Please see the following thread to get some context on this
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121564433018903&w=2
Basically the issue is that current multi-cast filtering stuff in
the TUN/TAP driver is seriously broken.
Original patch went in without proper review and ACK. It was broken and
confusing to start with and subsequent patches broke it completely.
To give you an idea of what's broken here are some of the issues:
- Very confusing comments throughout the code that imply that the
character device is a network interface in its own right, and that packets
are passed between the two nics. Which is completely wrong.
- Wrong set of ioctls is used for setting up filters. They look like
shortcuts for manipulating state of the tun/tap network interface but
in reality manipulate the state of the TX filter.
- ioctls that were originally used for setting address of the the TX filter
got "fixed" and now set the address of the network interface itself. Which
made filter totaly useless.
- Filtering is done too late. Instead of filtering early on, to avoid
unnecessary wakeups, filtering is done in the read() call.
The list goes on and on :)
So the patch cleans all that up. It introduces simple and clean interface for
setting up TX filters (TUNSETTXFILTER + tun_filter spec) and does filtering
before enqueuing the packets.
TX filtering is useful in the scenarios where TAP is part of a bridge, in
which case it gets all broadcast, multicast and potentially other packets when
the bridge is learning. So for example Ethernet tunnelling app may want to
setup TX filters to avoid tunnelling multicast traffic. QEMU and other
hypervisors can push RX filtering that is currently done in the guest into the
host context therefore saving wakeups and unnecessary data transfer.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ssb.h implements DMA mapping functions, so it should
include dma-mapping.h. This fixes compile failures on certain architectures.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RFC 4340, 7.7 specifies up to 6 bytes for the NDP Count option, whereas the code
is currently limited to up to 3 bytes. This seems to be a relict of an earlier
draft version and is brought up to date by the patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to handle the AF_UNSPEC behavior for
the selector family. Userspace applications can set this flag to leave
the selector family of the xfrm_state unspecified. This can be used
to to handle inter family tunnels if the selector is not set from
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Accesses are mostly structured such that when there are multiple TX
queues the code transformations will be a little bit simpler.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Only plain netif_schedule() remains taking a net_device, mostly as a
compatability item while we transition the rest of these interfaces.
Everything else calls netif_schedule_queue() or __netif_schedule(),
both of which take a netdev_queue pointer.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that our qdisc management is bi-directional, per-queue, and fully
orthogonal, there is no reason to have a special ingress qdisc pointer
in struct net_device.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Every qdisc is assosciated with a queue, and in the case of ingress
qdiscs that will now be netdev->rx_queue so using that queue's lock is
the thing to do.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The lock is now an attribute of the device queue.
One thing to notice is that "suspicious" places
emerge which will need specific training about
multiple queue handling. They are so marked with
explicit "netdev->rx_queue" and "netdev->tx_queue"
references.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A netdev_queue is an entity managed by a qdisc.
Currently there is one RX and one TX queue, and a netdev_queue merely
contains a backpointer to the net_device.
The Qdisc struct is augmented with a netdev_queue pointer as well.
Eventually the 'dev' Qdisc member will go away and we will have the
resulting hierarchy:
net_device --> netdev_queue --> Qdisc
Also, qdisc_alloc() and qdisc_create_dflt() now take a netdev_queue
pointer argument.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- vlan_dev_reorder_header() is only called on the receive path after
calling skb_share_check(). This means we can use skb_cow() since
all we need is a writable header.
- vlan_dev_hard_header() includes a work-around for some apparently
broken out of tree MPLS code. The hard_header functions can expect
to always have a headroom of at least there own hard_header_len
available, so the reallocation check is unnecessary.
- __vlan_put_tag() can use skb_cow_head() to avoid the skb_unshare()
copy when the header is writable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Also remove the WLAN_IS_QOS_DATA inline after removing the last
two users. This starts moving away from using rx->fc to using
the header frame_control directly.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The VLAN code contains multiple spots that use tag, id and tci as
identifiers for arguments and variables incorrectly and they actually
contain or are expected to contain something different. Additionally
types are used inconsistently (unsigned short vs u16) and identifiers
are sometimes capitalized.
- consistently use u16 for storing TCI, ID or QoS values
- consistently use vlan_id and vlan_tci for storing the respective values
- remove capitalization
- add kdoc comment to netif_hwaccel_{rx,receive_skb}
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
