Alexander Duyck says:

====================
Add support for offloads with IPv6 GRE tunnels

This patch series enables the use of segmentation and checksum offloads
with IPv6 based GRE tunnels.

In order to enable this series I had to make a change to
iptunnel_handle_offloads so that it would no longer free the skb.  This was
necessary as there were multiple paths in the IPv6 GRE code that required
the skb to still be present so it could be freed.  As it turned out I
believe this actually fixes a bug that was present in FOU/GUE based tunnels
anyway.

Below is a quick breakdown of the performance gains seen with a simple
netperf test passing traffic through a ip6gretap tunnel and then an i40e
interface:

Throughput Throughput  Local Local   Result
           Units       CPU   Service Tag
                       Util  Demand
                       %
3544.93    10^6bits/s  6.30  4.656   "before"
13081.75   10^6bits/s  3.75  0.752   "after"
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds code borrowed from bits and pieces of other protocols to
the IPv6 GRE path so that we can support GSO over IPv6 based GRE tunnels.
By adding this support we are able to significantly improve the throughput
for GRE tunnels as we are able to make use of GSO.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Since GRE doesn't really care about L3 protocol we can support IPv4 and
IPv6 using the same offloads.  With that being the case we can add a call
to register the offloads for IPv6 as a part of our GRE offload
initialization.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support for the basic offloads we support on most devices.
Specifically with this patch set we can support checksum offload, basic
scatter-gather, and highdma.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When we were creating an ip6gretap interface the MTU was about 6 bytes
short of what was needed.  It turns out we were not taking the Ethernet
header into account and as a result we were eating into the 8 bytes
reserved for the encap limit.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch updates the IP tunnel core function iptunnel_handle_offloads so
that we return an int and do not free the skb inside the function.  This
actually allows us to clean up several paths in several tunnels so that we
can free the skb at one point in the path without having to have a
secondary path if we are supporting tunnel offloads.

In addition it should resolve some double-free issues I have found in the
tunnels paths as I believe it is possible for us to end up triggering such
an event in the case of fou or gue.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Akinobu Mita says:

====================
net: w5100: add support W5100/W5200 for SPI interface

This series add support for Wiznet W5100 and W5200 for SPI interface.

We can easily find the ethernet modules and shield for Arduino with
these chips for purchase.  I've tested them with BeagleBone.

Wiznet W5100 for mmio access has already supported by w5100 driver.

In order to share the code between mmio mode and SPI mode, this series
firstly adds ability to support another register access interface to
the existing w5100 driver.  This ground work also requires to introduce
workqueue and threaded irq because SPI transfers are callable only from
contexts that can sleep unlike mmio access.

The latter part of this series adds w5100-spi driver which actually
support W5100 and W5200 for SPI interface.  Supporting W5100 is
straight forward because it only required to add a register access
interface by the SPI transfer.  W5100 and W5200 have similar memory
map which justifies adding W5200 support to w5100 driver.

* Changes from v2 to v3
- Add comment for reg_lock
- Add ability to allocate ops specific data structure
- Allocate w5200 ops specific data structure to put DMA-safe buffer
- Add missing chip_id assignment for w5100_*_ops

* Changes from v1 to v2
- Use a plain single pointer instead of SKB queue, spotted by David S. Miller
- Correct timeout period in w5100_command
- Use spi_write_then_read instead of spi_write which needs DMA-safe buffer
- Support W5200
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This adds support for W5200 chip.

W5100 and W5200 have similar memory map although some of their offsets
are different.  The register access sequences between them are different
but w5100 driver has abstraction layer for difference bus interface
modes so it is easy to add W5200 support to w5100 and w5100-spi drivers.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This adds new w5100-spi driver which shares the bus interface
independent code with existing w5100 driver.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

SPI transfer routines are callable only from contexts that can sleep.

This adds ability to tell the core driver that the interface mode
cannot access w5100 register on atomic contexts.  In this case,
workqueue and threaded irq are required.

This also corrects timeout period waiting for command register to be
automatically cleared because the latency of the register access with
SPI transfer can be interfered by other contexts.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The w5100 driver currently only supports direct and indirect bus
interface mode which use MMIO space for accessing w5100 registers.

In order to support SPI interface mode which is supported by W5100 chip,
this makes the bus interface abstraction layer more generic so that
separated w5100-spi driver can use w5100 driver as core module.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Instead of sprinkle mmiowb over the driver code, move it into primary
register write callbacks. (w5100_write, w5100_write16, w5100_writebuf)

This is a preparation for supporting SPI interface which doesn't use
MMIO for accessing w5100 registers.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We only need to do the synchronize_net dance once for both, ipv4 and
ipv6 sockets, thus removing one synchronize_net in case both sockets get
dismantled.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Due to the fact that the udp socket is destructed asynchronously in a
work queue, we have some nondeterministic behavior during shutdown of
vxlan tunnels and creating new ones. Fix this by keeping the destruction
process synchronous in regards to the user space process so IFF_UP can
be reliably set.

udp_tunnel_sock_release destroys vs->sock->sk if reference counter
indicates so. We expect to have the same lifetime of vxlan_sock and
vxlan_sock->sock->sk even in fast paths with only rcu locks held. So
only destruct the whole socket after we can be sure it cannot be found
by searching vxlan_net->sock_list.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When tested the PHY SGMII Loopback:
1.set the LOOPBACK bit,
2.set the autoneg to AUTONEG_DISABLE, it calls the
genphy_setup_forced which will clear the bit.

The BMCR_LOOPBACK bit should be preserved.

As Florian pointed out that other bits should be preserved too.
So I make the BMCR_ISOLATE and BMCR_PDOWN as well.
Signed-off-by: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Xin Long says:

====================
sctp: support sctp_diag in kernel

This patchset will add sctp_diag module to implement diag interface on
sctp in kernel.

For a listening sctp endpoint, we will just dump it's ep info.
For a sctp connection, we will the assoc info and it's ep info.

The ss dump will looks like:

[iproute2]# ./misc/ss --sctp  -n -l
State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer Address:Port
LISTEN     0      128      172.16.254.254:8888      *:*
LISTEN     0      5        127.0.0.1:1234           *:*
LISTEN     0      5        127.0.0.1:1234           *:*
  - ESTAB  0      0        127.0.0.1%lo:1234        127.0.0.1:4321
LISTEN     0      128      172.16.254.254:8888      *:*
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.253.253:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.1.1:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.1.2:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.2.1:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.2.2:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.3.1:8888
  - ESTAB  0      0        172.16.254.254%eth1:8888 172.16.3.2:8888
LISTEN     0      0        127.0.0.1:4321           *:*
  - ESTAB  0      0        127.0.0.1%lo:4321        127.0.0.1:1234

The entries with '- ESTAB' are the assocs, some of them may belong to
the same endpoint. So we will dump the parent endpoint first, like the
entry with 'LISTEN'. then dump the assocs. ep and assocs entries will
be dumped in right order so that ss can show them in tree format easily.

Besides, this patchset also simplifies sctp proc codes, cause it has
some similar codes with sctp diag in sctp transport traversal.

v1->v2:
  1. inet_diag_get_handler needs to return it as const.
  2. merge 5/7 into 2/7 of v1.

v2->v3:
  do some improvements and fixes in patch 1-4, see the details in
  each patch's comment.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When rhashtable_walk_init return err, no release function should be
called, and when rhashtable_walk_start return err, we should only invoke
rhashtable_walk_exit to release the source.

But now when sctp_transport_walk_start return err, we just call
rhashtable_walk_stop/exit, and never care about if rhashtable_walk_init
or start return err, which is so bad.

We will fix it by calling rhashtable_walk_exit if rhashtable_walk_start
return err in sctp_transport_walk_start, and if sctp_transport_walk_start
return err, we do not need to call sctp_transport_walk_stop any more.

For sctp proc, we will use 'iter->start_fail' to decide if we will call
rhashtable_walk_stop/exit.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In sctp proc, these three functions in remaddrs and assocs are the
same. we should merge them into one.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This one will implement all the interface of inet_diag, inet_diag_handler.
which includes sctp_diag_dump, sctp_diag_dump_one and sctp_diag_get_info.

It will work as a module, and register inet_diag_handler when loading.

v2->v3:
- fix the mistake in inet_assoc_attr_size().

- change inet_diag_msg_laddrs_fill() name to inet_diag_msg_sctpladdrs_fill.

- change inet_diag_msg_paddrs_fill() name to inet_diag_msg_sctpaddrs_fill.

- add inet_diag_msg_sctpinfo_fill() to make asoc/ep fill code clearer.

- add inet_diag_msg_sctpasoc_fill() to make asoc fill code clearer.

- merge inet_asoc_diag_fill() and inet_ep_diag_fill() to
  inet_sctp_diag_fill().

- call sctp_diag_get_info() directly, instead by handler, cause the caller
  is in the same file with it.

- call lock_sock in sctp_tsp_dump_one() to make sure we call get sctp info
  safely.

- after lock_sock(sk), we should check sk != assoc->base.sk.

- change mem[SK_MEMINFO_WMEM_ALLOC] to asoc->sndbuf_used for asoc dump when
  asoc->ep->sndbuf_policy is set. don't use INET_DIAG_MEMINFO attr any more.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

inet_diag_msg_common_fill is used to fill the diag msg common info,
we need to use it in sctp_diag as well, so export it.

inet_diag_msg_attrs_fill is used to fill some common attrs info between
sctp diag and tcp diag.

v2->v3:
- do not need to define and export inet_diag_get_handler any more.
  cause all the functions in it are in sctp_diag.ko, we just call
  them in sctp_diag.ko.

- add inet_diag_msg_attrs_fill to make codes clear.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For some main variables in sctp.ko, we couldn't export it to other modules,
so we have to define some api to access them.

It will include sctp transport and endpoint's traversal.

There are some transport traversal functions for sctp_diag, we can also
use it for sctp_proc. cause they have the similar situation to traversal
transport.

v2->v3:
- rhashtable_walk_init need the parameter gfp, because of recent upstrem
  update
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sctp_diag will dump some important details of sctp's assoc or ep, we use
sctp_info to describe them,  sctp_get_sctp_info to get them, and export
it to sctp_diag.ko.

v2->v3:
- we will not use list_for_each_safe in sctp_get_sctp_info, cause
  all the callers of it will use lock_sock.

- fix the holes in struct sctp_info with __reserved* field.
  because sctp_diag is a new feature, and sctp_info is just for now,
  it may be changed in the future.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

SCTP already serializes access to rcvbuf through its sock lock:
sctp_recvmsg takes it right in the start and release at the end, while
rx path will also take the lock before doing any socket processing. On
sctp_rcv() it will check if there is an user using the socket and, if
there is, it will queue incoming packets to the backlog. The backlog
processing will do the same. Even timers will do such check and
re-schedule if an user is using the socket.

Simplifying this will allow us to remove sctp_skb_list_tail and get ride
of some expensive lockings.  The lists that it is used on are also
mangled with functions like __skb_queue_tail and __skb_unlink in the
same context, like on sctp_ulpq_tail_event() and sctp_clear_pd().
sctp_close() will also purge those while using only the sock lock.

Therefore the lockings performed by sctp_skb_list_tail() are not
necessary. This patch removes this function and replaces its calls with
just skb_queue_splice_tail_init() instead.

The biggest gain is at sctp_ulpq_tail_event(), because the events always
contain a list, even if it's queueing a single skb and this was
triggering expensive calls to spin_lock_irqsave/_irqrestore for every
data chunk received.

As SCTP will deliver each data chunk on a corresponding recvmsg, the
more effective the change will be.
Before this patch, with chunks with 30 bytes:
netperf -t SCTP_STREAM -H 192.168.1.2 -cC -l 60 -- -m 30 -S 400000
400000 -s 400000 400000
on a 10Gbit link with 1500 MTU:

SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

425984 425984     30    60.00       137.45   7.34     7.36     52.504  52.608

With it:

SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

425984 425984     30    60.00       179.10   7.97     6.70     43.740  36.788
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Saeed Mahameed says:

====================
mlx5_core: mlx5_ifc updates

This series include mlx5_core updates for both net-next and rdma
trees for 4.7 kernel cycle. This is the only shared code planned
for 4.7 between rdma and net trees. Hopefully, this will prevent
future conflicts when merging between ib-next and net-next once
4.7 cycle is over and merge window is opened.

Both Mellanox rdma and net submissions will proceed once this series
is applied into both trees.

Future shared code will be sent to both maintainers as pull requests
from Mellanox's kernel.org tree.

We have included all the maintainers of respective drivers.
Kindly review the change and let us know in case of any review comments.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Adding the needed mlx5_ifc hardware bits and structs
for the following feature:

* Add vport to steering commands for SRIOV ACL support
* Add mlcr, pcmr and mcia registers for dump module EEPROM
* Add support for FCS, baeacon led and disable_link bits to
  hca caps
* Add CQE period mode bit in  CQ context for CQE based CQ
  moderation support
* Add umr SQ bit for fragmented memory registration
* Add needed bits and caps for Striding RQ support
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

All reserved fields after early_vf_enable are off by 1, since
early_vf_enable was not explicitly declared as array of size 1.

Reserved field before cqe_zip had a wrong size, it should
be 0x80 + 0x3f.

Fixes: b0844444 ("net/mlx5_core: Introduce access function to read internal timer ")
Fixes: b4ff3a36 ("net/mlx5: Use offset based reserved field names in the IFC header file")
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Manish Chopra says:

====================
qed/qede: Add tunneling support

This patch series adds support for VXLAN, GRE and GENEVE tunnels
to be used over this driver. With this support, adapter can perform
TSO offload, inner/outer checksums offloads on TX and RX for
encapsulated packets.

V1->V2 [ Comments from Jesse Gross incorporated ]
* Drop general infrastructure change patch.
  "net: Make vxlan/geneve default udp ports public"
* Remove by default Linux default UDP ports configurations in driver.
  Instead, use general registration APIs for UDP port configurations
* Removing .ndo_features_check - we will add it later with proper change.

Please consider applying this series to net-next.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch enables netdev tunneling features and adds
TX/RX fastpath support for tunneling in driver.
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch enables GENEVE tunnel on the adapter and
add support for driver hooks to configure UDP ports
for GENEVE tunnel offload to be performed by the adapter.
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch enables VXLAN tunnel on the adapter and
add support for driver hooks to configure UDP ports
for VXLAN tunnel offload to be performed by the adapter.
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds various structure/APIs needed to configure/enable different
tunnel [VXLAN/GRE/GENEVE] parameters on the adapter.
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support for the newer version 1 of the HSR
networking standard. Version 0 is still default and the new
version has to be selected via iproute2.

Main changes are in the supervision frame handling and its
ethertype field.
Signed-off-by: Peter Heise <peter.heise@airbus.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Eric Dumazet says:

====================
tcp: final work on SYNFLOOD behavior

In the first patch, I remove the costly association of SYNACK+COOKIES
to a listener. I believe other parts of the stack should be ready.

The second patch removes a useless write into listener socket
in tcp_rcv_state_process(), incurring false sharing in
tcp_conn_request()

Performance under SYNFLOOD goes from 3.2 Mpps to 6 Mpps.

Test was using a single TCP listener, on a host with 8 RX queues
on the NIC, and 24 cores (48 ht)
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Last known hot point during SYNFLOOD attack is the clearing
of rx_opt.saw_tstamp in tcp_rcv_state_process()

It is not needed for a listener, so we move it where it matters.

Performance while a SYNFLOOD hits a single listener socket
went from 5 Mpps to 6 Mpps on my test server (24 cores, 8 NIC RX queues)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When removing sk_refcnt manipulation on synflood, I missed that
using skb_set_owner_w() was racy, if sk->sk_wmem_alloc had already
transitioned to 0.

We should hold sk_refcnt instead, but this is a big deal under attack.
(Doing so increase performance from 3.2 Mpps to 3.8 Mpps only)

In this patch, I chose to not attach a socket to syncookies skb.

Performance is now 5 Mpps instead of 3.2 Mpps.

Following patch will remove last known false sharing in
tcp_rcv_state_process()

Fixes: 3b24d854 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt under synflood")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Replace deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue with
alloc_ordered_workqueue.

Work items include getting tx/rx frame sizes, resetting MPI processor,
setting asic recovery bit so ordering seems necessary as only one work
item should be in queue/executing at any given time, hence the use of
alloc_ordered_workqueue.

WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag has been set since ethernet devices seem to sit in
memory reclaim path, so to guarantee forward progress regardless of
memory pressure.
Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jon Maloy says:

====================
tipc: improvements to the link setup algorithm

This series addresses some smaller issues regarding the link setup
algorithm. The first commit fixes a rare bug we have discovered during
testing; the second one may have some future impact on cluster
scalabilty, while remaining ones can be regarded as cosmetic in
a wider sense of the word.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

According to the link FSM, a received traffic packet can take a link
from state ESTABLISHING to ESTABLISHED, but the link can still not be
fully set up in one atomic operation. This means that even if the the
very first packet on the link is a traffic packet with sequence number
1 (one), it has to be dropped and retransmitted.

This can be avoided if we let the mentioned packet be preceded by a
LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE message, which takes up the endpoint before the
arrival of the traffic.

We add this small feature in this commit.

This is a fully compatible change.
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In some link establishment scenarios we see that packet #2 may be sent
out before packet #1, forcing the receiver to demand retransmission of
the missing packet. This is harmless, but may cause confusion among
people tracing the packet flow.

Since this is extremely easy to fix, we do so by adding en extra send
call to the bearer immediately after the link has come up.
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>