| Message ID | 20090110202802.GF29349@localhost |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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Ugh, forgot to CC Paul... ... - Cyrill - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Cyrill Gorcunov writes: > Ugh, forgot to CC Paul... > ... > > - Cyrill - Forgot to cc me on what? Judging by the subject, it sounds like I'm not going to like it... Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:31:19 +1100 > Judging by the subject, it sounds like I'm not going to like it... PPP was converted to use IDR instead of PPP's duplicate implementation. A bug was introduced in that conversion, and that bug is being fixed here. What is not to like? :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
David Miller writes: > PPP was converted to use IDR instead of PPP's duplicate > implementation. > > A bug was introduced in that conversion, and that bug is being fixed > here. > > What is not to like? :-) Ah OK, that sounds all right. I was reacting to the "broken userspace" in the patch description which at first glance seemed to be saying that userspace (i.e. pppd :) is doing something which has recently been declared to be wrong and therefore it is "broken". I think "fix broken userspace" as a patch headline is quite ambiguous. Something like "Fix bug in conversion to use IDR" would be more informative. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[Paul Mackerras - Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:29:49PM +1100] | David Miller writes: | | > PPP was converted to use IDR instead of PPP's duplicate | > implementation. | > | > A bug was introduced in that conversion, and that bug is being fixed | > here. | > | > What is not to like? :-) | | Ah OK, that sounds all right. I was reacting to the "broken | userspace" in the patch description which at first glance seemed to be | saying that userspace (i.e. pppd :) is doing something which has | recently been declared to be wrong and therefore it is "broken". | | I think "fix broken userspace" as a patch headline is quite | ambiguous. Something like "Fix bug in conversion to use IDR" would be | more informative. | | Paul. | David, if you pick this patch could you rename the subject then as Paul proposed? Or I should resend the patch with new title? To Paul: my bad, sorry. I thought like -- I broke user-space pppd so it's broken now and lets fix it -- here is "fix broken userspace" grown from :) - Cyrill - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:45:53 +0300 > David, if you pick this patch could you rename > the subject then as Paul proposed? Or I should > resend the patch with new title? Done, here is the commit message I used: net: ppp_generic - fix regressions caused by IDR conversion The commits: 7a95d267fb62cd6b80ef73be0592bbbe1dbd5df7 ("net: ppp_generic - use idr technique instead of cardmaps") ab5024ab23b78c86a0a1425defcdde48710fe449 ("net: ppp_generic - use DEFINE_IDR for static initialization") introduced usage of IDR functionality but broke userspace side. Before this commits it was possible to allocate new ppp interface with specified number. Now it fails with EINVAL. Fix it by trying to allocate interface with specified unit number and return EEXIST if fail which allow pppd to ask us to allocate new unit number. And fix messages on memory allocation fails - add details that it's PPP module who is complaining. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c +++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c @@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static int ppp_connect_channel(struct ch static int ppp_disconnect_channel(struct channel *pch); static void ppp_destroy_channel(struct channel *pch); static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr); +static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n); static void unit_put(struct idr *p, int n); static void *unit_find(struct idr *p, int n); @@ -2432,11 +2433,18 @@ ppp_create_interface(int unit, int *retp } else { if (unit_find(&ppp_units_idr, unit)) goto out2; /* unit already exists */ - else { - /* darn, someone is cheating us? */ - *retp = -EINVAL; + /* + * if caller need a specified unit number + * lets try to satisfy him, otherwise -- + * he should better ask us for new unit number + * + * NOTE: yes I know that returning EEXIST it's not + * fair but at least pppd will ask us to allocate + * new unit in this case so user is happy :) + */ + unit = unit_set(&ppp_units_idr, ppp, unit); + if (unit < 0) goto out2; - } } /* Initialize the new ppp unit */ @@ -2677,14 +2685,37 @@ static void __exit ppp_cleanup(void) * by holding all_ppp_mutex */ +/* associate pointer with specified number */ +static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n) +{ + int unit, err; + +again: + if (!idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: No free memory for idr\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + err = idr_get_new_above(p, ptr, n, &unit); + if (err == -EAGAIN) + goto again; + + if (unit != n) { + idr_remove(p, unit); + return -EINVAL; + } + + return unit; +} + /* get new free unit number and associate pointer with it */ static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr) { int unit, err; again: - if (idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL) == 0) { - printk(KERN_ERR "Out of memory expanding drawable idr\n"); + if (!idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: No free memory for idr\n"); return -ENOMEM; }
The commits: 7a95d267fb62cd6b80ef73be0592bbbe1dbd5df7 ab5024ab23b78c86a0a1425defcdde48710fe449 introduced usage of IDR functionality but broke userspace side. Before this commits it was possible to allocate new ppp interface with specified number. Now it fails with EINVAL. Fix it by trying to allocate interface with specified unit number and return EEXIST if fail which allow pppd to ask us to allocate new unit number. And fix messages on memory allocation fails - add details that it's PPP module who is complaining. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> --- If this is not a right way to fix this issue maybe better would be to just revert the commits mentioned. Please review carefully. Thanks! The patch is on top of current net-next-2.6 tree. drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html