There are three Kconfig entries with "--- help ---" attributes, and over
2000 Kconfig entries with "---help---" attributes. Apparently the three
attributes with embedded spaces are valid. Still, I see little reason
for using this obscure variant. And replacing those three attributes
with the common variant makes grepping Kconfig files for help texts a
bit easier too.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Fix inaccuracies in network driver interface documentation, from Ben
Hutchings.
2) Fix handling of negative offsets in BPF JITs, from Jan Seiffert.
3) Compile warning, locking, and refcounting fixes in netfilter's
xt_CT, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
4) phonet sendmsg needs to validate user length just like any other
datagram protocol, fix from Sasha Levin.
5) Ipv6 multicast code uses wrong loop index, from RongQing Li.
6) Link handling and firmware fixes in bnx2x driver from Yaniv Rosner
and Yuval Mintz.
7) mlx4 erroneously allocates 4 pages at a time, regardless of page
size, fix from Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.
8) SCTP socket option wasn't extended in a backwards compatible way,
fix from Thomas Graf.
9) Add missing address change event emissions to bonding, from Shlomo
Pongratz.
10) /proc/net/dev regressed because it uses a private offset to track
where we are in the hash table, but this doesn't track the offset
pullback that the seq_file code does resulting in some entries being
missed in large dumps.
Fix from Eric Dumazet.
11) do_tcp_sendpage() unloads the send queue way too fast, because it
invokes tcp_push() when it shouldn't. Let the natural sequence
generated by the splice paths, and the assosciated MSG_MORE
settings, guide the tcp_push() calls.
Otherwise what goes out of TCP is spaghetti and doesn't batch
effectively into GSO/TSO clusters.
From Eric Dumazet.
12) Once we put a SKB into either the netlink receiver's queue or a
socket error queue, it can be consumed and freed up, therefore we
cannot touch it after queueing it like that.
Fixes from Eric Dumazet.
13) PPP has this annoying behavior in that for every transmit call it
immediately stops the TX queue, then calls down into the next layer
to transmit the PPP frame.
But if that next layer can take it immediately, it just un-stops the
TX queue right before returning from the transmit method.
Besides being useless work, it makes several facilities unusable, in
particular things like the equalizers. Well behaved devices should
only stop the TX queue when they really are full, and in PPP's case
when it gets backlogged to the downstream device.
David Woodhouse therefore fixed PPP to not stop the TX queue until
it's downstream can't take data any more.
14) IFF_UNICAST_FLT got accidently lost in some recent stmmac driver
changes, re-add. From Marc Kleine-Budde.
15) Fix link flaps in ixgbe, from Eric W. Multanen.
16) Descriptor writeback fixes in e1000e from Matthew Vick.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()
netlink: fix races after skb queueing
doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values
doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start
doc, net: Update netdev operation names
doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue
doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll
ethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock
MAINTAINERS: update for Marvell Ethernet drivers
bonding: properly unset current_arp_slave on slave link up
phonet: Check input from user before allocating
tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once
ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src()
mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages
stmmac: re-add IFF_UNICAST_FLT for dwmac1000
bnx2x: Clear MDC/MDIO warning message
bnx2x: Fix BCM57711+BCM84823 link issue
bnx2x: Clear BCM84833 LED after fan failure
bnx2x: Fix BCM84833 PHY FW version presentation
bnx2x: Fix link issue for BCM8727 boards.
...
As soon as an skb is queued into socket error 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>
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>
commit 2f53384424 (tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets) added
a regression for splice() calls using SPLICE_F_MORE.
We need to call tcp_flush() at the end of the last page processed in
tcp_sendpages(), or else transmits can be deferred and future sends
stall.
Add a new internal flag, MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST, acting like MSG_MORE, but
with different semantic.
For all sendpage() providers, its a transparent change. Only
sock_sendpage() and tcp_sendpages() can differentiate the two different
flags provided by pipe_to_sendpage()
Reported-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail>com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
"The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to
merge things.
I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches. I've been
wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall
prospects for success of the project. But after speaking with Pavel
at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward
completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped
complaining" stage regarding the net changes. So I need to go back
and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion."
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches)
memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix
backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1
C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker
MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo
alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open()
libfs: add simple_open()
hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module
drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback
fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed
fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA
Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when
they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a
proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire
tree.
Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we
can replace all the users of this function with simple_open().
This replacement was done with the following semantic patch:
<smpl>
@ open @
identifier open_f != simple_open;
identifier i, f;
@@
-int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
-{
(
-if (i->i_private)
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
|
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
)
-return 0;
-}
@ has_open depends on open @
identifier fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
-.open = open_f,
+.open = simple_open,
...
};
</smpl>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert array index from the loop bound to the loop index.
And remove the void type conversion to ip6_mc_del1_src() return
code, seem it is unnecessary, since ip6_mc_del1_src() does not
use __must_check similar attribute, no compiler will report the
warning when it is removed.
v2: enrich the commit header
Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
getsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) performs a length check and returns
an error if the user provides less bytes than the size of struct
sctp_event_subscribe.
Struct sctp_event_subscribe needs to be extended by an u8 for every
new event or notification type that is added.
This obviously makes getsockopt fail for binaries that are compiled
against an older versions of <net/sctp/user.h> which do not contain
all event types.
This patch changes getsockopt behaviour to no longer return an error
if not enough bytes are being provided by the user. Instead, it
returns as much of sctp_event_subscribe as fits into the provided buffer.
This leads to the new behavior that users see what they have been aware
of at compile time.
The setsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) API is already behaving like this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We have to decrement the conntrack counter if we fail to access the
zone extension.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The error path misses putting the timeout object. This patch adds
new function xt_ct_tg_timeout_put() to put the timeout object.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The function is renamed to make it a little more clear what it does.
It is not added to any .h because it is not for general consumption, only for
bpf internal use (and so by the jits).
Signed-of-by: Jan Seiffert <kaffeemonster@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a
time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096)
The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an
immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try
to split these skb to MSS multiples.
4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining
sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500)
This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to
qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets
in flight of course)
In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy)
instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of
this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with
large initial [c]wnd.
Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter.
This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the
last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice()
flag.
In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an
order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than
one-copy :)
Reported-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail>com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit f04565ddf5 (dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops) added a second
regression, as some devices are missing from /proc/net/dev if many
devices are defined.
When seq_file buffer is filled, the last ->next/show() method is
canceled (pos value is reverted to value prior ->next() call)
Problem is after above commit, we dont restart the lookup at right
position in ->start() method.
Fix this by removing the internal 'pos' pointer added in commit, since
we need to use the 'loff_t *pos' provided by seq_file layer.
This also reverts commit 5cac98dd0 (net: Fix corruption
in /proc/*/net/dev_mcast), since its not needed anymore.
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@ixiacom.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT=n we have following warning :
CC [M] net/netfilter/xt_CT.o
net/netfilter/xt_CT.c: In function ‘xt_ct_tg_check_v1’:
net/netfilter/xt_CT.c:284: warning: label ‘err4’ defined but not used
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Provide device string properly for USB i2400m wimax devices, also
don't OOPS when providing firmware string. From Phil Sutter.
2) Add support for sh_eth SH7734 chips, from Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.
3) Add another device ID to USB zaurus driver, from Guan Xin.
4) Loop index start in pool vector iterator is wrong causing MAC to not
get configured in bnx2x driver, fix from Dmitry Kravkov.
5) EQL driver assumes HZ=100, fix from Eric Dumazet.
6) Now that skb_add_rx_frag() can specify the truesize increment
separately, do so in f_phonet and cdc_phonet, also from Eric
Dumazet.
7) virtio_net accidently uses net_ratelimit() not only on the kernel
warning but also the statistic bump, fix from Rick Jones.
8) ip_route_input_mc() uses fixed init_net namespace, oops, use
dev_net(dev) instead. Fix from Benjamin LaHaise.
9) dev_forward_skb() needs to clear the incoming interface index of the
SKB so that it looks like a new incoming packet, also from Benjamin
LaHaise.
10) iwlwifi mistakenly initializes a channel entry as 2GHZ instead of
5GHZ, fix from Stanislav Yakovlev.
11) Missing kmalloc() return value checks in orinoco, from Santosh
Nayak.
12) ath9k doesn't check for HT capabilities in the right way, it is
checking ht_supported instead of the ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT flag. Fix from
Sujith Manoharan.
13) Fix x86 BPF JIT emission of 16-bit immediate field of AND
instructions, from Feiran Zhuang.
14) Avoid infinite loop in GARP code when registering sysfs entries.
From David Ward.
15) rose protocol uses memcpy instead of memcmp in a device address
comparison, oops. Fix from Daniel Borkmann.
16) Fix build of lpc_eth due to dev_hw_addr_rancom() interface being
renamed to eth_hw_addr_random(). From Roland Stigge.
17) Make ipv6 RTM_GETROUTE interpret RTA_IIF attribute the same way
that ipv4 does. Fix from Shmulik Ladkani.
18) via-rhine has an inverted bit test, causing suspend/resume
regressions. Fix from Andreas Mohr.
19) RIONET assumes 4K page size, fix from Akinobu Mita.
20) Initialization of imask register in sky2 is buggy, because bits are
"or'd" into an uninitialized local variable. Fix from Lino
Sanfilippo.
21) Fix FCOE checksum offload handling, from Yi Zou.
22) Fix VLAN processing regression in e1000, from Jiri Pirko.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (52 commits)
sky2: dont overwrite settings for PHY Quick link
tg3: Fix 5717 serdes powerdown problem
net: usb: cdc_eem: fix mtu
net: sh_eth: fix endian check for architecture independent
usb/rtl8150 : Remove duplicated definitions
rionet: fix page allocation order of rionet_active
via-rhine: fix wait-bit inversion.
ipv6: Fix RTM_GETROUTE's interpretation of RTA_IIF to be consistent with ipv4
net: lpc_eth: Fix rename of dev_hw_addr_random
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c: use linux/atomic.h
rose_dev: fix memcpy-bug in rose_set_mac_address
Fix non TBI PHY access; a bad merge undid bug fix in a previous commit.
net/garp: avoid infinite loop if attribute already exists
x86 bpf_jit: fix a bug in emitting the 16-bit immediate operand of AND
bonding: emit event when bonding changes MAC
mac80211: fix oper channel timestamp updation
ath9k: Use HW HT capabilites properly
MAINTAINERS: adding maintainer for ipw2x00
net: orinoco: add error handling for failed kmalloc().
net/wireless: ipw2x00: fix a typo in wiphy struct initilization
...
In IPv4, if an RTA_IIF attribute is specified within an RTM_GETROUTE
message, then a route is searched as if a packet was received on the
specified 'iif' interface.
However in IPv6, RTA_IIF is not interpreted in the same way:
'inet6_rtm_getroute()' always calls 'ip6_route_output()', regardless the
RTA_IIF attribute.
As a result, in IPv6 there's no way to use RTM_GETROUTE in order to look
for a route as if a packet was received on a specific interface.
Fix 'inet6_rtm_getroute()' so that RTA_IIF is interpreted as "lookup a
route as if a packet was received on the specified interface", similar
to IPv4's 'inet_rtm_getroute()' interpretation.
Reported-by: Ami Koren <amikoren@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There's no known problem here, but this is one of only two non-arch files
in the kernel which use asm/atomic.h instead of linux/atomic.h.
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If both addresses equal, nothing needs to be done. If the device is down,
then we simply copy the new address to dev->dev_addr. If the device is up,
then we add another loopback device with the new address, and if that does
not fail, we remove the loopback device with the old address. And only
then, we update the dev->dev_addr.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel.borkmann@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
An infinite loop occurred if garp_attr_create was called with the values
of an existing attribute. This might happen if a previous leave request
for the attribute has not yet been followed by a PDU transmission (or,
if the application previously issued a join request for the attribute
and is now issuing another one, without having issued a leave request).
If garp_attr_create finds an existing attribute having the same values,
return the address to it. Its state will then get updated (i.e., if it
was in a leaving state, it will move into a non-leaving state and not
get deleted during the next PDU transmission).
To accomplish this fix, collapse garp_attr_insert into garp_attr_create
(which is its only caller).
Thanks to Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net> for contributing to
this fix.
Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
syscalls.
This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."
Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
x32: Add ptrace for x32
x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
x32: Add x32 VDSO support
x32: Allow x32 to be configured
x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
x32: Handle process creation
x32: Signal-related system calls
x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
...
Pull nfsd changes from Bruce Fields:
Highlights:
- Benny Halevy and Tigran Mkrtchyan implemented some more 4.1 features,
moving us closer to a complete 4.1 implementation.
- Bernd Schubert fixed a long-standing problem with readdir cookies on
ext2/3/4.
- Jeff Layton performed a long-overdue overhaul of the server reboot
recovery code which will allow us to deprecate the current code (a
rather unusual user of the vfs), and give us some needed flexibility
for further improvements.
- Like the client, we now support numeric uid's and gid's in the
auth_sys case, allowing easier upgrades from NFSv2/v3 to v4.x.
Plus miscellaneous bugfixes and cleanup.
Thanks to everyone!
There are also some delegation fixes waiting on vfs review that I
suppose will have to wait for 3.5. With that done I think we'll finally
turn off the "EXPERIMENTAL" dependency for v4 (though that's mostly
symbolic as it's been on by default in distro's for a while).
And the list of 4.1 todo's should be achievable for 3.5 as well:
http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues
though we may still want a bit more experience with it before turning it
on by default.
* 'for-3.4' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (55 commits)
nfsd: only register cld pipe notifier when CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is enabled
nfsd4: use auth_unix unconditionally on backchannel
nfsd: fix NULL pointer dereference in cld_pipe_downcall
nfsd4: memory corruption in numeric_name_to_id()
sunrpc: skip portmap calls on sessions backchannel
nfsd4: allow numeric idmapping
nfsd: don't allow legacy client tracker init for anything but init_net
nfsd: add notifier to handle mount/unmount of rpc_pipefs sb
nfsd: add the infrastructure to handle the cld upcall
nfsd: add a header describing upcall to nfsdcld
nfsd: add a per-net-namespace struct for nfsd
sunrpc: create nfsd dir in rpc_pipefs
nfsd: add nfsd4_client_tracking_ops struct and a way to set it
nfsd: convert nfs4_client->cl_cb_flags to a generic flags field
NFSD: Fix nfs4_verifier memory alignment
NFSD: Fix warnings when NFSD_DEBUG is not defined
nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes)
nfsd: rename 'int access' to 'int may_flags' in nfsd_open()
ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type
fs: add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and FMODE_64bithash
...
Highlights include:
- Fix infinite loops in the mount code
- Fix a userspace buffer overflow in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached
- Fix a memory leak due to a double reference count in rpcb_getport_async()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.4-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client bugfixes for Linux 3.4 from Trond Myklebust
Highlights include:
- Fix infinite loops in the mount code
- Fix a userspace buffer overflow in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached
- Fix a memory leak due to a double reference count in rpcb_getport_async()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* tag 'nfs-for-3.4-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4: Minor cleanups for nfs4_handle_exception and nfs4_async_handle_error
NFSv4.1: Fix layoutcommit error handling
NFSv4: Fix two infinite loops in the mount code
SUNRPC: Use the already looked-up xprt in rpcb_getport_async()
NFS4.1: remove duplicate variable declaration in filelayout_clear_request_commit
Fix length of buffer copied in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
Whenever the station informs the AP that it is about to leave the
operating channel, the timestamp should be recorded. It is handled
in scan resume but not in scan start. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Pull Ceph updates for 3.4-rc1 from Sage Weil:
"Alex has been busy. There are a range of rbd and libceph cleanups,
especially surrounding device setup and teardown, and a few critical
fixes in that code. There are more cleanups in the messenger code,
virtual xattrs, a fix for CRC calculation/checks, and lots of other
miscellaneous stuff.
There's a patch from Amon Ott to make inos behave a bit better on
32-bit boxes, some decode check fixes from Xi Wang, and network
throttling fix from Jim Schutt, and a couple RBD fixes from Josh
Durgin.
No new functionality, just a lot of cleanup and bug fixing."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (65 commits)
rbd: move snap_rwsem to the device, rename to header_rwsem
ceph: fix three bugs, two in ceph_vxattrcb_file_layout()
libceph: isolate kmap() call in write_partial_msg_pages()
libceph: rename "page_shift" variable to something sensible
libceph: get rid of zero_page_address
libceph: only call kernel_sendpage() via helper
libceph: use kernel_sendpage() for sending zeroes
libceph: fix inverted crc option logic
libceph: some simple changes
libceph: small refactor in write_partial_kvec()
libceph: do crc calculations outside loop
libceph: separate CRC calculation from byte swapping
libceph: use "do" in CRC-related Boolean variables
ceph: ensure Boolean options support both senses
libceph: a few small changes
libceph: make ceph_tcp_connect() return int
libceph: encapsulate some messenger cleanup code
libceph: make ceph_msgr_wq private
libceph: encapsulate connection kvec operations
libceph: move prepare_write_banner()
...
The following changes since commit 3c761ea05a8900a907f32b628611873f6bef24b2:
Fix autofs compile without CONFIG_COMPAT (2012-02-26 09:44:55 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs.git for-linus
Jim Garlick (3):
net/9p: don't allow Tflush to be interrupted
net/9p: handle flushed Tclunk/Tremove
9p: statfs should not override server f_type
fs/9p/vfs_super.c | 2 +-
net/9p/client.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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Merge tag 'for-linus-3.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
Pull 9p changes for the 3.4 merge window from Eric Van Hensbergen.
