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2008-11-16udp: Use hlist_nulls in UDP RCU codeEric Dumazet
This is a straightforward patch, using hlist_nulls infrastructure. RCUification already done on UDP two weeks ago. Using hlist_nulls permits us to avoid some memory barriers, both at lookup time and delete time. Patch is large because it adds new macros to include/net/sock.h. These macros will be used by TCP & DCCP in next patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16TPROXY: implemented IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR socket optionBalazs Scheidler
In case UDP traffic is redirected to a local UDP socket, the originally addressed destination address/port cannot be recovered with the in-kernel tproxy. This patch adds an IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR sockopt that enables a IP_ORIGDSTADDR ancillary message in recvmsg(). This ancillary message contains the original destination address/port of the packet being received. Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16ipv4: Fix ARP behavior with many mac-vlansBen Greear
Ben Greear wrote: > I have 500 mac-vlans on a system talking to 500 other > mac-vlans. My problem is that the arp-table gets extremely > huge because every time an arp-request comes in on all mac-vlans, > a stale arp entry is added for each mac-vlan. I have filtering > turned on, but that doesn't help because the neigh_event_ns call > below will cause a stale neighbor entry to be created regardless > of whether a replay will be sent or not. > Maybe the neigh_event code should be below the checks for dont_send, > and only create check neigh_event_ns if we are !dont_send? The attached patch makes it work much better for me. The patch will cause the code to NOT create a stale neighbor entry if we are not going to respond to the ARP request. The old code *would* create a stale entry even if we are not going to respond. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-14net: speedup dst_release()Eric Dumazet
During tbench/oprofile sessions, I found that dst_release() was in third position. CPU: Core 2, speed 2999.68 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Clock cycles when not halted) with a unit mask of 0x00 (Unhalted core cycles) count 100000 samples % symbol name 483726 9.0185 __copy_user_zeroing_intel 191466 3.5697 __copy_user_intel 185475 3.4580 dst_release 175114 3.2648 ip_queue_xmit 153447 2.8608 tcp_sendmsg 108775 2.0280 tcp_recvmsg 102659 1.9140 sysenter_past_esp 101450 1.8914 tcp_current_mss 95067 1.7724 __copy_from_user_ll 86531 1.6133 tcp_transmit_skb Of course, all CPUS fight on the dst_entry associated with 127.0.0.1 Instead of first checking the refcount value, then decrement it, we use atomic_dec_return() to help CPU to make the right memory transaction (ie getting the cache line in exclusive mode) dst_release() is now at the fifth position, and tbench a litle bit faster ;) CPU: Core 2, speed 3000.1 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Clock cycles when not halted) with a unit mask of 0x00 (Unhalted core cycles) count 100000 samples % symbol name 647107 8.8072 __copy_user_zeroing_intel 258840 3.5229 ip_queue_xmit 258302 3.5155 __copy_user_intel 209629 2.8531 tcp_sendmsg 165632 2.2543 dst_release 149232 2.0311 tcp_current_mss 147821 2.0119 tcp_recvmsg 137893 1.8767 sysenter_past_esp 127473 1.7349 __copy_from_user_ll 121308 1.6510 ip_finish_output 118510 1.6129 tcp_transmit_skb 109295 1.4875 tcp_v4_rcv Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-13pkt_sched: Remove qdisc->ops->requeue() etc.Jarek Poplawski
After implementing qdisc->ops->peek() and changing sch_netem into classless qdisc there are no more qdisc->ops->requeue() users. This patch removes this method with its wrappers (qdisc_requeue()), and also unused qdisc->requeue structure. There are a few minor fixes of warnings (htb_enqueue()) and comments btw. The idea to kill ->requeue() and a similar patch were first developed by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-4Wang Chen
We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv: 1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv(). 2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv. But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it directly. This patch is a safe convert for netdev->priv to netdev_priv(netdev). Since all of the netdev->priv is only for read. But it is too big to be sent in one mail. I split it to 4 parts and make every part smaller than 100,000 bytes, which is max size allowed by vger. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12net: Remove unused parameter of xfrm_gen_index()Arnaud Ebalard
In commit 2518c7c2b3d7f0a6b302b4efe17c911f8dd4049f ("[XFRM]: Hash policies when non-prefixed."), the last use of xfrm_gen_policy() first argument was removed, but the argument was left behind in the prototype. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12net: Cleanup of neighbour codeEric Dumazet
Using read_pnet() and write_pnet() in neighbour code ease the reading of code. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12net: ib_net pointer should depends on CONFIG_NET_NSEric Dumazet
We can shrink size of "struct inet_bind_bucket" by 50%, using read_pnet() and write_pnet() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12dccp: Resolve dependencies of features on choice of CCIDGerrit Renker
This provides a missing link in the code chain, as several features implicitly depend and/or rely on the choice of CCID. Most notably, this is the Send Ack Vector feature, but also Ack Ratio and Send Loss Event Rate (also taken care of). For Send Ack Vector, the situation is as follows: * since CCID2 mandates the use of Ack Vectors, there is no point in allowing endpoints which use CCID2 to disable Ack Vector features such a connection; * a peer with a TX CCID of CCID2 will always expect Ack Vectors, and a peer with a RX CCID of CCID2 must always send Ack Vectors (RFC 4341, sec. 4); * for all other CCIDs, the use of (Send) Ack Vector is optional and thus negotiable. However, this implies that the code negotiating the use of Ack Vectors also supports it (i.e. is able to supply and to either parse or ignore received Ack Vectors). Since this is not the case (CCID-3 has no Ack Vector support), the use of Ack Vectors is here disabled, with a comment in the source code. An analogous consideration arises for the Send Loss Event Rate feature, since the CCID-3 implementation does not support the loss interval options of RFC 4342. To make such use explicit, corresponding feature-negotiation options are inserted which signal the use of the loss event rate option, as it is used by the CCID3 code. Lastly, the values of the Ack Ratio feature are matched to the choice of CCID. The patch implements this as a function which is called after the user has made all other registrations for changing default values of features. The table is variable-length, the reserved (and hence for feature-negotiation invalid, confirmed by considering section 19.4 of RFC 4340) feature number `0' is used to mark the end of the table. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12dccp: Query supported CCIDsGerrit Renker
This provides a data structure to record which CCIDs are locally supported and three accessor functions: - a test function for internal use which is used to validate CCID requests made by the user; - a copy function so that the list can be used for feature-negotiation; - documented getsockopt() support so that the user can query capabilities. The data structure is a table which is filled in at compile-time with the list of available CCIDs (which in turn depends on the Kconfig choices). Using the copy function for cloning the list of supported CCIDs is useful for feature negotiation, since the negotiation is now with the full list of available CCIDs (e.g. {2, 3}) instead of the default value {2}. This means negotiation will not fail if the peer requests to use CCID3 instead of CCID2. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12dccp: Registration routines for changing feature valuesGerrit Renker
Two registration routines, for SP and NN features, are provided by this patch, replacing a previous routine which was used for both feature types. These are internal-only routines and therefore start with `__feat_register'. It further exports the known limits of Sequence Window and Ack Ratio as symbolic constants. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12dccp: Limit feature negotiation to connection setup phaseGerrit Renker
This patch limits feature (capability) negotation to the connection setup phase: 1. Although it is theoretically possible to perform feature negotiation at any time (and RFC 4340 supports this), in practice this is prohibitively complex, as it requires to put traffic on hold for each new negotiation. 2. As a byproduct of restricting feature negotiation to connection setup, the feature-negotiation retransmit timer is no longer required. This part is now mapped onto the protocol-level retransmission. Details indicating why timers are no longer needed can be found on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\ implementation_notes.html This patch disables anytime negotiation, subsequent patches work out full feature negotiation support for connection setup. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11net: remove struct dst_entry::entry_sizeAlexey Dobriyan
Unused after kmem_cache_zalloc() conversion. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11net: remove struct neigh_table::pdeAlexey Dobriyan
->pde isn't actually needed, since name is stashed in ->id. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handling dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differs net: fix setting of skb->tail in skb_recycle_check() net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug code netfilter: payload_len is be16, add size of struct rather than size of pointer ipv6: fix ip6_mr_init error path [4/4] dca: fixup initialization dependency [3/4] I/OAT: fix async_tx.callback checking [2/4] I/OAT: fix dma_pin_iovec_pages() error handling [1/4] I/OAT: fix channel resources free for not allocated channels ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems SSB: hide empty sub menu vlan: Fix typos in proc output string [netdrvr] usb/hso: Cleanup rfkill error handling sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in EEPROM el3_common_init() should be __devinit, not __init hso: rfkill type should be WWAN mlx4_en: Start port error flow bug fix af_key: mark policy as dead before destroying
