linux.git/net/core, branch v3.12-rc2

netpoll: fix NULL pointer dereference in netpoll_cleanup

2013-09-19T18:15:53+00:00

I've been hitting a NULL ptr deref while using netconsole because the
np->dev check and the pointer manipulation in netpoll_cleanup are done
without rtnl and the following sequence happens when having a netconsole
over a vlan and we remove the vlan while disabling the netconsole:
	CPU 1					CPU2
					removes vlan and calls the notifier
enters store_enabled(), calls
netdev_cleanup which checks np->dev
and then waits for rtnl
					executes the netconsole netdev
					release notifier making np->dev
					== NULL and releases rtnl
continues to dereference a member of
np->dev which at this point is == NULL

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: Should handle ETH_P_ARP other than ETH_P_IP in netpoll_neigh_reply

2013-09-12T21:19:14+00:00

The received ARP request type in the Ethernet packet head is ETH_P_ARP other than ETH_P_IP.

[ Bug introduced by commit b7394d2429c198b1da3d46ac39192e891029ec0f
  ("netpoll: prepare for ipv6") ]

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix multiqueue selection

2013-09-11T20:10:00+00:00

commit 416186fbf8c5b4e4465 ("net: Split core bits of netdev_pick_tx
into __netdev_pick_tx") added a bug that disables caching of queue
index in the socket.

This is the source of packet reorders for TCP flows, and
again this is happening more often when using FQ pacing.

Old code was doing

if (queue_index != old_index)
	sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);

Alexander renamed the variables but forgot to change sk_tx_queue_set()
2nd parameter.

if (queue_index != new_index)
	sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);

This means we store -1 over and over in sk->sk_tx_queue_mapping

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Alexander Duyck 
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2013-09-07T21:35:32+00:00

Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug
  fixes.

  The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions.  nsown_capable
  is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be
  considered.  A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally
  tracked and fixed.  A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace
  infrastructure.

  Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace
  capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows
  the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  userns:  Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy
  capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
  pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD
  userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
  namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on.
  pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup
  sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
  userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
  vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc//ns/mnt between namespaces
  kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code.
  proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem
  vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2013-09-05T21:54:29+00:00

Pull networking changes from David Miller:
 "Noteworthy changes this time around:

   1) Multicast rejoin support for team driver, from Jiri Pirko.

   2) Centralize and simplify TCP RTT measurement handling in order to
      reduce the impact of bad RTO seeding from SYN/ACKs.  Also, when
      both timestamps and local RTT measurements are available prefer
      the later because there are broken middleware devices which
      scramble the timestamp.

      From Yuchung Cheng.

   3) Add TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option to limit the amount of kernel
      memory consumed to queue up unsend user data.  From Eric Dumazet.

   4) Add a "physical port ID" abstraction for network devices, from
      Jiri Pirko.

   5) Add a "suppress" operation to influence fib_rules lookups, from
      Stefan Tomanek.

   6) Add a networking development FAQ, from Paul Gortmaker.

   7) Extend the information provided by tcp_probe and add ipv6 support,
      from Daniel Borkmann.

   8) Use RCU locking more extensively in openvswitch data paths, from
      Pravin B Shelar.

   9) Add SCTP support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

  10) Add EF10 chip support to SFC driver, from Ben Hutchings.

  11) Add new SYNPROXY netfilter target, from Patrick McHardy.

  12) Compute a rate approximation for sending in TCP sockets, and use
      this to more intelligently coalesce TSO frames.  Furthermore, add
      a new packet scheduler which takes advantage of this estimate when
      available.  From Eric Dumazet.

  13) Allow AF_PACKET fanouts with random selection, from Daniel
      Borkmann.

  14) Add ipv6 support to vxlan driver, from Cong Wang"

Resolved conflicts as per discussion.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1218 commits)
  openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow_key.
  netfilter: Fix build errors with xt_socket.c
  tcp: Add missing braces to do_tcp_setsockopt
  caif: Add missing braces to multiline if in cfctrl_linkup_request
  bnx2x: Add missing braces in bnx2x:bnx2x_link_initialize
  vxlan: Fix kernel panic on device delete.
  net: mvneta: implement ->ndo_do_ioctl() to support PHY ioctls
  net: mvneta: properly disable HW PHY polling and ensure adjust_link() works
  icplus: Use netif_running to determine device state
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: Fix huge delays in large file copies
  tuntap: orphan frags before trying to set tx timestamp
  tuntap: purge socket error queue on detach
  qlcnic: use standard NAPI weights
  ipv6:introduce function to find route for redirect
  bnx2x: VF RSS support - VF side
  bnx2x: VF RSS support - PF side
  vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes
  net: usbnet: update addr_assign_type if appropriate
  driver/net: enic: update enic maintainers and driver
  driver/net: enic: Exposing symbols for Cisco's low latency driver
  ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-09-05T18:58:52+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
	net/bridge/br_multicast.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The conflicts were minor:

1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature.

2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using
   msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function
   with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters.

3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated
   and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property,
   and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made.  The latter of
   which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: correctly interlink lower/upper devices

2013-09-04T04:27:26+00:00

Currently we're linking upper devices to lower ones, which results in
upside-down relationship: upper devices seeing lower devices via its upper
lists.

Fix this by correctly linking lower devices to the upper ones.

CC: "David S. Miller" 
CC: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Jiri Pirko 
CC: Alexander Duyck 
CC: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

skb: allow skb_scrub_packet() to be used by tunnels

2013-09-04T04:27:25+00:00

This function was only used when a packet was sent to another netns. Now, it can
also be used after tunnel encapsulation or decapsulation.

Only skb_orphan() should not be done when a packet is not crossing netns.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: neighbour: Remove CONFIG_ARPD

2013-09-04T01:41:43+00:00

This config option is superfluous in that it only guards a call
to neigh_app_ns(). Enabling CONFIG_ARPD by default has no
change in behavior. There will now be call to __neigh_notify()
for each ARP resolution, which has no impact unless there is a
user space daemon waiting to receive the notification, i.e.,
the case for which CONFIG_ARPD was designed anyways.

Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Gao feng 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Veaceslav Falico 
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2013-09-04T01:25:03+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on the cgroup front.  Most changes aren't visible
  to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
  planned unified hierarchy.

   - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
     (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's.  Because controllers
     (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
     and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
     and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
     a cgroup.  Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
     was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.

     Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
     core and controllers.  These assumptions are gradually removed,
     which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
     completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path.  Note that
     decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
     changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.

   - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
     only used by memcg.  It is overly complex trying to achieve high
     flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best.  Going forward,
     new events will simply generate file modified event and the
     existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg.  This pull
     request contains prepatory patches for such change.

   - Various fixes and cleanups"

Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.

* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
  cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
  cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
  cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
  cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
  cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
  cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
  cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
  cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
  cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
  cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
  cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
  cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
  cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
  cgroup: factor out kill_css()
  cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
  cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
  cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
  cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
  cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
  cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
  ...