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<entry>
<title>iovec: make sure the caller actually wants anything in memcpy_fromiovecend</title>
<updated>2014-09-13T22:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sasha Levin</name>
<email>sasha.levin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-01T03:00:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 06ebb06d49486676272a3c030bfeef4bd969a8e6 ]

Check for cases when the caller requests 0 bytes instead of running off
and dereferencing potentially invalid iovecs.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.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 06ebb06d49486676272a3c030bfeef4bd969a8e6 ]

Check for cases when the caller requests 0 bytes instead of running off
and dereferencing potentially invalid iovecs.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: get rid of ip_id_count</title>
<updated>2014-09-13T22:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T12:26:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 73f156a6e8c1074ac6327e0abd1169e95eb66463 ]

Ideally, we would need to generate IP ID using a per destination IP
generator.

linux kernels used inet_peer cache for this purpose, but this had a huge
cost on servers disabling MTU discovery.

1) each inet_peer struct consumes 192 bytes

2) inetpeer cache uses a binary tree of inet_peer structs,
   with a nominal size of ~66000 elements under load.

3) lookups in this tree are hitting a lot of cache lines, as tree depth
   is about 20.

4) If server deals with many tcp flows, we have a high probability of
   not finding the inet_peer, allocating a fresh one, inserting it in
   the tree with same initial ip_id_count, (cf secure_ip_id())

5) We garbage collect inet_peer aggressively.

IP ID generation do not have to be 'perfect'

Goal is trying to avoid duplicates in a short period of time,
so that reassembly units have a chance to complete reassembly of
fragments belonging to one message before receiving other fragments
with a recycled ID.

We simply use an array of generators, and a Jenkin hash using the dst IP
as a key.

ipv6_select_ident() is put back into net/ipv6/ip6_output.c where it
belongs (it is only used from this file)

secure_ip_id() and secure_ipv6_id() no longer are needed.

Rename ip_select_ident_more() to ip_select_ident_segs() to avoid
unnecessary decrement/increment of the number of segments.

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 73f156a6e8c1074ac6327e0abd1169e95eb66463 ]

Ideally, we would need to generate IP ID using a per destination IP
generator.

linux kernels used inet_peer cache for this purpose, but this had a huge
cost on servers disabling MTU discovery.

1) each inet_peer struct consumes 192 bytes

2) inetpeer cache uses a binary tree of inet_peer structs,
   with a nominal size of ~66000 elements under load.

3) lookups in this tree are hitting a lot of cache lines, as tree depth
   is about 20.

4) If server deals with many tcp flows, we have a high probability of
   not finding the inet_peer, allocating a fresh one, inserting it in
   the tree with same initial ip_id_count, (cf secure_ip_id())

5) We garbage collect inet_peer aggressively.

IP ID generation do not have to be 'perfect'

Goal is trying to avoid duplicates in a short period of time,
so that reassembly units have a chance to complete reassembly of
fragments belonging to one message before receiving other fragments
with a recycled ID.

We simply use an array of generators, and a Jenkin hash using the dst IP
as a key.

ipv6_select_ident() is put back into net/ipv6/ip6_output.c where it
belongs (it is only used from this file)

secure_ip_id() and secure_ipv6_id() no longer are needed.

Rename ip_select_ident_more() to ip_select_ident_segs() to avoid
unnecessary decrement/increment of the number of segments.

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>
<entry>
<title>net: sendmsg: fix NULL pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2014-09-13T22:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-26T17:26:58+00:00</published>
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commit 40eea803c6b2cfaab092f053248cbeab3f368412 upstream.

Sasha's report:
	&gt; While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
	&gt; kernel with the KASAN patchset, I've stumbled on the following spew:
	&gt;
	&gt; [ 4448.949424] ==================================================================
	&gt; [ 4448.951737] AddressSanitizer: user-memory-access on address 0
	&gt; [ 4448.952988] Read of size 2 by thread T19638:
	&gt; [ 4448.954510] CPU: 28 PID: 19638 Comm: trinity-c76 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc4-next-20140711-sasha-00046-g07d3099-dirty #813
	&gt; [ 4448.956823]  ffff88046d86ca40 0000000000000000 ffff880082f37e78 ffff880082f37a40
	&gt; [ 4448.958233]  ffffffffb6e47068 ffff880082f37a68 ffff880082f37a58 ffffffffb242708d
	&gt; [ 4448.959552]  0000000000000000 ffff880082f37a88 ffffffffb24255b1 0000000000000000
	&gt; [ 4448.961266] Call Trace:
	&gt; [ 4448.963158] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
	&gt; [ 4448.964244] kasan_report_user_access (mm/kasan/report.c:184)
	&gt; [ 4448.965507] __asan_load2 (mm/kasan/kasan.c:352)
	&gt; [ 4448.966482] ? netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2339)
	&gt; [ 4448.967541] netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2339)
	&gt; [ 4448.968537] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2555)
	&gt; [ 4448.970103] sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:654)
	&gt; [ 4448.971584] ? might_fault (mm/memory.c:3741)
	&gt; [ 4448.972526] ? might_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 mm/memory.c:3740)
	&gt; [ 4448.973596] ? verify_iovec (net/core/iovec.c:64)
	&gt; [ 4448.974522] ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2096)
	&gt; [ 4448.975797] ? put_lock_stats.isra.13 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254)
	&gt; [ 4448.977030] ? lock_release_holdtime (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:273)
	&gt; [ 4448.978197] ? lock_release_non_nested (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3434 (discriminator 1))
	&gt; [ 4448.979346] ? check_chain_key (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2188)
	&gt; [ 4448.980535] __sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2181)
	&gt; [ 4448.981592] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2600)
	&gt; [ 4448.982773] ? trace_hardirqs_on (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2607)
	&gt; [ 4448.984458] ? syscall_trace_enter (arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1500 (discriminator 2))
	&gt; [ 4448.985621] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2600)
	&gt; [ 4448.986754] SyS_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2201)
	&gt; [ 4448.987708] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:542)
	&gt; [ 4448.988929] ==================================================================

This reports means that we've come to netlink_sendmsg() with msg-&gt;msg_name == NULL and msg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; 0.

After this report there was no usual "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"
and this gave me a clue that address 0 is mapped and contains valid socket address structure in it.

This bug was introduced in f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c
(net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic).
Commit message states that:
	"Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
	 non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
	 affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
	 address."
But in fact this affects sendto when address 0 is mapped and contains
socket address structure in it. In such case copy-in address will succeed,
verify_iovec() function will successfully exit with msg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; 0
and msg-&gt;msg_name == NULL.

This patch fixes it by setting msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name == NULL.

Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.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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commit 40eea803c6b2cfaab092f053248cbeab3f368412 upstream.

Sasha's report:
	&gt; While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
	&gt; kernel with the KASAN patchset, I've stumbled on the following spew:
	&gt;
	&gt; [ 4448.949424] ==================================================================
	&gt; [ 4448.951737] AddressSanitizer: user-memory-access on address 0
	&gt; [ 4448.952988] Read of size 2 by thread T19638:
	&gt; [ 4448.954510] CPU: 28 PID: 19638 Comm: trinity-c76 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc4-next-20140711-sasha-00046-g07d3099-dirty #813
	&gt; [ 4448.956823]  ffff88046d86ca40 0000000000000000 ffff880082f37e78 ffff880082f37a40
	&gt; [ 4448.958233]  ffffffffb6e47068 ffff880082f37a68 ffff880082f37a58 ffffffffb242708d
	&gt; [ 4448.959552]  0000000000000000 ffff880082f37a88 ffffffffb24255b1 0000000000000000
	&gt; [ 4448.961266] Call Trace:
	&gt; [ 4448.963158] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
	&gt; [ 4448.964244] kasan_report_user_access (mm/kasan/report.c:184)
	&gt; [ 4448.965507] __asan_load2 (mm/kasan/kasan.c:352)
	&gt; [ 4448.966482] ? netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2339)
	&gt; [ 4448.967541] netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2339)
	&gt; [ 4448.968537] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2555)
	&gt; [ 4448.970103] sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:654)
	&gt; [ 4448.971584] ? might_fault (mm/memory.c:3741)
	&gt; [ 4448.972526] ? might_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 mm/memory.c:3740)
	&gt; [ 4448.973596] ? verify_iovec (net/core/iovec.c:64)
	&gt; [ 4448.974522] ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2096)
	&gt; [ 4448.975797] ? put_lock_stats.isra.13 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254)
	&gt; [ 4448.977030] ? lock_release_holdtime (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:273)
	&gt; [ 4448.978197] ? lock_release_non_nested (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3434 (discriminator 1))
	&gt; [ 4448.979346] ? check_chain_key (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2188)
	&gt; [ 4448.980535] __sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2181)
	&gt; [ 4448.981592] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2600)
	&gt; [ 4448.982773] ? trace_hardirqs_on (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2607)
	&gt; [ 4448.984458] ? syscall_trace_enter (arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1500 (discriminator 2))
	&gt; [ 4448.985621] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2600)
	&gt; [ 4448.986754] SyS_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2201)
	&gt; [ 4448.987708] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:542)
	&gt; [ 4448.988929] ==================================================================

This reports means that we've come to netlink_sendmsg() with msg-&gt;msg_name == NULL and msg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; 0.

After this report there was no usual "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"
and this gave me a clue that address 0 is mapped and contains valid socket address structure in it.

This bug was introduced in f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c
(net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic).
Commit message states that:
	"Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
	 non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
	 affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
	 address."
But in fact this affects sendto when address 0 is mapped and contains
socket address structure in it. In such case copy-in address will succeed,
verify_iovec() function will successfully exit with msg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; 0
and msg-&gt;msg_name == NULL.

This patch fixes it by setting msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name == NULL.

Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T17:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Schmidt</name>
<email>mschmidt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-28T12:15:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ea43a736ef5810a2ff1755771cc00c367805b5bf'/>
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commit e5eca6d41f53db48edd8cf88a3f59d2c30227f8e upstream.

When running RHEL6 userspace on a current upstream kernel, "ip link"
fails to show VF information.

The reason is a kernel&lt;-&gt;userspace API change introduced by commit
88c5b5ce5cb57 ("rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length"),
after which the kernel does not see iproute2's IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute
in the netlink request.

iproute2 adjusted for the API change in its commit 63338dca4513
("libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter").

The problem has been noticed before:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=136692296022182&amp;w=2
(Subject: Re: getting VF link info seems to be broken in 3.9-rc8)

We can do better than tell those with old userspace to upgrade. We can
recognize the old iproute2 in the kernel by checking the netlink message
length. Even when including the IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute, its netlink
message is shorter than struct ifinfomsg.

With this patch "ip link" shows VF information in both old and new
iproute2 versions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@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 e5eca6d41f53db48edd8cf88a3f59d2c30227f8e upstream.

When running RHEL6 userspace on a current upstream kernel, "ip link"
fails to show VF information.

The reason is a kernel&lt;-&gt;userspace API change introduced by commit
88c5b5ce5cb57 ("rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length"),
after which the kernel does not see iproute2's IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute
in the netlink request.

iproute2 adjusted for the API change in its commit 63338dca4513
("libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter").

The problem has been noticed before:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=136692296022182&amp;w=2
(Subject: Re: getting VF link info seems to be broken in 3.9-rc8)

We can do better than tell those with old userspace to upgrade. We can
recognize the old iproute2 in the kernel by checking the netlink message
length. Even when including the IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute, its netlink
message is shorter than struct ifinfomsg.

