linux-stable.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.3.6

rtnetlink: Fix VF IFLA policy

2012-04-02T17:31:53+00:00

commit 48752f6513012a1b078da08b145d5c40a644f058 upstream.

Add VF spoof check to IFLA policy.  The original patch I submitted to
add the spoof checking feature to rtnl failed to add the proper policy
rule that identifies the data type and len.  This patch corrects that
oversight.  No bugs have been reported against this but it may cause
some problem for the netlink message parsing that uses the policy
table.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Tested-by: Sibai Li 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtnetlink: fix rtnl_calcit() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

2012-03-05T03:02:55+00:00

nlmsg_parse() might return an error, so test its return value before
potential random memory accesses.

Errors introduced in commit 115c9b81928 (rtnetlink: Fix problem with
buffer allocation)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

2012-02-21T21:56:45+00:00

Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.

This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.

Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: RTNETLINK adjusting values of min_ifinfo_dump_size

2012-01-26T21:35:57+00:00

Setting link parameters on a netdevice changes the value
of if_nlmsg_size(), therefore it is necessary to recalculate
min_ifinfo_dump_size.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Gula 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security

2012-01-15T02:36:33+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security:
  capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition
  security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
  ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat
  capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions
  capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call
  capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable
  capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit
  capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability
  capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces
  capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit
  capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable
  capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely
  selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod
  selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code
  selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs
  selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h
  selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init
  selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()

Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv():

 - the interface was removed in commit fd7784615248 ("security: remove
   the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()")

 - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b926 ("crypto: Add
   userspace configuration API")

causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the
issue.

security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()

2012-01-05T23:53:01+00:00

Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

rtnetlink: rtnl_link_register() sanity test

2011-12-14T07:39:29+00:00

Before adding a struct rtnl_link_ops into link_ops list, check it doesnt
clash with a prior one.

Based on a previous patch from Alexander Smirnov

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Alexander Smirnov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

if_link: Add additional parameter to IFLA_VF_INFO for spoof checking

2011-10-16T20:15:38+00:00

Add configuration setting for drivers to turn spoof checking on or off
for discrete VFs.

v2 - Fix indentation problem, wrap the ifla_vf_info structure in
     #ifdef __KERNEL__ to prevent user space from accessing and
     change function paramater for the spoof check setting netdev
     op from u8 to bool.
v3 - Preset spoof check setting to -1 so that user space tools such
     as ip can detect that the driver didn't report a spoofcheck
     setting.  Prevents incorrect display of spoof check settings
     for drivers that don't report it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher

rtnetlink: remove initialization of dev->real_num_tx_queues

2011-08-11T14:44:38+00:00

dev->real_num_tx_queues is correctly set already in alloc_netdev_mqs.

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

rtnl: provide link dump consistency info

2011-07-01T22:39:53+00:00

This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace
which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from
the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place,
the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first
message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages
of the same dump.

Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is
taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a
complete list of links and not miss any.

Testing:
I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split
over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in
one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy
netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have
had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set.

I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the
wireless tree.  I just wanted to give this some testing right away.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller