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Chuck Lever
5eb53f41d1 SUNRPC: fix compile warnings on 64-bit platforms
Introduced by NFS metrics patch.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled on a 64-bit platform.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:42 -05:00
Chuck Lever
e95b85ec9d SUNRPC: minor cleanup
RPC_DEBUG_DATA no longer needed in net/sunrpc/xprt.c.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:23 -05:00
Chuck Lever
dead28da8e SUNRPC: eliminate rpc_call()
Clean-up: replace rpc_call() helper with direct call to rpc_call_sync.

This makes NFSv2 and NFSv3 synchronous calls more computationally
efficient, and reduces stack consumption in functions that used to
invoke rpc_call more than once.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.  Connectathon on NFS version 2,
version 3, and version 4 mount points.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:23 -05:00
Chuck Lever
cc0175c1dc SUNRPC: display human-readable procedure name in rpc_iostats output
Add fields to the rpc_procinfo struct that allow the display of a
human-readable name for each procedure in the rpc_iostats output.

Also fix it so that the NFSv4 stats are broken up correctly by
sub-procedure number.  NFSv4 uses only two real RPC procedures:
NULL, and COMPOUND.

Test plan:
Mount with NFSv2, NFSv3, and NFSv4, and do "cat /proc/self/mountstats".

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:22 -05:00
Chuck Lever
11c556b3d8 SUNRPC: provide a mechanism for collecting stats in the RPC client
Add a simple mechanism for collecting stats in the RPC client.  Stats are
tabulated during xprt_release.  Note that per_cpu shenanigans are not
required here because the RPC client already serializes on the transport
write lock.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.  Basic performance regression
testing with high-speed networking and high performance server.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:22 -05:00
Chuck Lever
ef759a2e54 SUNRPC: introduce per-task RPC iostats
Account for various things that occur while an RPC task is executed.
Separate timers for RPC round trip and RPC execution time show how
long RPC requests wait in queue before being sent.  Eventually these
will be accumulated at xprt_release time in one place where they can
be viewed from userland.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:17 -05:00
Chuck Lever
262ca07de4 SUNRPC: add a handful of per-xprt counters
Monitor generic transport events.  Add a transport switch callout to
format transport counters for export to user-land.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:16 -05:00
Chuck Lever
e19b63dafd SUNRPC: track length of RPC wait queues
RPC wait queue length will eventually be exported to userland via the RPC
iostats interface.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:15 -05:00
Levent Serinol
1356b8c28d SUNRPC: more verbose output for rpc auth weak error
This patch adds server ip address to be printed out when "server
requires stronger authentication" error occured.

Signed-off-by: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:11 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
12de3b35ea SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_mkpipe returns a refcounted dentry
If not, we cannot guarantee that idmap->idmap_dentry, gss_auth->dentry and
clnt->cl_dentry are valid dentries.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:09 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
24c5d9d7ea SUNRPC: Run rpci->queue_timeout on the rpciod workqueue instead of generic
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:08 -05:00
Olaf Kirch
f344f6df4b SUNRPC: Auto-load RPC authentication kernel modules
This patch adds a request_module call to rpcauth_create which will try
to auto-load the kernel module for the requested authentication flavor.
For kernels with modular sunrpc, this reduces the admin overhead for
the user.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:08 -05:00
Ralf Baechle DL5RB
c7c694d196 [AX.25]: Fix potencial memory hole.
If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3
(or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall
through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any
other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet.

Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported
AX.25 dialects.

The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather
unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole.

Coverity #651.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-19 13:20:06 -08:00
Hong Liu
72df16f109 [PATCH] ieee80211: Fix QoS is not active problem
Fix QoS is not active even the network and the card is QOS enabled.
The problem is we pass the wrong ieee80211_network address to
ipw_handle_beacon/ipw_handle_probe_response, thus the
ieee80211_network->qos_data.active will not be set, causing the driver
not sending QoS frames at all.

Signed-off-by: Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-15 16:16:07 -05:00
Zhu Yi
0df7861240 [PATCH] ieee80211: Fix CCMP decryption problem when QoS is enabled
Use the correct STYPE for Qos data.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-15 16:11:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
e6d83d5569 [PATCH] SUNRPC: Fix potential deadlock in RPC code
In rpc_wake_up() and rpc_wake_up_status(), it is possible for the call to
__rpc_wake_up_task() to fail if another thread happens to be calling
rpc_wake_up_task() on the same rpc_task.

Problem noticed by Bruno Faccini.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14 07:57:18 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
712917d1c0 [PATCH] SUNRPC: fix a NULL pointer dereference in net/sunrpc/clnt.c
The Coverity checker spotted this possible NULL pointer dereference in
rpc_new_client().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14 07:57:17 -08:00
Herbert Xu
3759fa9c55 [TCP]: Fix zero port problem in IPv6
When we link a socket into the hash table, we need to make sure that we
set the num/port fields so that it shows us with a non-zero port value
in proc/netlink and on the wire.  This code and comment is copied over
from the IPv4 stack as is.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-13 14:26:12 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
31fe4d3317 [NETFILTER]: arp_tables: fix NULL pointer dereference
The check is wrong and lets NULL-ptrs slip through since !IS_ERR(NULL)
is true.

