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<title>linux.git/net/ipv4/af_inet.c, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: ping: do not abuse udp_poll()</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T02:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T16:29:25+00:00</published>
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Alexander reported various KASAN messages triggered in recent kernels

The problem is that ping sockets should not use udp_poll() in the first
place, and recent changes in UDP stack finally exposed this old bug.

Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Fixes: 6d0bfe226116 ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Solar Designer &lt;solar@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Acked-By: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Tested-By: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Alexander reported various KASAN messages triggered in recent kernels

The problem is that ping sockets should not use udp_poll() in the first
place, and recent changes in UDP stack finally exposed this old bug.

Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Fixes: 6d0bfe226116 ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Solar Designer &lt;solar@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Acked-By: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Tested-By: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Millar:
 "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that
  happened this development cycle:

   1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri)

   2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they
      lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support
      (me).

   3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me)

   4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei
      Starovoitov)

   5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian
      Westphal)

   6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana)

   7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger)

   8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky)

   9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto)

  10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work
      well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any
      hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh)

  11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay
      Aleksandrov)

  12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala)

  13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
      and several others)

  14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits)
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
  net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP
  net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP
  net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support
  net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation
  net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling
  net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling
  net: thunderx: Support for page recycling
  ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
  net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions
  qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation.
  qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing.
  stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform
  net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver
  tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp
  bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64
  bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Millar:
 "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that
  happened this development cycle:

   1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri)

   2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they
      lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support
      (me).

   3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me)

   4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei
      Starovoitov)

   5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian
      Westphal)

   6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana)

   7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger)

   8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky)

   9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto)

  10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work
      well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any
      hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh)

  11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay
      Aleksandrov)

  12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala)

  13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
      and several others)

  14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits)
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
  net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP
  net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP
  net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support
  net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation
  net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling
  net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling
  net: thunderx: Support for page recycling
  ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
  net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions
  qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation.
  qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing.
  stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform
  net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver
  tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp
  bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64
  bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: Don't pass IP fragments to upper layer GRO handlers.</title>
<updated>2017-04-28T20:00:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Klassert</name>
<email>steffen.klassert@secunet.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-28T08:54:32+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Upper layer GRO handlers can not handle IP fragments, so
exit GRO processing in this case.

This fixes ESP GRO because the packet must be reassembled
before we can decapsulate, otherwise we get authentication
failures.

It also aligns IPv4 to IPv6 where packets with fragmentation
headers are not passed to upper layer GRO handlers.

Fixes: 7785bba299a8 ("esp: Add a software GRO codepath")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Upper layer GRO handlers can not handle IP fragments, so
exit GRO processing in this case.

This fixes ESP GRO because the packet must be reassembled
before we can decapsulate, otherwise we get authentication
failures.

It also aligns IPv4 to IPv6 where packets with fragmentation
headers are not passed to upper layer GRO handlers.

Fixes: 7785bba299a8 ("esp: Add a software GRO codepath")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Add sysctl to toggle early demux for tcp and udp</title>
<updated>2017-03-24T20:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>subashab@codeaurora.org</name>
<email>subashab@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T19:34:16+00:00</published>
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Certain system process significant unconnected UDP workload.
It would be preferrable to disable UDP early demux for those systems
and enable it for TCP only.

By disabling UDP demux, we see these slight gains on an ARM64 system-
782 -&gt; 788Mbps unconnected single stream UDPv4
633 -&gt; 654Mbps unconnected UDPv4 different sources

The performance impact can change based on CPU architecure and cache
sizes. There will not much difference seen if entire UDP hash table
is in cache.

Both sysctls are enabled by default to preserve existing behavior.

v1-&gt;v2: Change function pointer instead of adding conditional as
suggested by Stephen.

v2-&gt;v3: Read once in callers to avoid issues due to compiler
optimizations. Also update commit message with the tests.

v3-&gt;v4: Store and use read once result instead of querying pointer
again incorrectly.

v4-&gt;v5: Refactor to avoid errors due to compilation with IPV6={m,n}

Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Certain system process significant unconnected UDP workload.
It would be preferrable to disable UDP early demux for those systems
and enable it for TCP only.

