linux-toradex.git/net/core, branch v2.6.38.6

net: fix ethtool->set_flags not intended -EINVAL return value

2011-04-14T20:02:11+00:00

commit 673e63c688f43104c73aad8ea4237f7ad41fa14d upstream.

After commit d5dbda23804156ae6f35025ade5307a49d1db6d7 "ethtool: Add
support for vlan accleration.", drivers that have NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX,
and/or NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX feature, but do not allow enable/disable vlan
acceleration via ethtool set_flags, always return -EINVAL from that
function. Fix by returning -EINVAL only if requested features do not
match current settings and can not be changed by driver.

Change any driver that define ethtool->set_flags to use
ethtool_invalid_flags() to avoid similar problems in the future
(also on drivers that do not have the problem).

Tested with modified (to reproduce this bug) myri10ge driver.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

2011-03-10T22:00:44+00:00

net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules

2011-03-09T23:25:19+00:00

Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/.  This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**.  However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.

This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases.  This fixes CVE-2011-1019.

Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".

Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.

    root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	fffffff800001000
    CapEff:	fffffff800001000
    CapBnd:	fffffff800001000
    root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
    FATAL: Error inserting xfs
    (/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
    sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
	      NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    sit                    10457  0
    tunnel4                 2957  1 sit

For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:

    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapEff:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    xfs                   745319  0

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

pktgen: fix errata in show results

2011-03-09T22:11:00+00:00

The units in show_results in pktgen were not correct.
The results are in usec but it was displayed nsec.

Reported-by: Jong-won Lee 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: handle addr_type of 0 properly

2011-02-25T21:58:54+00:00

addr_type of 0 means that the type should be adopted from from_dev and
not from __hw_addr_del_multiple(). Unfortunately it isn't so and
addr_type will always be considered. Fix this by implementing the
considered and documented behavior.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD

2011-02-18T19:49:36+00:00

commit 9b5e383c11b08784 (net: Introduce
unregister_netdevice_many()) left an active LIST_HEAD() in
rollback_registered(), with possible memory corruption.

Even if device is freed without touching its unreg_list (and therefore
touching the previous memory location holding LISTE_HEAD(single), better
close the bug for good, since its really subtle.

(Same fix for default_device_exit_batch() for completeness)

Reported-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman 
Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Ingo Molnar 
CC: Octavian Purdila 
CC: stable  [.33+]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD

2011-02-18T19:49:35+00:00

Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions
that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that
was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited,
so its stack was freed and reused).

Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit
443457242beb (net: factorize
sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many)

This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their
respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting.

References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223

Reported-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman 
Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
CC: Ingo Molnar 
CC: Octavian Purdila 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix lockdep regression caused by initializing netdev queues too early.

2011-02-08T23:02:50+00:00

In commit aa9421041128abb4d269ee1dc502ff65fb3b7d69 ("net: init ingress
queue") we moved the allocation and lock initialization of the queues
into alloc_netdev_mq() since register_netdevice() is way too late.

The problem is that dev->type is not setup until the setup()
callback is invoked by alloc_netdev_mq(), and the dev->type is
what determines the lockdep class to use for the locks in the
queues.

Fix this by doing the queue allocation after the setup() callback
runs.

This is safe because the setup() callback is not allowed to make any
state changes that need to be undone on error (memory allocations,
etc.).  It may, however, make state changes that are undone by
free_netdev() (such as netif_napi_add(), which is done by the
ipoib driver's setup routine).

The previous code also leaked a reference to the &init_net namespace
object on RX/TX queue allocation failures.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

gro: reset skb_iif on reuse

2011-02-02T22:53:25+00:00

Like Herbert's change from a few days ago:

66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse

this may not be necessary at this point, but we should still clean up
the skb->skb_iif.  If not we may end up with an invalid valid for
skb->skb_iif when the skb is reused and the check is done in
__netif_receive_skb.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Check rps_flow_table when RPS map length is 1

2011-02-01T00:23:42+00:00

In get_rps_cpu, add check that the rps_flow_table for the device is
NULL when trying to take fast path when RPS map length is one.
Without this, RFS is effectively disabled if map length is one which
is not correct.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller