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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/atm, branch v3.15.6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.</title>
<updated>2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00</published>
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Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&amp;sk-&gt;s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk-&gt;sk_data_ready(sk, skb-&gt;len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb-&gt;len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb-&gt;len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&amp;sk-&gt;s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk-&gt;sk_data_ready(sk, skb-&gt;len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb-&gt;len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb-&gt;len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>atm: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync</title>
<updated>2014-03-27T19:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-26T21:33:40+00:00</published>
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Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.

This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@

module_exit(ex);

@@
identifier r.ex;
@@

ex(...) {
  &lt;...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
    (...)
  ...&gt;
}
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.

This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@

module_exit(ex);

@@
identifier r.ex;
@@

ex(...) {
  &lt;...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
    (...)
  ...&gt;
}
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix some fallout from the etner_addr_copy() changes.</title>
<updated>2014-01-22T02:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-22T02:55:22+00:00</published>
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net/appletalk/aarp.c: In function ‘__aarp_send_query’:
net/appletalk/aarp.c:137:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ether_addr_copy’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 ...
net/atm/lec.c: In function ‘send_to_lecd’:
net/atm/lec.c:524:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘ether_addr_copy’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
In file included from net/atm/lec.c:17:0:
include/linux/etherdevice.h:227:20: note: expected ‘u8 *’ but argument is of type ‘unsigned char (*)[6]’
 ...
net/caif/caif_usb.c: In function ‘cfusbl_create’:
net/caif/caif_usb.c:108:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ether_addr_copy’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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net/appletalk/aarp.c: In function ‘__aarp_send_query’:
net/appletalk/aarp.c:137:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ether_addr_copy’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 ...
net/atm/lec.c: In function ‘send_to_lecd’:
net/atm/lec.c:524:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘ether_addr_copy’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
In file included from net/atm/lec.c:17:0:
include/linux/etherdevice.h:227:20: note: expected ‘u8 *’ but argument is of type ‘unsigned char (*)[6]’
 ...
net/caif/caif_usb.c: In function ‘cfusbl_create’:
net/caif/caif_usb.c:108:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ether_addr_copy’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>atm: Use ether_addr_copy</title>
<updated>2014-01-22T02:13:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T17:52:16+00:00</published>
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Use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy(a, b, ETH_ALEN) to
save some cycles on arm and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy(a, b, ETH_ALEN) to
save some cycles on arm and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic</title>
<updated>2013-11-21T02:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T02:14:22+00:00</published>
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This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: always pass struct netdev_notifier_info to netdevice notifiers</title>
<updated>2013-05-29T04:58:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-29T03:30:50+00:00</published>
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commit 351638e7deeed2ec8ce451b53d3 (net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier)
breaks booting of my KVM guest, this is due to we still forget to pass
struct netdev_notifier_info in several places. This patch completes it.

Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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commit 351638e7deeed2ec8ce451b53d3 (net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier)
breaks booting of my KVM guest, this is due to we still forget to pass
struct netdev_notifier_info in several places. This patch completes it.

Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier</title>
<updated>2013-05-28T20:11:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T01:30:21+00:00</published>
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So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;

v2-&gt;v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1-&gt;v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;

v2-&gt;v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1-&gt;v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00</published>
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Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor-&gt;index to label things, not PDE-&gt;name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
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Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor-&gt;index to label things, not PDE-&gt;name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>procfs: new helper - PDE_DATA(inode)</title>
<updated>2013-04-09T18:13:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-31T22:16:14+00:00</published>
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The only part of proc_dir_entry the code outside of fs/proc
really cares about is PDE(inode)-&gt;data.  Provide a helper
for that; static inline for now, eventually will be moved
to fs/proc, along with the knowledge of struct proc_dir_entry
layout.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The only part of proc_dir_entry the code outside of fs/proc
really cares about is PDE(inode)-&gt;data.  Provide a helper
for that; static inline for now, eventually will be moved
to fs/proc, along with the knowledge of struct proc_dir_entry
layout.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2013-04-07T22:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-07T22:37:01+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/nfc/microread/mei.c
	net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c

Pull in 'net' to get Eric Biederman's AF_UNIX fix, upon which
some cleanups are going to go on-top.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/nfc/microread/mei.c
	net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c

Pull in 'net' to get Eric Biederman's AF_UNIX fix, upon which
some cleanups are going to go on-top.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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