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Eric Dumazet
35c7f6de73 arp_tables: ifname_compare() can assume 16bit alignment
Arches without efficient unaligned access can still perform a loop
assuming 16bit alignment in ifname_compare()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 14:15:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
b5bb14386e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-24 13:24:36 -07:00
John Dykstra
96e0bf4b51 tcp: Discard segments that ack data not yet sent
Discard incoming packets whose ack field iincludes data not yet sent.
This is consistent with RFC 793 Section 3.9.

Change tcp_ack() to distinguish between too-small and too-large ack
field values.  Keep segments with too-large ack fields out of the fast
path, and change slow path to discard them.

Reported-by:  Oliver Zheng <mailinglists+netdev@oliverzheng.com>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-22 21:49:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
a0bffffc14 net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap()
tcp_sack_swap seems unnecessary so I pushed swap to the caller.
Also removed comment that seemed then pointless, and added include
when not already there. Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
David S. Miller
2b1c4354de Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/virtio_net.c
2009-03-20 02:27:41 -07:00
Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2bad35b7c9 netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
dev can be NULL in ip[6]_frag_reasm for skb's coming from RAW sockets.

Quagga's OSPFD sends fragmented packets on a RAW socket, when netfilter
conntrack reassembles them on the OUTPUT path you hit this code path.

You can test it with something like "hping2 -0 -d 2000 -f AA.BB.CC.DD"

With help from Jarek Poplawski.

Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 23:26:11 -07:00
Rami Rosen
beedad923a tcp: remove parameter from tcp_recv_urg().
This patch removes an unused parameter (addr_len) from tcp_recv_urg()
method in net/ipv4/tcp.c.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 18:50:09 -07:00
Scott James Remnant
95ba434f89 netfilter: auto-load ip_queue module when socket opened
The ip_queue module is missing the net-pf-16-proto-3 alias that would
causae it to be auto-loaded when a socket of that type is opened.  This
patch adds the alias.

Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16 15:31:10 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1db7a748df netfilter: conntrack: increase drop stats if sequence adjustment fails
This patch increases the statistics of packets drop if the sequence
adjustment fails in ipv4_confirm().

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16 15:18:50 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
67c0d57930 netfilter: Kconfig spelling fixes (trivial)
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sheminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16 15:17:23 +01:00
Eric Leblond
ca735b3aaa netfilter: use a linked list of loggers
This patch modifies nf_log to use a linked list of loggers for each
protocol. This list of loggers is read and write protected with a
mutex.

This patch separates registration and binding. To be used as
logging module, a module has to register calling nf_log_register()
and to bind to a protocol it has to call nf_log_bind_pf().
This patch also converts the logging modules to the new API. For nfnetlink_log,
it simply switchs call to register functions to call to bind function and
adds a call to nf_log_register() during init. For other modules, it just
remove a const flag from the logger structure and replace it with a
__read_mostly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16 14:54:21 +01:00
Ilpo Järvinen
afece1c658 tcp: make sure xmit goal size never becomes zero
It's not too likely to happen, would basically require crafted
packets (must hit the max guard in tcp_bound_to_half_wnd()).
It seems that nothing that bad would happen as there's tcp_mems
and congestion window that prevent runaway at some point from
hurting all too much (I'm not that sure what all those zero
sized segments we would generate do though in write queue).
Preventing it regardless is certainly the best way to go.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
2a3a041c4e tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning things
The results is very unlikely change every so often so we
hardly need to divide again after doing that once for a
connection. Yet, if divide still becomes necessary we
detect that and do the right thing and again settle for
non-divide state. Takes the u16 space which was previously
taken by the plain xmit_size_goal.

This should take care part of the tso vs non-tso difference
we found earlier.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
0c54b85f28 tcp: simplify tcp_current_mss
There's very little need for most of the callsites to get
tp->xmit_goal_size updated. That will cost us divide as is,
so slice the function in two. Also, the only users of the
tp->xmit_goal_size are directly behind tcp_current_mss(),
so there's no need to store that variable into tcp_sock
at all! The drop of xmit_goal_size currently leaves 16-bit
hole and some reorganization would again be necessary to
change that (but I'm aiming to fill that hole with u16
xmit_goal_size_segs to cache the results of the remaining
divide to get that tso on regression).

Bring xmit_goal_size parts into tcp.c

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:54 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
72211e9050 tcp: don't check mtu probe completion in the loop
It seems that no variables clash such that we couldn't do
the check just once later on. Therefore move it.

Also kill dead obvious comment, dead argument and add
unlikely since this mtu probe does not happen too often.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:53 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
c887e6d2d9 tcp: consolidate paws check
Wow, it was quite tricky to merge that stream of negations
but I think I finally got it right:

check & replace_ts_recent:
(s32)(rcv_tsval - ts_recent) >= 0                  => 0
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= 0                  => 0

discard:
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval)  > TCP_PAWS_WINDOW    => 1
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= TCP_PAWS_WINDOW    => 0

I toggled the return values of tcp_paws_check around since
the old encoding added yet-another negation making tracking
of truth-values really complicated.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:52 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
c43d558a51 tcp: kill dead end_seq variable in clean_rtx_queue
I've already forgotten what for this was necessary, anyway
it's no longer used (if it ever was).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:51 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
5861f8e58d tcp: remove pointless .dsack/.num_sacks code
In the pure assignment case, the earlier zeroing is
still in effect.

David S. Miller raised concerns if the ifs are there to avoid
dirtying cachelines. I came to these conclusions:

> We'll be dirty it anyway (now that I check), the first "real" statement
> in tcp_rcv_established is:
>
>       tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp = 0;
>
> ...that'll land on the same dword. :-/
>
> I suppose the blocks are there just because they had more complexity
> inside when they had to calculate the eff_sacks too (maybe it would
> have been better to just remove them in that drop-patch so you would
> have had less head-ache :-)).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:51 -07:00
Roel Kluin
a2025b8b10 tcp: '< 0' test on unsigned
promote 'cnt' to size_t, to match 'len'.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 16:05:14 -07:00
Denys Fedoryshchenko
73ce7b01b4 ipv4: arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification
Windows (XP at least) hosts on boot, with configured static ip, performing 
address conflict detection, which is defined in RFC3927.
Here is quote of important information:

"
An ARP announcement is identical to the ARP Probe described above, 
except    that now the sender and target IP addresses are both set 
to the host's newly selected IPv4 address. 
"

But it same time this goes wrong with RFC5227.
"
The 'sender IP address' field MUST be set to all zeroes; this is to avoid
polluting ARP caches in other hosts on the same link in the case
where the address turns out to be already in use by another host.
"

When ARP proxy configured, it must not answer to both cases, because 
it is address conflict verification in any case. For Windows it is just 
causing to detect false "ip conflict". Already there is code for RFC5227, so 
just trivially we just check also if source ip == target ip.

Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 16:02:07 -07:00
Neil Horman
ead2ceb0ec Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying end-of-line points for skbs
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/skbuff.h |    4 +++-
 net/core/datagram.c    |    2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c      |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/ipv4/arp.c         |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/udp.c         |    2 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
fc1ad92dfc tcp: allow timestamps even if SYN packet has tsval=0
Some systems send SYN packets with apparently wrong RFC1323 timestamp
option values [timestamp tsval=0 tsecr=0].
It might be for security reasons (http://www.secuobs.com/plugs/25220.shtml )

Linux TCP stack ignores this option and sends back a SYN+ACK packet
without timestamp option, thus many TCP flows cannot use timestamps
and lose some benefit of RFC1323.

Other operating systems seem to not care about initial tsval value, and let
tcp flows to negotiate timestamp option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-11 09:23:57 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better
locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
2f20d2e667 tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsys
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network
devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03 01:14:21 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
6eb0777228 netns: Fix icmp shutdown.
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup.  There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.

The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.

It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys.  Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.

Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03 01:14:15 -08:00
Hantzis Fotis
ee7537b63a tcp: tcp_init_wl / tcp_update_wl argument cleanup
The above functions from include/net/tcp.h have been defined with an
argument that they never use. The argument is 'u32 ack' which is never
used inside the function body, and thus it can be removed. The rest of
the patch involves the necessary changes to the function callers of the
above two functions.

Signed-off-by: Hantzis Fotis <xantzis@ceid.upatras.gr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 22:42:02 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
9ce0146102 tcp: get rid of two unnecessary u16s in TCP skb flags copying
I guess these fields were one day 16-bit in the struct but
nowadays they're just using 8 bits anyway.

This is just a precaution, didn't result any change in my
case but who knows what all those varying gcc versions &
options do. I've been told that 16-bit is not so nice with
some cpus.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:17 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
0d6a775e27 tcp: in sendmsg/pages open code the real goto target
copied was assigned zero right before the goto, so if (copied)
cannot ever be true.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:16 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
cabeccbd17 tcp: kill eff_sacks "cache", the sole user can calculate itself
Also fixes insignificant bug that would cause sending of stale
SACK block (would occur in some corner cases).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:16 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
758ce5c8d1 tcp: add helper for AI algorithm
It seems that implementation in yeah was inconsistent to what
other did as it would increase cwnd one ack earlier than the
others do.

