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<title>can: add missing initialisations in CAN related skbuffs</title>
<updated>2015-03-09T09:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Hartkopp</name>
<email>socketcan@hartkopp.net</email>
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<published>2015-02-23T19:37:54+00:00</published>
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When accessing CAN network interfaces with AF_PACKET sockets e.g. by dhclient
this can lead to a skb_under_panic due to missing skb initialisations.

Add the missing initialisations at the CAN skbuff creation times on driver
level (rx path) and in the network layer (tx path).

Reported-by: Austin Schuh &lt;austin@peloton-tech.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Steer &lt;daniel.steer@mclaren.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Cc: linux-stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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When accessing CAN network interfaces with AF_PACKET sockets e.g. by dhclient
this can lead to a skb_under_panic due to missing skb initialisations.

Add the missing initialisations at the CAN skbuff creation times on driver
level (rx path) and in the network layer (tx path).

Reported-by: Austin Schuh &lt;austin@peloton-tech.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Steer &lt;daniel.steer@mclaren.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Cc: linux-stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void</title>
<updated>2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T21:09:00+00:00</published>
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Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) &lt; 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb-&gt;len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb-&gt;len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for &lt;0 or &lt;=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

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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Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) &lt; 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb-&gt;len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb-&gt;len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for &lt;0 or &lt;=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

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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<title>can: fix spelling errors</title>
<updated>2014-12-07T20:22:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremiah Mahler</name>
<email>jmmahler@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-05T17:54:38+00:00</published>
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Fix various spelling errors in the comments of the CAN modules.

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler &lt;jmmahler@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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Fix various spelling errors in the comments of the CAN modules.

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler &lt;jmmahler@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>can: eliminate banner[] variable and switch to pr_info()</title>
<updated>2014-12-07T20:22:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremiah Mahler</name>
<email>jmmahler@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-22T07:42:35+00:00</published>
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Several CAN modules use a design pattern with a banner[] variable at the
top which defines a string that is used once during init to print the
banner.  The string is also embedded with KERN_INFO which makes it
printk() specific.

Improve the code by eliminating the banner[] variable and moving the
string to where it is printed.  Then switch from printk(KERN_INFO to
pr_info() for the lines that were changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler &lt;jmmahler@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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Several CAN modules use a design pattern with a banner[] variable at the
top which defines a string that is used once during init to print the
banner.  The string is also embedded with KERN_INFO which makes it
printk() specific.

Improve the code by eliminating the banner[] variable and moving the
string to where it is printed.  Then switch from printk(KERN_INFO to
pr_info() for the lines that were changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler &lt;jmmahler@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: memcpy_to_msg()</title>
<updated>2014-11-24T09:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T01:51:23+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: memcpy_from_msg()</title>
<updated>2014-11-24T09:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T01:25:44+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>can: add hash based access to single EFF frame filters</title>
<updated>2014-05-19T07:38:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Hartkopp</name>
<email>socketcan@hartkopp.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-02T18:25:26+00:00</published>
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In contrast to the direct access to the single SFF frame filters (which are
indexed by the SFF CAN ID itself) the single EFF frame filters are arranged
in a single linked hlist. To reduce the hlist traversal in the case of many
filter subscriptions a hash based access is introduced for single EFF filters.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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In contrast to the direct access to the single SFF frame filters (which are
indexed by the SFF CAN ID itself) the single EFF frame filters are arranged
in a single linked hlist. To reduce the hlist traversal in the case of many
filter subscriptions a hash based access is introduced for single EFF filters.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<title>can: proc: make array printing function indenpendent from sff frames</title>
<updated>2014-05-19T07:38:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Hartkopp</name>
<email>socketcan@hartkopp.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-02T18:25:25+00:00</published>
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The can_rcvlist_sff_proc_show_one() function which prints the array of filters
for the single SFF CAN identifiers is prepared to be used by a second caller.
Therefore it is also renamed to properly describe its future functionality.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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The can_rcvlist_sff_proc_show_one() function which prints the array of filters
for the single SFF CAN identifiers is prepared to be used by a second caller.
Therefore it is also renamed to properly describe its future functionality.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages</title>
<updated>2014-04-24T17:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-23T21:29:27+00:00</published>
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It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>can: remove CAN FD compatibility for CAN 2.0 sockets</title>
<updated>2014-03-03T13:29:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Hartkopp</name>
<email>socketcan@hartkopp.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-01T14:31:53+00:00</published>
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In commit e2d265d3b587 (canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW sockets)
CAN FD frames with a payload length up to 8 byte are passed to legacy
sockets where the CAN FD support was not enabled by the application.

After some discussions with developers at a fair this well meant feature
leads to confusion as no clean switch for CAN / CAN FD is provided to the
application programmer. Additionally a compatibility like this for legacy
CAN_RAW sockets requires some compatibility handling for the sending, e.g.
make CAN2.0 frames a CAN FD frame with BRS at transmission time (?!?).

This will become a mess when people start to develop applications with
real CAN FD hardware. This patch reverts the bad compatibility code
together with the documentation describing the removed feature.

Acked-by: Stephane Grosjean &lt;s.grosjean@peak-system.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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In commit e2d265d3b587 (canfd: add support for CAN FD in CAN_RAW sockets)
CAN FD frames with a payload length up to 8 byte are passed to legacy
sockets where the CAN FD support was not enabled by the application.

After some discussions with developers at a fair this well meant feature
leads to confusion as no clean switch for CAN / CAN FD is provided to the
application programmer. Additionally a compatibility like this for legacy
CAN_RAW sockets requires some compatibility handling for the sending, e.g.
make CAN2.0 frames a CAN FD frame with BRS at transmission time (?!?).

This will become a mess when people start to develop applications with
real CAN FD hardware. This patch reverts the bad compatibility code
together with the documentation describing the removed feature.

Acked-by: Stephane Grosjean &lt;s.grosjean@peak-system.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
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