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<title>lift handling of SIOCIW... out of dev_ioctl()</title>
<updated>2018-01-25T00:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2017-10-02T00:13:08+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>dev_ioctl: copy only the smaller struct iwreq for wext</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T11:52:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-14T07:28:11+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately, struct iwreq isn't a proper subset of struct ifreq,
but is still handled by the same code path. Robert reported that
then applications may (randomly) fault if the struct iwreq they
pass happens to land within 8 bytes of the end of a mapping (the
struct is only 32 bytes, vs. struct ifreq's 40 bytes).

To fix this, pull out the code handling wireless extension ioctls
and copy only the smaller structure in this case.

This bug goes back a long time, I tracked that it was introduced
into mainline in 2.1.15, over 20 years ago!

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195869

Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan &lt;robert@ocallahan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Unfortunately, struct iwreq isn't a proper subset of struct ifreq,
but is still handled by the same code path. Robert reported that
then applications may (randomly) fault if the struct iwreq they
pass happens to land within 8 bytes of the end of a mapping (the
struct is only 32 bytes, vs. struct ifreq's 40 bytes).

To fix this, pull out the code handling wireless extension ioctls
and copy only the smaller structure in this case.

This bug goes back a long time, I tracked that it was introduced
into mainline in 2.1.15, over 20 years ago!

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195869

Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan &lt;robert@ocallahan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wireless: wext: use struct iwreq earlier in the call chain</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T11:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-14T07:21:58+00:00</published>
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To make it clear that we never use struct ifreq, cast from it
directly in the wext entrypoint and use struct iwreq from there
on. The next patch will remove the cast again and pass the
correct struct from the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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To make it clear that we never use struct ifreq, cast from it
directly in the wext entrypoint and use struct iwreq from there
on. The next patch will remove the cast again and pass the
correct struct from the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wireless: wext: remove ndo_do_ioctl fallback</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T07:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2017-06-14T07:17:38+00:00</published>
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There are no longer any drivers (in the tree proper, I didn't
check all the staging drivers) that take WEXT ioctls through
this API, the only remaining ones that even have ndo_do_ioctl
are using it only for private ioctls.

Therefore, we can remove this call.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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There are no longer any drivers (in the tree proper, I didn't
check all the staging drivers) that take WEXT ioctls through
this API, the only remaining ones that even have ndo_do_ioctl
are using it only for private ioctls.

Therefore, we can remove this call.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wext: uninline stream addition functions</title>
<updated>2017-01-13T08:38:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-13T08:31:32+00:00</published>
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With 78, 111 and 85 bytes respectively (on x86-64), the
functions iwe_stream_add_event(), iwe_stream_add_point()
and iwe_stream_add_value() really shouldn't be inlines.

It appears that at least my compiler already decided
the same, and created a single instance of each one
of them for each file using it, but that's still a
number of instances in the system overall, which this
reduces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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With 78, 111 and 85 bytes respectively (on x86-64), the
functions iwe_stream_add_event(), iwe_stream_add_point()
and iwe_stream_add_value() really shouldn't be inlines.

It appears that at least my compiler already decided
the same, and created a single instance of each one
of them for each file using it, but that's still a
number of instances in the system overall, which this
reduces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel"</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T06:49:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-08T06:45:33+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724.

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the commit isn't safe since it assumes
that the structure used by the driver is iw_point, when in fact there's
no way to know about that.

Fortunately, the only driver in the tree that ever runs this code path
is the wilc1000 staging driver, so it doesn't really matter.

Clearly I should have investigated this better before applying, sorry.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [though I guess it doesn't matter much]
Fixes: 3d5fdff46c4b ("wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724.

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the commit isn't safe since it assumes
that the structure used by the driver is iw_point, when in fact there's
no way to know about that.

Fortunately, the only driver in the tree that ever runs this code path
is the wilc1000 staging driver, so it doesn't really matter.

Clearly I should have investigated this better before applying, sorry.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [though I guess it doesn't matter much]
Fixes: 3d5fdff46c4b ("wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel</title>
<updated>2016-06-09T07:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prasun Maiti</name>
<email>prasunmaiti87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-06T14:34:19+00:00</published>
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iwpriv app uses iw_point structure to send data to Kernel. The iw_point
structure holds a pointer. For compatibility Kernel converts the pointer
as required for WEXT IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRST to SIOCIWLAST). Some drivers
may use iw_handler_def.private_args to populate iwpriv commands instead
of iw_handler_def.private. For those case, the IOCTLs from
SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to SIOCIWLASTPRIV will follow the path ndo_do_ioctl().
Accordingly when the filled up iw_point structure comes from 32 bit
iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel, Kernel will not convert the pointer and sends
it to driver. So, the driver may get the invalid data.

The pointer conversion for the IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to
SIOCIWLASTPRIV), which follow the path ndo_do_ioctl(), is mandatory.
This patch adds pointer conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa,
if the ioctl comes from 32 bit iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti &lt;prasunmaiti87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy &lt;royujjal@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dibyajyoti Ghosh &lt;dibyajyotig@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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iwpriv app uses iw_point structure to send data to Kernel. The iw_point
structure holds a pointer. For compatibility Kernel converts the pointer
as required for WEXT IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRST to SIOCIWLAST). Some drivers
may use iw_handler_def.private_args to populate iwpriv commands instead
of iw_handler_def.private. For those case, the IOCTLs from
SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to SIOCIWLASTPRIV will follow the path ndo_do_ioctl().
Accordingly when the filled up iw_point structure comes from 32 bit
iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel, Kernel will not convert the pointer and sends
it to driver. So, the driver may get the invalid data.

The pointer conversion for the IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to
SIOCIWLASTPRIV), which follow the path ndo_do_ioctl(), is mandatory.
This patch adds pointer conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa,
if the ioctl comes from 32 bit iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti &lt;prasunmaiti87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy &lt;royujjal@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dibyajyoti Ghosh &lt;dibyajyotig@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wext: unregister_pernet_subsys() on notifier registration failure</title>
<updated>2016-04-05T08:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-16T13:29:08+00:00</published>
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If register_netdevice_notifier() fails (which in practice it can't
right now), we should call unregister_pernet_subsys(). Do that.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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If register_netdevice_notifier() fails (which in practice it can't
right now), we should call unregister_pernet_subsys(). Do that.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T16:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T12:29:34+00:00</published>
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Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wext: fix message delay/ordering</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T16:13:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T11:37:52+00:00</published>
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Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a
given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the
message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the
interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted
caused a wext message.

For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is
without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link"
prints just rudimentary information:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Deleted 5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether
(from my hwsim reproduction)

This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an
RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK.

The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the
messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out
to userspace in different order.

To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out
any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any
ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani &lt;bgalvani@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a
given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the
message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the
interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted
caused a wext message.

For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is
without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link"
prints just rudimentary information:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Deleted 5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether
(from my hwsim reproduction)

This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an
RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK.

The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the
messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out
to userspace in different order.

To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out
any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any
ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani &lt;bgalvani@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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