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<title>netfilter: Pass socket pointer down through okfn().</title>
<updated>2015-04-07T19:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2015-04-06T02:19:04+00:00</published>
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On the output paths in particular, we have to sometimes deal with two
socket contexts.  First, and usually skb-&gt;sk, is the local socket that
generated the frame.

And second, is potentially the socket used to control a tunneling
socket, such as one the encapsulates using UDP.

We do not want to disassociate skb-&gt;sk when encapsulating in order
to fix this, because that would break socket memory accounting.

The most extreme case where this can cause huge problems is an
AF_PACKET socket transmitting over a vxlan device.  We hit code
paths doing checks that assume they are dealing with an ipv4
socket, but are actually operating upon the AF_PACKET one.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On the output paths in particular, we have to sometimes deal with two
socket contexts.  First, and usually skb-&gt;sk, is the local socket that
generated the frame.

And second, is potentially the socket used to control a tunneling
socket, such as one the encapsulates using UDP.

We do not want to disassociate skb-&gt;sk when encapsulating in order
to fix this, because that would break socket memory accounting.

The most extreme case where this can cause huge problems is an
AF_PACKET socket transmitting over a vxlan device.  We hit code
paths doing checks that assume they are dealing with an ipv4
socket, but are actually operating upon the AF_PACKET one.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Remove protocol from struct dst_ops</title>
<updated>2015-03-09T20:06:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2015-03-09T18:14:37+00:00</published>
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After my change to neigh_hh_init to obtain the protocol from the
neigh_table there are no more users of protocol in struct dst_ops.
Remove the protocol field from dst_ops and all of it's initializers.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After my change to neigh_hh_init to obtain the protocol from the
neigh_table there are no more users of protocol in struct dst_ops.
Remove the protocol field from dst_ops and all of it's initializers.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>DECnet: Only use neigh_ops for adding the link layer header</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T19:54:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-04T16:16:43+00:00</published>
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Other users users of the neighbour table use neigh-&gt;output as the method
to decided when and which link-layer header to place on a packet.
DECnet has been using neigh-&gt;output to decide which DECnet headers to
place on a packet depending which neighbour the packet is destined for.

The DECnet usage isn't totally wrong but it can run into problems if the
neighbour output function is run for a second time as the teql driver
and the bridge netfilter code can do.

Therefore to avoid pathologic problems later down the line and make the
neighbour code easier to understand by refactoring the decnet output
code to only use a neighbour method to add a link layer header to a
packet.

This is done by moving the neigbhour operations lookup from
dn_to_neigh_output to dn_neigh_output_packet.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Other users users of the neighbour table use neigh-&gt;output as the method
to decided when and which link-layer header to place on a packet.
DECnet has been using neigh-&gt;output to decide which DECnet headers to
place on a packet depending which neighbour the packet is destined for.

The DECnet usage isn't totally wrong but it can run into problems if the
neighbour output function is run for a second time as the teql driver
and the bridge netfilter code can do.

Therefore to avoid pathologic problems later down the line and make the
neighbour code easier to understand by refactoring the decnet output
code to only use a neighbour method to add a link layer header to a
packet.

This is done by moving the neigbhour operations lookup from
dn_to_neigh_output to dn_neigh_output_packet.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>decnet: Fix obvious o/0 typo</title>
<updated>2015-02-23T20:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-23T11:02:51+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: Fix bugs in nlmsg_end() conversions.</title>
<updated>2015-01-19T04:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-19T04:36:08+00:00</published>
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Commit 053c095a82cf ("netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end()
void") didn't catch all of the cases where callers were breaking out
on the return value being equal to zero, which they no longer should
when zero means success.

Fix all such cases.

Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reported-by: Scott Feldman &lt;sfeldma@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit 053c095a82cf ("netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end()
void") didn't catch all of the cases where callers were breaking out
on the return value being equal to zero, which they no longer should
when zero means success.

Fix all such cases.

Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reported-by: Scott Feldman &lt;sfeldma@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void</title>
<updated>2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T21:09:00+00:00</published>
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Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) &lt; 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb-&gt;len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb-&gt;len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for &lt;0 or &lt;=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) &lt; 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb-&gt;len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb-&gt;len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for &lt;0 or &lt;=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: add a sock pointer to dst-&gt;output() path.</title>
<updated>2014-04-15T17:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-15T17:47:15+00:00</published>
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In the dst-&gt;output() path for ipv4, the code assumes the skb it has to
transmit is attached to an inet socket, specifically via
ip_mc_output() : The sk_mc_loop() test triggers a WARN_ON() when the
provider of the packet is an AF_PACKET socket.

The dst-&gt;output() method gets an additional 'struct sock *sk'
parameter. This needs a cascade of changes so that this parameter can
be propagated from vxlan to final consumer.

Fixes: 8f646c922d55 ("vxlan: keep original skb ownership")
Reported-by: lucien xin &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In the dst-&gt;output() path for ipv4, the code assumes the skb it has to
transmit is attached to an inet socket, specifically via
ip_mc_output() : The sk_mc_loop() test triggers a WARN_ON() when the
provider of the packet is an AF_PACKET socket.

The dst-&gt;output() method gets an additional 'struct sock *sk'
parameter. This needs a cascade of changes so that this parameter can
be propagated from vxlan to final consumer.

Fixes: 8f646c922d55 ("vxlan: keep original skb ownership")
Reported-by: lucien xin &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>decnet: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ying Xue</name>
<email>ying.xue@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T02:23:40+00:00</published>
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The following call chain we can identify that dn_cache_getroute() is
protected under rtnl_lock. So if we use __dev_get_by_index() instead
of dev_get_by_index() to find interface handlers in it, this would help
us avoid to change interface reference counter.

rtnetlink_rcv()
  rtnl_lock()
    netlink_rcv_skb()
      dn_cache_getroute()
  rtnl_unlock()

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The following call chain we can identify that dn_cache_getroute() is
protected under rtnl_lock. So if we use __dev_get_by_index() instead
of dev_get_by_index() to find interface handlers in it, this would help
us avoid to change interface reference counter.

rtnetlink_rcv()
  rtnl_lock()
    netlink_rcv_skb()
      dn_cache_getroute()
  rtnl_unlock()

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Remove FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP</title>
<updated>2013-12-06T06:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Klassert</name>
<email>steffen.klassert@secunet.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-28T06:04:14+00:00</published>
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FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP was used to notify xfrm about the posibility
to sleep until the needed states are resolved. This code is gone,
so FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP was used to notify xfrm about the posibility
to sleep until the needed states are resolved. This code is gone,
so FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>decnet: Move rtm_dn_policy to dn_route to make it available if !CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER</title>
<updated>2013-03-22T16:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-22T16:50:29+00:00</published>
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Otherwise build fails with CONFIG_DECNET &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Otherwise build fails with CONFIG_DECNET &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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