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22 Sep, 2011

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  • Conflicts:
    MAINTAINERS
    drivers/net/Kconfig
    drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
    drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
    drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c
    drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-tx-pcie.c
    drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
    drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c

    David S. Miller
     

31 Aug, 2011

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21 Aug, 2011

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11 Aug, 2011

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02 Aug, 2011

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  • When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
    is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
    change to not handle the special case.

    Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

    //smpl
    @@ expression P; @@

    - rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
    + RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

    //

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     

29 Jul, 2011

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27 May, 2011

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10 May, 2011

2 commits

  • The optimizations in commit 255d0dc34068a976
    (netfilter: x_table: speedup compat operations) assume that
    xt_compat_add_offset is called once per rule.

    ebtables however called it for each match/target found in a rule.

    The match/watcher/target parser already returns the needed delta, so it
    is sufficient to move the xt_compat_add_offset call to a more reasonable
    location.

    While at it, also get rid of the unused COMPAT iterator macros.

    Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

    Florian Westphal
     
  • commit 255d0dc34068a976 (netfilter: x_table: speedup compat operations)
    made ebtables not working anymore.

    1) xt_compat_calc_jump() is not an exact match lookup
    2) compat_table_info() has a typo in xt_compat_init_offsets() call
    3) compat_do_replace() misses a xt_compat_init_offsets() call

    Reported-by: dann frazier
    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

    Eric Dumazet
     

14 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • Struct tmp is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether the "name"
    field is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow and passing
    contents of kernel stack as a module name to try_then_request_module() and,
    consequently, to modprobe commandline. It would be seen by all userspace
    processes.

    Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

    Vasiliy Kulikov
     

13 Jan, 2011

2 commits

  • To avoid adding a new match revision icmp type/code are stored
    in the sport/dport area.

    Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal
    Reviewed-by: Holger Eitzenberger
    Reviewed-by: Bart De Schuymer
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

    Florian Westphal
     
  • One iptables invocation with 135000 rules takes 35 seconds of cpu time
    on a recent server, using a 32bit distro and a 64bit kernel.

    We eventually trigger NMI/RCU watchdog.

    INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 3 (t=6000 jiffies)

    COMPAT mode has quadratic behavior and consume 16 bytes of memory per
    rule.

    Switch the xt_compat algos to use an array instead of list, and use a
    binary search to locate an offset in the sorted array.

    This halves memory need (8 bytes per rule), and removes quadratic
    behavior [ O(N*N) -> O(N*log2(N)) ]

    Time of iptables goes from 35 s to 150 ms.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

    Eric Dumazet
     

04 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • net/bridge//br_stp_if.c:148:66: warning: conversion of
    net/bridge//br_stp_if.c:148:66: int to
    net/bridge//br_stp_if.c:148:66: int enum umh_wait

    net/bridge//netfilter/ebtables.c:1150:30: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

    Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Tomas Winkler
     

16 Nov, 2010

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30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

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17 Feb, 2010

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