17 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for
    NFS to make use of them. There are now accessor functions that do
    asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to
    complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion
    of construction.

    Note that the construction queue is now gone. Instead, keys under
    construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that
    anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use
    it. This is done automatically for userspace.

    The following auxiliary changes are also made:

    (1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into
    linux/key-type.h.

    (2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does
    not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly.

    (3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if
    they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining
    __KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine.

    (3) Documentation.

    [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation]
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

11 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
    and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting. By
    virtue of this all socket create methods are touched. In addition
    the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
    you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

    Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
    network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
    network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
    has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
    Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
    exotic protocols are supported.

    Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
    pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

    [ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global
    variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
    The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
    and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
    This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
    usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
    has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

    Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
    in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
    network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
    that are relevant to a single network namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     

27 Jul, 2007

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26 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside
    of the actual time-related functions. Instead, use the helper functions
    that we already have available to us.

    This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to
    fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ
    (because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate
    offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly
    to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a
    third of a second or so.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    john stultz
     

20 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
    c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
    BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
    either.

    This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
    completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
    about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
    or the documentation references).

    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

    Paul Mundt
     

19 Jul, 2007

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11 Jul, 2007

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19 Jun, 2007

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16 Jun, 2007

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23 May, 2007

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11 May, 2007

1 commit


05 May, 2007

1 commit

  • Sort out the MTU determination and handling in AF_RXRPC:

    (1) If it's present, parse the additional information supplied by the peer at
    the end of the ACK packet (struct ackinfo) to determine the MTU sizes
    that peer is willing to support.

    (2) Initialise the MTU size to that peer from the kernel's routing records.

    (3) Send ACKs rather than ACKALLs as the former carry the additional info,
    and the latter do not.

    (4) Declare the interface MTU size in outgoing ACKs as a maximum amount of
    data that can be stuffed into an RxRPC packet without it having to be
    fragmented to come in this computer's NIC.

    (5) If sendmsg() is given MSG_MORE then it should allocate an skb of the
    maximum size rather than one just big enough for the data it's got left
    to process on the theory that there is more data to come that it can
    append to that packet.

    This means, for example, that if AFS does a large StoreData op, all the
    packets barring the last will be filled to the maximum unfragmented size.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     

03 May, 2007

1 commit

  • Make miscellaneous fixes to AFS and AF_RXRPC:

    (*) Make AF_RXRPC select KEYS rather than RXKAD or AFS_FS in Kconfig.

    (*) Don't use FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA.

    (*) Remove a done 'TODO' item in a comemnt on afs_get_sb().

    (*) Don't pass a void * as the page pointer argument of kmap_atomic() as this
    breaks on m68k. Patch from Geert Uytterhoeven .

    (*) Use match_*() functions rather than doing my own parsing.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     

28 Apr, 2007

1 commit

  • Fixes for various arch compilation problems:

    (*) Missing module exports.

    (*) Variable name collision when rxkad and af_rxrpc both built in
    (rxrpc_debug).

    (*) Large constant representation problem (AFS_UUID_TO_UNIX_TIME).

    (*) Configuration dependencies.

    (*) printk() format warnings.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     

27 Apr, 2007

5 commits

  • CC [M] net/rxrpc/ar-input.o
    net/rxrpc/ar-input.c: In function ‘rxrpc_fast_process_data’:
    net/rxrpc/ar-input.c:171: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘__test_and_set_bit’ from incompatible pointer type
    net/rxrpc/ar-input.c:180: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘__clear_bit’ from incompatible pointer type
    net/rxrpc/ar-input.c:218: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘__clear_bit’ from incompatible pointer type

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     
  • These are done with CPP defines which several platforms
    use for their atomic.h implementation, which floods the
    build with warnings and breaks the build.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     
  • Delete the old RxRPC code as it's now no longer used.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     
  • Add an interface to the AF_RXRPC module so that the AFS filesystem module can
    more easily make use of the services available. AFS still opens a socket but
    then uses the action functions in lieu of sendmsg() and registers an intercept
    functions to grab messages before they're queued on the socket Rx queue.

    This permits AFS (or whatever) to:

    (1) Avoid the overhead of using the recvmsg() call.

    (2) Use different keys directly on individual client calls on one socket
    rather than having to open a whole slew of sockets, one for each key it
    might want to use.

    (3) Avoid calling request_key() at the point of issue of a call or opening of
    a socket. This is done instead by AFS at the point of open(), unlink() or
    other VFS operation and the key handed through.

    (4) Request the use of something other than GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory.

    Furthermore:

    (*) The socket buffer markings used by RxRPC are made available for AFS so
    that it can interpret the cooked RxRPC messages itself.

    (*) rxgen (un)marshalling abort codes are made available.

    The following documentation for the kernel interface is added to
    Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt:

    =========================
    AF_RXRPC KERNEL INTERFACE
    =========================

    The AF_RXRPC module also provides an interface for use by in-kernel utilities
    such as the AFS filesystem. This permits such a utility to:

    (1) Use different keys directly on individual client calls on one socket
    rather than having to open a whole slew of sockets, one for each key it
    might want to use.

    (2) Avoid having RxRPC call request_key() at the point of issue of a call or
    opening of a socket. Instead the utility is responsible for requesting a
    key at the appropriate point. AFS, for instance, would do this during VFS
    operations such as open() or unlink(). The key is then handed through
    when the call is initiated.

    (3) Request the use of something other than GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory.

    (4) Avoid the overhead of using the recvmsg() call. RxRPC messages can be
    intercepted before they get put into the socket Rx queue and the socket
    buffers manipulated directly.

    To use the RxRPC facility, a kernel utility must still open an AF_RXRPC socket,
    bind an addess as appropriate and listen if it's to be a server socket, but
    then it passes this to the kernel interface functions.

    The kernel interface functions are as follows:

    (*) Begin a new client call.

    struct rxrpc_call *
    rxrpc_kernel_begin_call(struct socket *sock,
    struct sockaddr_rxrpc *srx,
    struct key *key,
    unsigned long user_call_ID,
    gfp_t gfp);

    This allocates the infrastructure to make a new RxRPC call and assigns
    call and connection numbers. The call will be made on the UDP port that
    the socket is bound to. The call will go to the destination address of a
    connected client socket unless an alternative is supplied (srx is
    non-NULL).

    If a key is supplied then this will be used to secure the call instead of
    the key bound to the socket with the RXRPC_SECURITY_KEY sockopt. Calls
    secured in this way will still share connections if at all possible.

    The user_call_ID is equivalent to that supplied to sendmsg() in the
    control data buffer. It is entirely feasible to use this to point to a
    kernel data structure.

    If this function is successful, an opaque reference to the RxRPC call is
    returned. The caller now holds a reference on this and it must be
    properly ended.

    (*) End a client call.

    void rxrpc_kernel_end_call(struct rxrpc_call *call);

    This is used to end a previously begun call. The user_call_ID is expunged
    from AF_RXRPC's knowledge and will not be seen again in association with
    the specified call.

    (*) Send data through a call.

    int rxrpc_kernel_send_data(struct rxrpc_call *call, struct msghdr *msg,
    size_t len);

    This is used to supply either the request part of a client call or the
    reply part of a server call. msg.msg_iovlen and msg.msg_iov specify the
    data buffers to be used. msg_iov may not be NULL and must point
    exclusively to in-kernel virtual addresses. msg.msg_flags may be given
    MSG_MORE if there will be subsequent data sends for this call.

    The msg must not specify a destination address, control data or any flags
    other than MSG_MORE. len is the total amount of data to transmit.

    (*) Abort a call.

    void rxrpc_kernel_abort_call(struct rxrpc_call *call, u32 abort_code);

    This is used to abort a call if it's still in an abortable state. The
    abort code specified will be placed in the ABORT message sent.

    (*) Intercept received RxRPC messages.

    typedef void (*rxrpc_interceptor_t)(struct sock *sk,
    unsigned long user_call_ID,
    struct sk_buff *skb);

    void
    rxrpc_kernel_intercept_rx_messages(struct socket *sock,
    rxrpc_interceptor_t interceptor);

    This installs an interceptor function on the specified AF_RXRPC socket.
    All messages that would otherwise wind up in the socket's Rx queue are
    then diverted to this function. Note that care must be taken to process
    the messages in the right order to maintain DATA message sequentiality.

    The interceptor function itself is provided with the address of the socket
    and handling the incoming message, the ID assigned by the kernel utility
    to the call and the socket buffer containing the message.

    The skb->mark field indicates the type of message:

    MARK MEANING
    =============================== =======================================
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_DATA Data message
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_FINAL_ACK Final ACK received for an incoming call
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_BUSY Client call rejected as server busy
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_REMOTE_ABORT Call aborted by peer
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_NET_ERROR Network error detected
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_LOCAL_ERROR Local error encountered
    RXRPC_SKB_MARK_NEW_CALL New incoming call awaiting acceptance

    The remote abort message can be probed with rxrpc_kernel_get_abort_code().
    The two error messages can be probed with rxrpc_kernel_get_error_number().
    A new call can be accepted with rxrpc_kernel_accept_call().

    Data messages can have their contents extracted with the usual bunch of
    socket buffer manipulation functions. A data message can be determined to
    be the last one in a sequence with rxrpc_kernel_is_data_last(). When a
    data message has been used up, rxrpc_kernel_data_delivered() should be
    called on it..

    Non-data messages should be handled to rxrpc_kernel_free_skb() to dispose
    of. It is possible to get extra refs on all types of message for later
    freeing, but this may pin the state of a call until the message is finally
    freed.

    (*) Accept an incoming call.

    struct rxrpc_call *
    rxrpc_kernel_accept_call(struct socket *sock,
    unsigned long user_call_ID);

    This is used to accept an incoming call and to assign it a call ID. This
    function is similar to rxrpc_kernel_begin_call() and calls accepted must
    be ended in the same way.

    If this function is successful, an opaque reference to the RxRPC call is
    returned. The caller now holds a reference on this and it must be
    properly ended.

    (*) Reject an incoming call.

    int rxrpc_kernel_reject_call(struct socket *sock);

    This is used to reject the first incoming call on the socket's queue with
    a BUSY message. -ENODATA is returned if there were no incoming calls.
    Other errors may be returned if the call had been aborted (-ECONNABORTED)
    or had timed out (-ETIME).

    (*) Record the delivery of a data message and free it.

    void rxrpc_kernel_data_delivered(struct sk_buff *skb);

    This is used to record a data message as having been delivered and to
    update the ACK state for the call. The socket buffer will be freed.

    (*) Free a message.

    void rxrpc_kernel_free_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);

    This is used to free a non-DATA socket buffer intercepted from an AF_RXRPC
    socket.

    (*) Determine if a data message is the last one on a call.

    bool rxrpc_kernel_is_data_last(struct sk_buff *skb);

    This is used to determine if a socket buffer holds the last data message
    to be received for a call (true will be returned if it does, false
    if not).

    The data message will be part of the reply on a client call and the
    request on an incoming call. In the latter case there will be more
    messages, but in the former case there will not.

    (*) Get the abort code from an abort message.

    u32 rxrpc_kernel_get_abort_code(struct sk_buff *skb);

    This is used to extract the abort code from a remote abort message.

    (*) Get the error number from a local or network error message.

    int rxrpc_kernel_get_error_number(struct sk_buff *skb);

    This is used to extract the error number from a message indicating either
    a local error occurred or a network error occurred.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     
  • Provide AF_RXRPC sockets that can be used to talk to AFS servers, or serve
    answers to AFS clients. KerberosIV security is fully supported. The patches
    and some example test programs can be found in:

    http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/

    This will eventually replace the old implementation of kernel-only RxRPC
    currently resident in net/rxrpc/.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David Howells
     

26 Apr, 2007

3 commits


15 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
    sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
    pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

    I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
    register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
    duplicate sysctl entries.

    So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
    the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
    enhancments harder.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Corey Minyard
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: "John W. Linville"
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
    recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
    There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
    anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
    macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
    course of cleaning it up.

    To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
    removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

    Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
    arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
    allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
    configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
    introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
    by unnecessarily included header files).

    Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tim Schmielau
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
    moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
    dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
    these shared resources.

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

11 Feb, 2007

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11 Nov, 2005

1 commit

  • Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
    which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults. If that happens,
    it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
    trace with the device name. In future it can turn off RX checksum.

    I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
    use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
    exceptions of:

    * Those places where checksums are done bit by bit. These will call
    netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

    * The following have not been completely checked/converted:

    ipmr
    ip_vs
    netfilter
    dccp

    This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
    and David S. Miller.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Herbert Xu
     

09 Oct, 2005

1 commit

  • - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

    - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
    the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
    generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
    typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Al Viro