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Author SHA1 Message Date
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ba13c98405 [REQSK]: Don't reset rskq_defer_accept in reqsk_queue_alloc
In 295f7324ff I moved defer_accept from
tcp_sock to request_queue and mistakingly reset it at reqsl_queue_alloc, causing
calls to setsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT ) to be lost after bind, the fix is to
remove the zeroing of rskq_defer_accept from reqsl_queue_alloc.

Thanks to Alexandra N. Kossovsky <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru> for
reporting and testing the suggested fix.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27 13:30:43 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
a8372f035a [NET]: NETFILTER: remove duplicated lines and fix order in skb_clone().
Some of netfilter-related members are initalized / copied twice in
skb_clone(). Remove one.

Pointed out by Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>.

And this patch also fixes order of copying / clearing members.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-19 22:32:06 -08:00
David S. Miller
b4d9eda028 [NET]: Revert skb_copy_datagram_iovec() recursion elimination.
Revert the following changeset:

bc8dfcb939

Recursive SKB frag lists are really possible and disallowing
them breaks things.

Noticed by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-13 16:06:10 -08:00
Alexey Kuznetsov
28633514af [NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink
When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-09 16:43:41 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
88a2a4ac6b [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs
percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of
cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus.

As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS
loops to use for_each_cpu().

(The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h.  powerpc has gone it
alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's
currently corrupting memory).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Thomas Graf
cabcac0b29 [BONDING]: Remove CAP_NET_ADMIN requirement for INFOQUERY ioctl
This information is already available via /proc/net/bonding/*
therefore it doesn't make sense to require CAP_NET_ADMIN
privileges.

Original patch by Laurent Deniel <laurent.deniel@free.fr>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-24 12:46:33 -08:00
Herbert Xu
8798b3fb71 [NET]: Fix skb fclone error path handling.
On the error path if we allocated an fclone then we will free it in
the wrong pool.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-23 16:32:45 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
2966b66c25 [NET]: more whitespace issues in net/core/filter.c
This fixes some whitespace issues in net/core/filter.c

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-23 16:26:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
7ac5459ec0 [PKTGEN]: Respect hard_header_len of device.
Don't assume 16.

Found by Ben Greear.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:19:10 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
3860288ee8 [NET]: Use is_zero_ether_addr() in net/core/netpoll.c
This replaces a memcmp() with is_zero_ether_addr().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 15:15:38 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
f404e9a67f [PKTGEN]: Replacing with (compare|is_zero)_ether_addr() and ETH_ALEN
This replaces some tests with is_zero_ether_addr(), memcmp(one, two,
6) with compare_ether_addr(one, two), and 6 with ETH_ALEN where
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 13:04:57 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
e35bedf369 [NET]: Fix whitespace issues in net/core/filter.c
This fixes some whitespace issues in net/core/filter.c

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:25:52 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
7b11f69fb5 [NET]: Clean up comments for sk_chk_filter()
This removes redundant comments, and moves one comment to a better
location.

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-13 14:33:06 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
4fc268d24c [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
c3f343e4d7 [NET]: Fix diverter build.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11 16:32:15 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
8b3a70058b [NET]: Remove more unneeded typecasts on *malloc()
This removes more unneeded casts on the return value for kmalloc(),
sock_kmalloc(), and vmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11 16:32:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9819d85c21 Fix net/core/wireless.c link failure
It needs <linux/etherdevice.h> for compare_ether_addr()
2006-01-10 19:35:19 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
d3f4a687f6 [NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()
This changes some memcmp(one,two,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr(one,two).

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:28 -08:00
Andrey Borzenkov
6dd214b554 [PATCH] fix /sys/class/net/<if>/wireless without dev->get_wireless_stats
dev->get_wireless_stats is deprecated but removing it also removes wireless
subdirectory in sysfs. This patch puts it back.

akpm: I don't know what's happening here.  This might be appropriate as a
2.6.15.x compatibility backport.  Waiting to hear from Jeff.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:24 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
09a626600b [NET]: Change some "if (x) BUG();" to "BUG_ON(x);"
This changes some simple "if (x) BUG();" statements to "BUG_ON(x);"

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09 14:16:18 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a2167dc62e [NET]: Endian-annotate in_aton()
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06 13:24:54 -08:00
Luiz Capitulino
69549ddd2f [PKTGEN]: Adds missing __init.
pktgen_find_thread() and pktgen_create_thread() are only called at
initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06 13:19:31 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
4bad4dc919 [NET]: Change sk_run_filter()'s return type in net/core/filter.c
It should return an unsigned value, and fix sk_filter() as well.

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@ispwest.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06 13:08:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
db9edfd7e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04 18:44:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d779188d2b Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2006-01-04 16:31:56 -08:00
Kay Sievers
fd586bacf4 [PATCH] net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs
Recent udev versions don't longer cover bad sysfs timing with built-in
logic. Explicit rules are required to do that. For net devices, the
following is needed:
  ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address"
to handle access to net device properties from an event handler without
races.

This patch changes the main net attributes to be created by the driver
core, which is done _before_ the event is sent out and will not require
the stat() loop of the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:10 -08:00
Kay Sievers
312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
9369986306 [NET]: More instruction checks fornet/core/filter.c
Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-04 13:58:36 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b5e5fa5e09 [NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default
fallback in their ioctl implementations.  This patch adds a fallback
to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD.
This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't
need to export dev_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 14:18:33 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
4947d3ef8d [NET]: Speed up __alloc_skb()
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>

In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the 
shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the 
pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing.  Fix this by 
using a pointer to refer to skb_shared_info.

By initializing skb_shared_info sequentially, the write combining buffers 
can reduce the number of memory transactions to a single write.  Reorder 
the initialization in __alloc_skb() to match the structure definition.  
There is also an alignment issue on 64 bit systems with skb_shared_info 
by converting nr_frags to a short everything packs up nicely.

Also, pass the slab cache pointer according to the fclone flag instead 
of using two almost identical function calls.

This raises bw_unix performance up to a peak of 707KB/s when combined 
with the spinlock patch.  It should help other networking protocols, too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 14:06:50 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14c850212e [INET_SOCK]: Move struct inet_sock & helper functions to net/inet_sock.h
To help in reducing the number of include dependencies, several files were
touched as they were getting needed headers indirectly for stuff they use.

Thanks also to Alan Menegotto for pointing out that net/dccp/proto.c had
linux/dccp.h include twice.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:21 -08:00
Jaco Kroon
f34fbb9713 [PKTGEN]: Deinitialise static variables.
static variables should not be explicitly initialised to 0.  This causes
them to be placed in .data instead of .bss.  This patch de-initialises 3
static variables in net/core/pktgen.c.

There are approximately 800 more such variables in the source tree
(2.6.15rc5).  If there is more interrest I'd be willing to track down the
rest of these as well and de-initialise them as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:16 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6d6ee43e0b [TWSK]: Introduce struct timewait_sock_ops
So that we can share several timewait sockets related functions and
make the timewait mini sockets infrastructure closer to the request
mini sockets one.

Next changesets will take advantage of this, moving more code out of
TCP and DCCP v4 and v6 to common infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:54 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
c1cbe4b7ad [NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case
It also looks like there were 2 places where the test on sk_err was
missing from the event wait logic (in sk_stream_wait_connect and
sk_stream_wait_memory), while the rest of the sock_error() users look
to be doing the right thing.  This version of the patch fixes those,
and cleans up a few places that were testing ->sk_err directly.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:44 -08:00
Herbert Xu
3305b80c21 [IP]: Simplify and consolidate MSG_PEEK error handling
When a packet is obtained from skb_recv_datagram with MSG_PEEK enabled
it is left on the socket receive queue.  This means that when we detect
a checksum error we have to be careful when trying to free the packet
as someone could have dequeued it in the time being.

Currently this delicate logic is duplicated three times between UDPv4,
UDPv6 and RAWv6.  This patch moves them into a one place and simplifies
the code somewhat.

This is based on a suggestion by Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:41 -08:00
Trent Jaeger
df71837d50 [LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.
This patch series implements per packet access control via the
extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in
the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security
associations to label packets.  Extensions to the SELinux LSM are
included that leverage the patch for this purpose.

This patch implements the changes necessary to the XFRM subsystem,
pfkey interface, ipv4/ipv6, and xfrm_user interface to restrict a
socket to use only authorized security associations (or no security
association) to send/receive network packets.

Patch purpose:

The patch is designed to enable access control per packets based on
the strongly authenticated IPSec security association.  Such access
controls augment the existing ones based on network interface and IP
address.  The former are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be
spoofed.  By using IPSec, the system can control access to remote
hosts based on cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism.
This enables access control on a per-machine basis or per-application
if the remote machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to
enforce the access control policy.

Patch design approach:

The overall approach is that policy (xfrm_policy) entries set by
user-level programs (e.g., setkey for ipsec-tools) are extended with a
security context that is used at policy selection time in the XFRM
subsystem to restrict the sockets that can send/receive packets via
security associations (xfrm_states) that are built from those
policies.

A presentation available at
www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf
from the SELinux symposium describes the overall approach.

Patch implementation details:

On output, the policy retrieved (via xfrm_policy_lookup or
xfrm_sk_policy_lookup) must be authorized for the security context of
the socket and the same security context is required for resultant
security association (retrieved or negotiated via racoon in
ipsec-tools).  This is enforced in xfrm_state_find.

On input, the policy retrieved must also be authorized for the socket
(at __xfrm_policy_check), and the security context of the policy must
also match the security association being used.

The patch has virtually no impact on packets that do not use IPSec.
The existing Netfilter (outgoing) and LSM rcv_skb hooks are used as
before.

Also, if IPSec is used without security contexts, the impact is
minimal.  The LSM must allow such policies to be selected for the
combination of socket and remote machine, but subsequent IPSec
processing proceeds as in the original case.

Testing:

The pfkey interface is tested using the ipsec-tools.  ipsec-tools have
been modified (a separate ipsec-tools patch is available for version
0.5) that supports assignment of xfrm_policy entries and security
associations with security contexts via setkey and the negotiation
using the security contexts via racoon.

The xfrm_user interface is tested via ad hoc programs that set
security contexts.  These programs are also available from me, and
contain programs for setting, getting, and deleting policy for testing
this interface.  Testing of sa functions was done by tracing kernel
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Trent Jaeger <tjaeger@cse.psu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:24 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
ac67c62473 Merge branch 'master' 2006-01-03 10:49:18 -05:00
David S. Miller
1b93ae64ca [NET]: Validate socket filters against BPF_MAXINSNS in one spot.
Currently the checks are scattered all over and this leads
to inconsistencies and even cases where the check is not made.

Based upon a patch from Kris Katterjohn.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-27 13:57:59 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
b1086eef81 Merge branch 'master' 2005-12-12 15:24:45 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
246a421207 [NET]: Fix NULL pointer deref in checksum debugging.
The problem I was seeing turned out to be that skb->dev is NULL when
the checksum is being completed in user context. This happens because
the reference to the device is dropped (to allow it to be released
when packets are in the queue).

Because skb->dev was NULL, the netdev_rx_csum_fault was panicing on
deref of dev->name. How about this?

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-08 15:21:39 -08:00
Martin Waitz
dab9630fb3 [NET]: make function pointer argument parseable by kernel-doc
When a function takes a function pointer as argument it should use the 'return
(*pointer)(params...)' syntax used everywhere else in the kernel as this is
recognized by kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:40:12 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
2226340eb8 Merge branch 'master' 2005-11-29 03:50:33 -05:00
Kris Katterjohn
fb0d366b08 [NET]: Reject socket filter if division by constant zero is attempted.
This way we don't have to check it in sk_run_filter().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 13:41:34 -08:00
Mitch Williams
c2373ee989 [PATCH] net: make dev_valid_name public
dev_valid_name() is a useful function.  Make it public.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2005-11-13 14:48:18 -05:00
Mitch Williams
1e2e565965 [PATCH] net: allow newline terminated IP addresses in in_aton
in_aton() gives weird results if it sees a newline at the end of the
input. This patch makes it able to handle such input correctly.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2005-11-13 14:48:17 -05:00
Herbert Xu
fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Thomas Graf
9ac4a16983 [RTNETLINK]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
a8f74b2288 [NETLINK]: Make netlink_callback->done() optional
Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making
it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
a51482bde2 [NET]: kfree cleanup
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

This is the net/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in net/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-11-08 09:41:34 -08:00