linux-stable.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.15.2

rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0

2014-06-26T19:17:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit e5eca6d41f53db48edd8cf88a3f59d2c30227f8e ]

When running RHEL6 userspace on a current upstream kernel, "ip link"
fails to show VF information.

The reason is a kernel<->userspace API change introduced by commit
88c5b5ce5cb57 ("rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length"),
after which the kernel does not see iproute2's IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute
in the netlink request.

iproute2 adjusted for the API change in its commit 63338dca4513
("libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter").

The problem has been noticed before:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=136692296022182&w=2
(Subject: Re: getting VF link info seems to be broken in 3.9-rc8)

We can do better than tell those with old userspace to upgrade. We can
recognize the old iproute2 in the kernel by checking the netlink message
length. Even when including the IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute, its netlink
message is shorter than struct ifinfomsg.

With this patch "ip link" shows VF information in both old and new
iproute2 versions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()

2014-06-26T19:17:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 87757a917b0b3c0787e0563c679762152be81312 ]

unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too
many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks.

See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD")

In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head,
just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access
the list after unregister_netdevice_many()

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

rtnetlink: wait for unregistering devices in rtnl_link_unregister()

2014-05-15T19:30:33+00:00

From: Cong Wang 

commit 50624c934db18ab90 (net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no
devices are unregistering) introduced rtnl_lock_unregistering() for
default_device_exit_batch(). Same race could happen we when rmmod a driver
which calls rtnl_link_unregister() as we call dev->destructor without rtnl
lock.

For long term, I think we should clean up the mess of netdev_run_todo()
and net namespce exit code.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Only supply IFLA_VF_PORTS information when RTEXT_FILTER_VF is set

2014-04-24T17:52:54+00:00

Since 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a (rtnetlink: Fix problem with
buffer allocation), RTM_NEWLINK messages only contain the IFLA_VFINFO_LIST
attribute if they were solicited by a GETLINK message containing an
IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute with the RTEXT_FILTER_VF flag.

That was done because some user programs broke when they received more data
than expected - because IFLA_VFINFO_LIST contains information for each VF
it can become large if there are many VFs.

However, the IFLA_VF_PORTS attribute, supplied for devices which implement
ndo_get_vf_port (currently the 'enic' driver only), has the same problem.
It supplies per-VF information and can therefore become large, but it is
not currently conditional on the IFLA_EXT_MASK value.

Worse, it interacts badly with the existing EXT_MASK handling.  When
IFLA_EXT_MASK is not supplied, the buffer for netlink replies is fixed at
NLMSG_GOODSIZE.  If the information for IFLA_VF_PORTS exceeds this, then
rtnl_fill_ifinfo() returns -EMSGSIZE on the first message in a packet.
netlink_dump() will misinterpret this as having finished the listing and
omit data for this interface and all subsequent ones.  That can cause
getifaddrs(3) to enter an infinite loop.

This patch addresses the problem by only supplying IFLA_VF_PORTS when
IFLA_EXT_MASK is supplied with the RTEXT_FILTER_VF flag set.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Warn when interface's information won't fit in our packet

2014-04-24T17:52:54+00:00

Without IFLA_EXT_MASK specified, the information reported for a single
interface in response to RTM_GETLINK is expected to fit within a netlink
packet of NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

If it doesn't, however, things will go badly wrong,  When listing all
interfaces, netlink_dump() will incorrectly treat -EMSGSIZE on the first
message in a packet as the end of the listing and omit information for
that interface and all subsequent ones.  This can cause getifaddrs(3) to
enter an infinite loop.

This patch won't fix the problem, but it will WARN_ON() making it easier to
track down what's going wrong.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

2014-04-24T17:44:54+00:00

It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-sysfs: expose number of carrier on/off changes

2014-03-31T20:24:52+00:00

This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link
flapping issues:
 - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes
 - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink)

Tested:
  - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes
    + ip link set dev X down/up
    + plug/unplug cable
  - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES
  - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-03-26T00:29:20+00:00

Conflicts:
	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ks8851.txt
	net/core/netpoll.c

The net/core/netpoll.c conflict is a bug fix in 'net' happening
to code which is completely removed in 'net-next'.

In micrel-ks8851.txt we simply have overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags

2014-03-20T20:24:28+00:00

Commit 3ff661c38c84 ("net: rtnetlink notify events for FDB NTF_SELF adds and
deletes") reuses the function nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill() to notify fdb events.
But this function was used only for dump and thus was always setting the
flag NLM_F_MULTI, which is wrong in case of a single notification.

Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE.

CC: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Acked-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2014-02-19T06:24:22+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.h
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

Two minor conflicts in bonding, both of which were overlapping
changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller