James Morris wrote:
This patch adds a SECMARK target to xtables, allowing
the admin to apply security marks to packets via both
iptables and ip6tables.
The target currently handles SELinux security marking,
but can be extended for other purposes as needed.
The netfilter parts all look fine
On 10 May 2006, at 00:51, Chris Wright wrote:
* Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ netdev-features= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM;
Any reason why IP_CSUM was chosen instead of HW_CSUM? Doing the latter
would seem to be in fact easier for a
Hello!
inet6_csk_xit does not free skb when routing fails.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c
index f8f3a37..eb2865d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c
+++
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
Summary: MAINLINE
Kernel Version: 2.6.16
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Submitter: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Most recent kernel where
On 5/9/06, Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moved discussion over to netdev mailing list..
Could you export symbols in tcp_vegas (and change config dependencies) to
allow code reuse rather than having to copy/paste everything from vegas?
I hope I've done that properly.
Andrew Morton writes:
hm, a PPP fix. We seem to need some of those lately.
Paul, does this look sane?
/me pages in 7 year old code...
@@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ static void ppp_async_process(unsigned l
/* try to push more stuff out */
if (test_bit(XMIT_WAKEUP, ap-xmit_flags)
On Sat, 6 May 2006 14:00:58 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
In rt2x00 the config() handler schedules all configuration changes by using a
workqueue,
this is required since several configuration changes in rt2x00 need sleeping
and for
USB devices all register access requires sleeping. And the
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:01:16 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
Basicly the dscape stack is performing active scanning while the device is
down,
but during the active scan it is sending packets out, or at least attempting
to do so.
Besides the question if active scanning is preferred over passive
Hi Francois,
Selon Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
I'm using a kurobox (www.kurobox.com) with a 2.6.15 kernel and I'd like to
use
hardware flow control with it. However it seems the driver doesn't support
it,
is that correct ?
At least
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote:
The netfilter parts all look fine too me (just one question,
see below). Shall I add the userspace parts to SVN or do you
want to do it yourself?
Might be better if you do it, although I'm still looking into one issue at
this stage.
I wonder if
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:36, Michael Wu wrote:
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:01, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
A user on the forums Olivier Cornu (added to the CC list) has done some
investigation into the scanning behaviour of the dscape stack.
Basicly the dscape stack is performing active scanning
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 12:42, Jiri Benc wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 14:00:58 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
In rt2x00 the config() handler schedules all configuration changes by using
a workqueue,
this is required since several configuration changes in rt2x00 need
sleeping and for
USB
On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:37:11 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
True, I agree here. But when rt2x00 was using the ipw stack a much
requested feature from users was to be able to perform scanning while
interface was down. (The requests did not specify if it they wanted passive
or active scanning)
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 12:52, Jiri Benc wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:01:16 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
Basicly the dscape stack is performing active scanning while the device is
down,
but during the active scan it is sending packets out, or at least
attempting to do so.
Besides the
On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:53:48 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
I think the problem is what the dscape exactly expects the driver to do when
add_interface() is called by the stack. When that call has finished, does the
stack
expects the radio to be enabled, or should it instruct the driver to enable
make sure phy_map entries whose PHY address is masked are initialized
to NULL, given that other code (such as mdiobus_unregister for
instance) assumes that non-NULL phy_map entries are allocated
phy_devices
Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:53:48PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
I think the problem is what the dscape exactly expects the driver to do when
add_interface() is called by the stack. When that call has finished, does the
stack
expects the radio to be enabled, or should it instruct the driver to
This is a signed-off version of yesterday's fix, plus the bridge
code no longer needs to be so tricky.
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Now that netdevice sysfs registration is done as part of register_netdevice;
bridge code no longer has to be tricky when adding it's kobjects to bridges.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- bridge.orig/net/bridge/br_if.c 2006-05-04 16:22:29.0 -0700
+++
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:26:53PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 09:44 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
But there is.. I committed changes to the wpa_supplicant devel branch
for this yesterday. It seems to work fine with net/d80211 and bcm43xx
with this small patch to d80211
The last step of netdevice registration was being done by a delayed
call, but because it was delayed, it was impossible to return any error
code if the class_device registration failed.
Side effects:
* one state in registration process is unnecessary.
* register_netdevice can sleep inside
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:55:57PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
Fixes the following warning,
Please CC netdev on networking patches.
All the changed lines are over 80 chars. Please fix.
Thanks,
Jon
drivers/net/dl2k.c: In function 'rio_free_tx':
drivers/net/dl2k.c:768: warning: integer
Fixes the following warning,
drivers/net/dl2k.c: In function 'rio_free_tx':
drivers/net/dl2k.c:768: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
drivers/net/dl2k.c: In function 'receive_packet':
drivers/net/dl2k.c:896: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 22:46, Roland Dreier wrote:
Keir Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment?
Keir Leaving the pool empty can cause processes to hang.
You could have something like a virtual HW RNG driver (with a frontend
and backend), which steals from the dom0
Environment is 2.6.16.9 with e1000 NICs.
Paul and I (as part of the Quagga project) are working on a user mode
method for doing BGP MD5 checksums using ip_queue. All is working except
when TSO is enabled I am seeing some problems.
It appears that when TSO is enabled, ip_queue can be used to
Typo will be harder with this one.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/dl2k.c | 13 ++---
include/linux/dma-mapping.h |1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
5019a27a2a4e259f29a7bd03e905764eedfa034c
diff --git
I've noticed in the past that the address owned by an interface is still
pingable after that interface is brought down. This appears to be
because the routing table entry for the address itself is never removed
when the interface is brought down. I'm curious if this is desired
behavior or if this
From: Chris Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:44:30 + (GMT)
Does this sound like a bug or by design?
Does it make sense that ip_queue mangled packets be subjected to TSO,
given that the TCP header can be messed with by the user mode code?
This is by design. Netfilter
From: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:24:22 +0400
I hope he does not take offence at name shortening :)
Perhaps you are still not convinced how truly expensive the code path
from netif_receive_skb() to the protocol receive processing really is.
Van's channels
From: Jon DeVree [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:48:18 -0400
I've noticed in the past that the address owned by an interface is
still pingable after that interface is brought down.
People bring this up all the time and this behavior is
intentional.
Linux uses a host based
On Wed, 10 May 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
This is by design. Netfilter looks at full TSO frames,
That explains it.
Once you add MD5 checksums to the TCP packet, TSO can no longer be
used on that path, so you'll have to disable TSO either in the
route or via some other means.
Ok.
Is
From: Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:07:31 +0100 (IST)
Is there a better way to deal with TSO besides documenting:
disable TSO on all interfaces which /ever/ potentially could be used
to reach TCP-MD5 authenticated BGP peers.
?
When you have a rule installed
On Wed, 10 May 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
When you have a rule installed that will add MD5, just mark the
route as not being TSO capable.
Ah, didn't realise this could be done with netfilter. What's the
magic incantation? :)
What's the problem?
None, that's perfect - we just didn't
Il giorno 10/mag/06, alle ore 19:31, Stephen Hemminger ha scritto:
On Wed, 10 May 2006 10:04:50 +1000 James Cameron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure, but I wonder if it means the default behaviour
should be
changed, so as to better handle future transceivers.
Well, my previous
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:14:52 -0700
This is a signed-off version of yesterday's fix, plus the bridge
code no longer needs to be so tricky.
I'll apply this stuff, thanks a lot.
Although since I have the blocking -- raw notifier fixup in
my tree I'll
From: Alexey Kuznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:02:16 +0400
inet6_csk_xit does not free skb when routing fails.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied, thanks a lot.
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From: Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:17:33 +0100 (IST)
On Wed, 10 May 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
When you have a rule installed that will add MD5, just mark the
route as not being TSO capable.
Ah, didn't realise this could be done with netfilter. What's the
This patch fixes the problem where tcpdump shows duplicate packets
while tracing outbound packets on drivers which support lockless
transmit. The patch changes the current behaviour to tracing the
packets only on a successful transmit.