Coverity #190

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:40:43 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
baa829d892 [IPV4/6]: Fix UFO error propagation
When ufo_append_data fails err is uninitialized, but returned back.
Strangely gcc doesn't notice it.

Coverity #901 and #902

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:40 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
4a1ff6e2bd [TCP]: tcp_highspeed: fix AIMD table out-of-bounds access
Covertiy #547

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:39 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
cc9a06cd8d [NETLINK]: Fix use-after-free in netlink_recvmsg
The skb given to netlink_cmsg_recv_pktinfo is already freed, move it up
a few lines.

Coverity #948

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:38 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f8dc01f543 [XFRM]: Fix leak in ah6_input
tmp_hdr is not freed when ipv6_clear_mutable_options fails.

Coverity #650

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:37 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f6e57464df [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix skb leak in error path
The skb is allocated by the function, so it needs to be freed instead
of trimmed on overrun.

Coverity #614

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:36 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
406dbfc9ae [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix possible NULL-ptr dereference
Fix NULL-ptr dereference when a config message for a non-existant
queue containing only an NFQA_CFG_PARAMS attribute is received.

Coverity #433

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:35 -08:00
David S. Miller
ba244fe900 [TCP]: Fix tcp_tso_should_defer() when limit>=65536
That's >= a full sized TSO frame, so we should always
return 0 in that case.

Based upon a report and initial patch from Lachlan
Andrew, final patch suggested by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-11 18:51:49 -08:00
Gregor Maier
c127437641 [NETFILTER]: Fix wrong option spelling in Makefile for CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ULOG
Signed-off-by: Gregor Maier <gregor@net.in.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-11 18:51:25 -08:00
Brian Haley
0d27b42739 [IPV6]: fix ipv6_saddr_score struct element
The scope element in the ipv6_saddr_score struct used in 
ipv6_dev_get_saddr() is an unsigned integer, but __ipv6_addr_src_scope() 
returns a signed integer (and can return -1).

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-11 18:50:14 -08:00
Dipankar Sarma
529bf6be5c [PATCH] fix file counting
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench.  Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.

The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing.  For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based.  This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache.  This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation.  With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -

llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730  0       758844

At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache.  The following
patch I fixes this problem.

This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api.  In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.

Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00
Thomas Graf
850a9a4e3c [NETFILTER] ip_queue: Fix wrong skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption
The size of the skb carrying the netlink message is not
equivalent to the length of the actual netlink message
due to padding. ip_queue matches the length of the payload
against the original packet size to determine if packet
mangling is desired, due to the above wrong assumption
arbitary packets may not be mangled depening on their
original size.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-07 14:56:12 -08:00
Ian McDonald
c09966608d [DCCP] ccid3: Divide by zero fix
In rare circumstances 0 is returned by dccp_li_hist_calc_i_mean which
leads to a divide by zero in ccid3_hc_rx_packet_recv. Explicitly check
for zero return now. Update copyright notice at same time.

Found by Arnaldo.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 21:06:29 -08:00
Chas Williams
0f8f325b25 [ATM]: keep atmsvc failure messages quiet
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 21:06:25 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
125a12ccf3 [BRIDGE]: generate kobject remove event
The earlier round of kobject/sysfs changes to bridge caused
it not to generate a uevent on removal. Don't think any application
cares (not sure about Xen) but since it generates add uevent
it should generate remove as well.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemmigner@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 21:06:23 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
d32439c0d4 [BRIDGE]: port timer initialization
Initialize the STP timers for a port when it is created,
rather than when it is enabled. This will prevent future race conditions
where timer gets started before port is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemmigner@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 21:06:21 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6e86b89084 [BRIDGE]: fix crash in STP
Bridge would crash because of uninitailized timer if STP is used and
device was inserted into a bridge before bridge was up. This got
introduced when the delayed port checking was added.  Fix is to not
enable STP on port unless bridge is up.

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6140
Dup:      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6156

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 21:06:19 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
ce7eeb6b52 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2006-02-28 18:04:30 -05:00
Pete Zaitcev
4832843d77 [PATCH] ieee80211_rx.c: is_beacon
Fix broken is_beacon().

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-02-27 20:12:02 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ba13c98405 [REQSK]: Don't reset rskq_defer_accept in reqsk_queue_alloc
In 295f7324ff I moved defer_accept from
tcp_sock to request_queue and mistakingly reset it at reqsl_queue_alloc, causing
calls to setsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT ) to be lost after bind, the fix is to
remove the zeroing of rskq_defer_accept from reqsl_queue_alloc.

