It is based on the assumption that an interface's ifindex is basically
an alias for a local MAC address, so incoming packets now are matched
to sockets based on remote MAC, session id, and ifindex of the
interface the packet came in on/the socket was bound to by connect().

For relayed packets, the socket that's used for relaying is selected
based on destination MAC, session ID and the interface index of the
interface whose name currently matches the name requested by userspace
as the relaying source interface.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Spotted by Ian McDonald, tentatively fixed by Gerrit Renker:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dccp%40vger.kernel.org/msg00599.html

Rewritten not to unroll sk_receive_skb, in the common case, i.e. no lock
debugging, its optimized away.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

PPPoE must advertise the underlying device's MTU via the ppp channel
descriptor structure, as multilink functionality depends on it.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

skb_clone() may fail, we should check the result.

Coverity CID: 1215.
Signed-off-by: NFlorin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We're now starting to have quite a number of places that do skb_pull
followed immediately by an skb_postpull_rcsum.  We can merge these two
operations into one function with skb_pull_rcsum.  This makes sense
since most pull operations on receive skb's need to update the
checksum.

I've decided to make this out-of-line since it is fairly big and the
fast path where hardware checksums are enabled need to call
csum_partial anyway.

Since this is a brand new function we get to add an extra check on the
len argument.  As it is most callers of skb_pull ignore its return
value which essentially means that there is no check on the len
argument.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

And actually, with this, the whole pppox layer can basically
be removed and subsumed into pppoe.c, no other pppox sub-protocol
implementation exists and we've had this thing for at least 4
years.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Its common enough to to justify that, TCP still can't use it as it has the
prequeueing stuff, still to be made generic in the not so distant future :-)
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

A bunch of create_proc_dir_entry() calls creating directories had crept
in since the last sweep; converted to proc_mkdir().
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
device into packet_type->func() as an argument.

It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!