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Shmulik Ladkani c81aa79794 Documentation/networking: more accurate LCO explanation
In few places the term "ones-complement sum" was used but the actual
meaning is "the complement of the ones-complement sum".

Also, avoid enclosing long statements with underscore, to ease
readability.

Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-08 23:50:31 -04:00
Eric Engestrom edb9a1b894 Documentation: networking: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-28 14:21:13 -04:00
Nicolas Dichtel 3e34766048 switchdev: fix typo in comments/doc
Two minor typo.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-24 14:51:24 -04:00
Benjamin Poirier 537377d3b7 igmp: Document sysctl_igmp_max_msf
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-21 22:56:37 -04:00
Benjamin Poirier 6b226e2f80 net: Fix indentation of the conf/ documentation block
Commit d67ef35fff ("clarify documentation for
net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships") mistakenly indented a block of
documentation such that it now looks like it belongs to a specific sysctl.
Restore that block's original position.

Cc: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-21 22:56:37 -04:00
Vivien Didelot 71327a4e7d net: dsa: rename port_*_bridge routines
Rename DSA port_join_bridge and port_leave_bridge routines to
respectively port_bridge_join and port_bridge_leave in order to respect
an implicit Port::Bridge namespace.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-14 16:05:31 -04:00
Florian Fainelli 387178ec26 Documentation: networking: phy.txt: Add missing functions
Some new development in PHYLIB added new function pointers to the struct
phy_driver, document these.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-14 15:00:04 -04:00
Tom Herbert 10016594f4 kcm: Add description in Documentation
Add kcm.txt to desribe KCM and interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-09 16:36:16 -05:00
santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com dcdede0406 RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport
RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.

If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
for the RDMA READ sink.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-02 14:13:17 -05:00
David S. Miller d67703fced Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2016-02-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:

====================
Here's another round of updates for -next:
 * big A-MSDU RX performance improvement (avoid linearize of paged RX)
 * rfkill changes: cleanups, documentation, platform properties
 * basic PBSS support in cfg80211
 * MU-MIMO action frame processing support
 * BlockAck reordering & duplicate detection offload support
 * various cleanups & little fixes
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-01 17:03:27 -05:00
David Ahern f1705ec197 net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional
Currently, all ipv6 addresses are flushed when the interface is configured
down, including global, static addresses:

    $ ip -6 addr show dev eth1
    3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP qlen 1000
        inet6 2100:1::2/120 scope global
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 fe80::e0:f9ff:fe79:34bd/64 scope link
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    $ ip link set dev eth1 down
    $ ip -6 addr show dev eth1
    << nothing; all addresses have been flushed>>

Add a new sysctl to make this behavior optional. The new setting defaults to
flush all addresses to maintain backwards compatibility. When the set global
addresses with no expire times are not flushed on an admin down. The sysctl
is per-interface or system-wide for all interfaces

    $ sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth1.keep_addr_on_down=1
or
    $ sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.keep_addr_on_down=1

Will keep addresses on eth1 on an admin down.

    $ ip -6 addr show dev eth1
    3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP qlen 1000
        inet6 2100:1::2/120 scope global
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 fe80::e0:f9ff:fe79:34bd/64 scope link
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    $ ip link set dev eth1 down
    $ ip -6 addr show dev eth1
    3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 state DOWN qlen 1000
        inet6 2100:1::2/120 scope global tentative
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 fe80::e0:f9ff:fe79:34bd/64 scope link tentative
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-25 21:45:15 -05:00
Vivien Didelot 477b184526 net: dsa: drop vlan_getnext
The VLAN GetNext operation is specific to some switches, and thus can be
complicated to implement for some drivers.

Remove the support for the vlan_getnext/port_pvid_get approach in favor
of the generic and simpler port_vlan_dump function.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-25 15:20:21 -05:00
Vivien Didelot 65aebfc002 net: dsa: add port_vlan_dump routine
Similar to port_fdb_dump, add a port_vlan_dump function to DSA drivers
which gets passed the switchdev VLAN object and callback.

This function, if implemented, takes precedence over the soon legacy
vlan_getnext/port_pvid_get approach.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-25 15:20:20 -05:00
Sven Eckelmann dfdfc2beb0 mac80211: Parse legacy and HT rate in injected frames
Drivers/devices without their own rate control algorithm can get the
information what rates they should use from either the radiotap header of
injected frames or from the rate control algorithm. But the parsing of the
legacy rate information from the radiotap header was removed in commit
e6a9854b05 ("mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API").

The removal of this feature heavily reduced the usefulness of frame
injection when wanting to simulate specific transmission behavior. Having
rate parsing together with MCS rates and retry support allows a fine
grained selection of the tx behavior of injected frames for these kind of
tests.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-24 09:04:30 +01:00
Vivien Didelot a6692754d6 net: dsa: pass bridge down to drivers
Some DSA drivers may or may not support multiple software bridges on top
of an hardware switch.

It is more convenient for them to access the bridge's net_device for
finer configuration.

Removing the need to craft and access a bitmask also simplifies the
code.

This patch changes the signature of bridge related functions, update DSA
drivers, and removes dsa_slave_br_port_mask.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-23 14:52:46 -05:00
Florian Westphal d1b4c689d4 netlink: remove mmapped netlink support
mmapped netlink has a number of unresolved issues:

- TX zerocopy support had to be disabled more than a year ago via
  commit 4682a03586 ("netlink: Always copy on mmap TX.")
  because the content of the mmapped area can change after netlink
  attribute validation but before message processing.

- RX support was implemented mainly to speed up nfqueue dumping packet
  payload to userspace.  However, since commit ae08ce0021
  ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: zero copy support") we avoid one copy
  with the socket-based interface too (via the skb_zerocopy helper).

The other problem is that skbs attached to mmaped netlink socket
behave different from normal skbs:

- they don't have a shinfo area, so all functions that use skb_shinfo()
(e.g. skb_clone) cannot be used.

- reserving headroom prevents userspace from seeing the content as
it expects message to start at skb->head.
See for instance
commit aa3a022094 ("netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump").

- skbs handed e.g. to netlink_ack must have non-NULL skb->sk, else we
crash because it needs the sk to check if a tx ring is attached.

Also not obvious, leads to non-intuitive bug fixes such as 7c7bdf359
("netfilter: nfnetlink: use original skbuff when acking batches").

mmaped netlink also didn't play nicely with the skb_zerocopy helper
used by nfqueue and openvswitch.  Daniel Borkmann fixed this via
commit 6bb0fef489 ("netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue
zero-copy")' but at the cost of also needing to provide remaining
length to the allocation function.

nfqueue also has problems when used with mmaped rx netlink:
- mmaped netlink doesn't allow use of nfqueue batch verdict messages.
  Problem is that in the mmap case, the allocation time also determines
  the ordering in which the frame will be seen by userspace (A
  allocating before B means that A is located in earlier ring slot,
  but this also means that B might get a lower sequence number then A
  since seqno is decided later.  To fix this we would need to extend the
  spinlocked region to also cover the allocation and message setup which
  isn't desirable.
- nfqueue can now be configured to queue large (GSO) skbs to userspace.
  Queing GSO packets is faster than having to force a software segmentation
  in the kernel, so this is a desirable option.  However, with a mmap based
  ring one has to use 64kb per ring slot element, else mmap has to fall back
  to the socket path (NL_MMAP_STATUS_COPY) for all large packets.

To use the mmap interface, userspace not only has to probe for mmap netlink
support, it also has to implement a recv/socket receive path in order to
handle messages that exceed the size of an rx ring element.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <chamaken@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-18 11:42:18 -05:00
Edward Cree e8ae7b000e Documentation/networking: add checksum-offloads.txt to explain LCO
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-12 05:52:16 -05:00
Johannes Berg 7a02bf892d ipv6: add option to drop unsolicited neighbor advertisements
In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be NA proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent unsolicitd advertisements on the shared medium from
being a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.

Enable this by providing an option called "drop_unsolicited_na".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-11 04:27:36 -05:00
Johannes Berg abbc30436d ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv6 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-11 04:27:36 -05:00
Johannes Berg 97daf33145 ipv4: add option to drop gratuitous ARP packets
In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be ARP proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent gratuitous ARP frames on the shared medium from being
a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.

Enable this by providing an option called "drop_gratuitous_arp".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-11 04:27:35 -05:00
Johannes Berg 12b74dfadb ipv4: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv4 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Additionally, enabling this option provides compliance with a SHOULD
clause of RFC 1122.

Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-11 04:27:35 -05:00
Sven Eckelmann 7b5e739619 batman-adv: Switch to HTTPS version of links
open-mesh.org and its subdomains can only be accessed via HTTPS. HTTP-only
requests are currently redirected automatically to HTTPS but references in
the source code should be only https.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-03 09:54:39 +08:00
Xin Long bffae6975e net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation
Documentation should be kept consistent with the code:

 static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT;
 #define MAX_TCP_SYNCNT          127

Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-20 18:55:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e535d74bc5 Merge tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
 "A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree.  There's a few kernel-doc
  fixes and various document tweaks.

  One patch reaches out of the documentation subtree to fix a comment in
  init/do_mounts_rd.c.  There didn't seem to be anybody more appropriate
  to take that one, so I accepted it"

* tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
  thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit
  Documentation: update libhugetlbfs site url
  Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely
  DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt
  Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link
  Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle
  init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions
  Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main()
  Documentation: HOWTO: update versions from 3.x to 4.x
  Documentation: remove outdated references from translations
  Doc: treewide: Fix grammar "a" to "an"
  Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions
  can-doc: Add hint about getting timestamps
  Fix CFQ I/O scheduler parameter name in documentation
  Documentation: arm: remove dead links from Marvell Berlin docs
  Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link
  Doc: Docbook/iio: Fix typo in iio.tmpl
  DocBook: make index.html generation less verbose by default
  DocBook: Cleanup: remove an unused $(call) line
  DocBook: Add a help message for DOCBOOKS env var
  ...
2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
Elad Raz 4f5590f8cd switchdev: Adding IGMP snooping documentation
Signed-off-by: Elad Raz <eladr@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 16:50:21 -05:00