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<title>linux-stable.git/net/ipv4/ipmr.c, branch v5.4</title>
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<entry>
<title>ipmr: Fix skb headroom in ipmr_get_route().</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T21:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>gnault@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-15T17:29:52+00:00</published>
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In route.c, inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb() creates an skb with no
headroom. This skb is then used by inet_rtm_getroute() which may pass
it to rt_fill_info() and, from there, to ipmr_get_route(). The later
might try to reuse this skb by cloning it and prepending an IPv4
header. But since the original skb has no headroom, skb_push() triggers
skb_under_panic():

skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:00000000ca46ad8a len:80 put:20 head:00000000cd28494e data:000000009366fd6b tail:0x3c end:0xec0 dev:veth0
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:108!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 6 PID: 587 Comm: ip Not tainted 5.4.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-2.fc30 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0xbf/0xd0
Code: 41 a2 ff 8b 4b 70 4c 8b 4d d0 48 c7 c7 20 76 f5 8b 44 8b 45 bc 48 8b 55 c0 48 8b 75 c8 41 54 41 57 41 56 41 55 e8 75 dc 7a ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffff888059ddf0b0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000086 RBX: ffff888060a315c0 RCX: ffffffff8abe4822
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88806c9a79cc
RBP: ffff888059ddf118 R08: ffffed100d9361b1 R09: ffffed100d9361b0
R10: ffff88805c68aee3 R11: ffffed100d9361b1 R12: ffff88805d218000
R13: ffff88805c689fec R14: 000000000000003c R15: 0000000000000ec0
FS:  00007f6af184b700(0000) GS:ffff88806c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc8204a000 CR3: 0000000057b40006 CR4: 0000000000360ee0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 skb_push+0x7e/0x80
 ipmr_get_route+0x459/0x6fa
 rt_fill_info+0x692/0x9f0
 inet_rtm_getroute+0xd26/0xf20
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x45d/0x630
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1a5/0x220
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x20
 netlink_unicast+0x305/0x3a0
 netlink_sendmsg+0x575/0x730
 sock_sendmsg+0xb5/0xc0
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x497/0x4f0
 __sys_sendmsg+0xcb/0x150
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x48/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0xd2/0xac0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Actually the original skb used to have enough headroom, but the
reserve_skb() call was lost with the introduction of
inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb() by commit 404eb77ea766 ("ipv4: support
sport, dport and ip_proto in RTM_GETROUTE").

We could reserve some headroom again in inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb(),
but this function shouldn't be responsible for handling the special
case of ipmr_get_route(). Let's handle that directly in
ipmr_get_route() by calling skb_realloc_headroom() instead of
skb_clone().

Fixes: 404eb77ea766 ("ipv4: support sport, dport and ip_proto in RTM_GETROUTE")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In route.c, inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb() creates an skb with no
headroom. This skb is then used by inet_rtm_getroute() which may pass
it to rt_fill_info() and, from there, to ipmr_get_route(). The later
might try to reuse this skb by cloning it and prepending an IPv4
header. But since the original skb has no headroom, skb_push() triggers
skb_under_panic():

skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:00000000ca46ad8a len:80 put:20 head:00000000cd28494e data:000000009366fd6b tail:0x3c end:0xec0 dev:veth0
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:108!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 6 PID: 587 Comm: ip Not tainted 5.4.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-2.fc30 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0xbf/0xd0
Code: 41 a2 ff 8b 4b 70 4c 8b 4d d0 48 c7 c7 20 76 f5 8b 44 8b 45 bc 48 8b 55 c0 48 8b 75 c8 41 54 41 57 41 56 41 55 e8 75 dc 7a ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffff888059ddf0b0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000086 RBX: ffff888060a315c0 RCX: ffffffff8abe4822
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88806c9a79cc
RBP: ffff888059ddf118 R08: ffffed100d9361b1 R09: ffffed100d9361b0
R10: ffff88805c68aee3 R11: ffffed100d9361b1 R12: ffff88805d218000
R13: ffff88805c689fec R14: 000000000000003c R15: 0000000000000ec0
FS:  00007f6af184b700(0000) GS:ffff88806c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc8204a000 CR3: 0000000057b40006 CR4: 0000000000360ee0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 skb_push+0x7e/0x80
 ipmr_get_route+0x459/0x6fa
 rt_fill_info+0x692/0x9f0
 inet_rtm_getroute+0xd26/0xf20
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x45d/0x630
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1a5/0x220
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x20
 netlink_unicast+0x305/0x3a0
 netlink_sendmsg+0x575/0x730
 sock_sendmsg+0xb5/0xc0
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x497/0x4f0
 __sys_sendmsg+0xcb/0x150
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x48/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0xd2/0xac0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Actually the original skb used to have enough headroom, but the
reserve_skb() call was lost with the introduction of
inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb() by commit 404eb77ea766 ("ipv4: support
sport, dport and ip_proto in RTM_GETROUTE").

We could reserve some headroom again in inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb(),
but this function shouldn't be responsible for handling the special
case of ipmr_get_route(). Let's handle that directly in
ipmr_get_route() by calling skb_realloc_headroom() instead of
skb_clone().

