linux.git/net/core, branch v2.6.36

net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions

2010-10-11T19:23:25+00:00

Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: clear heap allocation for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL

2010-10-08T17:48:28+00:00

Calling ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL with a large rule_cnt will allocate kernel
heap without clearing it. For the one driver (niu) that implements it,
it will leave the unused portion of heap unchanged and copy the full
contents back to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event()

2010-10-04T03:41:32+00:00

This patch fixes the condition (3rd arg) passed to sk_wait_event() in
sk_stream_wait_memory(). The incorrect check in sk_stream_wait_memory()
causes the following soft lockup in tcp_sendmsg() when the global tcp
memory pool has exhausted.

>>> snip <<<

localhost kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 11s! [sshd:6429]
localhost kernel: CPU 3:
localhost kernel: RIP: 0010:[sk_stream_wait_memory+0xcd/0x200]  [sk_stream_wait_memory+0xcd/0x200] sk_stream_wait_memory+0xcd/0x200
localhost kernel:
localhost kernel: Call Trace:
localhost kernel:  [sk_stream_wait_memory+0x1b1/0x200] sk_stream_wait_memory+0x1b1/0x200
localhost kernel:  [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
localhost kernel:  [ipv6:tcp_sendmsg+0x6e6/0xe90] tcp_sendmsg+0x6e6/0xce0
localhost kernel:  [sock_aio_write+0x126/0x140] sock_aio_write+0x126/0x140
localhost kernel:  [xfs:do_sync_write+0xf1/0x130] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x130
localhost kernel:  [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
localhost kernel:  [hrtimer_start+0xe3/0x170] hrtimer_start+0xe3/0x170
localhost kernel:  [vfs_write+0x185/0x190] vfs_write+0x185/0x190
localhost kernel:  [sys_write+0x50/0x90] sys_write+0x50/0x90
localhost kernel:  [system_call+0x7e/0x83] system_call+0x7e/0x83

>>> snip <<<

What is happening is, that the sk_wait_event() condition passed from
sk_stream_wait_memory() evaluates to true for the case of tcp global memory
exhaustion. This is because both sk_stream_memory_free() and vm_wait are true
which causes sk_wait_event() to *not* call schedule_timeout().
Hence sk_stream_wait_memory() returns immediately to the caller w/o sleeping.
This causes the caller to again try allocation, which again fails and again
calls sk_stream_wait_memory(), and so on.

[ Bug introduced by commit c1cbe4b7ad0bc4b1d98ea708a3fecb7362aa4088
  ("[NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case") -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Nagendra Singh Tomar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit.

2010-09-28T03:24:54+00:00

Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603

tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write
zero bytes, for example.

There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works.  It
wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return
value.

However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and
thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines).  So it could trigger
false-positives on 64-bit as written.  So fix it to use 'long'.

Reported-by: Olaf Bonorden 
Reported-by: Daniel Büse 
Reported-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix a lockdep splat

2010-09-25T05:26:10+00:00

We have for each socket :

One spinlock (sk_slock.slock)
One rwlock (sk_callback_lock)

Possible scenarios are :

(A) (this is used in net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c)
read_lock(&sk->sk_callback_lock) (without blocking BH)

spin_lock(&sk->sk_slock.slock);
...
read_lock(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
...

(B)
write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock)
stuff
write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock)

(C)
spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_slock)
...
write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock)
stuff
write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock)
spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_slock)

This (C) case conflicts with (A) :

CPU1 [A]                         CPU2 [C]
read_lock(callback_lock)
                             spin_lock_bh(slock)

                                 

We have one problematic (C) use case in inet_csk_listen_stop() :

local_bh_disable();
bh_lock_sock(child); // spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_slock)
WARN_ON(sock_owned_by_user(child));
...
sock_orphan(child); // write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock)

lockdep is not happy with this, as reported by Tetsuo Handa

It seems only way to deal with this is to use read_lock_bh(callbacklock)
everywhere.

Thanks to Jarek for pointing a bug in my first attempt and suggesting
this solution.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Jarek Poplawski 
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use rcu_barrier() in rollback_registered_many

2010-09-14T21:27:29+00:00

netdev_wait_allrefs() waits that all references to a device vanishes.

It currently uses a _very_ pessimistic 250 ms delay between each probe.
Some users reported that no more than 4 devices can be dismantled per
second, this is a pretty serious problem for some setups.

Most of the time, a refcount is about to be released by an RCU callback,
that is still in flight because rollback_registered_many() uses a
synchronize_rcu() call instead of rcu_barrier(). Problem is visible if
number of online cpus is one, because synchronize_rcu() is then a no op.

time to remove 50 ipip tunnels on a UP machine :

before patch : real 11.910s
after patch : real 1.250s

Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Reported-by: Octavian Purdila 
Reported-by: Benjamin LaHaise 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms

2010-09-08T17:32:15+00:00

The patch: "gro: fix different skb headrooms" in its part:
"2) allocate a minimal skb for head of frag_list" is buggy. The copied
skb has p->data set at the ip header at the moment, and skb_gro_offset
is the length of ip + tcp headers. So, after the change the length of
mac header is skipped. Later skb_set_mac_header() sets it into the
NET_SKB_PAD area (if it's long enough) and ip header is misaligned at
NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN offset. There is no reason to assume the
original skb was wrongly allocated, so let's copy it as it was.

bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626
fixes commit: 3d3be4333fdf6faa080947b331a6a19bce1a4f57

Reported-by: Plamen Petrov 
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski 
CC: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Plamen Petrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix tx queue selection for bridged devices implementing select_queue

2010-09-07T20:57:20+00:00

When a net device is implementing the select_queue callback and is part of
a bridge, frames coming from the bridge already have a tx queue associated
to the socket (introduced in commit a4ee3ce3293dc931fab19beb472a8bde1295aebe,
"net: Use sk_tx_queue_mapping for connected sockets"). The call to
sk_tx_queue_get will then return the tx queue used by the bridge instead
of calling the select_queue callback.

In case of mac80211 this broke QoS which is implemented by using the
select_queue callback. Furthermore it introduced problems with rt2x00
because frames with the same TID and RA sometimes appeared on different
tx queues which the hw cannot handle correctly.

Fix this by always calling select_queue first if it is available and only
afterwards use the socket tx queue mapping.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

pkt_sched: Fix lockdep warning on est_tree_lock in gen_estimator

2010-09-02T20:22:11+00:00

This patch fixes a lockdep warning:

[  516.287584] =========================================================
[  516.288386] [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
[  516.288386] 2.6.35b #7
[  516.288386] ---------------------------------------------------------
[  516.288386] swapper/0 just changed the state of lock:
[  516.288386]  (&qdisc_tx_lock){+.-...}, at: [] est_timer+0x62/0x1b4
[  516.288386] but this lock took another, SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
[  516.288386]  (est_tree_lock){+.+...}
[  516.288386] 
[  516.288386] and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.
...

So, est_tree_lock needs BH protection because it's taken by
qdisc_tx_lock, which is used both in BH and process contexts.
(Full warning with this patch at netdev, 02 Sep 2010.)

Fixes commit: ae638c47dc040b8def16d05dc6acdd527628f231
("pkt_sched: gen_estimator: add a new lock")

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

gro: fix different skb headrooms

2010-09-02T02:17:35+00:00

Packets entering GRO might have different headrooms, even for a given
flow (because of implementation details in drivers, like copybreak).
We cant force drivers to deliver packets with a fixed headroom.

1) fix skb_segment()

skb_segment() makes the false assumption headrooms of fragments are same
than the head. When CHECKSUM_PARTIAL is used, this can give csum_start
errors, and crash later in skb_copy_and_csum_dev()

2) allocate a minimal skb for head of frag_list

skb_gro_receive() uses netdev_alloc_skb(headroom + skb_gro_offset(p)) to
allocate a fresh skb. This adds NET_SKB_PAD to a padding already
provided by netdevice, depending on various things, like copybreak.

Use alloc_skb() to allocate an exact padding, to reduce cache line
needs:
NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN

bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626

Many thanks to Plamen Petrov, testing many debugging patches !
With help of Jarek Poplawski.

Reported-by: Plamen Petrov 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Jarek Poplawski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller