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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13+00:00</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_put &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:21+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: introduce and use skb_put_data()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:20+00:00</published>
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A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: convert many more places to skb_put_zero()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:19+00:00</published>
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There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find,
as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches.

The following spatch found many more and also removes the
now unnecessary casts:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len;
    expression skb;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, len);
    |
    -memset(p, 0, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len;
    @@
    -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
    +skb_put_zero(skb, len);

Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the
comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find,
as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches.

The following spatch found many more and also removes the
now unnecessary casts:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len;
    expression skb;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, len);
    |
    -memset(p, 0, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len;
    @@
    -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
    +skb_put_zero(skb, len);

Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the
comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T15:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-15T15:31:37+00:00</published>
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The conflicts were two cases of overlapping changes in
batman-adv and the qed driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The conflicts were two cases of overlapping changes in
batman-adv and the qed driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T19:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T16:52:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf124db566e6b036b8bcbe8decbed740bdfac8c6'/>
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Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init().  However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.

Either netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() or netdev-&gt;destructor().

The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.

netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.

netdev-&gt;destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.

Further complicating the situation is that netdev-&gt;destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().

This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.

If netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit().  But
it is not able to invoke netdev-&gt;destructor().

This is because netdev-&gt;destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.

However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev-&gt;destructor() will not be.

Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.

Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.

Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev-&gt;destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev-&gt;destructor(), except for
free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().

Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit()
and netdev-&gt;priv_destructor().

And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init().  However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.

Either netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() or netdev-&gt;destructor().

The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.

netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.

netdev-&gt;destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.

Further complicating the situation is that netdev-&gt;destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().

This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.

If netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit().  But
it is not able to invoke netdev-&gt;destructor().

This is because netdev-&gt;destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.

However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev-&gt;destructor() will not be.

Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.

Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.

Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev-&gt;destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev-&gt;destructor(), except for
free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().

Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit()
and netdev-&gt;priv_destructor().

And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>p54: allocate enough space for -&gt;used_rxkeys</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T15:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-06T00:48:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c239838fbd6d5aadac193e02d0cf1866238da97b'/>
<id>c239838fbd6d5aadac193e02d0cf1866238da97b</id>
<content type='text'>
We have the number of longs, but we should be calculating the number of
bytes needed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
We have the number of longs, but we should be calculating the number of
bytes needed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>orinoco_usb: convert request_context.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T15:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elena Reshetova</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-28T08:56:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0aeffa7041d84976432e903cb04e8d7b0edf31ed'/>
<id>0aeffa7041d84976432e903cb04e8d7b0edf31ed</id>
<content type='text'>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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