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Eric W. Biederman
df008c91f8 net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm
Allow an unpriviled user who has created a user namespace, and then
created a network namespace to effectively use the new network
namespace, by reducing capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) and
capable(CAP_NET_RAW) calls to be ns_capable(net->user_ns,
CAP_NET_ADMIN), or capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW) calls.

Allow creation of af_key sockets.
Allow creation of llc sockets.
Allow creation of af_packet sockets.

Allow sending xfrm netlink control messages.

Allow binding to netlink multicast groups.
Allow sending to netlink multicast groups.
Allow adding and dropping netlink multicast groups.
Allow sending to all netlink multicast groups and port ids.

Allow reading the netfilter SO_IP_SET socket option.
Allow sending netfilter netlink messages.
Allow setting and getting ip_vs netfilter socket options.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
6d772ac557 netlink: use kfree_rcu() in netlink_release()
On some suspend/resume operations involving wimax device, we have
noticed some intermittent memory corruptions in netlink code.

Stéphane Marchesin tracked this corruption in netlink_update_listeners()
and suggested a patch.

It appears netlink_release() should use kfree_rcu() instead of kfree()
for the listeners structure as it may be used by other cpus using RCU
protection.

netlink_release() must set to NULL the listeners pointer when
it is about to be freed.

Also have to protect netlink_update_listeners() and
netlink_has_listeners() if listeners is NULL.

Add a nl_deref_protected() lockdep helper to properly document which
locks protects us.

Reported-by: Jonathan Kliegman <kliegs@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@google.com>
Cc: Sam Leffler <sleffler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-18 15:34:30 -04:00
Gao feng
6dc878a8ca netlink: add reference of module in netlink_dump_start
I get a panic when I use ss -a and rmmod inet_diag at the
same time.

It's because netlink_dump uses inet_diag_dump which belongs to module
inet_diag.

I search the codes and find many modules have the same problem.  We
need to add a reference to the module which the cb->dump belongs to.

Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan,Eric,Steffen and Pablo.

Change From v3:
change netlink_dump_start to inline,suggestion from Pablo and
Eric.

Change From v2:
delete netlink_dump_done,and call module_put in netlink_dump
and netlink_sock_destruct.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
15e473046c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier.  Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.

I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.

I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
9f00d9776b netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create
This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of
__netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter
(which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems).

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08 18:46:30 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
9785e10aed netlink: kill netlink_set_nonroot
Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in
struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create.

This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since
now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more
flags if needed in the future).

Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags
instead of netlink_set_nonroot.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08 18:45:27 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
dbe9a4173e scm: Don't use struct ucred in NETLINK_CB and struct scm_cookie.
Passing uids and gids on NETLINK_CB from a process in one user
namespace to a process in another user namespace can result in the
wrong uid or gid being presented to userspace.  Avoid that problem by
passing kuids and kgids instead.

- define struct scm_creds for use in scm_cookie and netlink_skb_parms
  that holds uid and gid information in kuid_t and kgid_t.

- Modify scm_set_cred to fill out scm_creds by heand instead of using
  cred_to_ucred to fill out struct ucred.  This conversion ensures
  userspace does not get incorrect uid or gid values to look at.

- Modify scm_recv to convert from struct scm_creds to struct ucred
  before copying credential values to userspace.

- Modify __scm_send to populate struct scm_creds on in the scm_cookie,
  instead of just copying struct ucred from userspace.

- Modify netlink_sendmsg to copy scm_creds instead of struct ucred
  into the NETLINK_CB.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-07 14:42:05 -04:00
David S. Miller
c32f38619a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge the 'net' tree to get the recent set of netfilter bug fixes in
order to assist with some merge hassles Pablo is going to have to deal
with for upcoming changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-31 15:14:18 -04:00
David S. Miller
e6acb38480 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
This is an initial merge in of Eric Biederman's work to start adding
user namespace support to the networking.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 18:54:37 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
20e1db19db netlink: fix possible spoofing from non-root processes
Non-root user-space processes can send Netlink messages to other
processes that are well-known for being subscribed to Netlink
asynchronous notifications. This allows ilegitimate non-root
process to send forged messages to Netlink subscribers.

The userspace process usually verifies the legitimate origin in
two ways:

a) Socket credentials. If UID != 0, then the message comes from
   some ilegitimate process and the message needs to be dropped.

b) Netlink portID. In general, portID == 0 means that the origin
   of the messages comes from the kernel. Thus, discarding any
   message not coming from the kernel.

However, ctnetlink sets the portID in event messages that has
been triggered by some user-space process, eg. conntrack utility.
So other processes subscribed to ctnetlink events, eg. conntrackd,
know that the event was triggered by some user-space action.

Neither of the two ways to discard ilegitimate messages coming
from non-root processes can help for ctnetlink.

This patch adds capability validation in case that dst_pid is set
in netlink_sendmsg(). This approach is aggressive since existing
applications using any Netlink bus to deliver messages between
two user-space processes will break. Note that the exception is
NETLINK_USERSOCK, since it is reserved for netlink-to-netlink
userspace communication.

Still, if anyone wants that his Netlink bus allows netlink-to-netlink
userspace, then they can set NL_NONROOT_SEND. However, by default,
I don't think it makes sense to allow to use NETLINK_ROUTE to
communicate two processes that are sending no matter what information
that is not related to link/neighbouring/routing. They should be using
NETLINK_USERSOCK instead for that.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:36:09 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
e0e3cea46d af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]
Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and
potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a
kernel bug.  The kernel passes all-zero SCM_CREDENTIALS ancillary data
to the receiver if the sender did not provide such data, instead of not
including any such data at all or including the correct data from the
peer (as it is the case with AF_UNIX).

This bug was introduced in commit 16e5726269
(af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default)

This patch forces passing credentials for netlink, as
before the regression.

Another fix would be to not add SCM_CREDENTIALS in
netlink messages if not provided by the sender, but it
might break some programs.

With help from Florian Weimer & Petr Matousek

This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3520

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-21 14:53:01 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
3fbc290540 netlink: Make the sending netlink socket availabe in NETLINK_CB
The sending socket of an skb is already available by it's port id
in the NETLINK_CB.  If you want to know more like to examine the
credentials on the sending socket you have to look up the sending
socket by it's port id and all of the needed functions and data
structures are static inside of af_netlink.c.  So do the simple
thing and pass the sending socket to the receivers in the NETLINK_CB.

I intend to use this to get the user namespace of the sending socket
in inet_diag so that I can report uids in the context of the process
who opened the socket, the same way I report uids in the contect
of the process who opens files.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-08-14 21:49:49 -07:00
WANG Cong
320f5ea0ce genetlink: define lockdep_genl_is_held() when CONFIG_LOCKDEP
lockdep_is_held() is defined when CONFIG_LOCKDEP, not CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-24 00:01:30 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
2c53040f01 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
03292745b0 netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading
This patch adds a hook in the binding path of netlink.

This is used by ctnetlink to allow module autoloading for the case
in which one user executes:

 conntrack -E

So far, this resulted in nfnetlink loaded, but not
nf_conntrack_netlink.

I have received in the past many complains on this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 16:46:06 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
a31f2d17b3 netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create
This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 16:46:02 -07:00
Neil Horman
e9412c3708 genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias
Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to
fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type
value).  However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers,
they have string names.  Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the
format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and
add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME
macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings.

Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias
using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the
PROTO_NAME macro.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-29 22:33:56 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
bfb253c9b2 af_netlink: drop_monitor/dropwatch friendly
Need to consume_skb() instead of kfree_skb() in netlink_dump() and
netlink_unicast_kernel() to avoid false dropwatch positives.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-24 00:35:14 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
658cb354ed af_netlink: cleanups
netlink_destroy_callback() move to avoid forward reference

CodingStyle cleanups

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-24 00:35:14 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
8460c00f6e netlink: dont drop packet but consume it
When we need to clone skb, we dont drop a packet.
Call consume_skb() to not confuse dropwatch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-19 14:23:55 -04:00
David S. Miller
06eb4eafbd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-04-10 14:30:45 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
4a7e7c2ad5 netlink: fix races after skb queueing
As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06 04:21:06 -04:00
David S. Miller
444653f696 genetlink: Stop using NLA_PUT*().
These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-01 18:43:25 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
7175c88307 netlink: allow to pass data pointer to netlink_dump_start() callback
This patch allows you to pass a data pointer that can be
accessed from the dump callback.

Netfilter is going to use this patch to provide filtered dumps
to user-space. This is specifically interesting in ctnetlink that
may handle lots of conntrack entries. We can save precious
cycles by skipping the conversion to TLV format of conntrack
entries that are not interesting for user-space.

More specifically, ctnetlink will include one operation to allow
to filter the dumping of conntrack entries by ctmark values.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-26 14:10:44 -05:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
80d326fab5 netlink: add netlink_dump_control structure for netlink_dump_start()
Davem considers that the argument list of this interface is getting
out of control. This patch tries to address this issue following
his proposal:

struct netlink_dump_control c = { .dump = dump, .done = done, ... };

netlink_dump_start(..., &c);

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-26 14:10:06 -05:00
Denys Vlasenko
a46621a3a8 net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.
text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
8455963	 532732	1810804	10799499 a4c98b	vmlinux.o.before
8448899	 532732	1810804	10792435 a4adf3	vmlinux.o

This change also removes commented-out copy of __nlmsg_put
which was last touched in 2005 with "Enable once all users
have been converted" comment on top.

Changes in v2: rediffed against net-next.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30 15:22:06 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
c49c41a413 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security:
  capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition
  security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
  ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat
  capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions
  capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call
  capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable
  capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit
  capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability
  capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces
  capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit
  capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable
  capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely
  selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod
  selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code
  selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs
  selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h
  selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init
  selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()

Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv():

 - the interface was removed in commit fd77846152 ("security: remove
   the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()")

 - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b9 ("crypto: Add
   userspace configuration API")

causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the
issue.
2012-01-14 18:36:33 -08:00
Eric Paris
fd77846152 security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-05 18:53:01 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
fa84309533 genetlink: add auto module loading
When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded
as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call
request_module and load the module.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-28 13:48:55 -05:00
David S. Miller
035c4c16be netlink: Undo const marker in netlink_is_kernel().
We can't do this without propagating the const to nlk_sk()
too, otherwise:

net/netlink/af_netlink.c: In function ‘netlink_is_kernel’:
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:103:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘nlk_sk’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:96:36: note: expected ‘struct sock *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct sock *’

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23 17:33:03 -05:00
stephen hemminger
2c64580046 netlink: wake up netlink listeners sooner (v2)
This patch changes it to yield sooner at halfway instead. Still not a cure-all
for listener overrun if listner is slow, but works much reliably.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-22 22:37:19 -05:00
stephen hemminger
b57ef81ff8 netlink: af_netlink cleanup (v2)
Don't inline functions that cover several lines, and do inline
the trivial ones. Also make some arguments const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-22 22:37:19 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar
86b1309c7e genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().
Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath
data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds
lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove
locking.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:07 -08:00
Pravin B Shelar
263ba61d3b genetlink: Add genl_notify()
Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication
between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used
for sending notification back to userspace.

genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock
instead of rtnl.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:05 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
16e5726269 af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default
Since commit 7361c36c52 (af_unix: Allow credentials to work across
user and pid namespaces) af_unix performance dropped a lot.

This is because we now take a reference on pid and cred in each write(),
and release them in read(), usually done from another process,
eventually from another cpu. This triggers false sharing.

# Events: 154K cycles
#
# Overhead  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
# ........  .......  ..................  .........................
#
    10.40%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_pid
     8.60%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_recvmsg
     7.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_stream_sendmsg
     6.11%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_raw_spin_lock
     4.95%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_scm_to_skb
     4.87%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pid_nr_ns
     4.34%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] cred_to_ucred
     2.39%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] unix_destruct_scm
     2.24%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sub_preempt_count
     1.75%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] fget_light
     1.51%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k]
__mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath
     1.42%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb

This patch includes SCM_CREDENTIALS information in a af_unix message/skb
only if requested by the sender, [man 7 unix for details how to include
ancillary data using sendmsg() system call]

Note: This might break buggy applications that expected SCM_CREDENTIAL
from an unaware write() system call, and receiver not using SO_PASSCRED
socket option.

If SOCK_PASSCRED is set on source or destination socket, we still
include credentials for mere write() syscalls.

Performance boost in hackbench : more than 50% gain on a 16 thread
machine (2 quad-core cpus, 2 threads per core)

hackbench 20 thread 2000

4.228 sec instead of 9.102 sec

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-28 13:29:50 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
33d480ce6d net: cleanup some rcu_dereference_raw
RCU api had been completed and rcu_access_pointer() or
rcu_dereference_protected() are better than generic
rcu_dereference_raw()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-12 02:55:28 -07:00
John W. Linville
36099365c7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
	include/linux/netlink.h
2011-06-24 15:25:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
670dc2833d netlink: advertise incomplete dumps
Consider the following situation:
 * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first
   round, and four in the second
 * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are
   removed
 * now the second round will not show any entry, and
   even if there is a sequence/generation counter the
   application will not know

To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR
to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't
consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE
message that terminates the dump, and as such above
situation can be detected.

To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink
callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs
to use this new functionality. The correct way to do
that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback
is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for
each new message. The core code will also call this
function for the final MSG_DONE message.

To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function
genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header
from the genetlink user header.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-22 16:09:45 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
c63d6ea306 rtnetlink: unlock on error path in netlink_dump()
In c7ac8679be "rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump
size", we moved the allocation under the lock so we need to unlock
on error path.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@conan.davemloft.net>
2011-06-16 23:51:35 -04:00
Greg Rose
c7ac8679be rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size
The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
Dan Rosenberg
71338aa7d0 net: convert %p usage to %pK
The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces.  Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers.  The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.

If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs.  If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
 If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges.  Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".

The supporting code for kptr_restrict and %pK are currently in the -mm
tree.  This patch converts users of %p in net/ to %pK.  Cases of printing
pointers to the syslog are not covered, since this would eliminate useful
information for postmortem debugging and the reading of the syslog is
already optionally protected by the dmesg_restrict sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan
37b6b935e9 net,rcu: convert call_rcu(listeners_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
The rcu callback listeners_free_rcu() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(listeners_free_rcu).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-07 22:50:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
0a0e9ae1bd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
2011-03-03 21:27:42 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
01a16b21d6 netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms
Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
the current process.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
[chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-03 13:32:07 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
c53fa1ed92 netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct netlink_skb_parms
Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days, the
session information can be collected when needed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-03 10:55:40 -08:00
Andrey Vagin
b44d211e16 netlink: handle errors from netlink_dump()
netlink_dump() may failed, but nobody handle its error.
It generates output data, when a previous portion has been returned to
user space. This mechanism works when all data isn't go in skb. If we
enter in netlink_recvmsg() and skb is absent in the recv queue, the
netlink_dump() will not been executed. So if netlink_dump() is failed
one time, the new data never appear and the reader will sleep forever.

netlink_dump() is called from two places:

1. from netlink_sendmsg->...->netlink_dump_start().
   In this place we can report error directly and it will be returned
   by sendmsg().

2. from netlink_recvmsg
   There we can't report error directly, because we have a portion of
   valid output data and call netlink_dump() for prepare the next portion.
   If netlink_dump() is failed, the socket will be mark as error and the
   next recvmsg will be failed.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-28 12:18:12 -08:00
David S. Miller
b8f3ab4290 Revert "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite"
This reverts commit 0ab03c2b14.

It breaks several things including the avahi daemon.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-19 13:34:20 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
0ab03c2b14 netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite
Due to NLM_F_DUMP is composed of two bits, NLM_F_ROOT | NLM_F_MATCH,
when doing "if (x & NLM_F_DUMP)", it tests for _either_ of the bits
being set. Because NLM_F_MATCH's value overlaps with NLM_F_EXCL,
non-dump requests with NLM_F_EXCL set are mistaken as dump requests.

Substitute the condition to test for _all_ bits being set.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-09 16:25:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
5c398dc8f5 netlink: fix netlink_change_ngroups()
commit 6c04bb18dd (netlink: use call_rcu for netlink_change_ngroups)
used a somewhat convoluted and racy way to perform call_rcu().

The old block of memory is freed after a grace period, but the rcu_head
used to track it is located in new block.

This can clash if we call two times or more netlink_change_ngroups(),
and a block is freed before another. call_rcu() called on different cpus
makes no guarantee in order of callbacks.

Fix this using a more standard way of handling this : Each block of
memory contains its own rcu_head, so that no 'use after free' can
happens.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-24 16:25:39 -07:00
John W. Linville
e9a68707d7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
2010-10-08 15:39:28 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ff4c92d85c genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooks
Each family may have some amount of boilerplate
locking code that applies to most, or even all,
commands.

This allows a family to handle such things in
a more generic way, by allowing it to
 a) include private flags in each operation
 b) specify a pre_doit hook that is called,
    before an operation's doit() callback and
    may return an error directly,
 c) specify a post_doit hook that can undo
    locking or similar things done by pre_doit,
    and finally
 d) include two private pointers in each info
    struct passed between all these operations
    including doit(). (It's two because I'll
    need two in nl80211 -- can be extended.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:30 -04:00
David S. Miller
b963ea89f0 netlink: Make NETLINK_USERSOCK work again.
Once we started enforcing the a nl_table[] entry exist for
a protocol, NETLINK_USERSOCK stopped working.  Add a dummy
table entry so that it works again.

Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31 09:51:37 -07:00
Johannes Berg
68d6ac6d27 netlink: fix compat recvmsg
Since
commit 1dacc76d00
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000

    net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks

we had a race condition when setting and then
restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it,
but the fix created even worse problems.

However, the original motivation I had when I
added the code that turned out to be racy is
no longer clear to me, since we only copy up
to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include
the frag_list length. As a result, not doing
any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids
the race condition, while not introducing any
other problems.

Additionally, while preparing this patch I found
that since none of the remaining netlink code is
really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the
original skb's information for packet information
and credentials. This fixes, for example, the
group information received by compat tasks.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+, for 2.6.35 revert 1235f504aa]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-18 23:35:58 -07:00
David S. Miller
daa3766e70 Revert "netlink: netlink_recvmsg() fix"
This reverts commit 1235f504aa.

It causes regressions worse than the problem it was trying
to fix.  Eric will try to solve the problem another way.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-15 23:21:50 -07:00
Changli Gao
652c671746 genetlink: use genl_register_family_with_ops()
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26 21:00:10 -07:00
Changli Gao
416c2f9cf5 genetlink: cleanup code according to CodingStyle
If the function is exported, the EXPORT* macro for it should follow immediately
after the closing function brace line.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26 20:53:49 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
1235f504aa netlink: netlink_recvmsg() fix
commit 1dacc76d00
(net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks)
introduced a race condition on netlink, in case MSG_PEEK is used.

An skb given by skb_recv_datagram() might be shared, we must copy it
before any modification, or risk fatal corruption.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26 13:09:16 -07:00
Neil Horman
70d4bf6d46 drop_monitor: convert some kfree_skb call sites to consume_skb
Convert a few calls from kfree_skb to consume_skb

Noticed while I was working on dropwatch that I was detecting lots of internal
skb drops in several places.  While some are legitimate, several were not,
freeing skbs that were at the end of their life, rather than being discarded due
to an error.  This patch converts those calls sites from using kfree_skb to
consume_skb, which quiets the in-kernel drop_monitor code from detecting them as
drops.  Tested successfully by myself

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-20 13:28:05 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
b47030c71d af_netlink: Add needed scm_destroy after scm_send.
scm_send occasionally allocates state in the scm_cookie, so I have
modified netlink_sendmsg to guarantee that when scm_send succeeds
scm_destory will be called to free that state.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-16 14:55:56 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
910a7e905f netlink: Implment netlink_broadcast_filtered
When netlink sockets are used to convey data that is in a namespace
we need a way to select a subset of the listening sockets to deliver
the packet to.  For the network namespace we have been doing this
by only transmitting packets in the correct network namespace.

For data belonging to other namespaces netlink_bradcast_filtered
provides a mechanism that allows us to examine the destination
socket and to decide if we should transmit the specified packet
to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:32 -07:00
David S. Miller
871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
4a35ecf8bf Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
	drivers/net/via-velocity.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
2010-04-06 23:53:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cb4361c1dc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
  smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
  r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
  net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
  cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
  cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
  cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
  cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
  cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
  netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
  bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
  net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
  stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
  stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
  be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
  be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
  bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
  drivers/net: Add missing unlock
  net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
  net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
  ...
2010-04-06 08:34:06 -07:00
James Chapman
f408e0ce40 netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modules
This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:56:05 -07:00
Changli Gao
6503d96168 net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2).

Check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2). If the
length is invalid, -EINVAL will be returned.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
net/bluetooth/l2cap.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c | 3 ++-
net/bluetooth/sco.c | 3 ++-
net/can/bcm.c | 3 +++
net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c | 3 +++
net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 5 +++++
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 +++
7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 17:26:01 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Tom Goff
66aa4a55fe netlink: use the appropriate namespace pid
This was included in OpenVZ kernels but wasn't integrated upstream.
>From git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.24-openvz:

	commit 5c69402f18adf7276352e051ece2cf31feefab02
	Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
	Date:   Mon Dec 24 14:37:45 2007 +0300

	    netlink: fixup ->tgid to work in multiple PID namespaces

Signed-off-by: Tom Goff <thomas.goff@boeing.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-26 20:13:58 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1a50307ba1 netlink: fix NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS in netlink_set_err()
Currently, ENOBUFS errors are reported to the socket via
netlink_set_err() even if NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS is set. However,
that should not happen. This fixes this problem and it changes the
prototype of netlink_set_err() to return the number of sockets that
have set the NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option. This return
value is used in the next patch in these bugfix series.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-20 14:29:03 -07:00
Masatake YAMATO
cf0aa4e07c netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
The Inode field in /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...} is useful to know the types of
file descriptors associated to a process. Actually lsof utility uses the field.
Unfortunately, unlike /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...}, /proc/net/netlink doesn't have the field.
This patch adds the field to /proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 01:29:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
9c119ba54c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-03 19:38:22 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
974c37e9d8 netlink: fix for too early rmmod
Netlink code does module autoload if protocol userspace is asking for is
not ready. However, module can dissapear right after it was autoloaded.
Example: modprobe/rmmod stress-testing and xfrm_user.ko providing NETLINK_XFRM.

netlink_create() in such situation _will_ create userspace socket and
_will_not_ pin module. Now if module was removed and we're going to call
->netlink_rcv into nothing:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa02f842a
					       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	modules are loaded near these addresses here

IP: [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
PGD 161f067 PUD 1623063 PMD baa12067 PTE 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
CPU 1
Pid: 11515, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.33-rc5-netns-00594-gaaa5728-dirty #6 P5E/P5E
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa02f842a>]  [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
RSP: 0018:ffff8800baa3db48  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: ffff8800baa3dfd8 RBX: ffff8800be353640 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffffff81959380 RSI: ffff8800bab7f130 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff8800baa3db58 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000011
R13: ffff8800be353640 R14: ffff8800bcdec240 R15: ffff8800bd488010
FS:  00007f93749656f0(0000) GS:ffff880002300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffffffffa02f842a CR3: 00000000ba82b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process ip (pid: 11515, threadinfo ffff8800baa3c000, task ffff8800bab7eb30)
Stack:
 ffffffff813637c0 ffff8800bd488000 ffff8800baa3dba8 ffffffff8136397d
<0> 0000000000000000 ffffffff81344adc 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
<0> ffff8800baa3ded8 ffff8800be353640 ffff8800bcdec240 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff813637c0>] ? netlink_unicast+0x100/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff8136397d>] netlink_unicast+0x2bd/0x2d0

	netlink_unicast_kernel:
		nlk->netlink_rcv(skb);

