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<title>net: reject creation of netdev names with colons</title>
<updated>2015-05-09T22:16:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Thode</name>
<email>mthode@mthode.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-18T00:31:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 ]

colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c

Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME

Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode &lt;mthode@mthode.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 ]

colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c

Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME

Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode &lt;mthode@mthode.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rps: fix cpu unplug</title>
<updated>2015-05-09T22:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T01:04:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ac64da0b83d82abe62f78b3d0e21cca31aea24fa ]

softnet_data.input_pkt_queue is protected by a spinlock that
we must hold when transferring packets from victim queue to an active
one. This is because other cpus could still be trying to enqueue packets
into victim queue.

A second problem is that when we transfert the NAPI poll_list from
victim to current cpu, we absolutely need to special case the percpu
backlog, because we do not want to add complex locking to protect
process_queue : Only owner cpu is allowed to manipulate it, unless cpu
is offline.

Based on initial patch from Prasad Sodagudi &amp; Subash Abhinov
Kasiviswanathan.

This version is better because we do not slow down packet processing,
only make migration safer.

Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi &lt;psodagud@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.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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[ Upstream commit ac64da0b83d82abe62f78b3d0e21cca31aea24fa ]

softnet_data.input_pkt_queue is protected by a spinlock that
we must hold when transferring packets from victim queue to an active
one. This is because other cpus could still be trying to enqueue packets
into victim queue.

A second problem is that when we transfert the NAPI poll_list from
victim to current cpu, we absolutely need to special case the percpu
backlog, because we do not want to add complex locking to protect
process_queue : Only owner cpu is allowed to manipulate it, unless cpu
is offline.

Based on initial patch from Prasad Sodagudi &amp; Subash Abhinov
Kasiviswanathan.

This version is better because we do not slow down packet processing,
only make migration safer.

Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi &lt;psodagud@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.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>
<entry>
<title>net/core: Handle csum for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE VXLAN forwarding</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jay Vosburgh</name>
<email>jay.vosburgh@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T23:32:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c26d34bbcc0b3f30385d5587aa232289e2eed8e ]

When using VXLAN tunnels and a sky2 device, I have experienced
checksum failures of the following type:

[ 4297.761899] eth0: hw csum failure
[...]
[ 4297.765223] Call Trace:
[ 4297.765224]  &lt;IRQ&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff8172f026&gt;] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[ 4297.765235]  [&lt;ffffffff8162ba52&gt;] netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x42/0x50
[ 4297.765238]  [&lt;ffffffff8161c1a0&gt;] ? skb_push+0x40/0x40
[ 4297.765240]  [&lt;ffffffff8162325c&gt;] __skb_checksum_complete+0xbc/0xd0
[ 4297.765243]  [&lt;ffffffff8168c602&gt;] tcp_v4_rcv+0x2e2/0x950
[ 4297.765246]  [&lt;ffffffff81666ca0&gt;] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360

	These are reliably reproduced in a network topology of:

container:eth0 == host(OVS VXLAN on VLAN) == bond0 == eth0 (sky2) -&gt; switch

	When VXLAN encapsulated traffic is received from a similarly
configured peer, the above warning is generated in the receive
processing of the encapsulated packet.  Note that the warning is
associated with the container eth0.

        The skbs from sky2 have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_COMPLETE, and
because the packet is an encapsulated Ethernet frame, the checksum
generated by the hardware includes the inner protocol and Ethernet
headers.

	The receive code is careful to update the skb-&gt;csum, except in
__dev_forward_skb, as called by dev_forward_skb.  __dev_forward_skb
calls eth_type_trans, which in turn calls skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN)
to skip over the Ethernet header, but does not update skb-&gt;csum when
doing so.

	This patch resolves the problem by adding a call to
skb_postpull_rcsum to update the skb-&gt;csum after the call to
eth_type_trans.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jay.vosburgh@canonical.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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[ Upstream commit 2c26d34bbcc0b3f30385d5587aa232289e2eed8e ]

When using VXLAN tunnels and a sky2 device, I have experienced
checksum failures of the following type:

[ 4297.761899] eth0: hw csum failure
[...]
[ 4297.765223] Call Trace:
[ 4297.765224]  &lt;IRQ&gt;  [&lt;ffffffff8172f026&gt;] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[ 4297.765235]  [&lt;ffffffff8162ba52&gt;] netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x42/0x50
[ 4297.765238]  [&lt;ffffffff8161c1a0&gt;] ? skb_push+0x40/0x40
[ 4297.765240]  [&lt;ffffffff8162325c&gt;] __skb_checksum_complete+0xbc/0xd0
[ 4297.765243]  [&lt;ffffffff8168c602&gt;] tcp_v4_rcv+0x2e2/0x950
[ 4297.765246]  [&lt;ffffffff81666ca0&gt;] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360

	These are reliably reproduced in a network topology of:

container:eth0 == host(OVS VXLAN on VLAN) == bond0 == eth0 (sky2) -&gt; switch

	When VXLAN encapsulated traffic is received from a similarly
configured peer, the above warning is generated in the receive
processing of the encapsulated packet.  Note that the warning is
associated with the container eth0.

        The skbs from sky2 have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_COMPLETE, and
because the packet is an encapsulated Ethernet frame, the checksum
generated by the hardware includes the inner protocol and Ethernet
headers.

	The receive code is careful to update the skb-&gt;csum, except in
__dev_forward_skb, as called by dev_forward_skb.  __dev_forward_skb
calls eth_type_trans, which in turn calls skb_pull_inline(skb, ETH_HLEN)
to skip over the Ethernet header, but does not update skb-&gt;csum when
doing so.

	This patch resolves the problem by adding a call to
skb_postpull_rcsum to update the skb-&gt;csum after the call to
eth_type_trans.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jay.vosburgh@canonical.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>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix stacked vlan offload features computation</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshiaki Makita</name>
<email>makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-22T10:04:14+00:00</published>
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commit 796f2da81bead71ffc91ef70912cd8d1827bf756 upstream.

When vlan tags are stacked, it is very likely that the outer tag is stored
in skb-&gt;vlan_tci and skb-&gt;protocol shows the inner tag's vlan_proto.
Currently netif_skb_features() first looks at skb-&gt;protocol even if there
is the outer tag in vlan_tci, thus it incorrectly retrieves the protocol
encapsulated by the inner vlan instead of the inner vlan protocol.
This allows GSO packets to be passed to HW and they end up being
corrupted.

Fixes: 58e998c6d239 ("offloading: Force software GSO for multiple vlan tags.")
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita &lt;makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - We don't support 802.1ad tag offload
 - Keep passing protocol to harmonize_features()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 796f2da81bead71ffc91ef70912cd8d1827bf756 upstream.

When vlan tags are stacked, it is very likely that the outer tag is stored
in skb-&gt;vlan_tci and skb-&gt;protocol shows the inner tag's vlan_proto.
Currently netif_skb_features() first looks at skb-&gt;protocol even if there
is the outer tag in vlan_tci, thus it incorrectly retrieves the protocol
encapsulated by the inner vlan instead of the inner vlan protocol.
This allows GSO packets to be passed to HW and they end up being
corrupted.

Fixes: 58e998c6d239 ("offloading: Force software GSO for multiple vlan tags.")
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita &lt;makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - We don't support 802.1ad tag offload
 - Keep passing protocol to harmonize_features()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-gro: reset skb-&gt;truesize in napi_reuse_skb()</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:29:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T16:28:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e33d0ba8047b049c9262fdb1fcafb93cb52ceceb ]

Recycling skb always had been very tough...

This time it appears GRO layer can accumulate skb-&gt;truesize
adjustments made by drivers when they attach a fragment to skb.

skb_gro_receive() can only subtract from skb-&gt;truesize the used part
of a fragment.

I spotted this problem seeing TcpExtPruneCalled and
TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed that were unexpected with a recent kernel, where
TCP receive window should be sized properly to accept traffic coming
from a driver not overshooting skb-&gt;truesize.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.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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[ Upstream commit e33d0ba8047b049c9262fdb1fcafb93cb52ceceb ]

Recycling skb always had been very tough...

This time it appears GRO layer can accumulate skb-&gt;truesize
adjustments made by drivers when they attach a fragment to skb.

skb_gro_receive() can only subtract from skb-&gt;truesize the used part
of a fragment.

I spotted this problem seeing TcpExtPruneCalled and
TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed that were unexpected with a recent kernel, where
TCP receive window should be sized properly to accept traffic coming
from a driver not overshooting skb-&gt;truesize.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.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>
<entry>
<title>net: flow_dissector: fail on evil iph-&gt;ihl</title>
<updated>2014-01-03T04:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-01T07:01:10+00:00</published>
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commit 6f092343855a71e03b8d209815d8c45bf3a27fcd upstream.

We don't validate iph-&gt;ihl which may lead a dead loop if we meet a IPIP
skb whose iph-&gt;ihl is zero. Fix this by failing immediately when iph-&gt;ihl
is evil (less than 5).

This issue were introduced by commit ec5efe7946280d1e84603389a1030ccec0a767ae
(rps: support IPIP encapsulation).

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the affected code is in __skb_get_rxhash()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 6f092343855a71e03b8d209815d8c45bf3a27fcd upstream.

We don't validate iph-&gt;ihl which may lead a dead loop if we meet a IPIP
skb whose iph-&gt;ihl is zero. Fix this by failing immediately when iph-&gt;ihl
is evil (less than 5).

This issue were introduced by commit ec5efe7946280d1e84603389a1030ccec0a767ae
(rps: support IPIP encapsulation).

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the affected code is in __skb_get_rxhash()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: core: Always propagate flag changes to interfaces</title>
<updated>2014-01-03T04:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vyasevic@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-20T01:47:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d2615bf450694c1302d86b9cc8a8958edfe4c3a4 ]

The following commit:
    b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7
    net: only invoke dev-&gt;change_rx_flags when device is UP

tried to fix a problem with VLAN devices and promiscuouse flag setting.
The issue was that VLAN device was setting a flag on an interface that
was down, thus resulting in bad promiscuity count.
This commit blocked flag propagation to any device that is currently
down.

A later commit:
    deede2fabe24e00bd7e246eb81cd5767dc6fcfc7
    vlan: Don't propagate flag changes on down interfaces

fixed VLAN code to only propagate flags when the VLAN interface is up,
thus fixing the same issue as above, only localized to VLAN.

The problem we have now is that if we have create a complex stack
involving multiple software devices like bridges, bonds, and vlans,
then it is possible that the flags would not propagate properly to
the physical devices.  A simple examle of the scenario is the
following:

  eth0----&gt; bond0 ----&gt; bridge0 ---&gt; vlan50

If bond0 or eth0 happen to be down at the time bond0 is added to
the bridge, then eth0 will never have promisc mode set which is
currently required for operation as part of the bridge.  As a
result, packets with vlan50 will be dropped by the interface.

The only 2 devices that implement the special flag handling are
VLAN and DSA and they both have required code to prevent incorrect
flag propagation.  As a result we can remove the generic solution
introduced in b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7 and leave
it to the individual devices to decide whether they will block
flag propagation or not.

Reported-by: Stefan Priebe &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Suggested-by: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.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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[ Upstream commit d2615bf450694c1302d86b9cc8a8958edfe4c3a4 ]

The following commit:
    b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7
    net: only invoke dev-&gt;change_rx_flags when device is UP

tried to fix a problem with VLAN devices and promiscuouse flag setting.
The issue was that VLAN device was setting a flag on an interface that
was down, thus resulting in bad promiscuity count.
This commit blocked flag propagation to any device that is currently
down.

A later commit:
    deede2fabe24e00bd7e246eb81cd5767dc6fcfc7
    vlan: Don't propagate flag changes on down interfaces

fixed VLAN code to only propagate flags when the VLAN interface is up,
thus fixing the same issue as above, only localized to VLAN.

The problem we have now is that if we have create a complex stack
involving multiple software devices like bridges, bonds, and vlans,
then it is possible that the flags would not propagate properly to
the physical devices.  A simple examle of the scenario is the
following:

  eth0----&gt; bond0 ----&gt; bridge0 ---&gt; vlan50

If bond0 or eth0 happen to be down at the time bond0 is added to
the bridge, then eth0 will never have promisc mode set which is
currently required for operation as part of the bridge.  As a
result, packets with vlan50 will be dropped by the interface.

The only 2 devices that implement the special flag handling are
VLAN and DSA and they both have required code to prevent incorrect
flag propagation.  As a result we can remove the generic solution
introduced in b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7 and leave
it to the individual devices to decide whether they will block
flag propagation or not.

Reported-by: Stefan Priebe &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Suggested-by: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: don't reset nf_trace in nf_reset()</title>
<updated>2013-05-13T14:02:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-05T18:42:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 124dff01afbdbff251f0385beca84ba1b9adda68 ]

Commit 130549fe ("netfilter: reset nf_trace in nf_reset") added code
to reset nf_trace in nf_reset(). This is wrong and unnecessary.

nf_reset() is used in the following cases:

- when passing packets up the the socket layer, at which point we want to
  release all netfilter references that might keep modules pinned while
  the packet is queued. nf_trace doesn't matter anymore at this point.

- when encapsulating or decapsulating IPsec packets. We want to continue
  tracing these packets after IPsec processing.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices. Only devices on
  that encapsulate in IPv4/v6 matter since otherwise nf_trace is not
  used anymore. Its not entirely clear whether those packets should
  be traced after that, however we've always done that.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices that make the
  packet cross network namespace boundaries. This is the only cases
  where we clearly want to reset nf_trace and is also what the
  original patch intended to fix.

Add a new function nf_reset_trace() and use it in dev_forward_skb() to
fix this properly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&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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[ Upstream commit 124dff01afbdbff251f0385beca84ba1b9adda68 ]

Commit 130549fe ("netfilter: reset nf_trace in nf_reset") added code
to reset nf_trace in nf_reset(). This is wrong and unnecessary.

nf_reset() is used in the following cases:

- when passing packets up the the socket layer, at which point we want to
  release all netfilter references that might keep modules pinned while
  the packet is queued. nf_trace doesn't matter anymore at this point.

- when encapsulating or decapsulating IPsec packets. We want to continue
  tracing these packets after IPsec processing.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices. Only devices on
  that encapsulate in IPv4/v6 matter since otherwise nf_trace is not
  used anymore. Its not entirely clear whether those packets should
  be traced after that, however we've always done that.

- when passing packets through virtual network devices that make the
  packet cross network namespace boundaries. This is the only cases
  where we clearly want to reset nf_trace and is also what the
  original patch intended to fix.

Add a new function nf_reset_trace() and use it in dev_forward_skb() to
fix this properly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&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: add a synchronize_net() in  netdev_rx_handler_unregister()</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:20:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-29T03:01:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 00cfec37484761a44a3b6f4675a54caa618210ae ]

commit 35d48903e97819 (bonding: fix rx_handler locking) added a race
in bonding driver, reported by Steven Rostedt who did a very good
diagnosis :

&lt;quoting Steven&gt;

I'm currently debugging a crash in an old 3.0-rt kernel that one of our
customers is seeing. The bug happens with a stress test that loads and
unloads the bonding module in a loop (I don't know all the details as
I'm not the one that is directly interacting with the customer). But the
bug looks to be something that may still be present and possibly present
in mainline too. It will just be much harder to trigger it in mainline.

In -rt, interrupts are threads, and can schedule in and out just like
any other thread. Note, mainline now supports interrupt threads so this
may be easily reproducible in mainline as well. I don't have the ability
to tell the customer to try mainline or other kernels, so my hands are
somewhat tied to what I can do.

But according to a core dump, I tracked down that the eth irq thread
crashed in bond_handle_frame() here:

        slave = bond_slave_get_rcu(skb-&gt;dev);
        bond = slave-&gt;bond; &lt;--- BUG

the slave returned was NULL and accessing slave-&gt;bond caused a NULL
pointer dereference.

Looking at the code that unregisters the handler:

void netdev_rx_handler_unregister(struct net_device *dev)
{

        ASSERT_RTNL();
        RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev-&gt;rx_handler, NULL);
        RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev-&gt;rx_handler_data, NULL);
}

Which is basically:
        dev-&gt;rx_handler = NULL;
        dev-&gt;rx_handler_data = NULL;

And looking at __netif_receive_skb() we have:

        rx_handler = rcu_dereference(skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler);
        if (rx_handler) {
                if (pt_prev) {
                        ret = deliver_skb(skb, pt_prev, orig_dev);
                        pt_prev = NULL;
                }
                switch (rx_handler(&amp;skb)) {

My question to all of you is, what stops this interrupt from happening
while the bonding module is unloading?  What happens if the interrupt
triggers and we have this:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
  rx_handler = skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler

                        netdev_rx_handler_unregister() {
                           dev-&gt;rx_handler = NULL;
                           dev-&gt;rx_handler_data = NULL;

  rx_handler()
   bond_handle_frame() {
    slave = skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler;
    bond = slave-&gt;bond; &lt;-- NULL pointer dereference!!!

What protection am I missing in the bond release handler that would
prevent the above from happening?

&lt;/quoting Steven&gt;

We can fix bug this in two ways. First is adding a test in
bond_handle_frame() and others to check if rx_handler_data is NULL.

A second way is adding a synchronize_net() in
netdev_rx_handler_unregister() to make sure that a rcu protected reader
has the guarantee to see a non NULL rx_handler_data.

The second way is better as it avoids an extra test in fast path.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jpirko@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.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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[ Upstream commit 00cfec37484761a44a3b6f4675a54caa618210ae ]

commit 35d48903e97819 (bonding: fix rx_handler locking) added a race
in bonding driver, reported by Steven Rostedt who did a very good
diagnosis :

&lt;quoting Steven&gt;

I'm currently debugging a crash in an old 3.0-rt kernel that one of our
customers is seeing. The bug happens with a stress test that loads and
unloads the bonding module in a loop (I don't know all the details as
I'm not the one that is directly interacting with the customer). But the
bug looks to be something that may still be present and possibly present
in mainline too. It will just be much harder to trigger it in mainline.

In -rt, interrupts are threads, and can schedule in and out just like
any other thread. Note, mainline now supports interrupt threads so this
may be easily reproducible in mainline as well. I don't have the ability
to tell the customer to try mainline or other kernels, so my hands are
somewhat tied to what I can do.

But according to a core dump, I tracked down that the eth irq thread
crashed in bond_handle_frame() here:

        slave = bond_slave_get_rcu(skb-&gt;dev);
        bond = slave-&gt;bond; &lt;--- BUG

the slave returned was NULL and accessing slave-&gt;bond caused a NULL
pointer dereference.

Looking at the code that unregisters the handler:

void netdev_rx_handler_unregister(struct net_device *dev)
{

        ASSERT_RTNL();
        RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev-&gt;rx_handler, NULL);
        RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev-&gt;rx_handler_data, NULL);
}

Which is basically:
        dev-&gt;rx_handler = NULL;
        dev-&gt;rx_handler_data = NULL;

And looking at __netif_receive_skb() we have:

        rx_handler = rcu_dereference(skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler);
        if (rx_handler) {
                if (pt_prev) {
                        ret = deliver_skb(skb, pt_prev, orig_dev);
                        pt_prev = NULL;
                }
                switch (rx_handler(&amp;skb)) {

My question to all of you is, what stops this interrupt from happening
while the bonding module is unloading?  What happens if the interrupt
triggers and we have this:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
  rx_handler = skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler

                        netdev_rx_handler_unregister() {
                           dev-&gt;rx_handler = NULL;
                           dev-&gt;rx_handler_data = NULL;

  rx_handler()
   bond_handle_frame() {
    slave = skb-&gt;dev-&gt;rx_handler;
    bond = slave-&gt;bond; &lt;-- NULL pointer dereference!!!

What protection am I missing in the bond release handler that would
prevent the above from happening?

&lt;/quoting Steven&gt;

We can fix bug this in two ways. First is adding a test in
bond_handle_frame() and others to check if rx_handler_data is NULL.

A second way is adding a synchronize_net() in
netdev_rx_handler_unregister() to make sure that a rcu protected reader
has the guarantee to see a non NULL rx_handler_data.

The second way is better as it avoids an extra test in fast path.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jpirko@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
<entry>
<title>bridging: fix rx_handlers return code</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cristian Bercaru</name>
<email>B43982@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-08T07:03:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3bc1b1add7a8484cc4a261c3e128dbe1528ce01f ]

The frames for which rx_handlers return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED are no longer
counted as dropped. They are counted as successfully received by
'netif_receive_skb'.

This allows network interface drivers to correctly update their RX-OK and
RX-DRP counters based on the result of 'netif_receive_skb'.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Bercaru &lt;B43982@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.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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[ Upstream commit 3bc1b1add7a8484cc4a261c3e128dbe1528ce01f ]

The frames for which rx_handlers return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED are no longer
counted as dropped. They are counted as successfully received by
'netif_receive_skb'.

This allows network interface drivers to correctly update their RX-OK and
RX-DRP counters based on the result of 'netif_receive_skb'.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Bercaru &lt;B43982@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.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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