linux-stable.git/net/core/dst.c, branch linux-3.0.y

net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir()

2012-02-13T19:06:13+00:00

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Gergely Kalman reported crashes in check_peer_redir().

It appears commit f39925dbde778 (ipv4: Cache learned redirect
information in inetpeer.) added a race, leading to possible NULL ptr
dereference.

Since we can now change dst neighbour, we should make sure a reader can
safely use a neighbour.

Add RCU protection to dst neighbour, and make sure check_peer_redir()
can be called safely by different cpus in parallel.

As neighbours are already freed after one RCU grace period, this patch
should not add typical RCU penalty (cache cold effects)

Many thanks to Gergely for providing a pretty report pointing to the
bug.

Reported-by: Gergely Kalman 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: Don't put artificial limit on routing table size.

2011-07-02T00:30:43+00:00

IPV6, unlike IPV4, doesn't have a routing cache.

Routing table entries, as well as clones made in response
to route lookup requests, all live in the same table.  And
all of these things are together collected in the destination
cache table for ipv6.

This means that routing table entries count against the garbage
collection limits, even though such entries cannot ever be reclaimed
and are added explicitly by the administrator (rather than being
created in response to lookups).

Therefore it makes no sense to count ipv6 routing table entries
against the GC limits.

Add a DST_NOCOUNT destination cache entry flag, and skip the counting
if it is set.  Use this flag bit in ipv6 when adding routing table
entries.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix __dst_destroy_metrics_generic()

2011-05-24T17:29:50+00:00

dst_default_metrics is readonly, we dont want to kfree() it later.

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2011-05-20T20:43:21+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
  macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
  tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
  tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
  macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
  networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
  irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
  be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
  irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
  atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
  pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
  isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
  tg3: Update version to 3.119
  tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.

sanitize usage

2011-05-20T19:50:29+00:00

Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need 
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipv4: Kill RT_CACHE_DEBUG

2011-05-18T22:23:21+00:00

It's way past it's usefulness.  And this gets rid of a bunch
of stray ->rt_{dst,src} references.

Even the comment documenting the macro was inaccurate (stated
default was 1 when it's 0).

If reintroduced, it should be done properly, with dynamic debug
facilities.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use non-zero allocations in dst_alloc().

2011-04-29T05:26:00+00:00

Make dst_alloc() and it's users explicitly initialize the entire
entry.

The zero'ing done by kmem_cache_zalloc() was almost entirely
redundant.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Make dst_alloc() take more explicit initializations.

2011-04-29T05:25:59+00:00

Now the dst->dev, dev->obsolete, and dst->flags values can
be specified as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add initial_ref arg to dst_alloc().

2011-02-17T23:44:00+00:00

This allows avoiding multiple writes to the initial __refcnt.

The most simplest cases of wanting an initial reference of "1"
in ipv4 and ipv6 have been converted, the rest have been left
along and kept at the existing "0".

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Attach FIB info to dst_default_metrics when possible

2011-01-28T22:05:05+00:00

If there are no explicit metrics attached to a route, hook
fi->fib_info up to dst_default_metrics.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller