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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
5d6bd8619d TCP: update ip_local_port_range documentation
The explanation of ip_local_port_range in
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt contains several factual
errors:

- The default value of ip_local_port_range does not depend on the
  amount of memory available in the system.
- tcp_tw_recycle is not enabled by default.
- 1024-4999 is not the default value.
- Etc.

Clean up the mess.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-03 17:38:55 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
78286cdf05 Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps
Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among
modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that
modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another
instance of modprobe to load the other module.

By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies
when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0)

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
970e248649 Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.

There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3556485f15 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in <net/sock.h> due to the jumo_label->static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
2012-03-21 13:25:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
69a7aebcf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
2012-03-20 21:12:50 -07:00
John W. Linville
01a2829809 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
2012-03-16 13:45:25 -04:00
Yegor Yefremov
6d430c2566 Documentation: make exists consistent
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-13 14:54:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3cd7920a2b mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram
I've been working on some documentation, so let's
add this diagram to the kernel tree where at least
it has a chance of being maintained :-)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12 14:21:50 -04:00
Masanari Iida
40e47125e6 Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
4b32da2bcf ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>
Since all that include/linux/if_ppp.h does is #include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>,
this replaces the occurrences of #include <linux/if_ppp.h> with
#include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>.

It also corrects an error in Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt, where
it referenced include/linux/if_ppp.h as the source of some definitions
that are actually now defined in include/linux/if_pppol2tp.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
bf7daebb9f ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.h
This moves the definitions of the ioctls, constants and structures
relating to the ppp_generic interface to userspace out from if_ppp.h
to a new file, ppp-ioctl.h.  The new file has my copyright since I
designed and implemented the ppp_generic interface in the late 1990s.
None of the contents of this file comes from the original if_ppp.h
published by Carnegie Mellon University.

Of the remainder of if_ppp.h, only the PPP_MTU definition was being
used, and this replaces the uses of it with PPP_MRU (which is identical).
Therefore, this replaces the entire file with the single line

#include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>

which clearly doesn't contain any CMU code.  Thus I have removed the
CMU copyright notice with its problematic advertising clause, and in
fact since it's only one trivial line I have not added any other
copyright notice.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 20:41:38 -05:00
Ben Greear
5e0c03c8cd net: Support RX-ALL feature flag.
This flag requests that network devices pass all
received frames up the stack, even ones with errors
such as invalid FCS (frame check sum).  This will
allow sniffers to see bad packets and perhaps
give the user some idea how to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-24 01:42:07 -08:00
Ben Greear
36eabda3d0 net: Support RXFCS feature flag.
When set on hardware that supports the feature,
this causes the Ethernet FCS to be appended
to the end of the skb.

Useful for sniffing packets.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-24 01:19:59 -08:00
Sritej Velaga
97bf2262e7 qlge: Updating Schultz LICENSE.qlge file.
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-04 15:59:30 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
3396c7823e drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorg
The reorganization of the driver layout in drivers/net
left behind some stale paths in comments and in Kconfig
help text.  Bring them up to date.  No actual change to
any code takes place here.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
CC: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30 12:54:40 -05:00
David Howells
700920eb5b KEYS: Allow special keyrings to be cleared
The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS
resolver keyring :

2a93faf1 I-----     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .dns_resolver: empty

It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be
flushed by root (cache invalidation).

Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the
sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to
the keyring.

Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS
identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-01-19 14:38:51 +11:00
Nicolas de Pesloüan
1ba9ac7c35 bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.
v2, based on Jay's review.

I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-26 20:09:35 -05:00
Wei Yongjun
30e7dfe76e packet: fix typo in packet_mmap.txt
Just fixed typo of sample code in packet_mmap.txt

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23 16:50:58 -05:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
5b9932685f stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21 15:44:34 -05:00
Shan Wei
08f4fc9da9 net: doc: fix many typos in scaling.txt
Fix some trivial typos.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-20 14:11:46 -05:00
David S. Miller
c7c6575f25 Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge 2011-12-12 19:26:07 -05:00
David S. Miller
959327c784 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-12-06 21:10:05 -05:00
Peter Pan(潘卫平)
99b53bdd81 ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlog
Since commit c5ed63d66f24(tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning),
sysctl_max_syn_backlog is determined by tcp_hashinfo->ehash_mask,
and the minimal value is 128, and it will increase in proportion to the
memory of machine.
The original description for tcp_max_syn_backlog and sysctl_max_syn_backlog
are out of date.

Changelog:
V2: update description for sysctl_max_syn_backlog

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:02:28 -05:00
Jesse Gross
ccb1352e76 net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments.  In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.

The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding.  It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.

See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:17 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
d8a6e65f8b tcp: inherit listener congestion control for passive cnx
Rick Jones reported that TCP_CONGESTION sockopt performed on a listener
was ignored for its children sockets : right after accept() the
congestion control for new socket is the system default one.

This seems an oversight of the initial design (quoted from Stephen)

Based on prior investigation and patch from Rick.

Reported-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30 16:55:26 -05:00