<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/include/linux/skbuff.h, branch v5.9-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword</title>
<updated>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</published>
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Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-08-08T04:14:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-08T04:14:30+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "No common topic whatsoever in those, sorry"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: define inode flags using bit numbers
  iov_iter: Move unnecessary inclusion of crypto/hash.h
  dlmfs: clean up dlmfs_file_{read,write}() a bit
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "No common topic whatsoever in those, sorry"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: define inode flags using bit numbers
  iov_iter: Move unnecessary inclusion of crypto/hash.h
  dlmfs: clean up dlmfs_file_{read,write}() a bit
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sched: act_ct: fix miss set mru for ovs after defrag in act_ct</title>
<updated>2020-08-03T22:04:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wenxu</name>
<email>wenxu@ucloud.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-31T02:45:01+00:00</published>
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When openvswitch conntrack offload with act_ct action. Fragment packets
defrag in the ingress tc act_ct action and miss the next chain. Then the
packet pass to the openvswitch datapath without the mru. The over
mtu packet will be dropped in output action in openvswitch for over mtu.

"kernel: net2: dropped over-mtu packet: 1528 &gt; 1500"

This patch add mru in the tc_skb_ext for adefrag and miss next chain
situation. And also add mru in the qdisc_skb_cb. The act_ct set the mru
to the qdisc_skb_cb when the packet defrag. And When the chain miss,
The mru is set to tc_skb_ext which can be got by ovs datapath.

Fixes: b57dc7c13ea9 ("net/sched: Introduce action ct")
Signed-off-by: wenxu &lt;wenxu@ucloud.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When openvswitch conntrack offload with act_ct action. Fragment packets
defrag in the ingress tc act_ct action and miss the next chain. Then the
packet pass to the openvswitch datapath without the mru. The over
mtu packet will be dropped in output action in openvswitch for over mtu.

"kernel: net2: dropped over-mtu packet: 1528 &gt; 1500"

This patch add mru in the tc_skb_ext for adefrag and miss next chain
situation. And also add mru in the qdisc_skb_cb. The act_ct set the mru
to the qdisc_skb_cb when the packet defrag. And When the chain miss,
The mru is set to tc_skb_ext which can be got by ovs datapath.

Fixes: b57dc7c13ea9 ("net/sched: Introduce action ct")
Signed-off-by: wenxu &lt;wenxu@ucloud.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/flow_dissector: add packet hash dissection</title>
<updated>2020-07-24T22:23:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ariel Levkovich</name>
<email>lariel@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-22T22:03:00+00:00</published>
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Retreive a hash value from the SKB and store it
in the dissector key for future matching.

Signed-off-by: Ariel Levkovich &lt;lariel@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Retreive a hash value from the SKB and store it
in the dissector key for future matching.

Signed-off-by: Ariel Levkovich &lt;lariel@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: skbuff.h: drop duplicate words in comments</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T03:28:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-15T16:42:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Drop doubled words in several comments.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Drop doubled words in several comments.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iov_iter: Move unnecessary inclusion of crypto/hash.h</title>
<updated>2020-06-30T13:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-12T06:57:37+00:00</published>
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The header file linux/uio.h includes crypto/hash.h which pulls in
most of the Crypto API.  Since linux/uio.h is used throughout the
kernel this means that every tiny bit of change to the Crypto API
causes the entire kernel to get rebuilt.

This patch fixes this by moving it into lib/iov_iter.c instead
where it is actually used.

This patch also fixes the ifdef to use CRYPTO_HASH instead of just
CRYPTO which does not guarantee the existence of ahash.

Unfortunately a number of drivers were relying on linux/uio.h to
provide access to linux/slab.h.  This patch adds inclusions of
linux/slab.h as detected by build failures.

Also skbuff.h was relying on this to provide a declaration for
ahash_request.  This patch adds a forward declaration instead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The header file linux/uio.h includes crypto/hash.h which pulls in
most of the Crypto API.  Since linux/uio.h is used throughout the
kernel this means that every tiny bit of change to the Crypto API
causes the entire kernel to get rebuilt.

This patch fixes this by moving it into lib/iov_iter.c instead
where it is actually used.

This patch also fixes the ifdef to use CRYPTO_HASH instead of just
CRYPTO which does not guarantee the existence of ahash.

Unfortunately a number of drivers were relying on linux/uio.h to
provide access to linux/slab.h.  This patch adds inclusions of
linux/slab.h as detected by build failures.

Also skbuff.h was relying on this to provide a declaration for
ahash_request.  This patch adds a forward declaration instead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T18:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-02T14:58:32+00:00</published>
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Lorenz recently reported:

  In our TC classifier cls_redirect [0], we use the following sequence of
  helper calls to decapsulate a GUE (basically IP + UDP + custom header)
  encapsulated packet:

    bpf_skb_adjust_room(skb, -encap_len, BPF_ADJ_ROOM_MAC, BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_FIXED_GSO)
    bpf_redirect(skb-&gt;ifindex, BPF_F_INGRESS)

  It seems like some checksums of the inner headers are not validated in
  this case. For example, a TCP SYN packet with invalid TCP checksum is
  still accepted by the network stack and elicits a SYN ACK. [...]

  That is, we receive the following packet from the driver:

    | ETH | IP | UDP | GUE | IP | TCP |
    skb-&gt;ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

  ip_summed is CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY because our NICs do rx checksum offloading.
  On this packet we run skb_adjust_room_mac(-encap_len), and get the following:

    | ETH | IP | TCP |
    skb-&gt;ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

  Note that ip_summed is still CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. After bpf_redirect()'ing
  into the ingress, we end up in tcp_v4_rcv(). There, skb_checksum_init() is
  turned into a no-op due to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.

The bpf_skb_adjust_room() helper is not aware of protocol specifics. Internally,
it handles the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE case via skb_postpull_rcsum(), but that does
not cover CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In this case skb-&gt;csum_level of the original
skb prior to bpf_skb_adjust_room() call was 0, that is, covering UDP. Right now
there is no way to adjust the skb-&gt;csum_level. NICs that have checksum offload
disabled (CHECKSUM_NONE) or that support CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are not affected.

Use a safe default for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY by resetting to CHECKSUM_NONE and
add a flag to the helper called BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_NO_CSUM_RESET that allows users
from opting out. Opting out is useful for the case where we don't remove/add
full protocol headers, or for the case where a user wants to adjust the csum
level manually e.g. through bpf_csum_level() helper that is added in subsequent
patch.

The bpf_skb_proto_{4_to_6,6_to_4}() for NAT64/46 translation from the BPF
bpf_skb_change_proto() helper uses bpf_skb_net_hdr_{push,pop}() pair internally
as well but doesn't change layers, only transitions between v4 to v6 and vice
versa, therefore no adoption is required there.

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200424185556.7358-1-lmb@cloudflare.com/

Fixes: 2be7e212d541 ("bpf: add bpf_skb_adjust_room helper")
Reported-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACAyw9-uU_52esMd1JjuA80fRPHJv5vsSg8GnfW3t_qDU4aVKQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/11a90472e7cce83e76ddbfce81fdfce7bfc68808.1591108731.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
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Lorenz recently reported:

  In our TC classifier cls_redirect [0], we use the following sequence of
  helper calls to decapsulate a GUE (basically IP + UDP + custom header)
  encapsulated packet:

    bpf_skb_adjust_room(skb, -encap_len, BPF_ADJ_ROOM_MAC, BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_FIXED_GSO)
    bpf_redirect(skb-&gt;ifindex, BPF_F_INGRESS)

  It seems like some checksums of the inner headers are not validated in
  this case. For example, a TCP SYN packet with invalid TCP checksum is
  still accepted by the network stack and elicits a SYN ACK. [...]

  That is, we receive the following packet from the driver:

    | ETH | IP | UDP | GUE | IP | TCP |
    skb-&gt;ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

  ip_summed is CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY because our NICs do rx checksum offloading.
  On this packet we run skb_adjust_room_mac(-encap_len), and get the following:

    | ETH | IP | TCP |
    skb-&gt;ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

  Note that ip_summed is still CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. After bpf_redirect()'ing
  into the ingress, we end up in tcp_v4_rcv(). There, skb_checksum_init() is
  turned into a no-op due to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.

The bpf_skb_adjust_room() helper is not aware of protocol specifics. Internally,
it handles the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE case via skb_postpull_rcsum(), but that does
not cover CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In this case skb-&gt;csum_level of the original
skb prior to bpf_skb_adjust_room() call was 0, that is, covering UDP. Right now
there is no way to adjust the skb-&gt;csum_level. NICs that have checksum offload
disabled (CHECKSUM_NONE) or that support CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are not affected.

Use a safe default for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY by resetting to CHECKSUM_NONE and
add a flag to the helper called BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_NO_CSUM_RESET that allows users
from opting out. Opting out is useful for the case where we don't remove/add
full protocol headers, or for the case where a user wants to adjust the csum
level manually e.g. through bpf_csum_level() helper that is added in subsequent
patch.

The bpf_skb_proto_{4_to_6,6_to_4}() for NAT64/46 translation from the BPF
bpf_skb_change_proto() helper uses bpf_skb_net_hdr_{push,pop}() pair internally
as well but doesn't change layers, only transitions between v4 to v6 and vice
versa, therefore no adoption is required there.

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200424185556.7358-1-lmb@cloudflare.com/

Fixes: 2be7e212d541 ("bpf: add bpf_skb_adjust_room helper")
Reported-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACAyw9-uU_52esMd1JjuA80fRPHJv5vsSg8GnfW3t_qDU4aVKQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/11a90472e7cce83e76ddbfce81fdfce7bfc68808.1591108731.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Introduce netns_bpf for BPF programs attached to netns</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T22:21:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Sitnicki</name>
<email>jakub@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-31T08:28:36+00:00</published>
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In order to:

 (1) attach more than one BPF program type to netns, or
 (2) support attaching BPF programs to netns with bpf_link, or
 (3) support multi-prog attach points for netns

we will need to keep more state per netns than a single pointer like we
have now for BPF flow dissector program.

Prepare for the above by extracting netns_bpf that is part of struct net,
for storing all state related to BPF programs attached to netns.

Turn flow dissector callbacks for querying/attaching/detaching a program
into generic ones that operate on netns_bpf. Next patch will move the
generic callbacks into their own module.

This is similar to how it is organized for cgroup with cgroup_bpf.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200531082846.2117903-3-jakub@cloudflare.com
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In order to:

 (1) attach more than one BPF program type to netns, or
 (2) support attaching BPF programs to netns with bpf_link, or
 (3) support multi-prog attach points for netns

we will need to keep more state per netns than a single pointer like we
have now for BPF flow dissector program.

Prepare for the above by extracting netns_bpf that is part of struct net,
for storing all state related to BPF programs attached to netns.

Turn flow dissector callbacks for querying/attaching/detaching a program
into generic ones that operate on netns_bpf. Next patch will move the
generic callbacks into their own module.

This is similar to how it is organized for cgroup with cgroup_bpf.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200531082846.2117903-3-jakub@cloudflare.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: allow __skb_ext_alloc to sleep</title>
<updated>2020-05-17T19:35:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-16T08:46:23+00:00</published>
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mptcp calls this from the transmit side, from process context.
Allow a sleeping allocation instead of unconditional GFP_ATOMIC.

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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mptcp calls this from the transmit side, from process context.
Allow a sleeping allocation instead of unconditional GFP_ATOMIC.

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:22:24+00:00</published>
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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