linux.git/include/net, branch v3.6-rc4

af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]

2012-08-21T21:53:01+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and
potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a
kernel bug.  The kernel passes all-zero SCM_CREDENTIALS ancillary data
to the receiver if the sender did not provide such data, instead of not
including any such data at all or including the correct data from the
peer (as it is the case with AF_UNIX).

This bug was introduced in commit 16e572626961
(af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default)

This patch forces passing credentials for netlink, as
before the regression.

Another fix would be to not add SCM_CREDENTIALS in
netlink messages if not provided by the sender, but it
might break some programs.

With help from Florian Weimer & Petr Matousek

This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3520

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Petr Matousek 
Cc: Florian Weimer 
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: fix oops in inet_putpeer()

2012-08-20T09:56:56+00:00

Commit 97bab73f (inet: Hide route peer accesses behind helpers.) introduced
a bug in xfrm6_policy_destroy(). The xfrm_dst's _rt6i_peer member is not
initialized, causing a false positive result from inetpeer_ptr_is_peer(),
which in turn causes a NULL pointer dereference in inet_putpeer().

Pid: 314, comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1+ #17 To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./P4S800D-X
EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
EIP is at inet_putpeer+0xe/0x16
EAX: 00000000 EBX: f3481700 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 000dd641
ESI: f3481700 EDI: c05e949c EBP: f551def4 ESP: f551def4
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000070 CR3: 3243d000 CR4: 00000750
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
 f551df04 c0423de1 00000000 f3481700 f551df18 c038d5f7 f254b9f8 f551df28
 f34f85d8 f551df20 c03ef48d f551df3c c0396870 f30697e8 f24e1738 c05e98f4
 f5509540 c05cd2b4 f551df7c c0142d2b c043feb5 f5509540 00000000 c05cd2e8
 [] xfrm6_dst_destroy+0x42/0xdb
 [] dst_destroy+0x1d/0xa4
 [] xfrm_bundle_flo_delete+0x2b/0x36
 [] flow_cache_gc_task+0x85/0x9f
 [] process_one_work+0x122/0x441
 [] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
 [] ? flow_cache_new_hashrnd+0x2b/0x2b
 [] worker_thread+0x113/0x3cc

Fix by adding a init_dst() callback to struct xfrm_policy_afinfo to
properly initialize the dst's peer pointer.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

llc2: Fix silent failure of llc_station_init()

2012-08-14T23:51:18+00:00

llc_station_init() creates and processes an event skb with no effect
other than to change the state from DOWN to UP.  Allocation failure is
reported, but then ignored by its caller, llc2_init().  Remove this
possibility by simply initialising the state as UP.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

codel: refine one condition to avoid a nul rec_inv_sqrt

2012-08-10T23:52:54+00:00

One condition before codel_Newton_step() was not good if
we never left the dropping state for a flow. As a result
rec_inv_sqrt was 0, instead of the ~0 initial value.

codel control law was then set to a very aggressive mode, dropping
many packets before reaching 'target' and recovering from this problem.

To keep codel_vars_init() as efficient as possible, refine
the condition to make sure rec_inv_sqrt initial value is correct

Many thanks to Anton Mich for discovering the issue and suggesting
a fix.

Reported-by: Anton Mich 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: fix ip_send_skb()

2012-08-10T21:08:57+00:00

ip_send_skb() can send orphaned skb, so we must pass the net pointer to
avoid possible NULL dereference in error path.

Bug added by commit 3a7c384ffd57 (ipv4: tcp: unicast_sock should not
land outside of TCP stack)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: tcp: ipv6_mapped needs sk_rx_dst_set method

2012-08-10T03:56:09+00:00

commit 5d299f3d3c8a2fb (net: ipv6: fix TCP early demux) added a
regression for ipv6_mapped case.

