lwn.git/net, branch v2.6.35.1

mac80211: avoid scheduling while atomic in mesh_rx_plink_frame

2010-08-10T18:09:21+00:00

commit c937019761a758f2749b1f3a032b7a91fb044753 upstream. While mesh_rx_plink_frame holds sta->lock... mesh_rx_plink_frame -> mesh_plink_inc_estab_count -> ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify ...but ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify is allowed to sleep. A driver taking advantage of that allowance can cause a scheduling while atomic bug. Similar paths exist for mesh_plink_dec_estab_count, so work around those as well. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16099 Also, correct a minor kerneldoc comment error (mismatched function names). Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes

2010-08-10T18:09:20+00:00

commit ccb6c1360f8dd43303c659db718e7e0b24175db5 upstream. When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss() to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end up getting one that would have been removed from the list if there had been any userspace access to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and problems. Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove. Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180 Reported-by: Jiajia Zheng Tested-by: Jiajia Zheng Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: ignore spurious deauth

2010-08-10T18:09:20+00:00

commit 643f82e32f14faf0d0944c804203a6681b6b0a1e upstream. Ever since mac80211/drivers are no longer fully in charge of keeping track of the auth status, trying to make them do so will fail. Instead of warning and reporting the deauthentication to userspace, cfg80211 must simply ignore it so that spurious deauthentications, e.g. before starting authentication, aren't seen by userspace as actual deauthentications. Reported-by: Paul Stewart Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

9p: strlen() doesn't count the terminator

2010-08-10T18:09:16+00:00

commit 5c4bfa17f3ec46becec4b23d12323f7605ebd696 upstream. This is an off by one bug because strlen() doesn't count the NULL terminator. We strcpy() addr into a fixed length array of size UNIX_PATH_MAX later on. The addr variable is the name of the device being mounted. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.

2010-08-10T18:09:15+00:00

commit 06c4648d46d1b757d6b9591a86810be79818b60c upstream. Currently such notifications are only generated when the device comes up or the address changes. However one use case for these notifications is to enable faster network recovery after a virtual machine migration (by causing switches to relearn their MAC tables). A migration appears to the network stack as a temporary loss of carrier and therefore does not trigger either of the current conditions. Rather than adding carrier up as a trigger (which can cause issues when interfaces a flapping) simply add an interface which the driver can use to explicitly trigger the notification. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: David S. Miller Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-07-27T16:21:00+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: s2io: fixing DBG_PRINT() macro ath9k: fix dma direction for map/unmap in ath_rx_tasklet net: dev_forward_skb should call nf_reset net sched: fix race in mirred device removal tun: avoid BUG, dump packet on GSO errors bonding: set device in RLB ARP packet handler wimax/i2400m: Add PID & VID for Intel WiMAX 6250 ipv6: Don't add routes to ipv6 disabled interfaces. net: Fix skb_copy_expand() handling of ->csum_start net: Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c macvtap: Limit packet queue length ixgbe/igb: catch invalid VF settings bnx2x: Advance a module version bnx2x: Protect statistics ramrod and sequence number bnx2x: Protect a SM state change wireless: use netif_rx_ni in ieee80211_send_layer2_update

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6

2010-07-26T20:26:09+00:00

net: dev_forward_skb should call nf_reset

2010-07-26T04:58:46+00:00

With conn-track zones and probably with different network namespaces, the netfilter logic needs to be re-calculated on packet receive. If the netfilter logic is not reset, it will not be recalculated properly. This patch adds the nf_reset logic to dev_forward_skb. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net sched: fix race in mirred device removal

2010-07-25T04:04:20+00:00

This fixes hang when target device of mirred packet classifier action is removed. If a mirror or redirection action is configured to cause packets to go to another device, the classifier holds a ref count, but was assuming the adminstrator cleaned up all redirections before removing. The fix is to add a notifier and cleanup during unregister. The new list is implicitly protected by RTNL mutex because it is held during filter add/delete as well as notifier. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Don't add routes to ipv6 disabled interfaces.

2010-07-22T20:41:32+00:00

If the interface has IPv6 disabled, don't add a multicast or link-local route since we won't be adding a link-local address. Reported-by: Mahesh Kelkar Signed-off-by: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller