linux-stable.git/net/core/sock.c, branch linux-4.0.y

net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation

2015-07-10T16:45:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit fb05e7a89f500cfc06ae277bdc911b281928995d ]

We saw excessive direct memory compaction triggered by skb_page_frag_refill.
This causes performance issues and add latency. Commit 5640f7685831e0
introduces the order-3 allocation. According to the changelog, the order-3
allocation isn't a must-have but to improve performance. But direct memory
compaction has high overhead. The benefit of order-3 allocation can't
compensate the overhead of direct memory compaction.

This patch makes the order-3 page allocation atomic. If there is no memory
pressure and memory isn't fragmented, the alloction will still success, so we
don't sacrifice the order-3 benefit here. If the atomic allocation fails,
direct memory compaction will not be triggered, skb_page_frag_refill will
fallback to order-0 immediately, hence the direct memory compaction overhead is
avoided. In the allocation failure case, kswapd is waken up and doing
compaction, so chances are allocation could success next time.

alloc_skb_with_frags is the same.

The mellanox driver does similar thing, if this is accepted, we must fix
the driver too.

V3: fix the same issue in alloc_skb_with_frags as pointed out by Eric
V2: make the changelog clearer

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Debabrata Banerjee 
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack

2015-04-06T20:12:49+00:00

We should not consult skb->sk for output decisions in xmit recursion
levels > 0 in the stack. Otherwise local socket settings could influence
the result of e.g. tunnel encapsulation process.

ipv6 does not conform with this in three places:

1) ip6_fragment: we do consult ipv6_npinfo for frag_size

2) sk_mc_loop in ipv6 uses skb->sk and checks if we should
   loop the packet back to the local socket

3) ip6_skb_dst_mtu could query the settings from the user socket and
   force a wrong MTU

Furthermore:
In sk_mc_loop we could potentially land in WARN_ON(1) if we use a
PF_PACKET socket ontop of an IPv6-backed vxlan device.

Reuse xmit_recursion as we are currently only interested in protecting
tunnel devices.

Cc: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add comment for sock_efree() usage

2015-03-10T20:12:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-timestamp: no-payload only sysctl

2015-02-03T02:46:51+00:00

Tx timestamps are looped onto the error queue on top of an skb. This
mechanism leaks packet headers to processes unless the no-payload
options SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY is set.

Add a sysctl that optionally drops looped timestamp with data. This
only affects processes without CAP_NET_RAW.

The policy is checked when timestamps are generated in the stack.
It is possible for timestamps with data to be reported after the
sysctl is set, if these were queued internally earlier.

No vulnerability is immediately known that exploits knowledge
gleaned from packet headers, but it may still be preferable to allow
administrators to lock down this path at the cost of possible
breakage of legacy applications.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 

----

Changes
  (v1 -> v2)
  - test socket CAP_NET_RAW instead of capable(CAP_NET_RAW)
  (rfc -> v1)
  - document the sysctl in Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
  - fix access control race: read .._OPT_TSONLY only once,
        use same value for permission check and skb generation.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2014-12-13T21:33:26+00:00

Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 - The crypto API is now documented :)
 - Disallow arbitrary module loading through crypto API.
 - Allow get request with empty driver name through crypto_user.
 - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions.
 - Add caam support for ctr(aes), gcm(aes) and their derivatives.
 - nx now supports concurrent hashing properly.
 - Add sahara support for SHA1/256.
 - Add ARM64 version of CRC32.
 - Misc fixes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (77 commits)
  crypto: tcrypt - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions
  crypto: af_alg - add user space interface for AEAD
  crypto: qat - fix problem with coalescing enable logic
  crypto: sahara - add support for SHA1/256
  crypto: sahara - replace tasklets with kthread
  crypto: sahara - add support for i.MX53
  crypto: sahara - fix spinlock initialization
  crypto: arm - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: powerpc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sha - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sparc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: algif_skcipher - initialize upon init request
  crypto: algif_skcipher - removed unneeded code
  crypto: algif_skcipher - Fixed blocking recvmsg
  crypto: drbg - use memzero_explicit() for clearing sensitive data
  crypto: drbg - use MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO
  crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template
  crypto: user - add MODULE_ALIAS
  crypto: sha-mb - remove a bogus NULL check
  crytpo: qat - Fix 64 bytes requests
  ...

net: sock: allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets

2014-12-06T05:47:32+00:00

introduce new setsockopt() command:

setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_BPF, &prog_fd, sizeof(prog_fd))

where prog_fd was received from syscall bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, ...)
and attr->prog_type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER

setsockopt() calls bpf_prog_get() which increments refcnt of the program,
so it doesn't get unloaded while socket is using the program.

The same eBPF program can be attached to multiple sockets.

User task exit automatically closes socket which calls sk_filter_uncharge()
which decrements refcnt of eBPF program

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

crypto: algif - add and use sock_kzfree_s() instead of memzero_explicit()

2014-11-25T14:50:39+00:00

Commit e1bd95bf7c25 ("crypto: algif - zeroize IV buffer") and
2a6af25befd0 ("crypto: algif - zeroize message digest buffer")
added memzero_explicit() calls on buffers that are later on
passed back to sock_kfree_s().

This is a discussed follow-up that, instead, extends the sock
API and adds sock_kzfree_s(), which internally uses kzfree()
instead of kfree() for passing the buffers back to slab.

Having sock_kzfree_s() allows to keep the changes more minimal
by just having a drop-in replacement instead of adding
memzero_explicit() calls everywhere before sock_kfree_s().

In kzfree(), the compiler is not allowed to optimize the memset()
away and thus there's no need for memzero_explicit(). Both,
sock_kfree_s() and sock_kzfree_s() are wrappers for
__sock_kfree_s() and call into kfree() resp. kzfree(); here,
__sock_kfree_s() needs to be explicitly inlined as we want the
compiler to optimize the call and condition away and thus it
produces e.g. on x86_64 the _same_ assembler output for
sock_kfree_s() before and after, and thus also allows for
avoiding code duplication.

Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

net: introduce SO_INCOMING_CPU

2014-11-11T18:00:06+00:00

Alternative to RPS/RFS is to use hardware support for multiple
queues.

Then split a set of million of sockets into worker threads, each
one using epoll() to manage events on its own socket pool.

Ideally, we want one thread per RX/TX queue/cpu, but we have no way to
know after accept() or connect() on which queue/cpu a socket is managed.

We normally use one cpu per RX queue (IRQ smp_affinity being properly
set), so remembering on socket structure which cpu delivered last packet
is enough to solve the problem.

After accept(), connect(), or even file descriptor passing around
processes, applications can use :

 int cpu;
 socklen_t len = sizeof(cpu);

 getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_INCOMING_CPU, &cpu, &len);

And use this information to put the socket into the right silo
for optimal performance, as all networking stack should run
on the appropriate cpu, without need to send IPI (RPS/RFS).

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

net: Add and use skb_copy_datagram_msg() helper.

2014-11-05T21:46:40+00:00

This encapsulates all of the skb_copy_datagram_iovec() callers
with call argument signature "skb, offset, msghdr->msg_iov, length".

When we move to iov_iters in the networking, the iov_iter object will
sit in the msghdr.

Having a helper like this means there will be less places to touch
during that transformation.

Based upon descriptions and patch from Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Trap attempts to call sock_kfree_s() with a NULL pointer.

2014-10-14T21:02:37+00:00

Unlike normal kfree() it is never right to call sock_kfree_s() with
a NULL pointer, because sock_kfree_s() also has the side effect of
discharging the memory from the sockets quota.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller