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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v6.0-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_unregister_timeout_secs.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:59+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_unregister_timeout_secs, it can be changed
concurrently.  Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_unregister_timeout_secs, it can be changed
concurrently.  Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_budget_usecs.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:55+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_budget_usecs, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 7acf8a1e8a28 ("Replace 2 jiffies with sysctl netdev_budget_usecs to enable softirq tuning")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_budget_usecs, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 7acf8a1e8a28 ("Replace 2 jiffies with sysctl netdev_budget_usecs to enable softirq tuning")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix a data-race around netdev_budget.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:53+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_budget, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 51b0bdedb8e7 ("[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
While reading netdev_budget, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 51b0bdedb8e7 ("[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around netdev_tstamp_prequeue.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:47+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_tstamp_prequeue, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

Fixes: 3b098e2d7c69 ("net: Consistent skb timestamping")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
While reading netdev_tstamp_prequeue, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

Fixes: 3b098e2d7c69 ("net: Consistent skb timestamping")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around netdev_max_backlog.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:46+00:00</published>
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While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix data-races around weight_p and dev_weight_[rt]x_bias.</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T12:46:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T17:46:45+00:00</published>
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While reading weight_p, it can be changed concurrently.  Thus, we need
to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Also, dev_[rt]x_weight can be read/written at the same time.  So, we
need to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() for its access.  Moreover, to
use the same weight_p while changing dev_[rt]x_weight, we add a mutex
in proc_do_dev_weight().

Fixes: 3d48b53fb2ae ("net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
While reading weight_p, it can be changed concurrently.  Thus, we need
to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Also, dev_[rt]x_weight can be read/written at the same time.  So, we
need to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() for its access.  Moreover, to
use the same weight_p while changing dev_[rt]x_weight, we add a mutex
in proc_do_dev_weight().

Fixes: 3d48b53fb2ae ("net: dev_weight: TX/RX orthogonality")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T23:55:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-22T23:55:43+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
bpf-next 2022-07-22

We've added 73 non-merge commits during the last 12 day(s) which contain
a total of 88 files changed, 3458 insertions(+), 860 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Implement BPF trampoline for arm64 JIT, from Xu Kuohai.

2) Add ksyscall/kretsyscall section support to libbpf to simplify tracing kernel
   syscalls through kprobe mechanism, from Andrii Nakryiko.

3) Allow for livepatch (KLP) and BPF trampolines to attach to the same kernel
   function, from Song Liu &amp; Jiri Olsa.

4) Add new kfunc infrastructure for netfilter's CT e.g. to insert and change
   entries, from Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &amp; Lorenzo Bianconi.

5) Add a ksym BPF iterator to allow for more flexible and efficient interactions
   with kernel symbols, from Alan Maguire.

6) Bug fixes in libbpf e.g. for uprobe binary path resolution, from Dan Carpenter.

7) Fix BPF subprog function names in stack traces, from Alexei Starovoitov.

8) libbpf support for writing custom perf event readers, from Jon Doron.

9) Switch to use SPDX tag for BPF helper man page, from Alejandro Colomar.

10) Fix xsk send-only sockets when in busy poll mode, from Maciej Fijalkowski.

11) Reparent BPF maps and their charging on memcg offlining, from Roman Gushchin.

12) Multiple follow-up fixes around BPF lsm cgroup infra, from Stanislav Fomichev.

13) Use bootstrap version of bpftool where possible to speed up builds, from Pu Lehui.

14) Cleanup BPF verifier's check_func_arg() handling, from Joanne Koong.

15) Make non-prealloced BPF map allocations low priority to play better with
    memcg limits, from Yafang Shao.

16) Fix BPF test runner to reject zero-length data for skbs, from Zhengchao Shao.

17) Various smaller cleanups and improvements all over the place.

* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (73 commits)
  bpf: Simplify bpf_prog_pack_[size|mask]
  bpf: Support bpf_trampoline on functions with IPMODIFY (e.g. livepatch)
  bpf, x64: Allow to use caller address from stack
  ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function
  ftrace: Add modify_ftrace_direct_multi_nolock
  bpf/selftests: Fix couldn't retrieve pinned program in xdp veth test
  bpf: Fix build error in case of !CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
  selftests/bpf: Fix test_verifier failed test in unprivileged mode
  selftests/bpf: Add negative tests for new nf_conntrack kfuncs
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for new nf_conntrack kfuncs
  selftests/bpf: Add verifier tests for trusted kfunc args
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to set and change CT status
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to set and change CT timeout
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to allocate and insert CT
  net: netfilter: Deduplicate code in bpf_{xdp,skb}_ct_lookup
  bpf: Add documentation for kfuncs
  bpf: Add support for forcing kfunc args to be trusted
  bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure
  tools/resolve_btfids: Add support for 8-byte BTF sets
  bpf: Introduce 8-byte BTF set
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220722221218.29943-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
bpf-next 2022-07-22

We've added 73 non-merge commits during the last 12 day(s) which contain
a total of 88 files changed, 3458 insertions(+), 860 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Implement BPF trampoline for arm64 JIT, from Xu Kuohai.

2) Add ksyscall/kretsyscall section support to libbpf to simplify tracing kernel
   syscalls through kprobe mechanism, from Andrii Nakryiko.

3) Allow for livepatch (KLP) and BPF trampolines to attach to the same kernel
   function, from Song Liu &amp; Jiri Olsa.

4) Add new kfunc infrastructure for netfilter's CT e.g. to insert and change
   entries, from Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &amp; Lorenzo Bianconi.

5) Add a ksym BPF iterator to allow for more flexible and efficient interactions
   with kernel symbols, from Alan Maguire.

6) Bug fixes in libbpf e.g. for uprobe binary path resolution, from Dan Carpenter.

7) Fix BPF subprog function names in stack traces, from Alexei Starovoitov.

8) libbpf support for writing custom perf event readers, from Jon Doron.

9) Switch to use SPDX tag for BPF helper man page, from Alejandro Colomar.

10) Fix xsk send-only sockets when in busy poll mode, from Maciej Fijalkowski.

11) Reparent BPF maps and their charging on memcg offlining, from Roman Gushchin.

12) Multiple follow-up fixes around BPF lsm cgroup infra, from Stanislav Fomichev.

13) Use bootstrap version of bpftool where possible to speed up builds, from Pu Lehui.

14) Cleanup BPF verifier's check_func_arg() handling, from Joanne Koong.

15) Make non-prealloced BPF map allocations low priority to play better with
    memcg limits, from Yafang Shao.

16) Fix BPF test runner to reject zero-length data for skbs, from Zhengchao Shao.

17) Various smaller cleanups and improvements all over the place.

* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (73 commits)
  bpf: Simplify bpf_prog_pack_[size|mask]
  bpf: Support bpf_trampoline on functions with IPMODIFY (e.g. livepatch)
  bpf, x64: Allow to use caller address from stack
  ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function
  ftrace: Add modify_ftrace_direct_multi_nolock
  bpf/selftests: Fix couldn't retrieve pinned program in xdp veth test
  bpf: Fix build error in case of !CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
  selftests/bpf: Fix test_verifier failed test in unprivileged mode
  selftests/bpf: Add negative tests for new nf_conntrack kfuncs
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for new nf_conntrack kfuncs
  selftests/bpf: Add verifier tests for trusted kfunc args
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to set and change CT status
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to set and change CT timeout
  net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to allocate and insert CT
  net: netfilter: Deduplicate code in bpf_{xdp,skb}_ct_lookup
  bpf: Add documentation for kfuncs
  bpf: Add support for forcing kfunc args to be trusted
  bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure
  tools/resolve_btfids: Add support for 8-byte BTF sets
  bpf: Introduce 8-byte BTF set
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220722221218.29943-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Don't redirect packets with invalid pkt_len</title>
<updated>2022-07-19T16:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhengchao Shao</name>
<email>shaozhengchao@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-15T11:55:59+00:00</published>
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Syzbot found an issue [1]: fq_codel_drop() try to drop a flow whitout any
skbs, that is, the flow-&gt;head is null.
The root cause, as the [2] says, is because that bpf_prog_test_run_skb()
run a bpf prog which redirects empty skbs.
So we should determine whether the length of the packet modified by bpf
prog or others like bpf_prog_test is valid before forwarding it directly.

LINK: [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0b84da80c2917757915afa89f7738a9d16ec96c5
LINK: [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg777503.html

Reported-by: syzbot+7a12909485b94426aceb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao &lt;shaozhengchao@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715115559.139691-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Syzbot found an issue [1]: fq_codel_drop() try to drop a flow whitout any
skbs, that is, the flow-&gt;head is null.
The root cause, as the [2] says, is because that bpf_prog_test_run_skb()
run a bpf prog which redirects empty skbs.
So we should determine whether the length of the packet modified by bpf
prog or others like bpf_prog_test is valid before forwarding it directly.

LINK: [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0b84da80c2917757915afa89f7738a9d16ec96c5
LINK: [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg777503.html

Reported-by: syzbot+7a12909485b94426aceb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao &lt;shaozhengchao@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715115559.139691-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-07-14T22:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-14T21:19:42+00:00</published>
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include/net/sock.h
  310731e2f161 ("net: Fix data-races around sysctl_mem.")
  e70f3c701276 ("Revert "net: set SK_MEM_QUANTUM to 4096"")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220711120211.7c8b7cba@canb.auug.org.au/

net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
  747c14307214 ("ip: fix dflt addr selection for connected nexthop")
  d62607c3fe45 ("net: rename reference+tracking helpers")

net/tls/tls.h
include/net/tls.h
  3d8c51b25a23 ("net/tls: Check for errors in tls_device_init")
  587903142308 ("tls: create an internal header")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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include/net/sock.h
  310731e2f161 ("net: Fix data-races around sysctl_mem.")
  e70f3c701276 ("Revert "net: set SK_MEM_QUANTUM to 4096"")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220711120211.7c8b7cba@canb.auug.org.au/

net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
  747c14307214 ("ip: fix dflt addr selection for connected nexthop")
  d62607c3fe45 ("net: rename reference+tracking helpers")

net/tls/tls.h
include/net/tls.h
  3d8c51b25a23 ("net/tls: Check for errors in tls_device_init")
  587903142308 ("tls: create an internal header")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xdp: Fix spurious packet loss in generic XDP TX path</title>
<updated>2022-07-06T14:43:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Almbladh</name>
<email>johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-05T08:23:45+00:00</published>
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The byte queue limits (BQL) mechanism is intended to move queuing from
the driver to the network stack in order to reduce latency caused by
excessive queuing in hardware. However, when transmitting or redirecting
a packet using generic XDP, the qdisc layer is bypassed and there are no
additional queues. Since netif_xmit_stopped() also takes BQL limits into
account, but without having any alternative queuing, packets are
silently dropped.

This patch modifies the drop condition to only consider cases when the
driver itself cannot accept any more packets. This is analogous to the
condition in __dev_direct_xmit(). Dropped packets are also counted on
the device.

Bypassing the qdisc layer in the generic XDP TX path means that XDP
packets are able to starve other packets going through a qdisc, and
DDOS attacks will be more effective. In-driver-XDP use dedicated TX
queues, so they do not have this starvation issue.

Signed-off-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220705082345.2494312-1-johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com
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The byte queue limits (BQL) mechanism is intended to move queuing from
the driver to the network stack in order to reduce latency caused by
excessive queuing in hardware. However, when transmitting or redirecting
a packet using generic XDP, the qdisc layer is bypassed and there are no
additional queues. Since netif_xmit_stopped() also takes BQL limits into
account, but without having any alternative queuing, packets are
silently dropped.

This patch modifies the drop condition to only consider cases when the
driver itself cannot accept any more packets. This is analogous to the
condition in __dev_direct_xmit(). Dropped packets are also counted on
the device.

Bypassing the qdisc layer in the generic XDP TX path means that XDP
packets are able to starve other packets going through a qdisc, and
DDOS attacks will be more effective. In-driver-XDP use dedicated TX
queues, so they do not have this starvation issue.

Signed-off-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220705082345.2494312-1-johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com
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