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<title>rxrpc: Fix handling of last subpacket of jumbo packet</title>
<updated>2019-10-31T19:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-31T12:13:46+00:00</published>
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When rxrpc_recvmsg_data() sets the return value to 1 because it's drained
all the data for the last packet, it checks the last-packet flag on the
whole packet - but this is wrong, since the last-packet flag is only set on
the final subpacket of the last jumbo packet.  This means that a call that
receives its last packet in a jumbo packet won't complete properly.

Fix this by having rxrpc_locate_data() determine the last-packet state of
the subpacket it's looking at and passing that back to the caller rather
than having the caller look in the packet header.  The caller then needs to
cache this in the rxrpc_call struct as rxrpc_locate_data() isn't then
called again for this packet.

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Fixes: e2de6c404898 ("rxrpc: Use info in skbuff instead of reparsing a jumbo packet")
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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When rxrpc_recvmsg_data() sets the return value to 1 because it's drained
all the data for the last packet, it checks the last-packet flag on the
whole packet - but this is wrong, since the last-packet flag is only set on
the final subpacket of the last jumbo packet.  This means that a call that
receives its last packet in a jumbo packet won't complete properly.

Fix this by having rxrpc_locate_data() determine the last-packet state of
the subpacket it's looking at and passing that back to the caller rather
than having the caller look in the packet header.  The caller then needs to
cache this in the rxrpc_call struct as rxrpc_locate_data() isn't then
called again for this packet.

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Fixes: e2de6c404898 ("rxrpc: Use info in skbuff instead of reparsing a jumbo packet")
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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<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Fix call crypto state cleanup</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T10:05:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-07T09:58:29+00:00</published>
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Fix the cleanup of the crypto state on a call after the call has been
disconnected.  As the call has been disconnected, its connection ref has
been discarded and so we can't go through that to get to the security ops
table.

Fix this by caching the security ops pointer in the rxrpc_call struct and
using that when freeing the call security state.  Also use this in other
places we're dealing with call-specific security.

The symptoms look like:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rxrpc_release_call+0xb2d/0xb60
    net/rxrpc/call_object.c:481
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff888062ffeb50 by task syz-executor.5/4764

Fixes: 1db88c534371 ("rxrpc: Fix -Wframe-larger-than= warnings from on-stack crypto")
Reported-by: syzbot+eed305768ece6682bb7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Fix the cleanup of the crypto state on a call after the call has been
disconnected.  As the call has been disconnected, its connection ref has
been discarded and so we can't go through that to get to the security ops
table.

Fix this by caching the security ops pointer in the rxrpc_call struct and
using that when freeing the call security state.  Also use this in other
places we're dealing with call-specific security.

The symptoms look like:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rxrpc_release_call+0xb2d/0xb60
    net/rxrpc/call_object.c:481
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff888062ffeb50 by task syz-executor.5/4764

Fixes: 1db88c534371 ("rxrpc: Fix -Wframe-larger-than= warnings from on-stack crypto")
Reported-by: syzbot+eed305768ece6682bb7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Use the tx-phase skb flag to simplify tracing</title>
<updated>2019-08-27T09:04:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-19T08:25:38+00:00</published>
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Use the previously-added transmit-phase skbuff private flag to simplify the
socket buffer tracing a bit.  Which phase the skbuff comes from can now be
divined from the skb rather than having to be guessed from the call state.

We can also reduce the number of rxrpc_skb_trace values by eliminating the
difference between Tx and Rx in the symbols.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Use the previously-added transmit-phase skbuff private flag to simplify the
socket buffer tracing a bit.  Which phase the skbuff comes from can now be
divined from the skb rather than having to be guessed from the call state.

We can also reduce the number of rxrpc_skb_trace values by eliminating the
difference between Tx and Rx in the symbols.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Use info in skbuff instead of reparsing a jumbo packet</title>
<updated>2019-08-27T08:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-27T08:51:30+00:00</published>
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Use the information now cached in the skbuff private data to avoid the need
to reparse a jumbo packet.  We can find all the subpackets by dead
reckoning, so it's only necessary to note how many there are, whether the
last one is flagged as LAST_PACKET and whether any have the REQUEST_ACK
flag set.

This is necessary as once recvmsg() can see the packet, it can start
modifying it, such as doing in-place decryption.

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;</content>
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Use the information now cached in the skbuff private data to avoid the need
to reparse a jumbo packet.  We can find all the subpackets by dead
reckoning, so it's only necessary to note how many there are, whether the
last one is flagged as LAST_PACKET and whether any have the REQUEST_ACK
flag set.

This is necessary as once recvmsg() can see the packet, it can start
modifying it, such as doing in-place decryption.

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Don't bother generating maxSkew in the ACK packet</title>
<updated>2019-08-09T14:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-09T14:20:41+00:00</published>
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Don't bother generating maxSkew in the ACK packet as it has been obsolete
since AFS 3.1.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman &lt;jaltman@auristor.com&gt;
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Don't bother generating maxSkew in the ACK packet as it has been obsolete
since AFS 3.1.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman &lt;jaltman@auristor.com&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>
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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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: bad unlock balance in rxrpc_recvmsg</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T18:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-04T16:36:06+00:00</published>
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When either "goto wait_interrupted;" or "goto wait_error;"
paths are taken, socket lock has already been released.

This patch fixes following syzbot splat :

WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
5.0.0-rc4+ #59 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
syz-executor223/8256 is trying to release lock (sk_lock-AF_RXRPC) at:
[&lt;ffffffff86651353&gt;] rxrpc_recvmsg+0x6d3/0x3099 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:598
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by syz-executor223/8256:
 #0: 00000000fa9ed0f4 (slock-AF_RXRPC){+...}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
 #0: 00000000fa9ed0f4 (slock-AF_RXRPC){+...}, at: release_sock+0x20/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:2798

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 8256 Comm: syz-executor223 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc4+ #59
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3391 [inline]
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug.cold+0x114/0x123 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3368
 __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3601 [inline]
 lock_release+0x67e/0xa00 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3860
 sock_release_ownership include/net/sock.h:1471 [inline]
 release_sock+0x183/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:2808
 rxrpc_recvmsg+0x6d3/0x3099 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:598
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:794 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:801 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0xd0/0x110 net/socket.c:797
 __sys_recvfrom+0x1ff/0x350 net/socket.c:1845
 __do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:1863 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:1859 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvfrom+0xe1/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1859
 do_syscall_64+0x103/0x610 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x446379
Code: e8 2c b3 02 00 48 83 c4 18 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0f 83 2b 09 fc ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007fe5da89fd98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000006dbc28 RCX: 0000000000446379
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000006dbc20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000006dbc2c
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 20c49ba5e353f7cf

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When either "goto wait_interrupted;" or "goto wait_error;"
paths are taken, socket lock has already been released.

This patch fixes following syzbot splat :

WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
5.0.0-rc4+ #59 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
syz-executor223/8256 is trying to release lock (sk_lock-AF_RXRPC) at:
[&lt;ffffffff86651353&gt;] rxrpc_recvmsg+0x6d3/0x3099 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:598
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by syz-executor223/8256:
 #0: 00000000fa9ed0f4 (slock-AF_RXRPC){+...}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:334 [inline]
 #0: 00000000fa9ed0f4 (slock-AF_RXRPC){+...}, at: release_sock+0x20/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:2798

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 8256 Comm: syz-executor223 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc4+ #59
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3391 [inline]
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug.cold+0x114/0x123 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3368
 __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3601 [inline]
 lock_release+0x67e/0xa00 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3860
 sock_release_ownership include/net/sock.h:1471 [inline]
 release_sock+0x183/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:2808
 rxrpc_recvmsg+0x6d3/0x3099 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:598
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:794 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:801 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0xd0/0x110 net/socket.c:797
 __sys_recvfrom+0x1ff/0x350 net/socket.c:1845
 __do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:1863 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:1859 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvfrom+0xe1/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1859
 do_syscall_64+0x103/0x610 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x446379
Code: e8 2c b3 02 00 48 83 c4 18 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0f 83 2b 09 fc ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007fe5da89fd98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000006dbc28 RCX: 0000000000446379
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000006dbc20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000006dbc2c
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 20c49ba5e353f7cf

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Allow the reply time to be obtained on a client call</title>
<updated>2018-10-04T08:42:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-04T08:42:29+00:00</published>
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Allow the timestamp on the sk_buff holding the first DATA packet of a reply
to be queried.  This can then be used as a base for the expiry time
calculation on the callback promise duration indicated by an operation
result.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Allow the timestamp on the sk_buff holding the first DATA packet of a reply
to be queried.  This can then be used as a base for the expiry time
calculation on the callback promise duration indicated by an operation
result.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Push iov_iter up from rxrpc_kernel_recv_data() to caller</title>
<updated>2018-08-03T19:46:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-03T16:06:56+00:00</published>
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Push iov_iter up from rxrpc_kernel_recv_data() to its caller to allow
non-contiguous iovs to be passed down, thereby permitting file reading to
be simplified in the AFS filesystem in a future patch.

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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Push iov_iter up from rxrpc_kernel_recv_data() to its caller to allow
non-contiguous iovs to be passed down, thereby permitting file reading to
be simplified in the AFS filesystem in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Transmit more ACKs during data reception</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T12:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T16:18:38+00:00</published>
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Immediately flush any outstanding ACK on entry to rxrpc_recvmsg_data() -
which transfers data to the target buffers - if we previously had an Rx
underrun (ie. we returned -EAGAIN because we ran out of received data).
This lets the server know what we've managed to receive something.

Also flush any outstanding ACK after calling the function if it hit -EAGAIN
to let the server know we processed some data.

It might be better to send more ACKs, possibly on a time-based scheme, but
that needs some more consideration.

With this and some additional AFS patches, it is possible to get large
unencrypted O_DIRECT reads to be almost as fast as NFS over TCP.  It looks
like it might be theoretically possible to improve performance yet more for
a server running a single operation as investigation of packet timestamps
indicates that the server keeps stalling.

The issue appears to be that rxrpc runs in to trouble with ACK packets
getting batched together (up to ~32 at a time) somewhere between the IP
transmit queue on the client and the ethernet receive queue on the server.

However, this case isn't too much of a worry as even a lightly loaded
server should be receiving sufficient packet flux to flush the ACK packets
to the UDP socket.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Immediately flush any outstanding ACK on entry to rxrpc_recvmsg_data() -
which transfers data to the target buffers - if we previously had an Rx
underrun (ie. we returned -EAGAIN because we ran out of received data).
This lets the server know what we've managed to receive something.

Also flush any outstanding ACK after calling the function if it hit -EAGAIN
to let the server know we processed some data.

It might be better to send more ACKs, possibly on a time-based scheme, but
that needs some more consideration.

With this and some additional AFS patches, it is possible to get large
unencrypted O_DIRECT reads to be almost as fast as NFS over TCP.  It looks
like it might be theoretically possible to improve performance yet more for
a server running a single operation as investigation of packet timestamps
indicates that the server keeps stalling.

The issue appears to be that rxrpc runs in to trouble with ACK packets
getting batched together (up to ~32 at a time) somewhere between the IP
transmit queue on the client and the ethernet receive queue on the server.

However, this case isn't too much of a worry as even a lightly loaded
server should be receiving sufficient packet flux to flush the ACK packets
to the UDP socket.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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