History log of /linux-master/net/rxrpc/misc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 153f90a0 30-Jan-2024 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Use ktimes for call timeout tracking and set the timer lazily

Track the call timeouts as ktimes rather than jiffies as the latter's
granularity is too high and only set the timer at the end of the event
handling function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org


# af094824 17-Oct-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Allow a delay to be injected into packet reception

If CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_DEBUG_RX_DELAY=y, then a delay is injected between
packets and errors being received and them being made available to the
processing code, thereby allowing the RTT to be artificially increased.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 5d7edbc9 27-Aug-2022 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Get rid of the Rx ring

Get rid of the Rx ring and replace it with a pair of queues instead. One
queue gets the packets that are in-sequence and are ready for processing by
recvmsg(); the other queue gets the out-of-sequence packets for addition to
the first queue as the holes get filled.

The annotation ring is removed and replaced with a SACK table. The SACK
table has the bits set that correspond exactly to the sequence number of
the packet being acked. The SACK ring is copied when an ACK packet is
being assembled and rotated so that the first ACK is in byte 0.

Flow control handling is altered so that packets that are moved to the
in-sequence queue are hard-ACK'd even before they're consumed - and then
the Rx window size in the ACK packet (rsize) is shrunk down to compensate
(even going to 0 if the window is full).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 530403d9 30-Jan-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Clean up ACK handling

Clean up the rxrpc_propose_ACK() function. If deferred PING ACK proposal
is split out, it's only really needed for deferred DELAY ACKs. All other
ACKs, bar terminal IDLE ACK are sent immediately. The deferred IDLE ACK
submission can be handled by conversion of a DELAY ACK into an IDLE ACK if
there's nothing to be SACK'd.

Also, because there's a delay between an ACK being generated and being
transmitted, it's possible that other ACKs of the same type will be
generated during that interval. Apart from the ACK time and the serial
number responded to, most of the ACK body, including window and SACK
parameters, are not filled out till the point of transmission - so we can
avoid generating a new ACK if there's one pending that will cover the SACK
data we need to convey.

Therefore, don't propose a new DELAY or IDLE ACK for a call if there's one
already pending.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# c410bf01 11-May-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix the excessive initial retransmission timeout

rxrpc currently uses a fixed 4s retransmission timeout until the RTT is
sufficiently sampled. This can cause problems with some fileservers with
calls to the cache manager in the afs filesystem being dropped from the
fileserver because a packet goes missing and the retransmission timeout is
greater than the call expiry timeout.

Fix this by:

(1) Copying the RTT/RTO calculation code from Linux's TCP implementation
and altering it to fit rxrpc.

(2) Altering the various users of the RTT to make use of the new SRTT
value.

(3) Replacing the use of rxrpc_resend_timeout to use the calculated RTO
value instead (which is needed in jiffies), along with a backoff.

Notes:

(1) rxrpc provides RTT samples by matching the serial numbers on outgoing
DATA packets that have the RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK set and PING ACK packets
against the reference serial number in incoming REQUESTED ACK and
PING-RESPONSE ACK packets.

(2) Each packet that is transmitted on an rxrpc connection gets a new
per-connection serial number, even for retransmissions, so an ACK can
be cross-referenced to a specific trigger packet. This allows RTT
information to be drawn from retransmitted DATA packets also.

(3) rxrpc maintains the RTT/RTO state on the rxrpc_peer record rather than
on an rxrpc_call because many RPC calls won't live long enough to
generate more than one sample.

(4) The calculated SRTT value is in units of 8ths of a microsecond rather
than nanoseconds.

The (S)RTT and RTO values are displayed in /proc/net/rxrpc/peers.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ([AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both"")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# b4d0d230 20-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.552531963@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# a158bdd3 24-Nov-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix call timeouts

Fix the rxrpc call expiration timeouts and make them settable from
userspace. By analogy with other rx implementations, there should be three
timeouts:

(1) "Normal timeout"

This is set for all calls and is triggered if we haven't received any
packets from the peer in a while. It is measured from the last time
we received any packet on that call. This is not reset by any
connection packets (such as CHALLENGE/RESPONSE packets).

If a service operation takes a long time, the server should generate
PING ACKs at a duration that's substantially less than the normal
timeout so is to keep both sides alive. This is set at 1/6 of normal
timeout.

(2) "Idle timeout"

This is set only for a service call and is triggered if we stop
receiving the DATA packets that comprise the request data. It is
measured from the last time we received a DATA packet.

(3) "Hard timeout"

This can be set for a call and specified the maximum lifetime of that
call. It should not be specified by default. Some operations (such
as volume transfer) take a long time.

Allow userspace to set/change the timeouts on a call with sendmsg, using a
control message:

RXRPC_SET_CALL_TIMEOUTS

The data to the message is a number of 32-bit words, not all of which need
be given:

u32 hard_timeout; /* sec from first packet */
u32 idle_timeout; /* msec from packet Rx */
u32 normal_timeout; /* msec from data Rx */

This can be set in combination with any other sendmsg() that affects a
call.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# b54a134a 05-Jan-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix handling of enums-to-string translation in tracing

Fix the way enum values are translated into strings in AF_RXRPC
tracepoints. The problem with just doing a lookup in a normal flat array
of strings or chars is that external tracing infrastructure can't find it.
Rather, TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM must be used.

Also sort the enums and string tables to make it easier to keep them in
order so that a future patch to __print_symbolic() can be optimised to try
a direct lookup into the table first before iterating over it.

A couple of _proto() macro calls are removed because they refered to tables
that got moved to the tracing infrastructure. The relevant data can be
found by way of tracing.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 9749fd2b 06-Oct-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Need to produce an ACK for service op if op takes a long time

We need to generate a DELAY ACK from the service end of an operation if we
start doing the actual operation work and it takes longer than expected.
This will hard-ACK the request data and allow the client to release its
resources.

To make this work:

(1) We have to set the ack timer and propose an ACK when the call moves to
the RXRPC_CALL_SERVER_ACK_REQUEST and clear the pending ACK and cancel
the timer when we start transmitting the reply (the first DATA packet
of the reply implicitly ACKs the request phase).

(2) It must be possible to set the timer when the caller is holding
call->state_lock, so split the lock-getting part of the timer function
out.

(3) Add trace notes for the ACK we're requesting and the timer we clear.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# a5af7e1f 06-Oct-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix loss of PING RESPONSE ACK production due to PING ACKs

Separate the output of PING ACKs from the output of other sorts of ACK so
that if we receive a PING ACK and schedule transmission of a PING RESPONSE
ACK, the response doesn't get cancelled by a PING ACK we happen to be
scheduling transmission of at the same time.

If a PING RESPONSE gets lost, the other side might just sit there waiting
for it and refuse to proceed otherwise.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 19c0dbd5 06-Oct-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix duplicate const

Remove a duplicate const keyword.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# df0adc78 26-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Keep the call timeouts as ktimes rather than jiffies

Keep that call timeouts as ktimes rather than jiffies so that they can be
expressed as functions of RTT.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# a1767077 29-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Make Tx loss-injection go through normal return and adjust tracing

In rxrpc_send_data_packet() make the loss-injection path return through the
same code as the transmission path so that the RTT determination is
initiated and any future timer shuffling will be done, despite the packet
having been binned.

Whilst we're at it:

(1) Add to the tx_data tracepoint an indication of whether or not we're
retransmitting a data packet.

(2) When we're deciding whether or not to request an ACK, rather than
checking if we're in fast-retransmit mode check instead if we're
retransmitting.

(3) Don't invoke the lose_skb tracepoint when losing a Tx packet as we're
not altering the sk_buff refcount nor are we just seeing it after
getting it off the Tx list.

(4) The rxrpc_skb_tx_lost note is then no longer used so remove it.

(5) rxrpc_lose_skb() no longer needs to deal with rxrpc_skb_tx_lost.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 57494343 24-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Implement slow-start

Implement RxRPC slow-start, which is similar to RFC 5681 for TCP. A
tracepoint is added to log the state of the congestion management algorithm
and the decisions it makes.

Notes:

(1) Since we send fixed-size DATA packets (apart from the final packet in
each phase), counters and calculations are in terms of packets rather
than bytes.

(2) The ACK packet carries the equivalent of TCP SACK.

(3) The FLIGHT_SIZE calculation in RFC 5681 doesn't seem particularly
suited to SACK of a small number of packets. It seems that, almost
inevitably, by the time three 'duplicate' ACKs have been seen, we have
narrowed the loss down to one or two missing packets, and the
FLIGHT_SIZE calculation ends up as 2.

(4) In rxrpc_resend(), if there was no data that apparently needed
retransmission, we transmit a PING ACK to ask the peer to tell us what
its Rx window state is.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 0d967960 24-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Schedule an ACK if the reply to a client call appears overdue

If we've sent all the request data in a client call but haven't seen any
sign of the reply data yet, schedule an ACK to be sent to the server to
find out if the reply data got lost.

If the server hasn't yet hard-ACK'd the request data, we send a PING ACK to
demand a response to find out whether we need to retransmit.

If the server says it has received all of the data, we send an IDLE ACK to
tell the server that we haven't received anything in the receive phase as
yet.

To make this work, a non-immediate PING ACK must carry a delay. I've chosen
the same as the IDLE ACK for the moment.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# dd7c1ee5 24-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Reinitialise the call ACK and timer state for client reply phase

Clear the ACK reason, ACK timer and resend timer when entering the client
reply phase when the first DATA packet is received. New ACKs will be
proposed once the data is queued.

The resend timer is no longer relevant and we need to cancel ACKs scheduled
to probe for a lost reply.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 805b21b9 24-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Send an ACK after every few DATA packets we receive

Send an ACK if we haven't sent one for the last two packets we've received.
This keeps the other end apprised of where we've got to - which is
important if they're doing slow-start.

We do this in recvmsg so that we can dispatch a packet directly without the
need to wake up the background thread.

This should possibly be made configurable in future.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 9c7ad434 23-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add tracepoint for ACK proposal

Add a tracepoint to log proposed ACKs, including whether the proposal is
used to update a pending ACK or is discarded in favour of an easlier,
higher priority ACK.

Whilst we're at it, get rid of the rxrpc_acks() function and access the
name array directly. We do, however, need to validate the ACK reason
number given to trace_rxrpc_rx_ack() to make sure we don't overrun the
array.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fc7ab6d2 23-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add a tracepoint for the call timer

Add a tracepoint to log call timer initiation, setting and expiry.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 70790dbe 22-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Pass the last Tx packet marker in the annotation buffer

When the last packet of data to be transmitted on a call is queued, tx_top
is set and then the RXRPC_CALL_TX_LAST flag is set. Unfortunately, this
leaves a race in the ACK processing side of things because the flag affects
the interpretation of tx_top and also allows us to start receiving reply
data before we've finished transmitting.

To fix this, make the following changes:

(1) rxrpc_queue_packet() now sets a marker in the annotation buffer
instead of setting the RXRPC_CALL_TX_LAST flag.

(2) rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() detects the marker and sets the flag in the
same context as the routines that use it.

(3) rxrpc_end_tx_phase() is simplified to just shift the call state.
The Tx window must have been rotated before calling to discard the
last packet.

(4) rxrpc_receiving_reply() is added to handle the arrival of the first
DATA packet of a reply to a client call (which is an implicit ACK of
the Tx phase).

(5) The last part of rxrpc_input_ack() is reordered to perform Tx
rotation, then soft-ACK application and then to end the phase if we've
rotated the last packet. In the event of a terminal ACK, the soft-ACK
application will be skipped as nAcks should be 0.

(6) rxrpc_input_ackall() now has to rotate as well as ending the phase.

In addition:

(7) Alter the transmit tracepoint to log the rotation of the last packet.

(8) Remove the no-longer relevant queue_reqack tracepoint note. The
ACK-REQUESTED packet header flag is now set as needed when we actually
transmit the packet and may vary by retransmission.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 50235c4b 21-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Obtain RTT data by requesting ACKs on DATA packets

In addition to sending a PING ACK to gain RTT data, we can set the
RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK flag on a DATA packet and get a REQUESTED-ACK ACK. The
ACK packet contains the serial number of the packet it is in response to,
so we can look through the Tx buffer for a matching DATA packet.

This requires that the data packets be stamped with the time of
transmission as a ktime rather than having the resend_at time in jiffies.

This further requires the resend code to do the resend determination in
ktimes and convert to jiffies to set the timer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 8e83134d 21-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Send pings to get RTT data

Send a PING ACK packet to the peer when we get a new incoming call from a
peer we don't have a record for. The PING RESPONSE ACK packet will tell us
the following about the peer:

(1) its receive window size

(2) its MTU sizes

(3) its support for jumbo DATA packets

(4) if it supports slow start (similar to RFC 5681)

(5) an estimate of the RTT

This is necessary because the peer won't normally send us an ACK until it
gets to the Rx phase and we send it a packet, but we would like to know
some of this information before we start sending packets.

A pair of tracepoints are added so that RTT determination can be observed.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# cf1a6474 21-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add per-peer RTT tracker

Add a function to track the average RTT for a peer. Sources of RTT data
will be added in subsequent patches.

The RTT data will be useful in the future for determining resend timeouts
and for handling the slow-start part of the Rx protocol.

Also add a pair of tracepoints, one to log transmissions to elicit a
response for RTT purposes and one to log responses that contribute RTT
data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 71f3ca40 17-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Improve skb tracing

Improve sk_buff tracing within AF_RXRPC by the following means:

(1) Use an enum to note the event type rather than plain integers and use
an array of event names rather than a big multi ?: list.

(2) Distinguish Rx from Tx packets and account them separately. This
requires the call phase to be tracked so that we know what we might
find in rxtx_buffer[].

(3) Add a parameter to rxrpc_{new,see,get,free}_skb() to indicate the
event type.

(4) A pair of 'rotate' events are added to indicate packets that are about
to be rotated out of the Rx and Tx windows.

(5) A pair of 'lost' events are added, along with rxrpc_lose_skb() for
packet loss injection recording.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 84997905 17-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add a tracepoint to follow what recvmsg does

Add a tracepoint to follow what recvmsg does within AF_RXRPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 58dc63c9 17-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add a tracepoint to follow packets in the Rx buffer

Add a tracepoint to follow the life of packets that get added to a call's
receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# a124fe3e 17-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add a tracepoint to follow the life of a packet in the Tx buffer

Add a tracepoint to follow the insertion of a packet into the transmit
buffer, its transmission and its rotation out of the buffer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 363deeab 17-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Add connection tracepoint and client conn state tracepoint

Add a pair of tracepoints, one to track rxrpc_connection struct ref
counting and the other to track the client connection cache state.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 75e42126 13-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Correctly initialise, limit and transmit call->rx_winsize

call->rx_winsize should be initialised to the sysctl setting and the sysctl
setting should be limited to the maximum we want to permit. Further, we
need to place this in the ACK info instead of the sysctl setting.

Furthermore, discard the idea of accepting the subpackets of a jumbo packet
that lie beyond the receive window when the first packet of the jumbo is
within the window. Just discard the excess subpackets instead. This
allows the receive window to be opened up right to the buffer size less one
for the dead slot.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 248f219c 08-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code

Rewrite the data and ack handling code such that:

(1) Parsing of received ACK and ABORT packets and the distribution and the
filing of DATA packets happens entirely within the data_ready context
called from the UDP socket. This allows us to process and discard ACK
and ABORT packets much more quickly (they're no longer stashed on a
queue for a background thread to process).

(2) We avoid calling skb_clone(), pskb_pull() and pskb_trim(). We instead
keep track of the offset and length of the content of each packet in
the sk_buff metadata. This means we don't do any allocation in the
receive path.

(3) Jumbo DATA packet parsing is now done in data_ready context. Rather
than cloning the packet once for each subpacket and pulling/trimming
it, we file the packet multiple times with an annotation for each
indicating which subpacket is there. From that we can directly
calculate the offset and length.

(4) A call's receive queue can be accessed without taking locks (memory
barriers do have to be used, though).

(5) Incoming calls are set up from preallocated resources and immediately
made live. They can than have packets queued upon them and ACKs
generated. If insufficient resources exist, DATA packet #1 is given a
BUSY reply and other DATA packets are discarded).

(6) sk_buffs no longer take a ref on their parent call.

To make this work, the following changes are made:

(1) Each call's receive buffer is now a circular buffer of sk_buff
pointers (rxtx_buffer) rather than a number of sk_buff_heads spread
between the call and the socket. This permits each sk_buff to be in
the buffer multiple times. The receive buffer is reused for the
transmit buffer.

(2) A circular buffer of annotations (rxtx_annotations) is kept parallel
to the data buffer. Transmission phase annotations indicate whether a
buffered packet has been ACK'd or not and whether it needs
retransmission.

Receive phase annotations indicate whether a slot holds a whole packet
or a jumbo subpacket and, if the latter, which subpacket. They also
note whether the packet has been decrypted in place.

(3) DATA packet window tracking is much simplified. Each phase has just
two numbers representing the window (rx_hard_ack/rx_top and
tx_hard_ack/tx_top).

The hard_ack number is the sequence number before base of the window,
representing the last packet the other side says it has consumed.
hard_ack starts from 0 and the first packet is sequence number 1.

The top number is the sequence number of the highest-numbered packet
residing in the buffer. Packets between hard_ack+1 and top are
soft-ACK'd to indicate they've been received, but not yet consumed.

Four macros, before(), before_eq(), after() and after_eq() are added
to compare sequence numbers within the window. This allows for the
top of the window to wrap when the hard-ack sequence number gets close
to the limit.

Two flags, RXRPC_CALL_RX_LAST and RXRPC_CALL_TX_LAST, are added also
to indicate when rx_top and tx_top point at the packets with the
LAST_PACKET bit set, indicating the end of the phase.

(4) Calls are queued on the socket 'receive queue' rather than packets.
This means that we don't need have to invent dummy packets to queue to
indicate abnormal/terminal states and we don't have to keep metadata
packets (such as ABORTs) around

(5) The offset and length of a (sub)packet's content are now passed to
the verify_packet security op. This is currently expected to decrypt
the packet in place and validate it.

However, there's now nowhere to store the revised offset and length of
the actual data within the decrypted blob (there may be a header and
padding to skip) because an sk_buff may represent multiple packets, so
a locate_data security op is added to retrieve these details from the
sk_buff content when needed.

(6) recvmsg() now has to handle jumbo subpackets, where each subpacket is
individually secured and needs to be individually decrypted. The code
to do this is broken out into rxrpc_recvmsg_data() and shared with the
kernel API. It now iterates over the call's receive buffer rather
than walking the socket receive queue.

Additional changes:

(1) The timers are condensed to a single timer that is set for the soonest
of three timeouts (delayed ACK generation, DATA retransmission and
call lifespan).

(2) Transmission of ACK and ABORT packets is effected immediately from
process-context socket ops/kernel API calls that cause them instead of
them being punted off to a background work item. The data_ready
handler still has to defer to the background, though.

(3) A shutdown op is added to the AF_RXRPC socket so that the AFS
filesystem can shut down the socket and flush its own work items
before closing the socket to deal with any in-progress service calls.

Future additional changes that will need to be considered:

(1) Make sure that a call doesn't hog the front of the queue by receiving
data from the network as fast as userspace is consuming it to the
exclusion of other calls.

(2) Transmit delayed ACKs from within recvmsg() when we've consumed
sufficiently more packets to avoid the background work item needing to
run.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 0b58b8a1 02-Sep-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Split sendmsg from packet transmission code

Split the sendmsg code from the packet transmission code (mostly to be
found in output.c).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 0e119b41 10-Jun-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Limit the listening backlog

Limit the socket incoming call backlog queue size so that a remote client
can't pump in sufficient new calls that the server runs out of memory. Note
that this is partially theoretical at the moment since whilst the number of
calls is limited, the number of packets trying to set up new calls is not.
This will be addressed in a later patch.

If the caller of listen() specifies a backlog INT_MAX, then they get the
current maximum; anything else greater than max_backlog or anything
negative incurs EINVAL.

The limit on the maximum queue size can be set by:

echo N >/proc/sys/net/rxrpc/max_backlog

where 4<=N<=32.

Further, set the default backlog to 0, requiring listen() to be called
before we start actually queueing new calls. Whilst this kind of is a
change in the UAPI, the caller can't actually *accept* new calls anyway
unless they've first called listen() to put the socket into the LISTENING
state - thus the aforementioned new calls would otherwise just sit there,
eating up kernel memory. (Note that sockets that don't have a non-zero
service ID bound don't get incoming calls anyway.)

Given that the default backlog is now 0, make the AFS filesystem call
kernel_listen() to set the maximum backlog for itself.

Possible improvements include:

(1) Trimming a too-large backlog to max_backlog when listen is called.

(2) Trimming the backlog value whenever the value is used so that changes
to max_backlog are applied to an open socket automatically. Note that
the AFS filesystem opens one socket and keeps it open for extended
periods, so would miss out on changes to max_backlog.

(3) Having a separate setting for the AFS filesystem.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 5b3e87f1 07-Apr-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Static arrays of strings should be const char *const[]

Static arrays of strings should be const char *const[].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 8e688d9c 07-Apr-2016 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Move some miscellaneous bits out into their own file

Move some miscellaneous bits out into their own file to make it easier to
split the call handling.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>