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<title>linux.git/net/core, branch v4.9-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</published>
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rtnl: info leak in rtnl_fill_vfinfo()</title>
<updated>2016-10-13T16:12:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T08:45:28+00:00</published>
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The "vf_vlan_info" struct ends with a 2 byte struct hole so we have to
memset it to ensure that no stack information is revealed to user space.

Fixes: 79aab093a0b5 ('net: Update API for VF vlan protocol 802.1ad support')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The "vf_vlan_info" struct ends with a 2 byte struct hole so we have to
memset it to ensure that no stack information is revealed to user space.

Fixes: 79aab093a0b5 ('net: Update API for VF vlan protocol 802.1ad support')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T18:42:34+00:00</published>
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The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T04:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T04:38:00+00:00</published>
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - all of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (127 commits)
  console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
  cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
  CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
  mailmap: add Johan Hovold
  .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
  uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
  spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
  nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
  arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
  nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
  nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
  min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
  mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
  proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
  proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns
  proc: relax /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns capability requirements
  meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
  seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
  proc: faster /proc/*/status
  ...
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - all of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (127 commits)
  console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
  cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
  CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
  mailmap: add Johan Hovold
  .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
  uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
  spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
  nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
  arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
  nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
  nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
  min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
  mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
  proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
  proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns
  proc: relax /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns capability requirements
  meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
  seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
  proc: faster /proc/*/status
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: consolidate cgroup socket tracking</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T01:46:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T00:00:58+00:00</published>
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The cgroup core and the memory controller need to track socket ownership
for different purposes, but the tracking sites being entirely different
is kind of ugly.

Be a better citizen and rename the memory controller callbacks to match
the cgroup core callbacks, then move them to the same place.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The cgroup core and the memory controller need to track socket ownership
for different purposes, but the tracking sites being entirely different
is kind of ugly.

Be a better citizen and rename the memory controller callbacks to match
the cgroup core callbacks, then move them to the same place.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T22:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T22:36:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d1f5323370fceaed43a7ee38f4c7bfc7e70f28d0'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull VFS splice updates from Al Viro:
 "There's a bunch of branches this cycle, both mine and from other folks
  and I'd rather send pull requests separately.

  This one is the conversion of -&gt;splice_read() to ITER_PIPE iov_iter
  (and introduction of such). Gets rid of a lot of code in fs/splice.c
  and elsewhere; there will be followups, but these are for the next
  cycle...  Some pipe/splice-related cleanups from Miklos in the same
  branch as well"

* 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  pipe: fix comment in pipe_buf_operations
  pipe: add pipe_buf_steal() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_confirm() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_release() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_get() helper
  relay: simplify relay_file_read()
  switch default_file_splice_read() to use of pipe-backed iov_iter
  switch generic_file_splice_read() to use of -&gt;read_iter()
  new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed
  fuse_dev_splice_read(): switch to add_to_pipe()
  skb_splice_bits(): get rid of callback
  new helper: add_to_pipe()
  splice: lift pipe_lock out of splice_to_pipe()
  splice: switch get_iovec_page_array() to iov_iter
  splice_to_pipe(): don't open-code wakeup_pipe_readers()
  consistent treatment of EFAULT on O_DIRECT read/write
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Pull VFS splice updates from Al Viro:
 "There's a bunch of branches this cycle, both mine and from other folks
  and I'd rather send pull requests separately.

  This one is the conversion of -&gt;splice_read() to ITER_PIPE iov_iter
  (and introduction of such). Gets rid of a lot of code in fs/splice.c
  and elsewhere; there will be followups, but these are for the next
  cycle...  Some pipe/splice-related cleanups from Miklos in the same
  branch as well"

* 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  pipe: fix comment in pipe_buf_operations
  pipe: add pipe_buf_steal() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_confirm() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_release() helper
  pipe: add pipe_buf_get() helper
  relay: simplify relay_file_read()
  switch default_file_splice_read() to use of pipe-backed iov_iter
  switch generic_file_splice_read() to use of -&gt;read_iter()
  new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed
  fuse_dev_splice_read(): switch to add_to_pipe()
  skb_splice_bits(): get rid of callback
  new helper: add_to_pipe()
  splice: lift pipe_lock out of splice_to_pipe()
  splice: switch get_iovec_page_array() to iov_iter
  splice_to_pipe(): don't open-code wakeup_pipe_readers()
  consistent treatment of EFAULT on O_DIRECT read/write
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T16:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-06T16:52:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=14986a34e1289424811443a524cdd9e1688c7913'/>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes is a number of smaller things that have been
  overlooked in other development cycles focused on more fundamental
  change. The devpts changes are small things that were a distraction
  until we managed to kill off DEVPTS_MULTPLE_INSTANCES. There is an
  trivial regression fix to autofs for the unprivileged mount changes
  that went in last cycle. A pair of ioctls has been added by Andrey
  Vagin making it is possible to discover the relationships between
  namespaces when referring to them through file descriptors.

  The big user visible change is starting to add simple resource limits
  to catch programs that misbehave. With namespaces in general and user
  namespaces in particular allowing users to use more kinds of
  resources, it has become important to have something to limit errant
  programs. Because the purpose of these limits is to catch errant
  programs the code needs to be inexpensive to use as it always on, and
  the default limits need to be high enough that well behaved programs
  on well behaved systems don't encounter them.

  To this end, after some review I have implemented per user per user
  namespace limits, and use them to limit the number of namespaces. The
  limits being per user mean that one user can not exhause the limits of
  another user. The limits being per user namespace allow contexts where
  the limit is 0 and security conscious folks can remove from their
  threat anlysis the code used to manage namespaces (as they have
  historically done as it root only). At the same time the limits being
  per user namespace allow other parts of the system to use namespaces.

  Namespaces are increasingly being used in application sand boxing
  scenarios so an all or nothing disable for the entire system for the
  security conscious folks makes increasing use of these sandboxes
  impossible.

  There is also added a limit on the maximum number of mounts present in
  a single mount namespace. It is nontrivial to guess what a reasonable
  system wide limit on the number of mount structure in the kernel would
  be, especially as it various based on how a system is using
  containers. A limit on the number of mounts in a mount namespace
  however is much easier to understand and set. In most cases in
  practice only about 1000 mounts are used. Given that some autofs
  scenarious have the potential to be 30,000 to 50,000 mounts I have set
  the default limit for the number of mounts at 100,000 which is well
  above every known set of users but low enough that the mount hash
  tables don't degrade unreaonsably.

  These limits are a start. I expect this estabilishes a pattern that
  other limits for resources that namespaces use will follow. There has
  been interest in making inotify event limits per user per user
  namespace as well as interest expressed in making details about what
  is going on in the kernel more visible"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (28 commits)
  autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid
  mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts
  netns: move {inc,dec}_net_namespaces into #ifdef
  nsfs: Simplify __ns_get_path
  tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s
  nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
  nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor
  kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace
  devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts
  devpts: Remove sync_filesystems
  devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL
  devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev
  devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super
  devpts: Move parse_mount_options into fill_super
  userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC
  userns; Document per user per user namespace limits.
  mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces.
  netns: Add a limit on the number of net namespaces
  cgroupns: Add a limit on the number of cgroup namespaces
  ipcns: Add a  limit on the number of ipc namespaces
  ...
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<pre>
Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes is a number of smaller things that have been
  overlooked in other development cycles focused on more fundamental
  change. The devpts changes are small things that were a distraction
  until we managed to kill off DEVPTS_MULTPLE_INSTANCES. There is an
  trivial regression fix to autofs for the unprivileged mount changes
  that went in last cycle. A pair of ioctls has been added by Andrey
  Vagin making it is possible to discover the relationships between
  namespaces when referring to them through file descriptors.

  The big user visible change is starting to add simple resource limits
  to catch programs that misbehave. With namespaces in general and user
  namespaces in particular allowing users to use more kinds of
  resources, it has become important to have something to limit errant
  programs. Because the purpose of these limits is to catch errant
  programs the code needs to be inexpensive to use as it always on, and
  the default limits need to be high enough that well behaved programs
  on well behaved systems don't encounter them.

  To this end, after some review I have implemented per user per user
  namespace limits, and use them to limit the number of namespaces. The
  limits being per user mean that one user can not exhause the limits of
  another user. The limits being per user namespace allow contexts where
  the limit is 0 and security conscious folks can remove from their
  threat anlysis the code used to manage namespaces (as they have
  historically done as it root only). At the same time the limits being
  per user namespace allow other parts of the system to use namespaces.

  Namespaces are increasingly being used in application sand boxing
  scenarios so an all or nothing disable for the entire system for the
  security conscious folks makes increasing use of these sandboxes
  impossible.

  There is also added a limit on the maximum number of mounts present in
  a single mount namespace. It is nontrivial to guess what a reasonable
  system wide limit on the number of mount structure in the kernel would
  be, especially as it various based on how a system is using
  containers. A limit on the number of mounts in a mount namespace
  however is much easier to understand and set. In most cases in
  practice only about 1000 mounts are used. Given that some autofs
  scenarious have the potential to be 30,000 to 50,000 mounts I have set
  the default limit for the number of mounts at 100,000 which is well
  above every known set of users but low enough that the mount hash
  tables don't degrade unreaonsably.

  These limits are a start. I expect this estabilishes a pattern that
  other limits for resources that namespaces use will follow. There has
  been interest in making inotify event limits per user per user
  namespace as well as interest expressed in making details about what
  is going on in the kernel more visible"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (28 commits)
  autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid
  mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts
  netns: move {inc,dec}_net_namespaces into #ifdef
  nsfs: Simplify __ns_get_path
  tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s
  nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
  nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor
  kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace
  devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts
  devpts: Remove sync_filesystems
  devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL
  devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev
  devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super
  devpts: Move parse_mount_options into fill_super
  userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC
  userns; Document per user per user namespace limits.
  mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces.
  netns: Add a limit on the number of net namespaces
  cgroupns: Add a limit on the number of cgroup namespaces
  ipcns: Add a  limit on the number of ipc namespaces
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T06:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Collins</name>
<email>acollins@cradlepoint.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-03T19:43:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93409033ae653f1c9a949202fb537ab095b2092f'/>
<id>93409033ae653f1c9a949202fb537ab095b2092f</id>
<content type='text'>
This is a respin of a patch to fix a relatively easily reproducible kernel
panic related to the all_adj_list handling for netdevs in recent kernels.

