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<title>crypto: ahash - Fix EINPROGRESS notification callback</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T09:27:57+00:00</published>
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commit ef0579b64e93188710d48667cb5e014926af9f1b upstream.

The ahash API modifies the request's callback function in order
to clean up after itself in some corner cases (unaligned final
and missing finup).

When the request is complete ahash will restore the original
callback and everything is fine.  However, when the request gets
an EBUSY on a full queue, an EINPROGRESS callback is made while
the request is still ongoing.

In this case the ahash API will incorrectly call its own callback.

This patch fixes the problem by creating a temporary request
object on the stack which is used to relay EINPROGRESS back to
the original completion function.

This patch also adds code to preserve the original flags value.

Fixes: ab6bf4e5e5e4 ("crypto: hash - Fix the pointer voodoo in...")
Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Tested-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ef0579b64e93188710d48667cb5e014926af9f1b upstream.

The ahash API modifies the request's callback function in order
to clean up after itself in some corner cases (unaligned final
and missing finup).

When the request is complete ahash will restore the original
callback and everything is fine.  However, when the request gets
an EBUSY on a full queue, an EINPROGRESS callback is made while
the request is still ongoing.

In this case the ahash API will incorrectly call its own callback.

This patch fixes the problem by creating a temporary request
object on the stack which is used to relay EINPROGRESS back to
the original completion function.

This patch also adds code to preserve the original flags value.

Fixes: ab6bf4e5e5e4 ("crypto: hash - Fix the pointer voodoo in...")
Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Tested-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locking/static_keys: Add static_key_{en,dis}able() helpers</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-24T13:03:40+00:00</published>
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commit e33886b38cc82a9fc3b2d655dfc7f50467594138 upstream.

Add two helpers to make it easier to treat the refcount as boolean.

Suggested-by: Jason Baron &lt;jasonbaron0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e33886b38cc82a9fc3b2d655dfc7f50467594138 upstream.

Add two helpers to make it easier to treat the refcount as boolean.

Suggested-by: Jason Baron &lt;jasonbaron0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/mlx4: &amp;&amp; vs &amp; typo</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-28T12:02:15+00:00</published>
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commit b2d0fe35471d1a71471f99147ffb5986bd60e744 upstream.

Bitwise &amp; was obviously intended here.

Fixes: 745d8ae4622c ("net/mlx4: Spoofcheck and zero MAC can't coexist")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b2d0fe35471d1a71471f99147ffb5986bd60e744 upstream.

Bitwise &amp; was obviously intended here.

Fixes: 745d8ae4622c ("net/mlx4: Spoofcheck and zero MAC can't coexist")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/mlx4: Spoofcheck and zero MAC can't coexist</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugenia Emantayev</name>
<email>eugenia@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-23T10:02:42+00:00</published>
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commit 745d8ae4622c6808b22e33a944c7decb30074be4 upstream.

Spoofcheck can't be enabled if VF MAC is zero.
Vice versa, can't zero MAC if spoofcheck is on.

Fixes: 8f7ba3ca12f6 ('net/mlx4: Add set VF mac address support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 745d8ae4622c6808b22e33a944c7decb30074be4 upstream.

Spoofcheck can't be enabled if VF MAC is zero.
Vice versa, can't zero MAC if spoofcheck is on.

Fixes: 8f7ba3ca12f6 ('net/mlx4: Add set VF mac address support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix &lt;linux/pagemap.h&gt; stray kernel-doc notation</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T23:46:48+00:00</published>
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commit 083fb8edda0487d192e8c117f625563b920cf7a4 upstream.

Delete stray (second) function description in find_lock_page()
kernel-doc notation.

Note: scripts/kernel-doc just ignores the second function description.

Fixes: 2457aec63745e ("mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b037e9a3-516c-ec02-6c8e-fa5479747ba6@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 083fb8edda0487d192e8c117f625563b920cf7a4 upstream.

Delete stray (second) function description in find_lock_page()
kernel-doc notation.

Note: scripts/kernel-doc just ignores the second function description.

Fixes: 2457aec63745e ("mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b037e9a3-516c-ec02-6c8e-fa5479747ba6@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nlm: Ensure callback code also checks that the files match</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>trond.myklebust@primarydata.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-11T15:37:38+00:00</published>
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commit 251af29c320d86071664f02c76f0d063a19fefdf upstream.