 [<ffffffff81344adc>] ? memcpy_fromiovec+0x6c/0x90
 [<ffffffff81364263>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1d3/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff8133975b>] sock_sendmsg+0xbb/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8106cdeb>] ? __lock_acquire+0x27b/0xa60
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8106db22>] ? __lock_release+0x82/0x170
 [<ffffffff810a190e>] ? might_fault+0xbe/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff81344c77>] ? verify_iovec+0x47/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8133a509>] sys_sendmsg+0x1a9/0x360
 [<ffffffff813c2be5>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x65/0x70
 [<ffffffff8106aced>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
 [<ffffffff813c2bc2>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x70
 [<ffffffff81197004>] ? __up_read+0x84/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8106ac95>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x145/0x190
 [<ffffffff813c207f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
 [<ffffffff8100262b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code:  Bad RIP value.
RIP  [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
 RSP <ffff8800baa3db48>
CR2: ffffffffa02f842a

If module was quickly removed after autoloading, return -E.

Return -EPROTONOSUPPORT if module was quickly removed after autoloading.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03 18:13:43 -08:00
Samir Bellabes
e1d5a01072 genetlink: optimize ctrl_dumpfamily()
there is a unnecessary test which can be replaced by a good initialization in
the 'for' statement

Noticed by Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-13 20:37:45 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
09ad9bc752 net: use net_eq to compare nets
Generated with the following semantic patch

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 == n2
+ net_eq(n1, n2)

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 != n2
+ !net_eq(n1, n2)

applied over {include,net,drivers/net}.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
Johannes Berg
649300b927 netlink: remove subscriptions check on notifier
The netlink URELEASE notifier doesn't notify for
sockets that have been used to receive multicast
but it should be called for such sockets as well
since they might _also_ be used for sending and
not solely for receiving multicast. We will need
that for nl80211 (generic netlink sockets) in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 04:08:49 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
13cfa97bef net: netlink_getname, packet_getname -- use DECLARE_SOCKADDR guard
Use guard DECLARE_SOCKADDR in a few more places which allow
us to catch if the structure copied back is too big.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 20:54:41 -08:00
Eric Paris
3f378b6844 net: pass kern to net_proto_family create function
The generic __sock_create function has a kern argument which allows the
security system to make decisions based on if a socket is being created by
the kernel or by userspace.  This patch passes that flag to the
net_proto_family specific create function, so it can do the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 22:18:14 -08:00
Krishna Kumar
988ade6b8e genetlink: Optimize and one bug fix in genl_generate_id()
1. GENL_MIN_ID is a valid id -> no need to start at
   GENL_MIN_ID + 1.
2. Avoid going through the ids two times: If we start at
   GENL_MIN_ID+1 (*or bigger*) and all ids are over!, the
   code iterates through the list twice (*or lesser*).
3. Simplify code - no need to start at idx=0 which gets
   reset to GENL_MIN_ID.

Patch on net-next-2.6. Reboot test shows that first id
passed to genl_register_family was 16, next two were
GENL_ID_GENERATE and genl_generate_id returned 17 & 18
(user level testing of same code shows expected values
across entire range of MIN/MAX).

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Krishna Kumar
93860b08e3 genetlink: Optimize genl_register_family()
genl_register_family() doesn't need to call genl_family_find_byid
when GENL_ID_GENERATE is passed during register.

