SKB to send. There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in software is now done with no locks held. Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can be used to test a multi-send implementation. Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4, virtio_net Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to support this optimization soon. I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann, David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell. 2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon. 3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver. From Govindarajulu Varadarajan. 4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from Florian Fainelli. 5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA into pools of pages. The objective is to get exactly the necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled, but no more. The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen(). From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric Dumazet. 6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility. From Tom Herbert. 7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli. 8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive testsuite. Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann. 9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators. From John Fastabend. 10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander Duyck. 11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric Dumazet. 12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From Florian Westphal. 13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly faster. From Eric Dumazet" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits) netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init() net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning cxgb4: clean up a type issue cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug i40e: skb->xmit_more support net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX r8169:add support for RTL8168EP net_sched: copy exts->type in tcf_exts_change() wimax: convert printk to pr_foo() af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type. Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY 3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single()) net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming ...
2014-10-08rtlwifi: Fix possible unaligned array in ether_addr_copy()Larry Finger
Two macros used to copy BSSID information use ether_addr_copy(), thus the arrays must be 2-byte aligned. In one case, the array could become unaligned if the struct containing it were changed. Use the __unaligned(2) attribute to retain the necessary alignment. In addition, the magic number used to specify the size of the array is replaced by ETH_ALEN. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-08ath9k: Fix sequence number assignmentSujith Manoharan
Currently, ath9k uses a global counter for all frames that need to be assigned a sequence number. QoS-data frames are handled properly since they have a per-tid counter. But, beacons and other management frames use the same counter even if multiple interfaces or contexts are present. Fix this issue by making the counter per-interface and using it when mac80211 sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull "trivial tree" updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual pile from trivial tree everyone is so eagerly waiting for" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) Remove MN10300_PROC_MN2WS0038 mei: fix comments treewide: Fix typos in Kconfig kprobes: update jprobe_example.c for do_fork() change Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes Documentation: update links in Changes Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml score: Remove GENERIC_HAS_IOMAP gpio: fix 'CONFIG_GPIO_IRQCHIP' comments tty: doc: Fix grammar in serial/tty dma-debug: modify check_for_stack output treewide: fix errors in printk genirq: fix reference in devm_request_threaded_irq comment treewide: fix synchronize_rcu() in comments checkstack.pl: port to AArch64 doc: queue-sysfs: minor fixes init/do_mounts: better syntax description MIPS: fix comment spelling powerpc/simpleboot: fix comment ...
2014-10-07ath9k_htc: avoid kernel panic in ath9k_hw_resetMarek Puzyniak
hw pointer of ath_hw is not assigned to proper value in function ath9k_hw_reset what finally causes kernel panic. This can be solved by proper initialization of ath_hw in ath9k_init_priv. Signed-off-by: Marek Puzyniak <marek.puzyniak@tieto.com> Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2014-10-07ath9k: Fix crash in MCC modeSujith Manoharan
When a channel context is removed, the hw_queue_base is set to -1, this will result in a panic because ath9k_chanctx_stop_queues() can be called on an interface that is not assigned to any context yet - for example, when trying to scan. Fix this issue by setting the hw_queue_base to zero when a channel context is removed. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>