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Jan Engelhardt
87a2e70db6 netfilter: xtables: resolve indirect macros 2/3
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-10-13 18:00:41 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
12b00c2c02 netfilter: xtables: resolve indirect macros 1/3
Many of the used macros are just there for userspace compatibility.
Substitute the in-kernel code to directly use the terminal macro
and stuff the defines into #ifndef __KERNEL__ sections.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-10-13 18:00:36 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
eecc545856 netfilter: add missing xt_log.h file
Forgot to add xt_log.h in commit a8defca0 (netfilter: ipt_LOG:
add bufferisation to call printk() once)

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-10-04 23:24:21 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
0c200d9353 netfilter: nf_nat: make find/put static
The functions nf_nat_proto_find_get and nf_nat_proto_put are
only used internally in nf_nat_core. This might break some out
of tree NAT module.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-10-04 20:53:18 +02:00
Simon Horman
0d1e71b04a IPVS: Allow configuration of persistence engines
Allow the persistence engine of a virtual service to be set, edited
and unset.

This feature only works with the netlink user-space interface.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:24 +09:00
Simon Horman
8be67a6617 IPVS: management of persistence engine modules
This is based heavily on the scheduler management code

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:24 +09:00
Simon Horman
a3c918acd2 IPVS: Add persistence engine data to /proc/net/ip_vs_conn
This shouldn't break compatibility with userspace as the new data
is at the end of the line.

I have confirmed that this doesn't break ipvsadm, the main (only?)
user-space user of this data.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:24 +09:00
Simon Horman
85999283a2 IPVS: Add struct ip_vs_pe
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:24 +09:00
Simon Horman
f11017ec2d IPVS: Add struct ip_vs_conn_param
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:24 +09:00
Simon Horman
001985b2c0 netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: Add callid parser
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
2010-10-04 22:45:23 +09:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
bc01befdcf netfilter: ctnetlink: add support for user-space expectation helpers
This patch adds the basic infrastructure to support user-space
expectation helpers via ctnetlink and the netfilter queuing
infrastructure NFQUEUE. Basically, this patch:

* adds NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE flag to identify user-space
  created expectations. I have also added a sanity check in
  __nf_ct_expect_check() to avoid that kernel-space helpers
  may create an expectation if the master conntrack has no
  helper assigned.
* adds some branches to check if the master conntrack helper
  exists, otherwise we skip the code that refers to kernel-space
  helper such as the local expectation list and the expectation
  policy.
* allows to set the timeout for user-space expectations with
  no helper assigned.
* a list of expectations created from user-space that depends
  on ctnetlink (if this module is removed, they are deleted).
* includes USERSPACE in the /proc output for expectations
  that have been created by a user-space helper.

This patch also modifies ctnetlink to skip including the helper
name in the Netlink messages if no kernel-space helper is set
(since no user-space expectation has not kernel-space kernel
assigned).

You can access an example user-space FTP conntrack helper at:
http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/userspace-conntrack-helpers/nf-ftp-helper-userspace-POC.tar.bz

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-28 21:06:34 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
8b008faf92 netfilter: ctnetlink: allow to specify the expectation flags
With this patch, you can specify the expectation flags for user-space
created expectations.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-22 08:36:59 +02:00
Julian Anastasov
8a8030407f ipvs: make rerouting optional with snat_reroute
Add new sysctl flag "snat_reroute". Recent kernels use
ip_route_me_harder() to route LVS-NAT responses properly by
VIP when there are multiple paths to client. But setups
that do not have alternative default routes can skip this
routing lookup by using snat_reroute=0.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-21 17:38:57 +02:00
Julian Anastasov
f4bc17cdd2 ipvs: netfilter connection tracking changes
Add more code to IPVS to work with Netfilter connection
tracking and fix some problems.

- Allow IPVS to be compiled without connection tracking as in
2.6.35 and before. This can avoid keeping conntracks for all
IPVS connections because this costs memory. ip_vs_ftp still
depends on connection tracking and NAT as implemented for 2.6.36.

- Add sysctl var "conntrack" to enable connection tracking for
all IPVS connections. For loaded IPVS directors it needs
tuning of nf_conntrack_max limit.

- Add IP_VS_CONN_F_NFCT connection flag to request the connection
to use connection tracking. This allows user space to provide this
flag, for example, in dest->conn_flags. This can be useful to
request connection tracking per real server instead of forcing it
for all connections with the "conntrack" sysctl. This flag is
set currently only by ip_vs_ftp and of course by "conntrack" sysctl.

- Add ip_vs_nfct.c file to hold all connection tracking code,
by this way main code should not depend of netfilter conntrack
support.

- Return back the ip_vs_post_routing handler as in 2.6.35 and use
skb->ipvs_property=1 to allow IPVS to work without connection
tracking

Connection tracking:

- most of the code is already in 2.6.36-rc

- alter conntrack reply tuple for LVS-NAT connections when first packet
from client is forwarded and conntrack state is NEW or RELATED.
Additionally, alter reply for RELATED connections from real server,
again for packet in original direction.

- add IP_VS_XMIT_TUNNEL to confirm conntrack (without altering
reply) for LVS-TUN early because we want to call nf_reset. It is
needed because we add IPIP header and the original conntrack
should be preserved, not destroyed. The transmitted IPIP packets
can reuse same conntrack, so we do not set skb->ipvs_property.

- try to destroy conntrack when the IPVS connection is destroyed.
It is not fatal if conntrack disappears before that, it depends
on the used timers.

Fix problems from long time:

- add skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE for the LVS-TUN transmitters

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-21 17:35:41 +02:00
Julian Anastasov
3575792e00 ipvs: extend connection flags to 32 bits
- the sync protocol supports 16 bits only, so bits 0..15 should be
used only for flags that should go to backup server, bits 16 and
above should be allocated for flags not sent to backup.

- use IP_VS_CONN_F_DEST_MASK as mask of connection flags in
destination that can be changed by user space

- allow IP_VS_CONN_F_ONE_PACKET to be set in destination

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-09-17 14:18:16 +02:00
David S. Miller
e548833df8 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/main.c
2010-09-09 22:27:33 -07:00
David S. Miller
053d8f6622 Merge branch 'vhost-net' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-09-09 21:59:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
cf0ac2b8a7 Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/agrover/linux-2.6 2010-09-09 14:58:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
e199e6136c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-09-08 23:49:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
719f835853 udp: add rehash on connect()
commit 30fff923 introduced in linux-2.6.33 (udp: bind() optimisation)
added a secondary hash on UDP, hashed on (local addr, local port).

Problem is that following sequence :

fd = socket(...)
connect(fd, &remote, ...)

not only selects remote end point (address and port), but also sets
local address, while UDP stack stored in secondary hash table the socket
while its local address was INADDR_ANY (or ipv6 equivalent)

Sequence is :
 - autobind() : choose a random local port, insert socket in hash tables
              [while local address is INADDR_ANY]
 - connect() : set remote address and port, change local address to IP
              given by a route lookup.

When an incoming UDP frame comes, if more than 10 sockets are found in
primary hash table, we switch to secondary table, and fail to find
socket because its local address changed.

One solution to this problem is to rehash datagram socket if needed.

We add a new rehash(struct socket *) method in "struct proto", and
implement this method for UDP v4 & v6, using a common helper.

This rehashing only takes care of secondary hash table, since primary
hash (based on local port only) is not changed.

Reported-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 21:45:01 -07:00
Andy Grover
905d64c89e RDS: Remove dead struct from rds.h
flows are an obsolete date type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:55 -07:00
Andy Grover
a46f561b77 RDS: rds.h: Replace u_int[size]_t with uint[size]_t
Replace e.g. u_int32_t types with the more common uint32_t.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:54 -07:00
Andy Grover
fd128dfa50 RDS: Add rds.h to exported headers list
Also, a number of changes were made based on the assumption that
rds.h wasn't exported, so roll these back.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:52 -07:00
Andy Grover
20c72bd5f5 RDS: Implement masked atomic operations
Add two CMSGs for masked versions of cswp and fadd. args
struct modified to use a union for different atomic op type's
arguments. Change IB to do masked atomic ops. Atomic op type
in rds_message similarly unionized.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:16:51 -07:00
Andy Grover
2c3a5f9abb RDS: Add flag for silent ops. Do atomic op before RDMA
Add a flag to the API so users can indicate they want
silent operations. This is needed because silent ops
cannot be used with USE_ONCE MRs, so we can't just
assume silent.

