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<title>drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:43:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gavrilov Ilia</name>
<email>Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru</email>
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<published>2025-02-13T15:20:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 07b598c0e6f06a0f254c88dafb4ad50f8a8c6eea ]

Syzkaller reports the following bug:

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, syz-executor.0/7995
 lock: 0xffff88805303f3e0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: &lt;none&gt;/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 1 PID: 7995 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G            E     5.10.209+ #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x119/0x179 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:83 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f6/0x270 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
 reset_per_cpu_data+0xe6/0x240 [drop_monitor]
 net_dm_cmd_trace+0x43d/0x17a0 [drop_monitor]
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2497
 genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x914/0xe00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1916
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:663
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2378
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2432
 __sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2461
 do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0xc7
RIP: 0033:0x7f3f9815aee9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f3f972bf0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3f9826d050 RCX: 00007f3f9815aee9
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020001300 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f3f981b63bd R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007f3f9826d050 R15: 00007ffe01ee6768

If drop_monitor is built as a kernel module, syzkaller may have time
to send a netlink NET_DM_CMD_START message during the module loading.
This will call the net_dm_monitor_start() function that uses
a spinlock that has not yet been initialized.

To fix this, let's place resource initialization above the registration
of a generic netlink family.

Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilia Gavrilov &lt;Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250213152054.2785669-1-Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 07b598c0e6f06a0f254c88dafb4ad50f8a8c6eea ]

Syzkaller reports the following bug:

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, syz-executor.0/7995
 lock: 0xffff88805303f3e0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: &lt;none&gt;/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 1 PID: 7995 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G            E     5.10.209+ #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x119/0x179 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:83 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f6/0x270 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
 reset_per_cpu_data+0xe6/0x240 [drop_monitor]
 net_dm_cmd_trace+0x43d/0x17a0 [drop_monitor]
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2497
 genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x914/0xe00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1916
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:663
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2378
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2432
 __sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2461
 do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0xc7
RIP: 0033:0x7f3f9815aee9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f3f972bf0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3f9826d050 RCX: 00007f3f9815aee9
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020001300 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f3f981b63bd R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007f3f9826d050 R15: 00007ffe01ee6768

If drop_monitor is built as a kernel module, syzkaller may have time
to send a netlink NET_DM_CMD_START message during the module loading.
This will call the net_dm_monitor_start() function that uses
a spinlock that has not yet been initialized.

To fix this, let's place resource initialization above the registration
of a generic netlink family.

Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilia Gavrilov &lt;Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250213152054.2785669-1-Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock</title>
<updated>2024-07-05T07:08:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wander Lairson Costa</name>
<email>wander@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-11T14:13:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f1e197a665c2148ebc25fe09c53689e60afea195 ]

trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires
a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are
sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:
 #0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210
 #1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130
 #2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210
 #3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70
 #4: ff1100086ee07520 (&amp;data-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
irq event stamp: 139909
hardirqs last  enabled at (139908): [&lt;ffffffffb1df2b33&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x63/0x80
hardirqs last disabled at (139909): [&lt;ffffffffb19bd03d&gt;] trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x26d/0x290
softirqs last  enabled at (139892): [&lt;ffffffffb07a1083&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x103/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (139898): [&lt;ffffffffb0909b33&gt;] rcu_cpu_kthread+0x93/0x1f0
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffffffffb1de786b&gt;] rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xab/0x2e0
CPU: 47 PID: 449 Comm: rcuc/47 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rt1+ #7
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R650/0Y2G81, BIOS 1.6.5 04/15/2022
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xd0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x21e/0x2f0
 rt_spin_lock+0x5e/0x130
 ? trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80
 ? __pfx_trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
 ? rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x26a/0x2e0
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 ? __pfx_rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x10/0x10
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 trace_kfree_skb_hit+0x15/0x20
 trace_kfree_skb+0xe9/0x150
 kfree_skb_reason+0x7b/0x110
 skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 ? __pfx_skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_lock.part.0+0x8a/0x520
...

trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue
because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.

Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic
context.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hu Chunyu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f1e197a665c2148ebc25fe09c53689e60afea195 ]

trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires
a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are
sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:
 #0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210
 #1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130
 #2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210
 #3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70
 #4: ff1100086ee07520 (&amp;data-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
irq event stamp: 139909
hardirqs last  enabled at (139908): [&lt;ffffffffb1df2b33&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x63/0x80
hardirqs last disabled at (139909): [&lt;ffffffffb19bd03d&gt;] trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x26d/0x290
softirqs last  enabled at (139892): [&lt;ffffffffb07a1083&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x103/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (139898): [&lt;ffffffffb0909b33&gt;] rcu_cpu_kthread+0x93/0x1f0
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffffffffb1de786b&gt;] rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xab/0x2e0
CPU: 47 PID: 449 Comm: rcuc/47 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rt1+ #7
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R650/0Y2G81, BIOS 1.6.5 04/15/2022
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xd0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x21e/0x2f0
 rt_spin_lock+0x5e/0x130
 ? trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80
 ? __pfx_trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
 ? rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x26a/0x2e0
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 ? __pfx_rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x10/0x10
 ? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 trace_kfree_skb_hit+0x15/0x20
 trace_kfree_skb+0xe9/0x150
 kfree_skb_reason+0x7b/0x110
 skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
 ? __pfx_skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_lock.part.0+0x8a/0x520
...

trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue
because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.

Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic
context.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hu Chunyu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Require 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' when joining "events" group</title>
<updated>2023-12-13T17:18:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-11T12:41:33+00:00</published>
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commit e03781879a0d524ce3126678d50a80484a513c4b upstream.

The "NET_DM" generic netlink family notifies drop locations over the
"events" multicast group. This is problematic since by default generic
netlink allows non-root users to listen to these notifications.

Fix by adding a new field to the generic netlink multicast group
structure that when set prevents non-root users or root without the
'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' capability (in the user namespace owning the network
namespace) from joining the group. Set this field for the "events"
group. Use 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' rather than 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' because of the
nature of the information that is shared over this group.

Note that the capability check in this case will always be performed
against the initial user namespace since the family is not netns aware
and only operates in the initial network namespace.

A new field is added to the structure rather than using the "flags"
field because the existing field uses uAPI flags and it is inappropriate
to add a new uAPI flag for an internal kernel check. In net-next we can
rework the "flags" field to use internal flags and fold the new field
into it. But for now, in order to reduce the amount of changes, add a
new field.

Since the information can only be consumed by root, mark the control
plane operations that start and stop the tracing as root-only using the
'GENL_ADMIN_PERM' flag.

Tested using [1].

Before:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo

After:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo
 Failed to join "events" multicast group

[1]
 $ cat dm.c
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/genl/ctrl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/genl/genl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/socket.h&gt;

 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct nl_sock *sk;
 	int grp, err;

 	sk = nl_socket_alloc();
 	if (!sk) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate socket\n");
 		return -1;
 	}

 	err = genl_connect(sk);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect socket\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	grp = genl_ctrl_resolve_grp(sk, "NET_DM", "events");
 	if (grp &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr,
 			"Failed to resolve \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return grp;
 	}

 	err = nl_socket_add_memberships(sk, grp, NFNLGRP_NONE);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to join \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	return 0;
 }
 $ gcc -I/usr/include/libnl3 -lnl-3 -lnl-genl-3 -o dm_repo dm.c

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Reported-by: "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)" &lt;security@ncsc.gov.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206213102.1824398-3-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e03781879a0d524ce3126678d50a80484a513c4b upstream.

The "NET_DM" generic netlink family notifies drop locations over the
"events" multicast group. This is problematic since by default generic
netlink allows non-root users to listen to these notifications.

Fix by adding a new field to the generic netlink multicast group
structure that when set prevents non-root users or root without the
'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' capability (in the user namespace owning the network
namespace) from joining the group. Set this field for the "events"
group. Use 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' rather than 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' because of the
nature of the information that is shared over this group.

Note that the capability check in this case will always be performed
against the initial user namespace since the family is not netns aware
and only operates in the initial network namespace.

A new field is added to the structure rather than using the "flags"
field because the existing field uses uAPI flags and it is inappropriate
to add a new uAPI flag for an internal kernel check. In net-next we can
rework the "flags" field to use internal flags and fold the new field
into it. But for now, in order to reduce the amount of changes, add a
new field.

Since the information can only be consumed by root, mark the control
plane operations that start and stop the tracing as root-only using the
'GENL_ADMIN_PERM' flag.

Tested using [1].

