linux-toradex.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.2.40

rtnetlink: fix rtnl_calcit() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

2012-11-16T16:46:52+00:00

commit a4b64fbe482c7766f7925f03067fc637716bfa3f upstream.

nlmsg_parse() might return an error, so test its return value before
potential random memory accesses.

Errors introduced in commit 115c9b81928 (rtnetlink: Fix problem with
buffer allocation)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

2012-11-16T16:46:52+00:00

commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream.

Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.

This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.

Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts
 commit f18da14565819ba43b8321237e2426a2914cc2ef, which we never applied]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling

2012-08-19T17:15:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ]

When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI
flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and
IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev->gflags according to the passed value but
do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits
from dev->flags.

This can be easily trigerred by doing:

tcpdump -i eth0 &
ip l s up eth0

ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with
IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set
IFF_PROMISC in gflags.

Reported-by: Max Matveev 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device

2012-08-09T23:24:44+00:00

commit 7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd upstream.

Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

rtnetlink: Fix VF IFLA policy

2012-04-02T16:52:36+00:00

commit 48752f6513012a1b078da08b145d5c40a644f058 upstream.

Add VF spoof check to IFLA policy.  The original patch I submitted to
add the spoof checking feature to rtnl failed to add the proper policy
rule that identifies the data type and len.  This patch corrects that
oversight.  No bugs have been reported against this but it may cause
some problem for the netlink message parsing that uses the policy
table.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Tested-by: Sibai Li 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

if_link: Add additional parameter to IFLA_VF_INFO for spoof checking

2011-10-16T20:15:38+00:00

Add configuration setting for drivers to turn spoof checking on or off
for discrete VFs.

v2 - Fix indentation problem, wrap the ifla_vf_info structure in
     #ifdef __KERNEL__ to prevent user space from accessing and
     change function paramater for the spoof check setting netdev
     op from u8 to bool.
v3 - Preset spoof check setting to -1 so that user space tools such
     as ip can detect that the driver didn't report a spoofcheck
     setting.  Prevents incorrect display of spoof check settings
     for drivers that don't report it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher

rtnetlink: remove initialization of dev->real_num_tx_queues

2011-08-11T14:44:38+00:00

dev->real_num_tx_queues is correctly set already in alloc_netdev_mqs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnl: provide link dump consistency info

2011-07-01T22:39:53+00:00

This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace
which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from
the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place,
the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first
message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages
of the same dump.

Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is
taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a
complete list of links and not miss any.

Testing:
I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split
over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in
one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy
netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have
had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set.

I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the
wireless tree.  I just wanted to give this some testing right away.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

2011-06-10T03:38:07+00:00

The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd

2011-05-26T01:10:16+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd:
  net: fix get_net_ns_by_fd for !CONFIG_NET_NS
  ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry.
  ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h
  net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
  ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the network namespace.
  ns: Introduce the setns syscall
  ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.