04 Jan, 2012

1 commit


21 Dec, 2011

1 commit


20 Dec, 2011

1 commit

  • module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
    fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
    trick.

    It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
    it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

    (Thanks to Joe Perches for suggesting coccinelle for 0/1 -> true/false).

    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Rusty Russell
     

03 Dec, 2011

1 commit


22 Nov, 2011

1 commit

  • We cannot call module_put(THIS_MODULE) if this is our last reference. Otherwise,
    this call may cleanup our module before it returns.

    Gladly, the kthread API provides a simple wrapper for us. So lets use
    module_put_and_exit() to avoid a race condition with the module cleanup code.

    Signed-off-by: David Herrmann
    Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann
    Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan

    David Herrmann
     

10 Nov, 2011

1 commit


08 Nov, 2011

1 commit


12 Oct, 2011

1 commit


28 Sep, 2011

1 commit


22 Sep, 2011

1 commit

  • 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
     

18 Aug, 2011

1 commit


12 Aug, 2011

2 commits

  • Commit f4d7cd4a4c introduced the usage of kthread API.
    kthread_stop is a blocking function which returns only when
    the thread exits. In this case, the thread can't exit because it's
    waiting for the write lock, which is being held by bnep_del_connection()
    which is waiting for the thread to exit -- deadlock.

    Use atomic_t/wake_up_process instead to signal to the thread to exit.

    Signed-off-by: Jaikumar Ganesh
    Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley
    Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan

    Peter Hurley
     
  • Fix race condition which can result in missing the wakeup intended
    to stop the session thread.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley
    Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan

    Peter Hurley
     

28 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • After the last patch, We are left in a state in which only drivers calling
    ether_setup have IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING set (we assume that drivers touching real
    hardware call ether_setup for their net_devices and don't hold any state in
    their skbs. There are a handful of drivers that violate this assumption of
    course, and need to be fixed up. This patch identifies those drivers, and marks
    them as not being able to support the safe transmission of skbs by clearning the
    IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag in priv_flags

    Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
    CC: Karsten Keil
    CC: "David S. Miller"
    CC: Jay Vosburgh
    CC: Andy Gospodarek
    CC: Patrick McHardy
    CC: Krzysztof Halasa
    CC: "John W. Linville"
    CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    CC: Marcel Holtmann
    CC: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Neil Horman
     

05 Apr, 2011

1 commit


01 Apr, 2011

3 commits


15 Feb, 2011

1 commit


14 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • Struct ca is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether the "device"
    field is NULL terminated. This potentially leads to BUG() inside of
    alloc_netdev_mqs() and/or information leak by creating a device with a name
    made of contents of kernel stack.

    Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov
    Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan

    Vasiliy Kulikov
     

02 Dec, 2010

1 commit


08 Jul, 2010

1 commit


25 Jun, 2010

1 commit


03 Jun, 2010

1 commit


21 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Dumazet
     

12 Apr, 2010

1 commit


04 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.

    +uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
    variant) instead of a function parameter.
    +removes dev_mcast.c completely.
    +exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
    manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jiri Pirko
     

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
     

17 Mar, 2010

1 commit


13 Feb, 2010

1 commit


10 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
    tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
    reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
    doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
    inotify: remove superfluous return code check
    hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
    doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
    mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
    doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
    tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
    drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
    fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
    sysctl: add missing comments
    fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
    sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
    sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
    tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
    tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
    fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
    spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
    comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

04 Dec, 2009

2 commits


06 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • The generic __sock_create function has a kern argument which allows the
    security system to make decisions based on if a socket is being created by
    the kernel or by userspace. This patch passes that flag to the
    net_proto_family specific create function, so it can do the same thing.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
    Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Paris
     

07 Oct, 2009

1 commit


12 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
    prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
    application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
    not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
    or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
    in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
    good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
    does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

    To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
    then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
    within udev.

    # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
    DEVTYPE=wlan
    INTERFACE=wlan0
    IFINDEX=5

    This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
    between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

    The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
    device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
    same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

    Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Marcel Holtmann
     

01 Sep, 2009

1 commit


06 Jul, 2009

1 commit


08 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • Convert to net_device_ops and use internal net_device_stats in bnep
    device.

    Note: no need for bnep_net_ioctl since if ioctl is not set, then
    dev_ifsioc handles it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     

30 Nov, 2008

1 commit

  • With the introduction of CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG it is possible to
    allow debugging without having to recompile the kernel. This patch turns
    all BT_DBG() calls into pr_debug() to support dynamic debug messages.

    As a side effect all CONFIG_BT_*_DEBUG statements are now removed and
    some broken debug entries have been fixed.

    Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann

    Marcel Holtmann