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<entry>
<title>tcp_cubic: do not set epoch_start in the future</title>
<updated>2016-04-23T20:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-17T15:38:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c2e7204d180f8efc80f27959ca9cf16fa17f67db ]

Tracking idle time in bictcp_cwnd_event() is imprecise, as epoch_start
is normally set at ACK processing time, not at send time.

Doing a proper fix would need to add an additional state variable,
and does not seem worth the trouble, given CUBIC bug has been there
forever before Jana noticed it.

Let's simply not set epoch_start in the future, otherwise
bictcp_update() could overflow and CUBIC would again
grow cwnd too fast.

This was detected thanks to a packetdrill test Neal wrote that was flaky
before applying this fix.

Fixes: 30927520dbae ("tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jana Iyengar &lt;jri@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c2e7204d180f8efc80f27959ca9cf16fa17f67db ]

Tracking idle time in bictcp_cwnd_event() is imprecise, as epoch_start
is normally set at ACK processing time, not at send time.

Doing a proper fix would need to add an additional state variable,
and does not seem worth the trouble, given CUBIC bug has been there
forever before Jana noticed it.

Let's simply not set epoch_start in the future, otherwise
bictcp_update() could overflow and CUBIC would again
grow cwnd too fast.

This was detected thanks to a packetdrill test Neal wrote that was flaky
before applying this fix.

Fixes: 30927520dbae ("tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jana Iyengar &lt;jri@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T13:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-10T04:55:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 30927520dbae297182990bb21d08762bcc35ce1d ]

Jana Iyengar found an interesting issue on CUBIC :

The epoch is only updated/reset initially and when experiencing losses.
The delta "t" of now - epoch_start can be arbitrary large after app idle
as well as the bic_target. Consequentially the slope (inverse of
ca-&gt;cnt) would be really large, and eventually ca-&gt;cnt would be
lower-bounded in the end to 2 to have delayed-ACK slow-start behavior.

This particularly shows up when slow_start_after_idle is disabled
as a dangerous cwnd inflation (1.5 x RTT) after few seconds of idle
time.

Jana initial fix was to reset epoch_start if app limited,
but Neal pointed out it would ask the CUBIC algorithm to recalculate the
curve so that we again start growing steeply upward from where cwnd is
now (as CUBIC does just after a loss). Ideally we'd want the cwnd growth
curve to be the same shape, just shifted later in time by the amount of
the idle period.

Reported-by: Jana Iyengar &lt;jri@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Sangtae Ha &lt;sangtae.ha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lawrence Brakmo &lt;lawrence@brakmo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 30927520dbae297182990bb21d08762bcc35ce1d ]

Jana Iyengar found an interesting issue on CUBIC :

The epoch is only updated/reset initially and when experiencing losses.
The delta "t" of now - epoch_start can be arbitrary large after app idle
as well as the bic_target. Consequentially the slope (inverse of
ca-&gt;cnt) would be really large, and eventually ca-&gt;cnt would be
lower-bounded in the end to 2 to have delayed-ACK slow-start behavior.

This particularly shows up when slow_start_after_idle is disabled
as a dangerous cwnd inflation (1.5 x RTT) after few seconds of idle
time.

Jana initial fix was to reset epoch_start if app limited,
but Neal pointed out it would ask the CUBIC algorithm to recalculate the
curve so that we again start growing steeply upward from where cwnd is
now (as CUBIC does just after a loss). Ideally we'd want the cwnd growth
curve to be the same shape, just shifted later in time by the amount of
the idle period.

Reported-by: Jana Iyengar &lt;jri@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Sangtae Ha &lt;sangtae.ha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lawrence Brakmo &lt;lawrence@brakmo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix skb_set_peeked use-after-free bug</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T12:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-04T07:42:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a0a2a6602496a45ae838a96db8b8173794b5d398 ]

The commit 738ac1ebb96d02e0d23bc320302a6ea94c612dec ("net: Clone
skb before setting peeked flag") introduced a use-after-free bug
in skb_recv_datagram.  This is because skb_set_peeked may create
a new skb and free the existing one.  As it stands the caller will
continue to use the old freed skb.

This patch fixes it by making skb_set_peeked return the new skb
(or the old one if unchanged).

Fixes: 738ac1ebb96d ("net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag")
Reported-by: Brenden Blanco &lt;bblanco@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Brenden Blanco &lt;bblanco@plumgrid.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a0a2a6602496a45ae838a96db8b8173794b5d398 ]

The commit 738ac1ebb96d02e0d23bc320302a6ea94c612dec ("net: Clone
skb before setting peeked flag") introduced a use-after-free bug
in skb_recv_datagram.  This is because skb_set_peeked may create
a new skb and free the existing one.  As it stands the caller will
continue to use the old freed skb.

This patch fixes it by making skb_set_peeked return the new skb
(or the old one if unchanged).

Fixes: 738ac1ebb96d ("net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag")
Reported-by: Brenden Blanco &lt;bblanco@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Brenden Blanco &lt;bblanco@plumgrid.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T12:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-13T08:04:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 738ac1ebb96d02e0d23bc320302a6ea94c612dec ]

Shared skbs must not be modified and this is crucial for broadcast
and/or multicast paths where we use it as an optimisation to avoid
unnecessary cloning.

The function skb_recv_datagram breaks this rule by setting peeked
without cloning the skb first.  This causes funky races which leads
to double-free.

This patch fixes this by cloning the skb and replacing the skb
in the list when setting skb-&gt;peeked.

Fixes: a59322be07c9 ("[UDP]: Only increment counter on first peek/recv")
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 738ac1ebb96d02e0d23bc320302a6ea94c612dec ]

Shared skbs must not be modified and this is crucial for broadcast
and/or multicast paths where we use it as an optimisation to avoid
unnecessary cloning.

