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2006-06-17[TCP]: TCP Veno congestion controlBin Zhou
TCP Veno module is a new congestion control module to improve TCP performance over wireless networks. The key innovation in TCP Veno is the enhancement of TCP Reno/Sack congestion control algorithm by using the estimated state of a connection based on TCP Vegas. This scheme significantly reduces "blind" reduction of TCP window regardless of the cause of packet loss. This work is based on the research paper "TCP Veno: TCP Enhancement for Transmission over Wireless Access Networks." C. P. Fu, S. C. Liew, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Feb. 2003. Original paper and many latest research works on veno: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ascpfu/veno/veno.html Signed-off-by: Bin Zhou <zhou0022@ntu.edu.sg> Cheng Peng Fu <ascpfu@ntu.edu.sg> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[TCP]: TCP Low Priority congestion controlWong Hoi Sing Edison
TCP Low Priority is a distributed algorithm whose goal is to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP. Available from: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~akuzma/Doc/akuzma/TCP-LP.pdf Original Author: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic <akuzma@northwestern.edu> See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/ for their implementation. As of 2.6.13, Linux supports pluggable congestion control algorithms. Due to the limitation of the API, we take the following changes from the original TCP-LP implementation: o We use newReno in most core CA handling. Only add some checking within cong_avoid. o Error correcting in remote HZ, therefore remote HZ will be keeped on checking and updating. o Handling calculation of One-Way-Delay (OWD) within rtt_sample, sicne OWD have a similar meaning as RTT. Also correct the buggy formular. o Handle reaction for Early Congestion Indication (ECI) within pkts_acked, as mentioned within pseudo code. o OWD is handled in relative format, where local time stamp will in tcp_time_stamp format. Port from 2.4.19 to 2.6.16 as module by: Wong Hoi Sing Edison <hswong3i@gmail.com> Hung Hing Lun <hlhung3i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wong Hoi Sing Edison <hswong3i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: Fix double receive of SKB.Andrew Morton
Oops fix from Stephen: remove duplicate rcv() calls. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: PPTP helper: fixup gre_keymap_lookup() return typeAlexey Dobriyan
GRE keys are 16-bit wide. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: Add SIP connection tracking helperPatrick McHardy
Add SIP connection tracking helper. Originally written by Christian Hentschel <chentschel@arnet.com.ar>, some cleanup, minor fixes and bidirectional SIP support added by myself. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: replace internal_net_addr parameter by ↵Patrick McHardy
routing-based heuristic Call Forwarding doesn't need to create an expectation if both peers can reach each other without our help. The internal_net_addr parameter lets the user explicitly specify a single network where this is true, but is not very flexible and even fails in the common case that calls will both be forwarded to outside parties and inside parties. Use an optional heuristic based on routing instead, the assumption is that if bpth the outgoing device and the gateway are equal, both peers can reach each other directly. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: Add support for Call ForwardingJing Min Zhao
Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: amanda helper: convert to textsearch infrastructurePatrick McHardy
When a port number within a packet is replaced by a differently sized number only the packet is resized, but not the copy of the data. Following port numbers are rewritten based on their offsets within the copy, leading to packet corruption. Convert the amanda helper to the textsearch infrastructure to avoid the copy entirely. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: FTP helper: search optimizationPatrick McHardy
Instead of skipping search entries for the wrong direction simply index them by direction. Based on patch by Pablo Neira <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: SNMP helper: fix debug module param typePatrick McHardy
debug is the debug level, not a bool. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: change table dumping not to require an unique IDPatrick McHardy
Instead of using the ID to find out where to continue dumping, take a reference to the last entry dumped and try to continue there. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: fix NAT configurationPatrick McHardy
The current configuration only allows to configure one manip and overloads conntrack status flags with netlink semantic. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mchardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: conntrack: add fixed timeout flag in connection trackingEric Leblond
