linux-stable.git/net/netlink, branch v3.14

net: Fix permission check in netlink_connect()

2014-02-25T23:35:14+00:00

netlink_sendmsg() was changed to prevent non-root processes from sending
messages with dst_pid != 0.
netlink_connect() however still only checks if nladdr->nl_groups is set.
This patch modifies netlink_connect() to check for the same condition.

Signed-off-by: Mike Pecovnik 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size

2014-01-19T07:04:16+00:00

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->msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR
consistently in sendmsg code paths.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle 
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch

2014-01-07T00:48:38+00:00

Jesse Gross says:

====================
[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Avoid netlink mmap alloc if msg size exceeds frame size

2014-01-06T23:52:06+00:00

An insufficent ring frame size configuration can lead to an
unnecessary skb allocation for every Netlink message. Check frame
size before taking the queue lock and allocating the skb and
re-check with lock to be safe.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation

2014-01-06T23:51:53+00:00

Allocates a new sk_buff large enough to cover the specified payload
plus required Netlink headers. Will check receiving socket for
memory mapped i/o capability and use it if enabled. Will fall back
to non-mapped skb if message size exceeds the frame size of the ring.

Signed-of-by: Thomas Graf 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

netlink: cleanup tap related functions

2014-01-02T04:43:36+00:00

Cleanups in netlink_tap code
 * remove unused function netlink_clear_multicast_users
 * make local function static

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: specify netlink packet direction for nlmon

2013-12-31T19:31:43+00:00

In order to facilitate development for netlink protocol dissector,
fill the unused field skb->pkt_type of the cloned skb with a hint
of the address space of the new owner (receiver) socket in the
notion of "to kernel" resp. "to user".

At the time we invoke __netlink_deliver_tap_skb(), we already have
set the new skb owner via netlink_skb_set_owner_r(), so we can use
that for netlink_is_kernel() probing.

In normal PF_PACKET network traffic, this field denotes if the
packet is destined for us (PACKET_HOST), if it's broadcast
(PACKET_BROADCAST), etc.

As we only have 3 bit reserved, we can use the value (= 6) of
PACKET_FASTROUTE as it's _not used_ anywhere in the whole kernel
and not supported anywhere, and packets of such type were never
exposed to user space, so there are no overlapping users of such
kind. Thus, as wished, that seems the only way to make both
PACKET_* values non-overlapping and therefore device agnostic.

By using those two flags for netlink skbs on nlmon devices, they
can be made available and picked up via sll_pkttype (previously
unused in netlink context) in struct sockaddr_ll. We now have
these two directions:

 - PACKET_USER (= 6)    ->  to user space
 - PACKET_KERNEL (= 7)  ->  to kernel space

Partial `ip a` example strace for sa_family=AF_NETLINK with
detected nl msg direction:

syscall:                     direction:
sendto(3,  ...) = 40         /* to kernel */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 3404       /* to user */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 1120       /* to user */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 20         /* to user */
sendto(3,  ...) = 40         /* to kernel */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 168        /* to user */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 144        /* to user */
recvmsg(3, ...) = 20         /* to user */

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Zawadzki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: only do not deliver to tap when both sides are kernel sks

2013-12-31T19:31:43+00:00

We should also deliver packets to nlmon devices when we are in
netlink_unicast_kernel(), and only one of the {src,dst} sockets
is user sk and the other one kernel sk. That's e.g. the case in
netlink diag, netlink route, etc. Still, forbid to deliver messages
from kernel to kernel sks.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Zawadzki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink/pmcraid: use proper genetlink multicast API

2013-11-28T23:26:30+00:00

The pmcraid driver is abusing the genetlink API and is using its
family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid and may
belong to somebody else (and likely will.)

Make it use the correct API, but since this may already be used
as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also
reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions.

My previous patch broke event delivery in the driver as I missed
that it wasn't using the right API and forgot to update it later
in my series.

While changing this, I noticed that the genetlink code could use
the static group ID instead of a strcmp(), so also do that for
the VFS_DQUOT family.

Cc: Anil Ravindranath 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: Fix uninitialized variable in genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()

2013-11-28T23:24:07+00:00

net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_validate_assign_mc_groups’:
net/netlink/genetlink.c:217: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this
function

Commit 2a94fe48f32ccf7321450a2cc07f2b724a444e5b ("genetlink: make multicast
groups const, prevent abuse") split genl_register_mc_group() in multiple
functions, but dropped the initialization of err.

Initialize err to zero to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller