linux-stable.git/net, branch v3.12.57

mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

2016-03-14T22:10:30+00:00

commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 upstream.

The value 5000 was put here with the addition of the timeout field to
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session. It was originally added in mac80211 to
save resources for drivers like iwlwifi, which only supports a limited
number of concurrent aggregation sessions.

Since iwlwifi does not use minstrel_ht and other drivers don't need
this, 0 is a better default - especially since there have been
recent reports of aggregation setup related issues reproduced with
ath9k. This should improve stability without causing any adverse
effects.

Acked-by: Avery Pennarun 
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

wext: fix message delay/ordering

2016-03-14T12:38:07+00:00

commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 upstream.

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:  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:  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: 
    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.

Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct

2016-03-07T13:34:29+00:00

commit 415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6 upstream.

The commit referenced in the Fixes tag incorrectly accounted the number
of in-flight fds over a unix domain socket to the original opener
of the file-descriptor. This allows another process to arbitrary
deplete the original file-openers resource limit for the maximum of
open files. Instead the sending processes and its struct cred should
be credited.

To do so, we add a reference counted struct user_struct pointer to the
scm_fp_list and use it to account for the number of inflight unix fds.

Fixes: 712f4aad406bb1 ("unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets")
Reported-by: David Herrmann 
Cc: David Herrmann 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Michal Kubecek 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets

2016-03-07T13:32:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 ]

It is possible for a process to allocate and accumulate far more FDs than
the process' limit by sending them over a unix socket then closing them
to keep the process' fd count low.

This change addresses this problem by keeping track of the number of FDs
in flight per user and preventing non-privileged processes from having
more FDs in flight than their configured FD limit.

Cc: Michal Kubecek 
Reported-by: socketpair@gmail.com
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+)
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sunrpc/cache: fix off-by-one in qword_get()

2016-03-03T11:46:07+00:00

commit b7052cd7bcf3c1478796e93e3dff2b44c9e82943 upstream.

The qword_get() function NUL-terminates its output buffer.  If the input
string is in hex format \xXXXX... and the same length as the output
buffer, there is an off-by-one:

  int qword_get(char **bpp, char *dest, int bufsize)
  {
      ...
      while (len < bufsize) {
          ...
          *dest++ = (h << 4) | l;
          len++;
      }
      ...
      *dest = '\0';
      return len;
  }

This patch ensures the NUL terminator doesn't fall outside the output
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

rfkill: fix rfkill_fop_read wait_event usage

2016-03-03T11:46:05+00:00

commit 6736fde9672ff6717ac576e9bba2fd5f3dfec822 upstream.

The code within wait_event_interruptible() is called with
!TASK_RUNNING, so mustn't call any functions that can sleep,
like mutex_lock().

Since we re-check the list_empty() in a loop after the wait,
it's safe to simply use list_empty() without locking.

This bug has existed forever, but was only discovered now
because all userspace implementations, including the default
'rfkill' tool, use poll() or select() to get a readable fd
before attempting to read.

Fixes: c64fb01627e24 ("rfkill: create useful userspace interface")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

libceph: don't bail early from try_read() when skipping a message

2016-03-03T11:46:05+00:00

commit e7a88e82fe380459b864e05b372638aeacb0f52d upstream.

The contract between try_read() and try_write() is that when called
each processes as much data as possible.  When instructed by osd_client
to skip a message, try_read() is violating this contract by returning
after receiving and discarding a single message instead of checking for
more.  try_write() then gets a chance to write out more requests,
generating more replies/skips for try_read() to handle, forcing the
messenger into a starvation loop.

Reported-by: Varada Kari 
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov 
Tested-by: Varada Kari 
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct

2016-03-03T11:45:59+00:00

commit b7bb110008607a915298bf0f47d25886ecb94477 upstream.

Some users of rfkill, like NFC and cfg80211, use a dynamic name when
allocating rfkill, in those cases dev_name(). Therefore, the pointer
passed to rfkill_alloc() might not be valid forever, I specifically
found the case that the rfkill name was quite obviously an invalid
pointer (or at least garbage) when the wiphy had been renamed.

Fix this by making a copy of the rfkill name in rfkill_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mac80211: mesh: fix call_rcu() usage

2016-03-03T11:45:58+00:00

commit c2e703a55245bfff3db53b1f7cbe59f1ee8a4339 upstream.

When using call_rcu(), the called function may be delayed quite
significantly, and without a matching rcu_barrier() there's no
way to be sure it has finished.
Therefore, global state that could be gone/freed/reused should
never be touched in the callback.

Fix this in mesh by moving the atomic_dec() into the caller;
that's not really a problem since we already unlinked the path
and it will be destroyed anyway.

This fixes a crash Jouni observed when running certain tests in
a certain order, in which the mesh interface was torn down, the
memory reused for a function pointer (work struct) and running
that then crashed since the pointer had been decremented by 1,
resulting in an invalid instruction byte stream.

Fixes: eb2b9311fd00 ("mac80211: mesh path table implementation")
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sctp: Fix port hash table size computation

2016-03-02T15:29:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit d9749fb5942f51555dc9ce1ac0dbb1806960a975 ]

Dmitry Vyukov noted recently that the sctp_port_hashtable had an error in
its size computation, observing that the current method never guaranteed
that the hashsize (measured in number of entries) would be a power of two,
which the input hash function for that table requires.  The root cause of
the problem is that two values need to be computed (one, the allocation
order of the storage requries, as passed to __get_free_pages, and two the
number of entries for the hash table).  Both need to be ^2, but for
different reasons, and the existing code is simply computing one order
value, and using it as the basis for both, which is wrong (i.e. it assumes
that ((1<
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
CC: Dmitry Vyukov 
CC: Vladislav Yasevich 
CC: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby