Unsigned minus constant is still unsigned so checking its sign makes no
sense.
The problem has been detected using proposed semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci [1].
[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2038576
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Variable can store negative values.
The problem has been detected using proposed semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci [1].
[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2038576
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
phy_mode can be negative.
The problem has been detected using proposed semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci [1].
[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2038576
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Difference of unsigned values is also unsigned so it does not make
sense to check its sign.
The problem has been detected using proposed semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci [1].
[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2038576
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:
====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next
The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for your net-next tree
in this 4.4 development cycle, they are:
1) Schedule ICMP traffic to IPVS instances, this introduces a new schedule_icmp
proc knob to enable/disable it. By default is off to retain the old
behaviour. Patchset from Alex Gartrell.
I'm also including what Alex originally said for the record:
"The configuration of ipvs at Facebook is relatively straightforward. All
ipvs instances bgp advertise a set of VIPs and the network prefers the
nearest one or uses ECMP in the event of a tie. For the uninitiated, ECMP
deterministically and statelessly load balances by hashing the packet
(usually a 5-tuple of protocol, saddr, daddr, sport, and dport) and using
that number as an index (basic hash table type logic).
The problem is that ICMP packets (which contain really important
information like whether or not an MTU has been exceeded) will get a
different hash value and may end up at a different ipvs instance. With no
information about where to route these packets, they are dropped, creating
ICMP black holes and breaking Path MTU discovery. Suddenly, my mom's
pictures can't load and I'm fielding midday calls that I want nothing to do
with.
To address this, this patch set introduces the ability to schedule icmp
packets which is gated by a sysctl net.ipv4.vs.schedule_icmp. If set to 0,
the old behavior is maintained -- otherwise ICMP packets are scheduled."
2) Add another proc entry to ignore tunneled packets to avoid routing loops
from IPVS, also from Alex.
3) Fifteen patches from Eric Biederman to:
* Stop passing nf_hook_ops as parameter to the hook and use the state hook
object instead all around the netfilter code, so only the private data
pointer is passed to the registered hook function.
* Now that we've got state->net, propagate the netns pointer to netfilter hook
clients to avoid its computation over and over again. A good example of how
this has been simplified is the former TEE target (now nf_dup infrastructure)
since it has killed the ugly pick_net() function.
There's another round of netns updates from Eric Biederman making the line. To
avoid the patchbomb again to almost all the networking mailing list (that is 84
patches) I'd suggest we send you a pull request with no patches or let me know
if you prefer a better way.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mugunthan V N says:
====================
Add support for reading macid when DT macid not found
Did a boot test on dra7-evm [1] and am437x-gp-evm [2].
Pushed a branch [3] for others to test the patch.
[1]: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/12513420/
[2]: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/12513428/
[3]: git://git.ti.com/~mugunthanvnm/ti-linux-kernel/linux.git cpsw-macid-read-support
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are 2 MACIDs stored in the control module of the am4372.
These are read by the cpsw driver if no valid MACID was found
in the devicetree.
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are 2 MACIDs stored in the control module of the dra7.
These are read by the cpsw driver if no valid MACID was found
in the devicetree.
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding support for reading mac address using syscon driver for
dra7 and am437x platforms
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Moving mac address reading from ethernet driver to common
file for better maintenance and for code reusable.
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge tag 'linux-can-next-for-4.4-20150921' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can-next
Marc Kleine-Budde says:
====================
pull-request: can-next 2015-09-17
this is a pull request of 8 patches for net-next/master.
All 8 patches are by me and cleanup the flexcan driver.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We were checking twice for ec->tx_coalesce_usecs_high, remove the
duplicate test.
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Reported-by: kbuild-all@01.org
Fixes: 2f9130709d ("net: bcmgenet: Implement TX coalescing control knobs")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch makes TLP to use 1 sec timer by default when RTT is
not available due to SYN/ACK retransmission or SYN cookies.
Prior to this change, the lack of RTT prevents TLP so the first
data packets sent can only be recovered by fast recovery or RTO.
If the fast recovery fails to trigger the RTO is 3 second when
SYN/ACK is retransmitted. With this patch we can trigger fast
recovery in 1sec instead.
Note that we need to check Fast Open more properly. A Fast Open
connection could be (accepted then) closed before it receives
the final ACK of 3WHS so the state is FIN_WAIT_1. Without the
new check, TLP will retransmit FIN instead of SYN/ACK.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently SYN/ACK RTT is measured in jiffies. For LAN the SYN/ACK
RTT is often measured as 0ms or sometimes 1ms, which would affect
RTT estimation and min RTT samping used by some congestion control.
This patch improves SYN/ACK RTT to be usec resolution if platform
supports it. While the timestamping of SYN/ACK is done in request
sock, the RTT measurement is carefully arranged to avoid storing
another u64 timestamp in tcp_sock.
