This bug is responsible for causing the infamous "Treason uncloaked"
messages that's been popping up everywhere since the printk was added.
It has usually been blamed on foreign operating systems. However,
some of those reports implicate Linux as both systems are running
Linux or the TCP connection is going across the loopback interface.
In fact, there really is a bug in the Linux TCP header prediction code
that's been there since at least 2.1.8. This bug was tracked down with
help from Dale Blount.
The effect of this bug ranges from harmless "Treason uncloaked"
messages to hung/aborted TCP connections. The details of the bug
and fix is as follows.
When snd_wnd is updated, we only update pred_flags if
tcp_fast_path_check succeeds. When it fails (for example,
when our rcvbuf is used up), we will leave pred_flags with
an out-of-date snd_wnd value.
When the out-of-date pred_flags happens to match the next incoming
packet we will again hit the fast path and use the current snd_wnd
which will be wrong.
In the case of the treason messages, it just happens that the snd_wnd
cached in pred_flags is zero while tp->snd_wnd is non-zero. Therefore
when a zero-window packet comes in we incorrectly conclude that the
window is non-zero.
In fact if the peer continues to send us zero-window pure ACKs we
will continue making the same mistake. It's only when the peer
transmits a zero-window packet with data attached that we get a
chance to snap out of it. This is what triggers the treason
message at the next retransmit timeout.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Convert nanoseconds to microseconds correctly.
Spotted by Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form. Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.
Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats. That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.
Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
neigh_changeaddr attempts to delete neighbour timers without setting
nud_state. This doesn't work because the timer may have already fired
when we acquire the write lock in neigh_changeaddr. The result is that
the timer may keep firing for quite a while until the entry reaches
NEIGH_FAILED.
It should be setting the nud_state straight away so that if the timer
has already fired it can simply exit once we relinquish the lock.
In fact, this whole function is simply duplicating the logic in
neigh_ifdown which in turn is already doing the right thing when
it comes to deleting timers and setting nud_state.
So all we have to do is take that code out and put it into a common
function and make both neigh_changeaddr and neigh_ifdown call it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
neigh_add_timer cannot use add_timer unconditionally. The reason is that
by the time it has obtained the write lock someone else (e.g., neigh_update)
could have already added a new timer.
So it should only use mod_timer and deal with its return value accordingly.
This bug would have led to rare neighbour cache entry leaks.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Stack traces are very helpful in determining the exact nature of a bug.
So let's print a stack trace when the timer is added twice.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
IPVS used flag NFC_IPVS_PROPERTY in nfcache but as now nfcache was removed the
new flag 'ipvs_property' still needs to be copied. This patch should be
included in 2.6.14.
Further comments from Harald Welte:
Sorry, seems like the bug was introduced by me.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
It is legitimate to call tcp_fragment with len == skb->len since
that is done for FIN packets and the FIN flag counts as one byte.
So we should only check for the len > skb->len case.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Turns out the problem has nothing to do with use-after-free or double-free.
It's just that we're not clearing the CB area and DCCP unlike TCP uses a CB
format that's incompatible with IP.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
icmp_send doesn't use skb->sk at all so even if skb->sk has already
been freed it can't cause crash there (it would've crashed somewhere
else first, e.g., ip_queue_xmit).
I found a double-free on an skb that could explain this though.
dccp_sendmsg and dccp_write_xmit are a little confused as to what
should free the packet when something goes wrong. Sometimes they
both go for the ball and end up in each other's way.
This patch makes dccp_write_xmit always free the packet no matter
what. This makes sense since dccp_transmit_skb which in turn comes
from the fact that ip_queue_xmit always frees the packet.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> One thing you can probably do for this bug is to mark data packets
> explicitly somehow, perhaps in the SKB control block DCCP already
> uses for other data. Put some boolean in there, set it true for
> data packets. Then change the test in dccp_transmit_skb() as
> appropriate to test the boolean flag instead of "skb_cloned(skb)".
I agree. In fact we already have that flag, it's called skb->sk.
So here is patch to test that instead of skb_cloned().
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Opterons with frequency scaling have fully unsynchronized TSCs
running at different frequencies, so using TSCs there is not a good idea.
Also some other x86 boxes have this problem. gettimeofday should be good
enough, so just disable it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Original patch by Harald Welte, with feedback from Herbert Xu
and testing by Sébastien Bernard.
EBTABLES, ARP tables, and IP/IP6 tables all assume that cpus
are numbered linearly. That is not necessarily true.