2008-11-10dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handlingLennert Buytenhek
Before commit b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7 ("net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP"), the dsa driver could sort-of get away with only fiddling with the master interface's allmulti/promisc counts in ->change_rx_flags() and not touching them in ->open() or ->stop(). After this commit (note that it was merged almost simultaneously with the dsa patches, which is why this wasn't caught initially), the breakage that was already there became more apparent. Since it makes no sense to keep the master interface's allmulti or promisc count pinned for a slave interface that is down, copy the vlan driver's sync logic (which does exactly what we want) over to dsa to fix this. Bug report from Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> and Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com>. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differsLennert Buytenhek
When a dsa slave interface has a mac address that differs from that of the master interface, eth_type_trans() won't explicitly set skb->pkt_type back to PACKET_HOST -- we need to do this ourselves before calling eth_type_trans(). Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10net: fix setting of skb->tail in skb_recycle_check()Lennert Buytenhek
Since skb_reset_tail_pointer() reads skb->data, we need to set skb->data before calling skb_reset_tail_pointer(). This was causing spurious skb_over_panic()s from skb_put() being called on a recycled skb that had its skb->tail set to beyond where it should have been. Bug report from Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com>. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptorEric Dumazet
icmpmsg_put() can happily corrupt kernel memory, using a static table and forgetting to reset an array index in a loop. Remove the static array since its not safe without proper locking. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug codeJianjun Kong
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c The trailing zero was written to state[4], it's out of bounds. Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10pktgen: add full reset functionalityJesse Brandeburg
While testing pktgen, I found that sometimes my configurations from previous runs would be left over, particularly when going from a test with 8 threads down to a test with 4 threads. This adds new functionality to pktgen where you can call pgset "reset" and it will be just like you just insmod'ed pktgen again. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10netfilter: payload_len is be16, add size of struct rather than size of pointerHarvey Harrison
payload_len is a be16 value, not cpu_endian, also the size of a ponter to a struct ipv6hdr was being added, not the size of the struct itself. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10ipv6: fix ip6_mr_init error pathBenjamin Thery
The order of cleanup operations in the error/exit section of ip6_mr_init() is completely inversed. It should be the other way around. Also a del_timer() is missing in the error path. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10Phonet: use net_device built-in stats for GPRSRémi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()Kay Sievers
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10vlan: Fix typos in proc output stringFerenc Wagner
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-11-10cfg80211: Add kdoc for struct regulatory_requestLuis R. Rodriguez
As regulatory_request gets bigger there will be more questions of what things means, so clarify documenation for it and keep track of the special alpha2 codes we use internally and on the userspace regulatory agents. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10cfg80211: Add regulatory domain intersection capabilityLuis R. Rodriguez
There are certain scenerios where we require intersecting two regulatory domains. This adds intersection support. When we enable 802.11d support we will use this to intersect the regulatory domain from the AP's country IE and what our regulatory agent believes is correct for a country. This patch enables intersection for now in the case where the last regdomain was set by a country IE which was parsed and the user then wants to set the regulatory domain. Since we don't support country IE parsing yet this code path will not be hit, however this allows us to pave the way for 11d support. Intersection code has been tested in userspace with CRDA. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10cfg80211: a reg rule is invalid if freq diff is 0Luis R. Rodriguez
A regulatory rule is invalid when the frequency difference between the end of the frequency range and the start is 0. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: Allow AP mode to be enabledJouni Malinen
With the addition of basic rate set and TX queue parameter configuration and confirmation that power save buffering is working again, mac80211 is now in state that allows AP mode to be used without major problems. Consequently, it is time to allow this mode to be enabled without having to patch the kernel. AP mode requires hostapd for management frame processing and as such, configuring this mode is only allowed through cfg80211 (not with iwconfig and WEXT). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: fix basic rates setting from association responseTomas Winkler
