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<title>linux-stable.git/net/irda, branch v3.14.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure</title>
<updated>2016-08-16T07:29:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-23T05:43:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d3e6952cfb7ba5f4bfa29d4803ba91f96ce1204d ]

I ran into this:

    kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
    kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
    CPU: 2 PID: 2012 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc7+ #19
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    task: ffff8800b745f2c0 ti: ffff880111740000 task.ti: ffff880111740000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
    RSP: 0018:ffff880111747bb8  EFLAGS: 00010286
    RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000069dd8358
    RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: 0000000000000048
    RBP: ffff880111747c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000069dd8358 R11: 1ffffffff0759723 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff88011a7e4780 R14: 0000000000000027 R15: 0000000000000000
    FS:  00007fc738404700(0000) GS:ffff88011af00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fc737fdfb10 CR3: 0000000118087000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Stack:
     0000000000000200 ffff880111747bd8 ffffffff810ee611 ffff880119f1f220
     ffff880119f1f4f8 ffff880119f1f4f0 ffff88011a7e4780 ffff880119f1f232
     ffff880119f1f220 ffff880111747d58 ffffffff82bca542 0000000000000000
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff82bca542&gt;] irda_connect+0x562/0x1190
     [&lt;ffffffff825ae582&gt;] SYSC_connect+0x202/0x2a0
     [&lt;ffffffff825b4489&gt;] SyS_connect+0x9/0x10
     [&lt;ffffffff8100334c&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x19c/0x410
     [&lt;ffffffff83295ca5&gt;] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    Code: 41 89 ca 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 d7 53 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 48 48 89 fa 41 89 f6 48 c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 20 4c 8b 65 10 &lt;0f&gt; b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 84 c0 0f 8e 4c 04 00 00 80 7b 48 00 74
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
     RSP &lt;ffff880111747bb8&gt;
    ---[ end trace 4cda2588bc055b30 ]---

The problem is that irda_open_tsap() can fail and leave self-&gt;tsap = NULL,
and then irttp_connect_request() almost immediately dereferences it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d3e6952cfb7ba5f4bfa29d4803ba91f96ce1204d ]

I ran into this:

    kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
    kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
    CPU: 2 PID: 2012 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc7+ #19
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    task: ffff8800b745f2c0 ti: ffff880111740000 task.ti: ffff880111740000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
    RSP: 0018:ffff880111747bb8  EFLAGS: 00010286
    RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000069dd8358
    RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: 0000000000000048
    RBP: ffff880111747c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000069dd8358 R11: 1ffffffff0759723 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff88011a7e4780 R14: 0000000000000027 R15: 0000000000000000
    FS:  00007fc738404700(0000) GS:ffff88011af00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fc737fdfb10 CR3: 0000000118087000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Stack:
     0000000000000200 ffff880111747bd8 ffffffff810ee611 ffff880119f1f220
     ffff880119f1f4f8 ffff880119f1f4f0 ffff88011a7e4780 ffff880119f1f232
     ffff880119f1f220 ffff880111747d58 ffffffff82bca542 0000000000000000
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff82bca542&gt;] irda_connect+0x562/0x1190
     [&lt;ffffffff825ae582&gt;] SYSC_connect+0x202/0x2a0
     [&lt;ffffffff825b4489&gt;] SyS_connect+0x9/0x10
     [&lt;ffffffff8100334c&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x19c/0x410
     [&lt;ffffffff83295ca5&gt;] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    Code: 41 89 ca 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 d7 53 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 48 48 89 fa 41 89 f6 48 c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 20 4c 8b 65 10 &lt;0f&gt; b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 84 c0 0f 8e 4c 04 00 00 80 7b 48 00 74
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff82bbf066&gt;] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
     RSP &lt;ffff880111747bb8&gt;
    ---[ end trace 4cda2588bc055b30 ]---

The problem is that irda_open_tsap() can fail and leave self-&gt;tsap = NULL,
and then irttp_connect_request() almost immediately dereferences it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument</title>
<updated>2016-01-23T04:34:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-14T21:03:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 79462ad02e861803b3840cc782248c7359451cd9 ]

郭永刚 reported that one could simply crash the kernel as root by
using a simple program:

	int socket_fd;
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	addr.sin_port = 0;
	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
	addr.sin_family = 10;

	socket_fd = socket(10,3,0x40000000);
	connect(socket_fd , &amp;addr,16);

AF_INET, AF_INET6 sockets actually only support 8-bit protocol
identifiers. inet_sock's skc_protocol field thus is sized accordingly,
thus larger protocol identifiers simply cut off the higher bits and
store a zero in the protocol fields.

This could lead to e.g. NULL function pointer because as a result of
the cut off inet_num is zero and we call down to inet_autobind, which
is NULL for raw sockets.

kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff816db90e&gt;] ? inet_autobind+0x2e/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff816db9a4&gt;] inet_dgram_connect+0x54/0x80
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81645069&gt;] SYSC_connect+0xd9/0x110
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810ac51b&gt;] ? ptrace_notify+0x5b/0x80
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810236d8&gt;] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0x108/0x200
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81645e0e&gt;] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81779515&gt;] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

I found no particular commit which introduced this problem.

CVE: CVE-2015-8543
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Reported-by: 郭永刚 &lt;guoyonggang@360.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 79462ad02e861803b3840cc782248c7359451cd9 ]

郭永刚 reported that one could simply crash the kernel as root by
using a simple program:

	int socket_fd;
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	addr.sin_port = 0;
	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
	addr.sin_family = 10;

	socket_fd = socket(10,3,0x40000000);
	connect(socket_fd , &amp;addr,16);

AF_INET, AF_INET6 sockets actually only support 8-bit protocol
identifiers. inet_sock's skc_protocol field thus is sized accordingly,
thus larger protocol identifiers simply cut off the higher bits and
store a zero in the protocol fields.

This could lead to e.g. NULL function pointer because as a result of
the cut off inet_num is zero and we call down to inet_autobind, which
is NULL for raw sockets.

kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff816db90e&gt;] ? inet_autobind+0x2e/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff816db9a4&gt;] inet_dgram_connect+0x54/0x80
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81645069&gt;] SYSC_connect+0xd9/0x110
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810ac51b&gt;] ? ptrace_notify+0x5b/0x80
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810236d8&gt;] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0x108/0x200
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81645e0e&gt;] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81779515&gt;] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

I found no particular commit which introduced this problem.

CVE: CVE-2015-8543
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Reported-by: 郭永刚 &lt;guoyonggang@360.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>irda: precedence bug in irlmp_seq_hb_idx()</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T18:42:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T10:16:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 50010c20597d14667eff0fdb628309986f195230 ]

This is decrementing the pointer, instead of the value stored in the
pointer.  KASan detects it as an out of bounds reference.

Reported-by: "Berry Cheng 程君(成淼)" &lt;chengmiao.cj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 50010c20597d14667eff0fdb628309986f195230 ]

This is decrementing the pointer, instead of the value stored in the
pointer.  KASan detects it as an out of bounds reference.

Reported-by: "Berry Cheng 程君(成淼)" &lt;chengmiao.cj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: irda: fix wait_until_sent poll timeout</title>
<updated>2015-03-18T12:31:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-04T09:39:03+00:00</published>
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commit 2c3fbe3cf28fbd7001545a92a83b4f8acfd9fa36 upstream.

In case an infinite timeout (0) is requested, the irda wait_until_sent
implementation would use a zero poll timeout rather than the default
200ms.

Note that wait_until_sent is currently never called with a 0-timeout
argument due to a bug in tty_wait_until_sent.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2c3fbe3cf28fbd7001545a92a83b4f8acfd9fa36 upstream.

In case an infinite timeout (0) is requested, the irda wait_until_sent
implementation would use a zero poll timeout rather than the default
200ms.

Note that wait_until_sent is currently never called with a 0-timeout
argument due to a bug in tty_wait_until_sent.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add build-time checks for msg-&gt;msg_name size</title>
<updated>2014-01-19T07:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Hurrle</name>
<email>steffen@hurrle.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-17T21:53:15+00:00</published>
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This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg
handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic").

DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the
name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved
for msg-&gt;msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR
consistently in sendmsg code paths.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle &lt;steffen@hurrle.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg
handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic").

DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the
name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved
for msg-&gt;msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR
consistently in sendmsg code paths.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle &lt;steffen@hurrle.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/irda: Fix FSF address in file headers</title>
<updated>2013-12-06T17:37:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Kirsher</name>
<email>jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-06T17:13:43+00:00</published>
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Samuel Ortiz &lt;samuel@sortiz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Samuel Ortiz &lt;samuel@sortiz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic</title>
<updated>2013-11-21T02:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T02:14:22+00:00</published>
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This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()</title>
<updated>2013-11-19T21:39:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T14:19:31+00:00</published>
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As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

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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As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

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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<title>genetlink: make all genl_ops users const</title>
<updated>2013-11-14T22:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T16:14:46+00:00</published>
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Now that genl_ops are no longer modified in place when
registering, they can be made const. This patch was done
mostly with spatch:

@@
identifier ops;
@@
+const
 struct genl_ops ops[] = {
 ...
 };

(except the struct thing in net/openvswitch/datapath.c)

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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Now that genl_ops are no longer modified in place when
registering, they can be made const. This patch was done
mostly with spatch:

@@
identifier ops;
@@
+const
 struct genl_ops ops[] = {
 ...
 };

(except the struct thing in net/openvswitch/datapath.c)

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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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
  ...
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