linux-stable.git/net/socket.c, branch v3.5.4

Fix order of arguments to compat_put_time[spec|val]

2012-09-14T16:59:42+00:00

commit ed6fe9d614fc1bca95eb8c0ccd0e92db00ef9d5d upstream.

Commit 644595f89620 ("compat: Handle COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in
net/socket.c") introduced a bug where the helper functions to take
either a 64-bit or compat time[spec|val] got the arguments in the wrong
order, passing the kernel stack pointer off as a user pointer (and vice
versa).

Because of the user address range check, that in turn then causes an
EFAULT due to the user pointer range checking failing for the kernel
address.  Incorrectly resuling in a failed system call for 32-bit
processes with a 64-bit kernel.

On odder architectures like HP-PA (with separate user/kernel address
spaces), it can be used read kernel memory.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tun: fix a crash bug and a memory leak

2012-08-09T15:22:51+00:00

commit b09e786bd1dd66418b69348cb110f3a64764626a upstream.

This patch fixes a crash
tun_chr_close -> netdev_run_todo -> tun_free_netdev -> sk_release_kernel ->
sock_release -> iput(SOCK_INODE(sock))
introduced by commit 1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d

The problem is that this socket is embedded in struct tun_struct, it has
no inode, iput is called on invalid inode, which modifies invalid memory
and optionally causes a crash.

sock_release also decrements sockets_in_use, this causes a bug that
"sockets: used" field in /proc/*/net/sockstat keeps on decreasing when
creating and closing tun devices.

This patch introduces a flag SOCK_EXTERNALLY_ALLOCATED that instructs
sock_release to not free the inode and not decrement sockets_in_use,
fixing both memory corruption and sockets_in_use underflow.

It should be backported to 3.3 an 3.4 stabke.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2012-05-23T00:37:47+00:00

Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Contains Alex Shi's three patches to remove percpu_xxx() which overlap
  with this_cpu_xxx().  There shouldn't be any functional change."

* 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: remove percpu_xxx() functions
  x86: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx
  net: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx or __this_cpu_xxx

net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net__ratelimited

2012-05-15T17:45:03+00:00

Standardize the net core ratelimited logging functions.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Change a printk then vprintk sequence to use printf extension %pV.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx or __this_cpu_xxx

2012-05-14T21:15:31+00:00

percpu_xxx funcs are duplicated with this_cpu_xxx funcs, so replace
them for further code clean up.

And in preempt safe scenario, __this_cpu_xxx funcs may has a bit
better performance since __this_cpu_xxx has no redundant
preempt_enable/preempt_disable on some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

net: change big iov allocations

2012-04-21T20:24:20+00:00

iov of more than 8 entries are allocated in sendmsg()/recvmsg() through
sock_kmalloc()

As these allocations are temporary only and small enough, it makes sense
to use plain kmalloc() and avoid sk_omem_alloc atomic overhead.

Slightly changed fast path to be even faster.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Mike Waychison 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.

2012-04-21T01:21:16+00:00

If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the
kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturce is not setup
soon enough.  So to avoid races call net_sysctl_init from sock_init().

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

2012-04-15T16:44:40+00:00

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once

2012-04-05T23:04:27+00:00

commit 2f533844242 (tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets) added
a regression for splice() calls using SPLICE_F_MORE.

We need to call tcp_flush() at the end of the last page processed in
tcp_sendpages(), or else transmits can be deferred and future sends
stall.

Add a new internal flag, MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST, acting like MSG_MORE, but
with different semantic.

For all sendpage() providers, its a transparent change. Only
sock_sendpage() and tcp_sendpages() can differentiate the two different
flags provided by pipe_to_sendpage()

Reported-by: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu 
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar 
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-30T01:12:23+00:00

Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to 
  ...