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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-03-22 22:10:29 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-03-22 22:10:29 +0100
commitc4f4d2f917729e9b7b8bb452bf4971be93e7a15f (patch)
tree691950e6096068c9909f6864ba1cd0f20de91cad /Documentation
parentMerge tag 'mmc-v4.16-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ul... (diff)
parentmacsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink() (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Always validate XFRM esn replay attribute, from Florian Westphal. 2) Fix RCU read lock imbalance in xfrm_get_tos(), from Xin Long. 3) Don't try to get firmware dump if not loaded in iwlwifi, from Shaul Triebitz. 4) Fix BPF helpers to deal with SCTP GSO SKBs properly, from Daniel Axtens. 5) Fix some interrupt handling issues in e1000e driver, from Benjamin Poitier. 6) Use strlcpy() in several ethtool get_strings methods, from Florian Fainelli. 7) Fix rhlist dup insertion, from Paul Blakey. 8) Fix SKB leak in netem packet scheduler, from Alexey Kodanev. 9) Fix driver unload crash when link is up in smsc911x, from Jeremy Linton. 10) Purge out invalid socket types in l2tp_tunnel_create(), from Eric Dumazet. 11) Need to purge the write queue when TCP connections are aborted, otherwise userspace using MSG_ZEROCOPY can't close the fd. From Soheil Hassas Yeganeh. 12) Fix double free in error path of team driver, from Arkadi Sharshevsky. 13) Filter fixes for hv_netvsc driver, from Stephen Hemminger. 14) Fix non-linear packet access in ipv6 ndisc code, from Lorenzo Bianconi. 15) Properly filter out unsupported feature flags in macvlan driver, from Shannon Nelson. 16) Don't request loading the diag module for a protocol if the protocol itself is not even registered. From Xin Long. 17) If datagram connect fails in ipv6, make sure the socket state is consistent afterwards. From Paolo Abeni. 18) Use after free in qed driver, from Dan Carpenter. 19) If received ipv4 PMTU is less than the min pmtu, lock the mtu in the entry. From Sabrina Dubroca. 20) Fix sleep in atomic in tg3 driver, from Jonathan Toppins. 21) Fix vlan in vlan untagging in some situations, from Toshiaki Makita. 22) Fix double SKB free in genlmsg_mcast(). From Nicolas Dichtel. 23) Fix NULL derefs in error paths of tcf_*_init(), from Davide Caratti. 24) Unbalanced PM runtime calls in FEC driver, from Florian Fainelli. 25) Memory leak in gemini driver, from Igor Pylypiv. 26) IDR leaks in error paths of tcf_*_init() functions, from Davide Caratti. 27) Need to use GFP_ATOMIC in seg6_build_state(), from David Lebrun. 28) Missing dev_put() in error path of macsec_newlink(), from Dan Carpenter. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (201 commits) macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink() net: dsa: Fix functional dsa-loop dependency on FIXED_PHY hv_netvsc: common detach logic hv_netvsc: change GPAD teardown order on older versions hv_netvsc: use RCU to fix concurrent rx and queue changes hv_netvsc: disable NAPI before channel close net/ipv6: Handle onlink flag with multipath routes ppp: avoid loop in xmit recursion detection code ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting encap source address ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state net: aquantia: driver version bump net: aquantia: Implement pci shutdown callback net: aquantia: Allow live mac address changes net: aquantia: Add tx clean budget and valid budget handling logic net: aquantia: Change inefficient wait loop on fw data reads net: aquantia: Fix a regression with reset on old firmware net: aquantia: Fix hardware reset when SPI may rarely hangup s390/qeth: on channel error, reject further cmd requests s390/qeth: lock read device while queueing next buffer s390/qeth: when thread completes, wake up all waiters ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell.txt48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/renesas,ravb.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt18
3 files changed, 44 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell.txt
