net: fix __dst_negative_advice() race

__dst_negative_advice() does not enforce proper RCU rules when
sk->dst_cache must be cleared, leading to possible UAF.

RCU rules are that we must first clear s

net: fix __dst_negative_advice() race

__dst_negative_advice() does not enforce proper RCU rules when
sk->dst_cache must be cleared, leading to possible UAF.

RCU rules are that we must first clear sk->sk_dst_cache,
then call dst_release(old_dst).

Note that sk_dst_reset(sk) is implementing this protocol correctly,
while __dst_negative_advice() uses the wrong order.

Given that ip6_negative_advice() has special logic
against RTF_CACHE, this means each of the three ->negative_advice()
existing methods must perform the sk_dst_reset() themselves.

Note the check against NULL dst is centralized in
__dst_negative_advice(), there is no need to duplicate
it in various callbacks.

Many thanks to Clement Lecigne for tracking this issue.

This old bug became visible after the blamed commit, using UDP sockets.

Fixes: a87cb3e48ee8 ("net: Facility to report route quality of connected sockets")
Reported-by: Clement Lecigne <[email protected]>
Diagnosed-by: Clement Lecigne <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: remove unnecessary input parameter 'how' in ifdown function

When the ifdown function in the dst_ops structure is referenced, the input
parameter 'how' is always true. In the current implementat

net: remove unnecessary input parameter 'how' in ifdown function

When the ifdown function in the dst_ops structure is referenced, the input
parameter 'how' is always true. In the current implementation of the
ifdown interface, ip6_dst_ifdown does not use the input parameter 'how',
xfrm6_dst_ifdown and xfrm4_dst_ifdown functions use the input parameter
'unregister'. But false judgment on 'unregister' in xfrm6_dst_ifdown and
xfrm4_dst_ifdown is false, so remove the input parameter 'how' in ifdown
function.

Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

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ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4

In ip6_dst_gc() replace:

if (entries > gc_thresh)

With:

if (entries > ops->gc_thresh)

Sending Ipv6 packets in a loop via a raw socket triggers an

ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4

In ip6_dst_gc() replace:

if (entries > gc_thresh)

With:

if (entries > ops->gc_thresh)

Sending Ipv6 packets in a loop via a raw socket triggers an issue where a
route is cloned by ip6_rt_cache_alloc() for each packet sent. This quickly
consumes the Ipv6 max_size threshold which defaults to 4096 resulting in
these warnings:

[1] 99.187805] dst_alloc: 7728 callbacks suppressed
[2] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.
.
.
[300] Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl net.ipv6.route.max_size.

When this happens the packet is dropped and sendto() gets a network is
unreachable error:

remaining pkt 200557 errno 101
remaining pkt 196462 errno 101
.
.
remaining pkt 126821 errno 101

Implement David Aherns suggestion to remove max_size check seeing that Ipv6
has a GC to manage memory usage. Ipv4 already does not check max_size.

Here are some memory comparisons for Ipv4 vs Ipv6 with the patch:

Test by running 5 instances of a program that sends UDP packets to a raw
socket 5000000 times. Compare Ipv4 and Ipv6 performance with a similar
program.

Ipv4:

Before test:

MemFree: 29427108 kB
Slab: 237612 kB

ip6_dst_cache 1912 2528 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 2881 3990 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

During test:

MemFree: 29417608 kB
Slab: 247712 kB

ip6_dst_cache 1912 2528 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 44394 44394 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

After test:

MemFree: 29422308 kB
Slab: 238104 kB

ip6_dst_cache 1912 2528 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 3048 4116 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

Ipv6 with patch:

Errno 101 errors are not observed anymore with the patch.

Before test:

MemFree: 29422308 kB
Slab: 238104 kB

ip6_dst_cache 1912 2528 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 3048 4116 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

During Test:

MemFree: 29431516 kB
Slab: 240940 kB

ip6_dst_cache 11980 12064 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 3048 4116 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

After Test:

MemFree: 29441816 kB
Slab: 238132 kB

ip6_dst_cache 1902 2432 256 32 2 : tunables 0 0 0
xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0
ip_dst_cache 3048 4116 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0

Tested-by: Andrea Mayer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net/dst: use a smaller percpu_counter batch for dst entries accounting

percpu_counter_add() uses a default batch size which is quite big
on platforms with 256 cpus. (2*256 -> 512)

This means dst_en

net/dst: use a smaller percpu_counter batch for dst entries accounting

percpu_counter_add() uses a default batch size which is quite big
on platforms with 256 cpus. (2*256 -> 512)

This means dst_entries_get_fast() can be off by +/- 2*(nr_cpus^2)
(131072 on servers with 256 cpus)

Reduce the batch size to something more reasonable, and
add logic to ip6_dst_gc() to call dst_entries_get_slow()
before calling the _very_ expensive fib6_run_gc() function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: add bool confirm_neigh parameter for dst_ops.update_pmtu

The MTU update code is supposed to be invoked in response to real
networking events that update the PMTU. In IPv6 PMTU update function
_

net: add bool confirm_neigh parameter for dst_ops.update_pmtu

The MTU update code is supposed to be invoked in response to real
networking events that update the PMTU. In IPv6 PMTU update function
__ip6_rt_update_pmtu() we called dst_confirm_neigh() to update neighbor
confirmed time.

But for tunnel code, it will call pmtu before xmit, like:
- tnl_update_pmtu()
- skb_dst_update_pmtu()
- ip6_rt_update_pmtu()
- __ip6_rt_update_pmtu()
- dst_confirm_neigh()

If the tunnel remote dst mac address changed and we still do the neigh
confirm, we will not be able to update neigh cache and ping6 remote
will failed.

So for this ip_tunnel_xmit() case, _EVEN_ if the MTU is changed, we
should not be invoking dst_confirm_neigh() as we have no evidence
of successful two-way communication at this point.

On the other hand it is also important to keep the neigh reachability fresh
for TCP flows, so we cannot remove this dst_confirm_neigh() call.

To fix the issue, we have to add a new bool parameter for dst_ops.update_pmtu
to choose whether we should do neigh update or not. I will add the parameter
in this patch and set all the callers to true to comply with the previous
way, and fix the tunnel code one by one on later patches.

v5: No change.
v4: No change.
v3: Do not remove dst_confirm_neigh, but add a new bool parameter in
dst_ops.update_pmtu to control whether we should do neighbor confirm.
Also split the big patch to small ones for each area.
v2: Remove dst_confirm_neigh in __ip6_rt_update_pmtu.

Suggested-by: David Miller <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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net: add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops

Add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops and use it from IPv4 and IPv6
to lookup and confirm the neighbour. Its usage via the new helper
dst_confirm_neigh() shoul

net: add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops

Add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops and use it from IPv4 and IPv6
to lookup and confirm the neighbour. Its usage via the new helper
dst_confirm_neigh() should be restricted to MSG_PROBE users for
performance reasons.

For XFRM prefer the last tunnel address, if present. With help
from Steffen Klassert.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: remove bh disabling around percpu_counter accesses

Shaohua Li made percpu_counter irq safe in commit 098faf5805c8
("percpu_counter: make APIs irq safe")

We can safely remove BH disable/enable

net: remove bh disabling around percpu_counter accesses

Shaohua Li made percpu_counter irq safe in commit 098faf5805c8
("percpu_counter: make APIs irq safe")

We can safely remove BH disable/enable sections around various
percpu_counter manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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ipv4, ipv6: Pass net into __ip_local_out and __ip6_local_out

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

dst: Pass a sk into .local_out

For consistency with the other similar methods in the kernel pass a
struct sock into the dst_ops .local_out method.

Simplifying the socket passing case is needed a pr

dst: Pass a sk into .local_out

For consistency with the other similar methods in the kernel pass a
struct sock into the dst_ops .local_out method.

