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2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-11Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addressesRémi Denis-Courmont
In some cases, the network device driver knows what layer-3 address the device should have. This adds support for the Phonet stack to automatically request from the driver and add that address to the network device. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handlingRémi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flagBrian Haley
Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag to denote an IPv6 address that has failed Duplicate Address Detection, that way tools like /sbin/ip can be more informative. 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000 inet6 2001:db8::1/64 scope global tentative dadfailed valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devicesMarcel Holtmann
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace application it is important to classify these devices correctly and not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid. To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available within udev. # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent DEVTYPE=wlan INTERFACE=wlan0 IFINDEX=5 This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc. The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11net: force bridge module(s) to be GPLStephen Hemminger
The only valid usage for the bridge frame hooks are by a GPL components (such as the bridge module). The kernel should not leave a crack in the door for proprietary networking stacks to slip in. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loadedArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
And also do a better job of returning proper NET_{RX,XMIT}_ values. Based on a patch and suggestions by Mark Smith. This fixes CVE-2009-2903 Reported-by: Mark Smith <lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.32'Trond Myklebust
2009-09-11net: unix: fix sending fds in multiple buffersMiklos Szeredi
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo reported that: "..., when one process calls sendmsg once to send 43804 bytes of data and one file descriptor, and another process then calls recvmsg three times to receive the 16032+16032+11740 bytes, each of those recvmsg calls returns the file descriptor in the ancillary data. I confirmed this with strace. The behaviour differs from Linux 2.6.26, where reportedly only one of those recvmsg calls (I think the first one) returned the file descriptor." This bug was introduced by a patch from me titled "net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector", commit 6209344f5. And the reason is, quoting Kalle: "Before your patch, unix_attach_fds() would set scm->fp = NULL, so that if the loop in unix_stream_sendmsg() ran multiple iterations, it could not call unix_attach_fds() again. But now, unix_attach_fds() leaves scm->fp unchanged, and I think this causes it to be called multiple times and duplicate the same file descriptors to each struct sk_buff." Fix this by introducing a flag that is cleared at the start and set when the fds attached to the first buffer. The resulting code should work equivalently to the one on 2.6.26. Reported-by: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6
2009-09-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2009-09-09net_sched: fix estimator lock selection for mq child qdiscsPatrick McHardy
When new child qdiscs are attached to the mq qdisc, they are actually attached as root qdiscs to the device queues. The lock selection for new estimators incorrectly picks the root lock of the existing and to be replaced qdisc, which results in a use-after-free once the old qdisc has been destroyed. Mark mq qdisc instances with a new flag and treat qdiscs attached to mq as children similar to regular root qdiscs. Additionally prevent estimators from being attached to the mq qdisc itself since it only updates its byte and packet counters during dumps. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-09-09cfg80211: allow scanning on specified frequencies when using wext-compatibilityHolger Schurig
Handles the case when SIOCSIWSCAN specified iw_scan_req.num_channels and iw_scan_req.channels[]. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-09headers: net/ipv[46]/protocol.c header trimAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-08wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entryLuis R. Rodriguez
cfg80211 is now *the* wireless configuration API. Lets also give a little explanation as to what it is and refer people to the wireless wiki for more information. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-06net_sched: add classful multiqueue dummy schedulerDavid S. Miller
This patch adds a classful dummy scheduler which can be used as root qdisc for multiqueue devices and exposes each device queue as a child class. This allows to address queues individually and graft them similar to regular classes. Additionally it presents an accumulated view of the statistics of all real root qdiscs in the dummy root. Two new callbacks are added to the qdisc_ops and qdisc_class_ops: - cl_ops->select_queue selects the tx queue number for new child classes. - qdisc_ops->attach() overrides root qdisc device grafting to attach non-shared qdiscs to the queues. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-06net_sched: move dev_graft_qdisc() to sch_generic.cPatrick McHardy
It will be used in a following patch by the multiqueue qdisc. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-06net_sched: reintroduce dev->qdisc for use by sch_apiPatrick McHardy
Currently the multiqueue integration with the qdisc API suffers from a few problems: - with multiple queues, all root qdiscs use the same handle. This means they can't be exposed to userspace in a backwards compatible fashion. - all API operations always refer to queue number 0. Newly created qdiscs are automatically shared between all queues, its not possible to address individual queues or restore multiqueue behaviour once a shared qdisc has been attached. - Dumps only contain the root qdisc of queue 0, in case of non-shared qdiscs this means the statistics are incomplete. This patch reintroduces dev->qdisc, which points to the (single) root qdisc from userspace's point of view. Currently it either points to the first (non-shared) default qdisc, or a qdisc shared between all queues. The following patches will introduce a classful dummy qdisc, which will be used as root qdisc and contain the per-queue qdiscs as children. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-06net_sched: remove some unnecessary checks in classful schedulersPatrick McHardy
The class argument to the ->graft(), ->leaf(), ->dump(), ->dump_stats() all originate from either ->get() or ->walk() and are always valid. Remove unnecessary checks. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-06net_sched: make cls_ops->change and cls_ops->delete optionalPatrick McHardy
Some schedulers don't support creating, changing or deleting classes. Make the respective callbacks optionally and consistently return -EOPNOTSUPP for unsupported operations, instead of currently either -EOPNOTSUPP, -ENOSYS or no error. In case of sch_prio and sch_multiq, the removed operations additionally checked for an invalid class. This is not necessary since the class argument can only orginate from ->get() or in case of ->change is 0 for creation of new classes, in which case ->change() incorrectly returned -ENOENT. As a side-effect, this patch fixes a possible (root-only) NULL pointer function call in sch_ingress, which didn't implement a so far mandatory ->delete() operation. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-06net_sched: make cls_ops->tcf_chain() optionalPatrick McHardy
Some qdiscs don't support attaching filters. Handle this centrally in cls_api and return a proper errno code (EOPNOTSUPP) instead of EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak pkt_sched: Revert tasklet_hrtimer changes. net: sk_free() should be allowed right after sk_alloc() gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev() ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework
2009-09-04net_sched: fix class grafting errno codesPatrick McHardy
If the parent qdisc doesn't support classes, use EOPNOTSUPP. If the parent class doesn't exist, use ENOENT. Currently EINVAL is returned in both cases. Additionally check whether grafting is supported and remove a now unnecessary graft function from sch_ingress. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04netlink: silence compiler warningBrian Haley
CC net/netlink/genetlink.o net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_register_mc_group’: net/netlink/genetlink.c:139: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function From following the code 'err' is initialized, but set it to zero to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04sctp: Catch bogus stream sequence numbersVlad Yasevich
Since our TSN map is capable of holding at most a 4K chunk gap, there is no way that during this gap, a stream sequence number (unsigned short) can wrap such that the new number is smaller then the next expected one. If such a case is encountered, this is a protocol violation. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: remove dup code in net/sctp/output.cWei Yongjun
Use sctp_packet_reset() instead of dup code. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Sysctl configuration for IPv4 Address ScopingBhaskar Dutta
This patch introduces a new sysctl option to make IPv4 Address Scoping configurable <draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00.txt>. In networking environments where DNAT rules in iptables prerouting chains convert destination IP's to link-local/private IP addresses, SCTP connections fail to establish as the INIT chunk is dropped by the kernel due to address scope match failure. For example to support overlapping IP addresses (same IP address with different vlan id) a Layer-5 application listens on link local IP's, and there is a DNAT rule that maps the destination IP to a link local IP. Such applications never get the SCTP INIT if the address-scoping draft is strictly followed. This sysctl configuration allows SCTP to function in such unconventional networking environments. Sysctl options: 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping draft altogether 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping (default, current behavior) 2 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 private addresses in init/init-ack 3 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 link local address in init/init-ack Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskar.dutta@globallogic.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Get rid of an extra routing lookup when adding a transport.Vlad Yasevich
We used to perform 2 routing lookups for a new transport: one just for path mtu detection, and one to actually route to destination and path mtu update when sending a packet. There is no point in doing both of them, especially since the first one just for path mtu doesn't take into account source address and sometimes gives the wrong route, causing path mtu updates anyway. We now do just the one call to do both route to destination and get path mtu updates. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Correctly track if AUTH has been bundled.Vlad Yasevich
We currently track if AUTH has been bundled using the 'auth' pointer to the chunk. However, AUTH is disallowed after DATA is already in the packet, so we need to instead use the 'has_auth' field. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: fix to reset packet information after packet transmitWei Yongjun
The packet information does not reset after packet transmit, this may cause some problems such as following DATA chunk be sent without AUTH chunk, even if the authentication of DATA chunk has been requested by the peer. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Failover transmitted list on transport deleteVlad Yasevich
Add-IP feature allows users to delete an active transport. If that transport has chunks in flight, those chunks need to be moved to another transport or association may get into unrecoverable state. Reported-by: Rafael Laufer <rlaufer@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Fix SCTP_MAXSEG socket option to comply to spec.Vlad Yasevich
We had a bug that we never stored the user-defined value for MAXSEG when setting the value on an association. Thus future PMTU events ended up re-writing the frag point and increasing it past user limit. Additionally, when setting the option on the socket/endpoint, we effect all current associations, which is against spec. Now, we store the user 'maxseg' value along with the computed 'frag_point'. We inherit 'maxseg' from the socket at association creation and use it as an upper limit for 'frag_point' when its set. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Don't do NAGLE delay on large writes that were fragmented smallVlad Yasevich
SCTP will delay the last part of a large write due to NAGLE, if that part is smaller then MTU. Since we are doing large writes, we might as well send the last portion now instead of waiting untill the next large write happens. The small portion will be sent as is regardless, so it's better to not delay it. This is a result of much discussions with Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> and Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com>. Many thanks go out to them. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Nagle delay should be based on path mtuVlad Yasevich
The decision to delay due to Nagle should be based on the path mtu and future packet size. We currently incorrectly base it on 'frag_point' which is the SCTP DATA segment size, and also we do not count DATA chunk header overhead in the computation. This actuall allows situations where a user can set low 'frag_point', and then send small messages without delay. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Try not to change a_rwnd when faking a SACK from SHUTDOWN.Vlad Yasevich
We currently set a_rwnd to 0 when faking a SACK from SHUTDOWN. This results in an hung association if the remote only uses SHUTDOWNs (which it's allowed to do) to acknowlege DATA when closing. The reason for that is that we simply honor the a_rwnd from the sack, but since we faked it to be 0, we enter 0-window probing. The fix is to use the peers old rwnd and add our flight size to it. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: drop a_rwnd to 0 when receive buffer overflows.Vlad Yasevich
SCTP has a problem that when small chunks are used, it is possible to exhaust the receiver buffer without fully closing receive window. This happens due to all overhead that we have account for with small messages. To fix this, when receive buffer is exceeded, we'll drop the window to 0 and save the 'drop' portion. When application starts reading data and freeing up recevie buffer space, we'll wait until we've reached the 'drop' window and then add back this 'drop' one mtu at a time. This worked well in testing and under stress produced rather even recovery. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Clear fast_recovery on the transport when T3 timer expires.Vlad Yasevich
If T3 timer expires, we are retransmitting data due to timeout any any fast recovery is null and void. We can clear the fast recovery flag. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Fix error count increments that were results of HEARTBEATSVlad Yasevich
SCTP RFC 4960 states that unacknowledged HEARTBEATS count as errors agains a given transport or endpoint. As such, we should increment the error counts for only for unacknowledged HB, otherwise we detect failure too soon. This goes for both the overall error count and the path error count. Now, there is a difference in how the detection is done between the two. The path error detection is done after the increment, so to detect it properly, we actually need to exceed the path threshold. The overall error detection is done _BEFORE_ the increment. Thus to detect the failure, it's enough for the error count to match the threshold. This is why all the state functions use '>=' to detect failure, while path detection uses '>'. Thanks goes to Chunbo Luo <chunbo.luo@windriver.com> who first proposed patches to fix this issue and made me re-read the spec and the code to figure out how this cruft really works. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: use proc_create()Alexey Dobriyan
create_proc_entry() is deprecated (not formally, though). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: fix check the chunk length of received HEARTBEAT-ACK chunkWei Yongjun