* tag 'for-linus-3.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: statfs should not override server f_type
net/9p: handle flushed Tclunk/Tremove
net/9p: don't allow Tflush to be interrupted
While investigating another bug, I found that the code on the incoming path
in __netif_receive_skb will only set skb->skb_iif if it is already 0. When
dev_forward_skb() is used in the case of interfaces like veth, skb_iif may
already have been set. Making dev_forward_skb() cause the packet to look
like a newly received packet would seem to the the correct behaviour here,
as otherwise the wrong incoming interface can be reported for such a packet.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When using multicast over a local bridge feeding a number of LXC guests
using veth, the LXC guests are unable to get a response from other guests
when pinging 224.0.0.1. Multicast packets did not appear to be getting
delivered to the network namespaces of the guest hosts, and further
inspection showed that the incoming route was pointing to the loopback
device of the host, not the guest. This lead to the wrong network namespace
being picked up by sockets (like ICMP). Fix this by using the correct
network namespace when creating the inbound route entry.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Name string overrun fix in gianfar driver from Joe Perches.
2) VHOST bug fixes from Michael S. Tsirkin and Nadav Har'El
3) Fix dependencies on xt_LOG netfilter module, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
4) Fix RCU locking in xt_CT, also from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
5) Add a parameter to skb_add_rx_frag() so we can fix the truesize
adjustments in the drivers that use it. The individual drivers
aren't fixed by this commit, but will be dealt with using follow-on
commits. From Eric Dumazet.
6) Add some device IDs to qmi_wwan driver, from Andrew Bird.
7) Fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalancein rt6_fill_node(). From
Eric Dumazet.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()
net: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()
gianfar: Fix possible overrun and simplify interrupt name field creation
USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3570-Z and K3571-Z net interfaces
USB: option: Ignore ZTE (Vodafone) K3570/71 net interfaces
USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3565-Z and K4505-Z net interfaces
qlcnic: Bug fix for LRO
netfilter: nf_conntrack: permanently attach timeout policy to conntrack
netfilter: xt_CT: fix assignation of the generic protocol tracker
netfilter: xt_CT: missing rcu_read_lock section in timeout assignment
netfilter: cttimeout: fix dependency with l4protocol conntrack module
netfilter: xt_LOG: use CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES instead of CONFIG_IPV6
vhost: fix release path lockdep checks
vhost: don't forget to schedule()
tools/virtio: stub out strong barriers
tools/virtio: add linux/hrtimer.h stub
tools/virtio: add linux/module.h stub
Commit f2c31e32b3 (net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir() )
added a regression in rt6_fill_node(), leading to rcu_read_lock()
imbalance.
Thats because NLA_PUT() can make a jump to nla_put_failure label.
Fix this by using nla_put()
Many thanks to Ben Greear for his help
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
rbcb_getport_async() was looking up the rpc_xprt (reference++) and then
later looking it up again (reference++) to pass through the
rpcbind_args. The xprt would only be dereferenced once, when we were
done with the rpcbind_args (reference--). This leaves an extra
reference to the transport that would never go away.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Is possible that we will arm the tid_rx->reorder_timer after
del_timer_sync() in ___ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session(). We need to stop
timer after RCU grace period finish, so move it to
ieee80211_free_tid_rx(). Timer will not be armed again, as
rcu_dereference(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[tid]) will return NULL.
Debug object detected problem with the following warning:
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_expired+0x0/0xf0 [mac80211]
Bug report (with all warning messages):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804007
Reported-by: "jan p. springer" <jsd@igroup.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The on-oper-channel optimization was reverted,
so remove the outdated comment as well.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The station_info struct had demanded dBm signal values, but the
cfg80211 wireless extensions implementation was also accepting
"unspecified" (i.e. RSSI) unit values while the nl80211 code was
completely unaware of them. Resolve this by formally allowing the
"unspecified" units while making nl80211 ignore them.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Add a new top-level dir in rpc_pipefs to hold the pipe for the clientid
upcall.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
skb_add_rx_frag() API is misleading.
Network skbs built with this helper can use uncharged kernel memory and
eventually stress/crash machine in OOM.
Add a 'truesize' parameter and then fix drivers in followup patches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
"[RFC PATCH 0/2] audit of linux/device.h users in include/*"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/4/159
--
Nearly every subsystem has some kind of header with a proto like:
void foo(struct device *dev);
and yet there is no reason for most of these guys to care about the
sub fields within the device struct. This allows us to significantly
reduce the scope of headers including headers. For this instance, a
reduction of about 40% is achieved by replacing the include with the
simple fact that the device is some kind of a struct.
Unlike the much larger module.h cleanup, this one is simply two
commits. One to fix the implicit <linux/device.h> users, and then
one to delete the device.h includes from the linux/include/ dir
wherever possible.
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Merge tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull <linux/device.h> avoidance patches from Paul Gortmaker:
"Nearly every subsystem has some kind of header with a proto like:
void foo(struct device *dev);
and yet there is no reason for most of these guys to care about the
sub fields within the device struct. This allows us to significantly
reduce the scope of headers including headers. For this instance, a
reduction of about 40% is achieved by replacing the include with the
simple fact that the device is some kind of a struct.
Unlike the much larger module.h cleanup, this one is simply two
commits. One to fix the implicit <linux/device.h> users, and then one
to delete the device.h includes from the linux/include/ dir wherever
possible."
* tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
device.h: audit and cleanup users in main include dir
device.h: cleanup users outside of linux/include (C files)
Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman:
- Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity.
Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and
are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing
network devices.
sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call
and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Hopefully
this means the code is now approachable.
Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until
something was found that was usable.
- The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation
is fixed.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits)
sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away
sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.
sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir
sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
sysctl: remove an unused variable
sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users
sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.
sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.
sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header
sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy
sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir
sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set
sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry
sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.
sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.
sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header
...
In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for. An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested. This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem among others.
Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably. The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask. But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table pointer.
Also, the eventpoll implementation always left the key field at ~0 instead
of using the requested events mask.
This was changed in eventpoll.c so the key field now contains the actual
events that should be polled for as set by the caller.
The solution to the NULL poll_table pointer is to set the qproc field to
NULL in poll_table once poll() matches the events, not the poll_table
pointer itself. That way drivers can obtain the mask through a new
poll_requested_events inline.
The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h). In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e. all events).
Very rarely drivers might want to know whether poll_wait will actually
wait. If another earlier file descriptor in the set already matched the
events the caller wanted to wait for, then the kernel will return from the
select() call without waiting. This might be useful information in order
to avoid doing expensive work.
A new helper function poll_does_not_wait() is added that drivers can use
to detect this situation. This is now used in sock_poll_wait() in
include/net/sock.h. This was the only place in the kernel that needed
this information.
Drivers should no longer access any of the poll_table internals, but use
the poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() access functions
instead. In order to enforce that the poll_table fields are now prepended
with an underscore and a comment was added warning against using them
directly.
This required a change in unix_dgram_poll() in unix/af_unix.c which used
the key field to get the requested events. It's been replaced by a call
to poll_requested_events().
For qproc it was especially important to change its name since the
behavior of that field changes with this patch since this function pointer
can now be NULL when that wasn't possible in the past.
Any driver accessing the qproc or key fields directly will now fail to compile.
Some notes regarding the correctness of this patch: the driver's poll()
function is called with a 'struct poll_table_struct *wait' argument. This
pointer may or may not be NULL, drivers can never rely on it being one or
the other as that depends on whether or not an earlier file descriptor in
the select()'s fdset matched the requested events.
There are only three things a driver can do with the wait argument:
1) obtain the key field:
events = wait ? wait->key : ~0;
This will still work although it should be replaced with the new
poll_requested_events() function (which does exactly the same).
This will now even work better, since wait is no longer set to NULL
unnecessarily.
2) use the qproc callback. This could be deadly since qproc can now be
NULL. Renaming qproc should prevent this from happening. There are no
kernel drivers that actually access this callback directly, BTW.
3) test whether wait == NULL to determine whether poll would return without
waiting. This is no longer sufficient as the correct test is now
wait == NULL || wait->_qproc == NULL.
However, the worst that can happen here is a slight performance hit in
the case where wait != NULL and wait->_qproc == NULL. In that case the
driver will assume that poll_wait() will actually add the fd to the set
of waiting file descriptors. Of course, poll_wait() will not do that
since it tests for wait->_qproc. This will not break anything, though.
There is only one place in the whole kernel where this happens
(sock_poll_wait() in include/net/sock.h) and that code will be replaced
by a call to poll_does_not_wait() in the next patch.
Note that even if wait->_qproc != NULL drivers cannot rely on poll_wait()
actually waiting. The next file descriptor from the set might match the
event mask and thus any possible waits will never happen.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Bolle