[NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink code

We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obv

[NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink code

We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us.

Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of
statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable.

This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers
remain to be updated.

[ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build
regression... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.

It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it. The number of people that could object because they're
main

[NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.

It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it. The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.

This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a
network name

[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.

This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables. The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.

Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap
devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his eu

[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.

Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap
devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or
his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g
respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to
match.

Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[NET] tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is stored
in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields

[NET] tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is stored
in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields were
not kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to the same
value. Now during both init and when performing SIOCSIFHWADDR on the tun
device these values are both updated. However, if SIOCSIFHWADDR is
performed on the net device directly (for instance, setting the hw address
using ifconfig), the tun device does not get updated. Perhaps the
tun.dev_addr field should be removed completely at some point, as it is
redundant and net_device.dev_addr can be used anywhere it is used.

Signed-off-by: Brian Braunstein <linuxkernel@bristyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}

To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of s

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}

To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)

For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)

For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans

One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans

One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing w

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid

File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By
tracking the destination processes using struct pid i

[PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid

File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By
tracking the destination processes using struct pid instead of pid_t we make
the interface safe from all potential pid wrap around problems.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Sig

[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

Also fixes all drivers that set this field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

[NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.

The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, rel

[NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.

The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, relaxing
the permissions on the /dev/net/tun device node so that they can
actually use those devices will _also_ allow those users to create
arbitrary new devices of their own. This patch corrects that, and
adjusts the recommended permissions for the device node accordingly.

Signed-off-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[TUN]: Fix leak in tun_get_user()

We're leaking an skb in a failure path in this function.

Coverity #632
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S.

[TUN]: Fix leak in tun_get_user()

We're leaking an skb in a failure path in this function.

Coverity #632
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[TUNTAP]: Allow setting the linktype of the tap device from userspace

Currently tun/tap only supports the EN10MB ARP type. For use with
wireless and other networking types it should be

[TUNTAP]: Allow setting the linktype of the tap device from userspace

Currently tun/tap only supports the EN10MB ARP type. For use with
wireless and other networking types it should be possible to set the
ARP type via an ioctl.

Patch v2: Included check that the tap interface is down before changing the
link type out from underneath it

Signed-off-by: Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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[NET]: Transform skb_queue_len() binary tests into skb_queue_empty()

This is part of the grand scheme to eliminate the qlen
member of skb_queue_head, and subsequently remove the
'lis

[NET]: Transform skb_queue_len() binary tests into skb_queue_empty()

This is part of the grand scheme to eliminate the qlen
member of skb_queue_head, and subsequently remove the
'list' member of sk_buff.

Most users of skb_queue_len() want to know if the queue is
empty or not, and that's trivially done with skb_queue_empty()
which doesn't use the skb_queue_head->qlen member and instead
uses the queue list emptyness as the test.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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