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<title>linux-stable.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c, branch v5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: make validation more configurable for future strictness</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T21:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-26T12:07:28+00:00</published>
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We currently have two levels of strict validation:

 1) liberal (default)
     - undefined (type &gt;= max) &amp; NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length &gt;= expected accepted
     - garbage at end of message accepted
 2) strict (opt-in)
     - NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length &gt;= expected accepted

Split out parsing strictness into four different options:
 * TRAILING     - check that there's no trailing data after parsing
                  attributes (in message or nested)
 * MAXTYPE      - reject attrs &gt; max known type
 * UNSPEC       - reject attributes with NLA_UNSPEC policy entries
 * STRICT_ATTRS - strictly validate attribute size

The default for future things should be *everything*.
The current *_strict() is a combination of TRAILING and MAXTYPE,
and is renamed to _deprecated_strict().
The current regular parsing has none of this, and is renamed to
*_parse_deprecated().

Additionally it allows us to selectively set one of the new flags
even on old policies. Notably, the UNSPEC flag could be useful in
this case, since it can be arranged (by filling in the policy) to
not be an incompatible userspace ABI change, but would then going
forward prevent forgetting attribute entries. Similar can apply
to the POLICY flag.

We end up with the following renames:
 * nla_parse           -&gt; nla_parse_deprecated
 * nla_parse_strict    -&gt; nla_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nlmsg_parse         -&gt; nlmsg_parse_deprecated
 * nlmsg_parse_strict  -&gt; nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nla_parse_nested    -&gt; nla_parse_nested_deprecated
 * nla_validate_nested -&gt; nla_validate_nested_deprecated

Using spatch, of course:
    @@
    expression TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_deprecated(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse_nested(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_nested_deprecated(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression START, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_validate_nested(START, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nla_validate_nested_deprecated(START, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_validate(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_validate_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)

For this patch, don't actually add the strict, non-renamed versions
yet so that it breaks compile if I get it wrong.

Also, while at it, make nla_validate and nla_parse go down to a
common __nla_validate_parse() function to avoid code duplication.

Ultimately, this allows us to have very strict validation for every
new caller of nla_parse()/nlmsg_parse() etc as re-introduced in the
next patch, while existing things will continue to work as is.

In effect then, this adds fully strict validation for any new command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We currently have two levels of strict validation:

 1) liberal (default)
     - undefined (type &gt;= max) &amp; NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length &gt;= expected accepted
     - garbage at end of message accepted
 2) strict (opt-in)
     - NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length &gt;= expected accepted

Split out parsing strictness into four different options:
 * TRAILING     - check that there's no trailing data after parsing
                  attributes (in message or nested)
 * MAXTYPE      - reject attrs &gt; max known type
 * UNSPEC       - reject attributes with NLA_UNSPEC policy entries
 * STRICT_ATTRS - strictly validate attribute size

The default for future things should be *everything*.
The current *_strict() is a combination of TRAILING and MAXTYPE,
and is renamed to _deprecated_strict().
The current regular parsing has none of this, and is renamed to
*_parse_deprecated().

Additionally it allows us to selectively set one of the new flags
even on old policies. Notably, the UNSPEC flag could be useful in
this case, since it can be arranged (by filling in the policy) to
not be an incompatible userspace ABI change, but would then going
forward prevent forgetting attribute entries. Similar can apply
to the POLICY flag.

We end up with the following renames:
 * nla_parse           -&gt; nla_parse_deprecated
 * nla_parse_strict    -&gt; nla_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nlmsg_parse         -&gt; nlmsg_parse_deprecated
 * nlmsg_parse_strict  -&gt; nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nla_parse_nested    -&gt; nla_parse_nested_deprecated
 * nla_validate_nested -&gt; nla_validate_nested_deprecated

Using spatch, of course:
    @@
    expression TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_deprecated(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse_nested(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_nested_deprecated(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression START, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_validate_nested(START, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nla_validate_nested_deprecated(START, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_validate(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_validate_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)

For this patch, don't actually add the strict, non-renamed versions
yet so that it breaks compile if I get it wrong.

Also, while at it, make nla_validate and nla_parse go down to a
common __nla_validate_parse() function to avoid code duplication.

Ultimately, this allows us to have very strict validation for every
new caller of nla_parse()/nlmsg_parse() etc as re-introduced in the
next patch, while existing things will continue to work as is.

In effect then, this adds fully strict validation for any new command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ignore sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net without SYSCTL</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T21:14:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-04T20:38:03+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_SYSCTL is turned off, we get a link failure for
the newly introduced tuning knob.

net/ipv6/addrconf.o: In function `addrconf_init_net':
addrconf.c:(.text+0x31dc): undefined reference to `sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net'

Add an IS_ENABLED() check to fall back to the default behavior
(sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net=0) here.

Fixes: 856c395cfa63 ("net: introduce a knob to control whether to inherit devconf config")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When CONFIG_SYSCTL is turned off, we get a link failure for
the newly introduced tuning knob.

net/ipv6/addrconf.o: In function `addrconf_init_net':
addrconf.c:(.text+0x31dc): undefined reference to `sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net'

Add an IS_ENABLED() check to fall back to the default behavior
(sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net=0) here.

Fixes: 856c395cfa63 ("net: introduce a knob to control whether to inherit devconf config")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: introduce a knob to control whether to inherit devconf config</title>
<updated>2019-01-22T19:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-18T07:27:11+00:00</published>
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There have been many people complaining about the inconsistent
behaviors of IPv4 and IPv6 devconf when creating new network
namespaces.  Currently, for IPv4, we inherit all current settings
from init_net, but for IPv6 we reset all setting to default.

This patch introduces a new /proc file
/proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net to control the
behavior of whether to inhert sysctl current settings from init_net.
This file itself is only available in init_net.

As demonstrated below:

Initial setup in init_net:
 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 1

Default value 0 (current behavior):
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 0

Set to 1 (inherit from init_net):
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 1

Set to 2 (reset to default):
 # echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 0
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 0

Set to a value out of range (invalid):
 # echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # echo -1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Reported-by: Zhu Yanjun &lt;Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tonghao Zhang &lt;xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tonghao Zhang &lt;xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There have been many people complaining about the inconsistent
behaviors of IPv4 and IPv6 devconf when creating new network
namespaces.  Currently, for IPv4, we inherit all current settings
from init_net, but for IPv6 we reset all setting to default.

This patch introduces a new /proc file
/proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net to control the
behavior of whether to inhert sysctl current settings from init_net.
This file itself is only available in init_net.

As demonstrated below:

Initial setup in init_net:
 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 1

Default value 0 (current behavior):
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 0

Set to 1 (inherit from init_net):
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 2
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 1

Set to 2 (reset to default):
 # echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 # ip netns del test
 # ip netns add test
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 0
 # ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
 0

Set to a value out of range (invalid):
 # echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # echo -1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
 -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Reported-by: Zhu Yanjun &lt;Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tonghao Zhang &lt;xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tonghao Zhang &lt;xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: netconf: perform strict checks also for doit handlers</title>
<updated>2019-01-19T18:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-18T18:46:18+00:00</published>
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Make RTM_GETNETCONF's doit handler use strict checks when
NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK is set.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make RTM_GETNETCONF's doit handler use strict checks when
NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK is set.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: fixup regression in RTM_GETADDR</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T20:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arthur Gautier</name>
<email>baloo@gandi.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-31T02:10:58+00:00</published>
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This commit fixes a regression in AF_INET/RTM_GETADDR and
AF_INET6/RTM_GETADDR.

Before this commit, the kernel would stop dumping addresses once the first
skb was full and end the stream with NLMSG_DONE(-EMSGSIZE). The error
shouldn't be sent back to netlink_dump so the callback is kept alive. The
userspace is expected to call back with a new empty skb.

Changes from V1:
 - The error is not handled in netlink_dump anymore but rather in
   inet_dump_ifaddr and inet6_dump_addr directly as suggested by
   David Ahern.

Fixes: d7e38611b81e ("net/ipv4: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Fixes: 242afaa6968c ("net/ipv6: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arthur Gautier &lt;baloo@gandi.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This commit fixes a regression in AF_INET/RTM_GETADDR and
AF_INET6/RTM_GETADDR.

Before this commit, the kernel would stop dumping addresses once the first
skb was full and end the stream with NLMSG_DONE(-EMSGSIZE). The error
shouldn't be sent back to netlink_dump so the callback is kept alive. The
userspace is expected to call back with a new empty skb.

Changes from V1:
 - The error is not handled in netlink_dump anymore but rather in
   inet_dump_ifaddr and inet6_dump_addr directly as suggested by
   David Ahern.

Fixes: d7e38611b81e ("net/ipv4: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Fixes: 242afaa6968c ("net/ipv6: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arthur Gautier &lt;baloo@gandi.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T19:53:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T18:53:28+00:00</published>
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl</title>
<updated>2018-12-14T23:39:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Taht</name>
<email>dave.taht@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-11T23:30:34+00:00</published>
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While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite
of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment,
distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of
ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch.

While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the
open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also
obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this
patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely.

Signed-off-by: Dave Taht &lt;dave.taht@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite
of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment,
distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of
ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch.

While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the
open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also
obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this
patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely.

Signed-off-by: Dave Taht &lt;dave.taht@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: core: dev: Add extack argument to dev_change_flags()</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T21:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@mellanox.com</email>
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<published>2018-12-06T17:05:42+00:00</published>
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In order to pass extack together with NETDEV_PRE_UP notifications, it's
necessary to route the extack to __dev_open() from diverse (possibly
indirect) callers. One prominent API through which the notification is
invoked is dev_change_flags().

Therefore extend dev_change_flags() with and extra extack argument and
update all users. Most of the calls end up just encoding NULL, but
several sites (VLAN, ipvlan, VRF, rtnetlink) do have extack available.

Since the function declaration line is changed anyway, name the other
function arguments to placate checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In order to pass extack together with NETDEV_PRE_UP notifications, it's
necessary to route the extack to __dev_open() from diverse (possibly
indirect) callers. One prominent API through which the notification is
invoked is dev_change_flags().

Therefore extend dev_change_flags() with and extra extack argument and
update all users. Most of the calls end up just encoding NULL, but
several sites (VLAN, ipvlan, VRF, rtnetlink) do have extack available.

Since the function declaration line is changed anyway, name the other
function arguments to placate checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net/{ipv4,ipv6}: Do not put target net if input nsid is invalid</title>
<updated>2018-10-25T23:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjørn Mork</name>
<email>bjorn@mork.no</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-25T19:18:25+00:00</published>
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The cleanup path will put the target net when netnsid is set.  So we must
reset netnsid if the input is invalid.

Fixes: d7e38611b81e ("net/ipv4: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Fixes: 242afaa6968c ("net/ipv6: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The cleanup path will put the target net when netnsid is set.  So we must
reset netnsid if the input is invalid.

Fixes: d7e38611b81e ("net/ipv4: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Fixes: 242afaa6968c ("net/ipv6: Put target net when address dump fails due to bad attributes")
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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