Simplifying the socket passing case is needed a prequel to passing a
struct net reference into .local_out.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Remove protocol from struct dst_ops

After my change to neigh_hh_init to obtain the protocol from the
neigh_table there are no more users of protocol in struct dst_ops.
Remove the protocol field

net: Remove protocol from struct dst_ops

After my change to neigh_hh_init to obtain the protocol from the
neigh_table there are no more users of protocol in struct dst_ops.
Remove the protocol field from dst_ops and all of it's initializers.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()

Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_count

percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()

Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_counters too.

We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion. This is the one with
the most users. Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
convert.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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net: Fix warnings in dst_ops.h

include/net/dst_ops.h:28:20: warning: ‘struct sock’ declared inside parameter list

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

net: Pass optional SKB and SK arguments to dst_ops->{update_pmtu,redirect}()

This will be used so that we can compose a full flow key.

Even though we have a route in this context, we need more. In

net: Pass optional SKB and SK arguments to dst_ops->{update_pmtu,redirect}()

This will be used so that we can compose a full flow key.

Even though we have a route in this context, we need more. In the
future the routes will be without destination address, source address,
etc. keying. One ipv4 route will cover entire subnets, etc.

In this environment we have to have a way to possess persistent storage
for redirects and PMTU information. This persistent storage will exist
in the FIB tables, and that's why we'll need to be able to rebuild a
full lookup flow key here. Using that flow key will do a fib_lookup()
and create/update the persistent entry.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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ipv4: Generalize ip_do_redirect() and hook into new dst_ops->redirect.

All of the redirect acceptance policy is now contained within.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

net: Add optional SKB arg to dst_ops->neigh_lookup().

Causes the handler to use the daddr in the ipv4/ipv6 header when
the route gateway is unspecified (local subnet).

Signed-off-by: David S. Mille

net: Add optional SKB arg to dst_ops->neigh_lookup().

Causes the handler to use the daddr in the ipv4/ipv6 header when
the route gateway is unspecified (local subnet).

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@d

net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Rename the dst_opt default_mtu method to mtu

We plan to invoke the dst_opt->default_mtu() method unconditioally
from dst_mtu(). So rename the method to dst_opt->mtu() to match
the name with the

net: Rename the dst_opt default_mtu method to mtu

We plan to invoke the dst_opt->default_mtu() method unconditioally
from dst_mtu(). So rename the method to dst_opt->mtu() to match
the name with the new meaning.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Add ->neigh_lookup() operation to dst_ops

In the future dst entries will be neigh-less. In that environment we
need to have an easy transition point for current users of
dst->neighbour outside

net: Add ->neigh_lookup() operation to dst_ops

In the future dst entries will be neigh-less. In that environment we
need to have an easy transition point for current users of
dst->neighbour outside of the packet output fast path.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.

Routing metrics are now copy-on-write.

Initially a route entry points it's metrics at a read-only location.
If a routing table entry exis

net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.

Routing metrics are now copy-on-write.

Initially a route entry points it's metrics at a read-only location.
If a routing table entry exists, it will point there. Else it will
point at the all zero metric place-holder called 'dst_default_metrics'.

The writeability state of the metrics is stored in the low bits of the
metrics pointer, we have two bits left to spare if we want to store
more states.

For the initial implementation, COW is implemented simply via kmalloc.
However future enhancements will change this to place the writable
metrics somewhere else, in order to increase sharing. Very likely
this "somewhere else" will be the inetpeer cache.

Note also that this means that metrics updates may transiently fail
if we cannot COW the metrics successfully.

But even by itself, this patch should decrease memory usage and
increase cache locality especially for routing workloads. In those
cases the read-only metric copies stay in place and never get written
to.

TCP workloads where metrics get updated, and those rare cases where
PMTU triggers occur, will take a very slight performance hit. But
that hit will be alleviated when the long-term writable metrics
move to a more sharable location.

Since the metrics storage went from a u32 array of RTAX_MAX entries to
what is essentially a pointer, some retooling of the dst_entry layout
was necessary.

Most importantly, we need to preserve the alignment of the reference
count so that it doesn't share cache lines with the read-mostly state,
as per Eric Dumazet's alignment assertion checks.

The only non-trivial bit here is the move of the 'flags' member into
the writeable cacheline. This is OK since we are always accessing the
flags around the same moment when we made a modification to the
reference count.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Abstract default MTU metric calculation behind an accessor.

Like RTAX_ADVMSS, make the default calculation go through a dst_ops
method rather than caching the computation in the routing cache
e

net: Abstract default MTU metric calculation behind an accessor.

Like RTAX_ADVMSS, make the default calculation go through a dst_ops
method rather than caching the computation in the routing cache
entries.

Now dst metrics are pretty much left as-is when new entries are
created, thus optimizing metric sharing becomes a real possibility.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an accessor.

Make all RTAX_ADVMSS metric accesses go through a new helper function,
dst_metric_advmss().

Leave the actual default metric as "zero" in the real me

net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an accessor.

Make all RTAX_ADVMSS metric accesses go through a new helper function,
dst_metric_advmss().

Leave the actual default metric as "zero" in the real metric slot,
and compute the actual default value dynamically via a new dst_ops
AF specific callback.

For stacked IPSEC routes, we use the advmss of the path which
preserves existing behavior.

Unlike ipv4/ipv6, DecNET ties the advmss to the mtu and thus updates
advmss on pmtu updates. This inconsistency in advmss handling
results in more raw metric accesses than I wish we ended up with.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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b43legacy: Fix compile on ARM architecture

When b43legacy is compiled on the arm platform, the following errors are seen:

CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o
In file included from inclu

b43legacy: Fix compile on ARM architecture

When b43legacy is compiled on the arm platform, the following errors are seen:

CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o
In file included from include/net/dst.h:11,
from drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.c:31:
include/net/dst_ops.h:28: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__'
before '____cacheline_aligned_in_smp'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_fast':
include/net/dst_ops.h:33: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named
'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_slow':
include/net/dst_ops.h:41: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named
'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_add':
include/net/dst_ops.h:49: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named
'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_init':
include/net/dst_ops.h:55: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named
'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_destroy':
include/net/dst_ops.h:60: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named
'pcpuc_entries'
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

The cause is a missing include of <linux/cache.h>, which is present for
i386 and x86_64 architectures, but not for arm.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Cc: Stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>

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net dst: need linux/cache.h for ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.

Presently the b43legacy build fails on an sh randconfig:

In file included from include/net/dst.h:12,
from drivers/net/

net dst: need linux/cache.h for ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.

Presently the b43legacy build fails on an sh randconfig:

In file included from include/net/dst.h:12,
from drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.c:32:
include/net/dst_ops.h:28: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__' before '____cacheline_aligned_in_smp'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_fast':
include/net/dst_ops.h:33: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_get_slow':
include/net/dst_ops.h:41: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_add':
include/net/dst_ops.h:49: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_init':
include/net/dst_ops.h:55: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries'
include/net/dst_ops.h: In function 'dst_entries_destroy':
include/net/dst_ops.h:60: error: 'struct dst_ops' has no member named 'pcpuc_entries'
make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.o] Error 1
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net dst: use a percpu_counter to track entries

struct dst_ops tracks number of allocated dst in an atomic_t field,
subject to high cache line contention in stress workload.

Switch to a percpu_count

net dst: use a percpu_counter to track entries

struct dst_ops tracks number of allocated dst in an atomic_t field,
subject to high cache line contention in stress workload.

Switch to a percpu_counter, to reduce number of time we need to dirty a
central location. Place it on a separate cache line to avoid dirtying
read only fields.

Stress test :

(Sending 160.000.000 UDP frames,
IP route cache disabled, dual E5540 @2.53GHz,
32bit kernel, FIB_TRIE, SLUB/NUMA)

Before:

real 0m51.179s
user 0m15.329s
sys 10m15.942s

After:

real 0m45.570s
user 0m15.525s
sys 9m56.669s

With a small reordering of struct neighbour fields, subject of a
following patch, (to separate refcnt from other read mostly fields)

real 0m41.841s
user 0m15.261s
sys 8m45.949s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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