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<title>netlink: make sure nladdr has correct size in netlink_connect()</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T23:30:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T12:49:02+00:00</published>
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commit 7880287981b60a6808f39f297bb66936e8bdf57a upstream.

KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is
smaller than sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl), and therefore |nladdr| isn't
fully copied from the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7880287981b60a6808f39f297bb66936e8bdf57a upstream.

KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is
smaller than sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl), and therefore |nladdr| isn't
fully copied from the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: avoid a double skb free in genlmsg_mcast()</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T23:30:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T20:10:23+00:00</published>
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commit 02a2385f37a7c6594c9d89b64c4a1451276f08eb upstream.

nlmsg_multicast() consumes always the skb, thus the original skb must be
freed only when this function is called with a clone.

Fixes: cb9f7a9a5c96 ("netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 02a2385f37a7c6594c9d89b64c4a1451276f08eb upstream.

nlmsg_multicast() consumes always the skb, thus the original skb must be
freed only when this function is called with a clone.

Fixes: cb9f7a9a5c96 ("netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T23:30:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T13:48:32+00:00</published>
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commit cb9f7a9a5c96a773bbc9c70660dc600cfff82f82 upstream.

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: s/portid/pid/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit cb9f7a9a5c96a773bbc9c70660dc600cfff82f82 upstream.

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: s/portid/pid/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic</title>
<updated>2014-01-03T04:33:33+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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[ Upstream commit f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>thermal: shorten too long mcast group name</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masatake YAMATO</name>
<email>yamato@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-01T18:50:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commits 73214f5d9f33b79918b1f7babddd5c8af28dd23d
  and f1e79e208076ffe7bad97158275f1c572c04f5c7, the latter
  adds an assertion to genetlink to prevent this from happening
  again in the future. ]

The original name is too long.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO &lt;yamato@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commits 73214f5d9f33b79918b1f7babddd5c8af28dd23d
  and f1e79e208076ffe7bad97158275f1c572c04f5c7, the latter
  adds an assertion to genetlink to prevent this from happening
  again in the future. ]

The original name is too long.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO &lt;yamato@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: use kfree_rcu() in netlink_release()</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-18T03:21:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6d772ac5578f711d1ce7b03535d1c95bffb21dff ]

On some suspend/resume operations involving wimax device, we have
noticed some intermittent memory corruptions in netlink code.

Stéphane Marchesin tracked this corruption in netlink_update_listeners()
and suggested a patch.

It appears netlink_release() should use kfree_rcu() instead of kfree()
for the listeners structure as it may be used by other cpus using RCU
protection.

netlink_release() must set to NULL the listeners pointer when
it is about to be freed.

Also have to protect netlink_update_listeners() and
netlink_has_listeners() if listeners is NULL.

Add a nl_deref_protected() lockdep helper to properly document which
locks protects us.

Reported-by: Jonathan Kliegman &lt;kliegs@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stéphane Marchesin &lt;marcheu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Leffler &lt;sleffler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6d772ac5578f711d1ce7b03535d1c95bffb21dff ]

On some suspend/resume operations involving wimax device, we have
noticed some intermittent memory corruptions in netlink code.

Stéphane Marchesin tracked this corruption in netlink_update_listeners()
and suggested a patch.

It appears netlink_release() should use kfree_rcu() instead of kfree()
for the listeners structure as it may be used by other cpus using RCU
protection.

netlink_release() must set to NULL the listeners pointer when
it is about to be freed.

Also have to protect netlink_update_listeners() and
netlink_has_listeners() if listeners is NULL.

Add a nl_deref_protected() lockdep helper to properly document which
locks protects us.

Reported-by: Jonathan Kliegman &lt;kliegs@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stéphane Marchesin &lt;marcheu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Leffler &lt;sleffler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: fix possible spoofing from non-root processes</title>
<updated>2012-09-19T14:04:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-23T02:09:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef ]

Non-root user-space processes can send Netlink messages to other
processes that are well-known for being subscribed to Netlink
asynchronous notifications. This allows ilegitimate non-root
process to send forged messages to Netlink subscribers.

The userspace process usually verifies the legitimate origin in
two ways:

a) Socket credentials. If UID != 0, then the message comes from
   some ilegitimate process and the message needs to be dropped.

b) Netlink portID. In general, portID == 0 means that the origin
   of the messages comes from the kernel. Thus, discarding any
   message not coming from the kernel.

However, ctnetlink sets the portID in event messages that has
been triggered by some user-space process, eg. conntrack utility.
So other processes subscribed to ctnetlink events, eg. conntrackd,
know that the event was triggered by some user-space action.

Neither of the two ways to discard ilegitimate messages coming
from non-root processes can help for ctnetlink.

This patch adds capability validation in case that dst_pid is set
in netlink_sendmsg(). This approach is aggressive since existing
applications using any Netlink bus to deliver messages between
two user-space processes will break. Note that the exception is
NETLINK_USERSOCK, since it is reserved for netlink-to-netlink
userspace communication.

Still, if anyone wants that his Netlink bus allows netlink-to-netlink
userspace, then they can set NL_NONROOT_SEND. However, by default,
I don't think it makes sense to allow to use NETLINK_ROUTE to
communicate two processes that are sending no matter what information
that is not related to link/neighbouring/routing. They should be using
NETLINK_USERSOCK instead for that.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef ]

Non-root user-space processes can send Netlink messages to other
processes that are well-known for being subscribed to Netlink
asynchronous notifications. This allows ilegitimate non-root
process to send forged messages to Netlink subscribers.

The userspace process usually verifies the legitimate origin in
two ways:

a) Socket credentials. If UID != 0, then the message comes from
   some ilegitimate process and the message needs to be dropped.

b) Netlink portID. In general, portID == 0 means that the origin
   of the messages comes from the kernel. Thus, discarding any
   message not coming from the kernel.

However, ctnetlink sets the portID in event messages that has
been triggered by some user-space process, eg. conntrack utility.
So other processes subscribed to ctnetlink events, eg. conntrackd,
know that the event was triggered by some user-space action.

Neither of the two ways to discard ilegitimate messages coming
from non-root processes can help for ctnetlink.

This patch adds capability validation in case that dst_pid is set
in netlink_sendmsg(). This approach is aggressive since existing
applications using any Netlink bus to deliver messages between
two user-space processes will break. Note that the exception is
NETLINK_USERSOCK, since it is reserved for netlink-to-netlink
userspace communication.

Still, if anyone wants that his Netlink bus allows netlink-to-netlink
userspace, then they can set NL_NONROOT_SEND. However, by default,
I don't think it makes sense to allow to use NETLINK_ROUTE to
communicate two processes that are sending no matter what information
that is not related to link/neighbouring/routing. They should be using
NETLINK_USERSOCK instead for that.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]</title>
<updated>2012-09-19T14:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-21T06:21:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea ]

Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and
potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a
kernel bug.  The kernel passes all-zero SCM_CREDENTIALS ancillary data
to the receiver if the sender did not provide such data, instead of not
including any such data at all or including the correct data from the
peer (as it is the case with AF_UNIX).

This bug was introduced in commit 16e572626961
(af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default)

This patch forces passing credentials for netlink, as
before the regression.

Another fix would be to not add SCM_CREDENTIALS in
netlink messages if not provided by the sender, but it
might break some programs.

With help from Florian Weimer &amp; Petr Matousek

This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3520

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea ]

Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and
potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a
kernel bug.  The kernel passes all-zero SCM_CREDENTIALS ancillary data
to the receiver if the sender did not provide such data, instead of not
including any such data at all or including the correct data from the
peer (as it is the case with AF_UNIX).

This bug was introduced in commit 16e572626961
(af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default)

This patch forces passing credentials for netlink, as
before the regression.

Another fix would be to not add SCM_CREDENTIALS in
netlink messages if not provided by the sender, but it
might break some programs.

With help from Florian Weimer &amp; Petr Matousek

This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3520

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: fix races after skb queueing</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:14:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-05T22:17:46+00:00</published>
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As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4a7e7c2ad540e54c75489a70137bf0ec15d3a127 ]

As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default</title>
<updated>2011-09-28T17:29:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2011-09-19T05:52:27+00:00</published>
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Since commit 7361c36c5224 (af_unix: Allow credentials to work across
user and pid namespaces) af_unix performance dropped a lot.

This is because we now take a reference on pid and cred in each write(),
and release them in read(), usually done from another process,
eventually from another cpu. This triggers false sharing.

# Events: 154K cycles
#
# Overhead  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
# ........  .......  ..................  .........................
#
    10.40%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_pid
     8.60%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_recvmsg
     7.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_sendmsg
     6.11%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_raw_spin_lock
     4.95%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_scm_to_skb
     4.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pid_nr_ns
     4.34%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] cred_to_ucred
     2.39%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_destruct_scm
     2.24%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sub_preempt_count
     1.75%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] fget_light
     1.51%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k]
__mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath
     1.42%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb

This patch includes SCM_CREDENTIALS information in a af_unix message/skb
only if requested by the sender, [man 7 unix for details how to include
ancillary data using sendmsg() system call]

Note: This might break buggy applications that expected SCM_CREDENTIAL
from an unaware write() system call, and receiver not using SO_PASSCRED
socket option.

If SOCK_PASSCRED is set on source or destination socket, we still
include credentials for mere write() syscalls.

Performance boost in hackbench : more than 50% gain on a 16 thread
machine (2 quad-core cpus, 2 threads per core)

hackbench 20 thread 2000

4.228 sec instead of 9.102 sec

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Since commit 7361c36c5224 (af_unix: Allow credentials to work across
user and pid namespaces) af_unix performance dropped a lot.

This is because we now take a reference on pid and cred in each write(),
and release them in read(), usually done from another process,
eventually from another cpu. This triggers false sharing.

# Events: 154K cycles
#
# Overhead  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
# ........  .......  ..................  .........................
#
    10.40%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_pid
     8.60%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_recvmsg
     7.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_sendmsg
     6.11%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_raw_spin_lock
     4.95%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_scm_to_skb
     4.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pid_nr_ns
     4.34%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] cred_to_ucred
     2.39%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_destruct_scm
     2.24%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sub_preempt_count
     1.75%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] fget_light
     1.51%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k]
__mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath
     1.42%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb

This patch includes SCM_CREDENTIALS information in a af_unix message/skb
only if requested by the sender, [man 7 unix for details how to include
ancillary data using sendmsg() system call]

Note: This might break buggy applications that expected SCM_CREDENTIAL
from an unaware write() system call, and receiver not using SO_PASSCRED
socket option.

If SOCK_PASSCRED is set on source or destination socket, we still
include credentials for mere write() syscalls.

Performance boost in hackbench : more than 50% gain on a 16 thread
machine (2 quad-core cpus, 2 threads per core)

hackbench 20 thread 2000

4.228 sec instead of 9.102 sec

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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