By disabling UDP demux, we see these slight gains on an ARM64 system-
782 -&gt; 788Mbps unconnected single stream UDPv4
633 -&gt; 654Mbps unconnected UDPv4 different sources

The performance impact can change based on CPU architecure and cache
sizes. There will not much difference seen if entire UDP hash table
is in cache.

Both sysctls are enabled by default to preserve existing behavior.

v1-&gt;v2: Change function pointer instead of adding conditional as
suggested by Stephen.

v2-&gt;v3: Read once in callers to avoid issues due to compiler
optimizations. Also update commit message with the tests.

v3-&gt;v4: Store and use read once result instead of querying pointer
again incorrectly.

v4-&gt;v5: Refactor to avoid errors due to compilation with IPV6={m,n}

Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets</title>
<updated>2017-03-10T02:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-09T08:09:05+00:00</published>
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Lockdep issues a circular dependency warning when AFS issues an operation
through AF_RXRPC from a context in which the VFS/VM holds the mmap_sem.

The theory lockdep comes up with is as follows:

 (1) If the pagefault handler decides it needs to read pages from AFS, it
     calls AFS with mmap_sem held and AFS begins an AF_RXRPC call, but
     creating a call requires the socket lock:

	mmap_sem must be taken before sk_lock-AF_RXRPC

 (2) afs_open_socket() opens an AF_RXRPC socket and binds it.  rxrpc_bind()
     binds the underlying UDP socket whilst holding its socket lock.
     inet_bind() takes its own socket lock:

	sk_lock-AF_RXRPC must be taken before sk_lock-AF_INET

 (3) Reading from a TCP socket into a userspace buffer might cause a fault
     and thus cause the kernel to take the mmap_sem, but the TCP socket is
     locked whilst doing this:

	sk_lock-AF_INET must be taken before mmap_sem

However, lockdep's theory is wrong in this instance because it deals only
with lock classes and not individual locks.  The AF_INET lock in (2) isn't
really equivalent to the AF_INET lock in (3) as the former deals with a
socket entirely internal to the kernel that never sees userspace.  This is
a limitation in the design of lockdep.

Fix the general case by:

 (1) Double up all the locking keys used in sockets so that one set are
     used if the socket is created by userspace and the other set is used
     if the socket is created by the kernel.

 (2) Store the kern parameter passed to sk_alloc() in a variable in the
     sock struct (sk_kern_sock).  This informs sock_lock_init(),
     sock_init_data() and sk_clone_lock() as to the lock keys to be used.

     Note that the child created by sk_clone_lock() inherits the parent's
     kern setting.

 (3) Add a 'kern' parameter to -&gt;accept() that is analogous to the one
     passed in to -&gt;create() that distinguishes whether kernel_accept() or
     sys_accept4() was the caller and can be passed to sk_alloc().

     Note that a lot of accept functions merely dequeue an already
     allocated socket.  I haven't touched these as the new socket already
     exists before we get the parameter.

     Note also that there are a couple of places where I've made the accepted
     socket unconditionally kernel-based:

	irda_accept()
	rds_rcp_accept_one()
	tcp_accept_from_sock()

     because they follow a sock_create_kern() and accept off of that.

Whilst creating this, I noticed that lustre and ocfs don't create sockets
through sock_create_kern() and thus they aren't marked as for-kernel,
though they appear to be internal.  I wonder if these should do that so
that they use the new set of lock keys.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lockdep issues a circular dependency warning when AFS issues an operation
through AF_RXRPC from a context in which the VFS/VM holds the mmap_sem.

The theory lockdep comes up with is as follows:

 (1) If the pagefault handler decides it needs to read pages from AFS, it
     calls AFS with mmap_sem held and AFS begins an AF_RXRPC call, but
     creating a call requires the socket lock:

	mmap_sem must be taken before sk_lock-AF_RXRPC

 (2) afs_open_socket() opens an AF_RXRPC socket and binds it.  rxrpc_bind()
     binds the underlying UDP socket whilst holding its socket lock.
     inet_bind() takes its own socket lock:

	sk_lock-AF_RXRPC must be taken before sk_lock-AF_INET

 (3) Reading from a TCP socket into a userspace buffer might cause a fault
     and thus cause the kernel to take the mmap_sem, but the TCP socket is
     locked whilst doing this:

	sk_lock-AF_INET must be taken before mmap_sem

However, lockdep's theory is wrong in this instance because it deals only
with lock classes and not individual locks.  The AF_INET lock in (2) isn't
really equivalent to the AF_INET lock in (3) as the former deals with a
socket entirely internal to the kernel that never sees userspace.  This is
a limitation in the design of lockdep.

Fix the general case by:

 (1) Double up all the locking keys used in sockets so that one set are
     used if the socket is created by userspace and the other set is used
     if the socket is created by the kernel.

 (2) Store the kern parameter passed to sk_alloc() in a variable in the
     sock struct (sk_kern_sock).  This informs sock_lock_init(),
     sock_init_data() and sk_clone_lock() as to the lock keys to be used.

     Note that the child created by sk_clone_lock() inherits the parent's
     kern setting.

 (3) Add a 'kern' parameter to -&gt;accept() that is analogous to the one
     passed in to -&gt;create() that distinguishes whether kernel_accept() or
     sys_accept4() was the caller and can be passed to sk_alloc().

     Note that a lot of accept functions merely dequeue an already
     allocated socket.  I haven't touched these as the new socket already
     exists before we get the parameter.

     Note also that there are a couple of places where I've made the accepted
     socket unconditionally kernel-based:

	irda_accept()
	rds_rcp_accept_one()
	tcp_accept_from_sock()

     because they follow a sock_create_kern() and accept off of that.

Whilst creating this, I noticed that lustre and ocfs don't create sockets
through sock_create_kern() and thus they aren't marked as for-kernel,
though they appear to be internal.  I wonder if these should do that so
that they use the new set of lock keys.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/tunnel: set inner protocol in network gro hooks</title>
<updated>2017-03-09T21:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-07T17:33:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=294acf1c01bace5cea5d30b510504238bf5f7c25'/>
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<content type='text'>
The gso code of several tunnels type (gre and udp tunnels)
takes for granted that the skb-&gt;inner_protocol is properly
initialized and drops the packet elsewhere.

On the forwarding path no one is initializing such field,
so gro encapsulated packets are dropped on forward.

Since commit 38720352412a ("gre: Use inner_proto to obtain
inner header protocol"), this can be reproduced when the
encapsulated packets use gre as the tunneling protocol.

The issue happens also with vxlan and geneve tunnels since
commit 8bce6d7d0d1e ("udp: Generalize skb_udp_segment"), if the
forwarding host's ingress nic has h/w offload for such tunnel
and a vxlan/geneve device is configured on top of it, regardless
of the configured peer address and vni.

To address the issue, this change initialize the inner_protocol
field for encapsulated packets in both ipv4 and ipv6 gro complete
callbacks.

Fixes: 38720352412a ("gre: Use inner_proto to obtain inner header protocol")
Fixes: 8bce6d7d0d1e ("udp: Generalize skb_udp_segment")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The gso code of several tunnels type (gre and udp tunnels)
takes for granted that the skb-&gt;inner_protocol is properly
initialized and drops the packet elsewhere.

On the forwarding path no one is initializing such field,
so gro encapsulated packets are dropped on forward.

Since commit 38720352412a ("gre: Use inner_proto to obtain
inner header protocol"), this can be reproduced when the
encapsulated packets use gre as the tunneling protocol.

The issue happens also with vxlan and geneve tunnels since
commit 8bce6d7d0d1e ("udp: Generalize skb_udp_segment"), if the
forwarding host's ingress nic has h/w offload for such tunnel
and a vxlan/geneve device is configured on top of it, regardless
of the configured peer address and vni.

To address the issue, this change initialize the inner_protocol
field for encapsulated packets in both ipv4 and ipv6 gro complete
callbacks.