It is not sufficient to just check that the lock pids match when
granting a callback, we also need to ensure that we're granting
the callback on the right file.

Reported-by: Pankaj Singh &lt;psingh.ait@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 251af29c320d86071664f02c76f0d063a19fefdf upstream.

It is not sufficient to just check that the lock pids match when
granting a callback, we also need to ensure that we're granting
the callback on the right file.

Reported-by: Pankaj Singh &lt;psingh.ait@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/ww_mutex: Fix compilation of __WW_MUTEX_INITIALIZER</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:16:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Wilson</name>
<email>chris@chris-wilson.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-01T11:47:04+00:00</published>
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commit af2e859edd477fa1ea3d1d106f41a595cff3d162 upstream.

From conflicting macro parameters, passing the wrong name to
__MUTEX_INITIALIZER and a stray '\', #define __WW_MUTEX_INITIALIZER was
very unhappy.

One unnecessary change was to choose to pass &amp;ww_class instead of
implicitly taking the address of the class within the macro.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 1b375dc30710 ("mutex: Move ww_mutex definitions to ww_mutex.h")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161201114711.28697-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit af2e859edd477fa1ea3d1d106f41a595cff3d162 upstream.

From conflicting macro parameters, passing the wrong name to
__MUTEX_INITIALIZER and a stray '\', #define __WW_MUTEX_INITIALIZER was
very unhappy.

One unnecessary change was to choose to pass &amp;ww_class instead of
implicitly taking the address of the class within the macro.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 1b375dc30710 ("mutex: Move ww_mutex definitions to ww_mutex.h")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161201114711.28697-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RDMA/core: Fix incorrect structure packing for booleans</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:16:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-23T01:07:52+00:00</published>
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commit 55efcfcd7776165b294f8b5cd6e05ca00ec89b7c upstream.

The RDMA core uses ib_pack() to convert from unpacked CPU structs
to on-the-wire bitpacked structs.

This process requires that 1 bit fields are declared as u8 in the
unpacked struct, otherwise the packing process does not read the
value properly and the packed result is wired to 0. Several
places wrongly used int.

Crucially this means the kernel has never, set reversible
correctly in the path record request. It has always asked for
irreversible paths even if the ULP requests otherwise.

When the kernel is used with a SM that supports this feature, it
completely breaks communication management if reversible paths are
not properly requested.

The only reason this ever worked is because opensm ignores the
reversible bit.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 55efcfcd7776165b294f8b5cd6e05ca00ec89b7c upstream.

The RDMA core uses ib_pack() to convert from unpacked CPU structs
to on-the-wire bitpacked structs.

This process requires that 1 bit fields are declared as u8 in the
unpacked struct, otherwise the packing process does not read the
value properly and the packed result is wired to 0. Several
places wrongly used int.

Crucially this means the kernel has never, set reversible
correctly in the path record request. It has always asked for
irreversible paths even if the ULP requests otherwise.

When the kernel is used with a SM that supports this feature, it
completely breaks communication management if reversible paths are
not properly requested.

The only reason this ever worked is because opensm ignores the
reversible bit.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs.</title>
<updated>2017-04-04T21:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T19:42:03+00:00</published>
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commit 22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a upstream.

Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: we don't have super_block::s_iflags; use
 file_system_type::fs_flags instead]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a upstream.

Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: we don't have super_block::s_iflags; use
 file_system_type::fs_flags instead]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: remove mmapped netlink support</title>
<updated>2017-04-04T21:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
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<published>2016-02-18T14:03:24+00:00</published>
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commit d1b4c689d4130bcfd3532680b64db562300716b6 upstream.

mmapped netlink has a number of unresolved issues:

- TX zerocopy support had to be disabled more than a year ago via
  commit 4682a0358639b29cf ("netlink: Always copy on mmap TX.")
  because the content of the mmapped area can change after netlink
  attribute validation but before message processing.

- RX support was implemented mainly to speed up nfqueue dumping packet
  payload to userspace.  However, since commit ae08ce0021087a5d812d2
  ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: zero copy support") we avoid one copy
  with the socket-based interface too (via the skb_zerocopy helper).

The other problem is that skbs attached to mmaped netlink socket
behave different from normal skbs:

- they don't have a shinfo area, so all functions that use skb_shinfo()
(e.g. skb_clone) cannot be used.

- reserving headroom prevents userspace from seeing the content as
it expects message to start at skb-&gt;head.
See for instance
commit aa3a022094fa ("netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump").

