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* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-041-1/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | 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]
| * DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]David Howells2011-03-031-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | net: update Documentation/networking/00-INDEXRandy Dunlap2011-02-281-6/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | 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>
* net: fix ifenslave build flagsRandy Dunlap2011-02-111-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | -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>
* tcp_ecn is an integer not a booleanPeter Chubb2011-02-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* bonding: update documentation - alternate configuration.Nicolas de Pesloüan2011-01-251-12/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-134-6/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
| * Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2010-12-221-0/+10
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
| * | Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.orgMichael Witten2010-11-153-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | tree-wide: fix comment/printk typosUwe Kleine-König2010-11-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "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>
* | | dccp: make upper bound for seq_window consistent on 32/64 bitGerrit Renker2011-01-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Documentation/networking: Update Intel Wired LAN docsJeff Kirsher2010-12-257-38/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* | | net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann2010-12-161-0/+240
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | net: change ip_default_ttl documentationEric Dumazet2010-12-131-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbevf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | | Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt: Update ixgbe documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-75/+136
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbe documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | | Documentation/networking/igbvf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Intel Wired LAN igbvf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | | Documentation/networking/igb.txt: update documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-27/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-18/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Intel Wired LAN e1000e documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | | Documentation/networking/e1000.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher2010-12-111-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Intel Wired LAN e1000 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-12-081-0/+1
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
| * | tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)Alexey Dobriyan2010-11-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructureTomasz Grobelny2010-12-071-0/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | qlcnic: LICENSE file for qlcnicSritej Velaga2010-12-031-0/+327
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_membershipsJeremy Eder2010-11-171-3/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-11-141-0/+9
|\| | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
| * | docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.Ben Greear2010-11-121-0/+9
| |/ | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* / stmmac: update the driver documentationGiuseppe Cavallaro2010-11-121-11/+37
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* phylib: make local function staticstephen hemminger2010-10-251-18/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following functions are not used directly by any drivers: phy_attach_direct phy_device_create phy_prepare_link genphy_config_advert genphy_setup_forced phy_config_interrupt phy_clear_interrypt phy_sanitize_settings phy_enable_interrupts phy_disable_interrupts Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local trafficOliver Hartkopp2010-10-211-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local host, or from a remote CAN device. This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between 'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg(). The added documentation explains the introduced flags. Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Documentation: Update Phonet doc for Pipe controller changesKumar Sanghvi2010-10-131-18/+14
| | | | | | | | Updates to Phonet doc for Pipe controller 'connect' socket implementation and changes related to socket options. Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Phonet: cleanup pipe enable socket optionRémi Denis-Courmont2010-10-081-12/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current code works like this: int garbage, status; socklen_t len = sizeof(status); /* enable pipe */ setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage)); /* disable pipe */ setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_DISABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage)); /* get status */ getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_INQ, &status, &len); ...which does not follow the usual socket option pattern. This patch merges all three "options" into a single gettable&settable option, before Linux 2.6.37 gets out: int status; socklen_t len = sizeof(status); /* enable pipe */ status = 1; setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status)); /* disable pipe */ status = 0; setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status)); /* get status */ getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, &len); This also fixes the error code from EFAULT to ENOTCONN. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Cc: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-10-073-314/+401
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c net/caif/caif_socket.c
| * e1000e.txt: Add e1000e documentationJeff Kirsher2010-10-051-0/+302
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * e1000.txt: Update e1000 documentationJeff Kirsher2010-10-051-277/+96
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * ixgbevf.txt: Update ixgbevf documentationJeff Kirsher2010-10-051-37/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual function driver). Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | bonding: add retransmit membership reports tunableFlavio Leitner2010-10-061-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow sysadmins to configure the number of multicast membership report sent on a link failure event. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Documentation: Update Phonet doc for Pipe Controller implementationKumar Sanghvi2010-09-281-0/+53
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updates the Phonet document with description related to Pipe controller implementation Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Phonet: resource routing documentationRémi Denis-Courmont2010-09-161-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | ipv6: Update ip-sysctl.txt documentation for recent changes to accept_ra and ↵Thomas Graf2010-09-031-5/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | forwarding Documentation for recent changes to the tunables accept_ra and forwarding. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | dccp ccid-3: use per-route RTO or TCP RTO as fallbackGerrit Renker2010-08-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes RTAX_RTO_MIN also available to CCID-3, replacing the compile-time RTO lower bound with a per-route tunable value. The original Kconfig option solved the problem that a very low RTT (in the order of HZ) can trigger too frequent and unnecessary reductions of the sending rate. This tunable does not affect the initial RTO value of 2 seconds specified in RFC 5348, section 4.2 and Appendix B. But like the hardcoded Kconfig value, it allows to adapt to network conditions. The same effect as the original Kconfig option of 100ms is now achieved by > ip route replace to unicast 192.168.0.0/24 rto_min 100j dev eth0 (assuming HZ=1000). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | dccp ccid-2: Share TCP's minimum RTO codeGerrit Renker2010-08-301-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using a fixed RTO_MIN of 0.2 seconds was found to cause problems for CCID-2 over 802.11g: at least once per session there was a spurious timeout. It helped to then increase the the value of RTO_MIN over this link. Since the problem is the same as in TCP, this patch makes the solution from commit "05bb1fad1cde025a864a90cfeb98dcbefe78a44a" "[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics." available to DCCP. This avoids reinventing the wheel, so that e.g. the following works in the expected way now also for CCID-2: > ip route change 10.0.0.2 rto_min 800 dev ath0 Luckily this useful rto_min function was recently moved to net/tcp.h, which simplifies sharing code originating from TCP. Documentation also updated (plus minor whitespace fixes). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: simplify flags for tx timestampingOliver Hartkopp2010-08-191-9/+13
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the abstraction introduced by the union skb_shared_tx in the shared skb data. The access of the different union elements at several places led to some confusion about accessing the shared tx_flags e.g. in skb_orphan_try(). http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128084897415886&w=2 Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt: deleted, not in treeJoe Perches2010-08-111-74/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit 1d794e3b353b ("Staging: wavelan: delete the driver") removed the source, so remove the documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-08-102-0/+210
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (59 commits) igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation igb.txt: Add igb documentation e100/e1000*/igb*/ixgb*: Add missing read memory barrier ixgbe: fix build error with FCOE_CONFIG without DCB_CONFIG netxen: protect tx timeout recovery by rtnl lock isdn: gigaset: use after free isdn: gigaset: add missing unlock solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops net: disable preemption before call smp_processor_id() tcp: no md5sig option size check bug iwlwifi: fix locking assertions iwlwifi: fix TX tracer isdn: fix information leak net: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path usbnet: remove noisy and hardly useful printk rtl8180: avoid potential NULL deref in rtl8180_beacon_work ath9k: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS list libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates ...
| * igbvf.txt: Add igbvf DocumentationJeff Kirsher2010-08-091-0/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds documentation for the igbvf (igb virtual function driver). v2: - Removed trailing white space - Removed Ethtool version info Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * igb.txt: Add igb documentationJeff Kirsher2010-08-091-0/+132
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation for the igb networking driver. v2: - Removed trailing white space - Removed Ethtool version info - Removed LRO kernel version info Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | DNS: Fixes for the DNS query moduleDavid Howells2010-08-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes for the DNS query module, including: (1) Use 'negative' instead of '-ve' in the documentation. (2) Mark the kdoc comment with '/**' on dns_query(). Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* | DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver codeWang Lei2010-08-051-0/+146
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS filesystem module. This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys can be retained in keyrings. Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive description that is of the form "[<type>:]<domain_name>". The optional <type> indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The <domain_name> is the query to be made. If <type> isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution. The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function, which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This part remains in the CIFS module for now. See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-0516-33/+26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (48 commits) Documentation: update broken web addresses. fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen" hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26 drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE comment typo fixes: charater => character fix comment typos concerning "challenge" arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc reiserfs: typo comment fix update email address ...
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