RFC 4293 defines ipIfStatsOutOctets (similar definition for
ipSystemStatsOutOctets):
The total number of octets in IP datagrams delivered to the lower
layers for transmission. Octets from datagrams counted in
ipIfStatsOutTransmits MUST be counted here.
And ipIfStatsOutTransmits:
The total number of IP datagrams that this entity supplied to the
lower layers for transmission. This includes datagrams generated
locally and those forwarded by this entity.
Therefore, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS must be incremented when incrementing
IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS.
IP_UPD_PO_STATS is not used since ipIfStatsOutRequests must not
include forwarded datagrams:
The total number of IP datagrams that local IP user-protocols
(including ICMP) supplied to IP in requests for transmission. Note
that this counter does not include any datagrams counted in
ipIfStatsOutForwDatagrams.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
I accidentally triggered this printk, which amused me for a few moments.
Given we're post 2.2, we could just -EACCES, but does anyone even care about Appletalk now ?
I figure it's better to leave sleeping dogs lie, and just update the message.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The newer flavors of Yukon II use a different method for receive
checksum offload. This is indicated in the driver by the SKY2_HW_NEW_LE
flag. On these newer chips, the BMU_ENA_RX_CHKSUM should not be set.
The driver would get incorrectly toggle the bit, enabling the old
checksum logic on these chips and cause a BUG_ON() assertion. If
receive checksum was toggled via ethtool.
Reported-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 5339ab8b1d (ipv6: fib: Convert fib6_age() to
dst_neigh_lookup().) seems to have mistakenly inverted the
exception for cached NTF_ROUTER routes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Denys found out "ip neigh" output was truncated to
about 54 neighbours.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We must prevent module unloading if some devices are still attached to
l2tp_eth driver.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
John Linville says:
====================
Amitkumar Karwar gives us a cfg80211 fix that changes some state
tracking in order to avoid a WARNING.
Arik Nemtsov provide a mac80211 fix for an RCU-related race.
Avinash Patil shares a pair of mwifiex fixes, one which invalidates
some stale configuration data before a channel change and another to
restrict hidden SSID support to zero-length SSIDs only.
Chun-Yeow Yeoh brings a mac80211 fix for a mesh problem triggered
when combining multiple mesh networks into one.
Felix Fietkau provides a mac80211 lockdep fix.
Joe Perches fixes a couple of thinkos related to bitwise operations.
Johannes Berg comes through with a flurry of fixes. The iwlwifi ones
address a problem Linus recently reported, and some of the fallout
discovered while fixing it. The mac80211 fix properly cleans-up
remain-on-channel work on an interface that is stopped. The others
are clean-ups for regressions caused by stricter checking of possible
virtual interfaces supported by wireless drivers.
Meenakshi Venkataraman provides a mac80211 fix for an off-by-one error.
Seth Forshee provides a fix to make the wireless adapters used in
some Mac boxes work after being in S3 power saving state.
Stanislaw Gruszka offers a copule of fixes, a fix for a mac80211
scanning regression and an rt2x00 fix to avoid some lockdep spew.
Last but not least, Vinicius Costa Gomes provides a bluetooth fix
for a typo that "was preventing important features of Bluetooth
from working".
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit 5faa5df1fa (inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with
the routing cache) added a race :
Before freeing an inetpeer, we must respect a RCU grace period, and make
sure no user will attempt to increase refcnt.
inetpeer_invalidate_tree() waits for a RCU grace period before inserting
inetpeer tree into gc_list and waking the worker. At that time, no
concurrent lookup can find a inetpeer in this tree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding device IDs for Aircard 320U and two other devices
found in the out-of-tree version of this driver.
Cc: linux@sierrawireless.com
Cc: Autif Khan <autif.mlist@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Cassidy <tomas.cassidy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 452503ebc (ARM: Orion: Eth: Add clk/clkdev support.) broke
the building of the driver on architectures which don't have clk
support. In particular PPC32 Pegasos which uses this driver.
Add #ifdef around the clk API usage.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patches fixes the driver when built as dynamic module.
In fact, the platform part cannot be built and the probe fails
(thanks to Bob Liu that reported this bug).
v2: as D. Miller suggested, it is not necessary to make the
pci and the platform code mutually exclusive.
Having both could also help, at built time ,to verify that
all the code is validated and compiles fine.
v3: removed wrong Reviewed-by from the patch
Reported-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
cc: Rayagond Kokatanur <rayagond@vayavyalabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't
report new platform fields (recently added).
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The hardware bit IXGBE_RXD_STAT_VP appears to be set even when Rx
stripping is disabled. This results in passing frames up the stack
which do not have the 802.1Q tag stripped but have the tci bits
set as if it was.
Working around this with a check for the feature flag bit. I
would welcome any better ideas or a pointer to exactly which
bits in the hardware register need to be cleared to get the
IXGBE_RXD_STAT_VP bit to be set per data sheet.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
DCB can be used independent of if RX VLAN stripping is enabled
or disabled so remove erroneous check.
Also enable or disable VLAN stripping when features are applied so
hardware and feature flags are in sync.
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
commit 44abd5c127 introduced NULL pointer
dereferences when attempting to access the check_reset_block function
pointer on 8257x and 80003es2lan non-copper devices.
This fix should be applied back through 3.4.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
If a given interface combination doesn't contain
a required interface type then we missed checking
that and erroneously allowed it even though iface
type wasn't there at all. Add a check that makes
sure that all interface types are accounted for.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Otherwise the LEDs stick around and cause issues the
next time around since they're still there but not
really hooked up.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Linus reported that due to mac80211 failing to register
the device (due to WoWLAN) his machine crashed etc. as
we double-freed the vmalloc() firmware area. His patch
to fix it was very similar to this one but I noticed
that there's another bug in the area: we complete the
completion before starting, so since we're running in
a work struct context stop() could be called while in
the middle of start() which will almost certainly lead
to issues.
Make a modification similar to his to avoid the double-
free but also move the completion to another spot so it
is only done after start() either finished or failed so
that stop() can have a consistent state.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Most probably a typo, the check should have been for BT_SK_DEFER_SETUP
instead of BT_DEFER_SETUP (which right now only represents a socket
option).
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@openbossa.org>
Acked-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
If CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is disabled, then iwlwifi doesn't
support suspend/resume handlers and thus mac80211
(correctly) refuses advertising WoWLAN. Disable
WoWLAN in the driver in this case.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
sta_info_cleanup locks the sta_list using rcu_read_lock however
the delete operation isn't rcu safe. A race between sta_info_cleanup
timer being called and a STA being removed can occur which leads
to a panic while traversing sta_list. Fix this by switching to the
RCU-safe versions.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
MacBook Pro models with BCM4331 wireless have been found to have the ext
PA lines disabled after resuming from S3 without external power attach.
This causes them to be unable to transmit. Add a workaround to ensure
that the ext PA lines are enabled on BCM4331. Also extend all handling
of ext PA line muxing to BCM43431 as is done in the Broadcom SDK.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925577
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using | with a constant is always true.
Likely this should have be &.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using | with a constant is always true.
Likely this should have be &.
cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When any interface goes down, it could be the one that we
were doing a remain-on-channel with. We therefore need to
cancel the remain-on-channel and flush the related work
structs so they don't run after the interface has been
removed or even destroyed.
It's also possible in this case that an off-channel SKB
was never transmitted, so free it if this is the case.
Note that this can also happen if the driver finishes
the off-channel period without ever starting it.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Nirav Shah <nirav.j2.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enforcing interface combinations broke uses of hwsim
with multiple virtual interfaces. Advertise that all
combinations are possible to fix this.
Reported-by: Nirav Shah <nirav.j2.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As part of hardware reconfig mac80211 tries
to restore the station state to its values
before the hardware reconfig, but it only
goes to the last-state - 1. Fix this
off-by-one error.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.4]
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since my commit
iwlwifi: use valid TX/RX antenna from hw_params
the config values are pure overrides, not the
real values for all hardware. Therefore, the
EEPROM TX power reading code checks the wrong
values, it should check the hw_params values.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.4]
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mesh station that joins an MBSS is reachable using mesh portal with 6
address frame by mesh stations from another MBSS if these two different
MBSSes are bridged. However, if the mesh station later moves into the
same MBSS of those mesh stations, it is unreachable by mesh stations
in the MBSS due to the mpp_paths table is not deleted. A quick fix
is to perform mesh_path_lookup, if it is available for the target
destination, mpp_path_lookup is not performed. When the mesh station
moves back to its original MBSS, the mesh_paths will be deleted once
expired. So, it will be reachable using mpp_path_lookup again.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CFG80211_DEV_WARN_ON() at "net/wireless/ibss.c line 63"
is unnecessarily triggered even after successful connection,
when cfg80211_ibss_joined() is called by driver inside
.join_ibss handler.
This patch fixes the problem by changing 'sme_state' in ibss path
and having WARN_ON() check for 'sme_state' similar to infra
association.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex uAP supports NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_ZERO_LEN type of hidden
SSID only. NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_ZERO_CONTENTS is not supported.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mark bss_config parameters as invalid before setting AP channel.
This prevents from setting invalid parameters while setting AP
channel to FW.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit 133d40f9a2
Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Mar 28 16:01:19 2012 +0200
mac80211: do not scan and monitor connection in parallel
add bug, which make possible to start a scan and never finish it, so
make every new scanning request finish with -EBUSY error. This can
happen on code paths where we finish connection monitoring and clear
IEEE80211_STA_*_POLL flags, but do not check if scan was deferred.
This patch fixes those code paths.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Change the busy-waiting/udelay to wait_event on outstanding sends.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the interrupt mask for IC101 A/G devices
and now enables the link/speed/duplex interrupts.
This is done by setting the "INTR pin used" bit and cleaning
all the other bits in the Register 17.
Reported-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drop_monitor calls several sleeping functions while in atomic context.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:943
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2103, name: kworker/0:2
Pid: 2103, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+ #55
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810697ca>] __might_sleep+0xca/0xf0
[<ffffffff811345a3>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1b3/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8105578c>] ? queue_delayed_work_on+0x11c/0x130
[<ffffffff815343fb>] __alloc_skb+0x4b/0x230
[<ffffffffa00b0360>] ? reset_per_cpu_data+0x160/0x160 [drop_monitor]
[<ffffffffa00b022f>] reset_per_cpu_data+0x2f/0x160 [drop_monitor]
[<ffffffffa00b03ab>] send_dm_alert+0x4b/0xb0 [drop_monitor]
[<ffffffff810568e0>] process_one_work+0x130/0x4c0
[<ffffffff81058249>] worker_thread+0x159/0x360
[<ffffffff810580f0>] ? manage_workers.isra.27+0x240/0x240
[<ffffffff8105d403>] kthread+0x93/0xa0
[<ffffffff816be6d4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff8105d370>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff816be6d0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
Rework the logic to call the sleeping functions in right context.
Use standard timer/workqueue api to let system chose any cpu to perform
the allocation and netlink send.
Also avoid a loop if reset_per_cpu_data() cannot allocate memory :
use mod_timer() to wait 1/10 second before next try.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Using | with a constant is always true.
Likely this should have be &.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Fix the issue of C_CAN interrupts getting disabled forever when canconfig
utility is used multiple times. According to NAPI usage we disable all
the hardware interrupts in ISR and re-enable them in poll(). Current
implementation calls napi_enable() after hardware interrupts are enabled.
If we get any interrupts between these two steps then we do not process
those interrupts because napi is not enabled. Mostly these interrupts
come because of STATUS is not 0x7 or ERROR interrupts. If napi_enable()
happens before HW interrupts enabled then c_can_poll() function will be
called eventual re-enabling.
This patch moves the napi_enable() call before interrupts enabled.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch fixes an interrupt thrash issue with c_can driver.
In c_can_isr() function interrupts are disabled and enabled only in
c_can_poll() function. c_can_isr() & c_can_poll() both read the
irqstatus flag. However, irqstatus is always read as 0 in c_can_poll()
because all C_CAN interrupts are disabled in c_can_isr(). This causes
all interrupts to be re-enabled in c_can_poll() which in turn causes
another interrupt since the event is not really handled. This keeps
happening causing a flood of interrupts.
To fix this, read the irqstatus register in isr and use the same cached
value in the poll function.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch fixes an issue with transmit routine, which causes
"can_put_echo_skb: BUG! echo_skb is occupied!" message when
using "cansequence -p" on D_CAN controller.
In c_can driver, while transmitting packets tx_echo flag holds
the no of can frames put for transmission into the hardware.
As the comment above c_can_do_tx() indicates, if we find any packet
which is not transmitted then we should stop looking for more.
In the current implementation this is not taken care of causing the
said message.
Also, fix the condition used to find if the packet is transmitted
or not. Current code skips the first tx message object and ends up
checking one extra invalid object.
While at it, fix the comment on top of c_can_do_tx() to use the
terminology "packet" instead of "package" since it is more
standard.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
dm thin: use slab mempools
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Vincent Bernat