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<entry>
<title>net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules</title>
<updated>2011-03-14T21:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasiliy Kulikov</name>
<email>segoon@openwall.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-01T21:33:13+00:00</published>
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commit 8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b upstream.

Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/.  This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**.  However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.

This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases.  This fixes CVE-2011-1019.

Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".

Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.

    root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	fffffff800001000
    CapEff:	fffffff800001000
    CapBnd:	fffffff800001000
    root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
    FATAL: Error inserting xfs
    (/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
    sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
	      NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    sit                    10457  0
    tunnel4                 2957  1 sit

For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:

    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapEff:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    xfs                   745319  0

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b upstream.

Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/.  This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**.  However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.

This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases.  This fixes CVE-2011-1019.

Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".

Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.

    root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	fffffff800001000
    CapEff:	fffffff800001000
    CapBnd:	fffffff800001000
    root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
    FATAL: Error inserting xfs
    (/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
    sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
	      NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    sit                    10457  0
    tunnel4                 2957  1 sit

For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:

    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapEff:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    xfs                   745319  0

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD</title>
<updated>2011-02-24T22:54:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-17T22:59:19+00:00</published>
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commit ceaaec98ad99859ac90ac6863ad0a6cd075d8e0e upstream.

commit 9b5e383c11b08784 (net: Introduce
unregister_netdevice_many()) left an active LIST_HEAD() in
rollback_registered(), with possible memory corruption.

Even if device is freed without touching its unreg_list (and therefore
touching the previous memory location holding LISTE_HEAD(single), better
close the bug for good, since its really subtle.

(Same fix for default_device_exit_batch() for completeness)

Reported-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman &lt;ebiderman@xmission.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman &lt;ebiderman@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Octavian Purdila &lt;opurdila@ixiacom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit ceaaec98ad99859ac90ac6863ad0a6cd075d8e0e upstream.

commit 9b5e383c11b08784 (net: Introduce
unregister_netdevice_many()) left an active LIST_HEAD() in
rollback_registered(), with possible memory corruption.

Even if device is freed without touching its unreg_list (and therefore
touching the previous memory location holding LISTE_HEAD(single), better
close the bug for good, since its really subtle.

(Same fix for default_device_exit_batch() for completeness)

Reported-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman &lt;ebiderman@xmission.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman &lt;ebiderman@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Octavian Purdila &lt;opurdila@ixiacom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: check queue_index from sock is valid for device</title>
<updated>2010-11-01T19:55:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>therbert@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-01T19:55:52+00:00</published>
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In dev_pick_tx recompute the queue index if the value stored in the
socket is greater than or equal to the number of real queues for the
device.  The saved index in the sock structure is not guaranteed to
be appropriate for the egress device (this could happen on a route
change or in presence of tunnelling).  The result of the queue index
being bad would be to return a bogus queue (crash could prersumably
follow).

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In dev_pick_tx recompute the queue index if the value stored in the
socket is greater than or equal to the number of real queues for the
device.  The saved index in the sock structure is not guaranteed to
be appropriate for the egress device (this could happen on a route
change or in presence of tunnelling).  The result of the queue index
being bad would be to return a bogus queue (crash could prersumably
follow).

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: NETIF_F_HW_CSUM does not imply FCoE CRC offload</title>
<updated>2010-10-27T18:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T04:38:26+00:00</published>
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NETIF_F_HW_CSUM indicates the ability to update an TCP/IP-style 16-bit
checksum with the checksum of an arbitrary part of the packet data,
whereas the FCoE CRC is something entirely different.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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NETIF_F_HW_CSUM indicates the ability to update an TCP/IP-style 16-bit
checksum with the checksum of an arbitrary part of the packet data,
whereas the FCoE CRC is something entirely different.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix some corner cases in dev_can_checksum()</title>
<updated>2010-10-27T18:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T04:12:19+00:00</published>
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dev_can_checksum() incorrectly returns true in these cases:

1. The skb has both out-of-band and in-band VLAN tags and the device
   supports checksum offload for the encapsulated protocol but only with
   one layer of encapsulation.
2. The skb has a VLAN tag and the device supports generic checksumming
   but not in conjunction with VLAN encapsulation.

Rearrange the VLAN tag checks to avoid these.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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dev_can_checksum() incorrectly returns true in these cases:

1. The skb has both out-of-band and in-band VLAN tags and the device
   supports checksum offload for the encapsulated protocol but only with
   one layer of encapsulation.
2. The skb has a VLAN tag and the device supports generic checksumming
   but not in conjunction with VLAN encapsulation.

Rearrange the VLAN tag checks to avoid these.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rps: add __rcu annotations</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T21:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T03:02:02+00:00</published>
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Add __rcu annotations to :
	(struct netdev_rx_queue)-&gt;rps_map
	(struct netdev_rx_queue)-&gt;rps_flow_table
	struct rps_sock_flow_table *rps_sock_flow_table;

And use appropriate rcu primitives.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add __rcu annotations to :
	(struct netdev_rx_queue)-&gt;rps_map
	(struct netdev_rx_queue)-&gt;rps_flow_table
	struct rps_sock_flow_table *rps_sock_flow_table;

And use appropriate rcu primitives.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: ip6_ptr rcu annotations</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T20:09:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-24T21:32:05+00:00</published>
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(struct net_device)-&gt;ip6_ptr is rcu protected :

add __rcu annotation and proper rcu primitives.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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(struct net_device)-&gt;ip6_ptr is rcu protected :

add __rcu annotation and proper rcu primitives.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Increase xmit RECURSION_LIMIT to 10.</title>
<updated>2010-10-25T19:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T19:51:55+00:00</published>
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Three is definitely too low, and we know from reports that GRE tunnels
stacked as deeply as 37 levels cause stack overflows, so pick some
reasonable value between those two.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Three is definitely too low, and we know from reports that GRE tunnels
stacked as deeply as 37 levels cause stack overflows, so pick some
reasonable value between those two.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-23T18:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T18:47:02+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits)
  bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL.
  vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid.
  tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match
  cxgb3: function namespace cleanup
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target
  tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core
  be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w
  tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled
  tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer
  tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function
  tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions
  tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module
  l2tp: small cleanup
  nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header
  can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames
  can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set
  can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
  9p: client code cleanup
  rds: make local functions/variables static
  ...

Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits)
  bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL.
  vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid.
  tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match
  cxgb3: function namespace cleanup
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target
  tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core
  be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w
  tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled
  tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer
  tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function
  tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions
  tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module
  l2tp: small cleanup
  nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header
  can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames
  can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set
  can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
  9p: client code cleanup
  rds: make local functions/variables static
  ...

Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-21T15:43:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-21T15:43:05+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	net/core/dev.c
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Conflicts:
	net/core/dev.c
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