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<title>inet: inet_defrag: prevent sk release while still in use</title>
<updated>2024-03-28T11:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
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<published>2024-03-26T10:18:41+00:00</published>
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ip_local_out() and other functions can pass skb-&gt;sk as function argument.

If the skb is a fragment and reassembly happens before such function call
returns, the sk must not be released.

This affects skb fragments reassembled via netfilter or similar
modules, e.g. openvswitch or ct_act.c, when run as part of tx pipeline.

Eric Dumazet made an initial analysis of this bug.  Quoting Eric:
  Calling ip_defrag() in output path is also implying skb_orphan(),
  which is buggy because output path relies on sk not disappearing.

  A relevant old patch about the issue was :
  8282f27449bf ("inet: frag: Always orphan skbs inside ip_defrag()")

  [..]

  net/ipv4/ip_output.c depends on skb-&gt;sk being set, and probably to an
  inet socket, not an arbitrary one.

  If we orphan the packet in ipvlan, then downstream things like FQ
  packet scheduler will not work properly.

  We need to change ip_defrag() to only use skb_orphan() when really
  needed, ie whenever frag_list is going to be used.

Eric suggested to stash sk in fragment queue and made an initial patch.
However there is a problem with this:

If skb is refragmented again right after, ip_do_fragment() will copy
head-&gt;sk to the new fragments, and sets up destructor to sock_wfree.
IOW, we have no choice but to fix up sk_wmem accouting to reflect the
fully reassembled skb, else wmem will underflow.

This change moves the orphan down into the core, to last possible moment.
As ip_defrag_offset is aliased with sk_buff-&gt;sk member, we must move the
offset into the FRAG_CB, else skb-&gt;sk gets clobbered.

This allows to delay the orphaning long enough to learn if the skb has
to be queued or if the skb is completing the reasm queue.

In the former case, things work as before, skb is orphaned.  This is
safe because skb gets queued/stolen and won't continue past reasm engine.

In the latter case, we will steal the skb-&gt;sk reference, reattach it to
the head skb, and fix up wmem accouting when inet_frag inflates truesize.

Fixes: 7026b1ddb6b8 ("netfilter: Pass socket pointer down through okfn().")
Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: xingwei lee &lt;xrivendell7@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: yue sun &lt;samsun1006219@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+e5167d7144a62715044c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326101845.30836-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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ip_local_out() and other functions can pass skb-&gt;sk as function argument.

If the skb is a fragment and reassembly happens before such function call
returns, the sk must not be released.

This affects skb fragments reassembled via netfilter or similar
modules, e.g. openvswitch or ct_act.c, when run as part of tx pipeline.

Eric Dumazet made an initial analysis of this bug.  Quoting Eric:
  Calling ip_defrag() in output path is also implying skb_orphan(),
  which is buggy because output path relies on sk not disappearing.

  A relevant old patch about the issue was :
  8282f27449bf ("inet: frag: Always orphan skbs inside ip_defrag()")

  [..]

  net/ipv4/ip_output.c depends on skb-&gt;sk being set, and probably to an
  inet socket, not an arbitrary one.

  If we orphan the packet in ipvlan, then downstream things like FQ
  packet scheduler will not work properly.

  We need to change ip_defrag() to only use skb_orphan() when really
  needed, ie whenever frag_list is going to be used.

Eric suggested to stash sk in fragment queue and made an initial patch.
However there is a problem with this:

If skb is refragmented again right after, ip_do_fragment() will copy
head-&gt;sk to the new fragments, and sets up destructor to sock_wfree.
IOW, we have no choice but to fix up sk_wmem accouting to reflect the
fully reassembled skb, else wmem will underflow.

This change moves the orphan down into the core, to last possible moment.
As ip_defrag_offset is aliased with sk_buff-&gt;sk member, we must move the
offset into the FRAG_CB, else skb-&gt;sk gets clobbered.

This allows to delay the orphaning long enough to learn if the skb has
to be queued or if the skb is completing the reasm queue.

