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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/ppp, branch v4.13.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ppp: fix xmit recursion detection on ppp channels</title>
<updated>2017-08-09T04:06:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>g.nault@alphalink.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-08T09:43:24+00:00</published>
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Commit e5dadc65f9e0 ("ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp
devices") dropped the xmit_recursion counter incrementation in
ppp_channel_push() and relied on ppp_xmit_process() for this task.
But __ppp_channel_push() can also send packets directly (using the
.start_xmit() channel callback), in which case the xmit_recursion
counter isn't incremented anymore. If such packets get routed back to
the parent ppp unit, ppp_xmit_process() won't notice the recursion and
will call ppp_channel_push() on the same channel, effectively creating
the deadlock situation that the xmit_recursion mechanism was supposed
to prevent.

This patch re-introduces the xmit_recursion counter incrementation in
ppp_channel_push(). Since the xmit_recursion variable is now part of
the parent ppp unit, incrementation is skipped if the channel doesn't
have any. This is fine because only packets routed through the parent
unit may enter the channel recursively.

Finally, we have to ensure that pch-&gt;ppp is not going to be modified
while executing ppp_channel_push(). Instead of taking this lock only
while calling ppp_xmit_process(), we now have to hold it for the full
ppp_channel_push() execution. This respects the ppp locks ordering
which requires locking -&gt;upl before -&gt;downl.

Fixes: e5dadc65f9e0 ("ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp devices")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;g.nault@alphalink.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit e5dadc65f9e0 ("ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp
devices") dropped the xmit_recursion counter incrementation in
ppp_channel_push() and relied on ppp_xmit_process() for this task.
But __ppp_channel_push() can also send packets directly (using the
.start_xmit() channel callback), in which case the xmit_recursion
counter isn't incremented anymore. If such packets get routed back to
the parent ppp unit, ppp_xmit_process() won't notice the recursion and
will call ppp_channel_push() on the same channel, effectively creating
the deadlock situation that the xmit_recursion mechanism was supposed
to prevent.

This patch re-introduces the xmit_recursion counter incrementation in
ppp_channel_push(). Since the xmit_recursion variable is now part of
the parent ppp unit, incrementation is skipped if the channel doesn't
have any. This is fine because only packets routed through the parent
unit may enter the channel recursively.

Finally, we have to ensure that pch-&gt;ppp is not going to be modified
while executing ppp_channel_push(). Instead of taking this lock only
while calling ppp_xmit_process(), we now have to hold it for the full
ppp_channel_push() execution. This respects the ppp locks ordering
which requires locking -&gt;upl before -&gt;downl.

Fixes: e5dadc65f9e0 ("ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp devices")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;g.nault@alphalink.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp: Fix a scheduling-while-atomic bug in del_chan</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T04:59:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Feng</name>
<email>gfree.wind@vip.163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-31T10:07:38+00:00</published>
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The PPTP set the pptp_sock_destruct as the sock's sk_destruct, it would
trigger this bug when __sk_free is invoked in atomic context, because of
the call path pptp_sock_destruct-&gt;del_chan-&gt;synchronize_rcu.

Now move the synchronize_rcu to pptp_release from del_chan. This is the
only one case which would free the sock and need the synchronize_rcu.

The following is the panic I met with kernel 3.3.8, but this issue should
exist in current kernel too according to the codes.

BUG: scheduling while atomic
__schedule_bug+0x5e/0x64
__schedule+0x55/0x580
? ppp_unregister_channel+0x1cd5/0x1de0 [ppp_generic]
? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x423/0x530
? sch_direct_xmit+0x73/0x170
__cond_resched+0x16/0x30
_cond_resched+0x22/0x30
wait_for_common+0x18/0x110
? call_rcu_bh+0x10/0x10
wait_for_completion+0x12/0x20
wait_rcu_gp+0x34/0x40
? wait_rcu_gp+0x40/0x40
synchronize_sched+0x1e/0x20
0xf8417298
0xf8417484
? sock_queue_rcv_skb+0x109/0x130
__sk_free+0x16/0x110
? udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x1f2/0x290
sk_free+0x16/0x20
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x3b8/0x650

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;gfree.wind@vip.163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The PPTP set the pptp_sock_destruct as the sock's sk_destruct, it would
trigger this bug when __sk_free is invoked in atomic context, because of
the call path pptp_sock_destruct-&gt;del_chan-&gt;synchronize_rcu.

