The netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via:

netpoll_rx
 __netpoll_rx
  arp_reply
   netpoll_send_skb
    dev->hard_start_tx

This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of inadvertently causing a
deadlock or BUG halt by recursively trying to acquire a spinlock that is
used in both their rx and tx paths (this problem was origionally reported
to me in the 3c59x driver, which shares a spinlock between the
boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_xmit routines).

This patch breaks this loop, by queueing arp frames, so that they can be
responded to after all receive operations have been completed.  Tested by
myself and the reported with successful results.

Specifically it was tested with netdump.  Heres the BZ with details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194055Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When transmitting a skb in netpoll_send_skb(), only retry a limited number
of times if the device queue is stopped.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[UBUNTU:nsc-ircc] Add some IBM think pads
Add Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60/T43/R52 Infrared driver support.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b8d2713435a9fb69719a282ba75e117f3f76a5bSigned-off-by: NBen Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

net/atm/mpc.c: In function 'MPOA_res_reply_rcvd':
net/atm/mpc.c:1116: warning: unused variable 'ip'
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

skb_find_text takes a "to" argument which is supposed to limit how
far into the skb it will search for the given text.  At present,
it seems to ignore that argument on the first skb, and instead
return a match even if the text occurs beyond the limit.

Patch below fixes this, after adjusting for the "from" starting
point.  This consequently fixes the netfilter string match's "--to"
handling, which currently is broken.
Signed-off-by: NPhil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

netdev_nit can now become static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix 2 problems in dev_hard_start_xmit():

1. nskb->next needs to link back to skb->next if hard_start_xmit()
returns non-zero.

2. Since the total number of GSO fragments may exceed MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1,
it needs to stop transmitting if the netif_queue is stopped.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix checksum problems in the GSO code path for CHECKSUM_HW packets.

The ipv4 TCP pseudo header checksum has to be adjusted for GSO
segmented packets.

The adjustment is needed because the length field in the pseudo-header
changes.  However, because we have the inequality oldlen > newlen, we
know that delta = (u16)~oldlen + newlen is still a 16-bit quantity.
This also means that htonl(delta) + th->check still fits in 32 bits.
Therefore we don't have to use csum_add on this operations.

This is based on a patch by Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This change improves an earlier change which replaced the large local
variable arrays used during broadcasting with dynamically allocated arrays.
The temporary arrays are now incoprorated into the multicast link data
structure.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Incorporates several related fixes:
- switchover now occurs when switching from an active link to a standby link
- failure of a standby link no longer initiates switchover
- links now display correct # of received packtes following reactivation
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This also contains enhancements to simplify comparisons in name table
publication removal algorithm and to simplify name table sanity checking
when shutting down TIPC.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This change provides user-friendly feedback when TIPC is unable to perform
certain configuration operations that don't work properly in certain modes.
(In particular, any reconfiguration request that would temporarily take TIPC
from network mode to standalone mode, or from standalone mode to not running
mode, is disallowed.)
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fix prevents a bearer from being enabled using the wrong interface.
For example, specifying "eth:eth14" might enable "eth:eth1" by mistake.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch originated by Stephane Ouellette <ouellettes@videotron.ca>.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes a bug spotted by the coverity checker, bug id #366. If
(mod(seqno - prev) != 1) we set buf to NULL, dereference it in the for
case, and set it to whatever value happes to be at adress 0+next, if it
happens to be non-zero, we even stay in the loop. It seems that the author
intended to break there.
Signed-off-by: NEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fix prevents node from crashing.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fix prevents link flopping and name table inconsistency problems arising
when a node is assigned a different <Z.C.N> value than it used previously.
(Changing the <Z.C.N> value causes other nodes to have two link endpoints
sending to the same MAC address using two different destination <Z.C.N> values,
requiring the receiving node to filter out the unwanted messages.)
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fix prevents a kernel panic if an application mistakenly sends a
multicast message to  TIPC's topology service or configuration service.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Now exits cleanly if attempt to allocate larger array of subsequences fails,
without losing track of pointer to existing array.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>