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<title>linux-stable.git/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c, branch linux-5.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: constify rt6_nexthop()</title>
<updated>2019-06-26T20:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-24T14:01:08+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There is no functional change in this patch, it only prepares the next one.

rt6_nexthop() will be used by ip6_dst_lookup_neigh(), which uses const
variables.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
There is no functional change in this patch, it only prepares the next one.

rt6_nexthop() will be used by ip6_dst_lookup_neigh(), which uses const
variables.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: correct udp zerocopy refcnt also when zerocopy only on append</title>
<updated>2019-06-11T18:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-07T21:57:48+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The below patch fixes an incorrect zerocopy refcnt increment when
appending with MSG_MORE to an existing zerocopy udp skb.

  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY | MSG_MORE);	// refcnt 1
  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY | MSG_MORE);	// refcnt still 1 (bar frags)

But it missed that zerocopy need not be passed at the first send. The
right test whether the uarg is newly allocated and thus has extra
refcnt 1 is not !skb, but !skb_zcopy.

  send(.., MSG_MORE);			// &lt;no uarg&gt;
  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY);		// refcnt 1

Fixes: 100f6d8e09905 ("net: correct zerocopy refcnt with udp MSG_MORE")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
The below patch fixes an incorrect zerocopy refcnt increment when
appending with MSG_MORE to an existing zerocopy udp skb.

  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY | MSG_MORE);	// refcnt 1
  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY | MSG_MORE);	// refcnt still 1 (bar frags)

But it missed that zerocopy need not be passed at the first send. The
right test whether the uarg is newly allocated and thus has extra
refcnt 1 is not !skb, but !skb_zcopy.

  send(.., MSG_MORE);			// &lt;no uarg&gt;
  send(.., MSG_ZEROCOPY);		// refcnt 1

Fixes: 100f6d8e09905 ("net: correct zerocopy refcnt with udp MSG_MORE")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spdx-5.2-rc3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2019-05-31T15:34:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T15:34:32+00:00</published>
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<id>2f4c53349961c8ca480193e47da4d44fdb8335a8</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull yet more SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is another set of reviewed patches that adds SPDX tags to
  different kernel files, based on a set of rules that are being used to
  parse the comments to try to determine that the license of the file is
  "GPL-2.0-or-later" or "GPL-2.0-only". Only the "obvious" versions of
  these matches are included here, a number of "non-obvious" variants of
  text have been found but those have been postponed for later review
  and analysis.

  There is also a patch in here to add the proper SPDX header to a bunch
  of Kbuild files that we have missed in the past due to new files being
  added and forgetting that Kbuild uses two different file names for
  Makefiles. This issue was reported by the Kbuild maintainer.

  These patches have been out for review on the linux-spdx@vger mailing
  list, and while they were created by automatic tools, they were
  hand-verified by a bunch of different people, all whom names are on
  the patches are reviewers"

* tag 'spdx-5.2-rc3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (82 commits)
  treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 225
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 224
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 223
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 222
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 221
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 220
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 218
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 217
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 216
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 215
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 214
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 213
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 211
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 210
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 209
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 207
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 203
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 201
  ...
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<pre>
Pull yet more SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is another set of reviewed patches that adds SPDX tags to
  different kernel files, based on a set of rules that are being used to
  parse the comments to try to determine that the license of the file is
  "GPL-2.0-or-later" or "GPL-2.0-only". Only the "obvious" versions of
  these matches are included here, a number of "non-obvious" variants of
  text have been found but those have been postponed for later review
  and analysis.

  There is also a patch in here to add the proper SPDX header to a bunch
  of Kbuild files that we have missed in the past due to new files being
  added and forgetting that Kbuild uses two different file names for
  Makefiles. This issue was reported by the Kbuild maintainer.

  These patches have been out for review on the linux-spdx@vger mailing
  list, and while they were created by automatic tools, they were
  hand-verified by a bunch of different people, all whom names are on
  the patches are reviewers"

* tag 'spdx-5.2-rc3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (82 commits)
  treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 225
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 224
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 223
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 222
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 221
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 220
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 218
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 217
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 216
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 215
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 214
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 213
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 211
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 210
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 209
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 207
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 203
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 201
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: correct zerocopy refcnt with udp MSG_MORE</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T22:54:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-30T22:01:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=100f6d8e09905c59be45b6316f8f369c0be1b2d8'/>
<id>100f6d8e09905c59be45b6316f8f369c0be1b2d8</id>
<content type='text'>
TCP zerocopy takes a uarg reference for every skb, plus one for the
tcp_sendmsg_locked datapath temporarily, to avoid reaching refcnt zero
as it builds, sends and frees skbs inside its inner loop.

UDP and RAW zerocopy do not send inside the inner loop so do not need
the extra sock_zerocopy_get + sock_zerocopy_put pair. Commit
52900d22288ed ("udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path") introduced
extra_uref to pass the initial reference taken in sock_zerocopy_alloc
to the first generated skb.

But, sock_zerocopy_realloc takes this extra reference at the start of
every call. With MSG_MORE, no new skb may be generated to attach the
extra_uref to, so refcnt is incorrectly 2 with only one skb.

Do not take the extra ref if uarg &amp;&amp; !tcp, which implies MSG_MORE.
Update extra_uref accordingly.

This conditional assignment triggers a false positive may be used
uninitialized warning, so have to initialize extra_uref at define.

Changes v1-&gt;v2: fix typo in Fixes SHA1

Fixes: 52900d22288e7 ("udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
TCP zerocopy takes a uarg reference for every skb, plus one for the
tcp_sendmsg_locked datapath temporarily, to avoid reaching refcnt zero
as it builds, sends and frees skbs inside its inner loop.

UDP and RAW zerocopy do not send inside the inner loop so do not need
the extra sock_zerocopy_get + sock_zerocopy_put pair. Commit
52900d22288ed ("udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path") introduced
extra_uref to pass the initial reference taken in sock_zerocopy_alloc
to the first generated skb.

But, sock_zerocopy_realloc takes this extra reference at the start of
every call. With MSG_MORE, no new skb may be generated to attach the
extra_uref to, so refcnt is incorrectly 2 with only one skb.

Do not take the extra ref if uarg &amp;&amp; !tcp, which implies MSG_MORE.
Update extra_uref accordingly.

This conditional assignment triggers a false positive may be used
uninitialized warning, so have to initialize extra_uref at define.

Changes v1-&gt;v2: fix typo in Fixes SHA1

Fixes: 52900d22288e7 ("udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567'/>
<id>2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567</id>
<content type='text'>
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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<pre>
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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbor: Add skip_cache argument to neigh_output</title>
<updated>2019-04-08T22:22:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-05T23:30:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0353f28231c79416191326810e7fe656b69c63b7'/>
<id>0353f28231c79416191326810e7fe656b69c63b7</id>
<content type='text'>
A later patch allows an IPv6 gateway with an IPv4 route. The neighbor
entry will exist in the v6 ndisc table and the cached header will contain
the ipv6 protocol which is wrong for an IPv4 packet. For an IPv4 packet to
use the v6 neighbor entry, neigh_output needs to skip the cached header
and just use the output callback for the neigh entry.

A future patchset can look at expanding the hh_cache to handle 2
protocols. For now, IPv6 gateways with an IPv4 route will take the
extra overhead of generating the header.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
A later patch allows an IPv6 gateway with an IPv4 route. The neighbor
entry will exist in the v6 ndisc table and the cached header will contain
the ipv6 protocol which is wrong for an IPv4 packet. For an IPv4 packet to
use the v6 neighbor entry, neigh_output needs to skip the cached header
and just use the output callback for the neigh entry.

A future patchset can look at expanding the hh_cache to handle 2
protocols. For now, IPv6 gateways with an IPv4 route will take the
extra overhead of generating the header.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: Fix dangling pointer when ipv6 fragment</title>
<updated>2019-04-04T04:42:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junwei Hu</name>
<email>hujunwei4@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-02T11:38:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ef0efcd3bd3fd0589732b67fb586ffd3c8705806'/>
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<content type='text'>
At the beginning of ip6_fragment func, the prevhdr pointer is
obtained in the ip6_find_1stfragopt func.
However, all the pointers pointing into skb header may change
when calling skb_checksum_help func with
skb-&gt;ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL condition.
The prevhdr pointe will be dangling if it is not reloaded after
calling __skb_linearize func in skb_checksum_help func.

Here, I add a variable, nexthdr_offset, to evaluate the offset,
which does not changes even after calling __skb_linearize func.

Fixes: 405c92f7a541 ("ipv6: add defensive check for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL skbs in ip_fragment")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wenhao Zhang &lt;zhangwenhao8@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+e8ce541d095e486074fc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
At the beginning of ip6_fragment func, the prevhdr pointer is
obtained in the ip6_find_1stfragopt func.
However, all the pointers pointing into skb header may change
when calling skb_checksum_help func with
skb-&gt;ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL condition.
The prevhdr pointe will be dangling if it is not reloaded after
calling __skb_linearize func in skb_checksum_help func.

Here, I add a variable, nexthdr_offset, to evaluate the offset,
which does not changes even after calling __skb_linearize func.

Fixes: 405c92f7a541 ("ipv6: add defensive check for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL skbs in ip_fragment")
Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu &lt;hujunwei4@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wenhao Zhang &lt;zhangwenhao8@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+e8ce541d095e486074fc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv6: add socket option IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT_ISOLATE</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T05:05:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Francesco Ruggeri</name>
<email>fruggeri@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-01T23:31:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9036b2fe092a107856edd1a3bad48b83f2b45000'/>
<id>9036b2fe092a107856edd1a3bad48b83f2b45000</id>
<content type='text'>
By default IPv6 socket with IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT socket option set will
receive all IPv6 RA packets from all namespaces.
IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT_ISOLATE socket option restricts packets received by
the socket to be only from the socket's namespace.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Martynov &lt;maxim@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@arista.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
By default IPv6 socket with IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT socket option set will
receive all IPv6 RA packets from all namespaces.
IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT_ISOLATE socket option restricts packets received by
the socket to be only from the socket's namespace.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Martynov &lt;maxim@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@arista.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2be09de7d6a06f58e768de1255a687c9aaa66606'/>
<id>2be09de7d6a06f58e768de1255a687c9aaa66606</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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>sk_buff: add skb extension infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T19:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T16:15:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=df5042f4c5b9326c593bf2e31ed859ebc3b4130a'/>
<id>df5042f4c5b9326c593bf2e31ed859ebc3b4130a</id>
<content type='text'>
This adds an optional extension infrastructure, with ispec (xfrm) and
bridge netfilter as first users.
objdiff shows no changes if kernel is built without xfrm and br_netfilter
support.

The third (planned future) user is Multipath TCP which is still
out-of-tree.
MPTCP needs to map logical mptcp sequence numbers to the tcp sequence
numbers used by individual subflows.

This DSS mapping is read/written from tcp option space on receive and
written to tcp option space on transmitted tcp packets that are part of
and MPTCP connection.

Extending skb_shared_info or adding a private data field to skb fclones
doesn't work for incoming skb, so a different DSS propagation method would
be required for the receive side.

mptcp has same requirements as secpath/bridge netfilter:

1. extension memory is released when the sk_buff is free'd.
2. data is shared after cloning an skb (clone inherits extension)
3. adding extension to an skb will COW the extension buffer if needed.

The "MPTCP upstreaming" effort adds SKB_EXT_MPTCP extension to store the
mapping for tx and rx processing.

Two new members are added to sk_buff:
1. 'active_extensions' byte (filling a hole), telling which extensions
   are available for this skb.
   This has two purposes.
   a) avoids the need to initialize the pointer.
   b) allows to "delete" an extension by clearing its bit
   value in -&gt;active_extensions.

   While it would be possible to store the active_extensions byte
   in the extension struct instead of sk_buff, there is one problem
   with this:
    When an extension has to be disabled, we can always clear the
    bit in skb-&gt;active_extensions.  But in case it would be stored in the
    extension buffer itself, we might have to COW it first, if
    we are dealing with a cloned skb.  On kmalloc failure we would
    be unable to turn an extension off.

2. extension pointer, located at the end of the sk_buff.
   If the active_extensions byte is 0, the pointer is undefined,
   it is not initialized on skb allocation.

This adds extra code to skb clone and free paths (to deal with
refcount/free of extension area) but this replaces similar code that
manages skb-&gt;nf_bridge and skb-&gt;sp structs in the followup patches of
the series.

It is possible to add support for extensions that are not preseved on
clones/copies.

To do this, it would be needed to define a bitmask of all extensions that
need copy/cow semantics, and change __skb_ext_copy() to check
-&gt;active_extensions &amp; SKB_EXT_PRESERVE_ON_CLONE, then just set
-&gt;active_extensions to 0 on the new clone.

This isn't done here because all extensions that get added here
need the copy/cow semantics.

v2:
Allocate entire extension space using kmem_cache.
Upside is that this allows better tracking of used memory,
downside is that we will allocate more space than strictly needed in
most cases (its unlikely that all extensions are active/needed at same
time for same skb).
The allocated memory (except the small extension header) is not cleared,
so no additonal overhead aside from memory usage.

Avoid atomic_dec_and_test operation on skb_ext_put()
by using similar trick as kfree_skbmem() does with fclone_ref:
If recount is 1, there is no concurrent user and we can free right away.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This adds an optional extension infrastructure, with ispec (xfrm) and
bridge netfilter as first users.
objdiff shows no changes if kernel is built without xfrm and br_netfilter
support.

The third (planned future) user is Multipath TCP which is still
out-of-tree.
MPTCP needs to map logical mptcp sequence numbers to the tcp sequence
numbers used by individual subflows.

This DSS mapping is read/written from tcp option space on receive and
written to tcp option space on transmitted tcp packets that are part of
and MPTCP connection.

Extending skb_shared_info or adding a private data field to skb fclones
doesn't work for incoming skb, so a different DSS propagation method would
be required for the receive side.

mptcp has same requirements as secpath/bridge netfilter:

1. extension memory is released when the sk_buff is free'd.
2. data is shared after cloning an skb (clone inherits extension)
3. adding extension to an skb will COW the extension buffer if needed.

The "MPTCP upstreaming" effort adds SKB_EXT_MPTCP extension to store the
mapping for tx and rx processing.

Two new members are added to sk_buff:
1. 'active_extensions' byte (filling a hole), telling which extensions
   are available for this skb.
   This has two purposes.
   a) avoids the need to initialize the pointer.
   b) allows to "delete" an extension by clearing its bit
   value in -&gt;active_extensions.

   While it would be possible to store the active_extensions byte
   in the extension struct instead of sk_buff, there is one problem
   with this:
    When an extension has to be disabled, we can always clear the
    bit in skb-&gt;active_extensions.  But in case it would be stored in the
    extension buffer itself, we might have to COW it first, if
    we are dealing with a cloned skb.  On kmalloc failure we would
    be unable to turn an extension off.

2. extension pointer, located at the end of the sk_buff.
   If the active_extensions byte is 0, the pointer is undefined,
   it is not initialized on skb allocation.

This adds extra code to skb clone and free paths (to deal with
refcount/free of extension area) but this replaces similar code that
manages skb-&gt;nf_bridge and skb-&gt;sp structs in the followup patches of
the series.

It is possible to add support for extensions that are not preseved on
clones/copies.

To do this, it would be needed to define a bitmask of all extensions that
need copy/cow semantics, and change __skb_ext_copy() to check
-&gt;active_extensions &amp; SKB_EXT_PRESERVE_ON_CLONE, then just set
-&gt;active_extensions to 0 on the new clone.

This isn't done here because all extensions that get added here
need the copy/cow semantics.

v2:
Allocate entire extension space using kmem_cache.
Upside is that this allows better tracking of used memory,
downside is that we will allocate more space than strictly needed in
most cases (its unlikely that all extensions are active/needed at same
time for same skb).
The allocated memory (except the small extension header) is not cleared,
so no additonal overhead aside from memory usage.

Avoid atomic_dec_and_test operation on skb_ext_put()
by using similar trick as kfree_skbmem() does with fclone_ref:
If recount is 1, there is no concurrent user and we can free right away.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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