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| * | | rxrpc: Add service upgrade support for client connectionsDavid Howells2017-06-051-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it possible for a client to use AuriStor's service upgrade facility. The client does this by adding an RXRPC_UPGRADE_SERVICE control message to the first sendmsg() of a call. This takes no parameters. When recvmsg() starts returning data from the call, the service ID field in the returned msg_name will reflect the result of the upgrade attempt. If the upgrade was ignored, srx_service will match what was set in the sendmsg(); if the upgrade happened the srx_service will be altered to indicate the service the server upgraded to. Note that: (1) The choice of upgrade service is up to the server (2) Further client calls to the same server that would share a connection are blocked if an upgrade probe is in progress. (3) This should only be used to probe the service. Clients should then use the returned service ID in all subsequent communications with that server (and not set the upgrade). Note that the kernel will not retain this information should the connection expire from its cache. (4) If a server that supports upgrading is replaced by one that doesn't, whilst a connection is live, and if the replacement is running, say, OpenAFS 1.6.4 or older or an older IBM AFS, then the replacement server will not respond to packets sent to the upgraded connection. At this point, calls will time out and the server must be reprobed. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * | | rxrpc: Implement service upgradeDavid Howells2017-06-051-8/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement AuriStor's service upgrade facility. There are three problems that this is meant to deal with: (1) Various of the standard AFS RPC calls have IPv4 addresses in their requests and/or replies - but there's no room for including IPv6 addresses. (2) Definition of IPv6-specific RPC operations in the standard operation sets has not yet been achieved. (3) One could envision the creation a new service on the same port that as the original service. The new service could implement improved operations - and the client could try this first, falling back to the original service if it's not there. Unfortunately, certain servers ignore packets addressed to a service they don't implement and don't respond in any way - not even with an ABORT. This means that the client must then wait for the call timeout to occur. What service upgrade does is to see if the connection is marked as being 'upgradeable' and if so, change the service ID in the server and thus the request and reply formats. Note that the upgrade isn't mandatory - a server that supports only the original call set will ignore the upgrade request. In the protocol, the procedure is then as follows: (1) To request an upgrade, the first DATA packet in a new connection must have the userStatus set to 1 (this is normally 0). The userStatus value is normally ignored by the server. (2) If the server doesn't support upgrading, the reply packets will contain the same service ID as for the first request packet. (3) If the server does support upgrading, all future reply packets on that connection will contain the new service ID and the new service ID will be applied to *all* further calls on that connection as well. (4) The RPC op used to probe the upgrade must take the same request data as the shadow call in the upgrade set (but may return a different reply). GetCapability RPC ops were added to all standard sets for just this purpose. Ops where the request formats differ cannot be used for probing. (5) The client must wait for completion of the probe before sending any further RPC ops to the same destination. It should then use the service ID that recvmsg() reported back in all future calls. (6) The shadow service must have call definitions for all the operation IDs defined by the original service. To support service upgrading, a server should: (1) Call bind() twice on its AF_RXRPC socket before calling listen(). Each bind() should supply a different service ID, but the transport addresses must be the same. This allows the server to receive requests with either service ID. (2) Enable automatic upgrading by calling setsockopt(), specifying RXRPC_UPGRADEABLE_SERVICE and passing in a two-member array of unsigned shorts as the argument: unsigned short optval[2]; This specifies a pair of service IDs. They must be different and must match the service IDs bound to the socket. Member 0 is the service ID to upgrade from and member 1 is the service ID to upgrade to. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * | | rxrpc: Permit multiple service bindingDavid Howells2017-06-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Permit bind() to be called on an AF_RXRPC socket more than once (currently maximum twice) to bind multiple listening services to it. There are some restrictions: (1) All bind() calls involved must have a non-zero service ID. (2) The service IDs must all be different. (3) The rest of the address (notably the transport part) must be the same in all (a single UDP socket is shared). (4) This must be done before listen() or sendmsg() is called. This allows someone to connect to the service socket with different service IDs and lays the foundation for service upgrading. The service ID used by an incoming call can be extracted from the msg_name returned by recvmsg(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * | | i40evf: update i40evf.txt with new contentJesse Brandeburg2017-06-011-8/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The addition of the AVF and virtchnl code to the i40evf driver means we should update the i40evf.txt file with the most up to date information. It seems this file hasn't been updated in a while, so the changes cover a little more than just AVF, but it's all only in the i40evf.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
| * | | net: allow simultaneous SW and HW transmit timestampingMiroslav Lichvar2017-05-211-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW option to allow an outgoing packet to be looped to the socket's error queue with a software timestamp even when a hardware transmit timestamp is expected to be provided by the driver. Applications using this option will receive two separate messages from the error queue, one with a software timestamp and the other with a hardware timestamp. As the hardware timestamp is saved to the shared skb info, which may happen before the first message with software timestamp is received by the application, the hardware timestamp is copied to the SCM_TIMESTAMPING control message only when the skb has no software timestamp or it is an incoming packet. While changing sw_tx_timestamp(), inline it in skb_tx_timestamp() as there are no other users. CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> CC: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | net: fix documentation of struct scm_timestampingMiroslav Lichvar2017-05-211-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The scm_timestamping struct may return multiple non-zero fields, e.g. when both software and hardware RX timestamping is enabled, or when the SO_TIMESTAMP(NS) option is combined with SCM_TIMESTAMPING and a false software timestamp is generated in the recvmsg() call in order to always return a SCM_TIMESTAMP(NS) message. CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> CC: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | net: add new control message for incoming HW-timestamped packetsMiroslav Lichvar2017-05-211-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_PKTINFO option to request a new control message for incoming packets with hardware timestamps. It contains the index of the real interface which received the packet and the length of the packet at layer 2. The index is useful with bonding, bridges and other interfaces, where IP_PKTINFO doesn't allow applications to determine which PHC made the timestamp. With the L2 length (and link speed) it is possible to transpose preamble timestamps to trailer timestamps, which are used in the NTP protocol. While this information could be provided by two new socket options independently from timestamping, it doesn't look like they would be very useful. With this option any performance impact is limited to hardware timestamping. Use dev_get_by_napi_id() to get the device and its index. On kernels with disabled CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL or drivers not using NAPI, a zero index will be returned in the control message. CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | net: more accurate checksumming in validate_xmit_skb()Davide Caratti2017-05-191-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | skb_csum_hwoffload_help() uses netdev features and skb->csum_not_inet to determine if skb needs software computation of Internet Checksum or crc32c (or nothing, if this computation can be done by the hardware). Use it in place of skb_checksum_help() in validate_xmit_skb() to avoid corruption of non-GSO SCTP packets having skb->ip_summed equal to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. While at it, remove references to skb_csum_off_chk* functions, since they are not present anymore in Linux _ see commit cf53b1da73bd ("Revert "net: Add driver helper functions to determine checksum offloadability""). Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-07-035-1/+432
|\ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time around. Highlights include: - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain. - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates" * tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends Make the main documentation title less Geocities Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1 docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum" docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt ...
| * | | Merge remote-tracking branch 'mauro-exp/docbook3' into death-to-docbookJonathan Corbet2017-05-184-0/+431
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mauro says: This patch series convert the remaining DocBooks to ReST. The first version was originally send as 3 patch series: [PATCH 00/36] Convert DocBook documents to ReST [PATCH 0/5] Convert more books to ReST [PATCH 00/13] Get rid of DocBook The lsm book was added as if it were a text file under Documentation. The plan is to merge it with another file under Documentation/security, after both this series and a security Documentation patch series gets merged. It also adjusts some Sphinx-pedantic errors/warnings on some kernel-doc markups. I also added some patches here to add PDF output for all existing ReST books.
| | * | | docs-rst: convert scsi DocBook to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2017-05-161-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
| | * | | docs-rst: convert z8530book DocBook to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2017-05-162-0/+258
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Some manual adjustments were required due to some conversion error on some literals. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
| | * | | docs-rst: convert networking book to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2017-05-163-0/+174
| | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
| * / / doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txtKees Cook2017-05-181-1/+1
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under keys security devel index. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | / net: fix up hash documentationMichael S. Tsirkin2017-06-071-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 61b905da33 ("net: Rename skb->rxhash to skb->hash") didn't update the documentation, fix this up. Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: Update TCP congestion control documentationAnmol Sarma2017-06-051-18/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update tcp.txt to fix mandatory congestion control ops and default CCA selection. Also, fix comment in tcp.h for undo_cwnd. Signed-off-by: Anmol Sarma <me@anmolsarma.in> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Documentation: networking: add DPAA Ethernet documentMadalin Bucur2017-05-301-0/+194
|/ | | | | | Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Camelia Groza <camelia.groza@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2017-05-026-55/+226
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking updates from David Millar: "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that happened this development cycle: 1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri) 2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support (me). 3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me) 4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei Starovoitov) 5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian Westphal) 6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana) 7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger) 8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky) 9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto) 10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh) 11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay Aleksandrov) 12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala) 13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and several others) 14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits) tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream() tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg() net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling net: thunderx: Support for page recycling ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation. qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing. stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64 bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD ...
| * switchdev: documentation: fix whitespace issuesLiam Beguin2017-05-011-35/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Figure 1 is full of whitespaces; fix it Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <lbeguin@tycoint.com> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@tycoint.com> Acked-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * net/tcp_fastopen: Disable active side TFO in certain scenariosWei Wang2017-04-241-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Middlebox firewall issues can potentially cause server's data being blackholed after a successful 3WHS using TFO. Following are the related reports from Apple: https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Paasch_Network_Support.pdf Slide 31 identifies an issue where the client ACK to the server's data sent during a TFO'd handshake is dropped. C ---> syn-data ---> S C <--- syn/ack ----- S C (accept & write) C <---- data ------- S C ----- ACK -> X S [retry and timeout] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tcpm-13.pdf Slide 5 shows a similar situation that the server's data gets dropped after 3WHS. C ---- syn-data ---> S C <--- syn/ack ----- S C ---- ack --------> S S (accept & write) C? X <- data ------ S [retry and timeout] This is the worst failure b/c the client can not detect such behavior to mitigate the situation (such as disabling TFO). Failing to proceed, the application (e.g., SSL library) may simply timeout and retry with TFO again, and the process repeats indefinitely. The proposed solution is to disable active TFO globally under the following circumstances: 1. client side TFO socket detects out of order FIN 2. client side TFO socket receives out of order RST We disable active side TFO globally for 1hr at first. Then if it happens again, we disable it for 2h, then 4h, 8h, ... And we reset the timeout to 1hr if a client side TFO sockets not opened on loopback has successfully received data segs from server. And we examine this condition during close(). The rational behind it is that when such firewall issue happens, application running on the client should eventually close the socket as it is not able to get the data it is expecting. Or application running on the server should close the socket as it is not able to receive any response from client. In both cases, out of order FIN or RST will get received on the client given that the firewall will not block them as no data are in those frames. And we want to disable active TFO globally as it helps if the middle box is very close to the client and most of the connections are likely to fail. Also, add a debug sysctl: tcp_fastopen_blackhole_detect_timeout_sec: the initial timeout to use when firewall blackhole issue happens. This can be set and read. When setting it to 0, it means to disable the active disable logic. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * bpf, doc: update list of architectures that do eBPF JITAlexei Starovoitov2017-04-231-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | update the list and remove 'in the future' statement, since all still alive 64-bit architectures now do eBPF JIT. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge branch '40GbE' of ↵David S. Miller2017-03-241-0/+72
