linux-stable.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c, branch linux-5.16.y

net: return correct error code

2021-11-15T14:22:12+00:00

When kmemdup called failed and register_net_sysctl return NULL, should
return ENOMEM instead of ENOBUFS

Signed-off-by: liuguoqiang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter

2021-11-02T02:57:14+00:00

This change introduces a new sysctl parameter, arp_evict_nocarrier.
When set (default) the ARP cache will be cleared on a NOCARRIER event.
This new option has been defaulted to '1' which maintains existing
behavior.

Clearing the ARP cache on NOCARRIER is relatively new, introduced by:

commit 859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76
Author: David Ahern 
Date:   Thu Oct 11 20:33:49 2018 -0700

    net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

The reason for this changes is to prevent the ARP cache from being
cleared when a wireless device roams. Specifically for wireless roams
the ARP cache should not be cleared because the underlying network has not
changed. Clearing the ARP cache in this case can introduce significant
delays sending out packets after a roam.

A user reported such a situation here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CACsRnHWa47zpx3D1oDq9JYnZWniS8yBwW1h0WAVZ6vrbwL_S0w@mail.gmail.com/

After some investigation it was found that the kernel was holding onto
packets until ARP finished which resulted in this 1 second delay. It
was also found that the first ARP who-has was never responded to,
which is actually what caues the delay. This change is more or less
working around this behavior, but again, there is no reason to clear
the cache on a roam anyways.

As for the unanswered who-has, we know the packet made it OTA since
it was seen while monitoring. Why it never received a response is
unknown. In any case, since this is a problem on the AP side of things
all that can be done is to work around it until it is solved.

Some background on testing/reproducing the packet delay:

Hardware:
 - 2 access points configured for Fast BSS Transition (Though I don't
   see why regular reassociation wouldn't have the same behavior)
 - Wireless station running IWD as supplicant
 - A device on network able to respond to pings (I used one of the APs)

Procedure:
 - Connect to first AP
 - Ping once to establish an ARP entry
 - Start a tcpdump
 - Roam to second AP
 - Wait for operstate UP event, and note the timestamp
 - Start pinging

Results:

Below is the tcpdump after UP. It was recorded the interface went UP at
10:42:01.432875.

10:42:01.461871 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.497976 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.507162 ARP, Reply 192.168.254.1 is-at ac:86:74:55:b0:20, length 46
10:42:02.507185 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.507205 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.507212 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.507219 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.507225 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.507232 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 6, length 64
10:42:02.515373 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.521399 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.521612 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.521941 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.522419 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.523085 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 6, length 64

You can see the first ARP who-has went out very quickly after UP, but
was never responded to. Nearly a second later the kernel retries and
gets a response. Only then do the ping packets go out. If an ARP entry
is manually added prior to UP (after the cache is cleared) it is seen
that the first ping is never responded to, so its not only an issue with
ARP but with data packets in general.

As mentioned prior, the wireless interface was also monitored to verify
the ping/ARP packet made it OTA which was observed to be true.

Signed-off-by: James Prestwood 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: add extack arg for link ops

2021-08-04T09:01:26+00:00

Pass extack arg to validate_linkmsg and validate_link_af callbacks.
If a netlink attribute has a reject_message, use the extended ack
mechanism to carry the message back to user space.

Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: socket: remove register_gifconf

2021-07-23T13:20:25+00:00

Since dynamic registration of the gifconf() helper is only used for
IPv4, and this can not be in a loadable module, this can be simplified
noticeably by turning it into a direct function call as a preparation
for cleaning up the compat handling.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv4: add capability check for net administration

2021-07-20T14:15:22+00:00

Root in init user namespace can modify /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
without CAP_NET_ADMIN, this doesn't follow the principle of
capabilities. For example, let's take a look at netdev_store(),
root can't modify netdev attribute without CAP_NET_ADMIN.
So let's keep the consistency of permission check logic.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot 
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

memcg: enable accounting for IP address and routing-related objects

2021-07-20T13:00:38+00:00

An netadmin inside container can use 'ip a a' and 'ip r a'
to assign a large number of ipv4/ipv6 addresses and routing entries
and force kernel to allocate megabytes of unaccounted memory
for long-lived per-netdevice related kernel objects:
'struct in_ifaddr', 'struct inet6_ifaddr', 'struct fib6_node',
'struct rt6_info', 'struct fib_rules' and ip_fib caches.

These objects can be manually removed, though usually they lives
in memory till destroy of its net namespace.

It makes sense to account for them to restrict the host's memory
consumption from inside the memcg-limited container.

One of such objects is the 'struct fib6_node' mostly allocated in
net/ipv6/route.c::__ip6_ins_rt() inside the lock_bh()/unlock_bh() section:

 write_lock_bh(&table->tb6_lock);
 err = fib6_add(&table->tb6_root, rt, info, mxc);
 write_unlock_bh(&table->tb6_lock);

In this case it is not enough to simply add SLAB_ACCOUNT to corresponding
kmem cache. The proper memory cgroup still cannot be found due to the
incorrect 'in_interrupt()' check used in memcg_kmem_bypass().

Obsoleted in_interrupt() does not describe real execution context properly.
>From include/linux/preempt.h:

 The following macros are deprecated and should not be used in new code:
 in_interrupt()	- We're in NMI,IRQ,SoftIRQ context or have BH disabled

To verify the current execution context new macro should be used instead:
 in_task()	- We're in task context

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2021-06-19T02:47:02+00:00

Trivial conflicts in net/can/isotp.c and
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.sh

scaled_ppm_to_ppb() was moved from drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
to include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h in -next so re-apply
the fix there.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv4: Remove unneed BUG() function

2021-06-08T18:36:48+00:00

When 'nla_parse_nested_deprecated' failed, it's no need to
BUG() here, return -EINVAL is ok.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: avoid RCU read lock when holding RTNL

2021-05-10T21:33:10+00:00

When we call af_ops->set_link_af() we hold a RCU read lock
as we retrieve af_ops from the RCU protected list, but this
is unnecessary because we already hold RTNL lock, which is
the writer lock for protecting rtnl_af_ops, so it is safer
than RCU read lock. Similar for af_ops->validate_link_af().

This was not a problem until we begin to take mutex lock
down the path of ->set_link_af() in __ipv6_dev_mc_dec()
recently. We can just drop the RCU read lock there and
assert RTNL lock.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7d941e89dd48bcf42573@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 63ed8de4be81 ("mld: add mc_lock for protecting per-interface mld data")
Tested-by: Taehee Yoo 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: report errors for iftoken via netlink extack

2021-04-08T20:52:36+00:00

Setting iftoken can fail for several different reasons but there
and there was no report to user as to the cause. Add netlink
extended errors to the processing of the request.

This requires adding additional argument through rtnl_af_ops
set_link_af callback.

Reported-by: Hongren Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller