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  1. Apr 06, 2011
  3. Mar 30, 2011
    • Javier Martinez Canillas's avatar
      drivers/net: Remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag from network drivers · ab392d2d
      Javier Martinez Canillas authored 
      
The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag is marked as deprecated and will be removed.

Every input point to the kernel's entropy pool have to better document the
type of entropy source it is.

drivers/char/random.c now implements a set of interfaces that can be used for
devices to collect enviromental noise. IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM will be replaced
with these add_*_randomness exported functions.

Network drivers are not a good source of entropy. They use as a source of
entropy essentially a remote host. Which means that the source of entropy can
be potentially controlled by an attacker. Also, with heavy workloads the
entropy decreases due to less hardware interrupts happening thanks to irq
mitigation and NAPI.

If a system relies in its network interface as a entropy source it has a false
sense of security. Systems that don't have devices whose drivers are good
sources of entropy, should either use a hardware random number generator or
feed the kernel's entropy pool from userspace using other sources of entropy
such as EGD, video_entropyd, timer_entropyd and audio-entropyd.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJavier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ab392d2d
  5. Mar 28, 2011
    • Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar
      net: fix ethtool->set_flags not intended -EINVAL return value · 673e63c6
      Stanislaw Gruszka authored 
      
After commit d5dbda23 "ethtool: Add
support for vlan accleration.", drivers that have NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX,
and/or NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX feature, but do not allow enable/disable vlan
acceleration via ethtool set_flags, always return -EINVAL from that
function. Fix by returning -EINVAL only if requested features do not
match current settings and can not be changed by driver.

Change any driver that define ethtool->set_flags to use
ethtool_invalid_flags() to avoid similar problems in the future
(also on drivers that do not have the problem).

Tested with modified (to reproduce this bug) myri10ge driver.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      673e63c6
  7. Mar 15, 2011
  9. Mar 14, 2011
  11. Jan 03, 2011
  13. Dec 31, 2010
  15. Dec 21, 2010
  17. Nov 28, 2010
  19. Nov 27, 2010
  21. Nov 03, 2010
    • Amerigo Wang's avatar
      netxen: remove unused firmware exports · 1c260e49
      Amerigo Wang authored 
      
Quote from Amit Salecha:

"Actually I was not updated, NX_UNIFIED_ROMIMAGE_NAME (phanfw.bin) is already
submitted and its present in linux-firmware.git.

I will get back to you on NX_P2_MN_ROMIMAGE_NAME, NX_P3_CT_ROMIMAGE_NAME and
NX_P3_MN_ROMIMAGE_NAME. Whether this will be submitted ?"

We have to remove these, otherwise we will get wrong info from modinfo.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@qlogic.com>
Cc: Narender Kumar <narender.kumar@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAmit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com&gt;-->
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1c260e49
  23. Oct 30, 2010
  25. Oct 28, 2010
  27. Oct 21, 2010
  29. Oct 18, 2010
  31. Sep 26, 2010
  33. Sep 21, 2010
  35. Aug 23, 2010
  37. Aug 19, 2010
  39. Aug 08, 2010
  41. Jul 14, 2010
  43. Jun 30, 2010
  45. Jun 29, 2010
  47. Jun 15, 2010
  49. May 21, 2010
  51. May 14, 2010
    • Joe Perches's avatar
      drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s · a4b77097
      Joe Perches authored 
      
This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary
return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
void functions.

It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

It also does not remove null void functions with return.

Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

with some cleanups by hand.

Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a4b77097
  53. May 13, 2010
  55. Apr 03, 2010
    • Jiri Pirko's avatar
      net: convert multicast list to list_head · 22bedad3
      Jiri Pirko authored 
      
Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.

+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
 variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
 manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      22bedad3
  57. Mar 30, 2010
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored 
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py



The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  59. Mar 29, 2010