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<title>linux-stable.git/net/netlink, branch linux-4.5.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>netlink: don't send NETLINK_URELEASE for unbound sockets</title>
<updated>2016-05-04T21:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ivanov</name>
<email>dmitrijs.ivanovs@ubnt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T07:31:38+00:00</published>
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commit e27260203912b40751fa353d009eaa5a642c739f upstream.

All existing users of NETLINK_URELEASE use it to clean up resources that
were previously allocated to a socket via some command. As a result, no
users require getting this notification for unbound sockets.

Sending it for unbound sockets, however, is a problem because any user
(including unprivileged users) can create a socket that uses the same ID
as an existing socket. Binding this new socket will fail, but if the
NETLINK_URELEASE notification is generated for such sockets, the users
thereof will be tricked into thinking the socket that they allocated the
resources for is closed.

In the nl80211 case, this will cause destruction of virtual interfaces
that still belong to an existing hostapd process; this is the case that
Dmitry noticed. In the NFC case, it will cause a poll abort. In the case
of netlink log/queue it will cause them to stop reporting events, as if
NFULNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND/NFQNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND had been called.

Fix this problem by checking that the socket is bound before generating
the NETLINK_URELEASE notification.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov &lt;dima@ubnt.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.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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commit e27260203912b40751fa353d009eaa5a642c739f upstream.

All existing users of NETLINK_URELEASE use it to clean up resources that
were previously allocated to a socket via some command. As a result, no
users require getting this notification for unbound sockets.

Sending it for unbound sockets, however, is a problem because any user
(including unprivileged users) can create a socket that uses the same ID
as an existing socket. Binding this new socket will fail, but if the
NETLINK_URELEASE notification is generated for such sockets, the users
thereof will be tricked into thinking the socket that they allocated the
resources for is closed.

In the nl80211 case, this will cause destruction of virtual interfaces
that still belong to an existing hostapd process; this is the case that
Dmitry noticed. In the NFC case, it will cause a poll abort. In the case
of netlink log/queue it will cause them to stop reporting events, as if
NFULNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND/NFQNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND had been called.

Fix this problem by checking that the socket is bound before generating
the NETLINK_URELEASE notification.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov &lt;dima@ubnt.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.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>netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump</title>
<updated>2016-01-30T04:25:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA</name>
<email>chamaken@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-29T01:45:50+00:00</published>
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We should not trim skb for mmaped socket since its buf size is fixed
and userspace will read as frame which data equals head. mmaped
socket will not call recvmsg, means max_recvmsg_len is 0,
skb_reserve was not called before commit: db65a3aaf29e.

Fixes: db65a3aaf29e (netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC)
Signed-off-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA &lt;chamas@h4.dion.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We should not trim skb for mmaped socket since its buf size is fixed
and userspace will read as frame which data equals head. mmaped
socket will not call recvmsg, means max_recvmsg_len is 0,
skb_reserve was not called before commit: db65a3aaf29e.

Fixes: db65a3aaf29e (netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC)
Signed-off-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA &lt;chamas@h4.dion.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: Fix off-by-one in genl_allocate_reserve_groups()</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T15:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T15:28:06+00:00</published>
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The bug fix for adding n_groups to the computation forgot
to adjust "&gt;=" to "&gt;" to keep the condition correct.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The bug fix for adding n_groups to the computation forgot
to adjust "&gt;=" to "&gt;" to keep the condition correct.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T05:21:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T05:21:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ddb5388ffd0ad75d07e7b78181a0b579824ba6f0'/>
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<entry>
<title>net: netlink: Fix multicast group storage allocation for families with more than one groups</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T21:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matti Vaittinen</name>
<email>matti.vaittinen@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T12:26:19+00:00</published>
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Multicast groups are stored in global buffer. Check for needed buffer size
incorrectly compares buffer size to first id for family. This means that
for families with more than one mcast id one may allocate too small buffer
and end up writing rest of the groups to some unallocated memory. Fix the
buffer size check to compare allocated space to last mcast id for the
family.

Tested on ARM using kernel 3.14

Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen &lt;matti.vaittinen@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Multicast groups are stored in global buffer. Check for needed buffer size
incorrectly compares buffer size to first id for family. This means that
for families with more than one mcast id one may allocate too small buffer
and end up writing rest of the groups to some unallocated memory. Fix the
buffer size check to compare allocated space to last mcast id for the
family.

Tested on ARM using kernel 3.14

Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen &lt;matti.vaittinen@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump</title>
<updated>2015-12-16T04:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>tom@herbertland.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T23:41:37+00:00</published>
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The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:21+00:00</published>
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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2015-10-24T13:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-24T13:54:12+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
	net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.h

The openvswitch conflicts were overlapping changes.  One was
the egress tunnel info fix in 'net' and the other was the
vport -&gt;send() op simplification in 'net-next'.

The xfrm6_output.c conflicts was also a simplification
overlapping a bug fix.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
	net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.h

The openvswitch conflicts were overlapping changes.  One was
the egress tunnel info fix in 'net' and the other was the
vport -&gt;send() op simplification in 'net-next'.

The xfrm6_output.c conflicts was also a simplification
overlapping a bug fix.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: fix locking around NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T14:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-21T09:47:43+00:00</published>
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Currently, NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS grabs the netlink table while copying
the membership state to user-space. However, grabing the netlink table is
effectively a write_lock_irq(), and as such we should not be triggering
page-faults in the critical section.

This can be easily reproduced by the following snippet:
    int s = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
    void *p = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
    int r = getsockopt(s, 0x10e, 9, p, (void*)((char*)p + 4092));

This should work just fine, but currently triggers EFAULT and a possible
WARN_ON below handle_mm_fault().

Fix this by reducing locking of NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS to a read-side
lock. The write-lock was overkill in the first place, and the read-lock
allows page-faults just fine.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently, NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS grabs the netlink table while copying
the membership state to user-space. However, grabing the netlink table is
effectively a write_lock_irq(), and as such we should not be triggering
page-faults in the critical section.

This can be easily reproduced by the following snippet:
    int s = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
    void *p = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
    int r = getsockopt(s, 0x10e, 9, p, (void*)((char*)p + 4092));

This should work just fine, but currently triggers EFAULT and a possible
WARN_ON below handle_mm_fault().

Fix this by reducing locking of NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS to a read-side
lock. The write-lock was overkill in the first place, and the read-lock
allows page-faults just fine.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@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>2015-10-20T13:08:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T13:08:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=26440c835f8b1a491e2704118ac55bf87334366c'/>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
	net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
	net/switchdev/switchdev.c

In the inet_connection_sock.c case the request socket hashing scheme
is completely different in net-next.

The other two conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
	net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
	net/switchdev/switchdev.c

In the inet_connection_sock.c case the request socket hashing scheme
is completely different in net-next.

The other two conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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