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2017-03-23 This series contains updates to i40e and i40e.txt documentation. Jake provides all the changes in the series which are centered around ntuple filter fixes and additional support. Fixed the current implementation of .set_rxnfc, where we were not reading the mask field for filter entries which was resulting in filters not behaving as expected and not working correctly. When cleaning up after disabling flow director support, ensure that the default input set is correctly reprogrammed. Since the hardware only supports a single input set for all flows of that type, the driver shall only allow the input set to change if there are no other configured filters for that flow type, so add support to detect when we can update the input set for each flow type. Align the driver to other drivers to partition the ring_cookie value into 8bits of VF index, along with 32bits of queue number instead of using the user-def field. Added support to parse the user-def field into a data structure format to allow future extensions of the user-def filed by keeping all the code that read/writes the field into a single location. Added support for flexible payloads passed via ethtool user-def field. We support a single flexible word (2byte) value per protocol type, and we handle the FLX_PIT register using a list of flexible entries so that each flow type may be configured separately. Enabled flow director filters for SCTPv4 packets using the ethtool ntuple interface to enable filters. Updated the documentation on the i40e driver to include the newly added support to ntuple filters. Reduced complexity of a if-continue-else-break section of code by taking advantage of using hlist_for_each_entry_continue() instead. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * i40e: document drivers use of ntuple filtersJacob Keller2017-03-231-0/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation describing the drivers use of ethtool ntuple filters, including the limitations that it has due to hardware, as well as how it reads and parses the user-def data block. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
| * | net: Add sysctl to toggle early demux for tcp and udpsubashab@codeaurora.org2017-03-241-1/+10
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Certain system process significant unconnected UDP workload. It would be preferrable to disable UDP early demux for those systems and enable it for TCP only. By disabling UDP demux, we see these slight gains on an ARM64 system- 782 -> 788Mbps unconnected single stream UDPv4 633 -> 654Mbps unconnected UDPv4 different sources The performance impact can change based on CPU architecure and cache sizes. There will not much difference seen if entire UDP hash table is in cache. Both sysctls are enabled by default to preserve existing behavior. v1->v2: Change function pointer instead of adding conditional as suggested by Stephen. v2->v3: Read once in callers to avoid issues due to compiler optimizations. Also update commit message with the tests. v3->v4: Store and use read once result instead of querying pointer again incorrectly. v4->v5: Refactor to avoid errors due to compilation with IPV6={m,n} Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * net: ipv6: Add sysctl for minimum prefix len acceptable in RIOs.Joel Scherpelz2017-03-221-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a new sysctl accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen that defines the minimum acceptable prefix length of Route Information Options. The new sysctl is intended to be used together with accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen to configure a range of acceptable prefix lengths. It is useful to prevent misconfigurations from unintentionally blackholing too much of the IPv6 address space (e.g., home routers announcing RIOs for fc00::/7, which is incorrect). Signed-off-by: Joel Scherpelz <jscherpelz@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * net: ipv4: add support for ECMP hash policy choiceNikolay Aleksandrov2017-03-211-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for ECMP hash policy choice via a new sysctl called fib_multipath_hash_policy and also adds support for L4 hashes. The current values for fib_multipath_hash_policy are: 0 - layer 3 (default) 1 - layer 4 If there's an skb hash already set and it matches the chosen policy then it will be used instead of being calculated (currently only for L4). In L3 mode we always calculate the hash due to the ICMP error special case, the flow dissector's field consistentification should handle the address order thus we can remove the address reversals. If the skb is provided we always use it for the hash calculation, otherwise we fallback to fl4, that is if skb is NULL fl4 has to be set. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-nextDavid S. Miller2017-03-211-8/+60
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for your net-next tree. A couple of new features for nf_tables, and unsorted cleanups and incremental updates for the Netfilter tree. More specifically, they are: 1) Allow to check for TCP option presence via nft_exthdr, patch from Phil Sutter. 2) Add symmetric hash support to nft_hash, from Laura Garcia Liebana. 3) Use pr_cont() in ebt_log, from Joe Perches. 4) Remove some dead code in arp_tables reported via static analysis tool, from Colin Ian King. 5) Consolidate nf_tables expression validation, from Liping Zhang. 6) Consolidate set lookup via nft_set_lookup(). 7) Remove unnecessary rcu read lock side in bridge netfilter, from Florian Westphal. 8) Remove unused variable in nf_reject_ipv4, from Tahee Yoo. 9) Pass nft_ctx struct to object initialization indirections, from Florian Westphal. 10) Add code to integrate conntrack helper into nf_tables, also from Florian. 11) Allow to check if interface index or name exists via NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT, from Phil Sutter. 12) Simplify resolve_normal_ct(), from Florian. 13) Use per-limit spinlock in nft_limit and xt_limit, from Liping Zhang. 14) Use rwlock in nft_set_rbtree set, also from Liping Zhang. 15) One patch to remove a useless printk at netns init path in ipvs, and several patches to document IPVS knobs. 16) Use refcount_t for reference counter in the Netfilter/IPVS code, from Elena Reshetova. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * ipvs: Document sysctl pmtu_discHangbin Liu2017-03-161-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document sysctl pmtu_disc based on commit 3654e61137db ("ipvs: add pmtu_disc option to disable IP DF for TUN packets"). Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
| | * ipvs: Document sysctl sync_portsHangbin Liu2017-03-161-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document sysctl sync_ports based on commit f73181c8288f ("ipvs: add support for sync threads"). Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
| | * ipvs: Document sysctl sync_qlen_max and sync_sock_sizeHangbin Liu2017-03-161-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document sysctl sync_qlen_max and sync_sock_size based on commit 1c003b1580e2 ("ipvs: wakeup master thread"). Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
| | * ipvs: fix sync_threshold description and add sync_refresh_period, sync_retriesHangbin Liu2017-03-161-9/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix sync_threshold description which should have two values. Also add sync_refresh_period and sync_retries based on commit 749c42b620a9 ("ipvs: reduce sync rate with time thresholds"). Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
| * | tcp: remove tcp_tw_recycleSoheil Hassas Yeganeh2017-03-161-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tcp_tw_recycle was already broken for connections behind NAT, since the per-destination timestamp is not monotonically increasing for multiple machines behind a single destination address. After the randomization of TCP timestamp offsets in commit 8a5bd45f6616 (tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection), the tcp_tw_recycle is broken for all types of connections for the same reason: the timestamps received from a single machine is not monotonically increasing, anymore. Remove tcp_tw_recycle, since it is not functional. Also, remove the PAWSPassive SNMP counter since it is only used for tcp_tw_recycle, and simplify tcp_v4_route_req and tcp_v6_route_req since the strict argument is only set when tcp_tw_recycle is enabled. Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Lutz Vieweg <lvml@5t9.de> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2017-03-151-1/+2
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c net/core/sock.c Conflicts were overlapping changes in bcmgenet and the lockdep handling of sockets. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | mpls: allow TTL propagation from IP packets to be configuredRobert Shearman2017-03-131-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow TTL propagation from IP packets to MPLS packets to be configured. Add a new optional LWT attribute, MPLS_IPTUNNEL_TTL, which allows the TTL to be set in the resulting MPLS packet, with the value of 0 having the semantics of enabling propagation of the TTL from the IP header (i.e. non-zero values disable propagation). Also allow the configuration to be overridden globally by reusing the same sysctl to control whether the TTL is propagated from IP packets into the MPLS header. If the per-LWT attribute is set then it overrides the global configuration. If the TTL isn't propagated then a default TTL value is used which can be configured via a new sysctl, "net.mpls.default_ttl". This is kept separate from the configuration of whether IP TTL propagation is enabled as it can be used in the future when non-IP payloads are supported (i.e. where there is no payload TTL that can be propagated). Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | mpls: allow TTL propagation to IP packets to be configuredRobert Shearman2017-03-131-0/+11
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide the ability to control on a per-route basis whether the TTL value from an MPLS packet is propagated to an IPv4/IPv6 packet when the last label is popped as per the theoretical model in RFC 3443 through a new route attribute, RTA_TTL_PROPAGATE which can be 0 to mean disable propagation and 1 to mean enable propagation. In order to provide the ability to change the behaviour for packets arriving with IPv4/IPv6 Explicit Null labels and to provide an easy way for a user to change the behaviour for all existing routes without having to reprogram them, a global knob is provided. This is done through the addition of a new per-namespace sysctl, "net.mpls.ip_ttl_propagate", which defaults to enabled. If the per-route attribute is set (either enabled or disabled) then it overrides the global configuration. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-05-028-8/+8
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new guide for user-space API documents, rather sparsely populated at the moment, but it's a start. Markus improved the infrastructure for converting diagrams. Mauro has converted much of the USB documentation over to RST. Plus the usual set of fixes, improvements, and tweaks. There's a bit more than the usual amount of reaching out of Documentation/ to fix comments elsewhere in the tree; I have acks for those where I could get them" * tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Fix a couple typos docs: Fix a spelling error in vfio-mediated-device.txt docs: Fix a spelling error in ioctl-number.txt MAINTAINERS: update file entry for HSI subsystem Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory Doc/PM: Sync with intel_powerclamp code behavior zr364xx.rst: usb/devices is now at /sys/kernel/debug/ usb.rst: move documentation from proc_usb_info.txt to USB ReST book convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation arm: Documentation: update a path name docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refs docs-rst: fix usb cross-references usb: gadget.h: be consistent at kernel doc macros usb: composite.h: fix two warnings when building docs usb: get rid of some ReST doc build errors usb.rst: get rid of some Sphinx errors usb/URB.txt: convert to ReST and update it usb/persist.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book ...
| * | docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab2017-04-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no usbfs anymore. The old features are now either exported to /dev/bus/usb or via debugfs. Update documentation accordingly, pointing to the new places where the character devices and usb/devices are now placed. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.orgSeongJae Park2017-03-297-7/+7
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* / Make IP 'forwarding' doc more preciseNeil Jerram2017-03-121-1/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | It wasn't clear if the 'forwarding' setting needs to be enabled on the interface that packets are received from, or on the interface that packets are forwarded to, or both. In fact (according to my code reading) the setting is relevant on the interface that packets are received from, so this change updates the doc to say that. Signed-off-by: Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instancesMasahiro Yamada2017-02-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt: an user||a user an userspace||a userspace I also added "userspace" to the list since it is a common word in Linux. I found some instances for "an userfaultfd", but I did not add it to the list. I felt it is endless to find words that start with "user" such as "userland" etc., so must draw a line somewhere. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-4-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-02-221-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around. Three more DocBook template files have been converted to RST; only 21 to go. There are various build improvements and the usual array of documentation improvements and fixes" * tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (44 commits) docs / driver-api: Fix structure references in device_link.rst PM / docs: Fix structure references in device.rst Add a target to check broken external links in the Documentation Documentation: Fix linux-api list typo Documentation: DocBook/Makefile comment typo Improve sparse documentation Documentation: make Makefile.sphinx no-ops quieter Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Documentation: input: fix path to input code definitions docs: Remove the copyright year from conf.py docs: Fix a warning in the Korean HOWTO.rst translation PM / sleep / docs: Convert PM notifiers document to reST PM / core / docs: Convert sleep states API document to reST PM / core: Update kerneldoc comments in pm.h doc-rst: Fix recursive make invocation from macros doc-rst: Delete output of failed dot-SVG conversion doc-rst: Break shell command sequences on failure Documentation/sphinx: make targets independent of Sphinx work for HAVE_SPHINX=0 doc-rst: fixed cleandoc target when used with O=dir Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree ...
| * Doc: Fix double words in DocumentationMasanari Iida2017-01-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fix some double words found in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | GTP: Add some basic documentation about drivers/net/gtp.cHarald Welte2017-02-201-0/+135
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to clarify what the module actually does, and how to use it, let's add some basic documentation to the kernel tree, together with pointers to related specs and projects. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Acked-by: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-nextDavid S. Miller2017-02-031-0/+10
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter updates for net-next The following patchset contains Netfilter updates for your net-next tree, they are: 1) Stash ctinfo 3-bit field into pointer to nf_conntrack object from sk_buff so we only access one single cacheline in the conntrack hotpath. Patchset from Florian Westphal. 2) Don't leak pointer to internal structures when exporting x_tables ruleset back to userspace, from Willem DeBruijn. This includes new helper functions to copy data to userspace such as xt_data_to_user() as well as conversions of our ip_tables, ip6_tables and arp_tables clients to use it. Not surprinsingly, ebtables requires an ad-hoc update. There is also a new field in x_tables extensions to indicate the amount of bytes that we copy to userspace. 3) Add nf_log_all_netns sysctl: This new knob allows you to enable logging via nf_log infrastructure for all existing netnamespaces. Given the effort to provide pernet syslog has been discontinued, let's provide a way to restore logging using netfilter kernel logging facilities in trusted environments. Patch from Michal Kubecek. 4) Validate SCTP checksum from conntrack helper, from Davide Caratti. 5) Merge UDPlite conntrack and NAT helpers into UDP, this was mostly a copy&paste from the original helper, from Florian Westphal. 6) Reset netfilter state when duplicating packets, also from Florian. 7) Remove unnecessary check for broadcast in IPv6 in pkttype match and nft_meta, from Liping Zhang. 8) Add missing code to deal with loopback packets from nft_meta when used by the netdev family, also from Liping. 9) Several cleanups on nf_tables, one to remove unnecessary check from the netlink control plane path to add table, set and stateful objects and code consolidation when unregister chain hooks, from Gao Feng. 10) Fix harmless reference counter underflow in IPVS that, however, results in problems with the introduction of the new refcount_t type, from David Windsor. 11) Enable LIBCRC32C from nf_ct_sctp instead of nf_nat_sctp, from Davide Caratti. 12) Missing documentation on nf_tables uapi header, from Liping Zhang. 13) Use rb_entry() helper in xt_connlimit, from Geliang Tang. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespacesMichal Kubeček2017-02-021-0/+10
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 69b34fb996b2 ("netfilter: xt_LOG: add net namespace support for xt_LOG") disabled logging packets using the LOG target from non-init namespaces. The motivation was to prevent containers from flooding kernel log of the host. The plan was to keep it that way until syslog namespace implementation allows containers to log in a safe way. However, the work on syslog namespace seems to have hit a dead end somewhere in 2013 and there are users who want to use xt_LOG in all network namespaces. This patch allows to do so by setting /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log_all_netns to a nonzero value. This sysctl is only accessible from init_net so that one cannot switch the behaviour from inside a container. Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* | net: Avoid receiving packets with an l3mdev on unbound UDP socketsRobert Shearman2017-01-302-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Packets arriving in a VRF currently are delivered to UDP sockets that aren't bound to any interface. TCP defaults to not delivering packets arriving in a VRF to unbound sockets. IP route lookup and socket transmit both assume that unbound means using the default table and UDP applications that haven't been changed to be aware of VRFs may not function correctly in this case since they may not be able to handle overlapping IP address ranges, or be able to send packets back to the original sender if required. So add a sysctl, udp_l3mdev_accept, to control this behaviour with it being analgous to the existing tcp_l3mdev_accept, namely to allow a process to have a VRF-global listen socket. Have this default to off as this is the behaviour that users will expect, given that there is no explicit mechanism to set unmodified VRF-unaware application into a default VRF. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: dsa: Mop up remaining NET_DSA_HWMON referencesAndrew Lunn2017-01-251-24/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previous patches have moved the temperature sensor code into the Marvell PHYs. A few now dead references to NET_DSA_HWMON were left behind. Go reap them. Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.Krister Johansen2017-01-241-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, which is a per namespace sysctl that denotes the first unprivileged inet port in the namespace. To disable all privileged ports set this to zero. It also checks for overlap with the local port range. The privileged and local range may not overlap. The use case for this change is to allow containerized processes to bind to priviliged ports, but prevent them from ever being allowed to modify their container's network configuration. The latter is accomplished by ensuring that the network namespace is not a child of the user namespace. This modification was needed to allow the container manager to disable a namespace's priviliged port restrictions without exposing control of the network namespace to processes in the user namespace. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2017-01-13' of ↵David S. Miller2017-01-141-4/+4
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next Johannes Berg says: ==================== For 4.11, we seem to have more than in the past few releases: * socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain operations, and can opt in to this where applicable * minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space) * set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the kernel, which was already available to userspace * don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no room to add them * multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage (since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of magnitude) * add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT * add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for MAC address privacy (still requires driver support) * many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | cfg80211: fix example REG_RULE usage in DocumentationRafał Miłecki2017-01-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's just an example, but lets make it look more real to don't confuse people about possible REG_RULE usage. Channels are 20 MHz wide, so start and end frequencies are 10 MHz away from the center one. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>