- skbs handed e.g. to netlink_ack must have non-NULL skb-&gt;sk, else we
crash because it needs the sk to check if a tx ring is attached.

Also not obvious, leads to non-intuitive bug fixes such as 7c7bdf359
("netfilter: nfnetlink: use original skbuff when acking batches").

mmaped netlink also didn't play nicely with the skb_zerocopy helper
used by nfqueue and openvswitch.  Daniel Borkmann fixed this via
commit 6bb0fef489f6 ("netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue
zero-copy")' but at the cost of also needing to provide remaining
length to the allocation function.

nfqueue also has problems when used with mmaped rx netlink:
- mmaped netlink doesn't allow use of nfqueue batch verdict messages.
  Problem is that in the mmap case, the allocation time also determines
  the ordering in which the frame will be seen by userspace (A
  allocating before B means that A is located in earlier ring slot,
  but this also means that B might get a lower sequence number then A
  since seqno is decided later.  To fix this we would need to extend the
  spinlocked region to also cover the allocation and message setup which
  isn't desirable.
- nfqueue can now be configured to queue large (GSO) skbs to userspace.
  Queing GSO packets is faster than having to force a software segmentation
  in the kernel, so this is a desirable option.  However, with a mmap based
  ring one has to use 64kb per ring slot element, else mmap has to fall back
  to the socket path (NL_MMAP_STATUS_COPY) for all large packets.

To use the mmap interface, userspace not only has to probe for mmap netlink
support, it also has to implement a recv/socket receive path in order to
handle messages that exceed the size of an rx ring element.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA &lt;chamaken@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: deleted code and documentation is different in places]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shi Yuejie &lt;shiyuejie@outlook.com&gt;
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commit d1b4c689d4130bcfd3532680b64db562300716b6 upstream.

mmapped netlink has a number of unresolved issues:

- TX zerocopy support had to be disabled more than a year ago via
  commit 4682a0358639b29cf ("netlink: Always copy on mmap TX.")
  because the content of the mmapped area can change after netlink
  attribute validation but before message processing.

- RX support was implemented mainly to speed up nfqueue dumping packet
  payload to userspace.  However, since commit ae08ce0021087a5d812d2
  ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: zero copy support") we avoid one copy
  with the socket-based interface too (via the skb_zerocopy helper).

The other problem is that skbs attached to mmaped netlink socket
behave different from normal skbs:

- they don't have a shinfo area, so all functions that use skb_shinfo()
(e.g. skb_clone) cannot be used.

- reserving headroom prevents userspace from seeing the content as
it expects message to start at skb-&gt;head.
See for instance
commit aa3a022094fa ("netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump").

- skbs handed e.g. to netlink_ack must have non-NULL skb-&gt;sk, else we
crash because it needs the sk to check if a tx ring is attached.

Also not obvious, leads to non-intuitive bug fixes such as 7c7bdf359
("netfilter: nfnetlink: use original skbuff when acking batches").

mmaped netlink also didn't play nicely with the skb_zerocopy helper
used by nfqueue and openvswitch.  Daniel Borkmann fixed this via
commit 6bb0fef489f6 ("netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue
zero-copy")' but at the cost of also needing to provide remaining
length to the allocation function.

nfqueue also has problems when used with mmaped rx netlink:
- mmaped netlink doesn't allow use of nfqueue batch verdict messages.
  Problem is that in the mmap case, the allocation time also determines
  the ordering in which the frame will be seen by userspace (A
  allocating before B means that A is located in earlier ring slot,
  but this also means that B might get a lower sequence number then A
  since seqno is decided later.  To fix this we would need to extend the
  spinlocked region to also cover the allocation and message setup which
  isn't desirable.
- nfqueue can now be configured to queue large (GSO) skbs to userspace.
  Queing GSO packets is faster than having to force a software segmentation
  in the kernel, so this is a desirable option.  However, with a mmap based
  ring one has to use 64kb per ring slot element, else mmap has to fall back
  to the socket path (NL_MMAP_STATUS_COPY) for all large packets.

To use the mmap interface, userspace not only has to probe for mmap netlink
support, it also has to implement a recv/socket receive path in order to
handle messages that exceed the size of an rx ring element.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA &lt;chamaken@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: deleted code and documentation is different in places]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shi Yuejie &lt;shiyuejie@outlook.com&gt;
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