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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/ppp, branch v5.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'tty-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2021-11-04T16:09:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-04T16:09:37+00:00</published>
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Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty and serial driver updates for 5.16-rc1.

  Nothing major in here at all, just lots of tiny serial and tty driver
  updates for various reported things, and some good cleanups. These
  include:

   - more good tty api cleanups from Jiri

   - stm32 serial driver updates

   - softlockup fix for non-preempt systems under high serial load

   - rpmsg serial driver update

   - 8250 drivers updates and fixes

   - n_gsm line discipline fixes and updates as people are finally
     starting to use it.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (86 commits)
  tty: Fix extra "not" in TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW description
  serial: cpm_uart: Protect udbg definitions by CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_CONSOLE
  tty: rpmsg: Define tty name via constant string literal
  tty: rpmsg: Add pr_fmt() to prefix messages
  tty: rpmsg: Use dev_err_probe() in -&gt;probe()
  tty: rpmsg: Unify variable used to keep an error code
  tty: rpmsg: Assign returned id to a local variable
  serial: stm32: push DMA RX data before suspending
  serial: stm32: terminate / restart DMA transfer at suspend / resume
  serial: stm32: rework RX dma initialization and release
  serial: 8250_pci: Remove empty stub pci_quatech_exit()
  serial: 8250_pci: Replace custom pci_match_id() implementation
  serial: xilinx_uartps: Fix race condition causing stuck TX
  serial: sunzilog: Mark sunzilog_putchar() __maybe_unused
  Revert "tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()"
  Revert "virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()"
  serial: 8250_pci: Replace dev_*() by pci_*() macros
  serial: 8250_pci: Get rid of redundant 'else' keyword
  serial: 8250_pci: Refactor the loop in pci_ite887x_init()
  tty: add rpmsg driver
  ...
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Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty and serial driver updates for 5.16-rc1.

  Nothing major in here at all, just lots of tiny serial and tty driver
  updates for various reported things, and some good cleanups. These
  include:

   - more good tty api cleanups from Jiri

   - stm32 serial driver updates

   - softlockup fix for non-preempt systems under high serial load

   - rpmsg serial driver update

   - 8250 drivers updates and fixes

   - n_gsm line discipline fixes and updates as people are finally
     starting to use it.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (86 commits)
  tty: Fix extra "not" in TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW description
  serial: cpm_uart: Protect udbg definitions by CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_CONSOLE
  tty: rpmsg: Define tty name via constant string literal
  tty: rpmsg: Add pr_fmt() to prefix messages
  tty: rpmsg: Use dev_err_probe() in -&gt;probe()
  tty: rpmsg: Unify variable used to keep an error code
  tty: rpmsg: Assign returned id to a local variable
  serial: stm32: push DMA RX data before suspending
  serial: stm32: terminate / restart DMA transfer at suspend / resume
  serial: stm32: rework RX dma initialization and release
  serial: 8250_pci: Remove empty stub pci_quatech_exit()
  serial: 8250_pci: Replace custom pci_match_id() implementation
  serial: xilinx_uartps: Fix race condition causing stuck TX
  serial: sunzilog: Mark sunzilog_putchar() __maybe_unused
  Revert "tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()"
  Revert "virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()"
  serial: 8250_pci: Replace dev_*() by pci_*() macros
  serial: 8250_pci: Get rid of redundant 'else' keyword
  serial: 8250_pci: Refactor the loop in pci_ite887x_init()
  tty: add rpmsg driver
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ppp: use the correct function to check if a netdev name is in use</title>
<updated>2021-10-08T16:02:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Antoine Tenart</name>
<email>atenart@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-07T16:16:52+00:00</published>
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A new helper to detect if a net device name is in use was added. Use it
here as the return reference from __dev_get_by_name was discarded.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart &lt;atenart@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A new helper to detect if a net device name is in use was added. Use it
here as the return reference from __dev_get_by_name was discarded.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart &lt;atenart@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: remove file from n_tty_ioctl_helper</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T14:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T09:11:24+00:00</published>
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After the previous patch, there are no users of 'file' in
n_tty_ioctl_helper. So remove it also from there.

Cc: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Cc: Johan Hedberg &lt;johan.hedberg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz &lt;luiz.dentz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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After the previous patch, there are no users of 'file' in
n_tty_ioctl_helper. So remove it also from there.

Cc: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Cc: Johan Hedberg &lt;johan.hedberg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz &lt;luiz.dentz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: remove file from tty_mode_ioctl</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T14:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T09:11:23+00:00</published>
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The only user of 'file' parameter in tty_mode_ioctl is a BUG_ON check.
Provided it never crashed for anyone, it's an overkill to pass the
parameter to tty_mode_ioctl only for this check.

If we wanted to check 'file' there, we should handle it in more graceful
way anyway. Not by a BUG == crash.

Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger &lt;wg@grandegger.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Koensgen &lt;ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The only user of 'file' parameter in tty_mode_ioctl is a BUG_ON check.
Provided it never crashed for anyone, it's an overkill to pass the
parameter to tty_mode_ioctl only for this check.

If we wanted to check 'file' there, we should handle it in more graceful
way anyway. Not by a BUG == crash.

Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger &lt;wg@grandegger.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Koensgen &lt;ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::hangup return void</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T14:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T09:11:22+00:00</published>
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The documentation says that the return value of tty_ldisc_ops::hangup
hook is ignored. And it really is, so there is no point for its return
type to be int. Switch it to void and all the hooks too.

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger &lt;wg@grandegger.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Girdwood &lt;lgirdwood@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi &lt;peter.ujfalusi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-4-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The documentation says that the return value of tty_ldisc_ops::hangup
hook is ignored. And it really is, so there is no point for its return
type to be int. Switch it to void and all the hooks too.

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger &lt;wg@grandegger.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Girdwood &lt;lgirdwood@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi &lt;peter.ujfalusi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914091134.17426-4-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Refactor BPF_PROG_RUN into a function</title>
<updated>2021-08-16T22:45:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-15T07:05:54+00:00</published>
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Turn BPF_PROG_RUN into a proper always inlined function. No functional and
performance changes are intended, but it makes it much easier to understand
what's going on with how BPF programs are actually get executed. It's more
obvious what types and callbacks are expected. Also extra () around input
parameters can be dropped, as well as `__` variable prefixes intended to avoid
naming collisions, which makes the code simpler to read and write.

This refactoring also highlighted one extra issue. BPF_PROG_RUN is both
a macro and an enum value (BPF_PROG_RUN == BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN). Turning
BPF_PROG_RUN into a function causes naming conflict compilation error. So
rename BPF_PROG_RUN into lower-case bpf_prog_run(), similar to
bpf_prog_run_xdp(), bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu(), etc. All existing callers of
BPF_PROG_RUN, the macro, are switched to bpf_prog_run() explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-2-andrii@kernel.org
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Turn BPF_PROG_RUN into a proper always inlined function. No functional and
performance changes are intended, but it makes it much easier to understand
what's going on with how BPF programs are actually get executed. It's more
obvious what types and callbacks are expected. Also extra () around input
parameters can be dropped, as well as `__` variable prefixes intended to avoid
naming collisions, which makes the code simpler to read and write.

This refactoring also highlighted one extra issue. BPF_PROG_RUN is both
a macro and an enum value (BPF_PROG_RUN == BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN). Turning
BPF_PROG_RUN into a function causes naming conflict compilation error. So
rename BPF_PROG_RUN into lower-case bpf_prog_run(), similar to
bpf_prog_run_xdp(), bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu(), etc. All existing callers of
BPF_PROG_RUN, the macro, are switched to bpf_prog_run() explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-2-andrii@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp: Fix generating ppp unit id when ifname is not specified</title>
<updated>2021-08-08T12:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pali Rohár</name>
<email>pali@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-07T16:00:50+00:00</published>
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When registering new ppp interface via PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl then kernel has
to choose interface name as this ioctl API does not support specifying it.

Kernel in this case register new interface with name "ppp&lt;id&gt;" where &lt;id&gt;
is the ppp unit id, which can be obtained via PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. This
applies also in the case when registering new ppp interface via rtnl
without supplying IFLA_IFNAME.

PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl allows to specify own ppp unit id which will kernel
assign to ppp interface, in case this ppp id is not already used by other
ppp interface.

In case user does not specify ppp unit id then kernel choose the first free
ppp unit id. This applies also for case when creating ppp interface via
rtnl method as it does not provide a way for specifying own ppp unit id.

If some network interface (does not have to be ppp) has name "ppp&lt;id&gt;"
with this first free ppp id then PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl or rtnl call fails.

And registering new ppp interface is not possible anymore, until interface
which holds conflicting name is renamed. Or when using rtnl method with
custom interface name in IFLA_IFNAME.

As list of allocated / used ppp unit ids is not possible to retrieve from
kernel to userspace, userspace has no idea what happens nor which interface
is doing this conflict.

So change the algorithm how ppp unit id is generated. And choose the first
number which is not neither used as ppp unit id nor in some network
interface with pattern "ppp&lt;id&gt;".

This issue can be simply reproduced by following pppd call when there is no
ppp interface registered and also no interface with name pattern "ppp&lt;id&gt;":

    pppd ifname ppp1 +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach pty "pppd +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach notty"

Or by creating the one ppp interface (which gets assigned ppp unit id 0),
renaming it to "ppp1" and then trying to create a new ppp interface (which
will always fails as next free ppp unit id is 1, but network interface with
name "ppp1" exists).

This patch fixes above described issue by generating new and new ppp unit
id until some non-conflicting id with network interfaces is generated.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When registering new ppp interface via PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl then kernel has
to choose interface name as this ioctl API does not support specifying it.

Kernel in this case register new interface with name "ppp&lt;id&gt;" where &lt;id&gt;
is the ppp unit id, which can be obtained via PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. This
applies also in the case when registering new ppp interface via rtnl
without supplying IFLA_IFNAME.

PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl allows to specify own ppp unit id which will kernel
assign to ppp interface, in case this ppp id is not already used by other
ppp interface.

In case user does not specify ppp unit id then kernel choose the first free
ppp unit id. This applies also for case when creating ppp interface via
rtnl method as it does not provide a way for specifying own ppp unit id.

If some network interface (does not have to be ppp) has name "ppp&lt;id&gt;"
with this first free ppp id then PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl or rtnl call fails.

And registering new ppp interface is not possible anymore, until interface
which holds conflicting name is renamed. Or when using rtnl method with
custom interface name in IFLA_IFNAME.

As list of allocated / used ppp unit ids is not possible to retrieve from
kernel to userspace, userspace has no idea what happens nor which interface
is doing this conflict.

So change the algorithm how ppp unit id is generated. And choose the first
number which is not neither used as ppp unit id nor in some network
interface with pattern "ppp&lt;id&gt;".

This issue can be simply reproduced by following pppd call when there is no
ppp interface registered and also no interface with name pattern "ppp&lt;id&gt;":

    pppd ifname ppp1 +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach pty "pppd +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach notty"

Or by creating the one ppp interface (which gets assigned ppp unit id 0),
renaming it to "ppp1" and then trying to create a new ppp interface (which
will always fails as next free ppp unit id is 1, but network interface with
name "ppp1" exists).

This patch fixes above described issue by generating new and new ppp unit
id until some non-conflicting id with network interfaces is generated.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>ppp: Fix generating ifname when empty IFLA_IFNAME is specified</title>
<updated>2021-08-08T12:07:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pali Rohár</name>
<email>pali@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-07T13:27:03+00:00</published>
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IFLA_IFNAME is nul-term string which means that IFLA_IFNAME buffer can be
larger than length of string which contains.

Function __rtnl_newlink() generates new own ifname if either IFLA_IFNAME
was not specified at all or userspace passed empty nul-term string.

It is expected that if userspace does not specify ifname for new ppp netdev
then kernel generates one in format "ppp&lt;id&gt;" where id matches to the ppp
unit id which can be later obtained by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl.

And it works in this way if IFLA_IFNAME is not specified at all. But it
does not work when IFLA_IFNAME is specified with empty string.

So fix this logic also for empty IFLA_IFNAME in ppp_nl_newlink() function
and correctly generates ifname based on ppp unit identifier if userspace
did not provided preferred ifname.

Without this patch when IFLA_IFNAME was specified with empty string then
kernel created a new ppp interface in format "ppp&lt;id&gt;" but id did not
match ppp unit id returned by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. In this case id was some
number generated by __rtnl_newlink() function.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bb8082f69138 ("ppp: build ifname using unit identifier for rtnl based devices")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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IFLA_IFNAME is nul-term string which means that IFLA_IFNAME buffer can be
larger than length of string which contains.

Function __rtnl_newlink() generates new own ifname if either IFLA_IFNAME
was not specified at all or userspace passed empty nul-term string.

It is expected that if userspace does not specify ifname for new ppp netdev
then kernel generates one in format "ppp&lt;id&gt;" where id matches to the ppp
unit id which can be later obtained by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl.

And it works in this way if IFLA_IFNAME is not specified at all. But it
does not work when IFLA_IFNAME is specified with empty string.

So fix this logic also for empty IFLA_IFNAME in ppp_nl_newlink() function
and correctly generates ifname based on ppp unit identifier if userspace
did not provided preferred ifname.

Without this patch when IFLA_IFNAME was specified with empty string then
kernel created a new ppp interface in format "ppp&lt;id&gt;" but id did not
match ppp unit id returned by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. In this case id was some
number generated by __rtnl_newlink() function.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bb8082f69138 ("ppp: build ifname using unit identifier for rtnl based devices")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppp: use ndo_siocdevprivate</title>
<updated>2021-07-27T19:11:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-27T13:45:09+00:00</published>
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ppp has a custom statistics interface using SIOCDEVPRIVATE
ioctl commands that works correctly in compat mode.

Convert it to use ndo_siocdevprivate as a cleanup.

Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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ppp has a custom statistics interface using SIOCDEVPRIVATE
ioctl commands that works correctly in compat mode.

Convert it to use ndo_siocdevprivate as a cleanup.

Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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