Also, change send_xmit to do atomic op before rdma op if
both are present, and centralize the hairy logic to determine if
we want to attempt silent, or not.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:12:06 -07:00
Andy Grover
15133f6e67 RDS: Implement atomic operations
Implement a CMSG-based interface to do FADD and CSWP ops.

Alter send routines to handle atomic ops.

Add atomic counters to stats.

Add xmit_atomic() to struct rds_transport

Inline rds_ib_send_unmap_rdma into unmap_rm

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
2010-09-08 18:11:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a6e0fc8514 net: introduce rcu_dereference_rtnl
We use rcu_dereference_check(p, rcu_read_lock_held() ||
lockdep_rtnl_is_held()) several times in network stack.

More usages to come too, so its time to create a helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 14:15:32 -07:00
Joe Perches
e3634169bc include/net/raw.h: Convert raw_seq_private macro to inline
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 13:42:22 -07:00
Julian Anastasov
6523ce1525 ipvs: fix active FTP
- Do not create expectation when forwarding the PORT
  command to avoid blocking the connection. The problem is that
  nf_conntrack_ftp.c:help() tries to create the same expectation later in
  POST_ROUTING and drops the packet with "dropping packet" message after
  failure in nf_ct_expect_related.

- Change ip_vs_update_conntrack to alter the conntrack
  for related connections from real server. If we do not alter the reply in
  this direction the next packet from client sent to vport 20 comes as NEW
  connection. We alter it but may be some collision happens for both
  conntracks and the second conntrack gets destroyed immediately. The
  connection stucks too.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-08 10:39:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d56557af19 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: bus speed strings should be const
  PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
  PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
  PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
  PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
  PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
  ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
  ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
  ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
  ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
  PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
  PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
  x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
  PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
2010-09-07 16:00:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a44a553f82 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/pseries: Correct rtas_data_buf locking in dlpar code
  powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks
  arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
  arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc837x_mds.c: Add missing iounmap
  fsl_rio: fix compile errors
  powerpc/85xx: Fix compile issue with p1022_ds due to lmb rename to memblock
  powerpc/85xx: Fix compilation of mpc85xx_mds.c
  powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off
  powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling perf_event_do_pending
  powerpc/kexec: Adds correct calling convention for kexec purgatory
2010-09-07 14:34:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce7db282a3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: fix a mismatch between code and comment
  percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()
  percpu: add __percpu notations to UP allocator
  percpu: handle __percpu notations in UP accessors
2010-09-07 14:08:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cd4d4fc413 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_mask
  workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization
  workqueue: Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook
  workqueue: fix cwq->nr_active underflow
  workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability
  workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
  workqueue: annotate lock context change
  workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
2010-09-07 14:08:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
608a5ffc3e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  tty: fix tty_line must not be equal to number of allocated tty pointers in tty driver
  serial: bfin_sport_uart: restore transmit frame sync fix
  serial: fix port type conflict between NS16550A & U6_16550A
  MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom
  vt: Fix console corruption on driver hand-over.
2010-09-07 14:04:09 -07:00
Zhenyu Wang
f8f235e5bb agp/intel: Fix cache control for Sandybridge
Sandybridge GTT has new cache control bits in PTE, which controls
graphics page cache in LLC or LLC/MLC, so we need to extend the mask
function to respect the new bits.

And set cache control to always LLC only by default on Gen6.

Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2010-09-07 11:16:43 +01:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
73457f0f83 cgroups: fix API thinko
cgroup_attach_task_current_cg API that have upstream is backwards: we
really need an API to attach to the cgroups from another process A to
the current one.

In our case (vhost), a priveledged user wants to attach it's task to cgroups
from a less priveledged one, the API makes us run it in the other
task's context, and this fails.

So let's make the API generic and just pass in 'from' and 'to' tasks.
Add an inline wrapper for cgroup_attach_task_current_cg to avoid
breaking bisect.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
2010-09-05 17:01:37 +03:00
Philippe Langlais
71cad05549 serial: fix port type conflict between NS16550A & U6_16550A
Bug seen by Dr. David Alan Gilbert with sparse

Signed-off-by: Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@stericsson.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-03 17:29:04 -07:00
Li Zefan
3fb5a99191 cls_cgroup: Fix rcu lockdep warning
Dave reported an rcu lockdep warning on 2.6.35.4 kernel

task->cgroups and task->cgroups->subsys[i] are protected by RCU.
So we avoid accessing invalid pointers here. This might happen,
for example, when you are deref-ing those pointers while someone
move @task from one cgroup to another.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-03 09:55:24 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
bc8acf2c8c drivers/net: avoid some skb->ip_summed initializations
fresh skbs have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_NONE (0)

We can avoid setting again skb->ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE in drivers.

Introduce skb_checksum_none_assert() helper so that we keep this
assertion documented in driver sources.

Change most occurrences of :

skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;

by :

skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 19:06:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
7162f6691e Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-09-02 12:45:44 -07:00
John W. Linville
78ab952717 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-09-02 13:30:07 -04:00
Peter Meerwald
c688399634 net: Improve comments in include/linux/phy.h
Correct state range of PHY bus addresses (i.e. 0-31) in comment,
make spelling of PHY consistent in comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02 10:12:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
86cac58b71 skge: add GRO support
- napi_gro_flush() is exported from net/core/dev.c, to avoid
  an irq_save/irq_restore in the packet receive path.
- use napi_gro_receive() instead of netif_receive_skb()
- use napi_gro_flush() before calling __napi_complete()
- turn on NETIF_F_GRO by default
- Tested on a Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit NIC

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 10:57:55 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
a28dec2f26 powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks
This is needed for proper PCI-E support on P1021 SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-31 16:44:24 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
4dc89133f4 net: add a comment on netdev->last_rx
As some driver authors seem to reintroduce dev->last_rx use,
add a comment to strongly discourage this.

Since commit 6cf3f41e6c (bonding, net: Move last_rx update into bonding
recv logic), network drivers dont need to update last_rx themselves,
unless they use this field to implement a timeout.

Not updating last_rx helps not dirtying a cache line, improving
performance in SMP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 13:37:06 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
3d5b99ae82 TCP: update initial windows according to RFC 5681
This updates the use of larger initial windows, as originally specified in
RFC 3390, to use the newer IW values specified in RFC 5681, section 3.1.

The changes made in RFC 5681 are:
 a) the setting now is more clearly specified in units of segments (as the
    comments  by John Heffner emphasized, this was not very clear in RFC 3390);
 b) for connections with 1095 < SMSS <= 2190 there is now a change:
    - RFC 3390 says that IW <= 4380,
    - RFC 5681 says that IW = 3 * SMSS <= 6570.

Since RFC 3390 is older and "only" proposed standard, whereas the newer RFC 5681
is already draft standard, it seems preferable to use the newer IW variant.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:50:44 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
22b71c8f4f tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
This patch consolidates initial-window code common to TCP and CCID-2:
 * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
 * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:26 -07:00
Jerry Chu
dca43c75e7 tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option.
This patch provides a "user timeout" support as described in RFC793. The
socket option is also needed for the the local half of RFC5482 "TCP User
Timeout Option".

TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int,
when > 0, to specify the maximum amount of time in ms that transmitted
data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcefully close the
corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If
0 is given, TCP will continue to use the system default.

Increasing the user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive extended
periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing the user timeouts
allows applications to "fail fast" if so desired. Otherwise it may take
upto 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN
environment.

The socket option can be made during any state of a TCP connection, but
is only effective during the synchronized states of a connection
(ESTABLISHED, FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, or LAST-ACK).
Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option,
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will overtake keepalive to determine when to close a
connection due to keepalive failure.

The option does not change in anyway when TCP retransmits a packet, nor
when a keepalive probe will be sent.

This option, like many others, will be inherited by an acceptor from its
listener.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:23:33 -07:00
Simon Horman
409456b10f net: fix datapath typo
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-29 21:57:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
29cfcddc0e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak
  net/caif/cfrfml.c: use asm/unaligned.h
  ax25: missplaced sock_put(sk)
  qlge: reset the chip before freeing the buffers
  l2tp: test for ethernet header in l2tp_eth_dev_recv()
  tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection
  tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning
  tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
  pxa168_eth: silence gcc warnings
  pxa168_eth: update call to phy_mii_ioctl()
  pxa168_eth: fix error handling in prope
  pxa168_eth: remove unneeded null check
  phylib: Fix race between returning phydev and calling adjust_link
  caif-driver: add HAS_DMA dependency
  3c59x: Fix deadlock between boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_tx
  qlcnic: fix poll implementation
  netxen: fix poll implementation
  bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak
2010-08-28 15:42:44 -07:00