linux-stable.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v3.7

net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()

2012-12-07T19:39:29+00:00

commit 2e71a6f8084e (net: gro: selective flush of packets) added
a bug for skbs using frag_list. This part of the GRO stack is rarely
used, as it needs skb not using a page fragment for their skb->head.

Most drivers do use a page fragment, but some of them use GFP_KERNEL
allocations for the initial fill of their RX ring buffer.

napi_gro_flush() overwrite skb->prev that was used for these skb to
point to the last skb in frag_list.

Fix this using a separate field in struct napi_gro_cb to point to the
last fragment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-rps: Fix brokeness causing OOO packets

2012-11-16T19:35:56+00:00

In commit c445477d74ab3779 which adds aRFS to the kernel, the CPU
selected for RFS is not set correctly when CPU is changing.
This is causing OOO packets and probably other issues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af-packet: fix oops when socket is not present

2012-11-07T20:40:14+00:00

Due to a NULL dereference, the following patch is causing oops
in normal trafic condition:

commit c0de08d04215031d68fa13af36f347a6cfa252ca
Author: Eric Leblond 
Date:   Thu Aug 16 22:02:58 2012 +0000

    af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

This buggy patch was a feature fix and has reached most stable
branches.

When skb->sk is NULL and when packet fanout is used, there is a
crash in match_fanout_group where skb->sk is accessed.
This patch fixes the issue by returning false as soon as the
socket is NULL: this correspond to the wanted behavior because
the kernel as to resend the skb to all the listening socket in
this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vlan: don't deliver frames for unknown vlans to protocols

2012-10-08T19:21:55+00:00

6a32e4f9dd9219261f8856f817e6655114cfec2f made the vlan code skip marking
vlan-tagged frames for not locally configured vlans as PACKET_OTHERHOST if
there was an rx_handler, as the rx_handler could cause the frame to be received
on a different (virtual) vlan-capable interface where that vlan might be
configured.

As rx_handlers do not necessarily return RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER, this could cause
frames for unknown vlans to be delivered to the protocol stack as if they had
been received untagged.

For example, if an ipv6 router advertisement that's tagged for a locally not
configured vlan is received on an interface with macvlan interfaces attached,
macvlan's rx_handler returns RX_HANDLER_PASS after delivering the frame to the
macvlan interfaces, which caused it to be passed to the protocol stack, leading
to ipv6 addresses for the announced prefix being configured even though those
are completely unusable on the underlying interface.

The fix moves marking as PACKET_OTHERHOST after the rx_handler so the
rx_handler, if there is one, sees the frame unchanged, but afterwards,
before the frame is delivered to the protocol stack, it gets marked whether
there is an rx_handler or not.

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: gro: selective flush of packets

2012-10-08T18:51:51+00:00

Current GRO can hold packets in gro_list for almost unlimited
time, in case napi->poll() handler consumes its budget over and over.

In this case, napi_complete()/napi_gro_flush() are not called.

Another problem is that gro_list is flushed in non friendly way :
We scan the list and complete packets in the reverse order.
(youngest packets first, oldest packets last)
This defeats priorities that sender could have cooked.

Since GRO currently only store TCP packets, we dont really notice the
bug because of retransmits, but this behavior can add unexpected
latencies, particularly on mice flows clamped by elephant flows.

This patch makes sure no packet can stay more than 1 ms in queue, and
only in stress situations.

It also complete packets in the right order to minimize latencies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: Jesse Gross 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: gro: fix a potential crash in skb_gro_reset_offset

2012-10-07T18:49:17+00:00

Before accessing skb first fragment, better make sure there
is one.

This is probably not needed for old kernels, since an ethernet frame
cannot contain only an ethernet header, but the recent GRO addition
to tunnels makes this patch needed.

Also skb_gro_reset_offset() can be static, it actually allows
compiler to inline it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2012-10-02T20:38:27+00:00

Pull networking changes from David Miller:

 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov.

 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman.

 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko.

 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar.

 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy.

 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others.

 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel
    Borkmann.

 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for
    outgoing networking traffic.  This benefits processes that have very
    many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common.

    From Eric Dumazet.

10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to
    smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail.  Benefits are
    a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page
    allocator c) less waste of space.

    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet.

12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the
    limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation.
    From Stephen Hemminger.

13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale
    perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around.

Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user
namespace changes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits)
  hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message.
  hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet
  hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements
  hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request()
  hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter()
  hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization
  vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace
  vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET
  sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types
  sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP
  sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1
  sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup
  sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments
  sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type
  vxlan: virtual extensible lan
  igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group
  netlink: add attributes to fdb interface
  tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled.
  Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT"
  gre: fix sparse warning
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2012-10-02T18:11:09+00:00

Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
handle those places with simple trivial patches.

Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
"capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
linux-next.

After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
...

net: add gro_cells infrastructure

2012-10-01T21:01:46+00:00

This adds a new include file (include/net/gro_cells.h), to bring GRO
(Generic Receive Offload) capability to tunnels, in a modular way.

Because tunnels receive path is lockless, and GRO adds a serialization
using a napi_struct, I chose to add an array of up to
DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RSS_QUEUES cells, so that multi queue devices wont be
slowed down because of GRO layer.

skb_get_rx_queue() is used as selector.

In the future, we might add optional fanout capabilities, using rxhash
for example.

With help from Ben Hutchings who reminded me
netif_get_num_default_rss_queues() function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2012-10-01T19:10:44+00:00

Pull driver core merge from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core update for 3.7-rc1.

  A number of firmware_class.c updates (as you saw a month or so ago),
  and some hyper-v updates and some printk fixes as well.  All patches
  that are outside of the drivers/base area have been acked by the
  respective maintainers, and have all been in the linux-next tree for a
  while.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "

* tag 'driver-core-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (95 commits)
  memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Fix reading incorrect register in mc_readl()
  device.h: Add missing inline to #ifndef CONFIG_PRINTK dev_vprintk_emit
  memory: emif: Add ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS guard for emif_debugfs_[init|exit]
  Documentation: Fixes some translation error in Documentation/zh_CN/gpio.txt
  Documentation: Remove 3 byte redundant code at the head of the Documentation/zh_CN/arm/booting
  Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/video4linux/omap3isp.txt
  device and dynamic_debug: Use dev_vprintk_emit and dev_printk_emit
  dev: Add dev_vprintk_emit and dev_printk_emit
  netdev_printk/netif_printk: Remove a superfluous logging colon
  netdev_printk/dynamic_netdev_dbg: Directly call printk_emit
  dev_dbg/dynamic_debug: Update to use printk_emit, optimize stack
  driver-core: Shut up dev_dbg_reatelimited() without DEBUG
  tools/hv: Parse /etc/os-release
  tools/hv: Check for read/write errors
  tools/hv: Fix exit() error code
  tools/hv: Fix file handle leak
  Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_GET_IP_INFO
  Tools: hv: Rename the function kvp_get_ip_address()
  Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_SET_IP_INFO
  Tools: hv: Add an example script to configure an interface
  ...