This patch adds support for IPv6 checksum offload and GSO when those
features are available in the backend.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use skb_checksum_setup to set up partial checksum offsets rather
then a private implementation.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There was a bug in xennet_alloc_rx_buffers, when allocating page or
sk_buff failed, and at the same time rx_batch queue not empty,
the rx_refill_timer timer won't be scheduled. If finally the remaining
request buffers in rx ring less than what backend driver expected,
the backend driver would think of rx ring as full and start dropping packets.
In such situation, there is no way for the netfront driver to recover
automatically, so that the device can not work properly.

The patch fixes the problem by always scheduling rx_refill_timer timer when
alloc_page or __netdev_alloc_skb fails, no matter whether rx_batch queue is
empty or not. It ensures that the rx ring request buffers will finally meet
the backend needs.
Signed-off-by: NMa JieYue <jieyue.majy@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In order to enable lockdep on seqcount/seqlock structures, we
must explicitly initialize any locks.

The u64_stats_sync structure, uses a seqcount, and thus we need
to introduce a u64_stats_init() function and use it to initialize
the structure.

This unfortunately adds a lot of fairly trivial initialization code
to a number of drivers. But the benefit of ensuring correctness makes
this worth while.

Because these changes are required for lockdep to be enabled, and the
changes are quite trivial, I've not yet split this patch out into 30-some
separate patches, as I figured it would be better to get the various
maintainers thoughts on how to best merge this change along with
the seqcount lockdep enablement.

Feedback would be appreciated!
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mirko Lindner <mlindner@marvell.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Anirban was seeing netfront received MTU size packets, which downgraded
throughput. The following patch makes netfront use GRO API which
improves throughput for that case.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Anirban Chakraborty <abchak@juniper.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Due to commit 3683243b ("xen-netfront: use __pskb_pull_tail to ensure
linear area is big enough on RX") xennet_fill_frags() may end up
filling MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 fragments in a receive skb, and only reduce
the fragment count subsequently via __pskb_pull_tail(). That's a
result of xennet_get_responses() allowing a maximum of one more slot to
be consumed (and intermediately transformed into a fragment) if the
head slot has a size less than or equal to RX_COPY_THRESHOLD.

Hence we need to adjust xennet_fill_frags() to pull earlier if we
reached the maximum fragment count - due to the described behavior of
xennet_get_responses() this guarantees that at least the first fragment
will get completely consumed, and hence the fragment count reduced.

In order to not needlessly call __pskb_pull_tail() twice, make the
original call conditional upon the pull target not having been reached
yet, and defer the newly added one as much as possible (an alternative
would have been to always call the function right before the call to
xennet_fill_frags(), but that would imply more frequent cases of
needing to call it twice).
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.6 onwards)
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Instead of mixing printk and pr_<level> forms,
just use pr_<level>

Miscellaneous changes around these conversions:

Add a missing newline to avoid message interleaving,
coalesce formats, reflow modified lines to 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

use skb_partial_csum_set() to simplify the codes

Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLi RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds a new feature called feature-split-event-channels for
netfront, enabling it to handle TX and RX events separately.

If netback does not support this feature, it falls back to use single event
channel.

If netfront fails to setup split event channels, it will try falling back to
single event channel.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We should correctly free related resources (grant ref, memory page, evtchn)
when setup_netfront fails.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The maximum packet including header that can be handled by netfront / netback
wire format is 65535. Reduce gso_max_size accordingly.

Drop skb and print warning when skb->len > 65535. This can 1) save the effort
to send malformed packet to netback, 2) help spotting misconfiguration of
netfront in the future.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Also fix a typo in comment.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This function is in fact counting the ring slots required for responses.
Separate the concepts of ring slots and skb frags make the code clearer, as
now netfront and netback can have different MAX_SKB_FRAGS, slot and frag are
not mapped 1:1 any more.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This variable is supposed to hold reference to the last extra_info in the
loop. However there is only type of extra info here and the loop to process
extra info is missing, so this variable is never used and causes confusion.

Remove it at the moment. We can add it back when necessary.
Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Using RX_COPY_THRESHOLD is incorrect if the SKB is actually smaller
than that. We have already accounted for this in
NETFRONT_SKB_CB(skb)->pull_to so use that instead.

Fixes WARN_ON from skb_try_coalesce.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: annie li <annie.li@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.7.x only
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The __dev* removal patches for the network drivers ended up messing up
the function prototypes for a bunch of drivers.  This patch fixes all of
them back up to be properly aligned.

Bonus is that this almost removes 100 lines of code, always a nice
surprise.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As result the __dev*
markings will be going away.

Remove use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata, __devinitconst,
and __devexit.
Signed-off-by: NBill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

An SKB paged fragment can consist of a compound page with order > 0.
However the netchannel protocol deals only in PAGE_SIZE frames.

Handle this in xennet_make_frags by iterating over the frames which
make up the page.

This is the netfront equivalent to 6a8ed462 for netback.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: ANNIE LI <annie.li@oracle.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I'm slightly concerned by the "only in exceptional circumstances"
comment on __pskb_pull_tail but the structure of an skb just created
by netfront shouldn't hit any of the especially slow cases.

This approach still does slightly more work than the old way, since if
we pull up the entire first frag we now have to shuffle everything
down where before we just received into the right place in the first
place.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I believe net/core/dev.c is a better place for netif_notify_peers(),
because other net event notify functions also stay in this file.

And rename it to netdev_notify_peers().

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Fixes:
[   15.470311] WARNING: at /local/scratch/ianc/devel/kernels/linux/fs/sysfs/file.c:498 sysfs_attr_ns+0x95/0xa0()
[   15.470326] sysfs: kobject eth0 without dirent
[   15.470333] Modules linked in:
[   15.470342] Pid: 12, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 3.4.0-x86_32p-xenU #93
and
[    9.150554] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 2b359000
[    9.150577] IP: [<c1279561>] linkwatch_do_dev+0x81/0xc0
[    9.150592] *pdpt = 000000002c3c9027 *pde = 0000000000000000
[    9.150604] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[    9.150613] Modules linked in:

This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675190Reported-by: NGeorge Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: NWilliam Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: 675190@bugs.debian.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Netfront driver can be also useful in dom0, eg when all NICs are assigned to
some domU (aka driver domain). Then using netback in domU and netfront in dom0
is the only way to get network access in dom0.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Marczykowski <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit b9136d207f08
  xen: initialize platform-pci even if xen_emul_unplug=never

breaks blkfront/netfront by not loading them because of
xen_platform_pci_unplug=0 and it is never set for PV guest.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

When xen_emul_unplug=never is specified on kernel command line
reading files from /sys/hypervisor is broken (returns -EBUSY).
It is caused by xen_bus dependency on platform-pci and
platform-pci isn't initialized when xen_emul_unplug=never is
specified.

Fix it by allowing platform-pci to ignore xen_emul_unplug=never,
and do not intialize xen_[blk|net]front instead.
Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

alloc_etherdev has a generic OOM/unable to alloc message.
Remove the duplicative messages after alloc_etherdev calls.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

add polling interface to xen-netfront device to support netconsole

This patch also alters the spin_lock usage to use irqsave variant.
Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt states that start_xmit
can be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole and therefore using
the irqsave/restore locking in this function is looks correct.
Signed-off-by: NTina.Yang <tina.yang@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong.Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Ngurudas.pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
[v1: Copy-n-pasted Ian Campbell comments]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.

Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).

Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.

v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

After a guest is live migrated, the xen-netfront driver emits a gratuitous
ARP message, so that networking hardware on the target host's subnet can
take notice, and public routing to the guest is re-established. However,
if the packet appears on the backend interface before the backend is added
to the target host's bridge, the packet is lost, and the migrated guest's
peers become unable to talk to the guest.

A sufficient two-parts condition to prevent the above is:

(1) ensure that the backend only moves to Connected xenbus state after its
hotplug scripts completed, ie. the netback interface got added to the
bridge; and

(2) ensure the frontend only queues the gARP when it sees the backend move
to Connected.

These two together provide complete ordering. Sub-condition (1) is already
satisfied by commit f942dc25 in Linus' tree, based on commit
6b0b80ca7165 from [1].

In general, the full condition is sufficient, not necessary, because,
according to [2], live migration has been working for a long time without
satisfying sub-condition (2). However, after 6b0b80ca7165 was backported
to the RHEL-5 host to ensure (1), (2) still proved necessary in the RHEL-6
guest. This patch intends to provide (2) for upstream.

The Reviewed-by line comes from [3].

[1] git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git#upstream/dom0/backend/netback-history
[2] http://old-list-archives.xen.org/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01969.html
[3] http://old-list-archives.xen.org/xen-devel/2011-07/msg00484.htmlSigned-off-by: NLaszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Save some punctuation by using bool type's property equivalent to
doubled negation operator.
Reported-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

v2:	add couple missing conversions in drivers
	split unexporting netdev_fix_features()
	implemented %pNF
	convert sock::sk_route_(no?)caps
Signed-off-by: NMichał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

To ease skb->truesize sanitization, its better to be able to localize
all references to skb frags size.

Define accessors : skb_frag_size() to fetch frag size, and
skb_frag_size_{set|add|sub}() to manipulate it.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Convert xen driver to 64 bit statistics interface.
Use stats_sync to ensure that 64 bit update is read atomically on 32 bit platform.
Put hot statistics into per-cpu table.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Konrad reports:
[    0.930811] RTNL: assertion failed at /home/konrad/ssd/linux/net/core/dev.c (5258)
[    0.930821] Pid: 22, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 2.6.39-05193-gd762f438 #1
[    0.930825] Call Trace:
[    0.930834]  [<ffffffff8143bd0e>] __netdev_update_features+0xae/0xe0
[    0.930840]  [<ffffffff8143dd41>] netdev_update_features+0x11/0x30
[    0.930847]  [<ffffffffa0037105>] netback_changed+0x4e5/0x800 [xen_netfront]
[    0.930854]  [<ffffffff8132a838>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xa8/0xb0
[    0.930860]  [<ffffffff8157ca99>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x20
[    0.930866]  [<ffffffff8132adfe>] backend_changed+0xe/0x10
[    0.930871]  [<ffffffff8132875a>] xenwatch_thread+0xba/0x180
[    0.930876]  [<ffffffff810a8ba0>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[    0.930881]  [<ffffffff813286a0>] ? split+0xf0/0xf0
[    0.930886]  [<ffffffff810a8646>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
[    0.930891]  [<ffffffff815855a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[    0.930896]  [<ffffffff815846b3>] ? int_ret_from_sys_call+0x7/0x1b
[    0.930901]  [<ffffffff8157cf61>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[    0.930906]  [<ffffffff815855a0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

This update happens in xenbus watch callback context and hence does not already
hold the rtnl. Take the lock as necessary.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We need to assume that all features will be available when registering the
netdev otherwise they are ommitted from the initial set of
dev->wanted_features. When we connect to the backed we reduce the set as
necessary due to the call to netdev_update_features() in xennet_connect().
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Must declare xennet_fix_features() and xennet_set_features() before
using them.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Not tested in any way. The original code for offload setting seems broken
as it resets the features on every netback reconnect.

This will set GSO_ROBUST at device creation time (earlier than connect time).

RX checksum offload is forced on - so advertise as it is.
Signed-off-by: NMichał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag is marked as deprecated and will be removed.

Every input point to the kernel's entropy pool have to better document the
type of entropy source it is.

drivers/char/random.c now implements a set of interfaces that can be used for
devices to collect enviromental noise. IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM will be replaced
with these add_*_randomness exported functions.

Network drivers are not a good source of entropy. They use as a source of
entropy essentially a remote host. Which means that the source of entropy can
be potentially controlled by an attacker. Also, with heavy workloads the
entropy decreases due to less hardware interrupts happening thanks to irq
mitigation and NAPI.

If a system relies in its network interface as a entropy source it has a false
sense of security. Systems that don't have devices whose drivers are good
sources of entropy, should either use a hardware random number generator or
feed the kernel's entropy pool from userspace using other sources of entropy
such as EGD, video_entropyd, timer_entropyd and audio-entropyd.
Signed-off-by: NJavier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>