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<title>rtnetlink: Only supply IFLA_VF_PORTS information when RTEXT_FILTER_VF is set</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T23:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2014-04-24T00:22:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c53864fd60227de025cb79e05493b13f69843971 ]

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 &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&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 c53864fd60227de025cb79e05493b13f69843971 ]

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 &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&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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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Warn when interface's information won't fit in our packet</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T23:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T00:22:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 973462bbde79bb827824c73b59027a0aed5c9ca6 ]

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 &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jpirko@redhat.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 973462bbde79bb827824c73b59027a0aed5c9ca6 ]

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 &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jpirko@redhat.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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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T16:41:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Riesch</name>
<email>michael.riesch@omicron.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T05:45:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 88c5b5ce5cb57af6ca2a7cf4d5715fa320448ff9 ]

Signed-off-by: Michael Riesch &lt;michael.riesch@omicron.at&gt;
Cc: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rustad &lt;mark.d.rustad@intel.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 88c5b5ce5cb57af6ca2a7cf4d5715fa320448ff9 ]

Signed-off-by: Michael Riesch &lt;michael.riesch@omicron.at&gt;
Cc: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rustad &lt;mark.d.rustad@intel.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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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Mask the rta_type when range checking</title>
<updated>2013-03-28T19:11:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vyasevic@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-13T04:18:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a5b8db91442fce9c9713fcd656c3698f1adde1d6 ]

Range/validity checks on rta_type in rtnetlink_rcv_msg() do
not account for flags that may be set.  This causes the function
to return -EINVAL when flags are set on the type (for example
NLA_F_NESTED).

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&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 a5b8db91442fce9c9713fcd656c3698f1adde1d6 ]

Range/validity checks on rta_type in rtnetlink_rcv_msg() do
not account for flags that may be set.  This causes the function
to return -EINVAL when flags are set on the type (for example
NLA_F_NESTED).

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&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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<entry>
<title>rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T20:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-09T05:52:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 84d73cd3fb142bf1298a8c13fd4ca50fd2432372 ]

Initialize the mac address buffer with 0 as the driver specific function
will probably not fill the whole buffer. In fact, all in-kernel drivers
fill only ETH_ALEN of the MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes, i.e. 6 of the 32 possible
bytes. Therefore we currently leak 26 bytes of stack memory to userland
via the netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.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 84d73cd3fb142bf1298a8c13fd4ca50fd2432372 ]

Initialize the mac address buffer with 0 as the driver specific function
will probably not fill the whole buffer. In fact, all in-kernel drivers
fill only ETH_ALEN of the MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes, i.e. 6 of the 32 possible
bytes. Therefore we currently leak 26 bytes of stack memory to userland
via the netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.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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<entry>
<title>net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T15:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T01:23:25+00:00</published>
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commit 7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd upstream.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd upstream.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:31:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Benc</name>
<email>jbenc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-27T02:58:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ]

When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI
flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and
IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev-&gt;gflags according to the passed value but
do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits
from dev-&gt;flags.

This can be easily trigerred by doing:

tcpdump -i eth0 &amp;
ip l s up eth0

ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with
IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set
IFF_PROMISC in gflags.

Reported-by: Max Matveev &lt;makc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.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 b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ]

When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI
flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and
IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev-&gt;gflags according to the passed value but
do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits
from dev-&gt;flags.

This can be easily trigerred by doing:

tcpdump -i eth0 &amp;
ip l s up eth0

ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with
IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set
IFF_PROMISC in gflags.

Reported-by: Max Matveev &lt;makc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.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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<entry>
<title>Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00</published>
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*&lt;asm/system[.]h&gt;.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*&lt;asm/system[.]h&gt;' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*&lt;asm/system[.]h&gt;.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*&lt;asm/system[.]h&gt;' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-03-06T02:16:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-06T02:16:26+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c

Small vmxnet3 conflict with header size bug fix in 'net'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c

Small vmxnet3 conflict with header size bug fix in 'net'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: fix rtnl_calcit() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()</title>
<updated>2012-03-05T03:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-04T12:32:10+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Rose &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Rose &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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