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<title>net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T15:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Leach</name>
<email>matthew.leach@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T11:58:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dbb490b96584d4e958533fb637f08b557f505657 ]

When copying in a struct msghdr from the user, if the user has set the
msg_namelen parameter to a negative value it gets clamped to a valid
size due to a comparison between signed and unsigned values.

Ensure the syscall errors when the user passes in a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach &lt;matthew.leach@arm.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 dbb490b96584d4e958533fb637f08b557f505657 ]

When copying in a struct msghdr from the user, if the user has set the
msg_namelen parameter to a negative value it gets clamped to a valid
size due to a comparison between signed and unsigned values.

Ensure the syscall errors when the user passes in a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach &lt;matthew.leach@arm.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>net: clamp -&gt;msg_namelen instead of returning an error</title>
<updated>2014-01-03T04:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-27T12:40:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit db31c55a6fb245fdbb752a2ca4aefec89afabb06 ]

If kmsg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) then in the
original code that would lead to memory corruption in the kernel if you
had audit configured.  If you didn't have audit configured it was
harmless.

There are some programs such as beta versions of Ruby which use too
large of a buffer and returning an error code breaks them.  We should
clamp the -&gt;msg_namelen value instead.

Fixes: 1661bf364ae9 ("net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()")
Reported-by: Eric Wong &lt;normalperson@yhbt.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Wong &lt;normalperson@yhbt.net&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@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 db31c55a6fb245fdbb752a2ca4aefec89afabb06 ]

If kmsg-&gt;msg_namelen &gt; sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) then in the
original code that would lead to memory corruption in the kernel if you
had audit configured.  If you didn't have audit configured it was
harmless.

There are some programs such as beta versions of Ruby which use too
large of a buffer and returning an error code breaks them.  We should
clamp the -&gt;msg_namelen value instead.

Fixes: 1661bf364ae9 ("net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()")
Reported-by: Eric Wong &lt;normalperson@yhbt.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Wong &lt;normalperson@yhbt.net&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@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>net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen &gt; sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)</title>
<updated>2014-01-03T04:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T02:14:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be ]

In that case it is probable that kernel code overwrote part of the
stack. So we should bail out loudly here.

The BUG_ON may be removed in future if we are sure all protocols are
conformant.

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 68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be ]

In that case it is probable that kernel code overwrote part of the
stack. So we should bail out loudly here.

The BUG_ON may be removed in future if we are sure all protocols are
conformant.

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>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>net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()</title>
<updated>2013-11-28T14:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-02T21:27:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 ]

We need to cap -&gt;msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we
to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr().  It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to
exploit this bug.

The call tree is:
___sys_recvmsg()
  move_addr_to_user()
    audit_sockaddr()
      __audit_sockaddr()

Reported-by: Jüri Aedla &lt;juri.aedla@gmail.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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 ]

We need to cap -&gt;msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we
to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr().  It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to
exploit this bug.

The call tree is:
___sys_recvmsg()
  move_addr_to_user()
    audit_sockaddr()
      __audit_sockaddr()

Reported-by: Jüri Aedla &lt;juri.aedla@gmail.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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Block MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in send(m)msg and  recv(m)msg</title>
<updated>2013-06-29T03:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-22T21:07:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commits 1be374a0518a288147c6a7398792583200a67261 and
  a7526eb5d06b0084ef12d7b168d008fcf516caab ]

MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is (AFAIK) not intended to be part of the API --
it's a hack that steals a bit to indicate to other networking code
that a compat entry was used.  So don't allow it from a non-compat
syscall.

This prevents an oops when running this code:

int main()
{
	int s;
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	struct msghdr *hdr;

	char *highpage = mmap((void*)(TASK_SIZE_MAX - 4096), 4096,
	                      PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
	                      MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
	if (highpage == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
	if (s == -1)
		err(1, "socket");

        addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        addr.sin_port = htons(1);
        addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
	if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr*)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr)) != 0)
		err(1, "connect");

	void *evil = highpage + 4096 - COMPAT_MSGHDR_SIZE;
	printf("Evil address is %p\n", evil);

	if (syscall(__NR_sendmmsg, s, evil, 1, MSG_CMSG_COMPAT) &lt; 0)
		err(1, "sendmmsg");

	return 0;
}

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&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 1be374a0518a288147c6a7398792583200a67261 and
  a7526eb5d06b0084ef12d7b168d008fcf516caab ]

MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is (AFAIK) not intended to be part of the API --
it's a hack that steals a bit to indicate to other networking code
that a compat entry was used.  So don't allow it from a non-compat
syscall.

This prevents an oops when running this code:

int main()
{
	int s;
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	struct msghdr *hdr;

	char *highpage = mmap((void*)(TASK_SIZE_MAX - 4096), 4096,
	                      PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
	                      MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
	if (highpage == MAP_FAILED)
		err(1, "mmap");

	s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
	if (s == -1)
		err(1, "socket");

        addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        addr.sin_port = htons(1);
        addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
	if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr*)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr)) != 0)
		err(1, "connect");

	void *evil = highpage + 4096 - COMPAT_MSGHDR_SIZE;
	printf("Evil address is %p\n", evil);

	if (syscall(__NR_sendmmsg, s, evil, 1, MSG_CMSG_COMPAT) &lt; 0)
		err(1, "sendmmsg");

	return 0;
}

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&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>net: fix info leak in compat dev_ifconf()</title>
<updated>2012-09-19T14:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-15T11:31:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8 ]

The implementation of dev_ifconf() for the compat ioctl interface uses
an intermediate ifc structure allocated in userland for the duration of
the syscall. Though, it fails to initialize the padding bytes inserted
for alignment and that for leaks four bytes of kernel stack. Add an
explicit memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.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 43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8 ]

The implementation of dev_ifconf() for the compat ioctl interface uses
an intermediate ifc structure allocated in userland for the duration of
the syscall. Though, it fails to initialize the padding bytes inserted
for alignment and that for leaks four bytes of kernel stack. Add an
explicit memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&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>tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-25T02:12:06+00:00</published>
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[ This combines upstream commit
  2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee and the follow-on bug fix
  commit 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 ]

vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a
time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096)

The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an
immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try
to split these skb to MSS multiples.

4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining
sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500)

This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to
qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets
in flight of course)

In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy)
instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of
this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with
large initial [c]wnd.

Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter.

This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the
last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice()
flag.

In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an
order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than
one-copy :)

Reported-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu &lt;hkchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
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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[ This combines upstream commit
  2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee and the follow-on bug fix
  commit 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 ]

vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a
time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096)

The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an
immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try
to split these skb to MSS multiples.

4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining
sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500)

This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to
qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets
in flight of course)

In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy)
instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of
this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with
large initial [c]wnd.

Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter.

This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the
last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice()
flag.

In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an
order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than
one-copy :)

Reported-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu &lt;hkchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
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>net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign_pointer() calls</title>
<updated>2012-02-03T17:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-12T04:41:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cf778b00e96df6d64f8e21b8395d1f8a859ecdc7 ]

commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).

We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
CC: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.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 cf778b00e96df6d64f8e21b8395d1f8a859ecdc7 ]

commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).

We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
CC: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.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>Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/net</title>
<updated>2011-09-22T07:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-22T07:23:13+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	drivers/net/Kconfig
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-tx-pcie.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
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Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	drivers/net/Kconfig
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-tx-pcie.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
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