Before:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo

After:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo
 Failed to join "events" multicast group

[1]
 $ cat dm.c
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/genl/ctrl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/genl/genl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;netlink/socket.h&gt;

 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct nl_sock *sk;
 	int grp, err;

 	sk = nl_socket_alloc();
 	if (!sk) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate socket\n");
 		return -1;
 	}

 	err = genl_connect(sk);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect socket\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	grp = genl_ctrl_resolve_grp(sk, "NET_DM", "events");
 	if (grp &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr,
 			"Failed to resolve \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return grp;
 	}

 	err = nl_socket_add_memberships(sk, grp, NFNLGRP_NONE);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to join \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	return 0;
 }
 $ gcc -I/usr/include/libnl3 -lnl-3 -lnl-genl-3 -o dm_repo dm.c

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Reported-by: "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)" &lt;security@ncsc.gov.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206213102.1824398-3-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: fix data-race in dropmon_net_event / trace_napi_poll_hit</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T10:59:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-10T17:13:31+00:00</published>
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commit dcd54265c8bc14bd023815e36e2d5f9d66ee1fee upstream.

trace_napi_poll_hit() is reading stat-&gt;dev while another thread can write
on it from dropmon_net_event()

Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() here, RCU rules are properly enforced already,
we only have to take care of load/store tearing.

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dropmon_net_event / trace_napi_poll_hit

write to 0xffff88816f3ab9c0 of 8 bytes by task 20260 on cpu 1:
 dropmon_net_event+0xb8/0x2b0 net/core/drop_monitor.c:1579
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:84 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x53/0xb0 kernel/notifier.c:392
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:1919 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1931 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1945 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x867/0xfb0 net/core/dev.c:10415
 ip_tunnel_delete_nets+0x24a/0x280 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1123
 vti_exit_batch_net+0x2a/0x30 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:515
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:173 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x4dc/0x8d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:597
 process_one_work+0x3f6/0x960 kernel/workqueue.c:2307
 worker_thread+0x616/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2454
 kthread+0x1bf/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:377
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

read to 0xffff88816f3ab9c0 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 trace_napi_poll_hit+0x89/0x1c0 net/core/drop_monitor.c:292
 trace_napi_poll include/trace/events/napi.h:14 [inline]
 __napi_poll+0x36b/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:6366
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6432 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x29e/0x650 net/core/dev.c:6519
 __do_softirq+0x158/0x2de kernel/softirq.c:558
 do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:459
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x68/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:383
 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:167 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x33/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:394 [inline]
 ptr_ring_consume_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:367 [inline]
 wg_packet_decrypt_worker+0x73c/0x780 drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:506
 process_one_work+0x3f6/0x960 kernel/workqueue.c:2307
 worker_thread+0x616/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2454
 kthread+0x1bf/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:377
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

value changed: 0xffff88815883e000 -&gt; 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 26435 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: wg-crypt-wg2 wg_packet_decrypt_worker

Fixes: 4ea7e38696c7 ("dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit dcd54265c8bc14bd023815e36e2d5f9d66ee1fee upstream.

trace_napi_poll_hit() is reading stat-&gt;dev while another thread can write
on it from dropmon_net_event()

Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() here, RCU rules are properly enforced already,
we only have to take care of load/store tearing.

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dropmon_net_event / trace_napi_poll_hit

write to 0xffff88816f3ab9c0 of 8 bytes by task 20260 on cpu 1:
 dropmon_net_event+0xb8/0x2b0 net/core/drop_monitor.c:1579
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:84 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x53/0xb0 kernel/notifier.c:392
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:1919 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1931 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1945 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x867/0xfb0 net/core/dev.c:10415
 ip_tunnel_delete_nets+0x24a/0x280 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1123
 vti_exit_batch_net+0x2a/0x30 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:515
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:173 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x4dc/0x8d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:597
 process_one_work+0x3f6/0x960 kernel/workqueue.c:2307
 worker_thread+0x616/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2454
 kthread+0x1bf/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:377
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

read to 0xffff88816f3ab9c0 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 trace_napi_poll_hit+0x89/0x1c0 net/core/drop_monitor.c:292
 trace_napi_poll include/trace/events/napi.h:14 [inline]
 __napi_poll+0x36b/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:6366
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6432 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x29e/0x650 net/core/dev.c:6519
 __do_softirq+0x158/0x2de kernel/softirq.c:558
 do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:459
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x68/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:383
 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:167 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x33/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:394 [inline]
 ptr_ring_consume_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:367 [inline]
 wg_packet_decrypt_worker+0x73c/0x780 drivers/net/wireguard/receive.c:506
 process_one_work+0x3f6/0x960 kernel/workqueue.c:2307
 worker_thread+0x616/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2454
 kthread+0x1bf/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:377
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

value changed: 0xffff88815883e000 -&gt; 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 26435 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: wg-crypt-wg2 wg_packet_decrypt_worker

Fixes: 4ea7e38696c7 ("dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: work around gcc-10 stringop-overflow warning</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:20:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-30T21:30:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dc30b4059f6e2abf3712ab537c8718562b21c45d ]

The current gcc-10 snapshot produces a false-positive warning:

net/core/drop_monitor.c: In function 'trace_drop_common.constprop':
cc1: error: writing 8 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
In file included from net/core/drop_monitor.c:23:
include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h:36:8: note: at offset 0 to object 'entries' with size 4 declared here
   36 |  __u32 entries;
      |        ^~~~~~~

I reported this in the gcc bugzilla, but in case it does not get
fixed in the release, work around it by using a temporary variable.

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94881
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dc30b4059f6e2abf3712ab537c8718562b21c45d ]

The current gcc-10 snapshot produces a false-positive warning:

net/core/drop_monitor.c: In function 'trace_drop_common.constprop':
cc1: error: writing 8 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
In file included from net/core/drop_monitor.c:23:
include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h:36:8: note: at offset 0 to object 'entries' with size 4 declared here
   36 |  __u32 entries;
      |        ^~~~~~~

I reported this in the gcc bugzilla, but in case it does not get
fixed in the release, work around it by using a temporary variable.

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation &amp; Netlink protocol")
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94881
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Do not cancel uninitialized work item</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T12:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-07T17:29:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0fea83e06f12fdaefe796f7e257bf2bf80690b35'/>
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[ Upstream commit dfa7f709596be5ca46c070d4f8acbb344322056a ]

Drop monitor uses a work item that takes care of constructing and
sending netlink notifications to user space. In case drop monitor never
started to monitor, then the work item is uninitialized and not
associated with a function.

Therefore, a stop command from user space results in canceling an
uninitialized work item which leads to the following warning [1].

Fix this by not processing a stop command if drop monitor is not
currently monitoring.

[1]
[   31.735402] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   31.736470] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 143 at kernel/workqueue.c:3032 __flush_work+0x89f/0x9f0
...
[   31.738120] CPU: 0 PID: 143 Comm: dwdump Not tainted 5.5.0-custom-09491-g16d4077796b8 #727
[   31.741968] RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x89f/0x9f0
...
[   31.760526] Call Trace:
[   31.771689]  __cancel_work_timer+0x2a6/0x3b0
[   31.776809]  net_dm_cmd_trace+0x300/0xef0
[   31.777549]  genl_rcv_msg+0x5c6/0xd50
[   31.781005]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x13b/0x3a0
[   31.784114]  genl_rcv+0x29/0x40
[   31.784720]  netlink_unicast+0x49f/0x6a0
[   31.787148]  netlink_sendmsg+0x7cf/0xc80
[   31.790426]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x620/0x770
[   31.793458]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xfd/0x170
[   31.802216]  __sys_sendmsg+0xdf/0x1a0
[   31.806195]  do_syscall_64+0xa0/0x540
[   31.806885]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Fixes: 8e94c3bc922e ("drop_monitor: Allow user to start monitoring hardware drops")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dfa7f709596be5ca46c070d4f8acbb344322056a ]

Drop monitor uses a work item that takes care of constructing and
sending netlink notifications to user space. In case drop monitor never
started to monitor, then the work item is uninitialized and not
associated with a function.

Therefore, a stop command from user space results in canceling an
uninitialized work item which leads to the following warning [1].

Fix this by not processing a stop command if drop monitor is not
currently monitoring.

[1]
[   31.735402] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   31.736470] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 143 at kernel/workqueue.c:3032 __flush_work+0x89f/0x9f0
...
[   31.738120] CPU: 0 PID: 143 Comm: dwdump Not tainted 5.5.0-custom-09491-g16d4077796b8 #727
[   31.741968] RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x89f/0x9f0
...
[   31.760526] Call Trace:
[   31.771689]  __cancel_work_timer+0x2a6/0x3b0
[   31.776809]  net_dm_cmd_trace+0x300/0xef0
[   31.777549]  genl_rcv_msg+0x5c6/0xd50
[   31.781005]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x13b/0x3a0
[   31.784114]  genl_rcv+0x29/0x40
[   31.784720]  netlink_unicast+0x49f/0x6a0
[   31.787148]  netlink_sendmsg+0x7cf/0xc80
[   31.790426]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x620/0x770
[   31.793458]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xfd/0x170
[   31.802216]  __sys_sendmsg+0xdf/0x1a0
[   31.806195]  do_syscall_64+0xa0/0x540
[   31.806885]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Fixes: 8e94c3bc922e ("drop_monitor: Allow user to start monitoring hardware drops")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Better sanitize notified packets</title>
<updated>2019-09-16T19:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-15T06:46:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bef17466811b9f559d1dba3ebbfbd01a880c89a2'/>
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When working in 'packet' mode, drop monitor generates a notification
with a potentially truncated payload of the dropped packet. The payload
is copied from the MAC header, but I forgot to check that the MAC header
was set, so do it now.

