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

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Fix inaccuracies in network driver interface documentation, from Ben
    Hutchings.

 2) Fix handling of negative offsets in BPF JITs, from Jan Seiffert.

 3) Compile warning, locking, and refcounting fixes in netfilter's
    xt_CT, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 4) phonet sendmsg needs to validate user length just like any other
    datagram protocol, fix from Sasha Levin.

 5) Ipv6 multicast code uses wrong loop index, from RongQing Li.

 6) Link handling and firmware fixes in bnx2x driver from Yaniv Rosner
    and Yuval Mintz.

 7) mlx4 erroneously allocates 4 pages at a time, regardless of page
    size, fix from Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.

 8) SCTP socket option wasn't extended in a backwards compatible way,
    fix from Thomas Graf.

 9) Add missing address change event emissions to bonding, from Shlomo
    Pongratz.

10) /proc/net/dev regressed because it uses a private offset to track
    where we are in the hash table, but this doesn't track the offset
    pullback that the seq_file code does resulting in some entries being
    missed in large dumps.

    Fix from Eric Dumazet.

11) do_tcp_sendpage() unloads the send queue way too fast, because it
    invokes tcp_push() when it shouldn't.  Let the natural sequence
    generated by the splice paths, and the assosciated MSG_MORE
    settings, guide the tcp_push() calls.

    Otherwise what goes out of TCP is spaghetti and doesn't batch
    effectively into GSO/TSO clusters.

    From Eric Dumazet.

12) Once we put a SKB into either the netlink receiver's queue or a
    socket error queue, it can be consumed and freed up, therefore we
    cannot touch it after queueing it like that.

    Fixes from Eric Dumazet.

13) PPP has this annoying behavior in that for every transmit call it
    immediately stops the TX queue, then calls down into the next layer
    to transmit the PPP frame.

    But if that next layer can take it immediately, it just un-stops the
    TX queue right before returning from the transmit method.

    Besides being useless work, it makes several facilities unusable, in
    particular things like the equalizers.  Well behaved devices should
    only stop the TX queue when they really are full, and in PPP's case
    when it gets backlogged to the downstream device.

    David Woodhouse therefore fixed PPP to not stop the TX queue until
    it's downstream can't take data any more.

14) IFF_UNICAST_FLT got accidently lost in some recent stmmac driver
    changes, re-add.  From Marc Kleine-Budde.

15) Fix link flaps in ixgbe, from Eric W. Multanen.

16) Descriptor writeback fixes in e1000e from Matthew Vick.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()
  netlink: fix races after skb queueing
  doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values
  doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start
  doc, net: Update netdev operation names
  doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue
  doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll
  ethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock
  MAINTAINERS: update for Marvell Ethernet drivers
  bonding: properly unset current_arp_slave on slave link up
  phonet: Check input from user before allocating
  tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once
  ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src()
  mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages
  stmmac: re-add IFF_UNICAST_FLT for dwmac1000
  bnx2x: Clear MDC/MDIO warning message
  bnx2x: Fix BCM57711+BCM84823 link issue
  bnx2x: Clear BCM84833 LED after fan failure
  bnx2x: Fix BCM84833 PHY FW version presentation
  bnx2x: Fix link issue for BCM8727 boards.
  ...

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
index 03283daa64fe..da59e2884130 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
@@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ Document about softnet driver issues
 
 Transmit path guidelines:
 
-1) The hard_start_xmit method must never return '1' under any
-   normal circumstances.  It is considered a hard error unless
+1) The ndo_start_xmit method must not return NETDEV_TX_BUSY under
+   any normal circumstances.  It is considered a hard error unless
    there is no way your device can tell ahead of time when it's
    transmit function will become busy.
 
    Instead it must maintain the queue properly.  For example,
    for a driver implementing scatter-gather this means:
 
-	static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
-		   		       struct net_device *dev)
+	static netdev_tx_t drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					       struct net_device *dev)
 	{
 		struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev);
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines:
 			unlock_tx(dp);
 			printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s: BUG! Tx Ring full when queue awake!\n",
 			       dev->name);
-			return 1;
+			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 		}
 
 		... queue packet to card ...
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines:
 		...
 		unlock_tx(dp);
 		...
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
    And then at the end of your TX reclamation event handling:
@@ -58,15 +59,12 @@ Transmit path guidelines:
             TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > 0)
 		netif_wake_queue(dp->dev);
 
-2) Do not forget to update netdev->trans_start to jiffies after
-   each new tx packet is given to the hardware.
-
-3) A hard_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a
+2) An ndo_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a
    cloned SKB.
 
-4) Do not forget that once you return 0 from your hard_start_xmit
-   method, it is your driver's responsibility to free up the SKB
-   and in some finite amount of time.
+3) Do not forget that once you return NETDEV_TX_OK from your
+   ndo_start_xmit method, it is your driver's responsibility to free
+   up the SKB and in some finite amount of time.
 
    For example, this means that it is not allowed for your TX
    mitigation scheme to let TX packets "hang out" in the TX
@@ -74,8 +72,9 @@ Transmit path guidelines:
    This error can deadlock sockets waiting for send buffer room
    to be freed up.
 
-   If you return 1 from the hard_start_xmit method, you must not keep
-   any reference to that SKB and you must not attempt to free it up.
+   If you return NETDEV_TX_BUSY from the ndo_start_xmit method, you
+   must not keep any reference to that SKB and you must not attempt
+   to free it up.
 
 Probing guidelines:
 
@@ -85,10 +84,10 @@ Probing guidelines:
 
 Close/stop guidelines:
 
-1) After the dev->stop routine has been called, the hardware must
+1) After the ndo_stop routine has been called, the hardware must
    not receive or transmit any data.  All in flight packets must
    be aborted. If necessary, poll or wait for completion of 
    any reset commands.
 
-2) The dev->stop routine will be called by unregister_netdevice
+2) The ndo_stop routine will be called by unregister_netdevice
    if device is still UP.