Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.3-rc1

* tag 'v4.3-rc1': (11838 commits)
Linux 4.3-rc1
blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean
writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() an

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.3-rc1

* tag 'v4.3-rc1': (11838 commits)
Linux 4.3-rc1
blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean
writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and writeback_inodes_wb()
thermal: fix intel PCH thermal driver mismerge
ARCv2: [axs103_smp] Reduce clk for SMP FPGA configs
revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each"
mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h
fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void
selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test
selftests: add membarrier syscall test
sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
Revert "writeback: plug writeback at a high level"
scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error
target: use stringify.h instead of own definition
target/user: Fix UFLAG_UNKNOWN_OP handling
target: Remove no-op conditional
target/user: Remove unused variable
target: Fix max_cmd_sn increment w/o cmdsn mutex regressions
target: Attach EXTENDED_COPY local I/O descriptors to xcopy_pt_sess
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Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into perf/core, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into locking/core, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into sched/core, to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

1) Fix out-of-bounds array access in netfilter ipset, from Jozsef
Kadlecsik.

2) Use cor

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

1) Fix out-of-bounds array access in netfilter ipset, from Jozsef
Kadlecsik.

2) Use correct free operation on netfilter conntrack templates, from
Daniel Borkmann.

3) Fix route leak in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.

4) Fix sizeof(pointer) in mac80211, from Thierry Reding.

5) Fix cache pointer comparison in ip6mr leading to missed unlock of
mrt_lock. From Richard Laing.

6) rds_conn_lookup() needs to consider network namespace in key
comparison, from Sowmini Varadhan.

7) Fix deadlock in TIPC code wrt broadcast link wakeups, from Kolmakov
Dmitriy.

8) Fix fd leaks in bpf syscall, from Daniel Borkmann.

9) Fix error recovery when installing ipv6 multipath routes, we would
delete the old route before we would know if we could fully commit
to the new set of nexthops. Fix from Roopa Prabhu.

10) Fix run-time suspend problems in r8152, from Hayes Wang.

11) In fec, don't program the MAC address into the chip when the clocks
are gated off. From Fugang Duan.

12) Fix poll behavior for netlink sockets when using rx ring mmap, from
Daniel Borkmann.

13) Don't allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL from get_stats64 in r8169
driver, from Corinna Vinschen.

14) In TCP Cubic congestion control, handle idle periods better where we
are application limited, in order to keep cwnd from growing out of
control. From Eric Dumzet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period
tcp: generate CA_EVENT_TX_START on data frames
xen-netfront: respect user provided max_queues
xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues
r8169: Fix sleeping function called during get_stats64, v2
ether: add IEEE 1722 ethertype - TSN
netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue zero-copy
netlink, mmap: don't walk rx ring on poll if receive queue non-empty
cxgb4: changes for new firmware 1.14.4.0
net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address
r8152: fix the runtime suspend issues
r8152: split DRIVER_VERSION
ipv6: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
add microchip LAN88xx phy driver
stmmac: fix check for phydev being open
net: qlcnic: delete redundant memsets
net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc
net: jme: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc+memset
net: cavium: liquidio: use kzalloc in setup_glist()
net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref
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net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref

This switches IPv6 policy routing to use the shared
fib_default_rule_pref() function of IPv4 and DECnet. It is also used in
multicast routing for IPv4 as

net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref

This switches IPv6 policy routing to use the shared
fib_default_rule_pref() function of IPv4 and DECnet. It is also used in
multicast routing for IPv4 as well as IPv6.

The motivation for this patch is a complaint about iproute2 behaving
inconsistent between IPv4 and IPv6 when adding policy rules: Formerly,
IPv6 rules were assigned a fixed priority of 0x3FFF whereas for IPv4 the
assigned priority value was decreased with each rule added.

Since then all users of the default_pref field have been converted to
assign the generic function fib_default_rule_pref(), fib_nl_newrule()
may just use it directly instead. Therefore get rid of the function
pointer altogether and make fib_default_rule_pref() static, as it's not
used outside fib_rules.c anymore.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare first round of input updates for 4.3 merge window.

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Another merge window, another set of networking changes. I've heard
rumblings that

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Another merge window, another set of networking changes. I've heard
rumblings that the lightweight tunnels infrastructure has been voted
networking change of the year. But what do I know?

1) Add conntrack support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

2) Initial support for VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), which
allows the segmentation of routing paths without using multiple
devices. There are some semantic kinks to work out still, but
this is a reasonably strong foundation. From David Ahern.

