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<title>gso: Ensure that the packet is long enough</title>
<updated>2009-01-15T04:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2009-01-15T04:41:12+00:00</published>
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When we get a GSO packet from an untrusted source, we need to
ensure that it is sufficiently long so that we don't end up
crashing.

Based on discovery and patch by Ian Campbell.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When we get a GSO packet from an untrusted source, we need to
ensure that it is sufficiently long so that we don't end up
crashing.

Based on discovery and patch by Ian Campbell.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once</title>
<updated>2009-01-14T00:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willy Tarreau</name>
<email>w@1wt.eu</email>
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<published>2009-01-14T00:04:36+00:00</published>
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As spotted by Willy Tarreau, current splice() from tcp socket to pipe is not
optimal. It processes at most one segment per call.
This results in low performance and very high overhead due to syscall rate
when splicing from interfaces which do not support LRO.

Willy provided a patch inside tcp_splice_read(), but a better fix
is to let tcp_read_sock() process as many segments as possible, so
that tcp_rcv_space_adjust() and tcp_cleanup_rbuf() are called less
often.

With this change, splice() behaves like tcp_recvmsg(), being able
to consume many skbs in one system call. With typical 1460 bytes
of payload per frame, that means splice(SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) can return
16*1460 = 23360 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As spotted by Willy Tarreau, current splice() from tcp socket to pipe is not
optimal. It processes at most one segment per call.
This results in low performance and very high overhead due to syscall rate
when splicing from interfaces which do not support LRO.

Willy provided a patch inside tcp_splice_read(), but a better fix
is to let tcp_read_sock() process as many segments as possible, so
that tcp_rcv_space_adjust() and tcp_cleanup_rbuf() are called less
often.

With this change, splice() behaves like tcp_recvmsg(), being able
to consume many skbs in one system call. With typical 1460 bytes
of payload per frame, that means splice(SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) can return
16*1460 = 23360 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netfilter 06/09: nf_conntrack: fix ICMP/ICMPv6 timeout sysctls on big-endian</title>
<updated>2009-01-13T05:18:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
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<published>2009-01-12T00:06:07+00:00</published>
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An old bug crept back into the ICMP/ICMPv6 conntrack protocols: the timeout
values are defined as unsigned longs, the sysctl's maxsize is set to
sizeof(unsigned int). Use unsigned int for the timeout values as in the
other conntrack protocols.

Reported-by: Jean-Mickael Guerin &lt;jean-mickael.guerin@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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An old bug crept back into the ICMP/ICMPv6 conntrack protocols: the timeout
values are defined as unsigned longs, the sysctl's maxsize is set to
sizeof(unsigned int). Use unsigned int for the timeout values as in the
other conntrack protocols.

Reported-by: Jean-Mickael Guerin &lt;jean-mickael.guerin@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netfilter 01/09: remove "happy cracking" message</title>
<updated>2009-01-13T05:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-12T00:06:00+00:00</published>
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Don't spam logs for locally generated short packets. these can only
be generated by root.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Don't spam logs for locally generated short packets. these can only
be generated by root.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx</title>
<updated>2009-01-09T19:52:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-01-09T19:52:14+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits)
  ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case
  dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall
  dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn
  dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers
  dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure
  ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown
  iop-adma: enable module removal
  iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON
  iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free
  dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client
  dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure
  dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure
  dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get
  atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave
  dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel
  dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels
  net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation
  dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits)
  ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case
  dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall
  dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn
  dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers
  dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure
  ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown
  iop-adma: enable module removal
  iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON
  iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free
  dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client
  dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure
  dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure
  dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get
  atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave
  dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel
  dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels
  net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation
  dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel
  dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T19:05:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2009-01-08T19:05:59+00:00</published>
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<title>tcp6: Add GRO support</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T18:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-08T18:41:23+00:00</published>
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This patch adds GRO support for TCP over IPv6.  The code is exactly
the same as the IPv4 version except for the pseudo-header checksum
computation.

Note that I've removed the unused tcphdr argument from tcp_v6_check
rather than invent a bogus value for GRO.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds GRO support for TCP over IPv6.  The code is exactly
the same as the IPv4 version except for the pseudo-header checksum
computation.

Note that I've removed the unused tcphdr argument from tcp_v6_check
rather than invent a bogus value for GRO.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T22:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
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<published>2009-01-06T22:58:22+00:00</published>
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<title>net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T18:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-06T18:38:15+00:00</published>
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Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;


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Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;


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<title>dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T18:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-06T18:38:14+00:00</published>
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Simply, if a client wants any dmaengine channel then prevent all dmaengine
modules from being removed.  Once the clients are done re-enable module
removal.

Why?, beyond reducing complication:
1/ Tracking reference counts per-transaction in an efficient manner, as
   is currently done, requires a complicated scheme to avoid cache-line
   bouncing effects.
2/ Per-transaction ref-counting gives the false impression that a
   dma-driver can be gracefully removed ahead of its user (net, md, or
   dma-slave)
3/ None of the in-tree dma-drivers talk to hot pluggable hardware, but
   if such an engine were built one day we still would not need to notify
   clients of remove events.  The driver can simply return NULL to a
   -&gt;prep() request, something that is much easier for a client to handle.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;



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Simply, if a client wants any dmaengine channel then prevent all dmaengine
modules from being removed.  Once the clients are done re-enable module
removal.

Why?, beyond reducing complication:
1/ Tracking reference counts per-transaction in an efficient manner, as
   is currently done, requires a complicated scheme to avoid cache-line
   bouncing effects.
2/ Per-transaction ref-counting gives the false impression that a
   dma-driver can be gracefully removed ahead of its user (net, md, or
   dma-slave)
3/ None of the in-tree dma-drivers talk to hot pluggable hardware, but
   if such an engine were built one day we still would not need to notify
   clients of remove events.  The driver can simply return NULL to a
   -&gt;prep() request, something that is much easier for a client to handle.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;



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