Fixes: ca30707dee2b ("drop_monitor: Add packet alert mode")
Fixes: 5e58109b1ea4 ("drop_monitor: Add support for packet alert mode for hardware drops")
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When working in 'packet' mode, drop monitor generates a notification
with a potentially truncated payload of the dropped packet. The payload
is copied from the MAC header, but I forgot to check that the MAC header
was set, so do it now.

Fixes: ca30707dee2b ("drop_monitor: Add packet alert mode")
Fixes: 5e58109b1ea4 ("drop_monitor: Add support for packet alert mode for hardware drops")
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Make timestamps y2038 safe</title>
<updated>2019-08-23T21:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-23T15:47:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bd1200b79510a68554890af2f48d92be6eb1daf8'/>
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Timestamps are currently communicated to user space as 'struct
timespec', which is not considered y2038 safe since it uses a 32-bit
signed value for seconds.

Fix this while the API is still not part of any official kernel release
by using 64-bit nanoseconds timestamps instead.

Fixes: ca30707dee2b ("drop_monitor: Add packet alert mode")
Fixes: 5e58109b1ea4 ("drop_monitor: Add support for packet alert mode for hardware drops")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Timestamps are currently communicated to user space as 'struct
timespec', which is not considered y2038 safe since it uses a 32-bit
signed value for seconds.

Fix this while the API is still not part of any official kernel release
by using 64-bit nanoseconds timestamps instead.

Fixes: ca30707dee2b ("drop_monitor: Add packet alert mode")
Fixes: 5e58109b1ea4 ("drop_monitor: Add support for packet alert mode for hardware drops")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Allow user to start monitoring hardware drops</title>
<updated>2019-08-17T19:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-17T13:28:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8e94c3bc922e70225bd35891c8e6002bddd984eb'/>
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Drop monitor has start and stop commands, but so far these were only
used to start and stop monitoring of software drops.

Now that drop monitor can also monitor hardware drops, we should allow
the user to control these as well.

Do that by adding SW and HW flags to these commands. If no flag is
specified, then only start / stop monitoring software drops. This is
done in order to maintain backward-compatibility with existing user
space applications.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Drop monitor has start and stop commands, but so far these were only
used to start and stop monitoring of software drops.

Now that drop monitor can also monitor hardware drops, we should allow
the user to control these as well.

Do that by adding SW and HW flags to these commands. If no flag is
specified, then only start / stop monitoring software drops. This is
done in order to maintain backward-compatibility with existing user
space applications.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop_monitor: Add support for summary alert mode for hardware drops</title>
<updated>2019-08-17T19:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-17T13:28:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d40e1deb930f4bd51a5214983e50aafc26db686e'/>
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In summary alert mode a notification is sent with a list of recent drop
reasons and a count of how many packets were dropped due to this reason.

To avoid expensive operations in the context in which packets are
dropped, each CPU holds an array whose number of entries is the maximum
number of drop reasons that can be encoded in the netlink notification.
Each entry stores the drop reason and a count. When a packet is dropped
the array is traversed and a new entry is created or the count of an
existing entry is incremented.

Later, in process context, the array is replaced with a newly allocated
copy and the old array is encoded in a netlink notification. To avoid
breaking user space, the notification includes the ancillary header,
which is 'struct net_dm_alert_msg' with number of entries set to '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In summary alert mode a notification is sent with a list of recent drop
reasons and a count of how many packets were dropped due to this reason.

To avoid expensive operations in the context in which packets are
dropped, each CPU holds an array whose number of entries is the maximum
number of drop reasons that can be encoded in the netlink notification.
Each entry stores the drop reason and a count. When a packet is dropped
the array is traversed and a new entry is created or the count of an
existing entry is incremented.

Later, in process context, the array is replaced with a newly allocated
copy and the old array is encoded in a netlink notification. To avoid
breaking user space, the notification includes the ancillary header,
which is 'struct net_dm_alert_msg' with number of entries set to '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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