The following sequence of commands will reproduce the issue:

ip link add link eth0 name eth0.100 type vlan id 100
ip link add link eth0 name eth0.200 type vlan id 200
ip link add name testbr type bridge
ip link set eth0.100 master testbr
ip link set eth0.200 master testbr
ip link add link testbr mac0 type macvlan
ip link delete dev testbr

This creates an upper/lower tree of (excuse the poor ASCII art):

            /---eth0.100-eth0
mac0-testbr-
            \---eth0.200-eth0

When testbr is deleted, the all_adj_lists are walked, and eth0 is deleted twice from
the mac0 list. Unfortunately, during setup in __netdev_upper_dev_link, only one
reference to eth0 is added, so this results in a panic.

This change adds reference count propagation so things are handled properly.

Matthias Schiffer reported a similar crash in batman-adv:

https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/680
https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/247

which this patch also seems to resolve.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Collins &lt;acollins@cradlepoint.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is a respin of a patch to fix a relatively easily reproducible kernel
panic related to the all_adj_list handling for netdevs in recent kernels.

The following sequence of commands will reproduce the issue:

ip link add link eth0 name eth0.100 type vlan id 100
ip link add link eth0 name eth0.200 type vlan id 200
ip link add name testbr type bridge
ip link set eth0.100 master testbr
ip link set eth0.200 master testbr
ip link add link testbr mac0 type macvlan
ip link delete dev testbr

This creates an upper/lower tree of (excuse the poor ASCII art):

            /---eth0.100-eth0
mac0-testbr-
            \---eth0.200-eth0

When testbr is deleted, the all_adj_lists are walked, and eth0 is deleted twice from
the mac0 list. Unfortunately, during setup in __netdev_upper_dev_link, only one
reference to eth0 is added, so this results in a panic.

This change adds reference count propagation so things are handled properly.

Matthias Schiffer reported a similar crash in batman-adv:

https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/680
https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/247

which this patch also seems to resolve.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Collins &lt;acollins@cradlepoint.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: skbuff: Limit skb_vlan_pop/push() to expect skb-&gt;data at mac header</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T01:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shmulik Ladkani</name>
<email>shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T09:10:41+00:00</published>
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skb_vlan_pop/push were too generic, trying to support the cases where
skb-&gt;data is at mac header, and cases where skb-&gt;data is arbitrarily
elsewhere.

Supporting an arbitrary skb-&gt;data was complex and bogus:
 - It failed to unwind skb-&gt;data to its original location post actual
   pop/push.
   (Also, semantic is not well defined for unwinding: If data was into
    the eth header, need to use same offset from start; But if data was
    at network header or beyond, need to adjust the original offset
    according to the push/pull)
 - It mangled the rcsum post actual push/pop, without taking into account
   that the eth bytes might already have been pulled out of the csum.

Most callers (ovs, bpf) already had their skb-&gt;data at mac_header upon
invoking skb_vlan_pop/push.
Last caller that failed to do so (act_vlan) has been recently fixed.

Therefore, to simplify things, no longer support arbitrary skb-&gt;data
inputs for skb_vlan_pop/push().

skb-&gt;data is expected to be exactly at mac_header; WARN otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani &lt;shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Pravin Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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skb_vlan_pop/push were too generic, trying to support the cases where
skb-&gt;data is at mac header, and cases where skb-&gt;data is arbitrarily
elsewhere.

Supporting an arbitrary skb-&gt;data was complex and bogus:
 - It failed to unwind skb-&gt;data to its original location post actual
   pop/push.
   (Also, semantic is not well defined for unwinding: If data was into
    the eth header, need to use same offset from start; But if data was
    at network header or beyond, need to adjust the original offset
    according to the push/pull)
 - It mangled the rcsum post actual push/pop, without taking into account
   that the eth bytes might already have been pulled out of the csum.

Most callers (ovs, bpf) already had their skb-&gt;data at mac_header upon
invoking skb_vlan_pop/push.
Last caller that failed to do so (act_vlan) has been recently fixed.

Therefore, to simplify things, no longer support arbitrary skb-&gt;data
inputs for skb_vlan_pop/push().

skb-&gt;data is expected to be exactly at mac_header; WARN otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani &lt;shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Pravin Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>skb_splice_bits(): get rid of callback</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T00:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-18T01:02:10+00:00</published>
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since pipe_lock is the outermost now, we don't need to drop/regain
socket locks around the call of splice_to_pipe() from skb_splice_bits(),
which kills the need to have a socket-specific callback; we can just
call splice_to_pipe() and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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since pipe_lock is the outermost now, we don't need to drop/regain
socket locks around the call of splice_to_pipe() from skb_splice_bits(),
which kills the need to have a socket-specific callback; we can just
call splice_to_pipe() and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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