The function skb_recv_datagram breaks this rule by setting peeked
without cloning the skb first.  This causes funky races which leads
to double-free.

This patch fixes this by cloning the skb and replacing the skb
in the list when setting skb-&gt;peeked.

Fixes: a59322be07c9 ("[UDP]: Only increment counter on first peek/recv")
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T15:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>jouni@qca.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-29T22:29:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1ec7bae8bec9b72e347e01330c745ab5cdd66f0e ]

Public Action frames use special rules for how the BSSID field (Address
3) is set. A wildcard BSSID is used in cases where the transmitter and
recipient are not members of the same BSS. As such, we need to accept
Public Action frames with wildcard BSSID.

Commit db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when
operating as AP") added a rule that drops Action frames to TDLS-peers
based on an Action frame having different DA (Address 1) and BSSID
(Address 3) values. This is not correct since it misses the possibility
of BSSID being a wildcard BSSID in which case the Address 1 would not
necessarily match.

Fix this by allowing mac80211 to accept wildcard BSSID in an Action
frame when in AP mode.

Fixes: db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when operating as AP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1ec7bae8bec9b72e347e01330c745ab5cdd66f0e ]

Public Action frames use special rules for how the BSSID field (Address
3) is set. A wildcard BSSID is used in cases where the transmitter and
recipient are not members of the same BSS. As such, we need to accept
Public Action frames with wildcard BSSID.

Commit db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when
operating as AP") added a rule that drops Action frames to TDLS-peers
based on an Action frame having different DA (Address 1) and BSSID
(Address 3) values. This is not correct since it misses the possibility
of BSSID being a wildcard BSSID in which case the Address 1 would not
necessarily match.

Fix this by allowing mac80211 to accept wildcard BSSID in an Action
frame when in AP mode.

Fixes: db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when operating as AP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:14:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-18T18:49:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 ]

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Avery Pennarun &lt;apenwarr@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 ]

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Avery Pennarun &lt;apenwarr@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Bainbridge</name>
<email>chris.bainbridge@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T15:46:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f39ea2690bd61efec97622c48323f40ed6e16317 ]

Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc for struct tid_ampdu_rx to
initialize the "removed" field (all others are initialized
manually). That fixes:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/mac80211/rx.c:932:29
load of value 2 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
CPU: 3 PID: 1134 Comm: kworker/u16:7 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1+ #265
Workqueue: phy0 rt2x00usb_work_rxdone
 0000000000000004 ffff880254a7ba50 ffffffff8181d866 0000000000000007
 ffff880254a7ba78 ffff880254a7ba68 ffffffff8188422d ffffffff8379b500
 ffff880254a7bab8 ffffffff81884747 0000000000000202 0000000348620032
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8181d866&gt;] dump_stack+0x45/0x5f
 [&lt;ffffffff8188422d&gt;] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffff81884747&gt;] __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x67/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffff82227b4d&gt;] ieee80211_sta_reorder_release.isra.16+0x5ed/0x730
 [&lt;ffffffff8222ca14&gt;] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0xd04/0x1c00
 [&lt;ffffffff8222db03&gt;] __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet+0x1f3/0x750
 [&lt;ffffffff8222e4a7&gt;] ieee80211_rx_napi+0x447/0x990

While at it, convert to use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx) instead.

Fixes: 788211d81bfdf ("mac80211: fix RX A-MPDU session reorder timer deletion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
[reword commit message, use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx)]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f39ea2690bd61efec97622c48323f40ed6e16317 ]

Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc for struct tid_ampdu_rx to
initialize the "removed" field (all others are initialized
manually). That fixes:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/mac80211/rx.c:932:29
load of value 2 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
CPU: 3 PID: 1134 Comm: kworker/u16:7 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1+ #265
Workqueue: phy0 rt2x00usb_work_rxdone
 0000000000000004 ffff880254a7ba50 ffffffff8181d866 0000000000000007
 ffff880254a7ba78 ffff880254a7ba68 ffffffff8188422d ffffffff8379b500
 ffff880254a7bab8 ffffffff81884747 0000000000000202 0000000348620032
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8181d866&gt;] dump_stack+0x45/0x5f
 [&lt;ffffffff8188422d&gt;] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffff81884747&gt;] __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x67/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffff82227b4d&gt;] ieee80211_sta_reorder_release.isra.16+0x5ed/0x730
 [&lt;ffffffff8222ca14&gt;] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0xd04/0x1c00
 [&lt;ffffffff8222db03&gt;] __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet+0x1f3/0x750
 [&lt;ffffffff8222e4a7&gt;] ieee80211_rx_napi+0x447/0x990

While at it, convert to use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx) instead.

Fixes: 788211d81bfdf ("mac80211: fix RX A-MPDU session reorder timer deletion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
[reword commit message, use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx)]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:13:50+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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[ Upstream commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>wext: fix message delay/ordering</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:13:45+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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[ Upstream commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 ]

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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: drop frames with attached skb-&gt;sk in forwarding</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T20:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T16:19:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9ef2e965e55481a52d6d91ce61977a27836268d3 ]

This is a clone of commit 2ab957492d13b ("ip_forward: Drop frames with
attached skb-&gt;sk") for ipv6.

This commit has exactly the same reasons as the above mentioned commit,
namely to prevent panics during netfilter reload or a misconfigured stack.

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: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9ef2e965e55481a52d6d91ce61977a27836268d3 ]

This is a clone of commit 2ab957492d13b ("ip_forward: Drop frames with
attached skb-&gt;sk") for ipv6.

This commit has exactly the same reasons as the above mentioned commit,
namely to prevent panics during netfilter reload or a misconfigured stack.

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: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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