Fixes: 38720352412a ("gre: Use inner_proto to obtain inner header protocol")
Fixes: 8bce6d7d0d1e ("udp: Generalize skb_udp_segment")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Add a skb_gro_flush_final helper.</title>
<updated>2017-02-15T08:39:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Klassert</name>
<email>steffen.klassert@secunet.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-15T08:39:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5f114163f2f5eb2edbb49c4d3e0b405c7a8a7e2a'/>
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Add a skb_gro_flush_final helper to prepare for  consuming
skbs in call_gro_receive. We will extend this helper to not
touch the skb if the skb is consumed by a gro callback with
a followup patch. We need this to handle the upcomming IPsec
ESP callbacks as they reinject the skb to the napi_gro_receive
asynchronous. The handler is used in all gro_receive functions
that can call the ESP gro handlers.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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Add a skb_gro_flush_final helper to prepare for  consuming
skbs in call_gro_receive. We will extend this helper to not
touch the skb if the skb is consumed by a gro callback with
a followup patch. We need this to handle the upcomming IPsec
ESP callbacks as they reinject the skb to the napi_gro_receive
asynchronous. The handler is used in all gro_receive functions
that can call the ESP gro handlers.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/tcp-fastopen: make connect()'s return case more consistent with non-TFO</title>
<updated>2017-01-25T19:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willy Tarreau</name>
<email>w@1wt.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-25T13:42:46+00:00</published>
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Without TFO, any subsequent connect() call after a successful one returns
-1 EISCONN. The last API update ensured that __inet_stream_connect() can
return -1 EINPROGRESS in response to sendmsg() when TFO is in use to
indicate that the connection is now in progress. Unfortunately since this
function is used both for connect() and sendmsg(), it has the undesired
side effect of making connect() now return -1 EINPROGRESS as well after
a successful call, while at the same time poll() returns POLLOUT. This
can confuse some applications which happen to call connect() and to
check for -1 EISCONN to ensure the connection is usable, and for which
EINPROGRESS indicates a need to poll, causing a loop.

This problem was encountered in haproxy where a call to connect() is
precisely used in certain cases to confirm a connection's readiness.
While arguably haproxy's behaviour should be improved here, it seems
important to aim at a more robust behaviour when the goal of the new
API is to make it easier to implement TFO in existing applications.

This patch simply ensures that we preserve the same semantics as in
the non-TFO case on the connect() syscall when using TFO, while still
returning -1 EINPROGRESS on sendmsg(). For this we simply tell
__inet_stream_connect() whether we're doing a regular connect() or in
fact connecting for a sendmsg() call.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Without TFO, any subsequent connect() call after a successful one returns
-1 EISCONN. The last API update ensured that __inet_stream_connect() can
return -1 EINPROGRESS in response to sendmsg() when TFO is in use to
indicate that the connection is now in progress. Unfortunately since this
function is used both for connect() and sendmsg(), it has the undesired
side effect of making connect() now return -1 EINPROGRESS as well after
a successful call, while at the same time poll() returns POLLOUT. This
can confuse some applications which happen to call connect() and to
check for -1 EISCONN to ensure the connection is usable, and for which
EINPROGRESS indicates a need to poll, causing a loop.

This problem was encountered in haproxy where a call to connect() is
precisely used in certain cases to confirm a connection's readiness.
While arguably haproxy's behaviour should be improved here, it seems
important to aim at a more robust behaviour when the goal of the new
API is to make it easier to implement TFO in existing applications.

This patch simply ensures that we preserve the same semantics as in
the non-TFO case on the connect() syscall when using TFO, while still
returning -1 EINPROGRESS on sendmsg(). For this we simply tell
__inet_stream_connect() whether we're doing a regular connect() or in
fact connecting for a sendmsg() call.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net/tcp-fastopen: Add new API support</title>
<updated>2017-01-25T19:04:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Wang</name>
<email>weiwan@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-23T18:59:22+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new socket option, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, as an
alternative way to perform Fast Open on the active side (client). Prior
to this patch, a client needs to replace the connect() call with
sendto(MSG_FASTOPEN). This can be cumbersome for applications who want
to use Fast Open: these socket operations are often done in lower layer
libraries used by many other applications. Changing these libraries
and/or the socket call sequences are not trivial. A more convenient
approach is to perform Fast Open by simply enabling a socket option when
the socket is created w/o changing other socket calls sequence:
  s = socket()
    create a new socket
  setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT …);
    newly introduced sockopt
    If set, new functionality described below will be used.
    Return ENOTSUPP if TFO is not supported or not enabled in the
    kernel.

  connect()
    With cookie present, return 0 immediately.
    With no cookie, initiate 3WHS with TFO cookie-request option and
    return -1 with errno = EINPROGRESS.

  write()/sendmsg()
    With cookie present, send out SYN with data and return the number of
    bytes buffered.
    With no cookie, and 3WHS not yet completed, return -1 with errno =
    EINPROGRESS.
    No MSG_FASTOPEN flag is needed.

  read()
    Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connect() is called but
    write() is not called yet.
    Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connection is
    established but no msg is received yet.
    Return number of bytes read if socket is established and there is
    msg received.

The new API simplifies life for applications that always perform a write()
immediately after a successful connect(). Such applications can now take
advantage of Fast Open by merely making one new setsockopt() call at the time
of creating the socket. Nothing else about the application's socket call
sequence needs to change.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds a new socket option, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, as an
alternative way to perform Fast Open on the active side (client). Prior
to this patch, a client needs to replace the connect() call with
sendto(MSG_FASTOPEN). This can be cumbersome for applications who want
to use Fast Open: these socket operations are often done in lower layer
libraries used by many other applications. Changing these libraries
and/or the socket call sequences are not trivial. A more convenient
approach is to perform Fast Open by simply enabling a socket option when
the socket is created w/o changing other socket calls sequence:
  s = socket()
    create a new socket
  setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT …);
    newly introduced sockopt
    If set, new functionality described below will be used.
    Return ENOTSUPP if TFO is not supported or not enabled in the
    kernel.

  connect()
    With cookie present, return 0 immediately.
    With no cookie, initiate 3WHS with TFO cookie-request option and
    return -1 with errno = EINPROGRESS.

  write()/sendmsg()
    With cookie present, send out SYN with data and return the number of
    bytes buffered.
    With no cookie, and 3WHS not yet completed, return -1 with errno =
    EINPROGRESS.
    No MSG_FASTOPEN flag is needed.

  read()
    Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connect() is called but
    write() is not called yet.
    Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connection is
    established but no msg is received yet.
    Return number of bytes read if socket is established and there is
    msg received.

The new API simplifies life for applications that always perform a write()
immediately after a successful connect(). Such applications can now take
advantage of Fast Open by merely making one new setsockopt() call at the time
of creating the socket. Nothing else about the application's socket call
sequence needs to change.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.</title>
<updated>2017-01-24T17:10:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krister Johansen</name>
<email>kjlx@templeofstupid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-21T01:49:11+00:00</published>
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Add net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, which is a per namespace sysctl
that denotes the first unprivileged inet port in the namespace.  To
disable all privileged ports set this to zero.  It also checks for
overlap with the local port range.  The privileged and local range may
not overlap.

The use case for this change is to allow containerized processes to bind
to priviliged ports, but prevent them from ever being allowed to modify
their container's network configuration.  The latter is accomplished by
ensuring that the network namespace is not a child of the user
namespace.  This modification was needed to allow the container manager
to disable a namespace's priviliged port restrictions without exposing
control of the network namespace to processes in the user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen &lt;kjlx@templeofstupid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, which is a per namespace sysctl
that denotes the first unprivileged inet port in the namespace.  To
disable all privileged ports set this to zero.  It also checks for
overlap with the local port range.  The privileged and local range may
not overlap.

The use case for this change is to allow containerized processes to bind
to priviliged ports, but prevent them from ever being allowed to modify
their container's network configuration.  The latter is accomplished by
ensuring that the network namespace is not a child of the user
namespace.  This modification was needed to allow the container manager
to disable a namespace's priviliged port restrictions without exposing
control of the network namespace to processes in the user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen &lt;kjlx@templeofstupid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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