In order to handle association and authentication in AP mode,
hostapd needs access to the tx status info of its own frames
through a cooked monitor interface. Without this patch the
cooked monitor interfaces also passed on tx status information
for packets from other virtual interfaces. This creates a
significant performance issue on embedded system. Hostapd
tries to work around this by installing a Linux Socket Filter
that only captures the frames it's interested in, however
data duplication and socket filter matching still uses up
enough CPU cycles to be very noticeable on small systems.
This patch ensures that tx status information of non-injected
frames does not make it to cooked monitor interfaces.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NRémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:26:04AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> Really, the link watch stuff is just due for a redesign.  I don't
>> think a simple hack is going to cut it this time, sorry Eric :-)
>
> I have no objections against any redesigns, but since the only
> caller of linkwatch_forget_dev runs in process context with the
> RTNL, it could also legally emit those events.

Thanks guys, here an updated version then, before linkwatch surgery ?

In this version, I force the event to be sent synchronously.

[PATCH net-next-2.6] linkwatch: linkwatch_forget_dev() to speedup device dismantle

time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real	0m0.266s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s

real	0m0.770s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

real	0m1.022s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

One problem of current schem in vlan dismantle phase is the
holding of device done by following chain :

vlan_dev_stop() ->
	netif_carrier_off(dev) ->
		linkwatch_fire_event(dev) ->
			dev_hold() ...

And __linkwatch_run_queue() runs up to one second later...

A generic fix to this problem is to add a linkwatch_forget_dev() method
to unlink the device from the list of watched devices.

dev->link_watch_next becomes dev->link_watch_list (and use a bit more memory),
to be able to unlink device in O(1).

After patch :
time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real    0m0.024s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

real    0m0.032s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s

real    0m0.033s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This new event is called once for each unique net namespace in batched
unregister operations (with the argument set to a random device from
that namespace) and once per device in non-batched unregister
operations.

It allows us to factorize some device unregister work such as clearing the
routing cache.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

With multi queue devices, its possible that several cpus call
vlan RX routines simultaneously for the same vlan device.

We update RX stats counter without any locking, so we can
get slightly wrong counters.

One possible fix is to use percpu counters, to get precise
accounting and also get guarantee of no cache line ping pongs
between cpus.

Note: this adds 16 bytes (32 bytes on 64bit arches) of percpu
data per vlan device.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some drivers ndo_get_stats() method need to perform txqueue stats folding.

Move folding from dev_get_stats() to a new dev_txq_stats_fold() function
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

move checking if eaction is valid in tcf_mirred_init()
Signed-off-by: NChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1. don't let go back using goto.
2. don't call skb_act_clone() until it is necessary.
3. one exit of the critical context.
Signed-off-by: NChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Reported-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The netlink URELEASE notifier doesn't notify for
sockets that have been used to receive multicast
but it should be called for such sockets as well
since they might _also_ be used for sending and
not solely for receiving multicast. We will need
that for nl80211 (generic netlink sockets) in the
future.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Cooked monitor interfaces cannot currently receive Probe Request
frames when the interface is in station mode. However, we do not
process Probe Request frames internally in the station MLME, so there
is no point in queueing the frame here. Remove Probe Request frames
from the queued frame list to allow cooked monitor interfaces to
receive these frames.
Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

net: Fix the rollback test in dev_change_name()

In dev_change_name() an err variable is used for storing the original
call_netdevice_notifiers() errno (negative) and testing for a rollback
error later, but the test for non-zero is wrong, because the err might
have positive value as well - from dev_alloc_name(). It means the
rollback for a netdevice with a number > 0 will never happen. (The err
test is reordered btw. to make it more readable.)
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The function print_mac in net/ethernet/eth.c is marked __deprecated
and not used. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NMarin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 05423b24 (vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used)
forgot to update __vlan_hwaccel_rx() & vlan_gro_common()

We need to set VLAN_TAG_PRESENT flag in skb->vlan_tci
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recent changes in the TX error propagation require additional checking
and masking of values returned from hard_start_xmit(), mainly to
separate cases where skb was consumed. This aim can be simplified by
changing the order of NETDEV_TX and NET_XMIT codes, because the latter
are treated similarly to negative (ERRNO) values.

After this change much simpler dev_xmit_complete() is also used in
sch_direct_xmit(), so it is moved to netdevice.h.

Additionally NET_RX definitions in netdevice.h are moved up from
between TX codes to avoid confusion while reading the TX comment.
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Check the return value of ndo_select_queue(). If the value isn't smaller
than the real_num_tx_queues, print a warning message, and reset it to zero.
Signed-off-by: NChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
----
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Basic Mode is the default mode of operation of a L2CAP entity. In
this case the RFC (Retransmission and Flow Control) configuration
option should not be used at all.

Normally remote L2CAP implementation should just ignore this option,
but it can cause various side effects with other Bluetooth stacks
that are not capable of handling unknown options.
Signed-off-by: NGustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

The default mode for SOCK_SEQPACKET is Basic Mode. So when no
mode has been specified, Basic Mode shall be used.

This is important for current application to keep working as
expected and not cause a regression.
Signed-off-by: NGustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

This patch fixes double pairing issues with Secure Simple
Paring support. It was observed that when pairing with SSP
enabled, that the confirmation will be asked twice.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg02473.html

This also causes bug when initiating SSP connection from
Windows Vista.

The reason is because bluetoothd does not store link keys
since HCIGETAUTHINFO returns 0. Setting default to general
bonding fixes these issues.
Signed-off-by: NAndrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

Signed-off-by: NRémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NRémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If iucv_work_queue is not empty during kernel freeze, a kernel panic
occurs. This suspend-patch adds flushing of the work queue for
pending connection requests and severing of remaining pending
connections.
Signed-off-by: NUrsula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

While investigating for network latencies, I found inet_getid() was a
contention point for some workloads, as inet_peer_idlock is shared
by all inet_getid() users regardless of peers.

One way to fix this is to make ip_id_count an atomic_t instead
of __u16, and use atomic_add_return().

In order to keep sizeof(struct inet_peer) = 64 on 64bit arches
tcp_ts_stamp is also converted to __u32 instead of "unsigned long".
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When handling large number of netdevices, inet6_dump_addr()
is very slow because it has O(N^2) complexity.

Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the NETDEV_HASHENTRIES
sub lists of the dev_index hash table, and RCU lookups.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:36 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When handling large number of netdevices, inet_dump_ifaddr()
>> is very slow because it has O(N^2) complexity.
>>
>> Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the NETDEV_HASHENTRIES
>> sub lists of the dev_index hash table, and RCU lookups.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>
> You might be able to make RCU critical section smaller by moving
> it into loop.
>

Indeed. But we dump at most one skb (<= 8192 bytes ?), so rcu_read_lock
holding time is small, unless we meet many netdevices without
addresses. I wonder if its really common...

Thanks

[PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: speedup inet_dump_ifaddr()

When handling large number of netdevices, inet_dump_ifaddr()
is very slow because it has O(N2) complexity.

Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the NETDEV_HASHENTRIES
sub lists of the dev_index hash table, and RCU lookups.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We need to use next_det_device_rcu() in RCU protected section.

We also can avoid in_dev_get()/in_dev_put() overhead (code size mainly)
in rcu_read_lock() sections.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

No longer need read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.
We also can avoid taking references on inet6_dev structs.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space.

Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in
most cases.  Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581).

Replace numeric constants with defined symbols.

Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT.

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The other error paths in front of this one have a dev_put() but this one
got missed.

Found by smatch static checker.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NWang Chen <ellre923@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recent commits
	sctp: Get rid of an extra routing lookup when adding a transport
and
	sctp: Set source addresses on the association before adding transports

changed when routes are added to the sctp transports.  As such,
we didn't set the socket source address correctly when adding the first
transport.  The first transport is always the primary/active one, so
when adding it, set the socket source address.  This was causing
regression failures in SCTP tests.
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

A new (unrealeased to the user) sctp_connectx api

c6ba68a2
    sctp: support non-blocking version of the new sctp_connectx() API

introduced a regression cought by the user regression test
suite.  In particular, the API requires the user library to
re-allocate the buffer and could potentially trigger a SIGFAULT.

This change corrects that regression by passing the original
address buffer to the kernel unmodified, but still allows for
a returned association id.
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Recent commit 8da645e1
	sctp: Get rid of an extra routing lookup when adding a transport
introduced a regression in the connection setup.  The behavior was

different between IPv4 and IPv6.  IPv4 case ended up working because the
route lookup routing returned a NULL route, which triggered another
route lookup later in the output patch that succeeded.  In the IPv6 case,
a valid route was returned for first call, but we could not find a valid
source address at the time since the source addresses were not set on the
association yet.  Thus resulted in a hung connection.

The solution is to set the source addresses on the association prior to
adding peers.
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Without this patch, broadcast frames from the station behind a
4-addr AP VLAN would be reflected back to the source.
Fix this by checking the 4-addr flag before bridging multicast
frames in the cell.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch implements the NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY command and an get_survey()
ops that a driver can implement. The goal of this command is to allow a
drivers to report channel survey data (e.g. channel noise, channel
occupation).

For now, only the mechanism to report back channel noise has been
implemented.

In future, there will either be a survey-trigger command --- or the existing
scan-trigger command will be enhanced. This will allow user-space to
request survey for arbitrary channels.

Note: any driver that cannot report channel noise should not report
any value at all, e.g. made-up -92 dBm.
Signed-off-by: NHolger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

... which get's rid of three indentical cut-n-paste sections.
Signed-off-by: NHolger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NRui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: NBrian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>