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<title>rtnetlink: Mask the rta_type when range checking</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:07+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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF  devices</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:40:58+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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bridging: fix rx_handlers return code</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cristian Bercaru</name>
<email>B43982@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-08T07:03:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3bc1b1add7a8484cc4a261c3e128dbe1528ce01f ]

The frames for which rx_handlers return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED are no longer
counted as dropped. They are counted as successfully received by
'netif_receive_skb'.

This allows network interface drivers to correctly update their RX-OK and
RX-DRP counters based on the result of 'netif_receive_skb'.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Bercaru &lt;B43982@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3bc1b1add7a8484cc4a261c3e128dbe1528ce01f ]

The frames for which rx_handlers return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED are no longer
counted as dropped. They are counted as successfully received by
'netif_receive_skb'.

This allows network interface drivers to correctly update their RX-OK and
RX-DRP counters based on the result of 'netif_receive_skb'.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Bercaru &lt;B43982@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pktgen: correctly handle failures when adding a device</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T03:15:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-27T21:14:08+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 604dfd6efc9b79bce432f2394791708d8e8f6efc ]

The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so
even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one,
we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it.

After this patch, I got:

	# echo "add_device non-exist" &gt; /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	-bash: echo: write error: No such device
	# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	Running:
	Stopped:
	Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist
	# echo "add_device eth0" &gt; /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	Running:
	Stopped: eth0
	Result: OK: add_device=eth0

(Candidate for -stable)

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 604dfd6efc9b79bce432f2394791708d8e8f6efc ]

The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so
even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one,
we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it.

After this patch, I got:

	# echo "add_device non-exist" &gt; /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	-bash: echo: write error: No such device
	# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	Running:
	Stopped:
	Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist
	# echo "add_device eth0" &gt; /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
	Running:
	Stopped: eth0
	Result: OK: add_device=eth0

(Candidate for -stable)

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-rps: Fix brokeness causing OOO packets</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T11:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>therbert@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-16T09:04:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit baefa31db2f2b13a05d1b81bdf2d20d487f58b0a ]

In commit c445477d74ab3779 which adds aRFS to the kernel, the CPU
selected for RFS is not set correctly when CPU is changing.
This is causing OOO packets and probably other issues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit baefa31db2f2b13a05d1b81bdf2d20d487f58b0a ]

In commit c445477d74ab3779 which adds aRFS to the kernel, the CPU
selected for RFS is not set correctly when CPU is changing.
This is causing OOO packets and probably other issues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: correct check in dev_addr_del()</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T11:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-14T02:51:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a652208e0b52c190e57f2a075ffb5e897fe31c3b ]

Check (ha-&gt;addr == dev-&gt;dev_addr) is always true because dev_addr_init()
sets this. Correct the check to behave properly on addr removal.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a652208e0b52c190e57f2a075ffb5e897fe31c3b ]

Check (ha-&gt;addr == dev-&gt;dev_addr) is always true because dev_addr_init()
sets this. Correct the check to behave properly on addr removal.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>af-packet: fix oops when socket is not present</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:47:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Leblond</name>
<email>eric@regit.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-06T02:10:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a3d744e995d2b936c500585ae39d99ee251c89b4 ]

Due to a NULL dereference, the following patch is causing oops
in normal trafic condition:

commit c0de08d04215031d68fa13af36f347a6cfa252ca
Author: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Date:   Thu Aug 16 22:02:58 2012 +0000

    af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

This buggy patch was a feature fix and has reached most stable
branches.

When skb-&gt;sk is NULL and when packet fanout is used, there is a
crash in match_fanout_group where skb-&gt;sk is accessed.
This patch fixes the issue by returning false as soon as the
socket is NULL: this correspond to the wanted behavior because
the kernel as to resend the skb to all the listening socket in
this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a3d744e995d2b936c500585ae39d99ee251c89b4 ]

Due to a NULL dereference, the following patch is causing oops
in normal trafic condition:

commit c0de08d04215031d68fa13af36f347a6cfa252ca
Author: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Date:   Thu Aug 16 22:02:58 2012 +0000

    af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group

This buggy patch was a feature fix and has reached most stable
branches.

When skb-&gt;sk is NULL and when packet fanout is used, there is a
crash in match_fanout_group where skb-&gt;sk is accessed.
This patch fixes the issue by returning false as soon as the
socket is NULL: this correspond to the wanted behavior because
the kernel as to resend the skb to all the listening socket in
this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: fix rtnl_calcit() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:46:52+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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commit a4b64fbe482c7766f7925f03067fc637716bfa3f upstream.

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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a4b64fbe482c7766f7925f03067fc637716bfa3f upstream.

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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:46:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Rose</name>
<email>gregory.v.rose@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-21T21:54:48+00:00</published>
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commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream.

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 &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts
 commit f18da14565819ba43b8321237e2426a2914cc2ef, which we never applied]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream.

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 &lt;gregory.v.rose@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts
 commit f18da14565819ba43b8321237e2426a2914cc2ef, which we never applied]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pktgen: fix crash when generating IPv6 packets</title>
<updated>2012-10-30T23:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amerigo Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-09T17:48:16+00:00</published>
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commit 5aa8b572007c4bca1e6d3dd4c4820f1ae49d6bb2 upstream.

For IPv6, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) = 40, thus the following
expression will result negative:

        datalen = pkt_dev-&gt;cur_pkt_size - 14 -
                  sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) -
                  pkt_dev-&gt;pkt_overhead;

And,  the check "if (datalen &lt; sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))" will be
passed as "datalen" is promoted to unsigned, therefore will cause
a crash later.

This is a quick fix by checking if "datalen" is negative. The following
patch will increase the default value of 'min_pkt_size' for IPv6.

This bug should exist for a long time, so Cc -stable too.

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5aa8b572007c4bca1e6d3dd4c4820f1ae49d6bb2 upstream.

For IPv6, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) = 40, thus the following
expression will result negative:

        datalen = pkt_dev-&gt;cur_pkt_size - 14 -
                  sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) -
                  pkt_dev-&gt;pkt_overhead;

And,  the check "if (datalen &lt; sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))" will be
passed as "datalen" is promoted to unsigned, therefore will cause
a crash later.

This is a quick fix by checking if "datalen" is negative. The following
patch will increase the default value of 'min_pkt_size' for IPv6.

This bug should exist for a long time, so Cc -stable too.

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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