It is introduced in:
        commit 0e3125c7
        Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
        Date:   Tue Nov 16 10:26:47 2010 -0800

        packet: Enhance AF_PACKET implementation to not require high order contiguous memory allocation (v4)
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some arches don't need flush_dcache_page(), and don't implement it, so
we can eliminate pgv_to_page() calls on those arches.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Avoid some atomic ops on dst refcount, calling dev_queue_xmit_nit()
after skb_dst_drop() in dev_hard_start_xmit().

When queueing a packet into af_packet socket, we drop dst anyway.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sk_run_filter() doesnt write on skb, change its prototype to reflect
this.

Fix two af_packet comments.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds VLAN hardware support for Rhine chips.

The driver uses up to 3 additional bytes of buffer space when extracting
802.1Q headers; PKT_BUF_SZ should still be sufficient.

The initial code was provided by David Lv. I reworked it to use standard
kernel facilities. Coding style clean up mostly follows via-velocity.

Adapted to new interface for VLAN acceleration (per request of Jesse Gross).
Signed-off-by: David Lv <DavidLv@viatech.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>

 drivers/net/via-rhine.c |  326 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Hmm..
>
> If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore
> in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so
> that your patch can be applied.
>
> Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you
> are going to call arp_invalidate() ?

While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a
patch for net-2.6

Meanwhile, here is the patch for net-next-2.6

Your patch then can be applied after mine.

Thanks

[PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()

dev_getbyhwaddr() was called under RTNL.

Rename it to dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu() and change all its caller to now use
RCU locking instead of RTNL.

Change arp_ioctl() to use RCU instead of RTNL locking.

Note: this fix a dev refcount bug in llc
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use the macros already provided by kernel.h file.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The dev field of ingress queue is forgot to initialized, then NULL
pointer dereference happens in qdisc_alloc().

Move inits of tx queues to netif_alloc_netdev_queues().
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support for serial/USB-serial CAN adapters implementing the
LAWICEL ASCII protocol for CAN frame transport over serial lines.

The driver implements the SLCAN line discipline and is heavily based on the
slip.c driver. Therefore the code style remains similar to slip.c to be able
to apply changes of the SLIP driver to the SLCAN driver easily.

For more details see the slcan Kconfig entry.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Ensure that cmsg->cmsg_type value is valid for qpolicy
that is currently in use.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of
TX packets and provides two policies:
 * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
 * a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options).

The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

This reverts commit 539995d1.

As reported by Stephen Rothwell, this breaks the build.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

struct net_device has its own struct net_device_stats member, so use
this one instead of a private copy in struct net_local.

Note: This patch was not even compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

xemaclite_get_stats() just returns dev->stats so we can leave it out
alltogether and let dev_get_stats() do the job.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

am79c961_getstats() just returns dev->stats so we can leave it out
alltogether and let dev_get_stats() do the job.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fixes a recent bug on the patch (c6ecf39a)
that disabled the laser on ifconfig down.  Compilers were seeing a enum
mismatch.

Signed-off-by Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch helps prevent FW/SW semaphore collision from leading
to link establishment failure.  The collision might mess up the
PHY registers so we reset the PHY.  However there are SFI/KR areas
in the PHY that are not reset with a Reset_AN so we need to change
LMS to reset it.  Also wait until AN state machine is AN_GOOD
Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Hi,
This patch fixes a typo in net/core/datagram.c and in net/sctp/socket.c

Regards,
David Shwartz
Signed-off-by: David Shwartz <dshwatrz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We added some security checks in commit 57fe93b3
(filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memory) to close a
potential leak of kernel information to user.

This added a potential extra cost at run time, while we can perform a
check of the filter itself, to make sure a malicious user doesnt try to
abuse us.

This patch adds a check_loads() function, whole unique purpose is to
make this check, allocating a temporary array of mask. We scan the
filter and propagate a bitmask information, telling us if a load M(K) is
allowed because a previous store M(K) is guaranteed. (So that
sk_run_filter() can possibly not read unitialized memory)

Note: this can uncover application bug, denying a filter attach,
previously allowed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Only when dont_send is 0, arp_filter() is consulted, so we can simply
assign the return value of arp_filter() to dont_send instead.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If Lancer chip does not have posted RX buffers, it posts an RX completion entry
with the same frag_index as the last valid completion. The Error bit is also
set. In BE, a flush completion is indicated with a zero value for num_rcvd in
the completion.
Such completions don't carry any data and are not processed.
This patch refactors code to handle both cases with the same code.
Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <padmanabh.ratnakar@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Lancer can use the same pattern as BE to indicate a driver load
to the FW.
Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <padmanabh.ratnakar@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

As we can check if an address is vmalloc address with is_vmalloc_addr(),
we remove pgv.flags. Then we may get more pg_vecs.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The following commit causes the pgv->buffer may point to the memory
returned by vmalloc(). And we can't use virt_to_page() for the vmalloc
address.

This patch introduces a new inline function pgv_to_page(), which calls
vmalloc_to_page() for the vmalloc address, and virt_to_page() for the
__get_free_pages address.

We used to increase page pointer to get the next page at the next page
address, after Neil's patch, it is wrong, as the physical address may
be not continuous. This patch also fixes this issue.

    commit 0e3125c7
    Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
    Date:   Tue Nov 16 10:26:47 2010 -0800

    packet: Enhance AF_PACKET implementation to not require high order contiguous memory allocation (v4)
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commits 9f0f7272 (ipv4: AF_INET link address family) and cf7afbfe
(rtnl: make link af-specific updates atomic) used incorrect
__in_dev_get_rcu() in RTNL protected contexts, triggering PROVE_RCU
warnings.

Switch to __in_dev_get_rtnl(), wich is more appropriate, since we hold
RTNL.

Based on a report and initial patch from Amerigo Wang.
Reported-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If caller holds RTNL, we dont need a memory barrier
(smp_read_barrier_depends) included in rcu_dereference().

Just use rtnl_dereference() to properly document the assertions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add SKF_AD_RXHASH and SKF_AD_CPU to filter ancillary mechanism,
to be able to build advanced filters.

This can help spreading packets on several sockets with a fast
selection, after RPS dispatch to N cpus for example, or to catch a
percentage of flows in one queue.

tcpdump -s 500 "cpu = 1" :

[0] ld CPU
[1] jeq #1  jt 2  jf 3
[2] ret #500
[3] ret #0

# take 12.5 % of flows (average)
tcpdump -s 1000 "rxhash & 7 = 2" :

[0] ld RXHASH
[1] and #7
[2] jeq #2  jt 3  jf 4
[3] ret #1000
[4] ret #0
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Rui <wirelesser@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Remove ehea_error, ehea_info and ehea_debug macros.
Use pr_fmt, pr_<level>, netdev_<level> and netif_<level> as appropriate.
Fix messages to use trailing "\n", some messages had an extra one
as the old ehea_<level> macros added a trailing "\n".
Coalesced long format strings.

Uncompiled/untested.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao<leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is a superset of NETIF_F_IP_CSUM+NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM, but
some drivers miss the difference. Fix this and also fix UFO dependency
on checksumming offload as it makes the same mistake in assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@exar.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The patch provides USB CDC NCM host driver support in the Linux Kernel.

Changes:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:
- initial submission of the CDC NCM host driver;
- verified on Intel 32/64 bit, Intel Atom, ST-Ericsson U8500 (ARM)
- throughput measured over 100 Mbits duplex;
- driver supports 16-bit NTB format only, but it is more than enough for
  transfers up to 64K;
- driver can handle up to 32 datagrams in received NTB;
- timer is used to collect several packets in Tx direction

drivers/net/usb/Kconfig:
- a new entry to compile CDC NCM host driver
drivers/net/usb/Makefile:
- a new entry to compile CDC NCM host driver
Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Changes:
include/linux/usb/usbnet.h:
- a new flag to indicate driver's capability to accumulate IP packets in Tx
 direction and extract several packets from single skb in Rx direction.
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:
- the procedure of counting packets in usbnet was updated due to the
 accumulating of IP packets in the driver
- no short packets are sent if indicated by the flag in driver_info
 structure
Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch updates the tg3 version to 3.116.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The hardware defaults to fairly aggressive EEE thresholds.  While there
appear to be no ill effects, this patch relaxes them, just as a
precaution.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The first hunk of this patch makes sure that the driver checks for the
appropriate preconditions before checking if EEE negotiation succeeded.
More specifically the link needs to be full duplex for EEE to be
enabled.

The second and third hunks of this patch fix a bug where the eee
advertisement register would be programmed with extra bits set.

The fourth hunk of this patch makes sure the EEE capability flag is not
set for 5718 A0 devices and that the device is not a serdes device.

None of these modifications are strictly necessary.  The driver /
hardware still does the right thing.  They are submitted primarily for
correctness.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

EEE support in the 57765 internal phy will not enable after a phy reset
unless it sees that EEE is supported in the MAC.  This patch moves the
code that programs the CPMU EEE registers to a place before the phy
reset.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In commit 52b02d04 entitled "tg3: Add
EEE support", Ben Hutchings had commented that the EEE advertisement
register will be in a standard location.  This patch moves that
definition into mdio.h and changes the code to use it.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The current transmit routines set the jumbo frame BD flag too
aggressively.  This can reduce performance for common cases.  This patch
raises the jumbo flag threshold to 1518, up from 1500.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>