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-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h43
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c32
-rw-r--r--net/sched/sch_generic.c9
3 files changed, 66 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 083b5989cecb..8b266390b9e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -63,27 +63,48 @@ struct wireless_dev;
#define HAVE_FREE_NETDEV /* free_netdev() */
#define HAVE_NETDEV_PRIV /* netdev_priv() */
-#define NET_XMIT_SUCCESS 0
-#define NET_XMIT_DROP 1 /* skb dropped */
-#define NET_XMIT_CN 2 /* congestion notification */
-#define NET_XMIT_POLICED 3 /* skb is shot by police */
-#define NET_XMIT_MASK 0xFFFF /* qdisc flags in net/sch_generic.h */
+/*
+ * Transmit return codes: transmit return codes originate from three different
+ * namespaces:
+ *
+ * - qdisc return codes
+ * - driver transmit return codes
+ * - errno values
+ *
+ * Drivers are allowed to return any one of those in their hard_start_xmit()
+ * function. Real network devices commonly used with qdiscs should only return
+ * the driver transmit return codes though - when qdiscs are used, the actual
+ * transmission happens asynchronously, so the value is not propagated to
+ * higher layers. Virtual network devices transmit synchronously, in this case
+ * the driver transmit return codes are consumed by dev_queue_xmit(), all
+ * others are propagated to higher layers.
+ */
+
+/* qdisc ->enqueue() return codes. */
+#define NET_XMIT_SUCCESS 0x00
+#define NET_XMIT_DROP 0x10 /* skb dropped */
+#define NET_XMIT_CN 0x20 /* congestion notification */
+#define NET_XMIT_POLICED 0x30 /* skb is shot by police */
+#define NET_XMIT_MASK 0xf0 /* qdisc flags in net/sch_generic.h */
/* Backlog congestion levels */
-#define NET_RX_SUCCESS 0 /* keep 'em coming, baby */
-#define NET_RX_DROP 1 /* packet dropped */
+#define NET_RX_SUCCESS 0 /* keep 'em coming, baby */
+#define NET_RX_DROP 1 /* packet dropped */
/* NET_XMIT_CN is special. It does not guarantee that this packet is lost. It
* indicates that the device will soon be dropping packets, or already drops
* some packets of the same priority; prompting us to send less aggressively. */
-#define net_xmit_eval(e) ((e) == NET_XMIT_CN? 0 : (e))
+#define net_xmit_eval(e) ((e) == NET_XMIT_CN ? 0 : (e))
#define net_xmit_errno(e) ((e) != NET_XMIT_CN ? -ENOBUFS : 0)
/* Driver transmit return codes */
+#define NETDEV_TX_MASK 0xf
+
enum netdev_tx {
- NETDEV_TX_OK = 0, /* driver took care of packet */
- NETDEV_TX_BUSY, /* driver tx path was busy*/
- NETDEV_TX_LOCKED = -1, /* driver tx lock was already taken */
+ __NETDEV_TX_MIN = INT_MIN, /* make sure enum is signed */
+ NETDEV_TX_OK = 0, /* driver took care of packet */
+ NETDEV_TX_BUSY = 1, /* driver tx path was busy*/
+ NETDEV_TX_LOCKED = 2, /* driver tx lock was already taken */
};
typedef enum netdev_tx netdev_tx_t;
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ad8e320ceba7..548340b57296 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue *txq)
{
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
- int rc;
+ int rc = NETDEV_TX_OK;
if (likely(!skb->next)) {
if (!list_empty(&ptype_all))
@@ -1805,6 +1805,8 @@ gso:
nskb->next = NULL;
rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(nskb, dev);
if (unlikely(rc != NETDEV_TX_OK)) {
+ if (rc & ~NETDEV_TX_MASK)
+ goto out_kfree_gso_skb;
nskb->next = skb->next;
skb->next = nskb;
return rc;
@@ -1814,11 +1816,12 @@ gso:
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
} while (skb->next);
- skb->destructor = DEV_GSO_CB(skb)->destructor;
-
+out_kfree_gso_skb:
+ if (likely(skb->next == NULL))
+ skb->destructor = DEV_GSO_CB(skb)->destructor;
out_kfree_skb:
kfree_skb(skb);
- return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ return rc;
}
static u32 skb_tx_hashrnd;
@@ -1906,6 +1909,23 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
return rc;
}
+static inline bool dev_xmit_complete(int rc)
+{
+ /* successful transmission */
+ if (rc == NETDEV_TX_OK)
+ return true;
+
+ /* error while transmitting, driver consumed skb */
+ if (rc < 0)
+ return true;
+
+ /* error while queueing to a different device, driver consumed skb */
+ if (rc & NET_XMIT_MASK)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
/**
* dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
* @skb: buffer to transmit
@@ -2003,8 +2023,8 @@ gso:
HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, cpu);
if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)) {
- rc = NET_XMIT_SUCCESS;
- if (!dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq)) {
+ rc = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq);
+ if (dev_xmit_complete(rc)) {
HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
goto out;
}
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 4ae6aa562f2b..b13821ad2fb6 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -120,8 +120,15 @@ int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, smp_processor_id());
if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) &&
- !netif_tx_queue_frozen(txq))
+ !netif_tx_queue_frozen(txq)) {
ret = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq);
+
+ /* an error implies that the skb was consumed */
+ if (ret < 0)
+ ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ /* all NET_XMIT codes map to NETDEV_TX_OK */
+ ret &= ~NET_XMIT_MASK;
+ }
HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
spin_lock(root_lock);