Size benefits:

  bictcp_cong_avoid |  -36
  tcp_cong_avoid_ai |  +52
  bictcp_cong_avoid |  -34
  tcp_scalable_cong_avoid |  -36
  tcp_veno_cong_avoid |  -12
  tcp_yeah_cong_avoid |  -38

= -104 bytes total

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:15 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
571a5dd8d0 htcp: merge icsk_ca_state compare
Similar to what is done elsewhere in TCP code when double
state checks are being done.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:14 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
e6c7d08579 tcp: drop unnecessary local var in collapse
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:13 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
bc079e9ede tcp: cleanup ca_state mess in tcp_timer
Redundant checks made indentation impossible to follow.
However, it might be useful to make this ca_state+is_sack
indexed array.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:13 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
7363a5b233 tcp: separate timeout marking loop to it's own function
Some comment about its current state added. So far I have
seen very few cases where the thing is actually useful,
usually just marginally (though admittedly I don't usually
see top of window losses where it seems possible that there
could be some gain), instead, more often the cases suffer
from L-marking spike which is certainly not desirable
(I'll bury improving it to my todo list, but on a low
prio position).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:12 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
d0af4160d1 tcp: remove redundant code from tcp_mark_lost_retrans
Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> noticed and was
puzzled by the fact that !tcp_is_fack(tp) leads to early return
near the beginning and the later on tcp_is_fack(tp) was still
used in an if condition. The later check was a left-over from
RFC3517 SACK stuff (== !tcp_is_fack(tp) behavior nowadays) as
there wasn't clear way how to handle this particular check
cheaply in the spirit of RFC3517 (using only SACK blocks, not
holes + SACK blocks as with FACK). I sort of left it there as
a reminder but since it's confusing other people just remove
it and comment the missing-feature stuff instead.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:11 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
02276f3c96 tcp: fix corner case issue in segmentation during rexmitting
If cur_mss grew very recently so that the previously G/TSOed skb
now fits well into a single segment it would get send up in
parts unless we calculate # of segments again. This corner-case
could happen eg. after mtu probe completes or less than
previously sack blocks are required for the opposite direction.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:11 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
d3d2ae4545 tcp: Don't clear hints when tcp_fragmenting
1) We didn't remove any skbs, so no need to handle stale refs.

2) scoreboard_skb_hint is trivial, no timestamps were changed
   so no need to clear that one

3) lost_skb_hint needs tweaking similar to that of
   tcp_sacktag_one().

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:10 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
62ad27619c tcp: deferring in middle of queue makes very little sense
If skb can be sent right away, we certainly should do that
if it's in the middle of the queue because it won't get
more data into it.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:10 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
59a08cba6a tcp: fix lost_cnt_hint miscounts
It is possible that lost_cnt_hint gets underflow in
tcp_clean_rtx_queue because the cumulative ACK can cover
the segment where lost_skb_hint points to only partially,
which means that the hint is not cleared, opposite to what
my (earlier) comment claimed.

Also I don't agree what I ended up writing about non-trivial
case there to be what I intented to say. It was not supposed
to happen that the hint won't get cleared and we underflow
in any scenario.

In general, this is quite hard to trigger in practice.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:09 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
ac11ba753f tcp: don't backtrack to sacked skbs
Backtracking to sacked skbs is a horrible performance killer
since the hint cannot be advanced successfully past them...
...And it's totally unnecessary too.

In theory this is 2.6.27..28 regression but I doubt anybody
can make .28 to have worse performance because of other TCP
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:08 -08:00
David S. Miller
aa4abc9bcc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
	net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen
9ec06ff57a tcp: fix retrans_out leaks
There's conflicting assumptions in shifting, the caller assumes
that dupsack results in S'ed skbs (or a part of it) for sure but
never gave a hint to tcp_sacktag_one when dsack is actually in
use. Thus DSACK retrans_out -= pcount was not taken and the
counter became out of sync. Remove obstacle from that information
flow to get DSACKs accounted in tcp_sacktag_one as expected.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01 00:21:36 -08:00
Hannes Eder
56bca31ff1 inet fragments: fix sparse warning: context imbalance
Impact: Attribute function with __releases(...)

Fix this sparse warning:
  net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:276:35: warning: context imbalance in 'inet_frag_find' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:13:35 -08:00
David S. Miller
f11c179eea Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
2009-02-25 00:02:05 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
26d94b46d0 ipip: used time_before for comparing jiffies
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:36:47 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
da6185d874 gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:34:48 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
Joe Perches
a52b8bd338 tcp_scalable: Update malformed & dead url
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 16:40:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
e70049b9e7 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
d18921a0e3 Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode
The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter
proc option.  Recent changes added a loose mode.
Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to
the document describing it:
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away
from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 03:47:42 -08:00