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Harvey Harrison
21d1a161f6 net: ip_sockglue.c add static, annotate ports' endianness
Fixes sparse warnings:
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:146:15: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:146:15:    expected restricted __be16 [assigned] [usertype] sin_port
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:146:15:    got unsigned short [unsigned] [short] [usertype] <noident>
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:130:6: warning: symbol 'ip_cmsg_recv_dstaddr' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20 01:54:27 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
5caea4ea70 net: listening_hash get a spinlock per bucket
This patch prepares RCU migration of listening_hash table for
TCP/DCCP protocols.

listening_hash table being small (32 slots per protocol), we add
a spinlock for each slot, instead of a single rwlock for whole table.

This should reduce hold time of readers, and writers concurrency.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20 00:40:07 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
5bc3eb7e2f ip: convert to net_device_ops for ioctl
Convert to net_device_ops function table pointer for ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 22:42:41 -08:00
Joe Perches
07f0757a68 include/net net/ - csum_partial - remove unnecessary casts
The first argument to csum_partial is const void *
casts to char/u8 * are not necessary

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 15:44:53 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
a7a0d6a87b net: inet_diag_handler structs can be const
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 15:43:27 -08:00
David S. Miller
198d6ba4d7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c
	fs/cifs/connect.c
2008-11-18 23:38:23 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
3ab5aee7fe net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls
RCU was added to UDP lookups, using a fast infrastructure :
- sockets kmem_cache use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and dont pay the
  price of call_rcu() at freeing time.
- hlist_nulls permits to use few memory barriers.

This patch uses same infrastructure for TCP/DCCP established
and timewait sockets.

Thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, no slowdown for applications
using short lived TCP connections. A followup patch, converting
rwlocks to spinlocks will even speedup this case.

__inet_lookup_established() is pretty fast now we dont have to
dirty a contended cache line (read_lock/read_unlock)

Only established and timewait hashtable are converted to RCU
(bind table and listen table are still using traditional locking)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:40:17 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
88ab1932ea udp: Use hlist_nulls in UDP RCU code
This is a straightforward patch, using hlist_nulls infrastructure.

RCUification already done on UDP two weeks ago.

Using hlist_nulls permits us to avoid some memory barriers, both
at lookup time and delete time.

Patch is large because it adds new macros to include/net/sock.h.
These macros will be used by TCP & DCCP in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:39:21 -08:00
Balazs Scheidler
e8b2dfe9b4 TPROXY: implemented IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR socket option
In case UDP traffic is redirected to a local UDP socket,
the originally addressed destination address/port
cannot be recovered with the in-kernel tproxy.

This patch adds an IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR sockopt that enables
a IP_ORIGDSTADDR ancillary message in recvmsg(). This
ancillary message contains the original destination address/port
of the packet being received.

Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:32:39 -08:00
Ben Greear
8164f1b797 ipv4: Fix ARP behavior with many mac-vlans
Ben Greear wrote:
> I have 500 mac-vlans on a system talking to 500 other
> mac-vlans.  My problem is that the arp-table gets extremely
> huge because every time an arp-request comes in on all mac-vlans,
> a stale arp entry is added for each mac-vlan.  I have filtering
> turned on, but that doesn't help because the neigh_event_ns call
> below will cause a stale neighbor entry to be created regardless
> of whether a replay will be sent or not.
> Maybe the neigh_event code should be below the checks for dont_send,
> and only create check neigh_event_ns if we are !dont_send?

The attached patch makes it work much better for me.  The patch
will cause the code to NOT create a stale neighbor entry if we
are not going to respond to the ARP request.  The old code
*would* create a stale entry even if we are not going to respond.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:19:38 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
9c0188acf6 net: shy netns_ok check
Failure to pass netns_ok check is SILENT, except some MIB counter is
incremented somewhere.

And adding "netns_ok = 1" (after long head-scratching session) is
usually the last step in making some protocol netns-ready...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12 23:23:51 -08:00
Doug Leith
8f65b5354b tcp_htcp: last_cong bug fix
This patch fixes a minor bug in tcp_htcp.c which has been
highlighted by Lachlan Andrew and Lawrence Stewart.  Currently, the
time since the last congestion event, which is stored in variable
last_cong, is reset whenever there is a state change into
TCP_CA_Open.  This includes transitions of the type
TCP_CA_Open->TCP_CA_Disorder->TCP_CA_Open which are not associated
with backoff of cwnd.  The patch changes last_cong to be updated
only on transitions into TCP_CA_Open that occur after experiencing
the congestion-related states TCP_CA_Loss, TCP_CA_Recovery,
TCP_CA_CWR.

Signed-off-by: Doug Leith <doug.leith@nuim.ie>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12 01:41:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
7a9546ee35 net: ib_net pointer should depends on CONFIG_NET_NS
We can shrink size of "struct inet_bind_bucket" by 50%, using
read_pnet() and write_pnet()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12 00:54:20 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6bb3ce25d0 net: remove struct dst_entry::entry_size
Unused after kmem_cache_zalloc() conversion.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11 17:25:22 -08:00
David S. Miller
7e452baf6b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
	drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-11 15:43:02 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
b971e7ac83 net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
icmpmsg_put() can happily corrupt kernel memory, using a static
table and forgetting to reset an array index in a loop.

Remove the static array since its not safe without proper locking.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10 21:43:08 -08:00
David S. Miller
9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
David S. Miller
518a09ef11 tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior.
Vito Caputo noticed that tcp_recvmsg() returns immediately from
partial reads when MSG_PEEK is used.  In particular, this means that
SO_RCVLOWAT is not respected.

Simply remove the test.  And this matches the behavior of several
other systems, including BSD.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-05 03:36:01 -08:00
Andreas Steffen
79654a7698 xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
While adding MIGRATE support to strongSwan, Andreas Steffen noticed that
the selectors provided in XFRM_MSG_ACQUIRE have their family field
uninitialized (those in MIGRATE do have their family set).

Looking at the code, this is because the af-specific init_tempsel()
(called via afinfo->init_tempsel() in xfrm_init_tempsel()) do not set
the value.

Reported-by: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
2008-11-04 14:49:19 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6d9f239a1e net: '&' redux
I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
5799de0b12 net: clean up net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:49:10 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
539afedfcc net: clean up net/ipv4/devinet.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:48:48 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
f4cca7ffb2 net: clean up net/ipv4/pararp.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:48:14 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
fd3f8c4cb6 net: clean up net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c tcp_timer.c ip_input.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:47:38 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
c354e12463 net: clean up net/ipv4/ipmr.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:28:02 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
09cb105ea7 net: clean up net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c tcp_output.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:27:11 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
a7e9ff735b net: clean up net/ipv4/igmp.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:26:09 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
6ed2533e55 net: clean up net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c fib_hash.c ip_gre.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:25:16 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
5a5f3a8db9 net: clean up net/ipv4/ipip.c raw.c tcp.c tcp_minisocks.c tcp_yeah.c xfrm4_policy.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:24:34 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
d9319100c1 net: clean up net/ipv4/ah4.c esp4.c fib_semantics.c inet_connection_sock.c inetpeer.c ip_output.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:23:42 -08:00
Sangtae Ha
ae27e98a51 [TCP] CUBIC v2.3
Signed-off-by: Sangtae Ha <sha2@ncsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-02 00:28:10 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
920a46115c udp: multicast packets need to check namespace
Current UDP multicast delivery is not namespace aware.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-01 21:22:23 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c37ccc0d4e udp: add a missing smp_wmb() in udp_lib_get_port()
Corey Minyard spotted a missing memory barrier in udp_lib_get_port()

We need to make sure a reader cannot read the new 'sk->sk_next' value
and previous value of 'sk->sk_hash'. Or else, an item could be deleted
from a chain, and inserted into another chain. If new chain was empty
before the move, 'next' pointer is NULL, and lockless reader can
not detect it missed following items in original chain.

This patch is temporary, since we expect an upcoming patch
to introduce another way of handling the problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-01 21:19:18 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
673d57e723 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
cffee385d7 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/netfilter/
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-31 00:53:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
a1744d3bee Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c
2008-10-31 00:17:34 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c8db3fec5b udp: Should use spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh() in udp_lib_unhash()
Spotted by Alexander Beregalov

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-30 14:00:53 -07:00
roel kluin
00af5c6959 cipso: unsigned buf_len cannot be negative
unsigned buf_len cannot be negative

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
2008-10-29 15:55:53 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
5b095d9892 net: replace %p6 with %pI6
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 12:52:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
96631ed16c udp: introduce sk_for_each_rcu_safenext()
Corey Minyard found a race added in commit 271b72c7fa
(udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.)

 "If the socket is moved from one list to another list in-between the
 time the hash is calculated and the next field is accessed, and the
 socket has moved to the end of the new list, the traversal will not
 complete properly on the list it should have, since the socket will
 be on the end of the new list and there's not a way to tell it's on a
 new list and restart the list traversal.  I think that this can be
 solved by pre-fetching the "next" field (with proper barriers) before
 checking the hash."

This patch corrects this problem, introducing a new
sk_for_each_rcu_safenext() macro.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 11:19:58 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
f52b5054ec udp: udp_get_next() should use spin_unlock_bh()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 11:19:11 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
8203efb3c6 udp: calculate udp_mem based on low memory instead of all memory
This patch mimics commit 57413ebc4e
(tcp: calculate tcp_mem based on low memory instead of all memory)

The udp_mem array which contains limits on the total amount of memory
used by UDP sockets is calculated based on nr_all_pages.  On a 32 bits
x86 system, we should base this on the number of lowmem pages.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 02:32:32 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
271b72c7fa udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.
Goals are :

1) Optimizing handling of incoming Unicast UDP frames, so that no memory
 writes should happen in the fast path.

 Note: Multicasts and broadcasts still will need to take a lock,
 because doing a full lockless lookup in this case is difficult.

2) No expensive operations in the socket bind/unhash phases :
  - No expensive synchronize_rcu() calls.

  - No added rcu_head in socket structure, increasing memory needs,
  but more important, forcing us to use call_rcu() calls,
  that have the bad property of making sockets structure cold.
  (rcu grace period between socket freeing and its potential reuse
   make this socket being cold in CPU cache).
  David did a previous patch using call_rcu() and noticed a 20%
  impact on TCP connection rates.
  Quoting Cristopher Lameter :
   "Right. That results in cacheline cooldown. You'd want to recycle
    the object as they are cache hot on a per cpu basis. That is screwed
    up by the delayed regular rcu processing. We have seen multiple
    regressions due to cacheline cooldown.
    The only choice in cacheline hot sensitive areas is to deal with the
    complexity that comes with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU or give up on RCU."

  - Because udp sockets are allocated from dedicated kmem_cache,
  use of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU can help here.

Theory of operation :
---------------------

As the lookup is lockfree (using rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()),
special attention must be taken by readers and writers.

Use of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is tricky too, because a socket can be freed,
reused, inserted in a different chain or in worst case in the same chain
while readers could do lookups in the same time.

In order to avoid loops, a reader must check each socket found in a chain
really belongs to the chain the reader was traversing. If it finds a
mismatch, lookup must start again at the begining. This *restart* loop
is the reason we had to use rdlock for the multicast case, because
we dont want to send same message several times to the same socket.

We use RCU only for fast path.
Thus, /proc/net/udp still takes spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 02:11:14 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
645ca708f9 udp: introduce struct udp_table and multiple spinlocks
UDP sockets are hashed in a 128 slots hash table.

This hash table is protected by *one* rwlock.

This rwlock is readlocked each time an incoming UDP message is handled.

This rwlock is writelocked each time a socket must be inserted in
hash table (bind time), or deleted from this table (close time)

This is not scalable on SMP machines :

1) Even in read mode, lock() and unlock() are atomic operations and
 must dirty a contended cache line, shared by all cpus.

2) A writer might be starved if many readers are 'in flight'. This can
 happen on a machine with some NIC receiving many UDP messages. User
 process can be delayed a long time at socket creation/dismantle time.

This patch prepares RCU migration, by introducing 'struct udp_table
and struct udp_hslot', and using one spinlock per chain, to reduce
contention on central rwlock.

Introducing one spinlock per chain reduces latencies, for port
randomization on heavily loaded UDP servers. This also speedup
bindings to specific ports.

udp_lib_unhash() was uninlined, becoming to big.

Some cleanups were done to ease review of following patch
(RCUification of UDP Unicast lookups)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 01:41:45 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
0c6ce78abf net: replace uses of NIP6_FMT with %p6
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 23:02:31 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
93adcc80f3 net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD
call_rcu() will unconditionally rewrite RCU head anyway.
Applies to 
	struct neigh_parms
	struct neigh_table
	struct net
	struct cipso_v4_doi
	struct in_ifaddr
	struct in_device
	rt->u.dst

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 13:25:09 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
def8b4faff net: reduce structures when XFRM=n
ifdef out
* struct sk_buff::sp		(pointer)
* struct dst_entry::xfrm	(pointer)
* struct sock::sk_policy	(2 pointers)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 13:24:06 -07:00
Neil Horman
1080d709fb net: implement emergency route cache rebulds when gc_elasticity is exceeded
This is a patch to provide on demand route cache rebuilding.  Currently, our
route cache is rebulid periodically regardless of need.  This introduced
unneeded periodic latency.  This patch offers a better approach.  Using code
provided by Eric Dumazet, we compute the standard deviation of the average hash
bucket chain length while running rt_check_expire.  Should any given chain
length grow to larger that average plus 4 standard deviations, we trigger an
emergency hash table rebuild for that net namespace.  This allows for the common
case in which chains are well behaved and do not grow unevenly to not incur any
latency at all, while those systems (which may be being maliciously attacked),
only rebuild when the attack is detected.  This patch take 2 other factors into
account:
1) chains with multiple entries that differ by attributes that do not affect the
hash value are only counted once, so as not to unduly bias system to rebuilding
if features like QOS are heavily used
2) if rebuilding crosses a certain threshold (which is adjustable via the added
sysctl in this patch), route caching is disabled entirely for that net
namespace, since constant rebuilding is less efficient that no caching at all

Tested successfully by me.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:14 -07:00
Florian Westphal
8b5f12d04b syncookies: fix inclusion of tcp options in syn-ack
David Miller noticed that commit
33ad798c92 '(tcp: options clean up')
did not move the req->cookie_ts check.
This essentially disabled commit 4dfc281702
'[Syncookies]: Add support for TCP options via timestamps.'.

This restores the original logic.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-26 23:10:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
fd6149d332 tcp: Restore ordering of TCP options for the sake of inter-operability
This is not our bug! Sadly some devices cannot cope with the change
of TCP option ordering which was a result of the recent rewrite of
the option code (not that there was some particular reason steming
from the rewrite for the reordering) though any ordering of TCP
options is perfectly legal. Thus we restore the original ordering
to allow interoperability with/through such broken devices and add
some warning about this trap. Since the reordering just happened
without any particular reason, this change shouldn't cost us
anything.

There are already couple of known failure reports (within close
proximity of the last release), so the problem might be more
wide-spread than a single device. And other reports which may
be due to the same problem though the symptoms were less obvious.
Analysis of one of the case revealed (with very high probability)
that sack capability cannot be negotiated as the first option
(SYN never got a response).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: Aldo Maggi <sentiniate@tiscali.it>
Tested-by: Aldo Maggi <sentiniate@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-23 14:06:35 -07:00