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<title>linux.git/net/packet, branch v5.2-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2019-06-07T16:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-07T16:29:14+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Free AF_PACKET po-&gt;rollover properly, from Willem de Bruijn.

 2) Read SFP eeprom in max 16 byte increments to avoid problems with
    some SFP modules, from Russell King.

 3) Fix UDP socket lookup wrt. VRF, from Tim Beale.

 4) Handle route invalidation properly in s390 qeth driver, from Julian
    Wiedmann.

 5) Memory leak on unload in RDS, from Zhu Yanjun.

 6) sctp_process_init leak, from Neil HOrman.

 7) Fix fib_rules rule insertion semantic change that broke Android,
    from Hangbin Liu.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (33 commits)
  pktgen: do not sleep with the thread lock held.
  net: mvpp2: Use strscpy to handle stat strings
  net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_ib_flush_mr_pool
  ipv6: fix EFAULT on sendto with icmpv6 and hdrincl
  ipv6: use READ_ONCE() for inet-&gt;hdrincl as in ipv4
  Revert "fib_rules: return 0 directly if an exactly same rule exists when NLM_F_EXCL not supplied"
  net: aquantia: fix wol configuration not applied sometimes
  ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow
  Fix memory leak in sctp_process_init
  net: rds: fix memory leak when unload rds_rdma
  ipv6: fix the check before getting the cookie in rt6_get_cookie
  ipv4: not do cache for local delivery if bc_forwarding is enabled
  s390/qeth: handle error when updating TX queue count
  s390/qeth: fix VLAN attribute in bridge_hostnotify udev event
  s390/qeth: check dst entry before use
  s390/qeth: handle limited IPv4 broadcast in L3 TX path
  net: fix indirect calls helpers for ptype list hooks.
  net: ipvlan: Fix ipvlan device tso disabled while NETIF_F_IP_CSUM is set
  udp: only choose unbound UDP socket for multicast when not in a VRF
  net/tls: replace the sleeping lock around RX resync with a bit lock
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Free AF_PACKET po-&gt;rollover properly, from Willem de Bruijn.

 2) Read SFP eeprom in max 16 byte increments to avoid problems with
    some SFP modules, from Russell King.

 3) Fix UDP socket lookup wrt. VRF, from Tim Beale.

 4) Handle route invalidation properly in s390 qeth driver, from Julian
    Wiedmann.

 5) Memory leak on unload in RDS, from Zhu Yanjun.

 6) sctp_process_init leak, from Neil HOrman.

 7) Fix fib_rules rule insertion semantic change that broke Android,
    from Hangbin Liu.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (33 commits)
  pktgen: do not sleep with the thread lock held.
  net: mvpp2: Use strscpy to handle stat strings
  net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_ib_flush_mr_pool
  ipv6: fix EFAULT on sendto with icmpv6 and hdrincl
  ipv6: use READ_ONCE() for inet-&gt;hdrincl as in ipv4
  Revert "fib_rules: return 0 directly if an exactly same rule exists when NLM_F_EXCL not supplied"
  net: aquantia: fix wol configuration not applied sometimes
  ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow
  Fix memory leak in sctp_process_init
  net: rds: fix memory leak when unload rds_rdma
  ipv6: fix the check before getting the cookie in rt6_get_cookie
  ipv4: not do cache for local delivery if bc_forwarding is enabled
  s390/qeth: handle error when updating TX queue count
  s390/qeth: fix VLAN attribute in bridge_hostnotify udev event
  s390/qeth: check dst entry before use
  s390/qeth: handle limited IPv4 broadcast in L3 TX path
  net: fix indirect calls helpers for ptype list hooks.
  net: ipvlan: Fix ipvlan device tso disabled while NETIF_F_IP_CSUM is set
  udp: only choose unbound UDP socket for multicast when not in a VRF
  net/tls: replace the sleeping lock around RX resync with a bit lock
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>packet: unconditionally free po-&gt;rollover</title>
<updated>2019-06-03T01:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T16:37:23+00:00</published>
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Rollover used to use a complex RCU mechanism for assignment, which had
a race condition. The below patch fixed the bug and greatly simplified
the logic.

The feature depends on fanout, but the state is private to the socket.
Fanout_release returns f only when the last member leaves and the
fanout struct is to be freed.

Destroy rollover unconditionally, regardless of fanout state.

Fixes: 57f015f5eccf2 ("packet: fix crash in fanout_demux_rollover()")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Diagnosed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Rollover used to use a complex RCU mechanism for assignment, which had
a race condition. The below patch fixed the bug and greatly simplified
the logic.

The feature depends on fanout, but the state is private to the socket.
Fanout_release returns f only when the last member leaves and the
fanout struct is to be freed.

Destroy rollover unconditionally, regardless of fanout state.

Fixes: 57f015f5eccf2 ("packet: fix crash in fanout_demux_rollover()")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Diagnosed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567'/>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ec8f24b7faaf3d4799a7c3f4c1b87f6b02778ad1'/>
<id>ec8f24b7faaf3d4799a7c3f4c1b87f6b02778ad1</id>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=09c434b8a0047c69e48499de0107de312901e798'/>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>packet: Fix error path in packet_init</title>
<updated>2019-05-09T20:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-09T14:52:20+00:00</published>
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kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:47!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1
CPU: 0 PID: 12914 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G        W         5.1.0+ #47
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x53/0x90
Code: 48 8b 32 48 39 fe 75 35 48 8b 50 08 48 39 f2 75 40 b8 01 00 00 00 5d c3 48
89 fe 48 89 c2 48 c7 c7 18 75 fe 82 e8 cb 34 78 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 50 75 fe 82 e8 ba 34 78 ff 0f 0b 48 89 f2
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001c2fe40 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 000000000000004e RBX: ffffffffa0184000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888237a17788 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc90001c2fe40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90001c2fe10 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffc90001c2fe50 R14: ffffffffa0184000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f3d83634540(0000) GS:ffff888237a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555c350ea818 CR3: 0000000231677000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 unregister_pernet_operations+0x34/0x120
 unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30
 packet_exit+0x1c/0x369 [af_packet
 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x156/0x260
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x133/0x1b0
 ? do_syscall_64+0x12/0x1f0
 do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

When modprobe af_packet, register_pernet_subsys
fails and does a cleanup, ops-&gt;list is set to LIST_POISON1,
but the module init is considered to success, then while rmmod it,
BUG() is triggered in __list_del_entry_valid which is called from
unregister_pernet_subsys. This patch fix error handing path in
packet_init to avoid possilbe issue if some error occur.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:47!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1
CPU: 0 PID: 12914 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G        W         5.1.0+ #47
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x53/0x90
Code: 48 8b 32 48 39 fe 75 35 48 8b 50 08 48 39 f2 75 40 b8 01 00 00 00 5d c3 48
89 fe 48 89 c2 48 c7 c7 18 75 fe 82 e8 cb 34 78 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 50 75 fe 82 e8 ba 34 78 ff 0f 0b 48 89 f2
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001c2fe40 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 000000000000004e RBX: ffffffffa0184000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888237a17788 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc90001c2fe40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90001c2fe10 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffc90001c2fe50 R14: ffffffffa0184000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f3d83634540(0000) GS:ffff888237a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555c350ea818 CR3: 0000000231677000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 unregister_pernet_operations+0x34/0x120
 unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30
 packet_exit+0x1c/0x369 [af_packet
 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x156/0x260
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x133/0x1b0
 ? do_syscall_64+0x12/0x1f0
 do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

When modprobe af_packet, register_pernet_subsys
fails and does a cleanup, ops-&gt;list is set to LIST_POISON1,
but the module init is considered to success, then while rmmod it,
BUG() is triggered in __list_del_entry_valid which is called from
unregister_pernet_subsys. This patch fix error handing path in
packet_init to avoid possilbe issue if some error occur.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2019-05-03T02:14:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-03T02:14:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ff24e4980a68d83090a02fda081741a410fe8eef'/>
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Three trivial overlapping conflicts.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Three trivial overlapping conflicts.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>packet: validate msg_namelen in send directly</title>
<updated>2019-05-01T15:28:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T15:53:18+00:00</published>
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Packet sockets in datagram mode take a destination address. Verify its
length before passing to dev_hard_header.

Prior to 2.6.14-rc3, the send code ignored sll_halen. This is
established behavior. Directly compare msg_namelen to dev-&gt;addr_len.

Change v1-&gt;v2: initialize addr in all paths

Fixes: 6b8d95f1795c4 ("packet: validate address length if non-zero")
Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Packet sockets in datagram mode take a destination address. Verify its
length before passing to dev_hard_header.

Prior to 2.6.14-rc3, the send code ignored sll_halen. This is
established behavior. Directly compare msg_namelen to dev-&gt;addr_len.

Change v1-&gt;v2: initialize addr in all paths

Fixes: 6b8d95f1795c4 ("packet: validate address length if non-zero")
Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>packet: in recvmsg msg_name return at least sizeof sockaddr_ll</title>
<updated>2019-05-01T15:27:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T15:46:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b2cf86e1563e33a14a1c69b3e508d15dc12f804c'/>
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Packet send checks that msg_name is at least sizeof sockaddr_ll.
Packet recv must return at least this length, so that its output
can be passed unmodified to packet send.

This ceased to be true since adding support for lladdr longer than
sll_addr. Since, the return value uses true address length.

Always return at least sizeof sockaddr_ll, even if address length
is shorter. Zero the padding bytes.

Change v1-&gt;v2: do not overwrite zeroed padding again. use copy_len.

Fixes: 0fb375fb9b93 ("[AF_PACKET]: Allow for &gt; 8 byte hardware addresses.")
Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Packet send checks that msg_name is at least sizeof sockaddr_ll.
Packet recv must return at least this length, so that its output
can be passed unmodified to packet send.

This ceased to be true since adding support for lladdr longer than
sll_addr. Since, the return value uses true address length.

Always return at least sizeof sockaddr_ll, even if address length
is shorter. Zero the padding bytes.

Change v1-&gt;v2: do not overwrite zeroed padding again. use copy_len.

Fixes: 0fb375fb9b93 ("[AF_PACKET]: Allow for &gt; 8 byte hardware addresses.")
Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T21:03:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kubecek</name>
<email>mkubecek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-26T09:13:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ae0be8de9a53cda3505865c11826d8ff0640237c'/>
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Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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