linux-stable.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v4.16

rtnetlink: require unique netns identifier

2018-02-08T19:33:20+00:00

Since we've added support for IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_{DEL,GET,SET,NEW}LINK
it is possible for userspace to send us requests with three different
properties to identify a target network namespace. This affects at least
RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK. Each of them could potentially refer to a different
network namespace which is confusing. For legacy reasons the kernel will
pick the IFLA_NET_NS_PID property first and then look for the
IFLA_NET_NS_FD property but there is no reason to extend this type of
behavior to network namespace ids. The regression potential is quite
minimal since the rtnetlink requests in question either won't allow
IFLA_IF_NETNSID requests before 4.16 is out (RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK) or don't
support IFLA_NET_NS_{PID,FD} (RTM_{DEL,GET}LINK) in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Acked-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: remove check for IFLA_IF_NETNSID

2018-02-01T15:09:50+00:00

RTM_NEWLINK supports the IFLA_IF_NETNSID property since
5bb8ed075428b71492734af66230aa0c07fcc515 so we should not error out
when it is passed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK

2018-01-31T15:26:29+00:00

- Backwards Compatibility:
  If userspace wants to determine whether RTM_NEWLINK supports the
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID property they should first send an RTM_GETLINK request
  with IFLA_IF_NETNSID on lo. If either EACCESS is returned or the reply
  does not include IFLA_IF_NETNSID userspace should assume that
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID is not supported on this kernel.
  If the reply does contain an IFLA_IF_NETNSID property userspace
  can send an RTM_NEWLINK with a IFLA_IF_NETNSID property. If they receive
  EOPNOTSUPP then the kernel does not support the IFLA_IF_NETNSID property
  with RTM_NEWLINK. Userpace should then fallback to other means.

- Security:
  Callers must have CAP_NET_ADMIN in the owning user namespace of the
  target network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: introduce helper dev_change_tx_queue_len()

2018-01-29T17:42:15+00:00

This patch promotes the local change_tx_queue_len() to a core
helper function, dev_change_tx_queue_len(), so that rtnetlink
and net-sysfs could share the code. This also prepares for the
following patch.

Note, the -EFAULT in the original code doesn't make sense,
we should propagate the errno from notifiers.

Cc: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes

2018-01-29T17:23:52+00:00

The goal is to let the user follow an interface that moves to another
netns.

CC: Jiri Benc 
CC: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_DELLINK

2018-01-29T16:31:06+00:00

- Backwards Compatibility:
  If userspace wants to determine whether RTM_DELLINK supports the
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID property they should first send an RTM_GETLINK request
  with IFLA_IF_NETNSID on lo. If either EACCESS is returned or the reply
  does not include IFLA_IF_NETNSID userspace should assume that
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID is not supported on this kernel.
  If the reply does contain an IFLA_IF_NETNSID property userspace
  can send an RTM_DELLINK with a IFLA_IF_NETNSID property. If they receive
  EOPNOTSUPP then the kernel does not support the IFLA_IF_NETNSID property
  with RTM_DELLINK. Userpace should then fallback to other means.

- Security:
  Callers must have CAP_NET_ADMIN in the owning user namespace of the
  target network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_SETLINK

2018-01-29T16:31:06+00:00

- Backwards Compatibility:
  If userspace wants to determine whether RTM_SETLINK supports the
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID property they should first send an RTM_GETLINK request
  with IFLA_IF_NETNSID on lo. If either EACCESS is returned or the reply
  does not include IFLA_IF_NETNSID userspace should assume that
  IFLA_IF_NETNSID is not supported on this kernel.
  If the reply does contain an IFLA_IF_NETNSID property userspace
  can send an RTM_SETLINK with a IFLA_IF_NETNSID property. If they receive
  EOPNOTSUPP then the kernel does not support the IFLA_IF_NETNSID property
  with RTM_SETLINK. Userpace should then fallback to other means.

  To retain backwards compatibility the kernel will first check whether a
  IFLA_NET_NS_PID or IFLA_NET_NS_FD property has been passed. If either
  one is found it will be used to identify the target network namespace.
  This implies that users who do not care whether their running kernel
  supports IFLA_IF_NETNSID with RTM_SETLINK can pass both
  IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID} and IFLA_IF_NETNSID referring to the same network
  namespace.

- Security:
  Callers must have CAP_NET_ADMIN in the owning user namespace of the
  target network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID in do_setlink()

2018-01-29T16:31:06+00:00

RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK already allow operations on other network namespaces
by identifying the target network namespace through IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID}
properties. This is done by looking for the corresponding properties in
do_setlink(). Extend do_setlink() to also look for the IFLA_IF_NETNSID
property. This introduces no functional changes since all callers of
do_setlink() currently block IFLA_IF_NETNSID by reporting an error before
they reach do_setlink().

This introduces the helpers:

static struct net *rtnl_link_get_net_by_nlattr(struct net *src_net, struct
                                               nlattr *tb[])

static struct net *rtnl_link_get_net_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb,
                                             struct net *src_net,
					     struct nlattr *tb[], int cap)

to simplify permission checks and target network namespace retrieval for
RTM_* requests that already support IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID} but get extended
to IFLA_IF_NETNSID. To perserve backwards compatibility the helpers look
for IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID} properties first before checking for
IFLA_IF_NETNSID.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions

2018-01-22T20:42:05+00:00

Expose the number of times the link has been going UP or DOWN, and
update the "carrier_changes" counter to be the sum of these two events.
While at it, also update the sysfs-class-net documentation to cover:
carrier_changes (3.15), carrier_up_count (4.16) and carrier_down_count
(4.16)

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny 
[Florian:
* rebase
* add documentation
* merge carrier_changes with up/down counters]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2018-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

2018-01-10T19:57:19+00:00

mlx5-updates-2018-01-08

Four patches from Or that add Hairpin support to mlx5:
===========================================================
From:  Or Gerlitz 

We refer the ability of NIC HW to fwd packet received on one port to
the other port (also from a port to itself) as hairpin. The application API
is based
on ingress tc/flower rules set on the NIC with the mirred redirect
action. Other actions can apply to packets during the redirect.

Hairpin allows to offload the data-path of various SW DDoS gateways,
load-balancers, etc to HW. Packets go through all the required
processing in HW (header re-write, encap/decap, push/pop vlan) and
then forwarded, CPU stays at practically zero usage. HW Flow counters
are used by the control plane for monitoring and accounting.

Hairpin is implemented by pairing a receive queue (RQ) to send queue (SQ).
All the flows that share  are redirected through
the same hairpin pair. Currently, only header-rewrite is supported as a
packet modification action.

I'd like to thanks Elijah Shakkour  for implementing this
functionality
on HW simulator, before it was avail in the FW so the driver code could be
tested early.
===========================================================

From Feras three patches that provide very small changes that allow IPoIB
to support RX timestamping for child interfaces, simply by hooking the mlx5e
timestamping PTP ioctl to IPoIB child interface netdev profile.

One patch from Gal to fix a spilling mistake.

Two patches from Eugenia adds drop counters to VF statistics
to be reported as part of VF statistics in netlink (iproute2) and
implemented them in mlx5 eswitch.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller