linux.git/net/core, branch v4.2-rc4

net: ratelimit warnings about dst entry refcount underflow or overflow

2015-07-21T07:11:19+00:00

Kernel generates a lot of warnings when dst entry reference counter
overflows and becomes negative. That bug was seen several times at
machines with outdated 3.10.y kernels. Most like it's already fixed
in upstream. Anyway that flood completely kills machine and makes
further debugging impossible.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix skb csum races when peeking

2015-07-15T22:59:58+00:00

When we calculate the checksum on the recv path, we store the
result in the skb as an optimisation in case we need the checksum
again down the line.

This is in fact bogus for the MSG_PEEK case as this is done without
any locking.  So multiple threads can peek and then store the result
to the same skb, potentially resulting in bogus skb states.

This patch fixes this by only storing the result if the skb is not
shared.  This preserves the optimisations for the few cases where
it can be done safely due to locking or other reasons, e.g., SIOCINQ.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag

2015-07-15T22:59:58+00:00

Shared skbs must not be modified and this is crucial for broadcast
and/or multicast paths where we use it as an optimisation to avoid
unnecessary cloning.

The function skb_recv_datagram breaks this rule by setting peeked
without cloning the skb first.  This causes funky races which leads
to double-free.

This patch fixes this by cloning the skb and replacing the skb
in the list when setting skb->peeked.

Fixes: a59322be07c9 ("[UDP]: Only increment counter on first peek/recv")
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: reject non-IFLA_VF_PORT attributes inside IFLA_VF_PORTS

2015-07-15T22:53:27+00:00

Similarly as in commit 4f7d2cdfdde7 ("rtnetlink: verify IFLA_VF_INFO
attributes before passing them to driver"), we have a double nesting
of netlink attributes, i.e. IFLA_VF_PORTS only contains IFLA_VF_PORT
that is nested itself. While IFLA_VF_PORTS is a verified attribute
from ifla_policy[], we only check if the IFLA_VF_PORTS container has
IFLA_VF_PORT attributes and then pass the attribute's content itself
via nla_parse_nested(). It would be more correct to reject inner types
other than IFLA_VF_PORT instead of continuing parsing and also similarly
as in commit 4f7d2cdfdde7, to check for a minimum of NLA_HDRLEN.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Roopa Prabhu 
Cc: Scott Feldman 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog

2015-07-11T01:16:36+00:00

Incoming packet should be either in backlog queue or
in RCU read-side section. Otherwise, the final sequence of
flush_backlog() and synchronize_net() may miss packets
that can run without device reference:

CPU 1                  CPU 2
                       skb->dev: no reference
                       process_backlog:__skb_dequeue
                       process_backlog:local_irq_enable

on_each_cpu for
flush_backlog =>       IPI(hardirq): flush_backlog
                       - packet not found in backlog

                       CPU delayed ...
synchronize_net
- no ongoing RCU
read-side sections

netdev_run_todo,
rcu_barrier: no
ongoing callbacks
                       __netif_receive_skb_core:rcu_read_lock
                       - too late
free dev
                       process packet for freed dev

Fixes: 6e583ce5242f ("net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue")
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: do not process device backlog during unregistration

2015-07-11T01:16:36+00:00

commit 381c759d9916 ("ipv4: Avoid crashing in ip_error")
fixes a problem where processed packet comes from device
with destroyed inetdev (dev->ip_ptr). This is not expected
because inetdev_destroy is called in NETDEV_UNREGISTER
phase and packets should not be processed after
dev_close_many() and synchronize_net(). Above fix is still
required because inetdev_destroy can be called for other
reasons. But it shows the real problem: backlog can keep
packets for long time and they do not hold reference to
device. Such packets are then delivered to upper levels
at the same time when device is unregistered.
Calling flush_backlog after NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL still
accounts all packets from backlog but before that some packets
continue to be delivered to upper levels long after the
synchronize_net call which is supposed to wait the last
ones. Also, as Eric pointed out, processed packets, mostly
from other devices, can continue to add new packets to backlog.

Fix the problem by moving flush_backlog early, after the
device driver is stopped and before the synchronize_net() call.
Then use netif_running check to make sure we do not add more
packets to backlog. We have to do it in enqueue_to_backlog
context when the local IRQ is disabled. As result, after the
flush_backlog and synchronize_net sequence all packets
should be accounted.

Thanks to Eric W. Biederman for the test script and his
valuable feedback!

Reported-by: Vittorio Gambaletta 
Fixes: 6e583ce5242f ("net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue")
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: pktgen: kill the "Wait for kthread_stop" code in pktgen_thread_worker()

2015-07-09T22:05:32+00:00

pktgen_thread_worker() doesn't need to wait for kthread_stop(), it
can simply exit. Just pktgen_create_thread() and pg_net_exit() should
do get_task_struct()/put_task_struct(). kthread_stop(dead_thread) is
fine.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: pktgen: fix race between pktgen_thread_worker() and kthread_stop()

2015-07-09T22:05:32+00:00

pktgen_thread_worker() is obviously racy, kthread_stop() can come
between the kthread_should_stop() check and set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Jan Stancek 
Reported-by: Marcelo Leitner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: verify IFLA_VF_INFO attributes before passing them to driver

2015-07-08T23:01:52+00:00

Jason Gunthorpe reported that since commit c02db8c6290b ("rtnetlink: make
SR-IOV VF interface symmetric"), we don't verify IFLA_VF_INFO attributes
anymore with respect to their policy, that is, ifla_vfinfo_policy[].

Before, they were part of ifla_policy[], but they have been nested since
placed under IFLA_VFINFO_LIST, that contains the attribute IFLA_VF_INFO,
which is another nested attribute for the actual VF attributes such as
IFLA_VF_MAC, IFLA_VF_VLAN, etc.

Despite the policy being split out from ifla_policy[] in this commit,
it's never applied anywhere. nla_for_each_nested() only does basic nla_ok()
testing for struct nlattr, but it doesn't know about the data context and
their requirements.

Fix, on top of Jason's initial work, does 1) parsing of the attributes
with the right policy, and 2) using the resulting parsed attribute table
from 1) instead of the nla_for_each_nested() loop (just like we used to
do when still part of ifla_policy[]).

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/368913
Fixes: c02db8c6290b ("rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric")
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Cc: Sucheta Chakraborty 
Cc: Greg Rose 
Cc: Jeff Kirsher 
Cc: Rony Efraim 
Cc: Vlad Zolotarov 
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel 
Cc: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Acked-by: Vlad Zolotarov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Revert "dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual interfaces"

2015-07-08T22:52:33+00:00

This reverts commit e1622baf54df8cc958bf29d71de5ad545ea7d93c.

The side effect of this commit is to add a '@NONE' after each virtual
interface name with a 'ip link'. It may break existing scripts.

Reported-by: Olivier Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller