pm24.git/net/core, branch v3.7-rc8

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem

2012-11-21T16:48:31Z

John W. Linville says: ==================== This is a batch of fixes intended for 3.7... Included are two pulls. Regarding the mac80211 tree, Johannes says: "Please pull my mac80211.git tree (see below) to get two more fixes for 3.7. Both fix regressions introduced *before* this cycle that weren't noticed until now, one for IBSS not cleaning up properly and the other to add back the "wireless" sysfs directory for Fedora's startup scripts." Regarding the iwlwifi tree, Johannes says: "Please also pull my iwlwifi.git tree, I have two fixes: one to remove a spurious warning that can actually trigger in legitimate situations, and the other to fix a regression from when monitor mode was changed to use the "sniffer" firmware mode." Also included is an nfc tree pull. Samuel says: "We mostly have pn533 fixes here, 2 memory leaks and an early unlocking fix. Moreover, we also have an LLCP adapter linked list insertion fix." On top of that, a few more bits... Albert Pool adds a USB ID to rtlwifi. Bing Zhao provides two mwifiex fixes -- one to fix a system hang during a command timeout, and the other to properly report a suspend error to the MMC core. Finally, Sujith Manoharan fixes a thinko that would trigger an ath9k hang during device reset. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211

2012-11-19T19:37:43Z

wireless: add back sysfs directory

2012-11-16T20:37:52Z

commit 35b2a113cb0298d4f9a1263338b456094a414057 broke (at least) Fedora's networking scripts, they check for the existence of the wireless directory. As the files aren't used, add the directory back and not the files. Also do it for both drivers based on the old wireless extensions and cfg80211, regardless of whether the compat code for wext is built into cfg80211 or not. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.6] Reported-by: Dave Airlie Reported-by: Bill Nottingham Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

net-rps: Fix brokeness causing OOO packets

2012-11-16T19:35:56Z

In commit c445477d74ab3779 which adds aRFS to the kernel, the CPU selected for RFS is not set correctly when CPU is changing. This is causing OOO packets and probably other issues. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: correct check in dev_addr_del()

2012-11-15T22:57:53Z

Check (ha->addr == dev->dev_addr) is always true because dev_addr_init() sets this. Correct the check to behave properly on addr removal. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af-packet: fix oops when socket is not present

2012-11-07T20:40:14Z

Due to a NULL dereference, the following patch is causing oops in normal trafic condition: commit c0de08d04215031d68fa13af36f347a6cfa252ca Author: Eric Leblond Date: Thu Aug 16 22:02:58 2012 +0000 af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group This buggy patch was a feature fix and has reached most stable branches. When skb->sk is NULL and when packet fanout is used, there is a crash in match_fanout_group where skb->sk is accessed. This patch fixes the issue by returning false as soon as the socket is NULL: this correspond to the wanted behavior because the kernel as to resend the skb to all the listening socket in this case. Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Use nlmsg type RTM_NEWNEIGH from dflt fdb dump

2012-11-03T19:27:08Z

Change the dflt fdb dump handler to use RTM_NEWNEIGH to be compatible with bridge dump routines. The dump reply from the network driver handlers should match the reply from bridge handler. The fact they were not in the ixgbe case was effectively a bug. This patch resolves it. Applications that were not checking the nlmsg type will continue to work. And now applications that do check the type will work as expected. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix secpath kmemleak

2012-10-22T19:16:07Z

Mike Kazantsev found 3.5 kernels and beyond were leaking memory, and tracked the faulty commit to a1c7fff7e18f59e ("net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb()") While this commit seems fine, it uncovered a bug introduced in commit bad43ca8325 ("net: introduce skb_try_coalesce()), in function kfree_skb_partial()"): If head is stolen, we free the sk_buff, without removing references on secpath (skb->sp). So IPsec + IP defrag/reassembly (using skb coalescing), or TCP coalescing could leak secpath objects. Fix this bug by calling skb_release_head_state(skb) to properly release all possible references to linked objects. Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Bisected-by: Mike Kazantsev Tested-by: Mike Kazantsev Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add doc for in4_pton()

2012-10-12T17:56:52Z

It is not easy to use in4_pton() correctly without reading its definition, so add some doc for it. Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add doc for in6_pton()

2012-10-12T17:56:52Z

It is not easy to use in6_pton() correctly without reading its definition, so add some doc for it. Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller