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2014-07-09netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump().Ben Pfaff
netlink_dump() returns a negative errno value on error. Until now, netlink_recvmsg() directly recorded that negative value in sk->sk_err, but that's wrong since sk_err takes positive errno values. (This manifests as userspace receiving a positive return value from the recv() system call, falsely indicating success.) This bug was introduced in the commit that started checking the netlink_dump() return value, commit b44d211 (netlink: handle errors from netlink_dump()). Multithreaded Netlink dumps are one way to trigger this behavior in practice, as described in the commit message for the userspace workaround posted here: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/042339.html This commit also fixes the same bug in netlink_poll(), introduced in commit cd1df525d (netlink: add flow control for memory mapped I/O). Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: include/net/inetpeer.h net/ipv6/output_core.c Changes in net were fixing bugs in code removed in net-next. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-02netlink: Only check file credentials for implicit destinationsEric W. Biederman
It was possible to get a setuid root or setcap executable to write to it's stdout or stderr (which has been set made a netlink socket) and inadvertently reconfigure the networking stack. To prevent this we check that both the creator of the socket and the currentl applications has permission to reconfigure the network stack. Unfortunately this breaks Zebra which always uses sendto/sendmsg and creates it's socket without any privileges. To keep Zebra working don't bother checking if the creator of the socket has privilege when a destination address is specified. Instead rely exclusively on the privileges of the sender of the socket. Note from Andy: This is exactly Eric's code except for some comment clarifications and formatting fixes. Neither I nor, I think, anyone else is thrilled with this approach, but I'm hesitant to wait on a better fix since 3.15 is almost here. Note to stable maintainers: This is a mess. An earlier series of patches in 3.15 fix a rather serious security issue (CVE-2014-0181), but they did so in a way that breaks Zebra. The offending series includes: commit aa4cf9452f469f16cea8c96283b641b4576d4a7b Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Date: Wed Apr 23 14:28:03 2014 -0700 net: Add variants of capable for use on netlink messages If a given kernel version is missing that series of fixes, it's probably worth backporting it and this patch. if that series is present, then this fix is critical if you care about Zebra. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-02genetlink: remove superfluous assignmentDenis ChengRq
the local variable ops and n_ops were just read out from family, and not changed, hence no need to assign back. Validation functions should operate on const parameters and not change anything. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_sgdma.c net/netlink/af_netlink.c net/sched/cls_api.c net/sched/sch_api.c The netlink conflict dealt with moving to netlink_capable() and netlink_ns_capable() in the 'net' tree vs. supporting 'tc' operations in non-init namespaces. These were simple transformations from netlink_capable to netlink_ns_capable. The Altera driver conflict was simply code removal overlapping some void pointer cast cleanups in net-next. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messagesEric W. Biederman
It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that privileged executable did not intend to do. To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls. Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24net: Add variants of capable for use on netlink messagesEric W. Biederman
netlink_net_capable - The common case use, for operations that are safe on a network namespace netlink_capable - For operations that are only known to be safe for the global root netlink_ns_capable - The general case of capable used to handle special cases __netlink_ns_capable - Same as netlink_ns_capable except taking a netlink_skb_parms instead of the skbuff of a netlink message. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowedEric W. Biederman
netlink_capable is a static internal function in af_netlink.c and we have better uses for the name netlink_capable. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-22netlink: implement unbind to netlink_setsockopt NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIPRichard Guy Briggs
Call the per-protocol unbind function rather than bind function on NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP in netlink_setsockopt(). Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-22netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error code.Richard Guy Briggs
Have the netlink per-protocol optional bind function return an int error code rather than void to signal a failure. This will enable netlink protocols to perform extra checks including capabilities and permissions verifications when updating memberships in multicast groups. In netlink_bind() and netlink_setsockopt() the call to the per-protocol bind function was moved above the multicast group update to prevent any access to the multicast socket groups before checking with the per-protocol bind function. This will enable the per-protocol bind function to be used to check permissions which could be denied before making them available, and to avoid the messy job of undoing the addition should the per-protocol bind function fail. The netfilter subsystem seems to be the only one currently using the per-protocol bind function. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-11net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.David S. Miller
Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like: skb_queue_tail(&sk->s_receive_queue, skb); sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len); But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it can be consumed and freed up. So this skb->len access is potentially to freed up memory. Furthermore, the skb->len can be modified by the consumer so it is possible that the value isn't accurate. And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses the length argument. And since nobody actually cared about it's value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and even '1'. So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get fixed as a side effect. Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this issue tree-wide. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-10netlink: autosize skb lengthesEric Dumazet
One known problem with netlink is the fact that NLMSG_GOODSIZE is really small on PAGE_SIZE==4096 architectures, and it is difficult to know in advance what buffer size is used by the application. This patch adds an automatic learning of the size. First netlink message will still be limited to ~4K, but if user used bigger buffers, then following messages will be able to use up to 16KB. This speedups dump() operations by a large factor and should be safe for legacy applications. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c net/ipv6/sit.c The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this. The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-25net: Fix permission check in netlink_connect()Mike Pecovnik
netlink_sendmsg() was changed to prevent non-root processes from sending messages with dst_pid != 0. netlink_connect() however still only checks if nladdr->nl_groups is set. This patch modifies netlink_connect() to check for the same condition. Signed-off-by: Mike Pecovnik <mike.pecovnik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-17netlink: fix checkpatch errors space and "foo *bar"Wang Yufen
ERROR: spaces required and "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)" Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-18net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name sizeSteffen Hurrle
This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic"). DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved for msg->msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR consistently in sendmsg code paths. Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle <steffen@hurrle.net> Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch Jesse Gross says: ==================== [GIT net-next] Open vSwitch Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are: * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate. * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save memory and allocation time. * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06netlink: Avoid netlink mmap alloc if msg size exceeds frame sizeThomas Graf
An insufficent ring frame size configuration can lead to an unnecessary skb allocation for every Netlink message. Check frame size before taking the queue lock and allocating the skb and re-check with lock to be safe. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocationThomas Graf
Allocates a new sk_buff large enough to cover the specified payload plus required Netlink headers. Will check receiving socket for memory mapped i/o capability and use it if enabled. Will fall back to non-mapped skb if message size exceeds the frame size of the ring. Signed-of-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-01netlink: cleanup tap related functionsstephen hemminger
Cleanups in netlink_tap code * remove unused function netlink_clear_multicast_users * make local function static Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31netlink: specify netlink packet direction for nlmonDaniel Borkmann
In order to facilitate development for netlink protocol dissector, fill the unused field skb->pkt_type of the cloned skb with a hint of the address space of the new owner (receiver) socket in the notion of "to kernel" resp. "to user". At the time we invoke __netlink_deliver_tap_skb(), we already have set the new skb owner via netlink_skb_set_owner_r(), so we can use that for netlink_is_kernel() probing. In normal PF_PACKET network traffic, this field denotes if the packet is destined for us (PACKET_HOST), if it's broadcast (PACKET_BROADCAST), etc. As we only have 3 bit reserved, we can use the value (= 6) of PACKET_FASTROUTE as it's _not used_ anywhere in the whole kernel and not supported anywhere, and packets of such type were never exposed to user space, so there are no overlapping users of such kind. Thus, as wished, that seems the only way to make both PACKET_* values non-overlapping and therefore device agnostic. By using those two flags for netlink skbs on nlmon devices, they can be made available and picked up via sll_pkttype (previously unused in netlink context) in struct sockaddr_ll. We now have these two directions: - PACKET_USER (= 6) -> to user space - PACKET_KERNEL (= 7) -> to kernel space Partial `ip a` example strace for sa_family=AF_NETLINK with detected nl msg direction: syscall: direction: sendto(3, ...) = 40 /* to kernel */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 3404 /* to user */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 1120 /* to user */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 20 /* to user */ sendto(3, ...) = 40 /* to kernel */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 168 /* to user */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 144 /* to user */ recvmsg(3, ...) = 20 /* to user */ Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31netlink: only do not deliver to tap when both sides are kernel sksDaniel Borkmann
We should also deliver packets to nlmon devices when we are in netlink_unicast_kernel(), and only one of the {src,dst} sockets is user sk and the other one kernel sk. That's e.g. the case in netlink diag, netlink route, etc. Still, forbid to deliver messages from kernel to kernel sks. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-28genetlink/pmcraid: use proper genetlink multicast APIJohannes Berg
The pmcraid driver is abusing the genetlink API and is using its family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid and may belong to somebody else (and likely will.) Make it use the correct API, but since this may already be used as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions. My previous patch broke event delivery in the driver as I missed that it wasn't using the right API and forgot to update it later in my series. While changing this, I noticed that the genetlink code could use the static group ID instead of a strcmp(), so also do that for the VFS_DQUOT family. Cc: Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@pmc-sierra.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-28genetlink: Fix uninitialized variable in genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()Geert Uytterhoeven
net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_validate_assign_mc_groups’: net/netlink/genetlink.c:217: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function Commit 2a94fe48f32ccf7321450a2cc07f2b724a444e5b ("genetlink: make multicast groups const, prevent abuse") split genl_register_mc_group() in multiple functions, but dropped the initialization of err. Initialize err to zero to fix this. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-21genetlink: fix genlmsg_multicast() bugJohannes Berg
Unfortunately, I introduced a tremendously stupid bug into genlmsg_multicast() when doing all those multicast group changes: it adjusts the group number, but then passes it to genlmsg_multicast_netns() which does that again. Somehow, my tests failed to catch this, so add a warning into genlmsg_multicast_netns() and remove the offending group ID adjustment. Also add a warning to the similar code in other functions so people who misuse them are more loudly warned. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-20net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logicHannes Frederic Sowa
This patch now always passes msg->msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must set msg_namelen to the proper size <= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) to return msg_name to the user. This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak uninitialized memory. Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets msg_name to NULL. Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David Miller. Changes since RFC: Set msg->msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of verify_iovec. With this change in place I could remove " if (!uaddr || msg_sys->msg_namelen == 0) msg->msg_name = NULL ". This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL. Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change comments to netdev style. Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: make multicast groups const, prevent abuseJohannes Berg
Register generic netlink multicast groups as an array with the family and give them contiguous group IDs. Then instead of passing the global group ID to the various functions that send messages, pass the ID relative to the family - for most families that's just 0 because the only have one group. This avoids the list_head and ID in each group, adding a new field for the mcast group ID offset to the family. At the same time, this allows us to prevent abusing groups again like the quota and dropmon code did, since we can now check that a family only uses a group it owns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: pass family to functions using groupsJohannes Berg
This doesn't really change anything, but prepares for the next patch that will change the APIs to pass the group ID within the family, rather than the global group ID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: remove family pointer from genl_multicast_groupJohannes Berg
There's no reason to have the family pointer there since it can just be passed internally where needed, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: remove genl_unregister_mc_group()Johannes Berg
There are no users of this API remaining, and we'll soon change group registration to be static (like ops are now) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19quota/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIsJohannes Berg
The quota code is abusing the genetlink API and is using its family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid and may belong to somebody else (and likely will.) Make the quota code use the correct API, but since this is already used as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19drop_monitor/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIsJohannes Berg
The drop monitor code is abusing the genetlink API and is statically using the generic netlink multicast group 1, even if that group belongs to somebody else (which it invariably will, since it's not reserved.) Make the drop monitor code use the proper APIs to reserve a group ID, but also reserve the group id 1 in generic netlink code to preserve the userspace API. Since drop monitor can be a module, don't clear the bit for it on unregistration. Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()Johannes Berg
As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops() a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the macro, this is a little safer. The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and code (once mcast groups are handled differently.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19netlink: fix documentation typo in netlink_set_err()Johannes Berg
The parameter is just 'group', not 'groups', fix the documentation typo. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-18genetlink: rename shadowed variableJohannes Berg
Sparse pointed out that the new flags variable I had added shadowed an existing one, rename the new one to avoid that, making the code clearer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-15genetlink: unify registration functionsJohannes Berg
Now that the ops assignment is just two variables rather than a long list iteration etc., there's no reason to separately export __genl_register_family() and __genl_register_family_with_ops(). Unify the two functions into __genl_register_family() and make genl_register_family_with_ops() call it after assigning the ops. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: allow making ops constJohannes Berg
Allow making the ops array const by not modifying the ops flags on registration but rather only when ops are sent out in the family information. No users are updated yet except for the pre_doit/post_doit calls in wireless (the only ones that exist now.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: register family ops as arrayJohannes Berg
Instead of using a linked list, use an array. This reduces the data size needed by the users of genetlink, for example in wireless (net/wireless/nl80211.c) on 64-bit it frees up over 1K of data space. Remove the attempted sending of CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS ctrl event since genl_ctrl_event(CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS, ...) only returns -EINVAL anyway, therefore no such event could ever be sent. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: remove genl_register_ops/genl_unregister_opsJohannes Berg
genl_register_ops() is still needed for internal registration, but is no longer available to users of the API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-06net: netlink: filter particular protocols from analyzersDaniel Borkmann
Fix finer-grained control and let only a whitelist of allowed netlink protocols pass, in our case related to networking. If later on, other subsystems decide they want to add their protocol as well to the list of allowed protocols they shall simply add it. While at it, we also need to tell what protocol is in use otherwise BPF_S_ANC_PROTOCOL can not pick it up (as it's not filled out). Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c net/bridge/br_multicast.c net/ipv6/sit.c The conflicts were minor: 1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature. 2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters. 3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property, and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made. The latter of which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.Pravin B Shelar
netlink dump operations take module as parameter to hold reference for entire netlink dump duration. Currently it holds ref only on genl module which is not correct when we use ops registered to genl from another module. Following patch adds module pointer to genl_ops so that netlink can hold ref count on it. CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.Pravin B Shelar
In case of genl-family with parallel ops off, dumpif() callback is expected to run under genl_lock, But commit def3117493eafd9df (genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) changed this behaviour where only first dumpit() op was called under genl-lock. For subsequent dump, only nlk->cb_lock was taken. Following patch fixes it by defining locked dumpit() and done() callback which takes care of genl-locking. CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c include/linux/inetdevice.h The inetdevice.h conflict involves moving the IPV4_DEVCONF values into a UAPI header, overlapping additions of some new entries. The iwlwifi conflict is a context overlap. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-22Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"Johannes Berg
This reverts commit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db. It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major changes to the locking, so revert this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2013-08-15netlink: Eliminate kmalloc in netlink dump operation.Pravin B Shelar
Following patch stores struct netlink_callback in netlink_sock to avoid allocating and freeing it on every netlink dump msg. Only one dump operation is allowed for a given socket at a time therefore we can safely convert cb pointer to cb struct inside netlink_sock. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-13genetlink: fix family dump raceJohannes Berg
When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families, and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking, racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash. Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first time around it's already locked. A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible, on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking at the current code I found the race described above, which had also existed on the old kernel. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Merge net into net-next to setup some infrastructure Eric Dumazet needs for usbnet changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-02net: netlink: minor: remove unused pointer in alloc_pg_vecDaniel Borkmann
Variable ptr is being assigned, but never used, so just remove it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>