With this patch "ip link" shows VF information in both old and new
iproute2 versions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff: skb_segment: orphan frags before copying</title>
<updated>2014-07-11T12:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T17:28:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=77c01a54cde87eb3bf6685fb44398352f11db3fa'/>
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commit 1fd819ecb90cc9b822cd84d3056ddba315d3340f upstream.

skb_segment copies frags around, so we need
to copy them carefully to avoid accessing
user memory after reporting completion to userspace
through a callback.

skb_segment doesn't normally happen on datapath:
TSO needs to be disabled - so disabling zero copy
in this case does not look like a big deal.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2.  As skb_segment() only supports page-frags *or* a
 frag list, there is no need for the additional frag_skb pointer or the
 preparatory renaming.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1fd819ecb90cc9b822cd84d3056ddba315d3340f upstream.

skb_segment copies frags around, so we need
to copy them carefully to avoid accessing
user memory after reporting completion to userspace
through a callback.

skb_segment doesn't normally happen on datapath:
TSO needs to be disabled - so disabling zero copy
in this case does not look like a big deal.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2.  As skb_segment() only supports page-frags *or* a
 frag list, there is no need for the additional frag_skb pointer or the
 preparatory renaming.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff: export skb_copy_ubufs</title>
<updated>2014-07-11T12:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-20T09:23:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3ee479fddc52bbcb3b215be56673e9784890b486'/>
<id>3ee479fddc52bbcb3b215be56673e9784890b486</id>
<content type='text'>
commit dcc0fb782b3a6e2abfeaaeb45dd88ed09596be0f upstream.

Export skb_copy_ubufs so that modules can orphan frags.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@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 dcc0fb782b3a6e2abfeaaeb45dd88ed09596be0f upstream.

Export skb_copy_ubufs so that modules can orphan frags.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net-gro: reset skb-&gt;truesize in napi_reuse_skb()</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:29:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T16:28:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fa79aa5e1b89bb5ec90fbd757513e907ca970ba5'/>
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Recycling skb always had been very tough...

This time it appears GRO layer can accumulate skb-&gt;truesize
adjustments made by drivers when they attach a fragment to skb.

skb_gro_receive() can only subtract from skb-&gt;truesize the used part
of a fragment.

I spotted this problem seeing TcpExtPruneCalled and
TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed that were unexpected with a recent kernel, where
TCP receive window should be sized properly to accept traffic coming
from a driver not overshooting skb-&gt;truesize.

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 e33d0ba8047b049c9262fdb1fcafb93cb52ceceb ]

Recycling skb always had been very tough...

This time it appears GRO layer can accumulate skb-&gt;truesize
adjustments made by drivers when they attach a fragment to skb.

skb_gro_receive() can only subtract from skb-&gt;truesize the used part
of a fragment.

I spotted this problem seeing TcpExtPruneCalled and
TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed that were unexpected with a recent kernel, where
TCP receive window should be sized properly to accept traffic coming
from a driver not overshooting skb-&gt;truesize.

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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<title>skb: Add inline helper for getting the skb end offset from head</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:29:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-04T14:26:56+00:00</published>
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With the recent changes for how we compute the skb truesize it occurs to me
we are probably going to have a lot of calls to skb_end_pointer -
skb-&gt;head.  Instead of running all over the place doing that it would make
more sense to just make it a separate inline skb_end_offset(skb) that way
we can return the correct value without having gcc having to do all the
optimization to cancel out skb-&gt;head - skb-&gt;head.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-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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With the recent changes for how we compute the skb truesize it occurs to me
we are probably going to have a lot of calls to skb_end_pointer -
skb-&gt;head.  Instead of running all over the place doing that it would make
more sense to just make it a separate inline skb_end_offset(skb) that way
we can return the correct value without having gcc having to do all the
optimization to cancel out skb-&gt;head - skb-&gt;head.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-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>rtnetlink: Only supply IFLA_VF_PORTS information when RTEXT_FILTER_VF is set</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:28:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T00:22:36+00:00</published>
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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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Warn when interface's information won't fit in our packet</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:28:57+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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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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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