linux.git/net/packet, branch v2.6.21.7

[AF_PACKET]: Remove unnecessary casts.

2007-02-26T19:42:45+00:00

packet_lookup_frame() always returns tpacket_hdr*, so there's no reason
to return char* and require casting by callers.

Also, remove a cast of void*.

Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00

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

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 8

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

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

[NET] PACKET: Fix whitespace errors.

2007-02-11T07:20:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PACKET]: Fix skb->cb clobbering between aux and sockaddr

2007-02-08T20:38:47+00:00

Both aux data and sockaddr tries to use the same buffer which
obviously doesn't work.  We just happen to have 4 bytes free in
the skb->cb if you take away the maximum length of sockaddr_ll.
That's just enough to store the one piece of info from aux data
that we can't generate at recvmsg(2) time.

This is what the following patch does.

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

[PACKET]: Add optional checksum computation for recvmsg

2007-02-08T20:38:46+00:00

This patch is needed to make ISC's DHCP server (and probably other
DHCP servers/clients using AF_PACKET) to be able to serve another
client on the same Xen host.

The problem is that packets between different domains on the same
Xen host only have partial checksums.  Unfortunately this piece of
information is not passed along in AF_PACKET unless you're using
the mmap interface.  Since dhcpd doesn't support packet-mmap, UDP
packets from the same host come out with apparently bogus checksums.

This patch adds a mechanism for AF_PACKET recvmsg(2) to return the
status along with the packet.  It does so by adding a new cmsg that
contains this information along with some other relevant data such
as the original packet length.

I didn't include the time stamp information since there is already
a cmsg for that.

This patch also changes the mmap code to set the CSUMNOTREADY flag
on all packets instead of just outoing packets on cooked sockets.

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

[AF_PACKET]: Check device down state before hard header callbacks.

2007-01-26T03:30:36+00:00

If the device is down, invoking the device hard header callbacks
is not legal, so check it early.

Based upon a shaper OOPS report from Frederik Deweerdt.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[AF_PACKET]: Fix BPF handling.

2007-01-24T23:21:02+00:00

This fixes a bug introduced by:

commit fda9ef5d679b07c9d9097aaf6ef7f069d794a8f9
Author: Dmitry Mishin 
Date:   Thu Aug 31 15:28:39 2006 -0700

    [NET]: Fix sk->sk_filter field access

sk_run_filter() returns either 0 or an unsigned 32-bit
length which says how much of the packet to retain.
If that 32-bit unsigned integer is larger than the packet,
this is fine we just leave the packet unchanged.

The above commit caused all filter return values which
were negative when interpreted as a signed integer to
indicate a packet drop, which is wrong.

Based upon a report and initial patch by Raivis Bucis.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Memory barrier cleanups

2006-12-07T08:11:33+00:00

I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so
therefore the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used.

I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be
dropped entirely.  schedule_work's implementation currently implies a
memory barrier and I think sane semantics of schedule_work() should imply
a memory barrier, as needed so the caller shouldn't have to worry.
It's not quite obvious why the barrier in net/packet/af_packet.c is
needed; maybe it should be implied through flush_dcache_page?

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h

2006-12-04T07:00:29+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro