Frank Blaschka reported :
<quote>
  During heavy network load we turn off/on cpus.
  Sometimes this causes a stall on the network device.
  Digging into the dump I found out following:

  napi is scheduled but does not run. From the I/O buffers
  and the napi state I see napi/rx_softirq processing has stopped
  because the budget was reached. napi stays in the
  softnet_data poll_list and the rx_softirq was raised again.

  I assume at this time the cpu offline comes in,
  the rx softirq is raised/moved to another cpu but napi stays in the
  poll_list of the softnet_data of the now offline cpu.

  Reviewing dev_cpu_callback (net/core/dev.c) I did not find the
  poll_list is transfered to the new cpu.
</quote>

This patch is a straightforward implementation of Frank suggestion :

Transfert poll_list and trigger NET_RX_SOFTIRQ on new cpu.
Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Like in commit 0972ddb2 (provide cow_metrics() methods to blackhole
dst_ops), we must provide a cow_metrics for bridges fake_dst_ops as
well.

This fixes a regression coming from commits 62fa8a84 (net: Implement
read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.) and 33eb9873 (bridge:
initialize fake_rtable metrics)

ip link set mybridge mtu 1234
-->
[  136.546243] Pid: 8415, comm: ip Tainted: P 
2.6.39.1-00006-g40545b7 #103 ASUSTeK Computer Inc.         V1Sn 
        /V1Sn
[  136.546256] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
[  136.546268] EIP is at 0x0
[  136.546273] EAX: f14a389c EBX: 000005d4 ECX: f80d32c0 EDX: f80d1da1
[  136.546279] ESI: f14a3000 EDI: f255bf10 EBP: f15c3b54 ESP: f15c3b48
[  136.546285]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  136.546293] Process ip (pid: 8415, ti=f15c2000 task=f4741f80 
task.ti=f15c2000)
[  136.546297] Stack:
[  136.546301]  f80c658f f14a3000 ffffffed f15c3b64 c12cb9c8 f80d1b80 
ffffffa1 f15c3bbc
[  136.546315]  c12da347 c12d9c7d 00000000 f7670b00 00000000 f80d1b80 
ffffffa6 f15c3be4
[  136.546329]  00000004 f14a3000 f255bf20 00000008 f15c3bbc c11d6cae 
00000000 00000000
[  136.546343] Call Trace:
[  136.546359]  [<f80c658f>] ? br_change_mtu+0x5f/0x80 [bridge]
[  136.546372]  [<c12cb9c8>] dev_set_mtu+0x38/0x80
[  136.546381]  [<c12da347>] do_setlink+0x1a7/0x860
[  136.546390]  [<c12d9c7d>] ? rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x9bd/0xc70
[  136.546400]  [<c11d6cae>] ? nla_parse+0x6e/0xb0
[  136.546409]  [<c12db931>] rtnl_newlink+0x361/0x510
[  136.546420]  [<c1023240>] ? vmalloc_sync_all+0x100/0x100
[  136.546429]  [<c1362762>] ? error_code+0x5a/0x60
[  136.546438]  [<c12db5d0>] ? rtnl_configure_link+0x80/0x80
[  136.546446]  [<c12db27a>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xfa/0x210
[  136.546454]  [<c12db180>] ? __rtnl_unlock+0x20/0x20
[  136.546463]  [<c12ee0fe>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x8e/0xb0
[  136.546471]  [<c12daf1c>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30
[  136.546479]  [<c12edafa>] netlink_unicast+0x23a/0x280
[  136.546487]  [<c12ede6b>] netlink_sendmsg+0x26b/0x2f0
[  136.546497]  [<c12bb828>] sock_sendmsg+0xc8/0x100
[  136.546508]  [<c10adf61>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xe1/0x750
[  136.546517]  [<c11d0602>] ? _copy_from_user+0x42/0x60
[  136.546525]  [<c12c5e4c>] ? verify_iovec+0x4c/0xc0
[  136.546534]  [<c12bd805>] sys_sendmsg+0x1c5/0x200
[  136.546542]  [<c10c2150>] ? __do_fault+0x310/0x410
[  136.546549]  [<c10c2c46>] ? do_wp_page+0x1d6/0x6b0
[  136.546557]  [<c10c47d1>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xe1/0x720
[  136.546565]  [<c12bd1af>] ? sys_getsockname+0x7f/0x90
[  136.546574]  [<c10c4ec1>] ? handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x180
[  136.546582]  [<c1023240>] ? vmalloc_sync_all+0x100/0x100
[  136.546589]  [<c10233b3>] ? do_page_fault+0x173/0x3d0
[  136.546596]  [<c12bd87b>] ? sys_recvmsg+0x3b/0x60
[  136.546605]  [<c12bdd83>] sys_socketcall+0x293/0x2d0
[  136.546614]  [<c13629d0>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[  136.546619] Code:  Bad EIP value.
[  136.546627] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f15c3b48
[  136.546645] CR2: 0000000000000000
[  136.546652] ---[ end trace 6909b560e78934fa ]---
Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In 2.6.27, commit 393e52e3 (packet: deliver VLAN TCI to userspace)
added a small information leak.

Add padding field and make sure its zeroed before copy to user.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The SEQ output functions grab the obj->attrib->hb_spinlock lock of
sub-objects found in the hash traversal.  These locks are in a different
realm than the one used for the irias_objects hash table itself.

So put the latter into it's own lockdep class.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This interface uses a temporary buffer, but for no real reason.
And now can generate warnings like:

net/sched/sch_generic.c: In function dev_watchdog
net/sched/sch_generic.c:254:10: warning: unused variable drivername

Just return driver->name directly or "".
Reported-by: Connor Hansen <cmdkhh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Same check as for IPv4, also do for IPv6.

(If you passed in a IPv4 sockaddr_in here, the sizeof check
 in the line before would have triggered already though.)
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Reinhard Max <max@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into for-davem

Fix missing semicolon at end of smc91x.c match tabledevice driver.
Also remove unnecessary #ifdef around of_match_table pointer.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Netlink message lengths can't be negative, so use unsigned variables.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

This patch fixes a refcount leak of ct objects that may occur if
l4proto->error() assigns one conntrack object to one skbuff. In
that case, we have to skip further processing in nf_conntrack_in().

With this patch, we can also fix wrong return values (-NF_ACCEPT)
for special cases in ICMP[v6] that should not bump the invalid/error
statistic counters.
Reported-by: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Fix crash in nf_nat_csum when mangling packets
in OUTPUT hook where skb->dev is not defined, it is set
later before POSTROUTING. Problem happens for CHECKSUM_NONE.
We can check device from rt but using CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
should be safe (skb_checksum_help).
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

The stored cidr values are tried one after anoter. The boolean
condition evaluated to '1' instead of the first stored cidr or
the default host cidr.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

	Fix the IPVS priority in LOCAL_IN hook,
so that SNAT target in POSTROUTING is supported for IPVS
traffic as in 2.6.36 where it worked depending on
module load order.

	Before 2.6.37 we used priority 100 in LOCAL_IN to
process remote requests. We used the same priority as
iptables SNAT and if IPVS handlers are installed before
SNAT handlers we supported SNAT in POSTROUTING for the IPVS
traffic. If SNAT is installed before IPVS, the netfilter
handlers are before IPVS and netfilter checks the NAT
table twice for the IPVS requests: once in LOCAL_IN where
IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE is set and second time in POSTROUTING
where the SNAT rules are ignored because IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE
was already set in LOCAL_IN.

	But in 2.6.37 we changed the IPVS priority for
LOCAL_IN with the goal to be unique (101) forgetting the
fact that for IPVS traffic we should not walk both
LOCAL_IN and POSTROUTING nat tables.

	So, change the priority for processing remote
IPVS requests from 101 to 99, i.e. before NAT_SRC (100)
because we prefer to support SNAT in POSTROUTING
instead of LOCAL_IN. It also moves the priority for
IPVS replies from 99 to 98. Use constants instead of
magic numbers at these places.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Following error is raised (and other similar ones) :

net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_standalone.c: In function ‘nf_nat_fn’:
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_standalone.c:119:2: warning: case value ‘4’
not in enumerated type ‘enum ip_conntrack_info’

gcc barfs on adding two enum values and getting a not enumerated
result :

case IP_CT_RELATED+IP_CT_IS_REPLY:

Add missing enum values
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

The bonding driver is multiqueue enabled, in which each queue represents a slave
to enable optional steering of output frames to given slaves against the default
output policy.  However, it needs to reset the skb->queue_mapping prior to
queuing to the physical device or the physical slave (if it is multiqueue) could
wind up transmitting on an unintended tx queue

Change Notes:
v2) Based on first pass review, updated the patch to restore the origional queue
mapping that was found in bond_select_queue, rather than simply resetting to
zero.  This preserves the value of queue_mapping when it was set on receive in
the forwarding case which is desireable.

v3) Fixed spelling an casting error in skb->cb

v4) fixed to store raw queue_mapping to avoid double decrement

v5) Eric D requested that ->cb access be wrapped in a macro.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

buffer->skb should be marked NULL to avoid double free of the skb.
Signed-off-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Due to a change in FW template, a bug was introduced in dump queue entries. This is
fixed by reinitializing queue address before looping for each que dump operation.
Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

More fallout from struct net lifetime rules review: PTR_ERR() is *already*
negative and failing ->open() should return negatives on failure.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

BTW, looking through the code related to struct net lifetime rules has
caught something else:

struct net *get_net_ns_by_fd(int fd)
{
        ...
        file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
        if (!file)
                goto out;

        ei = PROC_I(file->f_dentry->d_inode);

while in proc_ns_fget() we have two return ERR_PTR(...) and not a single
path that would return NULL.  The other caller of proc_ns_fget() treats
ERR_PTR() correctly...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] Fix oops caused by queue refcounting failure

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  tg3: Fix tg3_skb_error_unmap()
  net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
  drivers/net/can/flexcan.c: add missing clk_put
  net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts
  drivers/net/davinci_emac.c: add missing clk_put
  af-packet: Add flag to distinguish VID 0 from no-vlan.
  caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
  usbnet/cdc_ncm: add missing .reset_resume hook
  vlan: fix typo in vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit()
  net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
  iwl4965: correctly validate temperature value
  bluetooth l2cap: fix locking in l2cap_global_chan_by_psm
  ath9k: fix two more bugs in tx power
  cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
  Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
  drivers/net/usb/catc.c: Fix potential deadlock in catc_ctrl_run()
  sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc
  drivers/net: ks8842 Fix crash on received packet when in PIO mode.
  ip_options_compile: properly handle unaligned pointer
  iwlagn: fix incorrect PCI subsystem id for 6150 devices
  ...

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: Use hlist_entry() for io_context.cic_list.first
  cfq-iosched: Remove bogus check in queue_fail path
  xen/blkback: potential null dereference in error handling
  xen/blkback: don't call vbd_size() if bd_disk is NULL
  block: blkdev_get() should access ->bd_disk only after success
  CFQ: Fix typo and remove unnecessary semicolon
  block: remove unwanted semicolons
  Revert "block: Remove extra discard_alignment from hd_struct."
  nbd: adjust 'max_part' according to part_shift
  nbd: limit module parameters to a sane value
  nbd: pass MSG_* flags to kernel_recvmsg()
  block: improve the bio_add_page() and bio_add_pc_page() descriptions

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin:
  Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths

* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  asm-generic/unistd.h: support sendmmsg syscall
  tile: enable CONFIG_BUGVERBOSE

* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: fix-up free space earlier
  UBIFS: intialize LPT earlier
  UBIFS: assert no fixup when writing a node
  UBIFS: fix clean znode counter corruption in error cases
  UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path
  UBIFS: fix shrinker object count reports
  UBIFS: fix recovery broken by the previous recovery fix
  UBIFS: amend ubifs_recover_leb interface
  UBIFS: introduce a "grouped" journal head flag
  UBIFS: supress false error messages

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
  ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisect
  ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernel
  ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect result

Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6

* 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  ARM: mach-shmobile: add DMAC clock definitions on SH7372
  ARM: arch-shmobile: support SDHI card detection on mackerel, using a GPIO
  sh_mobile_meram: MERAM platform data for LCDC

* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  dmaengine: shdma: fix a regression: initialise DMA channels for memcpy
  dmaengine: shdma: Fix up fallout from runtime PM changes.
  Revert "clocksource: sh_cmt: Runtime PM support"
  Revert "clocksource: sh_tmu: Runtime PM support"
  sh: Fix up asm-generic/ptrace.h fallout.
  sh64: Move from P1SEG to CAC_ADDR for consistent sync.
  sh64: asm/pgtable.h needs asm/mmu.h
  sh: asm/tlb.h needs linux/swap.h
  sh: mark DMA slave ID 0 as invalid
  sh: Update shmin to reflect PIO dependency.
  sh: arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c needs linux/prefetch.h.
  sh: add MMCIF runtime PM support on ecovec
  sh: switch ap325rxa to dynamically manage the platform camera

This reverts commit ed0bd233.

Since we reverted the TTY API change, we should revert the ASoC update
to it too.

Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit b1c43f82.

It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.

It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").

It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.

And it didn't actually work at all.  BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
  "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
   server for me, possibly related to PTYs.  For example, cat'ing a
   large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
   loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
   data in the quoted bits further down).

   ...

   Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
   flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
   the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
   forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
   process that could have emptied the PTY."

which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41.

Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into for-davem

Commit 06e8935f adds an IRQ handling
optimization for single-function SDIO cards like this one, but at the
same time exposes a small hardware bug.

During hardware init, an interrupt is generated with (apparently) no
source. Previously, mmc threw this interrupt away, but now (due to the
optimization), the mmc layer passes this onto libertas, before it is ready
(and before it has enabled interrupts), causing a crash.

Work around this hardware bug by registering the IRQ handler later and
making it capable of handling interrupts with no cause. The change that
makes the IRQ handler registration happen later actually eliminates
the spurious interrupt as well.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This partially reverts 1c5cae81, because
the netdev name is copied into sdata->name, which is used for debugging
messages, for example. Otherwise, we get messages like this:

wlan%d: authenticated
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We use priv->mutex to avoid race conditions between iwl_chswitch_done()
and iwlagn_mac_channel_switch(), when marking channel switch in
progress. But iwl_chswitch_done() can be called in atomic context
from iwl_rx_csa() or with mutex already taken from iwlagn_commit_rxon().

These bugs were introduced by:

commit 79d07325
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date:   Thu May 6 08:54:11 2010 -0700

    iwlwifi: support channel switch offload in driver

To fix remove mutex from iwl_chswitch_done() and use atomic bitops for
marking channel switch pending.

Also remove iwl2030_hw_channel_switch() since 2000 series adapters are
2.4GHz only devices.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.36+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Disable fast channel change by default on AR2413/AR5413 due to
some bug reports (it still works for me but it's better to be safe).
Add a module parameter "fastchanswitch" in case anyone wants to enable
it and play with it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We were incorrectly executing PCIe specific workarounds on PCI cards.
This resulted in:
Machine check in kernel mode.
Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal
Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The free space fixup is currently initiated during mount after the call to
ubifs_write_master() which results in a write to PEBs; this has been observed
with the patch 'assert no fixup when writing a node' applied:

Move the free space fixup on mount to before the calls to
ubifs_recover_inl_heads() and ubifs_write_master(). This results in no
assertions with the previously mentioned patch applied.

Artem: tweaked the patch a bit
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics>
Reviewed-by: Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>