linux.git/net/tipc/node.c, branch v4.6-rc2

tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.c

2016-03-07T19:56:41+00:00

Make the c files less cluttered and enable netlink attributes to be
shared between files.

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Acked-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: don't check link reset on non existing link

2016-03-07T03:54:56+00:00

Make sure we have a link before checking if it has been reset or not.

Prior to this patch tipc_link_is_reset() could be called with a non
existing link, resulting in a null pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Acked-by: Jon Maloy 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix crash during node removal

2016-02-25T22:04:48+00:00

When the TIPC module is unloaded, we have identified a race condition
that allows a node reference counter to go to zero and the node instance
being freed before the node timer is finished with accessing it. This
leads to occasional crashes, especially in multi-namespace environments.

The scenario goes as follows:

CPU0:(node_stop)                       CPU1:(node_timeout)  // ref == 2

1:                                          if(!mod_timer())
2: if (del_timer())
3:   tipc_node_put()                                        // ref -> 1
4: tipc_node_put()                                          // ref -> 0
5:   kfree_rcu(node);
6:                                               tipc_node_get(node)
7:                                               // BOOM!

We now clean up this functionality as follows:

1) We remove the node pointer from the node lookup table before we
   attempt deactivating the timer. This way, we reduce the risk that
   tipc_node_find() may obtain a valid pointer to an instance marked
   for deletion; a harmless but undesirable situation.

2) We use del_timer_sync() instead of del_timer() to safely deactivate
   the node timer without any risk that it might be reactivated by the
   timeout handler. There is no risk of deadlock here, since the two
   functions never touch the same spinlocks.

3: We remove a pointless tipc_node_get() + tipc_node_put() from the
   timeout handler.

Reported-by: Zhijiang Hu 
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: eliminate risk of finding to-be-deleted node instance

2016-02-25T22:04:48+00:00

Although we have never seen it happen, we have identified the
following problematic scenario when nodes are stopped and deleted:

CPU0:                            CPU1:

tipc_node_xxx()                                   //ref == 1
   tipc_node_put()                                //ref -> 0
                                 tipc_node_find() // node still in table
       tipc_node_delete()
         list_del_rcu(n. list)
                                 tipc_node_get()  //ref -> 1, bad
         kfree_rcu()

                                 tipc_node_put() //ref to 0 again.
                                 kfree_rcu()     // BOOM!

We fix this by introducing use of the conditional kref_get_if_not_zero()
instead of kref_get() in the function tipc_node_find(). This eliminates
any risk of post-mortem access.

Reported-by: Zhijiang Hu 
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2016-02-23T05:09:14+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c
	drivers/net/phy/marvell.c
	drivers/net/vxlan.c

All three conflicts were cases of simple overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: refactor node xmit and fix memory leaks

2016-02-16T20:58:40+00:00

Refactor tipc_node_xmit() to fail fast and fail early. Fix several
potential memory leaks in unexpected error paths.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix premature addition of node to lookup table

2016-02-16T20:57:11+00:00

In commit 5266698661401a ("tipc: let broadcast packet reception
use new link receive function") we introduced a new per-node
broadcast reception link instance. This link is created at the
moment the node itself is created. Unfortunately, the allocation
is done after the node instance has already been added to the node
lookup hash table. This creates a potential race condition, where
arriving broadcast packets are able to find and access the node
before it has been fully initialized, and before the above mentioned
link has been created. The result is occasional crashes in the function
tipc_bcast_rcv(), which is trying to access the not-yet existing link.

We fix this by deferring the addition of the node instance until after
it has been fully initialized in the function tipc_node_create().

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix link attribute propagation bug

2016-02-06T07:45:27+00:00

Changing certain link attributes (link tolerance and link priority)
from the TIPC management tool is supposed to automatically take
effect at both endpoints of the affected link.

Currently the media address is not instantiated for the link and is
used uninstantiated when crafting protocol messages designated for the
peer endpoint. This means that changing a link property currently
results in the property being changed on the local machine but the
protocol message designated for the peer gets lost. Resulting in
property discrepancy between the endpoints.

In this patch we resolve this by using the media address from the
link entry and using the bearer transmit function to send it. Hence,
we can now eliminate the redundant function tipc_link_prot_xmit() and
the redundant field tipc_link::media_addr.

Fixes: 2af5ae372a4b (tipc: clean up unused code and structures)
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Reported-by: Jason Hu 
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix node reference count bug

2015-12-03T20:19:40+00:00

Commit 5405ff6e15f40f2f ("tipc: convert node lock to rwlock")
introduced a bug to the node reference counter handling. When a
message is successfully sent in the function tipc_node_xmit(),
we return directly after releasing the node lock, instead of
continuing and decrementing the node reference counter as we
should do.

This commit fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: eliminate remnants of hungarian notation

2015-11-20T19:06:10+00:00

The number of variables with Hungarian notation (l_ptr, n_ptr etc.)
has been significantly reduced over the last couple of years.

We now root out the last traces of this practice.
There are no functional changes in this commit.

Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller