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Florian Fainelli
ce26b4d1d5 r6040: fix link checking with switches
The current link checking logic only works for one port, which is not correct
for swiches were multiple ports can have different link status. As a result
we would only check for link status on port 1 of the switch. Move the calls
to mii_check_media in r6040_timer which will be polling a single PHY chip
correctly and assume link is up for switches.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:44:36 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
b14ed884df gianfar: Remove legacy PM callbacks
These callbacks were needed because dev_pm_ops support for OF
platform devices was in the powerpc tree, and the patch that
added dev_pm_ops for gianfar driver was in the netdev tree. Now
that netdev and powerpc trees have merged into Linus' tree, we
can remove the legacy hooks.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:44:35 -07:00
stephen hemminger
f0cd15081a tbf: stop wanton destruction of children (v2)
Several netem users use TBF for rate control. But every time the parameters
of TBF are changed it destroys the child qdisc, requiring reconfigation.
Better to just keep child qdisc and just notify it of changed limit.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:44:35 -07:00
Joe Perches
ccbd6a5a4f net: Remove unnecessary semicolons after switch statements
Also added an explicit break; to avoid
a fallthrough in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:44:35 -07:00
andrew hendry
935e2a26b8 X25: Remove bkl in sockopts
Removes the BKL in x25 setsock and getsockopts.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:39:28 -07:00
andrew hendry
37cda78741 X25: Move accept approve flag to bitfield
Moves the x25 accept approve flag from char into bitfield.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:39:27 -07:00
andrew hendry
b7792e34cb X25: Move interrupt flag to bitfield
Moves the x25 interrupt flag from char into bitfield.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:39:27 -07:00
andrew hendry
cb863ffd4a X25: Move qbit flag to bitfield
Moves the X25 q bit flag from char into a bitfield to allow BKL cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:39:26 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
c89af1a308 bnx2x: avoid TX timeout when stopping device
When stop device call netif_carrier_off() just after disabling TX queue to
avoid possibility of netdev watchdog warning and ->ndo_tx_timeout() invocation.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:35:38 -07:00
Michael Chan
a0ba676008 bnx2: Use netif_carrier_off() to prevent timeout.
Based on original patch from Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>.

Using netif_carrier_off() is better than updating all the ->trans_start
on all the tx queues.

netif_carrier_off() needs to be called after bnx2_disable_int_sync()
to guarantee no race conditions with the serdes timers that can
modify the carrier state.

If the chip or phy is reset, carrier will turn back on when we get the
link interrupt.  If there is no reset, we need to turn carrier back on
in bnx2_netif_start().  Again, the phy_lock prevents race conditions with
the serdes timers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:34:43 -07:00
Michael Chan
a931d29404 bnx2: Update 5709 MIPS firmware and version to 2.0.15.
New firmware fixes a performance regression on small packets.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:33:31 -07:00
Eddie Wai
b98eba5278 bnx2: Fix register printouts during NETEV_WATCHDOG.
Dump the correct MCP registers and add EMAC_RX_STATUS register during
NETDEV_WATCHDOG for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Wai <waie@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:32:56 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
a7fc948f4d qlcnic: mark device state fail
Device state need to be mark as FAILED, if fail to start firmware.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:56 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
20c67bd40e qlcnic: remove unused register
Removing register defines which are not used by Qlgoic CNA device.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:55 -07:00
Sucheta Chakraborty
78ad389230 qlcnic: fix internal loopback test
Reset/set DEV_UP bit during allocation and deallocation of resources.

Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:55 -07:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
4d5bdb3848 qlcnic: module param for firmware load option
By default fw is loaded from flash, user can
change this priority using load_fw_file module param.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:54 -07:00
Sucheta Chakraborty
7e382594a2 qlcnic: fix rx bytes statistics
Added lrobytes to it.

Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:54 -07:00
Sucheta Chakraborty
02f6e46f35 qlcnic: change adapter name display
Append mac address to adapter name.

Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:53 -07:00
Anirban Chakraborty
aadd8184ae qlcnic: fix memory leaks
Fixes memory leak in error path when memory allocation
for adapter data structures fails.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:30:53 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
0e995cd3d3 netdev: bfin_mac: check for mii_bus platform data
If the platform data for the mii_bus is missing, gracefully error out
rather than deference NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:21:01 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
2bfa0f0c9a netdev: bfin_mac: handle timeouts with the MDIO registers gracefully
Have the low level MDIO functions pass back up timeout information so we
don't waste time polling them multiple times when there is a problem, and
so we don't let higher layers think the device is available when it isn't.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:21:00 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
c0da776bde netdev: bfin_mac: use promiscuous flag for promiscuous mode
Rather than using the Receive All Frames (RAF) bit to enable promiscuous
mode, use the Promiscuous (PR) bit.  This lowers overhead at runtime as
we let the hardware process the packets that should actually be checked.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:21:00 -07:00
Michael Hennerich
53fd3f2829 netdev: bfin_mac: add support for wake-on-lan magic packets
Note that WOL works only in PM Suspend Standby Mode (Sleep Mode).

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:59 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
812a9de715 netdev: bfin_mac: clear RXCKS if hardware generated checksum is not enabled
Otherwise we might be get a setting mismatch from a previous module or
bootloader and what the driver currently expects.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:59 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
ad2864d887 netdev: bfin_mac: deduce Ethernet FCS from hardware IP payload checksum
IP checksum is based on 16-bit one's complement algorithm, so to deduce a
value from checksum is equal to add its complement.

Unfortunately, the Blackfin on-chip MAC checksum logic only works when the
IP packet has a header length of 20 bytes.  This is true for most IPv4
packets, but not for IPv6 packets or IPv4 packets which use header options.
So only use the hardware checksum when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Kowal <jon.kowal@dspecialists.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:58 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
f6e1e4f3e5 netdev: bfin_mac: invalid data cache only once for each new rx skb buffer
The skb buffer isn't actually used until we finish transferring and pass
it up to higher layers, so only invalidate the range once before we start
receiving actual data.  This also avoids the problem with data invalidating
on Blackfin systems -- there is no invalidate-only, just invalidate+flush.
So when running in writeback mode, there is the small (but not uncommon)
possibility of the flush overwriting valid DMA-ed data from the cache.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:58 -07:00
Peter Meerwald
ec497b32c3 netdev: bfin_mac: handler RX status errors
Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:20:50 -07:00
Barry Song
fe92afedee netdev: bfin_mac: add support for IEEE 1588 PTP
Newer on-chip MAC peripherals support IEEE 1588 PTP in the hardware, so
extend the driver to support this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:19:40 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ab6e3feba1 net: No dst refcounting in ip_queue_xmit()
TCP outgoing packets can avoid two atomic ops, and dirtying
of previously higly contended cache line using new refdst
infrastructure.

Note 1: loopback device excluded because of !IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE
Note 2: UDP packets dsts are built before ip_queue_xmit().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:52 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
4a94445c9a net: Use ip_route_input_noref() in input path
Use ip_route_input_noref() in ip fast path, to avoid two atomic ops per
incoming packet.

Note: loopback is excluded from this optimization in ip_rcv_finish()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:51 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
407eadd996 net: implements ip_route_input_noref()
ip_route_input() is the version returning a refcounted dst, while
ip_route_input_noref() returns a non refcounted one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:51 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
7fee226ad2 net: add a noref bit on skb dst
Use low order bit of skb->_skb_dst to tell dst is not refcounted.

Change _skb_dst to _skb_refdst to make sure all uses are catched.

skb_dst() returns the dst, regardless of noref bit set or not, but
with a lockdep check to make sure a noref dst is not given if current
user is not rcu protected.

New skb_dst_set_noref() helper to set an notrefcounted dst on a skb.
(with lockdep check)

skb_dst_drop() drops a reference only if skb dst was refcounted.

skb_dst_force() helper is used to force a refcount on dst, when skb
is queued and not anymore RCU protected.

Use skb_dst_force() in __sk_add_backlog(), __dev_xmit_skb() if
!IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE or skb enqueued on qdisc queue, in
sock_queue_rcv_skb(), in __nf_queue().

Use skb_dst_force() in dev_requeue_skb().

Note: dst_use_noref() still dirties dst, we might transform it
later to do one dirtying per jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ebda37c27d rps: avoid one atomic in enqueue_to_backlog
If CONFIG_SMP=y, then we own a queue spinlock, we can avoid the atomic
test_and_set_bit() from napi_schedule_prep().

We now have same number of atomic ops per netif_rx() calls than with
pre-RPS kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:50 -07:00
Neil Jones
3f78d1f210 drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix unaligned accesses
Using this driver can cause unaligned accesses in the IP layer
This has been fixed by aligning the skb data correctly using the
spare room left over by the 4 byte header inserted between packets
by the device.

Signed-off-by: Neil Jones <NeilJay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:28 -07:00
Brian King
e7a3af5d8c ibmveth: Add suspend/resume support
Adds support for resuming from suspend for IBM virtual ethernet devices.
We may have lost an interrupt over the suspend, so we just kick the
interrupt handler to process anything that is outstanding.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:09:10 -07:00
Florian Westphal
0771275b25 ipv6 addrlabel: permit deletion of labels assigned to removed dev
as addrlabels with an interface index are left alone when the
interface gets removed this results in addrlabels that can no
longer be removed.

Restrict validation of index to adding new addrlabels.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:08:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
6811d58fc1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	include/linux/if_link.h
2010-05-16 22:26:58 -07:00
Chris Wright
c02db8c629 rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric
Now we have a set of nested attributes:

  IFLA_VFINFO_LIST (NESTED)
    IFLA_VF_INFO (NESTED)
      IFLA_VF_MAC
      IFLA_VF_VLAN
      IFLA_VF_TX_RATE

This allows a single set to operate on multiple attributes if desired.
Among other things, it means a dump can be replayed to set state.

The current interface has yet to be released, so this seems like
something to consider for 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 01:05:45 -07:00
Frank Blaschka
c4949f0743 qeth: synchronize configuration interface
Synchronize access to the drivers configuration interface.
Also do not allow configuration changes during online/offline
transition.

Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:50:11 -07:00
Ursula Braun
65a1f898ef qeth: new message if OLM limit is reached
z/OS may activate Optimized Latency Mode (OLM) for a connection
through an OSA Express3 adapter, which reduces the number of
allowed concurrent connections, if adapter is used in shared mode.
Create a meaningful message, if activation of an OSA-connection fails
due to an active OLM-connection on the shared OSA-adapter.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:50:11 -07:00
Frank Blaschka
f6b85b6c42 qeth: exploit HW TX checksumming
OSA supports HW TX checksumming in layer 3 mode. Enable this
feature and remove software fallback used for TSO. Cleanup
checksum bits to indicate OSA can do checksumming only for
IPv4 TCP and UDP.

Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:50:10 -07:00
Wei Yongjun
55fa0cfd7c sctp: delete active ICMP proto unreachable timer when free transport
transport may be free before ICMP proto unreachable timer expire, so
we should delete active ICMP proto unreachable timer when transport
is going away.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:46:22 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
2d6c9ffcca net: congestion notifications are not dropped packets
vlan/macvlan start_xmit() can inform caller of congestion with
NET_XMIT_CN return value. This doesnt mean packet was dropped.
Increment normal stat counters instead of tx_dropped.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:42:15 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a465419b1f net: Introduce sk_route_nocaps
TCP-MD5 sessions have intermittent failures, when route cache is
invalidated. ip_queue_xmit() has to find a new route, calls
sk_setup_caps(sk, &rt->u.dst), destroying the 

sk->sk_route_caps &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_MASK

that MD5 desperately try to make all over its way (from
tcp_transmit_skb() for example)

So we send few bad packets, and everything is fine when
tcp_transmit_skb() is called again for this socket.

Since ip_queue_xmit() is at a lower level than TCP-MD5, I chose to use a
socket field, sk_route_nocaps, containing bits to mask on sk_route_caps.

Reported-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:36:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
35790c0421 tcp: fix MD5 (RFC2385) support
TCP MD5 support uses percpu data for temporary storage. It currently
disables preemption so that same storage cannot be reclaimed by another
thread on same cpu.

We also have to make sure a softirq handler wont try to use also same
context. Various bug reports demonstrated corruptions.

Fix is to disable preemption and BH.

Reported-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16 00:34:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
3b098e2d7c net: Consistent skb timestamping
With RPS inclusion, skb timestamping is not consistent in RX path.

If netif_receive_skb() is used, its deferred after RPS dispatch.

If netif_rx() is used, its done before RPS dispatch.

This can give strange tcpdump timestamps results.

I think timestamping should be done as soon as possible in the receive
path, to get meaningful values (ie timestamps taken at the time packet
was delivered by NIC driver to our stack), even if NAPI already can
defer timestamping a bit (RPS can help to reduce the gap)

Tom Herbert prefer to sample timestamps after RPS dispatch. In case
sampling is expensive (HPET/acpi_pm on x86), this makes sense.

Let admins switch from one mode to another, using a new
sysctl, /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_tstamp_prequeue

Its default value (1), means timestamps are taken as soon as possible,
before backlog queueing, giving accurate timestamps.

Setting a 0 value permits to sample timestamps when processing backlog,
after RPS dispatch, to lower the load of the pre-RPS cpu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:57:10 -07:00
Timo Teras
a1aa348304 xfrm: fix policy unreferencing on larval drop
I mistakenly had the error path to use num_pols to decide how
many policies we need to drop (cruft from earlier patch set
version which did not handle socket policies right).

This is wrong since normally we do not keep explicit references
(instead we hold reference to the cache entry which holds references
to policies). drop_pols is set to num_pols if we are holding the
references, so use that. Otherwise we eventually BUG_ON inside
xfrm_policy_destroy due to premature policy deletion.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:49:26 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
a14462f1bd net: adjust handle_macvlan to pass port struct to hook
Now there's null check here and also again in the hook. Looking at bridge bits
which are simmilar, port structure is rcu_dereferenced right away in
handle_bridge and passed to hook. Looks nicer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:48:02 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori
10fc51b995 skge: use the DMA state API instead of the pci equivalents
This replace the PCI DMA state API (include/linux/pci-dma.h) with the
DMA equivalents since the PCI DMA state API will be obsolete.

No functional change.

For further information about the background:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127037540020276&w=2

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:29:31 -07:00
Amerigo Wang
e3826f1e94 net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
(Dropped the infiniband part, because Tetsuo modified the related code,
I will send a separate patch for it once this is accepted.)

This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.

The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
(e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
port allocation behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:28:40 -07:00