linux-toradex.git/kernel/taskstats.c, branch v4.10-rc5

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2016-11-15T15:54:36+00:00

Several cases of bug fixes in 'net' overlapping other changes in
'net-next-.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

taskstats: fix the length of cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy

2016-11-03T20:55:58+00:00

cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy is [CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1],
taskstats_cmd_get_policy[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1],
but their family.maxattr is TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX.
CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX is less than TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX,
so we could end up accessing out-of-bound.

Change cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy to TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1,
this is safe because the rest are initialized to 0's.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: statically initialize families

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit

2016-04-24T00:13:25+00:00

Goal of this patch is to use the new libnl API to align netlink attribute
when needed.
The layout of the netlink message will be a bit different after the patch,
because the padattr (TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS) will be inside the nested
attribute instead of before it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void

2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00

Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

kill f_dentry uses

2014-11-19T18:01:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr

2014-08-26T17:45:45+00:00

Convert all uses of __get_cpu_var for address calculation to use
this_cpu_ptr instead.

[Uses of __get_cpu_var with cpumask_var_t are no longer
handled by this patch]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()

2013-11-19T21:39:05+00:00

As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller