Add documentation about NOACK tx flag usage.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The second hunk fixes rps_sock_flow_table but has to re-wrap the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch improves the logic determining when to send ICMPv6 Router
Solicitations, so that they are 1) always sent when the kernel is
accepting Router Advertisements, and 2) never sent when the kernel is
not accepting RAs. In other words, the operational setting of the
"accept_ra" sysctl is used.
The change also makes the special "Hybrid Router" forwarding mode
("forwarding" sysctl set to 2) operate exactly the same as the standard
Router mode (forwarding=1). The only difference between the two was
that RSes was being sent in the Hybrid Router mode only. The sysctl
documentation describing the special Hybrid Router mode has therefore
been removed.
Rationale for the change:
Currently, the value of forwarding sysctl is the only thing determining
whether or not to send RSes. If it has the value 0 or 2, they are sent,
otherwise they are not. This leads to inconsistent behaviour in the
following cases:
* accept_ra=0, forwarding=0
* accept_ra=0, forwarding=2
* accept_ra=1, forwarding=2
* accept_ra=2, forwarding=1
In the first three cases, the kernel will send RSes, even though it will
not accept any RAs received in reply. In the last case, it will not send
any RSes, even though it will accept and process any RAs received. (Most
routers will send unsolicited RAs periodically, so suppressing RSes in
the last case will merely delay auto-configuration, not prevent it.)
Also, it is my opinion that having the forwarding sysctl control RS
sending behaviour (completely independent of whether RAs are being
accepted or not) is simply not what most users would intuitively expect
to be the case.
Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The dmfe module is a orphan driver, and with this was removed the maintainer
of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update netdev-features.txt entry in 00-INDEX to incorporate
feedback by Michał Mirosław.
v2: restored tabs that were inadvertently changed to spaces in v1.
sorry for the error.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Incorporate last comments about hyperthreading, interrupt coalescing and
the definition of cache domains into the network scaling document scaling.txt
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A simple janitor duty patch that adds a one sentence overview to
00-INDEX for all files that lacked it.
- does not add entries for subdirectories
- does not modify existing entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Describes RSS, RPS, RFS, accelerated RFS, and XPS.
This version incorporates comments by Randy Dunlap and Rick Jones.
Besides text cleanup, it adds an explicit "Suggested Configuration"
heading to each section.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-By: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 655f8919d5
bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad
and commit ebd8e4977a
bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter
introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation
for those options.
V2: add the default value for both options.
V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds new information for the driver
especially about its platform structure fields.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
v2: incorporated suggestions from Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix following warning in ifenslave.c with gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4).
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:263:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:271:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:277:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:285:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:291:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:292:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:312:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:323:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:342:4: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>
Signed-off-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem use 1 page as default value for the minimum
amount of memory to be used, same as udp_wmem_min and udp_rmem_min.
Pages are different size on different architectures - use the right
units when describing the defaults.
Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sctp does not use second and third ("default" and "max") values
of sctp_rmem tunable. The format is the same as tcp_rmem
but the meaning is different so make the documentation explicit to
avoid confusion.
sctp_wmem is not used at all.
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andi Kleen and Tim Chen reported huge contention on inetpeer
unused_peers.lock, on memcached workload on a 40 core machine, with
disabled route cache.
It appears we constantly flip peers refcnt between 0 and 1 values, and
we must insert/remove peers from unused_peers.list, holding a contended
spinlock.
Remove this list completely and perform a garbage collection on-the-fly,
at lookup time, using the expired nodes we met during the tree
traversal.
This removes a lot of code, makes locking more standard, and obsoletes
two sysctls (inet_peer_gc_mintime and inet_peer_gc_maxtime). This also
removes two pointers in inet_peer structure.
There is still a false sharing effect because refcnt is in first cache
line of object [were the links and keys used by lookups are located], we
might move it at the end of inet_peer structure to let this first cache
line mostly read by cpus.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
Improves the documentation about how IGMP resend parameter
works, fix two missing checks and coding style issues.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/
to Documentation/security/,
add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and
update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file>
to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed
to the TranslationTable style
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
For backward compatibility, we should retain the module parameters and
sysfs attributes to control the number of peer notifications
(gratuitous ARPs and unsolicited NAs) sent after bonding failover.
Also, it is possible for failover to take place even though the new
active slave does not have link up, and in that case the peer
notification should be deferred until it does.
Change ipv4 and ipv6 so they do not automatically send peer
notifications on bonding failover.
Change the bonding driver to send separate NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS
notifications when the link is up, as many times as requested. Since
it does not directly control which protocols send notifications, make
num_grat_arp and num_unsol_na aliases for a single parameter. Bump
the bonding version number and update its documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add the documentation for the anti-spoofing feature in the HW.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Fix some minor typos:
* informations => information
* there own => their own
* these => this
Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit a6c36ee677 ("bonding: change list
contact to netdev@vger.kernel.org"), the mailing list for bonding
developpement was changed from bonding-devel to netdev.
Update the bonding documentation to reflect this change:
- bonding-devel is used for usage discussions (despite the name).
- netdev is used for developpement discussions.
Also remove the reference to the sourceforge bonding page, which is
deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is now a run-time choice so that a single kernel can support both
old and new generation ISI modems. Support for manually enabling the
pipe flow is removed as it did not work properly, does not fit well
with the socket API, and I am not aware of any use at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This provides support for newer ISI modems with no need for the
earlier experimental compile-time alternative choice. With this,
we can now use the same kernel and userspace with both types of
modems.
This also avoids confusing two different and incompatible state
machines, actively connected vs accepted sockets, and adds
connection response error handling (processing "SYN/RST" of sorts).
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User-space sometimes needs this information. In particular, the GPRS
context or the AT commands pipe setups may use the pipe handle as a
reference.
This removes the settable pipe handle with CONFIG_PHONET_PIPECTRLR.
It did not handle error cases correctly. Furthermore, the kernel
*could* implement a smart scheme for allocating handles (if ever
needed), but userspace really cannot.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]
When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to
read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to
be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076].
Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in
key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing.
Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the
amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated.
The buggy code was added in:
commit 4a2d789267
Author: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100
Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]
This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program
compiled with -lkeyutils:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <keyutils.h>
#include <err.h>
static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6";
int main()
{
key_serial_t key;
key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload),
KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING);
if (key == -1)
err(1, "add_key");
if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1)
err(1, "read_key");
return 0;
}
What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user:
dns-break: read_key: No such device or address
but instead the kernel oopses.
This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands
as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be
included in the data. Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return
-EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read.
The oops looks like:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468 /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b99f7>] [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378
RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1
FS: 00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090)
Stack:
ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000
00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811b708e>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
[<ffffffff811b7c07>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6
[<ffffffff81001f7b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed <41> 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48
RIP [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
RSP <ffff88003bf47f08>
CR2: 0000000000000010
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Clean up entries in 00-INDEX: drop files that have been removed.
Reported-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