In previous code all the rates were marked as basic. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10nl80211: Add TX queue parameter configurationJouni Malinen
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set TX queue parameters (txop, cwmin, cwmax, aifs). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10nl80211: Add basic rate configuration for AP modeJouni Malinen
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_BSS_BASIC_RATES, that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set which rates are in the basic rate set. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10wireless: implement basic rate helper functionJohannes Berg
This adds a helper function that, given a bitmap of basic rates and a bitrate returns the response rate for this rate. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10wireless: fix two bad print_ssid conversionsHolger Schurig
This patch fixes two current compilation problems. They showed up with CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG defined. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: Add a new event in ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_actionSujith
Send a notification to the driver on succesful reception of an ADDBA response, add IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_RESUME for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: remove SSID driver codeJohannes Berg
Remove the SSID from the driver API since now there is no driver that requires knowing the SSID and I think it's unlikely that any hardware design that does require the SSID will play well with mac80211. This also removes support for setting the SSID in master mode which will require a patch to hostapd to not try. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10wireless: fix a few sparse warningsJohannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10wireless: move mesh config length constantJohannes Berg
This is a constant from the 802.11 specification. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: print reason code for deauth/dissoc framesZhu Yi
The patch prints reason code for deauth/dissoc frames to give users more ideas what's happened for the disconnection. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-09net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collectorMiklos Szeredi
Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't change during the GC. This is only half true, nothing can be received from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file descriptors referring to it. This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the "inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't previously called. This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs < inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run. Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which are candidates themselves. Duplicating the file references in unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued. Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-07tipc: trivial endian annotation in debug statementHarvey Harrison
Use htonl rather than ntohl on a u32. net/tipc/name_table.c:557:2: warning: cast to restricted __be32 Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07pkt_sched: Control group classifierThomas Graf
The classifier should cover the most common use case and will work without any special configuration. The principle of the classifier is to directly access the task_struct via get_current(). In order for this to work, classification requests from softirqs must be ignored. This is not a problem because the vast majority of packets in softirq context are not assigned to a task anyway. For this to work, a mechanism is needed to trace softirq context. This repost goes back to the method of relying on the number of nested bh disable calls for the sake of not adding too much complexity and the option to come up with something more reliable if actually needed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device. v2Eric W. Biederman
I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace cleanup. In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the loopback device is present. Things like sending igmp unsubscribe messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present. Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the loopback device directly from net_dev_init(). This guarantes that the loopback device is the first device registered and the last network device to go away. But do it carefully so we register the loopback device after we clear dev_boot_phase. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07net: fib_rules ordering fixes.Eric W. Biederman
We need to setup the network namespace state before we register the notifier. Otherwise if a network device is already registered we get a nasty NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07Revert "net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device."David S. Miller
This reverts commit ae33bc40c0d96d02f51a996482ea7e41c5152695.
2008-11-07Merge branch 'davem-next' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6