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2012-07-18net/ipv4: VTI support new module for ip_vti.Saurabh
New VTI tunnel kernel module, Kconfig and Makefile changes. Signed-off-by: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18net/ipv4: VTI support rx-path hook in xfrm4_mode_tunnel.Saurabh
Incorporated David and Steffen's comments. Add hook for rx-path xfmr4_mode_tunnel for VTI tunnel module. Signed-off-by: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18asix: Fix return value in AX88172A driver bind functionChristian Riesch
Return -ENOTSUPP if the initialization fails because the device is configured for a mode that is not supported by the driver. Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18tcp: refine SYN handling in tcp_validate_incomingEric Dumazet
Followup of commit 0c24604b68fc (tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2) As reported by Vijay Subramanian, we should send a challenge ACK instead of a dup ack if a SYN flag is set on a packet received out of window. This permits the ratelimiting to work as intended, and to increase correct SNMP counters. Suggested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capabilityEric Dumazet
Some workloads greatly benefit of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability on output net device, avoiding dirtying dst refcount. bonding currently disables IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE unconditionally. If all slaves have the IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE bit set, then bonding master can also have it in its priv_flags Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18net: qmi_wwan: make dynamic device IDs workBjørn Mork
The usbnet API use the device ID table to store a pointer to a minidriver. Setting a generic pointer for dynamic device IDs will in most cases make them work as expected. usbnet will otherwise treat the dynamic IDs as blacklisted. That is rarely useful. There is no standard class describing devices supported by this driver, and most vendors don't even provide enough information to allow vendor specific wildcard matching. The result is that most of the supported devices must be explicitly listed in the device table. Allowing dynamic IDs to work both simplifies testing and verification of new devices, and provides a way for end users to use a device before the ID is added to the driver. Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18b44: add 64 bit statsKevin Groeneveld
Add support for 64 bit stats to Broadcom b44 ethernet driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18be2net: Ignore physical link async event for LancerPadmanabh Ratnakar
The ability of driver to transmit packets depends on logical state of the link. Ignore physical link status. Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <padmanabh.ratnakar@emulex.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18be2net: Fix VF driver load for LancerPadmanabh Ratnakar
Lancer FW has added new capability checks for VFs. Driver should only use those capabilities which are allowed for VFs. Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <padmanabh.ratnakar@emulex.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next Jerr Kirsher says: ==================== This series contains updates to ixgbe & ixgbevf. ... Alexander Duyck (6): ixgbe: Ping the VFs on link status change to trigger link change ixgbe: Handle failures in the ixgbe_setup_rx/tx_resources calls ixgbe: Move configuration of set_real_num_rx/tx_queues into open ixgbe: Update the logic for ixgbe_cache_ring_dcb and DCB RSS configuration ixgbe: Cleanup logic for MRQC and MTQC configuration ixgbevf: Update descriptor macros to accept pointers and drop _ADV suffix ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18Merge branch 'davem-next.r8169' of git://violet.fr.zoreil.com/romieu/linuxDavid S. Miller
Francois Romieu says: ==================== Francois Romieu (1): r8169: verbose error message. Hayes Wang (1): r8169: remove rtl_ocpdr_cond. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18Merge branch 'for-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next Ben Hutchings says: ==================== 1. Fix potential badness when running a self-test with SR-IOV enabled. 2. Fix calculation of some interface statistics that could run backward. 3. Miscellaneous cleanup. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-18ipv6: fix inet6_csk_xmit()Eric Dumazet
We should provide to inet6_csk_route_socket a struct flowi6 pointer, so that net6_csk_xmit() works correctly instead of sending garbage. Also add some consts Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Update descriptor macros to accept pointers and drop _ADV suffixAlexander Duyck
This change updates the descriptor macros to accept pointers, updates the name to drop the _ADV suffix, and include the IXGBEVF name in the macro. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbe: Cleanup logic for MRQC and MTQC configurationAlexander Duyck
This change is meant to make the code much more readable for MTQC and MRQC configuration. The big change is that I simplified much of the logic so that we are essentially handling just 4 cases and their variants. In the cases where RSS is disabled we are actually just programming the RETA table with all 1s resulting in a single queue RSS. In the case of SR-IOV I am treating that as a subset of VMDq. This all results int he following configuration for the hardware: DCB En Dis VMDq En VMDQ/DCB VMDq/RSS Dis DCB/RSS RSS Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbe: Update the logic for ixgbe_cache_ring_dcb and DCB RSS configurationAlexander Duyck
This change cleans up some of the logic in an attempt to try and simplify things for how we are configuring DCB w/ RSS. In this patch I basically did 3 things. I updated the logic for getting the first register index. I applied the fact that all TCs get the same number of queues to simplify the looping logic in caching the DCB ring register. Finally I updated how we configure the RQTC register to match the fact that all TCs are assigned the same number of queues. Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbe: Move configuration of set_real_num_rx/tx_queues into openAlexander Duyck
It makes much more sense for us to configure the real number of Tx and Rx queues in the ixgbe_open call than it does in ixgbe_set_num_queues. By setting the number in ixgbe_open we can avoid a number of unecessary updates and only have to make the calls once. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbe: Handle failures in the ixgbe_setup_rx/tx_resources callsAlexander Duyck
Previously we were exiting without cleaning up the memory internally on the ixgbe_setup_rx_resources and ixgbe_setup_tx_resources calls. Instead of forcing the caller to clean things up for us we should instead just unwind the rings and free the memory as we go. This way we can more gracefully clean up the rings in the event of an allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbe: Ping the VFs on link status change to trigger link changeAlexander Duyck
When the link status changes on the PF we need to notify the VFs. In order to do this we should ping all of the VFs in order to trigger a link status change on them as well. This fixes issues in which the PF would reset, but the VF didn't because the NAK flag was not set in the VF mailbox. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17r8169: verbose error message.Francois Romieu
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
2012-07-17r8169: remove rtl_ocpdr_cond.Hayes Wang
It is not needed for mac_ocp_{write / read}. Actually bit 31 of OCPDR does not change and r8168_mac_ocp_read always returns ~0. Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com> Tested-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
2012-07-17ipv4: fix rcu splatEric Dumazet
free_nh_exceptions() should use rcu_dereference_protected(..., 1) since its called after one RCU grace period. Also add some const-ification in recent code. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17ipv4: Fix nexthop exception hash computation.David S. Miller
Need to mask it with (FNHE_HASH_SIZE - 1). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17Merge branch 'nexthop_exceptions'David S. Miller
These patches implement the final mechanism necessary to really allow us to go without the route cache in ipv4. We need a place to have long-term storage of PMTU/redirect information which is independent of the routes themselves, yet does not get us back into a situation where we have to write to metrics or anything like that. For this we use an "next-hop exception" table in the FIB nexthops. The one thing I desperately want to avoid is having to create clone routes in the FIB trie for this purpose, because that is very expensive. However, I'm willing to entertain such an idea later if this current scheme proves to have downsides that the FIB trie variant would not have. In order to accomodate this any such scheme, we need to be able to produce a full flow key at PMTU/redirect time. That required an adjustment of the interface call-sites used to propagate these events. For a PMTU/redirect with a fully specified socket, we pass that socket and use it to produce the flow key. Otherwise we use a passed in SKB to formulate the key. There are two cases that need to be distinguished, ICMP message processing (in which case the IP header is at skb->data) and output packet processing (mostly tunnels, and in all such cases the IP header is at ip_hdr(skb)). We also have to make the code able to handle the case where the dst itself passed into the dst_ops->{update_pmtu,redirect} method is invalidated. This matters for calls from sockets that have cached that route. We provide a inet{,6} helper function for this purpose, and edit SCTP specially since it caches routes at the transport rather than socket level. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17team: add netpoll supportJiri Pirko
It's done in very similar way this is done in bonding and bridge. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17netpoll: move np->dev and np->dev_name init into __netpoll_setup()Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17ipv4: Add FIB nexthop exceptions.David S. Miller
In a regime where we have subnetted route entries, we need a way to store persistent storage about destination specific learned values such as redirects and PMTU values. This is implemented here via nexthop exceptions. The initial implementation is a 2048 entry hash table with relaiming starting at chain length 5. A more sophisticated scheme can be devised if that proves necessary. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17sfc: Correct some comments on enum reset_typeBen Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Fix interface statistics running backwardBen Hutchings
Some interface statistics are computed in such a way that they can sometimes decrease (and even underflow). Since the computed value will never be greater than the true value, we fix this by only storing the computed value when it increases. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Disable VF queues during register self-testBen Hutchings
Currently VF queues and drivers may remain active during this test. This could cause memory corruption or spurious test failures. Therefore we reset the port/function before running these tests on Siena. On Falcon this doesn't work: we have to do some additional initialisation before some blocks will work again. So refactor the reset/register-test sequence into an efx_nic_type method so efx_selftest() doesn't have to consider such quirks. In the process, fix another minor bug: Siena does not have an 'invisible' reset and the self-test currently fails to push the PHY configuration after resetting. Passing RESET_TYPE_ALL to efx_reset_{down,up}() fixes this. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Explain why efx_mcdi_exit_assertion() ignores result of efx_mcdi_rpc()Ben Hutchings
Fix CID 113952 in Coverity report on Linux. This is the one instance where we don't, and shouldn't, check the return code from efx_mcdi_rpc(). It wasn't immediately obvious to me why we didn't, so I think an explanation is in order. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Use dev_kfree_skb() in efx_end_loopback()Ben Hutchings
Fix CID 102619 in the Coverity report on Linux. efx_end_loopback() iterates over an array of skb pointers of which some may be null (if efx_begin_loopback() failed). It should not use dev_kfree_skb_irq(), which requires non-null pointers. In practice this is safe because it does not run in interrupt context and therefore always ends up calling dev_kfree_skb(), which does allow null pointers. But we should make that explicit. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Use strlcpy() to copy ethtool stats namesBen Hutchings
Fix CID 113703 in the Coverity report on Linux. ethtool stats names are limited to 32 bytes including a null terminator. Use strlcpy() to ensure that we will always include the null terminator even if a source string becomes longer than this. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Stop changing header offsets on TXBen Hutchings
There is nothing in the VLAN driver or core VLAN support that invalidates the TCP and IP header offsets. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Remove dead write to tso_state::packet_spaceBen Hutchings
tso_state::packet_space is always set in tso_start_packet(); the value set in tso_start() is not used, and is also incorrect. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Use generic DMA API, not PCI-DMA APIBen Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17sfc: Work around bogus 'uninitialised variable' warningBen Hutchings
With some gcc versions & optimisations, the compiler will warn that 'depth' in efx_filter_insert_filter() may be used without being initialised, although this is not the case. This is related to inlining of efx_filter_search(), which only has one caller since commit 8db182f4a8a6e2dcb8b65905ea4af56210e65430 ('sfc: Remove now-unused filter function'). Shut the compiler up by initialising it to 0. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-07-17tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2Eric Dumazet
Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using SYN bit. Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop incoming packet, instead of resetting the session. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent in response to SYN packets. (netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge) Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session because of a SYN flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17net: Pass optional SKB and SK arguments to dst_ops->{update_pmtu,redirect}()David S. Miller
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 <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Use igb style interrupt masks instead of ixgbe styleAlexander Duyck
The interrupt registers accessed in ixgbevf are more similar to the igb style registers than they are to the ixgbe style registers. As such we would be better off setting up the code for the EICS, EIMS, EICS, EIAM, and EIAC like we do in igb instead of ixgbe. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Move Tx clean-up into NAPI contextAlexander Duyck
Currently the VF driver is processing all of the transmits in interrupt context. This can be messy since the Rx is all handled in NAPI and this may result in interrupts being disabled. In order to resolve this move all of the Tx packet processing into NAPI and combine all of the interrupt and polling routines into just a pair of functions. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Update q_vector to contain ring pointers instead of bitmapsAlexander Duyck
For most cases the ixgbevf driver will only ever contain a single Tx and single Rx queue. In order to track that it makes more sense to use a pointer instead of using a bitmap which must be search in order to locate the ring on an adapter index. As such I am changing the code to use pointers and an iterator to access all rings on a given q_vector. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Cleanup accounting for space needed at start of xmit_frameAlexander Duyck
This change cleans up the accounting needed at the start of xmit_frame so that we can avoid doing too much work to determine how many descriptors we will need. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Drop use of eitr_low and eitr_high for hard coded valuesAlexander Duyck
This patch drops the use of eitr_low and eitr_high as values being stored in the adapter structure. Since the values have no external way to be changed they might as well just be hard coded values and save us the space on the adapter structure. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Make use of NETIF_F_RXCSUM instead of keeping our own flagAlexander Duyck
The IXGBE_FLAG_RX_CSUM_ENABLED flag is redundant since NETIF_F_RXCSUM is keeping the value we want to already have. As such we can drop the redundant flag and just make use of NETIF_F_RXCSUM. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Drop netdev_registered value since that is already stored in netdevAlexander Duyck
There is no need to keep a separate netdev_registered value since that is already stored in the netdev itself. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17ixgbevf: Drop all dead or unnecessary codeAlexander Duyck
There is a large amount of code present in this driver to support features that either do no exist or are not supported such ask packet split, DCA, or RSC. This patch strips out almost all of that code and in the case of conditionals based on unused flags I am flatting the code out to just the path that would have been selected. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-07-17tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2Eric Dumazet
Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17ipv6: fix unappropriate errno returned for non-multicast addressLi Wei
We need to check the passed in multicast address and return appropriate errno(EINVAL) if it is not valid. And it's no need to walk through the ipv6_mc_list in this situation. Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-nextDavid S. Miller
Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== the fifth pull request for upcoming v3.6 net-next. The first two patches (created by me) add const qualifiers to the flexcan and mpc5xxx_can driver. The next patch by Julia Lawall fixes a return value problem in the error path of the softing driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>