Now move the synchronize_rcu to pptp_release from del_chan. This is the
only one case which would free the sock and need the synchronize_rcu.

The following is the panic I met with kernel 3.3.8, but this issue should
exist in current kernel too according to the codes.

BUG: scheduling while atomic
__schedule_bug+0x5e/0x64
__schedule+0x55/0x580
? ppp_unregister_channel+0x1cd5/0x1de0 [ppp_generic]
? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x423/0x530
? sch_direct_xmit+0x73/0x170
__cond_resched+0x16/0x30
_cond_resched+0x22/0x30
wait_for_common+0x18/0x110
? call_rcu_bh+0x10/0x10
wait_for_completion+0x12/0x20
wait_rcu_gp+0x34/0x40
? wait_rcu_gp+0x40/0x40
synchronize_sched+0x1e/0x20
0xf8417298
0xf8417484
? sock_queue_rcv_skb+0x109/0x130
__sk_free+0x16/0x110
? udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x1f2/0x290
sk_free+0x16/0x20
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x3b8/0x650

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;gfree.wind@vip.163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp devices</title>
<updated>2017-07-18T18:20:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Feng</name>
<email>gfree.wind@vip.163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T10:34:42+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The global percpu variable ppp_xmit_recursion is used to detect the ppp
xmit recursion to avoid the deadlock, which is caused by one CPU tries to
lock the xmit lock twice. But it would report false recursion when one CPU
wants to send the skb from two different PPP devices, like one L2TP on the
PPPoE. It is a normal case actually.

Now use one percpu member of struct ppp instead of the gloable variable to
detect the xmit recursion of one ppp device.

Fixes: 55454a565836 ("ppp: avoid dealock on recursive xmit")
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;gfree.wind@vip.163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liu Jianying &lt;jianying.liu@ikuai8.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The global percpu variable ppp_xmit_recursion is used to detect the ppp
xmit recursion to avoid the deadlock, which is caused by one CPU tries to
lock the xmit lock twice. But it would report false recursion when one CPU
wants to send the skb from two different PPP devices, like one L2TP on the
PPPoE. It is a normal case actually.

Now use one percpu member of struct ppp instead of the gloable variable to
detect the xmit recursion of one ppp device.

Fixes: 55454a565836 ("ppp: avoid dealock on recursive xmit")
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;gfree.wind@vip.163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liu Jianying &lt;jianying.liu@ikuai8.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.validate</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:56:01+00:00</published>
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<id>a8b8a889e369de82f295f55455adb4a7c31c458c</id>
<content type='text'>
Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.newlink</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:55:59+00:00</published>
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<id>7a3f4a185169b195c33f1c54f33a44eba2d6aa96</id>
<content type='text'>
Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: manual clean code which call skb_put_[data:zero]</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T17:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yuan linyu</name>
<email>Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T14:52:04+00:00</published>
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<id>b952f4dff2751252db073c27c0f8a16a416a2ddc</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pptp: Remove unused variable in pptp_release()</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T03:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christos Gkekas</name>
<email>chris.gekas@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T15:41:40+00:00</published>
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Variable opt in pptp_release() is set but never used, thus needs to be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Christos Gkekas &lt;chris.gekas@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Variable opt in pptp_release() is set but never used, thus needs to be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Christos Gkekas &lt;chris.gekas@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_put &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:21+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: introduce and use skb_put_data()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:20+00:00</published>
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A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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