For regular handshake w/o SYNACK retransmission, the RTT is sampled
right after the child socket is created and right before the request
sock is released (tcp_check_req() in tcp_minisocks.c)
For Fast Open the child socket is already created when SYN/ACK was
sent, the RTT is sampled in tcp_rcv_state_process() after processing
the final ACK an right before the request socket is released.
If the SYN/ACK was retransmistted or SYN-cookie was used, we rely
on TCP timestamps to measure the RTT. The sample is taken at the
same place in tcp_rcv_state_process() after the timestamp values
are validated in tcp_validate_incoming(). Note that we do not store
TS echo value in request_sock for SYN-cookies, because the value
is already stored in tp->rx_opt used by tcp_ack_update_rtt().
One side benefit is that the RTT measurement now happens before
initializing congestion control (of the passive side). Therefore
the congestion control can use the SYN/ACK RTT.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ursula Braun says:
====================
s390: qeth and iucv patches
here is version 2 of some s390 related qeth patches for net-next. The patch by
Thomas Richter adds a new feature to the qeth layer2 code; the remaining
patches are minor improvements.
Version 2 of patch 4 uses the desired indentation in function declarations
and definitions spanning multiple lines in almost all cases. Thomas run into a
conflict with the maximum number of columns once. Thus you will still see one
function definition using an earlier column before the opening paranthesis.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The iucv code uses arrays as arguments. Even though this does not
really cause a problem, it could be misleading, since the compiler
turns array arguments into just a pointer argument. To be more
precise this patch changes the array arguments into pointers.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Checksum offloading for send and receive is already
supported for layer 3 (IP layer). This patch
adds support for RX and TX hardware checksum offloading
for layer 2 (MAC layer). The hardware calculates the checksum
for IP UDP and TCP packets.
This patch moves the hardware checksum offloading setup
to the set of common functions in qeth_core_main.c.
Layer 2 and layer 3 now simply call the same common functions.
Also note that TX checksum offloading is always enabled.
The device driver relies on the TCP/IP stack to make use of
this feature.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
An OSA-Express port name was required to identify a shared OSA port.
All operating system instances that shared the port had to use the
same port name. This requirement no longer applies.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User is not allowed to write into bridge_state sysfs file.
Fixed attribute not mislead the user
Signed-off-by: Lakhvich Dmitriy <ldmitriy@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Length specifier in the %pM format is not supported (at least, not
documented). Remove it, and also an extraneous '&' for the array.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johan Hedberg says:
====================
pull request: bluetooth-next 2015-09-18
Here's the first bluetooth-next pull request for the 4.4 kernel:
- ieee802154 cleanups & fixes
- debugfs support for the at86rf230 driver
- Support for quirky (seemingly counterfeit) CSR Bluetooth controllers
- Power management and device config improvements for Intel controllers
- Fix for devices with incorrect advertising data length
- Fix for closing HCI user channel socket
Please let me know if there are any issues pulling. Thanks.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch defers the writing of the interrupts bits of the CTRL register order
to enables all interrupts atomically at the the of the flexcan_chip_start()
function.
Suggested-by: Torsten Lang <torsten.lang@uweschneider.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch gives the member of flexcan_priv holding mailboxes a sensible name,
by renaming from "cantxfg" to "mb":
struct flexcan_priv::cantxfg -> struct flexcan_priv::mb
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch renames the pointer to the mmio address space from "base" to "regs"
and changes the type from "void __iomem *" to "struct flexcan_regs __iomem *".
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch renames the "features" member of struct flexcan_devtype_data to
"quirks". The corresponding defines are renamed too, to reflect what they
actually do.
FLEXCAN_HAS_V10_FEATURES -> FLEXCAN_QUIRK_DISABLE_RXFG
FLEXCAN_HAS_BROKEN_ERR_STATE -> FLEXCAN_QUIRK_BROKEN_ERR_STATE
FLEXCAN_HAS_MECR_FEATURES -> FLEXCAN_QUIRK_DISABLE_MECR
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch changes the order the individual bits of the mcr register in
flexcan_chip_start() are or'ed together to match the datasheet. The inline
documentation is adjusted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch adds the missing #include-s to the dev.h and led.h, so that they can
be used without including further header files.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-09-17
This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf.
Shannon provides updates to i40e and i40evf to resolve an issue with the
nvmupdate utility. First renames a variable name to reduce confusion and
to differentiate it from the actual user variable. Then added the ability
to save the admin queue write back descriptor if a caller supplies a
buffer for it to be saved into. Added a new GetStatus command so that
the NVM update tool can query the current status instead of doing fake
write requests to probe for readiness. Added wait states to the NVM
update state machine to signify when waiting for an update operation to
finish, whether we are in the middle of a set of write operations, or we
are now idle but waiting. Then added a facility to run admin queue
commands through the NVM update utility in order to allow the update
tools to interact with the firmware and do special commands needed for
updates and configuration changes. Also added a facility to recover the
result of a previously run admin queue command.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge tag 'linux-can-next-for-4.4-20150917' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can-next
Marc Kleine-Budde says:
====================
pull-request: can-next 2015-09-17
this is a pull request of two patches for net-next/master.
Gerhard Bertelsmann adds support for the CAN controller found on the
Allwinner A10/A20 SoC.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace time_t type and get_seconds function which are not y2038 safe
on 32-bit systems. Function ktime_get_seconds use monotonic instead of
real time and therefore will not cause overflow.
Signed-off-by: Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
huangdaode says:
====================
net: Hisilicon Network Subsystem support
This is V2 of Hisilicon Network Subsystem(HNS) patchesets taking care
about LKML comments.
Please find out the changes from the change logs.
This patchset is rebased on mainline kernel Linux 4.3-rc1 branch.
[PATCH v2 1/5] Device Tree Binding Documentation
[PATCH v2 2/5] Merge MDIO Module
[PATCH v2 3/5] Hisilicon Network Acceleration Engine Framework
[PATCH v2 4/5] Distributed System Area Fabric Module
[PATCH v2 5/5] Basic Ethernet Driver Module
Changes from V1:
1. Remove "inline" in C file (according to LKML comment, same in below).
2. Fix a bug about class_find_device.
3. Change the DTS pattern on hnae, restruct it to compatible with Hi1610 soc.
4. Unified hip04_mdio and hip05_mdio into hns_mdio, which is more usaul for
later SOCs.
V1 Patches Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/14/165
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is to add basic ethernet support for HNS. It is one of the way to
use the HNS acceleration engine. But most of the decoding/encoding
capability of the AE cannot be used in this way.
This submit contains the basic feature as a ethernet driver. More will
be added later.
Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
DSAF, namely Distributed System Area Fabric, is one of the HNS
acceleration engine implementation. This patch add DSAF driver to the
system.
hns_ae_adapt: the adaptor for registering the driver to HNAE framework
hns_dsaf_mac: MAC cover interface for GE and XGE
hns_dsaf_gmac: GE (10/100/1000G Ethernet) MAC function
hns_dsaf_xgmac: XGE (10000+G Ethernet) MAC function
hns_dsaf_main: the platform device driver for the whole hardware
hns_dsaf_misc: some misc helper function, such as LED support
hns_dsaf_ppe: packet process engine function
hns_dsaf_rcb: ring buffer function
Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
HNAE (Hisilicon Network Acceleration Engine) is a framework to provide a
unified ring buffer interface for Hisilicon Network Acceleration
Engines.
With the interface, upper layer can work as ethernet driver, ODP driver
or other service driver on purpose.
Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The MDIO support for Hisilicon Network Subsystem. It is used in Hislicon
hip04, hip05 and Hi1610 SoC to control the external PHY
Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Hisilicon Network Subsystem is a long term evolution IP which is
supposed to be used in Hisilicon ICT SoC. The IP, which is called hns
for short, is a TCP/IP acceleration engine, which can directly decode
TCP/IP stream and distribute them to different ring buffers.
HNS can be configured to work on different mode for different scenario.
This patch make use only some of the mode to make it as standard
ethernet NIC. The other mode will be added soon.
The whole function has 4 kernel sub-modules:
hnae: the HNS acceleration engine framework. It provides a abstract
interface between the engine and the upper layers which make use of the
engine by ring buffer.
hns_enet_drv: a standard ethernet driver that base on the ring buffer.
hns_dsaf: one of the implementation of HNS acceleration engine, which is
applied on Hililicon hip05, Hi1610 and other later-on SoCs
hns_mdio: the mdio control to the PHY, used by acceleration engine
This submit add basic config and documents
Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If netfront connects with two (or more) queues and then reconnects with
only one queue it fails to delete or rewrite the multi-queue-num-queues
key and netback will try to use the wrong number of queues.
Always write the num-queues field if the backend has multi-queue support.
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use nf_ct_net(ct) instead of guessing that the netdevice out can
reliably report the network namespace the conntrack operation is
happening in.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Instead of calling dev_net on a likley looking network device
pass state->net into nf_xfrm_me_harder.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Only pass the void *priv parameter out of the nf_hook_ops. That is
all any of the functions are interested now, and by limiting what is
passed it becomes simpler to change implementation details.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This should be more cache efficient as state is more likely to be in
core, and the netfilter core will stop passing in ops soon.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
As gre does not have the srckey in the packet gre_pkt_to_tuple
needs to perform a lookup in it's per network namespace tables.
Pass in the proper network namespace to all pkt_to_tuple
implementations to ensure gre (and any similar protocols) can get this
right.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Stop guessing the struct net instead of remember it. Guessing is just
silly and will be problematic in the future when I implement routes
between network namespaces.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This allows them to stop guessing the network namespace with pick_net.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
nft_pktinfo is passed on the stack so this does not bloat any in core
data structures.
By centrally computing this information this makes maintence of the code
simpler, and understading of the code easier.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
