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Andy Grover
68cb01c1ba RDS/IB: Disable flow control in sysctl and explain why
Backwards compatibility with rds 3.0 causes protocol-
based flow control to be disabled as a side-effect.

I don't want to pull out FC support from the IB transport
but I do want to document and keep the sysctl consistent
if possible.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:10 -07:00
Andy Grover
e11d912a7d RDS/IB: Move tx/rx ring init and refill to later
Since RDS 3.0 and 3.1 have different packet formats,
we need to wait until after protocol negotiation
is complete to layout the rx buffers.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:08 -07:00
Andy Grover
9099707ded RDS: Don't set c_version in __rds_conn_create()
Protocol negotiation is logically a property of the
transports, so rds core need not set it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:08 -07:00
Andy Grover
597ddd50e1 RDS/IB: Rename byte_len to data_len to enhance readability
Of course len is in bytes. Calling it data_len hopefully indicates
a little better what the variable is actually for.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:07 -07:00
Andy Grover
92c330b9e9 RDS/RDMA: Fix cut-n-paste errors in printks in rdma_transport.c
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:05 -07:00
Andy Grover
8dacd57e7e RDS/IB: Fix printk to indicate remote IP, not local
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:04 -07:00
Andy Grover
02a6a2592e RDS/IB: Handle connections using RDS 3.0 wire protocol
The big differences between RDS 3.0 and 3.1 are protocol-level
flow control, and with 3.1 the header is in front of the data. The header
always ends up in the header buffer, and the data goes in the data page.

In 3.0 our "header" is a trailer, and will end up either in the data
page, the header buffer, or split across the two. Since 3.1 is backwards-
compatible with 3.0, we need to continue to support these cases. This
patch does that -- if using RDS 3.0 wire protocol, it will copy the header
from wherever it ended up into the header buffer.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:03 -07:00
Andy Grover
9ddbcfa098 RDS/IB: Improve RDS protocol version checking
RDS on IB uses privdata to do protocol version negotiation. Apparently
the IB stack will return a larger privdata buffer than the struct we were
expecting. Just to be extra-sure, this patch adds some checks in this area.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:02 -07:00
Andy Grover
3ba23ade46 RDS: Set retry_count to 2 and make modifiable via modparam
This will be default cause IB connections to failover faster,
but allow a longer retry count to be used if desired.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:01 -07:00
Johannes Berg
4edf547b4d net: explain netns notifiers a little better
Eric explained this to me -- and afterwards the comment
made sense, but not before. Add the the critical point
about interfaces having to be gone from the netns before
subsys notifiers are called.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:03:00 -07:00
roel kluin
27e0955184 b44: strncpy does not null terminate string
strlcpy() will always null terminate the string. Also use the
sizeof(version) to strlcopy() the version string.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 08:02:58 -07:00
John Dykstra
e547bc1ecc tcp: Use correct peer adr when copying MD5 keys
When the TCP connection handshake completes on the passive
side, a variety of state must be set up in the "child" sock,
including the key if MD5 authentication is being used.  Fix TCP
for both address families to label the key with the peer's
destination address, rather than the address from the listening
sock, which is usually the wildcard.

Reported-by:   Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:49:08 -07:00
John Dykstra
e3afe7b75e tcp: Fix MD5 signature checking on IPv4 mapped sockets
Fix MD5 signature checking so that an IPv4 active open
to an IPv6 socket can succeed.  In particular, use the
correct address family's signature generation function
for the SYN/ACK.

Reported-by:   Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:49:07 -07:00
Wan ZongShun
a50a97d415 Add mac driver for w90p910
Add mac driver support for evaluation board based on w90p910.

Signed-off-by: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:45:05 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
b902e57352 ipv4: fib_trie: Use tnode_get_child_rcu() and node_parent_rcu() in lookups
While looking for other fib_trie problems reported by Pawel Staszewski
I noticed there are a few uses of tnode_get_child() and node_parent()
in lookups instead of their rcu versions.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:39:31 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
be916cdebe ipv4: Fix inflate_threshold_root automatically
During large updates there could be triggered warnings like: "Fix
inflate_threshold_root. Now=25 size=11 bits" if inflate() of the root
node isn't finished in 10 loops. It should be much rarer now, after
changing the threshold from 15 to 25, and a temporary problem, so
this patch tries to handle it automatically using a fix variable to
increase by one inflate threshold for next root resizes (up to the 35
limit, max fix = 10). The fix variable is decreased when root's
inflate() finishes below 7 loops (even if some other, smaller table/
trie is updated -- for simplicity the fix variable is global for now).

Reported-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Reported-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Tested-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:39:29 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
c3059477fc ipv4: Use synchronize_rcu() during trie_rebalance()
During trie_rebalance() we free memory after resizing with call_rcu(),
but large updates, especially with PREEMPT_NONE configs, can cause
memory stresses, so this patch calls synchronize_rcu() in
tnode_free_flush() after each sync_pages to guarantee such freeing
(especially before resizing the root node).

The value of sync_pages = 128 is based on Pawel Staszewski's tests as
the lowest which doesn't hinder updating times. (For testing purposes
there was a sysfs module parameter to change it on demand, but it's
removed until we're sure it could be really useful.)

The patch is based on suggestions by: Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reported-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Tested-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:39:25 -07:00
Herbert Xu
2e477c9bd2 vlan: Propagate physical MTU changes
When the physical MTU changes we want to ensure that all existing
VLAN device MTUs do not exceed the new underlying MTU.  This patch
adds that propagation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:35:37 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
37cf2b8d16 connector: get test code working by default
The connector test code currently does not work out of the box.  This is
because it uses a connector id that is above the registered limit.  So
rather than force people to stumble through undocumented code wondering
why it isn't working, have the test code use one of the "private" ids by
default.  While I'm in here, clean up the code (kernel and user app) so
that it's a bit more user friendly and verbose in significant things that
it does.  Terse test code wastes people time as they simply enumerate it
with all the same kind of debug messages to get a better feel of what code
is running at any time.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:14:26 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
41144ca3dd connector: clean up grammar/style in documentation
The grammar in most of this file is slightly off, and some sections are
hard to read due to lack of visual clues breaking up related material.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:13:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
0741241c6b connector: make callback argument type explicit
The connector documentation states that the argument to the callback
function is always a pointer to a struct cn_msg, but rather than encode it
in the API itself, it uses a void pointer everywhere.  This doesn't make
much sense to encode the pointer in documentation as it prevents proper C
type checking from occurring and can easily allow people to use the wrong
pointer type.  So convert the argument type to an explicit struct cn_msg
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:13:21 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
e36aa25a53 tun: Allow tap device to send/receive UFO packets.
- Allow setting UFO on tap device and handle UFO packets.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>

---------------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:11:00 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
5c5167515d virtio-net: Allow UFO feature to be set and advertised.
- Allow setting UFO on virtio-net and advertise to host.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:10:58 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
673325951e Update Andreas Koensgen's email address
The kernel has used a stale email address of Andreas for a few years.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:07:12 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
54a8fa62c9 MAINTAINERS entry for STRIP driver
The web server does no longer exist, it's not on archive.org nor does there
seem to be any mirror.

 MAINTAINERS |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 10:07:10 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
bbf50e4df1 ixgbe: Bump version number
Keep the version number marching along as updates come in.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:40 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
3845bec0f3 ixgbe: Add device support for a new copper 82598 device
This adds support for a new copper device for 82598, device id 0x150b.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:38 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
078788b6a6 ixgbe: Make sure boolean assignments from bitwise operations done correctly
When the link comes up, the driver detects which flow control settings are
active.  This is done using bitwise operations directly from the hardware
registers, and assumes the proper boolean assignment.  Make this an
explicit boolean value before assignment to the bool.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:35 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
f4ec443b2b ixgbe: Remove legacy descriptor support
The ethtool offline test is the only consumer of the legacy descriptors.
Update that path to only use advanced descriptors, and remove all support
for legacy descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c482c56857 udp: cleanups
Pure style cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:31 -07:00
Wolfgang Denk
652f6787c0 fs_enet/mii-fec.c: fix MII speed calculation
The MII speed calculation was based on the CPU clock (ppc_proc_freq),
but for MPC512x we must use the bus clock instead.

This patch makes it use the correct clock and makes sure we don't
clobber reserved bits in the MII_SPEED register.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17 09:47:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
da8120355e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
2009-07-16 20:21:24 -07:00
Vincent CUISSARD
7fefe6a884 cdc-eem: bad crc checking
When the driver received an EEM packet with CRC option enabled, driver must
compute and check the CRC of the Ethernet data. Previous version computes CRC
on Ethernet data plus the original CRC value. Skbuff is correctly trimed but
the old length is used when CRC is computed.

Signed-off-by: Vincent CUISSARD <vincent.cuissard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:06:25 -07:00
Lucy Liu
869f1c54e9 ixgbe: Remove DPRINTK messages in DCB mode
Remove debug DPRINTK in DCB mode netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Lucy Liu <lucy.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:41 -07:00
Lucy Liu
86e713a06a ixgbe: clear mac address data block in DCB mode
This change clears the address data block memory space, which is needed for
the 82598 which does not have a SAN MAC.

Signed-off-by: Lucy Liu <lucy.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:40 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3d1454dd93 sky2: revert shutdown changes
The commit changes to shutdown path broke startup on some systems.

revert commit c0bad0f2e4

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:37 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
4dc6dc7162 net: sock_copy() fixes
Commit e912b1142b
(net: sk_prot_alloc() should not blindly overwrite memory)
took care of not zeroing whole new socket at allocation time.

sock_copy() is another spot where we should be very careful.
We should not set refcnt to a non null value, until
we are sure other fields are correctly setup, or
a lockless reader could catch this socket by mistake,
while not fully (re)initialized.

This patch puts sk_node & sk_refcnt to the very beginning
of struct sock to ease sock_copy() & sk_prot_alloc() job.

We add appropriate smp_wmb() before sk_refcnt initializations
to match our RCU requirements (changes to sock keys should
be committed to memory before sk_refcnt setting)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:26 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
303d67c288 E100: work around the driver using streaming DMA mapping for RX descriptors.
E100 places it's RX packet descriptors inside skb->data and uses them
with bidirectional streaming DMA mapping. Unfortunately it fails to
transfer skb->data ownership to the device after it reads the
descriptor's status, breaking on non-coherent (e.g., ARM) platforms.

This have to be converted to use coherent memory for the descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:25 -07:00
Moni Shoua
e36b9d16c6 bonding: clean muticast addresses when device changes type
Bonding device forbids slave device of different types under the same
master.

However, it is possible for a bonding master to change type during its
lifetime.  This can be either from ARPHRD_ETHER to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND
or the other way arround.  The change of type requires device level
multicast address cleanup because device level multicast addresses
depend on the device type.

The patch adds a call to dev_close() before the bonding master changes
type and dev_open() just after that.

In the example below I enslaved an IPoIB device (ib0) under
bond0. Since each bonding master starts as device of type ARPHRD_ETHER
by default, a change of type occurs when ib0 is enslaved.

This is how /proc/net/dev_mcast looks like without the patch

5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
5    bond0           1     0     01005e000116
5    bond0           1     0     01005e7ffffd
5    bond0           1     0     01005e000001
5    bond0           1     0     333300000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
6    ib0             1     0     333300000001
6    ib0             1     0     01005e000001
6    ib0             1     0     01005e7ffffd
6    ib0             1     0     01005e000116
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001

and this is how it looks like after the patch.

5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff0000000000000ffffffd
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000116
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000116
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff0000000000000ffffffd
6    ib0             2     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             2     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:23 -07:00
roel kluin
37b76c697f atl1c: misplaced parenthesis
Fix misplaced parenthesis

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:20 -07:00
roel kluin
c5ad4f592e atl1c: add missing parentheses
Parentheses are required or the comparison occurs before the bitand.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:19 -07:00
David S. Miller
95aa1fe4ab Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-07-16 17:34:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
941297f443 netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes
When a slab cache uses SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, we must be careful when allocating
objects, since slab allocator could give a freed object still used by lockless
readers.

In particular, nf_conntrack RCU lookups rely on ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next
being always valid (ie containing a valid 'nulls' value, or a valid pointer to next
object in hash chain.)

kmem_cache_zalloc() setups object with NULL values, but a NULL value is not valid
for ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next.

Fix is to call kmem_cache_alloc() and do the zeroing ourself.

As spotted by Patrick, we also need to make sure lookup keys are committed to
memory before setting refcount to 1, or a lockless reader could get a reference
on the old version of the object. Its key re-check could then pass the barrier.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
aa6a03eb0a netfilter: xt_osf: fix nf_log_packet() arguments
The first argument is the address family, the second one the hook
number.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-07-16 14:01:54 +02:00
Johannes Berg
c86ae82605 gianfar: remove unused DECLARE_MAC_BUF
The use of it was converted to %pM, but the variable
stuck -- remove it now to not cause spurious warnings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 11:31:10 -07:00
Lothar Waßmann
b13bb2e993 net/can: add module alias to can protocol drivers
Add appropriate MODULE_ALIAS() to facilitate autoloading of can protocol drivers

Signed-off-by: Lothar Wassmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 11:20:38 -07:00
Lothar Waßmann
f7e5cc0c40 net/can bugfix: use after free bug in can protocol drivers
Fix a use after free bug in can protocol drivers

The release functions of the can protocol drivers lack a call to
sock_orphan() which leads to referencing freed memory under certain
circumstances.

This patch fixes a bug reported here:
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2009-July/000985.html

Signed-off-by: Lothar Wassmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 11:20:37 -07:00
Johannes Berg
1dacc76d00 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks
Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.

The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.

A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.

A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.

In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.

To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.

I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Johannes Berg
4f45b2cd4e wext: optimise, comment and fix event sending
The current function for sending events first allocates the
event stream buffer, and then an skb to copy the event stream
into. This can be done in one go. Also, the current function
leaks kernel data to userspace in a 4 uninitialised bytes,
initialise those explicitly. Finally also add a few useful
comments, as opposed to the current comments.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 08:53:37 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b333b3d228 wireless extensions: make netns aware
This makes wireless extensions netns aware. The
tasklet sending the events is converted to a work
struct so that we can rtnl_lock() in it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 08:53:32 -07:00