3) Remove spinlock fro act_bpf fast path, from Alexei Starovoitov.

4) Ignore route nexthops with a link down state in ipv6, just like
ipv4. From Andy Gospodarek.

5) Remove spinlock from fast path of act_gact and act_mirred, from
Eric Dumazet.

6) Document the DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli.

7) Add netconsole support to bcmgenet, systemport, and DSA. Also
from Florian Fainelli.

8) Add Mellanox Switch Driver and core infrastructure, from Jiri
Pirko.

9) Add support for "light weight tunnels", which allow for
encapsulation and decapsulation without bearing the overhead of a
full blown netdevice. From Thomas Graf, Jiri Benc, and a cast of
others.

10) Add Identifier Locator Addressing support for ipv6, from Tom
Herbert.

11) Support fragmented SKBs in iwlwifi, from Johannes Berg.

12) Allow perf PMUs to be accessed from eBPF programs, from Kaixu Xia.

13) Add BQL support to 3c59x driver, from Loganaden Velvindron.

14) Stop using a zero TX queue length to mean that a device shouldn't
have a qdisc attached, use an explicit flag instead. From Phil
Sutter.

15) Use generic geneve netdevice infrastructure in openvswitch, from
Pravin B Shelar.

16) Add infrastructure to avoid re-forwarding a packet in software
that was already forwarded by a hardware switch. From Scott
Feldman.

17) Allow AF_PACKET fanout function to be implemented in a bpf
program, from Willem de Bruijn"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1458 commits)
netfilter: nf_conntrack: make nf_ct_zone_dflt built-in
netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: fix build error when nf_conntrack disabled
net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet
ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path
xen-netback: add support for multicast control
bgmac: Update fixed_phy_register()
sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo
flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible.
flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency
ixgbe: Resolve "initialized field overwritten" warnings
ixgbe: Remove bimodal SR-IOV disabling
ixgbe: Add support for reporting 2.5G link speed
ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
ixgbe: support for ethtool set_rxfh
ixgbe: Avoid needless PHY access on copper phys
ixgbe: cleanup to use cached mask value
ixgbe: Remove second instance of lan_id variable
ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing
flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c
ixgbe: Remove unused PCI bus types
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Merge branch 'for-4.3/gembird' into for-linus

Merge tag 'v4.2-rc8' into x86/mm, before applying new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

... to make easier developing HDA ext code.

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v4.2-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v4.2

A lot of small fixes here, a few to the core:

- Fix for binding DA

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v4.2-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v4.2

A lot of small fixes here, a few to the core:

- Fix for binding DAPM stream widgets on devices with prefixes assigned
to them
- Minor fixes for the newly added topology interfaces
- Locking and memory leak fixes for DAPM
- Driver specific fixes

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Merge branch 'lwtunnel'

Thomas Graf says:

====================
Lightweight & flow based encapsulation

This series combines the work previously posted by Roopa, Robert and
myself. It's according to

Merge branch 'lwtunnel'

Thomas Graf says:

====================
Lightweight & flow based encapsulation

This series combines the work previously posted by Roopa, Robert and
myself. It's according to what we discussed at NFWS. The motivation
of this series is to:

* Consolidate code between OVS and the rest of the kernel and get
rid of OVS vports and instead represent them as pure net_devices.
* Introduce a lightweight tunneling mechanism which enables flow
based encapsulation to improve scalability on both RX and TX.
* Do the above in an encapsulation unspecific way so that the
encapsulation type is eventually abstracted away from the user.
* Use the same forwarding decision for both native forwarding and
encapsulation thus allowing to switch between native IPv6 and
UDP encapsulation based on endpoint without requiring additional
logic

The fundamental changes introduces in this series are:
* A new RTA_ENCAP Netlink attribute for routes carrying encapsulation
instructions. Depending on the specified type, the instructions
apply to UDP encapsulations, MPLS and possible other in the future.
* Depending on the encapsulation type, the output function of the
dst is directly overwritten or the dst merely attaches metadata and
relies on a subsequent net_device to apply it to the packet. The
latter is typically used if an inner and outer IP header exist which
require two subsequent routing lookups to be performed.
* A new metadata_dst structure which can be attached to skbs to
carry metadata in between subsystems. This new metadata transport
is used to provide a single interface for VXLAN, routing and OVS
to communicate through metadata.

The OVS interfaces remain as-is but will transparently create a real
VXLAN net_device in the background. iproute2 is extended with a new
use cases:

VXLAN:
ip route add 40.1.1.1/32 encap vxlan id 10 dst 50.1.1.2 dev vxlan0

MPLS:
ip route add 10.1.1.0/30 encap mpls 200 via inet 10.1.1.1 dev swp1

Performance implications:
The additional memory allocation in the receive path should have
performance implications although it is not observable in standard
throughput tests if GRO is properly done. The correct net_device
model outweights the additional cost of the allocation. Furthermore,
this implication can be relaxed by reintroducing a direct unqueued
path from a software device to a consumer like bridge or OVS if
needed.

$ netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H 15.1.1.201
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
15.1.1.201 (15.1.1.201) port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec

87380 16384 16384 10.00 9118.17

Changes since v1:
* Properly initialize tun_id as reported by Julian
* Drop dupliate netif_keep_dst() as reported by Alexei
====================

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

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fib: Add fib rule match on tunnel id

This add the ability to select a routing table based on the tunnel
id which allows to maintain separate routing tables for each virtual
tunnel network.

ip rule

fib: Add fib rule match on tunnel id

This add the ability to select a routing table based on the tunnel
id which allows to maintain separate routing tables for each virtual
tunnel network.

ip rule add from all tunnel-id 100 lookup 100
ip rule add from all tunnel-id 200 lookup 200

A new static key controls the collection of metadata at tunnel level
upon demand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge tag 'v4.2-rc3' into next

Sync up with Linux 4.2-rc3 to bring in infrastructure (OF) pieces.

Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2015-07-15' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge fixes since it's getting out of hand again with the massive
split due to atomic between -next and 4.2-rc. All the bugfixes

Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2015-07-15' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge fixes since it's getting out of hand again with the massive
split due to atomic between -next and 4.2-rc. All the bugfixes in
4.2-rc are addressed already (by converting more towards atomic
instead of minimal duct-tape) so just always pick the version in next
for the conflicts in modeset code.

All the other conflicts are just adjacent lines changed.

Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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Merge branches 'fixes' and 'ioremap' into for-linus

Merge 4.2-rc1 into MTD -next

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into omap-for-v4.2/fixes

Merge tag 'v4.2-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.2-rc1

* tag 'v4.2-rc1': (12415 commits)
Linux 4.2-rc1
bluetooth: fix list handling
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,wri

Merge tag 'v4.2-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.2-rc1

* tag 'v4.2-rc1': (12415 commits)
Linux 4.2-rc1
bluetooth: fix list handling
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
NTB: Add split BAR output for debugfs stats
NTB: Change WARN_ON_ONCE to pr_warn_once on unsafe
NTB: Print driver name and version in module init
NTB: Increase transport MTU to 64k from 16k
NTB: Rename Intel code names to platform names
NTB: Default to CPU memcpy for performance
NTB: Improve performance with write combining
NTB: Use NUMA memory in Intel driver
NTB: Use NUMA memory and DMA chan in transport
NTB: Rate limit ntb_qp_link_work
NTB: Add tool test client
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add TX fast path in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

2) Add TSO/GRO support to ibmve

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add TX fast path in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

2) Add TSO/GRO support to ibmveth, from Thomas Falcon

3) Move away from cached routes in ipv6, just like ipv4, from Martin
KaFai Lau.

4) Lots of new rhashtable tests, from Thomas Graf.

5) Run ingress qdisc lockless, from Alexei Starovoitov.

6) Allow servers to fetch TCP packet headers for SYN packets of new
connections, for fingerprinting. From Eric Dumazet.

7) Add mode parameter to pktgen, for testing receive. From Alexei
Starovoitov.

8) Cache access optimizations via simplifications of build_skb(), from
Alexander Duyck.

9) Move page frag allocator under mm/, also from Alexander.

10) Add xmit_more support to hv_netvsc, from KY Srinivasan.

11) Add a counter guard in case we try to perform endless reclassify
loops in the packet scheduler.

12) Extern flow dissector to be programmable and use it in new "Flower"
classifier. From Jiri Pirko.

13) AF_PACKET fanout rollover fixes, performance improvements, and new
statistics. From Willem de Bruijn.

14) Add netdev driver for GENEVE tunnels, from John W Linville.

15) Add ingress netfilter hooks and filtering, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

16) Fix handling of epoll edge triggers in TCP, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Add an ECN retry fallback for the initial TCP handshake, from Daniel
Borkmann.

18) Add tail call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

19) Add several pktgen helper scripts, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

20) Add zerocopy support to AF_UNIX, from Hannes Frederic Sowa.

21) Favor even port numbers for allocation to connect() requests, and
odd port numbers for bind(0), in an effort to help avoid
ip_local_port_range exhaustion. From Eric Dumazet.

22) Add Cavium ThunderX driver, from Sunil Goutham.

23) Allow bpf programs to access skb_iif and dev->ifindex SKB metadata,
from Alexei Starovoitov.

24) Add support for T6 chips in cxgb4vf driver, from Hariprasad Shenai.

25) Double TCP Small Queues default to 256K to accomodate situations
like the XEN driver and wireless aggregation. From Wei Liu.

26) Add more entropy inputs to flow dissector, from Tom Herbert.

27) Add CDG congestion control algorithm to TCP, from Kenneth Klette
Jonassen.

28) Convert ipset over to RCU locking, from Jozsef Kadlecsik.

29) Track and act upon link status of ipv4 route nexthops, from Andy
Gospodarek.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1670 commits)
bridge: vlan: flush the dynamically learned entries on port vlan delete
bridge: multicast: add a comment to br_port_state_selection about blocking state
net: inet_diag: export IPV6_V6ONLY sockopt
stmmac: troubleshoot unexpected bits in des0 & des1
net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down
net: track link-status of ipv4 nexthops
net: switchdev: ignore unsupported bridge flags
net: Cavium: Fix MAC address setting in shutdown state
drivers: net: xgene: fix for ACPI support without ACPI
ip: report the original address of ICMP messages
net/mlx5e: Prefetch skb data on RX
net/mlx5e: Pop cq outside mlx5e_get_cqe
net/mlx5e: Remove mlx5e_cq.sqrq back-pointer
net/mlx5e: Remove extra spaces
net/mlx5e: Avoid TX CQE generation if more xmit packets expected
net/mlx5e: Avoid redundant dev_kfree_skb() upon NOP completion
net/mlx5e: Remove re-assignment of wq type in mlx5e_enable_rq()
net/mlx5e: Use skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs rather than counting them
net/mlx5e: Static mapping of netdev priv resources to/from netdev TX queues
net/mlx4_en: Use HW counters for rx/tx bytes/packets in PF device
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Merge branch 'ipv4-nexthop-link-status'

Andy Gospodarek says:

====================
changes to make ipv4 routing table aware of next-hop link status

This series adds the ability to have the Linux k

Merge branch 'ipv4-nexthop-link-status'

Andy Gospodarek says:

====================
changes to make ipv4 routing table aware of next-hop link status

This series adds the ability to have the Linux kernel track whether or
not a particular route should be used based on the link-status of the
interface associated with the next-hop.

Before this patch any link-failure on an interface that was serving as a
gateway for some systems could result in those systems being isolated
from the rest of the network as the stack would continue to attempt to
send frames out of an interface that is actually linked-down. When the
kernel is responsible for all forwarding, it should also be responsible
for taking action when the traffic can no longer be forwarded -- there
is no real need to outsource link-monitoring to userspace anymore.

This feature is only enabled with the new per-interface or ipv4 global
sysctls called 'ignore_routes_with_linkdown'.

net.ipv4.conf.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
net.ipv4.conf.lo.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
...

When the above sysctls are set, the kernel will not only report to
userspace that the link is down, but it will also report to userspace
that a route is dead. This will signal to userspace that the route will
not be selected.

With the new sysctls set, the following behavior can be observed
(interface p8p1 is link-down):

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1 dead linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1 dead linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2
90.0.0.1 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 src 70.0.0.1
cache
local 80.0.0.1 dev lo src 80.0.0.1
cache <local>
80.0.0.2 via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1 src 10.0.5.15
cache

While the route does remain in the table (so it can be modified if
needed rather than being wiped away as it would be if IFF_UP was
cleared), the proper next-hop is chosen automatically when the link is
down. Now interface p8p1 is linked-up:

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2
192.168.56.0/24 dev p2p1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.56.2
90.0.0.1 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 src 80.0.0.1
cache
local 80.0.0.1 dev lo src 80.0.0.1
cache <local>
80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 src 80.0.0.1
cache

and the output changes to what one would expect.

If the global or interface sysctl is not set, the following output would
be expected when p8p1 is down:

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1 linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1 linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2

If the dead flag does not appear there should be no expectation that the
kernel would skip using this route due to link being down.

v2: Split kernel changes into 2 patches: first to add linkdown flag and
second to add new sysctl settings. Also took suggestion from Alex to
simplify code by only checking sysctl during fib lookup and suggestion
from Scott to add a per-interface sysctl. Added iproute2 patch to
recognize and print linkdown flag.

v3: Code cleanups along with reverse-path checks suggested by Alex and
small fixes related to problems found when multipath was disabled.

v4: Drop binary sysctls

v5: Whitespace and variable declaration fixups suggested by Dave

v6: Style changes noticed by Dave and checkpath suggestions.

v7: Last checkpatch fixup.

Though there were some that preferred not to have a configuration option
and to make this behavior the default when it was discussed in Ottawa
earlier this year since "it was time to do this." I wanted to propose
the config option to preserve the current behavior for those that desire
it. I'll happily remove it if Dave and Linus approve.

An IPv6 implementation is also needed (DECnet too!), but I wanted to
start with the IPv4 implementation to get people comfortable with the
idea before moving forward. If this is accepted the IPv6 implementation
can be posted shortly.

There was also a request for switchdev support for this, but that will
be posted as a followup as switchdev does not currently handle dead
next-hops in a multi-path case and I felt that infra needed to be added
first.

FWIW, we have been running the original version of this series with a
global sysctl and our customers have been happily using a backported
version for IPv4 and IPv6 for >6 months.
====================

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

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net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down

This feature is only enabled with the new per-interface or ipv4 global
sysctls called 'ignore_routes_with_linkdown'.

net.ipv4.conf

net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down

This feature is only enabled with the new per-interface or ipv4 global
sysctls called 'ignore_routes_with_linkdown'.

net.ipv4.conf.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
net.ipv4.conf.lo.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
...

When the above sysctls are set, will report to userspace that a route is
dead and will no longer resolve to this nexthop when performing a fib
lookup. This will signal to userspace that the route will not be
selected. The signalling of a RTNH_F_DEAD is only passed to userspace
if the sysctl is enabled and link is down. This was done as without it
the netlink listeners would have no idea whether or not a nexthop would
be selected. The kernel only sets RTNH_F_DEAD internally if the
interface has IFF_UP cleared.

With the new sysctl set, the following behavior can be observed
(interface p8p1 is link-down):

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1 dead linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1 dead linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2
90.0.0.1 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 src 70.0.0.1
cache
local 80.0.0.1 dev lo src 80.0.0.1
cache <local>
80.0.0.2 via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1 src 10.0.5.15
cache

While the route does remain in the table (so it can be modified if
needed rather than being wiped away as it would be if IFF_UP was
cleared), the proper next-hop is chosen automatically when the link is
down. Now interface p8p1 is linked-up:

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2
192.168.56.0/24 dev p2p1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.56.2
90.0.0.1 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 src 80.0.0.1
cache
local 80.0.0.1 dev lo src 80.0.0.1
cache <local>
80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 src 80.0.0.1
cache

and the output changes to what one would expect.

If the sysctl is not set, the following output would be expected when
p8p1 is down:

default via 10.0.5.2 dev p9p1
10.0.5.0/24 dev p9p1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.5.15
70.0.0.0/24 dev p7p1 proto kernel scope link src 70.0.0.1
80.0.0.0/24 dev p8p1 proto kernel scope link src 80.0.0.1 linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 80.0.0.2 dev p8p1 metric 1 linkdown
90.0.0.0/24 via 70.0.0.2 dev p7p1 metric 2

Since the dead flag does not appear, there should be no expectation that
the kernel would skip using this route due to link being down.

v2: Split kernel changes into 2 patches, this actually makes a
behavioral change if the sysctl is set. Also took suggestion from Alex
to simplify code by only checking sysctl during fib lookup and
suggestion from Scott to add a per-interface sysctl.

v3: Code clean-ups to make it more readable and efficient as well as a
reverse path check fix.

v4: Drop binary sysctl

v5: Whitespace fixups from Dave

v6: Style changes from Dave and checkpatch suggestions

v7: One more checkpatch fixup

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Dinesh Dutt <ddutt@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge branches 'for-4.2/i2c-hid', 'for-4.2/lenovo', 'for-4.2/plantronics', 'for-4.2/rmi', 'for-4.2/sensor-hub', 'for-4.2/sjoy', 'for-4.2/sony' and 'for-4.2/wacom' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/

Merge branches 'for-4.2/i2c-hid', 'for-4.2/lenovo', 'for-4.2/plantronics', 'for-4.2/rmi', 'for-4.2/sensor-hub', 'for-4.2/sjoy', 'for-4.2/sony' and 'for-4.2/wacom' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c

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Merge branch 'fix/fsl-dspi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-fsl-dspi