The receiver of the HEARTBEAT should respond with a HEARTBEAT ACK that contains the Heartbeat Information field copied from the received HEARTBEAT chunk. So the received HEARTBEAT-ACK chunk must have a length of: sizeof(sctp_chunkhdr_t) + sizeof(sctp_sender_hb_info_t) A badly formatted HB-ACK chunk, it is possible that we may access invalid memory. We should really make sure that the chunk format is what we expect, before attempting to touch the data. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: drop SHUTDOWN chunk if the TSN is less than the CTSNWei Yongjun
If Cumulative TSN Ack field of SHUTDOWN chunk is less than the Cumulative TSN Ack Point then drop the SHUTDOWN chunk. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Send user messages to the lower layer as oneVlad Yasevich
Currenlty, sctp breaks up user messages into fragments and sends each fragment to the lower layer by itself. This means that for each fragment we go all the way down the stack and back up. This also discourages bundling of multiple fragments when they can fit into a sigle packet (ex: due to user setting a low fragmentation threashold). We introduce a new command SCTP_CMD_SND_MSG and hand the whole message down state machine. The state machine and the side-effect parser will cork the queue, add all chunks from the message to the queue, and then un-cork the queue thus causing the chunks to get transmitted. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Try to encourage SACK bundling with DATA.Vlad Yasevich
If the association has a SACK timer pending and now DATA queued to be send, we'll try to bundle the SACK with the next application send. As such, try encourage bundling by accounting for SACK in the size of the first chunk fragment. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Generate SACKs when actually sending outbound DATAVlad Yasevich
We are now trying to bundle SACKs when we have outbound DATA to send. However, there are situations where this outbound DATA will not be sent (due to congestion or available window). In such cases it's ok to wait for the timer to expire. This patch refactors the sending code so that betfore attempting to bundle the SACK we check to see if the DATA will actually be transmitted. Based on eirlier works for Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com> and Wei Youngjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Fix data segmentation with small frag_sizeVlad Yasevich
Since an application may specify the maximum SCTP fragment size that all data should be fragmented to, we need to fix how we do segmentation. Right now, if a user specifies a small fragment size, the segment size can go negative in the presence of AUTH or COOKIE_ECHO bundling. What we need to do is track the largest possbile DATA chunk that can fit into the mtu. Then if the fragment size specified is bigger then this maximum length, we'll shrink it down. Otherwise, we just use the smaller segment size without changing it further. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Disallow new connection on a closing socketVlad Yasevich
If a socket has a lot of association that are in the process of of being closed/aborted, it is possible for a remote to establish new associations during the time period that the old ones are shutting down. If this was a result of a close() call, there will be no socket and will cause a memory leak. We'll prevent this by setting the socket state to CLOSING and disallow new associations when in this state. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: Fix piggybacked ACKsDoug Graham
This patch corrects the conditions under which a SACK will be piggybacked on a DATA packet. The previous condition was incorrect due to a misinterpretation of RFC 4960 and/or RFC 2960. Specifically, the following paragraph from section 6.2 had not been implemented correctly: Before an endpoint transmits a DATA chunk, if any received DATA chunks have not been acknowledged (e.g., due to delayed ack), the sender should create a SACK and bundle it with the outbound DATA chunk, as long as the size of the final SCTP packet does not exceed the current MTU. See Section 6.2. When about to send a DATA chunk, the code now checks to see if the SACK timer is running. If it is, we know we have a SACK to send to the peer, so we append the SACK (assuming available space in the packet) and turn off the timer. For a simple request-response scenario, this will result in the SACK being bundled with the response, meaning the the SACK is received quickly by the client, and also meaning that no separate SACK packet needs to be sent by the server to acknowledge the request. Prior to this patch, a separate SACK packet would have been sent by the server SCTP only after its delayed-ACK timer had expired (usually 200ms). This is wasteful of bandwidth, and can also have a major negative impact on performance due the interaction of delayed ACKs with the Nagle algorithm. Signed-off-by: Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: release cached route when the transport goes down.Vlad Yasevich
When the sctp transport is marked down, we can release the cached route and force a new lookup when attempting to use this transport for anything. This way, if a better route or source address is available, we'll try to use it. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2009-09-04sctp: update the route for non-active transports after addresses are addedWei Yongjun
Update the route and saddr entries for the non-active transports as some of the added addresses can be used as better source addresses, or may be there is a better route. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>