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<title>litmus-rt.git/net/atm, branch v2.6.32-rc6</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<title>net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.</title>
<updated>2009-09-30T23:12:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2009-09-30T23:12:20+00:00</published>
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This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atm/br2684: netif_stop_queue() when atm device busy and netif_wake_queue() when we can send packets again.</title>
<updated>2009-09-03T06:46:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karl Hiramoto</name>
<email>karl@hiramoto.org</email>
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<published>2009-09-03T06:26:39+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the call to dev_kfree_skb() when the atm device is busy.
Calling dev_kfree_skb() causes heavy packet loss then the device is under
heavy load, the more correct behavior should be to stop the upper layers,
then when the lower device can queue packets again wake the upper layers.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto &lt;karl@hiramoto.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch removes the call to dev_kfree_skb() when the atm device is busy.
Calling dev_kfree_skb() causes heavy packet loss then the device is under
heavy load, the more correct behavior should be to stop the upper layers,
then when the lower device can queue packets again wake the upper layers.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto &lt;karl@hiramoto.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams &lt;chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: make neigh_ops constant</title>
<updated>2009-09-02T00:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-01T11:13:19+00:00</published>
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These tables are never modified at runtime. Move to read-only
section.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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These tables are never modified at runtime. Move to read-only
section.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>convert ATM drivers to netdev_tx_t</title>
<updated>2009-09-01T08:13:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-31T19:50:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: mark read-only arrays as const</title>
<updated>2009-08-05T17:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Engelhardt</name>
<email>jengelh@medozas.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-05T17:42:58+00:00</published>
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String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@medozas.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@medozas.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-07-10T03:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-10T03:18:24+00:00</published>
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<title>net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks</title>
<updated>2009-07-10T00:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-08T12:09:13+00:00</published>
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Adding memory barrier after the poll_wait function, paired with
receive callbacks. Adding fuctions sock_poll_wait and sk_has_sleeper
to wrap the memory barrier.

Without the memory barrier, following race can happen.
The race fires, when following code paths meet, and the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt
and __add_wait_queue updates stay in CPU caches.

CPU1                         CPU2

sys_select                   receive packet
  ...                        ...
  __add_wait_queue           update tp-&gt;rcv_nxt
  ...                        ...
  tp-&gt;rcv_nxt check          sock_def_readable
  ...                        {
  schedule                      ...
                                if (sk-&gt;sk_sleep &amp;&amp; waitqueue_active(sk-&gt;sk_sleep))
                                        wake_up_interruptible(sk-&gt;sk_sleep)
                                ...
                             }

If there was no cache the code would work ok, since the wait_queue and
rcv_nxt are opposit to each other.

Meaning that once tp-&gt;rcv_nxt is updated by CPU2, the CPU1 either already
passed the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt check and sleeps, or will get the new value for
tp-&gt;rcv_nxt and will return with new data mask.
In both cases the process (CPU1) is being added to the wait queue, so the
waitqueue_active (CPU2) call cannot miss and will wake up CPU1.

The bad case is when the __add_wait_queue changes done by CPU1 stay in its
cache, and so does the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt update on CPU2 side.  The CPU1 will then
endup calling schedule and sleep forever if there are no more data on the
socket.

Calls to poll_wait in following modules were ommited:
	net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
	net/irda/af_irda.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
	net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_debugfs.c
	net/phonet/socket.c
	net/rds/af_rds.c
	net/rfkill/core.c
	net/sunrpc/cache.c
	net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
	net/tipc/socket.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Adding memory barrier after the poll_wait function, paired with
receive callbacks. Adding fuctions sock_poll_wait and sk_has_sleeper
to wrap the memory barrier.

Without the memory barrier, following race can happen.
The race fires, when following code paths meet, and the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt
and __add_wait_queue updates stay in CPU caches.

CPU1                         CPU2

sys_select                   receive packet
  ...                        ...
  __add_wait_queue           update tp-&gt;rcv_nxt
  ...                        ...
  tp-&gt;rcv_nxt check          sock_def_readable
  ...                        {
  schedule                      ...
                                if (sk-&gt;sk_sleep &amp;&amp; waitqueue_active(sk-&gt;sk_sleep))
                                        wake_up_interruptible(sk-&gt;sk_sleep)
                                ...
                             }

If there was no cache the code would work ok, since the wait_queue and
rcv_nxt are opposit to each other.

Meaning that once tp-&gt;rcv_nxt is updated by CPU2, the CPU1 either already
passed the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt check and sleeps, or will get the new value for
tp-&gt;rcv_nxt and will return with new data mask.
In both cases the process (CPU1) is being added to the wait queue, so the
waitqueue_active (CPU2) call cannot miss and will wake up CPU1.

The bad case is when the __add_wait_queue changes done by CPU1 stay in its
cache, and so does the tp-&gt;rcv_nxt update on CPU2 side.  The CPU1 will then
endup calling schedule and sleep forever if there are no more data on the
socket.

Calls to poll_wait in following modules were ommited:
	net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
	net/irda/af_irda.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
	net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_debugfs.c
	net/phonet/socket.c
	net/rds/af_rds.c
	net/rfkill/core.c
	net/sunrpc/cache.c
	net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
	net/tipc/socket.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: convert remaining non-symbolic return values in ndo_start_xmit() functions</title>
<updated>2009-07-06T02:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-06T02:23:38+00:00</published>
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This patch converts the remaining occurences of raw return values to their
symbolic counterparts in ndo_start_xmit() functions that were missed by the
previous automatic conversion.

Additionally code that assumed the symbolic value of NETDEV_TX_OK to be zero
is changed to explicitly use NETDEV_TX_OK.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch converts the remaining occurences of raw return values to their
symbolic counterparts in ndo_start_xmit() functions that were missed by the
previous automatic conversion.

Additionally code that assumed the symbolic value of NETDEV_TX_OK to be zero
is changed to explicitly use NETDEV_TX_OK.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions</title>
<updated>2009-07-06T02:16:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-23T06:03:08+00:00</published>
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This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>atm: sk_wmem_alloc initial value is one</title>
<updated>2009-06-18T07:29:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-18T02:06:12+00:00</published>
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commit 2b85a34e911bf483c27cfdd124aeb1605145dc80
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

This broke net/atm since this protocol assumed a null
initial value. This patch makes necessary changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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commit 2b85a34e911bf483c27cfdd124aeb1605145dc80
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

This broke net/atm since this protocol assumed a null
initial value. This patch makes necessary changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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