[   67.422369] SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses
genfs_contexts
[   67.449678] SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses
genfs_contexts
[   92.631060] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
(null)
[   92.631435] IP: [<          (null)>]           (null)
[   92.631645] PGD 0
[   92.631846] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
[   92.632095] Modules linked in: autofs4 sunrpc ipv6 dm_mirror
dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs sbshc battery ac lp
parport sg snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq snd_seq_device pcspkr snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
snd_timer serio_raw button floppy snd i2c_i801 i2c_core soundcore
snd_page_alloc shpchp ide_cd_mod cdrom microcode ehci_hcd ohci_hcd
uhci_hcd
[   92.634294] CPU 0
[   92.634294] Pid: 4469, comm: sendmail Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1 #3
[   92.634294] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>]  [<          (null)>]
(null)
[   92.634294] RSP: 0018:ffff880245fc7cb0  EFLAGS: 00010282
[   92.634294] RAX: ffffffffa01985f0 RBX: ffff88024827ad00 RCX:
0000000000000000
[   92.634294] RDX: 0000000000000218 RSI: ffff880254735380 RDI:
ffff88024827ad00
[   92.634294] RBP: ffff880245fc7cc8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09:
0000000000000000
[   92.634294] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff880245fc7bf8 R12:
ffff880254735380
[   92.634294] R13: ffff880254735380 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
7fffffffffff0218
[   92.634294] FS:  00007f4516ccd6f0(0000) GS:ffff880256600000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   92.634294] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   92.634294] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000245ed1000 CR4:
00000000000007f0
[   92.634294] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
[   92.634294] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
[   92.634294] Process sendmail (pid: 4469, threadinfo ffff880245fc6000,
task ffff880254b8cac0)
[   92.634294] Stack:
[   92.634294]  ffffffff813837a7 ffff88024827ad00 ffff880254b6b0e8
ffff880245fc7d68
[   92.634294]  ffffffff81385083 00000000001d2680 ffff8802547353a8
ffff880245fc7d18
[   92.634294]  ffffffff8105903a ffff88024827ad60 0000000000000002
00000000000000ff
[   92.634294] Call Trace:
[   92.634294]  [] ? tcp_finish_connect+0x2c/0xfa
[   92.634294]  [] tcp_rcv_state_process+0x2b6/0x9c6
[   92.634294]  [] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc3/0xd1
[   92.634294]  [] ? local_clock+0x2b/0x3c
[   92.634294]  [] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x63a/0x670
[   92.634294]  [] release_sock+0x128/0x1bd
[   92.634294]  [] __inet_stream_connect+0x1b1/0x352
[   92.634294]  [] ? lock_sock_nested+0x74/0x7f
[   92.634294]  [] ? wake_up_bit+0x25/0x25
[   92.634294]  [] ? lock_sock_nested+0x74/0x7f
[   92.634294]  [] ? inet_stream_connect+0x22/0x4b
[   92.634294]  [] inet_stream_connect+0x33/0x4b
[   92.634294]  [] sys_connect+0x78/0x9e
[   92.634294]  [] ? sysret_check+0x1b/0x56
[   92.634294]  [] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x195/0x1c8
[   92.634294]  [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[   92.634294]  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   92.634294] Code:  Bad RIP value.
[   92.634294] RIP  [<          (null)>]           (null)
[   92.634294]  RSP 
[   92.634294] CR2: 0000000000000000
[   92.648982] ---[ end trace 24e2bed94314c8d9 ]---
[   92.649146] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fix this using inet_sk_rx_dst_set(), and export this function in case
IPv6 is modular.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: force dst_default_metrics to const section

2012-08-08T23:00:28+00:00

While investigating on network performance problems, I found this little
gem :

$ nm -v vmlinux | grep -1 dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736540 b busy.46605
ffffffff82736560 B dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736598 b dst_busy_list

Apparently, declaring a const array without initializer put it in
(writeable) bss section, in middle of possibly often dirtied cache
lines.

Since we really want dst_default_metrics be const to avoid any possible
false sharing and catch any buggy writes, I force a null initializer.

ffffffff818a4c20 R dst_default_metrics

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: fix TCP early demux

2012-08-06T20:33:21+00:00

IPv6 needs a cookie in dst_check() call.

We need to add rx_dst_cookie and provide a family independent
sk_rx_dst_set(sk, skb) method to properly support IPv6 TCP early demux.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211

2012-08-02T17:49:38+00:00

cfg80211: add channel flag to prohibit OFDM operation

2012-08-02T13:30:49+00:00

Currently the only way for wireless drivers to tell whether or not OFDM
is allowed on the current channel is to check the regulatory
information. However, this requires hodling cfg80211_mutex, which is not
visible to the drivers.

Other regulatory restrictions are provided as flags in the channel
definition, so let's do similarly with OFDM. This patch adds a new flag,
IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_OFDM, to tell drivers that OFDM on a channel is not
allowed. This flag is set on any channels for which regulatory indicates
that OFDM is prohibited.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee 
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg