linux-stable.git/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c, branch v4.4.263

ipconfig: Correctly initialise ic_nameservers

2018-08-06T14:24:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 300eec7c0a2495f771709c7642aa15f7cc148b83 ]

ic_nameservers, which stores the list of name servers discovered by
ipconfig, is initialised (i.e. has all of its elements set to NONE, or
0xffffffff) by ic_nameservers_predef() in the following scenarios:

 - before the "ip=" and "nfsaddrs=" kernel command line parameters are
   parsed (in ip_auto_config_setup());
 - before autoconfiguring via DHCP or BOOTP (in ic_bootp_init()), in
   order to clear any values that may have been set after parsing "ip="
   or "nfsaddrs=" and are no longer needed.

This means that ic_nameservers_predef() is not called when neither "ip="
nor "nfsaddrs=" is specified on the kernel command line. In this
scenario, every element in ic_nameservers remains set to 0x00000000,
which is indistinguishable from ANY and causes pnp_seq_show() to write
the following (bogus) information to /proc/net/pnp:

  #MANUAL
  nameserver 0.0.0.0
  nameserver 0.0.0.0
  nameserver 0.0.0.0

This is potentially problematic for systems that blindly link
/etc/resolv.conf to /proc/net/pnp.

Ensure that ic_nameservers is also initialised when neither "ip=" nor
"nfsaddrs=" are specified by calling ic_nameservers_predef() in
ip_auto_config(), but only when ip_auto_config_setup() was not called
earlier. This causes the following to be written to /proc/net/pnp, and
is consistent with what gets written when ipconfig is configured
manually but no name servers are specified on the kernel command line:

  #MANUAL

Signed-off-by: Chris Novakovic 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv4: ipconfig: avoid unused ic_proto_used symbol

2018-02-25T10:03:47+00:00

commit 52b79e2bdf92b07b37c805c50811eaf69a33683d upstream.

When CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP, CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP and
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP are all disabled, we get a warning about the
ic_proto_used variable being unused:

net/ipv4/ipconfig.c:146:12: error: 'ic_proto_used' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-variable]

This avoids the warning, by making the definition conditional on
whether a dynamic IP configuration protocol is configured. If not,
we know that the value is always zero, so we can optimize away the
variable and all code that depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipconfig: send Client-identifier in DHCP requests

2015-10-19T02:23:52+00:00

A dhcp server may provide parameters to a client from a pool of IP
addresses and using a shared rootfs, or provide a specific set of
parameters for a specific client, usually using the MAC address to
identify each client individually. The dhcp protocol also specifies
a client-id field which can be used to determine the correct
parameters to supply when no MAC address is available. There is
currently no way to tell the kernel to supply a specific client-id,
only the userspace dhcp clients support this feature, but this can
not be used when the network is needed before userspace is available
such as when the root filesystem is on NFS.

This patch is to be able to do something like "ip=dhcp,client_id_type,
client_id_value", as a kernel parameter to enable the kernel to
identify itself to the server.

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv4: increase dhcp inter device timeout

2015-08-12T23:40:22+00:00

When a system has multiple ethernet devices and during DHCP
request (for using NFS), the system waits only for HZ/2 which is
500mS before switching to another interface for DHCP.

There are some routers (Ex: Trendnet routers) which responds to
DHCP request at about 560mS. When the system has only one
ethernet interface there is no issue as the timeout is 2S and the
dev xid doesn't changes and only retries.

But when the system has multiple Ethernet like DRA74x with CPSW
in dual EMAC mode, the DHCP response is dropped as the dev xid
changes while shifting to the next device. So changing inter
device timeout to HZ (which is 1S).

Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: coding style: comparison for equality with NULL

2015-04-03T16:11:15+00:00

The ipv4 code uses a mixture of coding styles. In some instances check
for NULL pointer is done as x == NULL and sometimes as !x. !x is
preferred according to checkpatch and this patch makes the code
consistent by adopting the latter form.

No changes detected by objdiff.

Signed-off-by: Ian Morris 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv4: handle DSA enabled master network devices

2015-01-19T20:45:10+00:00

The logic to configure a network interface for kernel IP
auto-configuration is very simplistic, and does not handle the case
where a device is stacked onto another such as with DSA. This causes the
kernel not to open and configure the master network device in a DSA
switch tree, and therefore slave network devices using this master
network devices as conduit device cannot be open.

This restriction comes from a check in net/dsa/slave.c, which is
basically checking the master netdev flags for IFF_UP and returns
-ENETDOWN if it is not the case.

Automatically bringing-up DSA master network devices allows DSA slave
network devices to be used as valid interfaces for e.g: NFS root booting
by allowing kernel IP autoconfiguration to succeed on these interfaces.

On the reverse path, make sure we do not attempt to close a DSA-enabled
device as this would implicitely prevent the slave DSA network device
from operating.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: remove 0/NULL assignment on static

2014-11-04T20:09:52+00:00

static values are automatically initialized to 0

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: remove set but unused variable sha

2014-10-27T20:03:52+00:00

unsigned char *sha (source) was already in original git version
 but was never used.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipconfig: Use time_before

2014-08-22T19:23:11+00:00

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.

A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:

@change@
expression E1,E2;
@@
- jiffies - E1 < E2
+ time_before(jiffies, E1+E2)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi 
Acked-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipconfig: Only bootp paths should reference ic_dev_xid.

2014-07-10T05:25:18+00:00

It is only tested, and declared, in the bootp code.

So, in ic_dynamic() guard it's setting with IPCONFIG_BOOTP.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller