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<title>linux-stable.git/net/kcm, branch v5.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kcm: disable preemption in kcm_parse_func_strparser()</title>
<updated>2019-09-27T08:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-24T19:29:34+00:00</published>
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After commit a2c11b034142 ("kcm: use BPF_PROG_RUN")
syzbot easily triggers the warning in cant_sleep().

As explained in commit 6cab5e90ab2b ("bpf: run bpf programs
with preemption disabled") we need to disable preemption before
running bpf programs.

BUG: assuming atomic context at net/kcm/kcmsock.c:382
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 7, name: kworker/u4:0
3 locks held by kworker/u4:0/7:
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: __write_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:226 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: atomic64_set include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:855 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: atomic_long_set include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h:40 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:620 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:647 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x88b/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2240
 #1: ffff8880a989fdc0 ((work_completion)(&amp;strp-&gt;work)){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x8c1/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2244
 #2: ffff888098998d10 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1522 [inline]
 #2: ffff888098998d10 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}, at: strp_sock_lock+0x2e/0x40 net/strparser/strparser.c:440
CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 5.3.0+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: kstrp strp_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 __cant_sleep kernel/sched/core.c:6826 [inline]
 __cant_sleep.cold+0xa4/0xbc kernel/sched/core.c:6803
 kcm_parse_func_strparser+0x54/0x200 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:382
 __strp_recv+0x5dc/0x1b20 net/strparser/strparser.c:221
 strp_recv+0xcf/0x10b net/strparser/strparser.c:343
 tcp_read_sock+0x285/0xa00 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1639
 strp_read_sock+0x14d/0x200 net/strparser/strparser.c:366
 do_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:414 [inline]
 strp_work+0xe3/0x130 net/strparser/strparser.c:423
 process_one_work+0x9af/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2269

Fixes: a2c11b034142 ("kcm: use BPF_PROG_RUN")
Fixes: 6cab5e90ab2b ("bpf: run bpf programs with preemption disabled")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
After commit a2c11b034142 ("kcm: use BPF_PROG_RUN")
syzbot easily triggers the warning in cant_sleep().

As explained in commit 6cab5e90ab2b ("bpf: run bpf programs
with preemption disabled") we need to disable preemption before
running bpf programs.

BUG: assuming atomic context at net/kcm/kcmsock.c:382
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 7, name: kworker/u4:0
3 locks held by kworker/u4:0/7:
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: __write_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:226 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: atomic64_set include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:855 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: atomic_long_set include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h:40 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:620 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:647 [inline]
 #0: ffff888216726128 ((wq_completion)kstrp){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x88b/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2240
 #1: ffff8880a989fdc0 ((work_completion)(&amp;strp-&gt;work)){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x8c1/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2244
 #2: ffff888098998d10 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1522 [inline]
 #2: ffff888098998d10 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}, at: strp_sock_lock+0x2e/0x40 net/strparser/strparser.c:440
CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 5.3.0+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: kstrp strp_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 __cant_sleep kernel/sched/core.c:6826 [inline]
 __cant_sleep.cold+0xa4/0xbc kernel/sched/core.c:6803
 kcm_parse_func_strparser+0x54/0x200 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:382
 __strp_recv+0x5dc/0x1b20 net/strparser/strparser.c:221
 strp_recv+0xcf/0x10b net/strparser/strparser.c:343
 tcp_read_sock+0x285/0xa00 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1639
 strp_read_sock+0x14d/0x200 net/strparser/strparser.c:366
 do_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:414 [inline]
 strp_work+0xe3/0x130 net/strparser/strparser.c:423
 process_one_work+0x9af/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2269

Fixes: a2c11b034142 ("kcm: use BPF_PROG_RUN")
Fixes: 6cab5e90ab2b ("bpf: run bpf programs with preemption disabled")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcm: use BPF_PROG_RUN</title>
<updated>2019-09-06T17:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-05T21:15:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Instead of invoking struct bpf_prog::bpf_func directly, use the
BPF_PROG_RUN macro.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Instead of invoking struct bpf_prog::bpf_func directly, use the
BPF_PROG_RUN macro.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Use skb_frag_off accessors</title>
<updated>2019-07-30T21:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Lemon</name>
<email>jonathan.lemon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-30T14:40:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use accessor functions for skb fragment's page_offset instead
of direct references, in preparation for bvec conversion.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Use accessor functions for skb fragment's page_offset instead
of direct references, in preparation for bvec conversion.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Use skb accessors in network core</title>
<updated>2019-07-23T03:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-23T03:08:26+00:00</published>
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In preparation for unifying the skb_frag and bio_vec, use the fine
accessors which already exist and use skb_frag_t instead of
struct skb_frag_struct.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
In preparation for unifying the skb_frag and bio_vec, use the fine
accessors which already exist and use skb_frag_t instead of
struct skb_frag_struct.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&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 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 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 version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 2 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 version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcm: switch order of device registration to fix a crash</title>
<updated>2019-04-01T21:59:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T11:19:46+00:00</published>
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When kcm is loaded while many processes try to create a KCM socket, a
crash occurs:
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e
 IP: mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 PGD 8000000016ef2067 P4D 8000000016ef2067 PUD 3d6e9067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 7005 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 4.12.14-396-default #1 SLE15-SP1 (unreleased)
 RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 RSP: 0018:ffff88000d487a00 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 1ffff100082b0719
 ...
 CR2: 000000000000000e CR3: 000000004b1bc003 CR4: 0000000000060ef0
 Call Trace:
  kcm_create+0x600/0xbf0 [kcm]
  __sock_create+0x324/0x750 net/socket.c:1272
 ...

This is due to race between sock_create and unfinished
register_pernet_device. kcm_create tries to do "net_generic(net,
kcm_net_id)". but kcm_net_id is not initialized yet.

So switch the order of the two to close the race.

This can be reproduced with mutiple processes doing socket(PF_KCM, ...)
and one process doing module removal.

Fixes: ab7ac4eb9832 ("kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module")
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
When kcm is loaded while many processes try to create a KCM socket, a
crash occurs:
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e
 IP: mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 PGD 8000000016ef2067 P4D 8000000016ef2067 PUD 3d6e9067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 7005 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 4.12.14-396-default #1 SLE15-SP1 (unreleased)
 RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x27/0x40 kernel/locking/mutex.c:240
 RSP: 0018:ffff88000d487a00 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 1ffff100082b0719
 ...
 CR2: 000000000000000e CR3: 000000004b1bc003 CR4: 0000000000060ef0
 Call Trace:
  kcm_create+0x600/0xbf0 [kcm]
  __sock_create+0x324/0x750 net/socket.c:1272
 ...

This is due to race between sock_create and unfinished
register_pernet_device. kcm_create tries to do "net_generic(net,
kcm_net_id)". but kcm_net_id is not initialized yet.

So switch the order of the two to close the race.

This can be reproduced with mutiple processes doing socket(PF_KCM, ...)
and one process doing module removal.

Fixes: ab7ac4eb9832 ("kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module")
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcm: Remove unnecessary SLAB_PANIC for kmem_cache_create() in kcm_init</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T21:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-22T06:15:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c211524029a1495763889c1489401c3e62a8e11b'/>
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There has check NULL on kmem_cache_create on failure in kcm_init,
no need use SLAB_PANIC to panic the system.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
There has check NULL on kmem_cache_create on failure in kcm_init,
no need use SLAB_PANIC to panic the system.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove blank lines at end of file</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T21:10:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-24T19:29:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e446a2760f1e265192accd7ddebd3ca5ff1d57bb'/>
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<content type='text'>
Several files have extra line at end of file.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Several files have extra line at end of file.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert changes to convert to -&gt;poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL</title>
<updated>2018-06-28T17:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-28T16:43:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a11e1d432b51f63ba698d044441284a661f01144'/>
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<content type='text'>
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained.  They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"-&gt;poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.

Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"-&gt;get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead.  That gets rid of one of the new indirections.

But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case.  The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.

[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
  individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy  - Linus ]

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained.  They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"-&gt;poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.

Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"-&gt;get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead.  That gets rid of one of the new indirections.

But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case.  The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.

[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
  individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy  - Linus ]

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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