index 1d4d0f49c9d0..8c033d48e2ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell.txt
@@ -50,14 +50,15 @@ Example:
compatible = "marvell,mv88e6085";
reg = <0>;
reset-gpios = <&gpio5 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
- };
- mdio {
- #address-cells = <1>;
- #size-cells = <0>;
- switch1phy0: switch1phy0@0 {
- reg = <0>;
- interrupt-parent = <&switch0>;
- interrupts = <0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+
+ mdio {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ switch1phy0: switch1phy0@0 {
+ reg = <0>;
+ interrupt-parent = <&switch0>;
+ interrupts = <0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ };
};
};
};
@@ -74,23 +75,24 @@ Example:
compatible = "marvell,mv88e6390";
reg = <0>;
reset-gpios = <&gpio5 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
- };
- mdio {
- #address-cells = <1>;
- #size-cells = <0>;
- switch1phy0: switch1phy0@0 {
- reg = <0>;
- interrupt-parent = <&switch0>;
- interrupts = <0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+
+ mdio {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ switch1phy0: switch1phy0@0 {
+ reg = <0>;
+ interrupt-parent = <&switch0>;
+ interrupts = <0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ };
};
- };
- mdio1 {
- compatible = "marvell,mv88e6xxx-mdio-external";
- #address-cells = <1>;
- #size-cells = <0>;
- switch1phy9: switch1phy0@9 {
- reg = <9>;
+ mdio1 {
+ compatible = "marvell,mv88e6xxx-mdio-external";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ switch1phy9: switch1phy0@9 {
+ reg = <9>;
+ };
};
};
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/renesas,ravb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/renesas,ravb.txt
index 92fd4b2f17b2..b4dc455eb155 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/renesas,ravb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/renesas,ravb.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ Required properties:
SoC-specific version corresponding to the platform first followed by
the generic version.
-- reg: offset and length of (1) the register block and (2) the stream buffer.
+- reg: Offset and length of (1) the register block and (2) the stream buffer.
+ The region for the register block is mandatory.
+ The region for the stream buffer is optional, as it is only present on
+ R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1 SoCs, and on R-Car H3 (R8A7795), M3-W (R8A7796),
+ and M3-N (R8A77965).
- interrupts: A list of interrupt-specifiers, one for each entry in
interrupt-names.
If interrupt-names is not present, an interrupt specifier
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
index d47480b61ac6..aca542ec125c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ TCP Segmentation Offload
TCP segmentation allows a device to segment a single frame into multiple
frames with a data payload size specified in skb_shinfo()->gso_size.
-When TCP segmentation requested the bit for either SKB_GSO_TCP or
-SKB_GSO_TCP6 should be set in skb_shinfo()->gso_type and
+When TCP segmentation requested the bit for either SKB_GSO_TCPV4 or
+SKB_GSO_TCPV6 should be set in skb_shinfo()->gso_type and
skb_shinfo()->gso_size should be set to a non-zero value.
TCP segmentation is dependent on support for the use of partial checksum
@@ -153,8 +153,18 @@ To signal this, gso_size is set to the special value GSO_BY_FRAGS.
Therefore, any code in the core networking stack must be aware of the
possibility that gso_size will be GSO_BY_FRAGS and handle that case
-appropriately. (For size checks, the skb_gso_validate_*_len family of
-helpers do this automatically.)
+appropriately.
+
+There are some helpers to make this easier:
+
+ - skb_is_gso(skb) && skb_is_gso_sctp(skb) is the best way to see if
+ an skb is an SCTP GSO skb.
+
+ - For size checks, the skb_gso_validate_*_len family of helpers correctly
+ considers GSO_BY_FRAGS.
+
+ - For manipulating packets, skb_increase_gso_size and skb_decrease_gso_size
+ will check for GSO_BY_FRAGS and WARN if asked to manipulate these skbs.
This also affects drivers with the NETIF_F_FRAGLIST & NETIF_F_GSO_SCTP bits
set. Note also that NETIF_F_GSO_SCTP is included in NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE.