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Diego Giagio
a19259c3d5 drivers/net/usb: Add new driver ipheth
Add new driver to use tethering with an iPhone device. After initial submission,
apply fixes to fit the new driver into the kernel standards.

There are still a couple of minor (almost cosmetic-level) issues, but the driver
is fully functional right now.

Signed-off-by: L. Alberto Giménez <agimenez@sysvalve.es>
Signed-off-by: Diego Giagio <diego@giagio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 22:43:18 -07:00
Thomas Klein
a7c561f2e3 ehea: fix possible DLPAR/mem deadlock
Force serialization of userspace-triggered DLPAR/mem operations

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 22:32:44 -07:00
Thomas Klein
ea96ceac80 ehea: error handling improvement
Reset a port's resources only if they're actually in an error state

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 22:32:43 -07:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
9441cad99b cxgb3: fix linkup issue
I encountered an issue that not to link up on cxgb3 fabric.
I bisected and found that this regression was introduced by
0f07c4ee8c.

Correct to pass phy_addr to cphy_init() at t3_xaui_direct_phy_prep().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:34:41 -07:00
Richard Röjfors
a1aa8822d5 ks8842: Add platform data for setting mac address
This patch adds platform data to the ks8842 driver.

Via the platform data a MAC address, to be used by the controller,
can be passed.

To ensure this MAC address is used, the MAC address is written
after each hardware reset.

Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:33:29 -07:00
andrew hendry
2cec6b014d X25 fix dead unaccepted sockets
1, An X25 program binds and listens
2, calls arrive waiting to be accepted
3, Program exits without accepting
4, Sockets time out but don't get correctly cleaned up
5, cat /proc/net/x25/socket shows the dead sockets with bad inode fields.

This line borrowed from AX25 sets the dying socket so the timers clean up later.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:31:50 -07:00
Abraham Arce
761172fbf6 KS8851: NULL pointer dereference if list is empty
Fix NULL pointer dereference in ks8851_tx_work by checking if dequeued
list is already empty before writing the packet to TX FIFO

 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000050
 PC is at ks8851_tx_work+0xdc/0x1b0
 LR is at wait_for_common+0x148/0x164
 pc : [<c01c0df4>]    lr : [<c025a980>]    psr: 20000013
 Backtrace:
  ks8851_tx_work+0x0/0x1b0
  worker_thread+0x0/0x190
  kthread+0x0/0x90

Signed-off-by: Abraham Arce <x0066660@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:29:22 -07:00
Alexander Kurz
df245dce57 net: 3c574_cs fix stats.tx_bytes counter
Update the stats counter calculation in 3c574_cs, similar
to the method used in 3c589_cs. This corrects the contents
of the counter on tests using a "Megahertz 574B" card.

[linux@dominikbrodowski.net: clean up commit message]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kurz <linux@kbdbabel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:27:55 -07:00
Nicolas Dichtel
bc8e4b954e xfrm6: ensure to use the same dev when building a bundle
When building a bundle, we set dst.dev and rt6.rt6i_idev.
We must ensure to set the same device for both fields.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:25:30 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
6846ad2826 net: small cleanup of lib8390
Remove the always true #if 1. Also the unecessary re-test of ei_local->irqlock
and the unreachable printk format string.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:23:30 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
989a297920 fasync: RCU and fine grained locking
kill_fasync() uses a central rwlock, candidate for RCU conversion, to
avoid cache line ping pongs on SMP.

fasync_remove_entry() and fasync_add_entry() can disable IRQS on a short
section instead during whole list scan.

Use a spinlock per fasync_struct to synchronize kill_fasync_rcu() and
fasync_{remove|add}_entry(). This spinlock is IRQ safe, so sock_fasync()
doesnt need its own implementation and can use fasync_helper(), to
reduce code size and complexity.

We can remove __kill_fasync() direct use in net/socket.c, and rename it
to kill_fasync_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:19:29 -07:00
Hans J. Koch
1c0b28b1ee can: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in ems_usb.c
In ems_usb_probe(), a pointer is dereferenced after making sure it is NULL...

This patch replaces netdev->dev.parent with &intf->dev in dev_err() calls to
avoid this.

Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 16:14:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
e5700aff14 tcp: Mark v6 response packets as CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
Otherwise we only get the checksum right for data-less TCP responses.

Noticed by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 14:59:20 -07:00
Johannes Berg
672724403b radiotap parser: fix endian annotation
When I updated this from the corresponding
userspace library, an annotation error crept
in -- this variable needs to be annotated as
little endian. No effect on code generation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-21 14:15:19 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
81b208a6b6 ath9k_hw: make all AR9002 initvals use u32
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-21 14:15:18 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
020ab48d1e ath9k_hw: make two initvals consto for the AR9001 family
This makes ar5416Addac_9160 and ar5416Addac_9160 const
I guess we skipped them long ago.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-21 14:15:18 -04:00
David S. Miller
f71b70e115 tcp: Fix ipv6 checksumming on response packets for real.
Commit 6651ffc8e8
("ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.")
fixed one half of why ipv6 tcp response checksums were
invalid, but it's not the whole story.

If we're going to use CHECKSUM_PARTIAL for these things (which we are
since commit 2e8e18ef52 "tcp: Set
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in tcp_init_nondata_skb"), we can't be setting
buff->csum as we always have been here in tcp_v6_send_response.  We
need to leave it at zero.

Kill that line and checksums are good again.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 01:57:01 -07:00
David S. Miller
87eb367003 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	net/core/dev.c
2010-04-21 01:14:25 -07:00
David Howells
05d17608a6 net: Fix an RCU warning in dev_pick_tx()
Fix the following RCU warning in dev_pick_tx():

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
net/core/dev.c:1993 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
2 locks held by swapper/0:
 #0:  (&idev->mc_ifc_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81039e65>] run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278
 #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){.+....}, at: [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc

stack backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-cachefs #4
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810516c4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [<ffffffff812ea4f6>] dev_queue_xmit+0x259/0x4dc
 [<ffffffff812ea3eb>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x14e/0x4dc
 [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
 [<ffffffff81035362>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0xbc/0xc1
 [<ffffffff812f0954>] neigh_resolve_output+0x24b/0x27c
 [<ffffffff8134f673>] ip6_output_finish+0x7c/0xb4
 [<ffffffff81350c34>] ip6_output2+0x256/0x261
 [<ffffffff81052324>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
 [<ffffffff813517fb>] ip6_output+0xbbc/0xbcb
 [<ffffffff8135bc5d>] ? fib6_force_start_gc+0x2b/0x2d
 [<ffffffff81368acb>] mld_sendpack+0x273/0x39d
 [<ffffffff81368858>] ? mld_sendpack+0x0/0x39d
 [<ffffffff81052099>] ? mark_held_locks+0x52/0x70
 [<ffffffff813692fc>] mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x24f/0x288
 [<ffffffff81039ed6>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ec/0x278
 [<ffffffff81039e65>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x17b/0x278
 [<ffffffff813690ad>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x288
 [<ffffffff81035531>] ? __do_softirq+0x69/0x140
 [<ffffffff8103556a>] __do_softirq+0xa2/0x140
 [<ffffffff81002e0c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff81004b54>] do_softirq+0x38/0x80
 [<ffffffff81034f06>] irq_exit+0x45/0x47
 [<ffffffff810177c3>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x88/0x96
 [<ffffffff810028d3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff810488dd>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x86
 [<ffffffff810096bf>] ? mwait_idle+0x6e/0x78
 [<ffffffff810096b6>] ? mwait_idle+0x65/0x78
 [<ffffffff810011cb>] cpu_idle+0x4d/0x83
 [<ffffffff81380b05>] rest_init+0xb9/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81380a4c>] ? rest_init+0x0/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8168dcf0>] start_kernel+0x392/0x39d
 [<ffffffff8168d2a3>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7
 [<ffffffff8168d38b>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe4/0xeb

An rcu_dereference() should be an rcu_dereference_bh().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 01:09:44 -07:00
David S. Miller
e04997b13a Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-04-21 00:50:39 -07:00
Herbert Xu
6651ffc8e8 ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.
My recent patch to remove the open-coded checksum sequence in
tcp_v6_send_response broke it as we did not set the transport
header pointer on the new packet.

Actually, there is code there trying to set the transport
header properly, but it sets it for the wrong skb ('skb'
instead of 'buff').

This bug was introduced by commit
a8fdf2b331 ("ipv6: Fix
tcp_v6_send_response(): it didn't set skb transport header")

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-21 00:47:15 -07:00
Rami Rosen
ccb7c7732e net: Remove two unnecessary exports (skbuff).
There is no need to export skb_under_panic() and skb_over_panic() in
skbuff.c, since these methods are used only in skbuff.c ; this patch
removes these two exports. It also marks these functions as 'static'
and removeS the extern declarations of them from
include/linux/skbuff.h

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 22:39:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
0eae88f31c net: Fix various endianness glitches
Sparse can help us find endianness bugs, but we need to make some
cleanups to be able to more easily spot real bugs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 19:06:52 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
8eabf95cb1 bridge: add a missing ntohs()
grec_nsrcs is in network order, we should convert to host horder in
br_multicast_igmp3_report()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 18:51:57 -07:00
David S. Miller
cb903bf4ee tg3: Enable GRO by default.
This was merely an oversight when I added the *_gro_receive()
calls.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 18:49:45 -07:00
David S. Miller
e4fc9d15db niu: Enable GRO by default.
This was merely an oversight when I added the napi_gro_receive()
calls.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 18:44:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
e46754f8c9 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-04-20 17:57:56 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
aa39514516 net: sk_sleep() helper
Define a new function to return the waitqueue of a "struct sock".

static inline wait_queue_head_t *sk_sleep(struct sock *sk)
{
	return sk->sk_sleep;
}

Change all read occurrences of sk_sleep by a call to this function.

Needed for a future RCU conversion. sk_sleep wont be a field directly
available.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
05ce7bfe54 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
  quota: Convert __DQUOT_PARANOIA symbol to standard config option
2010-04-20 09:39:40 -07:00
Jan Kara
62af9b5205 quota: Convert __DQUOT_PARANOIA symbol to standard config option
Make __DQUOT_PARANOIA define from the old days a standard config option
and turn it off by default.

This gets rid of a quota warning about writes before quota is turned on
for systems with ext4 root filesystem. Currently there's no way to legally
solve this because /etc/mtab has to be written before quota is turned on
on most systems.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-04-20 18:25:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
27ee896370 Merge branch 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6
* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6:
  pcmcia: fix error handling in cm4000_cs.c
  drivers/pcmcia: Add missing local_irq_restore
  serial_cs: MD55x support (PCMCIA GPRS/EDGE modem) (kernel 2.6.33)
  pcmcia: avoid late calls to pccard_validate_cis
  pcmcia: fix ioport size calculation in rsrc_nonstatic
  pcmcia: re-start on MFC override
  pcmcia: fix io_probe due to parent (PCI) resources
  pcmcia: use previously assigned IRQ for all card functions
2010-04-20 09:21:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac8bf56430 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: Fix hardirq tracing in trap return path.
  sparc64: Use correct pt_regs in decode_access_size() error paths.
  sparc64: Fix PREEMPT_ACTIVE value.
  sparc64: Run NMIs on the hardirq stack.
  sparc64: Allocate sufficient stack space in ftrace stubs.
  sparc: Fix forgotten kmemleak headers inclusion
2010-04-20 09:20:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
34388d1c4f Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetching
2010-04-20 09:20:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
186837ca3a Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm: delay vblank cleanup until after driver unload
2010-04-20 09:20:11 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4cecd935f6 x86: correctly wire up the newuname system call
Before commit e28cbf2293 ("improve
sys_newuname() for compat architectures") 64-bit x86 had a private
implementation of sys_uname which was just called sys_uname, which other
architectures used for the old uname.

Due to some merge issues with the uname refactoring patches we ended up
calling the old uname version for both the old and new system call
slots, which lead to the domainname filed never be set which caused
failures with libnss_nis.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-20 09:17:21 -07:00
Juuso Oikarinen
7bdfcaaff5 mac80211: Fix ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer with hw connection monitoring
When IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR is configured by the driver, starting
of ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer should be prevented, as it is then not needed.

This is currently partially the case. As it seems, when a probe-response is
received from the AP the timer is still restarted, thus restarting the host
based connection keep-alive mechanism. These probe-responses happen at least
when scanning while associated.

Fix this by preventing starting of the ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer in the
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp function.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:40 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
58b5190e74 ath9k: set the STBC flag in rate control if the peer supports it
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:39 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
074a8c0db2 ath9k: add support for Tx and Rx STBC
Supported only for single stream rates by the hardware

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:36 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
f79d9bad37 mac80211: add flags for STBC (Space-Time Block Coding)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:21 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
3bb065a742 ath9k: initialize the number of tx/rx streams correctly
AR9300 based hardware can 3x3 MCS rates, this should be set in the
HT capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:54 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
c666387682 ath9k: reduce the bits_per_symbol table size, support more streams
Instead of increasing bits_per_symbol for supporting more streams, keep
it single-stream only and multiply the values by the numer of streams.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:53 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
0e668cde0d ath9k: update the ath_max_4ms_framelen table
Include MCS0-31 and also add SGI for HT20. This makes it
possible to support more different rate combinations with
newer hardware.

Based on a patch by Selvam. T.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:53 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
7817e4ceb6 ath9k: update the MCS mask for MCS16 and above
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:53 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
0a8cea844d ath9k: clean up tx buffer handling
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:53 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
c9c99e5e44 ath9k: check for specific rx stuck conditions and recover from them
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
80725f454e mac80211: document IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_QOS
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
Holger Schurig
55ee82b500 ath5k: basic support for survey
This adds the first element of survey data, the noise floor figure.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
Holger Schurig
1289723ef2 mac80211: sample survey implementation for mac80211 & hwsim
This adds the survey function to both mac80211 itself and to mac80211_hwsim.
For the latter driver, we simply invent some noise level.A real driver which
cannot determine the real channel noise MUST NOT report any noise, especially
not a magically conjured one :-)

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
Daniel Yingqiang Ma
03ceedea97 ath9k: Group Key fix for VAPs
When I set up multiple VAPs with ath9k, I encountered an issue that
the traffic may be lost after a while.

The detailed phenomenon is
1. After a while the clients connected to one of these VAPs will get
into a state that no broadcast/multicast packets can be transfered
successfully while the unicast packets can be transfered normally.
2. Minutes latter the unitcast packets transfer will fail as well,
because the ARP entry is expired and it can't be freshed due to the
broadcast trouble.

It's caused by the group key overwritten and someone discussed this
issue in ath9k-devel maillist before, but haven't work out a fix yet.

I referred the method in madwifi, and made a patch for ath9k.
The method is to set the high bit of the sender(AP)'s address, and
associated that mac and the group key. It requires the hardware
supports multicast frame key search. It seems true for AR9160.

Not sure whether it's the correct way to fix this issue. But it seems
to work in my test. The patch is attached, feel free to revise it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Yingqiang ma <yma.cool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:51 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
ab9304717f net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiers
Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be
present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers
does the locking properly.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 01:45:37 -07:00