Thanks to Alexandra N. Kossovsky <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru> for
reporting and testing the suggested fix.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:30:43 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
bafac2a512 [NETFILTER]: Restore {ipt,ip6t,ebt}_LOG compatibility
The nfnetlink_log infrastructure changes broke compatiblity of the LOG
targets. They currently use whatever log backend was registered first,
which means that if ipt_ULOG was loaded first, no messages will be printed
to the ring buffer anymore.

Restore compatiblity by using the old log functions by default and only use
the nf_log backend if the user explicitly said so.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:04:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
45fe4dc08c [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix end-of-list check
The comparison wants to find out if the last list iteration reached the
end of the list. It needs to compare the iterator with the list head to
do this, not the element it is looking for.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:55 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
e121e9ecb0 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: remove unnecessary check for outfn
The only point of registering a queue handler is to provide an outfn,
so there is no need to check for it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:39 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
7a11b9848a [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix rerouting after packet mangling
Packets should be rerouted when they come back from userspace, not before.
Also move the queue_rerouters to RCU to avoid taking the queue_handler_lock
for each reinjected packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:24 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f92f871989 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: check if rerouter is present before using it
Every rerouter needs to provide a save and a reroute function, we don't
need to check for them. But we do need to check if a rerouter is registered
at all for the current family, with bridging for example packets of
unregistered families can hit nf_queue.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:03:10 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
e02f7d1603 [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: don't copy registered rerouter data
Use the registered data structure instead of copying it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:02:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu
752c1f4c78 [IPSEC]: Kill post_input hook and do NAT-T in esp_input directly
The only reason post_input exists at all is that it gives us the
potential to adjust the checksums incrementally in future which
we ought to do.

However, after thinking about it for a bit we can adjust the
checksums without using this post_input stuff at all.  The crucial
point is that only the inner-most NAT-T SA needs to be considered
when adjusting checksums.  What's more, the checksum adjustment
comes down to a single u32 due to the linearity of IP checksums.

We just happen to have a spare u32 lying around in our skb structure :)
When ip_summed is set to CHECKSUM_NONE on input, the value of skb->csum
is currently unused.  All we have to do is to make that the checksum
adjustment and voila, there goes all the post_input and decap structures!

I've left in the decap data structures for now since it's intricately
woven into the sec_path stuff.  We can kill them later too.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:00:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu
4bf05eceec [IPSEC] esp: Kill unnecessary block and indentation
We used to keep sg on the stack which is why the extra block was useful.
We've long since stopped doing that so let's kill the block and save
some indentation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:00:01 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
d91675f9c7 [IPV6]: Do not ignore IPV6_MTU socket option.
Based on patch by Hoerdt Mickael <hoerdt@clarinet.u-strasbg.fr>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yosufuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-24 13:18:33 -08:00
Hugo Santos
0c0888908d [IPV6] ip6_tunnel: release cached dst on change of tunnel params
The included patch fixes ip6_tunnel to release the cached dst entry
when the tunnel parameters (such as tunnel endpoints) are changed so
they are used immediatly for the next encapsulated packets.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Santos <hsantos@av.it.pt>
Acked-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-24 13:16:25 -08:00
Herbert Xu
4da3089f2b [IPSEC]: Use TOS when doing tunnel lookups
We should use the TOS because it's one of the routing keys.  It also
means that we update the correct routing cache entry when PMTU occurs.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-23 16:19:26 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
f8d0e3f115 [NET] ethernet: Fix first packet goes out with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
When you turn off ARP on a netdevice then the first packet always goes
out with a dstMAC of all zeroes. This is because the first packet is
used to resolve ARP entries. Even though the ARP entry may be resolved
(I tried by setting a static ARP entry for a host i was pinging from),
it gets overwritten by virtue of having the netdevice disabling ARP.

Subsequent packets go out fine with correct dstMAC address (which may
be why people have ignored reporting this issue).

To cut the story short: 

the culprit code is in net/ethernet/eth.c::eth_header()

----
        /*
         *      Anyway, the loopback-device should never use this
function...
         */

        if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_NOARP))
        {
                memset(eth->h_dest, 0, dev->addr_len);
                return ETH_HLEN;
        }

	if(daddr)
        {
                memcpy(eth->h_dest,daddr,dev->addr_len);
                return ETH_HLEN;
        }

----

Note how the h_dest is being reset when device has IFF_NOARP.

As a note:
All devices including loopback pass a daddr. loopback in fact passes
a 0 all the time ;-> 
This means i can delete the check totaly or i can remove the IFF_NOARP

Alexey says:
--------------------
I think, it was me who did this crap. It was so long ago I do not remember
why it was made.

I remember some troubles with dummy device. It tried to resolve
addresses, apparently, without success and generated errors instead of
blackholing. I think the problem was eventually solved at neighbour
level.

After some thinking I suspect the deletion of this chunk could change
behaviour of some parts which do not use neighbour cache f.e. packet
socket.

I think safer approach would be to move this chunk after if (daddr).
And the possibility to remove this completely could be analyzed later.
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Patch updated with Alexey's safer suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-23 16:18:01 -08:00