treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()

Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown". After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed. It also ignores any locations where
the timer->function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

$ cat timer.cocci
@@
expression ptr, slab;
identifier timer, rfield;
@@
(
- del_timer(&ptr->timer);
+ timer_shutdown(&ptr->timer);
|
- del_timer_sync(&ptr->timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&ptr->timer);
)
... when strict
when != ptr->timer
(
kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
|
kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
|
kfree(ptr);
)

$ spatch timer.cocci . > /tmp/t.patch
$ patch -p1 < /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

net: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy

Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used.
Generated by a coccinelle script.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> # for CAN
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830201457.7984-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: usb: don't write directly to netdev->dev_addr

Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Manually fix all net/usb drivers without separate maintainers.

v2: catc does DMA to the buffer, leave the conversion to Oliver

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

usbnet: add _mii suffix to usbnet_set/get_link_ksettings

The generic functions assumed devices provided an MDIO interface (accessed
via older mii code, not phylib). This is true only for genuine ethernet.

Devices with a higher level of abstraction or based on different
technologies do not have MDIO. To support this case, first rename
the existing functions with _mii suffix.

v2: rebased on changed upstream
v3: changed names to clearly say that this does NOT use phylib
v4: moved hunks to correct patch; reworded commmit messages

Signed-off-by : Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Tested-by: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: usb: switch to dev_get_tstats64 and remove usbnet_get_stats64 alias

Replace usbnet_get_stats64() with new identical core function
dev_get_tstats64() in all users and remove usbnet_get_stats64().

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: sierra_net: Remove unused inline function

There's no callers in-tree

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro

Replace all the occurrences of FIELD_SIZEOF() with sizeof_field() except
at places where these are defined. Later patches will remove the unused
definition of FIELD_SIZEOF().

This patch is generated using following script:

EXCLUDE_FILES="include/linux/stddef.h|include/linux/kernel.h"

git grep -l -e "\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b" | while read file;
do

if [[ "$file" =~ $EXCLUDE_FILES ]]; then
continue
fi
sed -i -e 's/\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b/sizeof_field/g' $file;
done

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190924105839.110713-3-pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> # for net

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
[from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

net: usb: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Cc: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Cc: Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: "Stefan Brüns" <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: usbnet: support 64bit stats

Add support for the net stats64 counters to the usbnet core. With that
in place put the hooks into every usbnet driver to use it.

This is a strait forward addition of 64bit counters for RX and TX packet
and byte counts. It is done in the same style as for the other net drivers
that support stats64. Note that the other stats fields remain as 32bit
sized values (error counts, etc).

The motivation to add this is that it is not particularly difficult to
get the RX and TX byte counts to wrap on 32bit platforms.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: usb: sierra_net: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

The ethtool api {get|set}_settings is deprecated.
We move this driver to new api {get|set}_link_ksettings.

As I don't have the hardware, I'd be very pleased if
someone may test this patch.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support

Now that %z is standartised in C99 there is no reason to support %Z.
Unlike %L it doesn't even make format strings smaller.

Use BUILD_BUG_ON in a couple ATM drivers.

In case anyone didn't notice lib/vsprintf.o is about half of SLUB which
is in my opinion is quite an achievement. Hopefully this patch inspires
someone else to trim vsprintf.c more.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103230126.GA30170@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

sierra_net: Skip validating irrelevant fields for IDLE LSIs

When the context is deactivated, the link_type is set to 0xff, which
triggers a warning message, and results in a wrong link status, as
the LSI is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sierra_net: Add support for IPv6 and Dual-Stack Link Sense Indications

If a context is configured as dualstack ("IPv4v6"), the modem indicates
the context activation with a slightly different indication message.
The dual-stack indication omits the link_type (IPv4/v6) and adds
additional address fields.
IPv6 LSIs are identical to IPv4 LSIs, but have a different link type.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
Reviewed-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: use core MTU range checking in USB NIC drivers

usbnet:
- Remove stale new_mtu <= 0 check in usbnet.c
- Set min_mtu = 0, max_mtu = 65535 (sub-drivers must set their own
max_mtu and/or min_mtu as needed)

r8152:
- Set appropriate max_mtu for different variants (1500 or 9194)

lan78xx:
- Set max_mtu = 9000

asix_driver:
- max_mtu = 16384 for ax88178 variant

ax88179:
- max_mtu = 4088

cdc_ncm:
- max_mtu from hardware

cdc-phonet:
- min_mtu = 6, max_mtu = 65541

sierra_net:
- max_mtu = 1500, call usbnet_change_mtu directly
- sierra_net_change_mtu checked for MTU > 1500, then called
usbnet_change_mtu, but if we set max_mtu to let the network core handle
the range check, then we can simply call usbnet_change_mtu directly

smsc75xx:
- max_mtu = 9000

CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
CC: Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
CC: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
CC: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
CC: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

usb: Fix FSF address in file headers

Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment. Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
CC: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
CC: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sierra_net: keep status interrupt URB active

The driver and firmware sync up through SYNC messages, and the
firmware's affirmative reply to these SYNC messages appears to be the
"Reset" indication received via the status interrupt endpoint. Thus the
driver needs the status interrupt endpoint always active so that the
Reset indication can be received even if the netdev is closed, which is
the case right after device insertion.

If the Reset indication is not received by the driver, it continues
sending SYNC messages to the firmware, which crashes about 10 seconds
later and the device stops responding.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

usbnet: sierra: apply usbnet_link_change

Use usbnet_link_change to handle link change centrally.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers: net: usb: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages

alloc failures already get standardized OOM
messages and a dump_stack.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers

Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: sierra: shut up sparse restricted type warnings

Removes the warnings

drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c:343:45: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c:343:45: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [short] [usertype] <noident>
drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c:343:45: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident>

and

drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c:658:18: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

usbnet: sierra_net: apply introduced usb command APIs

Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sierra_net: Endianess bug fix.

I discovered I couldn't get sierra_net to work on a powerpc. Turns out
the firmware attribute check assumes the system is little endian and
hence fails because the attributes is a 16 bit value.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c: removes unnecessary semicolon

removes unnecessary semicolon

Found by Coccinelle: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: sierra_net: rx_urb_size is constant

The rx_urb_size is set to the same value for every device
supported by this driver. No need to keep a per-device
data structure to do that. Replacing with a macro constant.

This was the last device specific info, and removing it
allows us to delete the sierra_net_info_data struct.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: sierra_net: make private symbols static

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: sierra_net: replace whitelist with ifnumber match

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: sierra_net: device IDs for Aircard 320U++

Adding device IDs for Aircard 320U and two other devices
found in the out-of-tree version of this driver.

Cc: linux@sierrawireless.com
Cc: Autif Khan <autif.mlist@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Cassidy <tomas.cassidy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

USB: Disable hub-initiated LPM for comms devices.

Hub-initiated LPM is not good for USB communications devices. Comms
devices should be able to tell when their link can go into a lower power
state, because they know when an incoming transmission is finished.
Ideally, these devices would slam their links into a lower power state,
using the device-initiated LPM, after finishing the last packet of their
data transfer.

If we enable the idle timeouts for the parent hubs to enable
hub-initiated LPM, we will get a lot of useless LPM packets on the bus
as the devices reject LPM transitions when they're in the middle of
receiving data. Worse, some devices might blindly accept the
hub-initiated LPM and power down their radios while they're in the
middle of receiving a transmission.

The Intel Windows folks are disabling hub-initiated LPM for all USB
communications devices under a xHCI USB 3.0 host. In order to keep
the Linux behavior as close as possible to Windows, we need to do the
same in Linux.

Set the disable_hub_initiated_lpm flag for for all USB communications
drivers. I know there aren't currently any USB 3.0 devices that
implement these class specifications, but we should be ready if they do.

Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Jan Dumon <j.dumon@option.com>
Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Cc: Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>

usbnet: make ethtool_ops const

The ethtool_ops table of function pointers should be const.
Fix all the usb network drivers.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

USB: convert drivers/net/* to use module_usb_driver()

This converts the drivers in drivers/net/* to use the
module_usb_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit
simpler.

Added bonus is that it removes some unneeded kernel log messages about
drivers loading and/or unloading.

Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Yoann DI-RUZZA <y.diruzza@lim.eu>
Cc: George <george0505@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

drivers/net: don't use flush_scheduled_work()

flush_scheduled_work() is on its way out. This patch contains simple
conversions to replace flush_scheduled_work() usage with direct
cancels and flushes.

Directly cancel the used works on driver detach and flush them in
other cases.

The conversions are mostly straight forward and the only dangers are,

* Forgetting to cancel/flush one or more used works.

* Cancelling when a work should be flushed (ie. the work must be
executed once scheduled whether the driver is detaching or not).

I've gone over the changes multiple times but it would be much
appreciated if you can review with the above points in mind.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@cisco.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Ramkrishna Vepa <ramkrishna.vepa@exar.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

drivers/net: return operator cleanup

Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;"

return is not a function, parentheses are not required.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net: use __packed annotation

cleanup patch.

Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/usb: initiate sync sequence in sierra_net.c driver

The following patch adds the initiation of the sync sequence to
"sierra_net_bind()". If this step is omitted, the modem will never sync up
with the host and it will not be possible to establish a data connection.

Signed-off-by: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Rory Filer <rfiler@sierrawireless.com>
Tested-by: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/usb: add sierra_net.c driver

Re-submitted based on comments from netdev community.
Summary of the changes:
1. Improved error handling.
2. Added the missing timeout arguments to usb_control_msg().

The following is a new Linux driver which exposes certain models of Sierra
Wireless modems to the operating system as Network Interface Cards (NICs).

This driver requires a version of the sierra.c driver which supports
blacklisting to work properly. The blacklist in sierra.c rejects the interfaces
claimed by sierra_net.c. Likewise, the sierra_net.c driver only accepts
(i.e. whitelists) the interface(s) used for USB-to-WWAN traffic.
The version of sierra.c which supports blacklisting is
available from the sierra wireless knowledge base page for older kernels. It is
also available in Linux kernel starting from version 2.6.31.

This driver works with all Sierra Wireless devices configured with PID=68A3
like USB305, USB306 provided the corresponding firmware version is I2.0
(for USB305) or M3.0 (for USB306) and later.
This driver will not work with earlier firmware versions than the ones shown
above. In this case the driver will issue an error message indicating
incompatibility and will not serve the device's USB-to-WWAN interface.

Sierra_net.c sits atop a pre-existing Linux driver called usbnet.c.
A series of hook functions are provided in sierra_net.c which are called by
usbnet.c in response to a particular condition such as receipt or transmission
of a data packet. As such, usbnet.c does most of the work of making
a modem appear to the system as a network device and for properly exchanging
traffic between the USB subsystem and the Network card interface.
Sierra_net.c is concerned with managing the data exchanged between the
USB-to-WWAN interface and the upper layers of the operating system.

Signed-off-by: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Rory Filer <rfiler@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>