Add a flag in a connection status to have a non updated timeout. This permits to have connection that automatically die at a given time. Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: conntrack: add sysctl to disable checksummingPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: conntrack: don't call helpers for related ICMP messagesPatrick McHardy
None of the existing helpers expects to get called for related ICMP packets and some even drop them if they can't parse them. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: recent match: replace by rewritten versionPatrick McHardy
Replace the unmaintainable ipt_recent match by a rewritten version that should be fully compatible. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add statistic matchPatrick McHardy
Add statistic match which is a combination of the nth and random matches. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add quota matchPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add SCTP/DCCP support where missingPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove some unnecessary castsPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[IPSEC] proto: Move transport mode input path into xfrm_mode_transportHerbert Xu
Now that we have xfrm_mode objects we can move the transport mode specific input decapsulation code into xfrm_mode_transport. This removes duplicate code as well as unnecessary header movement in case of tunnel mode SAs since we will discard the original IP header immediately. This also fixes a minor bug for transport-mode ESP where the IP payload length is set to the correct value minus the header length (with extension headers for IPv6). Of course the other neat thing is that we no longer have to allocate temporary buffers to hold the IP headers for ESP and IPComp. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[IPSEC] xfrm: Abstract out encapsulation modesHerbert Xu
This patch adds the structure xfrm_mode. It is meant to represent the operations carried out by transport/tunnel modes. By doing this we allow additional encapsulation modes to be added without clogging up the xfrm_input/xfrm_output paths. Candidate modes include 4-to-6 tunnel mode, 6-to-4 tunnel mode, and BEET modes. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[IPSEC] xfrm: Undo afinfo lock proliferationHerbert Xu
The number of locks used to manage afinfo structures can easily be reduced down to one each for policy and state respectively. This is based on the observation that the write locks are only held by module insertion/removal which are very rare events so there is no need to further differentiate between the insertion of modules like ipv6 versus esp6. The removal of the read locks in xfrm4_policy.c/xfrm6_policy.c might look suspicious at first. However, after you realise that nobody ever takes the corresponding write lock you'll feel better :) As far as I can gather it's an attempt to guard against the removal of the corresponding modules. Since neither module can be unloaded at all we can leave it to whoever fixes up IPv6 unloading :) Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[TCP]: tcp_rcv_rtt_measure_ts() call in pure-ACK path is superfluousDavid S. Miller
We only want to take receive RTT mesaurements for data bearing frames, here in the header prediction fast path for a pure-sender, we know that we have a pure-ACK and thus the checks in tcp_rcv_rtt_mesaure_ts() will not pass. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[BRIDGE]: netlink interface for link managementStephen Hemminger
Add basic netlink support to the Ethernet bridge. Including: * dump interfaces in bridges * monitor link status changes * change state of bridge port For some demo programs see: http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/brnl.tar.gz These are to allow building a daemon that does alternative implementations of Spanning Tree Protocol. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[BRIDGE]: fix module startup error handlingStephen Hemminger
Return address in use, if some other kernel code has the SAP. Propogate out error codes from netfilter registration and unwind. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[BRIDGE]: optimize conditional in forward pathStephen Hemminger
Small optimizations of bridge forwarding path. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: add multicast support for datagramsStephen Hemminger
Allow mulitcast reception of datagrams (similar to UDP). All sockets bound to the same SAP receive a clone. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: allow applications to get copy of kernel datagramsStephen Hemminger
It is legal for an application to bind to a SAP that is also being used by the kernel. This happens if the bridge module binds to the STP SAP, and the user wants to have a daemon for STP as well. It is possible to have kernel doing STP on one bridge, but let application do RSTP on another bridge. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: use rcu_dereference on receive handlerStephen Hemminger
The receive hander pointer might be modified during network changes of protocol. So use rcu_dereference (only matters on alpha). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: allow datagram recvmsgStephen Hemminger
LLC receive is broken for SOCK_DGRAM. If an application does recv() on a datagram socket and there is no data present, don't return "not connected". Instead, just do normal datagram semantics. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[LLC]: use more efficient ether address routinesStephen Hemminger
Use more cache efficient Ethernet address manipulation functions in etherdevice.h. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: TCP recv offload to I/OATChris Leech
Locks down user pages and sets up for DMA in tcp_recvmsg, then calls dma_async_try_early_copy in tcp_v4_do_rcv Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Add a sysctl for tuning the I/OAT offloaded I/O thresholdChris Leech
Any socket recv of less than this ammount will not be offloaded Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Make sk_eat_skb I/OAT aware.Chris Leech
Add an extra argument to sk_eat_skb, and make it move early copied packets to the async_wait_queue instead of freeing them. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Rename cleanup_rbuf to tcp_cleanup_rbuf and make non-staticChris Leech
Needed to be able to call tcp_cleanup_rbuf in tcp_input.c for I/OAT Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Structure changes for TCP recv offload to I/OATChris Leech
Adds an async_wait_queue and some additional fields to tcp_sock, and a dma_cookie_t to sk_buff. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Utility functions for offloading sk_buff to iovec copiesChris Leech
Provides for pinning user space pages in memory, copying to iovecs, and copying from sk_buffs including fragmented and chained sk_buffs. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Setup the networking subsystem as a DMA clientChris Leech
Attempts to allocate per-CPU DMA channels Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NET]: Export ip_dev_find()Sean Hefty
Export ip_dev_find() to allow locating a net_device given an IP address. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-06-15[PATCH] wireless: correct dump of WPA IELarry Finger
In net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c, there is a bug that prints extended sign information whenever the byte value exceeds 0x7f. The following patch changes the printk to use a u8 cast to limit the output to 2 digits. This bug was first noticed by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>. This patch applies to the current master branch of the Linville tree. Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-06-13Merge branch 'master' into upstreamJeff Garzik
2006-06-13Merge branch 'from-linus' into upstreamJohn W. Linville
2006-06-12[IPV4]: Increment ipInHdrErrors when TTL expires.Weidong
Signed-off-by: Weidong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-11[TCP]: continued: reno sacked_out count fixAki M Nyrhinen
From: Aki M Nyrhinen <anyrhine@cs.helsinki.fi> IMHO the current fix to the problem (in_flight underflow in reno) is incorrect. it treats the symptons but ignores the problem. the problem is timing out packets other than the head packet when we don't have sack. i try to explain (sorry if explaining the obvious). with sack, scanning the retransmit queue for timed out packets is fine because we know which packets in our retransmit queue have been acked by the receiver. without sack, we know only how many packets in our retransmit queue the receiver has acknowledged, but no idea which packets. think of a "typical" slow-start overshoot case, where for example every third packet in a window get lost because a router buffer gets full. with sack, we check for timeouts on those every third packet (as the rest have been sacked). the packet counting works out and if there is no reordering, we'll retransmit exactly the packets that were lost. without sack, however, we check for timeout on every packet and end up retransmitting consecutive packets in the retransmit queue. in our slow-start example, 2/3 of those retransmissions are unnecessary. these unnecessary retransmissions eat the congestion window and evetually prevent fast recovery from continuing, if enough packets were lost. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-11[DCCP] Ackvec: fix soft lockup in ackvec handling codeAndrea Bittau
A soft lockup existed in the handling of ack vector records. Specifically, when a tail of the list of ack vector records was removed, it was possible to end up iterating infinitely on an element of the tail. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-08Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream
2006-06-08Merge branch 'master' into upstreamJeff Garzik
2006-06-05[BRIDGE]: fix locking and memory leak in br_add_bridgeJiri Benc
There are several bugs in error handling in br_add_bridge: - when dev_alloc_name fails, allocated net_device is not freed - unregister_netdev is called when rtnl lock is held - free_netdev is called before netdev_run_todo has a chance to be run after unregistering net_device Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-05[IRDA]: Missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed().Florin Malita
The skb allocation may fail, which can result in a NULL pointer dereference in irlap_queue_xmit(). Coverity CID: 434. Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>