Signed-off-by: Ranjit Manomohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 21:20:26 +1000
These patches abstract out the protocol-specific encapsulation parts of
IPsec into what I've termed xfrm_mode objects. This allows us to share
a little bit more code. But more importantly, it allows us to add new
So where's the linux networking faq? I've been lurking here long enough
to know that there's no shortage of faqs, but there's no canonical
netdev faq that i'm aware of. Maybe one should be started?
Jason
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/ is the linux networking canonical wiki.
I've added
[PATCH 0/6] myri10ge - Myri-10G Ethernet driver
The following 6 patches introduce the myri10ge driver for Myricom Myri-10G
boards in Ethernet mode. The driver is called myri10ge. The patches are
against 2.6.17-rc3-mm1.
[1/6] Restore pci_find_ext_capability.
[2/6] Add nVidia nForce CK804
[PATCH 2/6] myri10ge - Add missing PCI IDs
Add nVidia nForce CK804 PCI-E bridge and
ServerWorks HT2000 PCI-E bridge IDs.
They will be used by the myri10ge driver.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pci_ids.h |2 ++
1 file
[PATCH 3/6] myri10ge - Driver header files
myri10ge driver header files.
myri10ge_mcp.h is the generic header, while myri10ge_mcp_gen_header.h
is automatically generated from our firmware image.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH 1/6] myri10ge - Revive pci_find_ext_capability
This patch revives pci_find_ext_capability (has been disabled a couple month
ago since it was not used anywhere. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/20/247).
It will now be used by the myri10ge driver.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL
[PATCH 4/6] myri10ge - First half of the driver
The first half of the myri10ge driver core.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
myri10ge.c | 1483 +
1 file changed, 1483
[PATCH 6/6] myri10ge - Kconfig and Makefile
Add Kconfig and Makefile support for the myri10ge driver.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kconfig | 16
Makefile |1 +
myri10ge/Makefile |
Richard Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
# locked in 1 min. Output in bug5.txt
$ for i in `seq 0 26` ; do cat /dev/md1 /dev/tcp/linuxbox/9
$ cat /dev/md0 /dev/tcp/localhost/9
Can you replace /dev/tcp/foo with a simple /dev/null and send the output
of 'vmstat 1' during 2 minutes of test ?
The following changes since commit 6810b548b25114607e0814612d84125abccc0a4f:
Andi Kleen:
x86_64: Move ondemand timer into own work queue
are found in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/netdev-2.6.git
upstream
Francois Romieu:
dl2k:
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:35, Brice Goglin wrote:
[PATCH 2/6] myri10ge - Add missing PCI IDs
Add nVidia nForce CK804 PCI-E bridge and
ServerWorks HT2000 PCI-E bridge IDs.
They will be used by the myri10ge driver.
That's a bad sign. It means you have code in your driver
that should be
A few quick obvious comments:
+#ifdef MYRI10GE_MCP
+typedef signed char int8_t;
+typedef signed shortint16_t;
+typedef signed int int32_t;
+typedef signed long longint64_t;
+typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
+typedef unsigned short uint16_t;
On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:36:18 +0200
Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH 3/6] myri10ge - Driver header files
myri10ge driver header files.
myri10ge_mcp.h is the generic header, while myri10ge_mcp_gen_header.h
is automatically generated from our firmware image.
Then clean it up after
On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH 4/6] myri10ge - First half of the driver
The first half of the myri10ge driver core.
Splitting it in half, might help email restrictions, but it kills
future users of 'git bisect' who expect to have every
Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[PATCH 3/6] myri10ge - Driver header files
myri10ge driver header files.
myri10ge_mcp.h is the generic header, while myri10ge_mcp_gen_header.h
is automatically generated from our firmware image.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by:
+typedef struct {
+mcp_kreq_ether_recv_t __iomem *lanai; /* lanai ptr for recv ring */
+volatile uint8_t __iomem *wc_fifo; /* w/c rx dma addr fifo address
*/
+mcp_kreq_ether_recv_t *shadow; /* host shadow of recv ring */
+struct myri10ge_rx_buffer_state *info;
On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH 5/6] myri10ge - Second half of the driver
The second half of the myri10ge driver core.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
myri10ge.c |
David S. Miller wrote:
From: Jon DeVree [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed in the past that the address owned by an interface is
still pingable after that interface is brought down.
People bring this up all the time and this behavior is
intentional.
This is becoming a serious FAQ and very
Fix warning from sparse in bonding code about incorrect type in assignment
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- orig/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c2006-05-04 16:22:10.0
-0700
+++ new/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c 2006-05-10 16:04:38.0 -0700
@@
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Fix warning from sparse in bonding code about incorrect type in assignment
*snerk*
Only if you are building without -Wcast-to-as. It _is_ incorrect type in
assignment. And the real fix is to expand the call, killing set_fs()
Add PCI ID for bcm4319.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/d80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===
--- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/d80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
+++
Sorry for the mistake. Now diffed against the right port :). Please apply
to wireless-dev.
--
Check for valid MAC address in SPROM fields instead of relying on PHY type
while setting the MAC address in the networking subsystem, as some devices
have multiple PHYs.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio
Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[PATCH 4/6] myri10ge - First half of the driver
The first half of the myri10ge driver core.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
myri10ge.c | 1483
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:57:18PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
Typo will be harder with this one.
While I agree that a #define is much better than the magic number, I
think this is bastardizing the intended use of DMA_*BIT_MASK.
DMA_*BIT_MASK is intended to be used in the DMA_API's checking of
This patch is required to get sis900 ethernet working well on a Foxconn
661FX7MI-S motherboard which uses the SiS 661FX chipset. The patch adds
an entry to mii_chip_info for the transceiver.
Signed-off-by: James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Daniele Venzano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff -puN
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if sampling virtual events for randomness is really unsafe (is it
really?) then native guests in Xen would also get bad random numbers
and this would need to be somehow addressed.
Good point. I wonder what VMWare does in this situation.
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Francois Romieu wrote:
Richard Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
# locked in 1 min. Output in bug5.txt
$ for i in `seq 0 26` ; do cat /dev/md1 /dev/tcp/linuxbox/9
$ cat /dev/md0 /dev/tcp/localhost/9
Can you replace /dev/tcp/foo with a simple /dev/null and send the output
of 'vmstat 1'
Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
hm, a PPP fix. We seem to need some of those lately.
Paul, does this look sane?
/me pages in 7 year old code...
@@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ static void ppp_async_process(unsigned l
/* try to push more stuff out */
Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem here is that the bcm34xx driver and the ieee80211
stack do not agree on what channels are possible for 802.11a.
The ieee80211 stack only wants channels between 34 and 165, while
the bcm43xx driver accepts anything from 0 to 200. I made the
On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:22:03 +0100
Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Fix warning from sparse in bonding code about incorrect type in assignment
*snerk*
Only if you are building without -Wcast-to-as. It _is_ incorrect type
Andrew Morton writes:
xeb has said:
in this construction:
if ((test_bit(XMIT_WAKEUP, ap-xmit_flags) ||
test_bit(XMIT_FULL, ap-xmit_flags)) ppp_async_push(ap))
ppp_output_wakeup(ap-chan);
if ppp_async_push() doesn't send any data i.e.
Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
xeb has said:
in this construction:
if ((test_bit(XMIT_WAKEUP, ap-xmit_flags) ||
test_bit(XMIT_FULL, ap-xmit_flags)) ppp_async_push(ap))
ppp_output_wakeup(ap-chan);
if
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 20:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
hm, a PPP fix. We seem to need some of those lately.
Paul, does this look sane?
/me pages in 7 year old code...
@@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ static void ppp_async_process(unsigned l
/* try to push more
Andy Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 20:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
hm, a PPP fix. We seem to need some of those lately.
Paul, does this look sane?
/me pages in 7 year old code...
@@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ static void
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