In the former case, things work as before, skb is orphaned.  This is
safe because skb gets queued/stolen and won't continue past reasm engine.

In the latter case, we will steal the skb-&gt;sk reference, reattach it to
the head skb, and fix up wmem accouting when inet_frag inflates truesize.

Fixes: 7026b1ddb6b8 ("netfilter: Pass socket pointer down through okfn().")
Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: xingwei lee &lt;xrivendell7@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: yue sun &lt;samsun1006219@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+e5167d7144a62715044c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326101845.30836-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: adopt skb_network_offset() and similar helpers</title>
<updated>2024-03-04T08:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-29T09:39:07+00:00</published>
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This is a cleanup patch, making code a bit more concise.

1) Use skb_network_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_network_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

2) Use -skb_network_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb-&gt;data - skb_network_header(skb))

3) Use skb_transport_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_transport_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

4) Use skb_inner_transport_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_inner_transport_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt; # for sfc
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is a cleanup patch, making code a bit more concise.

1) Use skb_network_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_network_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

2) Use -skb_network_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb-&gt;data - skb_network_header(skb))

3) Use skb_transport_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_transport_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

4) Use skb_inner_transport_offset(skb) in place of
       (skb_inner_transport_header(skb) - skb-&gt;data)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt; # for sfc
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: annotate data-races around cnf.hop_limit</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T08:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T13:54:29+00:00</published>
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idev-&gt;cnf.hop_limit and net-&gt;ipv6.devconf_all-&gt;hop_limit
might be read locklessly, add appropriate READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt; # for netfilter parts
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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idev-&gt;cnf.hop_limit and net-&gt;ipv6.devconf_all-&gt;hop_limit
might be read locklessly, add appropriate READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt; # for netfilter parts
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: xtables: allow xtables-nft only builds</title>
<updated>2024-01-29T14:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-24T09:21:11+00:00</published>
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Add hidden IP(6)_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY symbol.

When any of the "old" builtin tables are enabled the "old" iptables
interface will be supported.

To disable the old set/getsockopt interface the existing options
for the builtin tables need to be turned off:

CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_SECURITY is not set

Same for CONFIG_IP6_NF_ variants.

This allows to build a kernel that only supports ip(6)tables-nft
(iptables-over-nftables api).

In the future the _LEGACY symbol will become visible and the select
statements will be turned into 'depends on', but for now be on safe side
so "make oldconfig" won't break things.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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Add hidden IP(6)_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY symbol.

When any of the "old" builtin tables are enabled the "old" iptables
interface will be supported.

To disable the old set/getsockopt interface the existing options
for the builtin tables need to be turned off:

CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_SECURITY is not set

Same for CONFIG_IP6_NF_ variants.

This allows to build a kernel that only supports ip(6)tables-nft
(iptables-over-nftables api).

In the future the _LEGACY symbol will become visible and the select
statements will be turned into 'depends on', but for now be on safe side
so "make oldconfig" won't break things.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info</title>
<updated>2024-01-17T11:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tikhomirov</name>
<email>ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T15:06:40+00:00</published>
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An skb can be added to a neigh-&gt;arp_queue while waiting for an arp
reply. Where original skb's skb-&gt;dev can be different to neigh's
neigh-&gt;dev. For instance in case of bridging dnated skb from one veth to
another, the skb would be added to a neigh-&gt;arp_queue of the bridge.

As skb-&gt;dev can be reset back to nf_bridge-&gt;physindev and used, and as
there is no explicit mechanism that prevents this physindev from been
freed under us (for instance neigh_flush_dev doesn't cleanup skbs from
different device's neigh queue) we can crash on e.g. this stack:

arp_process
  neigh_update
    skb = __skb_dequeue(&amp;neigh-&gt;arp_queue)
      neigh_resolve_output(..., skb)
        ...
          br_nf_dev_xmit
            br_nf_pre_routing_finish_bridge_slow
              skb-&gt;dev = nf_bridge-&gt;physindev
              br_handle_frame_finish

Let's use plain ifindex instead of net_device link. To peek into the
original net_device we will use dev_get_by_index_rcu(). Thus either we
get device and are safe to use it or we don't get it and drop skb.

Fixes: c4e70a87d975 ("netfilter: bridge: rename br_netfilter.c to br_netfilter_hooks.c")
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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An skb can be added to a neigh-&gt;arp_queue while waiting for an arp
reply. Where original skb's skb-&gt;dev can be different to neigh's
neigh-&gt;dev. For instance in case of bridging dnated skb from one veth to
another, the skb would be added to a neigh-&gt;arp_queue of the bridge.

As skb-&gt;dev can be reset back to nf_bridge-&gt;physindev and used, and as
there is no explicit mechanism that prevents this physindev from been
freed under us (for instance neigh_flush_dev doesn't cleanup skbs from
different device's neigh queue) we can crash on e.g. this stack:

arp_process
  neigh_update
    skb = __skb_dequeue(&amp;neigh-&gt;arp_queue)
      neigh_resolve_output(..., skb)
        ...
          br_nf_dev_xmit
            br_nf_pre_routing_finish_bridge_slow
              skb-&gt;dev = nf_bridge-&gt;physindev
              br_handle_frame_finish

Let's use plain ifindex instead of net_device link. To peek into the
original net_device we will use dev_get_by_index_rcu(). Thus either we
get device and are safe to use it or we don't get it and drop skb.

Fixes: c4e70a87d975 ("netfilter: bridge: rename br_netfilter.c to br_netfilter_hooks.c")
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: propagate net to nf_bridge_get_physindev</title>
<updated>2024-01-17T11:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tikhomirov</name>
<email>ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T15:06:39+00:00</published>
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This is a preparation patch for replacing physindev with physinif on
nf_bridge_info structure. We will use dev_get_by_index_rcu to resolve
device, when needed, and it requires net to be available.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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This is a preparation patch for replacing physindev with physinif on
nf_bridge_info structure. We will use dev_get_by_index_rcu to resolve
device, when needed, and it requires net to be available.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: add missing module descriptions</title>
<updated>2023-11-08T12:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-04T10:14:05+00:00</published>
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W=1 builds warn on missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION, add them.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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W=1 builds warn on missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION, add them.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: xt_mangle: only check verdict part of return value</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T08:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T07:59:34+00:00</published>
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These checks assume that the caller only returns NF_DROP without
any errno embedded in the upper bits.

This is fine right now, but followup patches will start to propagate
such errors to allow kfree_skb_drop_reason() in the called functions,
those would then indicate 'errno &lt;&lt; 8 | NF_STOLEN'.

To not break things we have to mask those parts out.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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These checks assume that the caller only returns NF_DROP without
any errno embedded in the upper bits.

This is fine right now, but followup patches will start to propagate
such errors to allow kfree_skb_drop_reason() in the called functions,
those would then indicate 'errno &lt;&lt; 8 | NF_STOLEN'.

To not break things we have to mask those parts out.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz</title>
<updated>2023-08-15T22:26:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>joel.granados@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-09T10:50:02+00:00</published>
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Move from register_net_sysctl to register_net_sysctl_sz for all the
netfilter related files. Do this while making sure to mirror the NULL
assignments with a table_size of zero for the unprivileged users.

We need to move to the new function in preparation for when we change
SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE() in the register_net_sysctl macro. Failing to do
so would erroneously allow ARRAY_SIZE() to be called on a pointer. We
hold off the SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE change until we have migrated all
the relevant net sysctl registering functions to register_net_sysctl_sz
in subsequent commits.

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Move from register_net_sysctl to register_net_sysctl_sz for all the
netfilter related files. Do this while making sure to mirror the NULL
assignments with a table_size of zero for the unprivileged users.

We need to move to the new function in preparation for when we change
SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE() in the register_net_sysctl macro. Failing to do
so would erroneously allow ARRAY_SIZE() to be called on a pointer. We
hold off the SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE change until we have migrated all
the relevant net sysctl registering functions to register_net_sysctl_sz
in subsequent commits.

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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