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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-06-17 15:55:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-06-17 15:55:34 -0700
commitda0f382029868806e88c046eb2560fdee7a9457c (patch)
treefe8c8248c5d2023430e2a129fe7dc0c424365aea /Documentation
parenteb7c825bf74755a9ea975b7a463c6d13ffa7f447 (diff)
parent4fddbf8a99ee5a65bdd31b3ebbf5a84b9395d496 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: "Lots of bug fixes here: 1) Out of bounds access in __bpf_skc_lookup, from Lorenz Bauer. 2) Fix rate reporting in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), from John Crispin. 3) Use after free in psock backlog workqueue, from John Fastabend. 4) Fix source port matching in fdb peer flow rule of mlx5, from Raed Salem. 5) Use atomic_inc_not_zero() in fl6_sock_lookup(), from Eric Dumazet. 6) Network header needs to be set for packet redirect in nfp, from John Hurley. 7) Fix udp zerocopy refcnt, from Willem de Bruijn. 8) Don't assume linear buffers in vxlan and geneve error handlers, from Stefano Brivio. 9) Fix TOS matching in mlxsw, from Jiri Pirko. 10) More SCTP cookie memory leak fixes, from Neil Horman. 11) Fix VLAN filtering in rtl8366, from Linus Walluij. 12) Various TCP SACK payload size and fragmentation memory limit fixes from Eric Dumazet. 13) Use after free in pneigh_get_next(), also from Eric Dumazet. 14) LAPB control block leak fix from Jeremy Sowden" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (145 commits) lapb: fixed leak of control-blocks. tipc: purge deferredq list for each grp member in tipc_group_delete ax25: fix inconsistent lock state in ax25_destroy_timer neigh: fix use-after-free read in pneigh_get_next tcp: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL hv_sock: Suppress bogus "may be used uninitialized" warnings be2net: Fix number of Rx queues used for flow hashing net: handle 802.1P vlan 0 packets properly tcp: enforce tcp_min_snd_mss in tcp_mtu_probing() tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits tcp: limit payload size of sacked skbs Revert "net: phylink: set the autoneg state in phylink_phy_change" bpf: fix nested bpf tracepoints with per-cpu data bpf: Fix out of bounds memory access in bpf_sk_storage vsock/virtio: set SOCK_DONE on peer shutdown net: dsa: rtl8366: Fix up VLAN filtering net: phylink: set the autoneg state in phylink_phy_change net: add high_order_alloc_disable sysctl/static key tcp: add tcp_tx_skb_cache sysctl ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/rds.txt2
5 files changed, 24 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi
index 7122d6264c49..c310db4ccbc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Contact: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Description:
Unsigned integer.
- Write a number ranging from 1 to 127 to add a qmap mux
+ Write a number ranging from 1 to 254 to add a qmap mux
based network device, supported by recent Qualcomm based
modems.
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Contact: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Description:
Unsigned integer.
- Write a number ranging from 1 to 127 to delete a previously
+ Write a number ranging from 1 to 254 to delete a previously
created qmap mux based network device.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt
index 188c8bd4eb67..5a0111d4de58 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Required properties:
- compatible: Should be one of the following:
- "microchip,mcp2510" for MCP2510.
- "microchip,mcp2515" for MCP2515.
+ - "microchip,mcp25625" for MCP25625.
- reg: SPI chip select.
- clocks: The clock feeding the CAN controller.
- interrupts: Should contain IRQ line for the CAN controller.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst b/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst
index e14d7d40fc75..50bccbf68308 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst
@@ -316,16 +316,16 @@ A: When a netdev of a physical NIC is initialized, Linux usually
all the traffic, you can force the netdev to only have 1 queue, queue
id 0, and then bind to queue 0. You can use ethtool to do this::
- sudo ethtool -L <interface> combined 1
+ sudo ethtool -L <interface> combined 1
If you want to only see part of the traffic, you can program the
NIC through ethtool to filter out your traffic to a single queue id
that you can bind your XDP socket to. Here is one example in which
UDP traffic to and from port 4242 are sent to queue 2::
- sudo ethtool -N <interface> rx-flow-hash udp4 fn
- sudo ethtool -N <interface> flow-type udp4 src-port 4242 dst-port \
- 4242 action 2
+ sudo ethtool -N <interface> rx-flow-hash udp4 fn
+ sudo ethtool -N <interface> flow-type udp4 src-port 4242 dst-port \
+ 4242 action 2
A number of other ways are possible all up to the capabilitites of
the NIC you have.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 14fe93049d28..22f6b8b1110a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -255,6 +255,14 @@ tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
+tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
+ TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
+ as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
+ If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
+ it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
+
+ Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
+
tcp_congestion_control - STRING
Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
@@ -772,6 +780,14 @@ tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
Default: 100
+tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN
+ Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help
+ performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous
+ on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases
+ memory usage.
+
+ Default: 0 (disabled)
+
UDP variables:
udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rds.txt b/Documentation/networking/rds.txt
index 0235ae69af2a..f2a0147c933d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/rds.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/rds.txt
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Multipath RDS (mprds)
a common (to all paths) part, and a per-path struct rds_conn_path. All
I/O workqs and reconnect threads are driven from the rds_conn_path.
Transports such as TCP that are multipath capable may then set up a
- TPC socket per rds_conn_path, and this is managed by the transport via
+ TCP socket per rds_conn_path, and this is managed by the transport via
the transport privatee cp_transport_data pointer.
Transports announce themselves as multipath capable by setting the