Patch on net-next-2.6, compile and reboot testing only.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
ec1b4cf74c net: mark net_proto_ops as const
All usages of structure net_proto_ops should be declared const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
b7058842c9 net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.
This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
John Fastabend
5dba93aedf net: fix nlmsg len size for skb when error bit is set.
Currently, the nlmsg->len field is not set correctly in  netlink_ack()
for ack messages that include the nlmsg of the error frame.  This
corrects the length field passed to __nlmsg_put to use the correct
payload size.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-26 20:16:11 -07:00
Johannes Berg
b8273570f8 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
Similar to commit d136f1bd36,
there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
    2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
     #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
     #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
    Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
     [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
     [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
     [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
     [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
     [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
     [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]

Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
before doing rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-24 15:44:05 -07:00
Jan Beulich
4481374ce8 mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Johannes Berg
d136f1bd36 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking
Since my commits introducing netns awareness into
genetlink we can get this problem:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002
2 locks held by modprobe/1178:
 #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou
 #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g
Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty #
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90
 [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588
 [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100
 [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290

because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will
schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However,
in the contention case, that isn't actually true.

Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table
lock first and then the RCU for netns protection.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-14 17:02:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
9a0da0d19c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-09-10 18:17:09 -07:00
Brian Haley
b1f5719558 netlink: silence compiler warning
CC      net/netlink/genetlink.o
net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_register_mc_group’:
net/netlink/genetlink.c:139: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function

From following the code 'err' is initialized, but set it to zero to
silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04 20:36:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
3a6c2b419b netlink: constify nlmsghdr arguments
Consitfy nlmsghdr arguments to a couple of functions as preparation
for the next patch, which will constify the netlink message data in
all nfnetlink users.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-25 16:07:40 +02:00
Johannes Berg
1dacc76d00 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks
Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.

The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.

A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.

A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.

In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.

To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.

I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Johannes Berg
134e63756d genetlink: make netns aware
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No
generic netlink families except for the controller family
are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by
one and then set the family->netnsok member to true.

A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to
allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace,
for example when it applies to an object that lives in
that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns()
to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects
that do not have an associated netns).

The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast
the message in just init_net, which is currently correct
for all generic netlink families since they only work in
init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all
net namespaces because they do not care about the netns
at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of
the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or
genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns
aware in some way.

After this patch families can easily decide whether or
not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many
genl families us it for objects not related to networking
and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but
that will have to be done on a per family basis.

Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart
problem where network namespaces could be used, genl
families and multicast groups are numbered globally and
I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it
must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces
for those families that do not care about netns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6c04bb18dd netlink: use call_rcu for netlink_change_ngroups
For the network namespace work in generic netlink I need
to be able to call this function under rcu_read_lock(),
otherwise the locking becomes a nightmare and more locks
would be needed. Instead, just embed a struct rcu_head
(actually a struct listeners_rcu_head that also carries
the pointer to the memory block) into the listeners
memory so we can use call_rcu() instead of synchronising
and then freeing. No rcu_barrier() is needed since this
code cannot be modular.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:24 -07:00
Johannes Berg
487420df79 netlink: remove unused exports
I added those myself in commits b4ff4f04 and 84659eb5,
but I see no reason now why they should be exported,
only generic netlink uses them which cannot be modular.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:19 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
31e6d363ab net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports
commit 2b85a34e91
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
Michał Mirosław
a7b11d7382 genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
08abe18af1 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
562f477a54 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:34 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
38938bfe34 netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag
This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can
be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving
ENOBUFS errors.

Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things
to the listener:

a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt().
b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync.

In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example:

a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync
method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a
given buffer size.

b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag
NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as
you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered
are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization).

Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down"
effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion
control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following:

1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the
receiver buffer.
2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk->state bit 0).
3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps
dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down.
4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk->state
bit 0 is set off), goto step 1.

This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy
load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer.
You can find some results in [1] that show this problem.

[1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/

This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
/proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 16:37:55 -07:00
David S. Miller
b5bb14386e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-24 13:24:36 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
dd5b6ce6fd nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-23 13:21:06 +01:00
David S. Miller
508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
4843b93c96 netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err()
The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value
as parameter for the error code. However, sk->sk_err wants a
positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called
by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error.

Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive
error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone
to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the
(usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :).

This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format
for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03 23:37:30 -08:00