Fixes: 404eb77ea766 ("ipv4: support sport, dport and ip_proto in RTM_GETROUTE")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: drop bridge nf reset from nf_reset</title>
<updated>2019-10-01T16:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-29T18:54:03+00:00</published>
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commit 174e23810cd31
("sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing") made napi
recycle always drop skb extensions.  The additional skb_ext_del() that is
performed via nf_reset on napi skb recycle is not needed anymore.

Most nf_reset() calls in the stack are there so queued skb won't block
'rmmod nf_conntrack' indefinitely.

This removes the skb_ext_del from nf_reset, and renames it to a more
fitting nf_reset_ct().

In a few selected places, add a call to skb_ext_reset to make sure that
no active extensions remain.

I am submitting this for "net", because we're still early in the release
cycle.  The patch applies to net-next too, but I think the rename causes
needless divergence between those trees.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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commit 174e23810cd31
("sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing") made napi
recycle always drop skb extensions.  The additional skb_ext_del() that is
performed via nf_reset on napi skb recycle is not needed anymore.

Most nf_reset() calls in the stack are there so queued skb won't block
'rmmod nf_conntrack' indefinitely.

This removes the skb_ext_del from nf_reset, and renames it to a more
fitting nf_reset_ct().

In a few selected places, add a call to skb_ext_reset to make sure that
no active extensions remain.

I am submitting this for "net", because we're still early in the release
cycle.  The patch applies to net-next too, but I think the rename causes
needless divergence between those trees.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit</title>
<updated>2019-09-07T15:49:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hangbin Liu</name>
<email>liuhangbin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-06T07:36:01+00:00</published>
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This is a re-post of previous patch wrote by David Miller[1].

Phil Karn reported[2] that on busy networks with lots of unresolved
multicast routing entries, the creation of new multicast group routes
can be extremely slow and unreliable.

The reason is we hard-coded multicast route entries with unresolved source
addresses(cache_resolve_queue_len) to 10. If some multicast route never
resolves and the unresolved source addresses increased, there will
be no ability to create new multicast route cache.

To resolve this issue, we need either add a sysctl entry to make the
cache_resolve_queue_len configurable, or just remove cache_resolve_queue_len
limit directly, as we already have the socket receive queue limits of mrouted
socket, pointed by David.

&gt;From my side, I'd perfer to remove the cache_resolve_queue_len limit instead
of creating two more(IPv4 and IPv6 version) sysctl entry.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/22/11
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/21/343

v3: instead of remove cache_resolve_queue_len totally, let's only remove
the hard code limit when allocate the unresolved cache, as Eric Dumazet
suggested, so we don't need to re-count it in other places.

v2: hold the mfc_unres_lock while walking the unresolved list in
queue_count(), as Nikolay Aleksandrov remind.

Reported-by: Phil Karn &lt;karn@ka9q.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu &lt;liuhangbin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
This is a re-post of previous patch wrote by David Miller[1].

Phil Karn reported[2] that on busy networks with lots of unresolved
multicast routing entries, the creation of new multicast group routes
can be extremely slow and unreliable.

The reason is we hard-coded multicast route entries with unresolved source
addresses(cache_resolve_queue_len) to 10. If some multicast route never
resolves and the unresolved source addresses increased, there will
be no ability to create new multicast route cache.

To resolve this issue, we need either add a sysctl entry to make the
cache_resolve_queue_len configurable, or just remove cache_resolve_queue_len
limit directly, as we already have the socket receive queue limits of mrouted
socket, pointed by David.

&gt;From my side, I'd perfer to remove the cache_resolve_queue_len limit instead
of creating two more(IPv4 and IPv6 version) sysctl entry.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/22/11
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/21/343

v3: instead of remove cache_resolve_queue_len totally, let's only remove
the hard code limit when allocate the unresolved cache, as Eric Dumazet
suggested, so we don't need to re-count it in other places.

v2: hold the mfc_unres_lock while walking the unresolved list in
queue_count(), as Nikolay Aleksandrov remind.

Reported-by: Phil Karn &lt;karn@ka9q.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu &lt;liuhangbin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<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;
</pre>
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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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<entry>
<title>netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T21:03:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kubecek</name>
<email>mkubecek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-26T09:13:06+00:00</published>
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Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Rename net/nexthop.h net/rtnh.h</title>
<updated>2019-04-23T04:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-20T16:28:20+00:00</published>
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The header contains rtnh_ macros so rename the file accordingly.
Allows a later patch to use the nexthop.h name for the new
nexthop code.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The header contains rtnh_ macros so rename the file accordingly.
Allows a later patch to use the nexthop.h name for the new
nexthop code.

Signed-off-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>rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket.</title>
<updated>2019-04-08T02:12:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-01T23:07:45+00:00</published>
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This patch changes rhashtables to use a bit_spin_lock on BIT(1) of the
bucket pointer to lock the hash chain for that bucket.

The benefits of a bit spin_lock are:
 - no need to allocate a separate array of locks.
 - no need to have a configuration option to guide the
   choice of the size of this array
 - locking cost is often a single test-and-set in a cache line
   that will have to be loaded anyway.  When inserting at, or removing
   from, the head of the chain, the unlock is free - writing the new
   address in the bucket head implicitly clears the lock bit.
   For __rhashtable_insert_fast() we ensure this always happens
   when adding a new key.
 - even when lockings costs 2 updates (lock and unlock), they are
   in a cacheline that needs to be read anyway.

The cost of using a bit spin_lock is a little bit of code complexity,
which I think is quite manageable.

Bit spin_locks are sometimes inappropriate because they are not fair -
if multiple CPUs repeatedly contend of the same lock, one CPU can
easily be starved.  This is not a credible situation with rhashtable.
Multiple CPUs may want to repeatedly add or remove objects, but they
will typically do so at different buckets, so they will attempt to
acquire different locks.

As we have more bit-locks than we previously had spinlocks (by at
least a factor of two) we can expect slightly less contention to
go with the slightly better cache behavior and reduced memory
consumption.

To enhance type checking, a new struct is introduced to represent the
  pointer plus lock-bit
that is stored in the bucket-table.  This is "struct rhash_lock_head"
and is empty.  A pointer to this needs to be cast to either an
unsigned lock, or a "struct rhash_head *" to be useful.
Variables of this type are most often called "bkt".

Previously "pprev" would sometimes point to a bucket, and sometimes a
-&gt;next pointer in an rhash_head.  As these are now different types,
pprev is NULL when it would have pointed to the bucket. In that case,
'blk' is used, together with correct locking protocol.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch changes rhashtables to use a bit_spin_lock on BIT(1) of the
bucket pointer to lock the hash chain for that bucket.

The benefits of a bit spin_lock are:
 - no need to allocate a separate array of locks.
 - no need to have a configuration option to guide the
   choice of the size of this array
 - locking cost is often a single test-and-set in a cache line
   that will have to be loaded anyway.  When inserting at, or removing
   from, the head of the chain, the unlock is free - writing the new
   address in the bucket head implicitly clears the lock bit.
   For __rhashtable_insert_fast() we ensure this always happens
   when adding a new key.
 - even when lockings costs 2 updates (lock and unlock), they are
   in a cacheline that needs to be read anyway.

The cost of using a bit spin_lock is a little bit of code complexity,
which I think is quite manageable.

Bit spin_locks are sometimes inappropriate because they are not fair -
if multiple CPUs repeatedly contend of the same lock, one CPU can
easily be starved.  This is not a credible situation with rhashtable.
Multiple CPUs may want to repeatedly add or remove objects, but they
will typically do so at different buckets, so they will attempt to
acquire different locks.

As we have more bit-locks than we previously had spinlocks (by at
least a factor of two) we can expect slightly less contention to
go with the slightly better cache behavior and reduced memory
consumption.

To enhance type checking, a new struct is introduced to represent the
  pointer plus lock-bit
that is stored in the bucket-table.  This is "struct rhash_lock_head"
and is empty.  A pointer to this needs to be cast to either an
unsigned lock, or a "struct rhash_head *" to be useful.
Variables of this type are most often called "bkt".

Previously "pprev" would sometimes point to a bucket, and sometimes a
-&gt;next pointer in an rhash_head.  As these are now different types,
pprev is NULL when it would have pointed to the bucket. In that case,
'blk' is used, together with correct locking protocol.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipmr: ip6mr: Create new sockopt to clear mfc cache or vifs</title>
<updated>2019-02-21T21:05:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Callum Sinclair</name>
<email>callum.sinclair@alliedtelesis.co.nz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-17T21:07:52+00:00</published>
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Currently the only way to clear the forwarding cache was to delete the
entries one by one using the MRT_DEL_MFC socket option or to destroy and
recreate the socket.

Create a new socket option which with the use of optional flags can
clear any combination of multicast entries (static or not static) and
multicast vifs (static or not static).

Calling the new socket option MRT_FLUSH with the flags MRT_FLUSH_MFC and
MRT_FLUSH_VIFS will clear all entries and vifs on the socket except for
static entries.

Signed-off-by: Callum Sinclair &lt;callum.sinclair@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently the only way to clear the forwarding cache was to delete the
entries one by one using the MRT_DEL_MFC socket option or to destroy and
recreate the socket.

Create a new socket option which with the use of optional flags can
clear any combination of multicast entries (static or not static) and
multicast vifs (static or not static).

Calling the new socket option MRT_FLUSH with the flags MRT_FLUSH_MFC and
MRT_FLUSH_VIFS will clear all entries and vifs on the socket except for
static entries.

Signed-off-by: Callum Sinclair &lt;callum.sinclair@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Get rid of SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T22:17:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-06T17:45:46+00:00</published>
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Now that we have a dedicated NDO for getting a port's parent ID, get rid
of SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID and convert all callers to use the
NDO exclusively. This is a preliminary change to getting rid of
switchdev_ops eventually.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now that we have a dedicated NDO for getting a port's parent ID, get rid
of SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID and convert all callers to use the
NDO exclusively. This is a preliminary change to getting rid of
switchdev_ops eventually.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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