This patch fixes that up by calculating the largest possible
cpu number, and allocating enough per-cpu structure space given
that.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is the second report of this bug. Unfortunately the first
reporter hasn't been able to reproduce it since to provide more
debugging info.
So let's apply this patch for 2.6.14 to
1) Make this non-fatal.
2) Provide the info we need to track it down.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes the RCU race on bridge delete interface. Basically,
the network device has to be detached from the bridge in the first
step (pre-RCU), rather than later. At that point, no more bridge traffic
will come in, and the other code will not think that network device
is part of a bridge.
This should also fix the XEN test problems.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is required to avoid unloading a module that has active timewait
sockets, such as DCCP.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Noticed by Andrea Bittau, that provided a patch that was modified to
not transition from RESPOND to OPEN when receiving DATA packets.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For consistency with ccid_exit and to fix a bug when
IP_DCCP_UNLOAD_HACK is enabled as the control sock is not associated
to any CCID.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch add support to change the state of the private protocol
information via conntrack_netlink.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds the ability of changing the state a TCP connection. I know
that this must be used with care but it's required to provide a complete
conntrack creation via conntrack_netlink. So I'll document this aspect on
the upcoming docs.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initially we used 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, since we
had no event mechanism to tell userspace that our counters are about to
overflow. With nfnetlink_conntrack, we now have such a event mechanism and
thus can save 16bytes per connection.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the following bugs in ESP:
* Fix transport mode MTU overestimate. This means that the inner MTU
is smaller than it needs be. Worse yet, given an input MTU which
is a multiple of 4 it will always produce an estimate which is not
a multiple of 4.
For example, given a standard ESP/3DES/MD5 transform and an MTU of
1500, the resulting MTU for transport mode is 1462 when it should
be 1464.
The reason for this is because IP header lengths are always a multiple
of 4 for IPv4 and 8 for IPv6.
* Ensure that the block size is at least 4. This is required by RFC2406
and corresponds to what the esp_output function does. At the moment
this only affects crypto_null as its block size is 1.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch uses the macro ALIGN in all the applicable spots for ESP.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To keep consistency, the TCP private protocol information is nested
attributes under CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP. This way the sequence of attributes to
access the TCP state information looks like here below:
CTA_PROTOINFO
CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP
CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE
instead of:
CTA_PROTOINFO
CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The ID is only required by ICMP type 8 (echo), so it's not
mandatory for all sort of ICMP connections. This patch makes
mandatory only the type and the code for ICMP netlink messages.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When we send "status" from userspace, we forget to convert the endianness.
This patch adds the reqired conversion. Thanks to Pablo Neira for
discovering this.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e.
host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser
can determine whether an attribute is nested or not.
This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether
the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0).
This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with
nfnetlink was released so far.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar to nfnetlink_queue and ip_queue, we mark ipt_ULOG as obsolete.
This should have been part of the original nfnetlink_log merge, but
I somehow missed it.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
PPTP should not be selectable without conntrack enabled
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
From: "Jean-Denis Boyer" <jdboyer@mediatrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The old socket options are marked with a _OLD suffix so that the
existing 32-bit apps on 32-bit kernels do not break.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Skytte Jørgensen <isj-sctp@i1.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since changeset 98a82febb6 AX.25 is passing
received IP and ARP packets to the stack through netif_rx() but we don't
set the skb->mac.raw to right value which may result in a crash with
applications that use a packet socket.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Here is a patch that adds a helper called xfrm_policy_id2dir to
document the fact that the policy direction can be and is derived
from the index.
This is based on a patch by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki and 210313105@suda.edu.cn.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Timer set up by pneigh_enqueue() ended up calling ndisc_rcv()
via pndisc_redo(), which clears LOCALLY_ENQUEUED flag in
NEIGH_CB(skb) and NS was queued again.
Let's call ndisc_recv_ns() directly to avoid the loop.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Missing parenthesis in causes BIC to be slow in increasing congestion
window.
Spotted by Injong Rhee.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-Off-By: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in xfrm code:
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:232:47: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix nocast sparse warnings:
net/rxrpc/call.c:2013:25: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/rxrpc/connection.c:538:46: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/sunrpc/sched.c:730:36: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/sunrpc/sched.c:734:56: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in net/key code:
net/key/af_key.c:195:27: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/key/af_key.c:1439:28: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in nfnetlink code:
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:204:43: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in ip_vs code:
net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c:631:54: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix implicit nocast warnings in decnet code:
net/decnet/af_decnet.c:458:40: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/decnet/dn_nsp_out.c:125:35: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/decnet/dn_nsp_out.c:219:29: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
