linux-toradex.git/net/ipv6, branch v2.6.23.12

IPV6: Restore IPv6 when MTU is big enough

2007-12-14T17:51:06+00:00

[IPV6]: Restore IPv6 when MTU is big enough

[ Upstream commit: d31c7b8fa303eb81311f27b80595b8d2cbeef950 ]

Avaid provided test application, so bug got fixed.

IPv6 addrconf removes ipv6 inner device from netdev each time cmu
changes and new value is less than IPV6_MIN_MTU (1280 bytes).
When mtu is changed and new value is greater than IPV6_MIN_MTU,
it does not add ipv6 addresses and inner device bac.

This patch fixes that.

Tested with Avaid's application, which works ok now.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix crypto_alloc_comp() error checking.

2007-11-16T16:27:38+00:00

[IPSEC]: Fix crypto_alloc_comp error checking

[ Upstream commit: 4999f3621f4da622e77931b3d33ada6c7083c705 ]

The function crypto_alloc_comp returns an errno instead of NULL
to indicate error.  So it needs to be tested with IS_ERR.

This is based on a patch by Vicenç Beltran Querol.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[IPv6]: Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast address

2007-10-08T07:12:05+00:00

When the ICMPv6 Target address is multicast, Linux processes the 
redirect instead of dropping it.  The problem is in this code in 
ndisc_redirect_rcv():

         if (ipv6_addr_equal(dest, target)) {
                 on_link = 1;
         } else if (!(ipv6_addr_type(target) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
                 ND_PRINTK2(KERN_WARNING
                            "ICMPv6 Redirect: target address is not 
link-local.\n");
                 return;
         }

This second check will succeed if the Target address is, for example, 
FF02::1 because it has link-local scope.  Instead, it should be checking 
if it's a unicast link-local address, as stated in RFC 2461/4861 Section 
8.1:

       - The ICMP Target Address is either a link-local address (when
         redirected to a router) or the same as the ICMP Destination
         Address (when redirected to the on-link destination).

I know this doesn't explicitly say unicast link-local address, but it's 
implied.

This bug is preventing Linux kernels from achieving IPv6 Logo Phase II 
certification because of a recent error that was found in the TAHI test 
suite - Neighbor Disovery suite test 206 (v6LC.2.3.6_G) had the 
multicast address in the Destination field instead of Target field, so 
we were passing the test.  This won't be the case anymore.

The patch below fixes this problem, and also fixes ndisc_send_redirect() 
to not send an invalid redirect with a multicast address in the Target 
field.  I re-ran the TAHI Neighbor Discovery section to make sure Linux 
passes all 245 tests now.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley 
Acked-by: David L Stevens 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[TCP]: Fix MD5 signature handling on big-endian.

2007-09-28T22:18:35+00:00

Based upon a report and initial patch by Peter Lieven.

tcp4_md5sig_key and tcp6_md5sig_key need to start with
the exact same members as tcp_md5sig_key.  Because they
are both cast to that type by tcp_v{4,6}_md5_do_lookup().

Unfortunately tcp{4,6}_md5sig_key use a u16 for the key
length instead of a u8, which is what tcp_md5sig_key
uses.  This just so happens to work by accident on
little-endian, but on big-endian it doesn't.

Instead of casting, just place tcp_md5sig_key as the first member of
the address-family specific structures, adjust the access sites, and
kill off the ugly casts.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPV6]: Fix source address selection.

2007-09-16T21:48:21+00:00

The commit 95c385 broke proper source address selection for cases in which 
there is a address which is makred 'deprecated'. The commit mistakenly 
changed ifa->flags to ifa_result->flags (probably copy/paste error from a 
few lines above) in the 'Rule 3' address selection code.

The patch restores the previous RFC-compliant behavior.

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

[IPV6]: Just increment OutDatagrams once per a datagram.

2007-09-15T00:15:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPV6]: Fix unbalanced socket reference with MSG_CONFIRM.

2007-09-14T23:45:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPv6]: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ip6_flush_pending_frames

2007-09-11T09:31:43+00:00

Some of skbs in sk->write_queue do not have skb->dst because
we do not fill skb->dst when we allocate new skb in append_data().

BTW, I think we may not need to (or we should not) increment some stats
when using corking; if 100 sendmsg() (with MSG_MORE) result in 2 packets,
how many should we increment?

If 100, we should set skb->dst for every queued skbs.

If 1 (or 2 (*)), we increment the stats for the first queued skb and
we should just skip incrementing OutDiscards for the rest of queued skbs,
adn we should also impelement this semantics in other places;
e.g., we should increment other stats just once, not 100 times.

*: depends on the place we are discarding the datagram.

I guess should just increment by 1 (or 2).

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETFILTER]: Fix/improve deadlock condition on module removal netfilter

2007-09-11T09:28:26+00:00

So I've had a deadlock reported to me.  I've found that the sequence of
events goes like this:

1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko

2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket,
increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count

3) process A acquires a file lock on the file ip_tables.ko, calls remove_module
in the kernel, which in turn executes the ip_tables module cleanup routine,
which calls nf_unregister_sockopt

4) nf_unregister_sockopt, seeing that the use count is non-zero, puts the
calling process into uninterruptible sleep, expecting the process using the
socket option code to wake it up when it exits the kernel

4) the user of the socket option code (process B) in do_ipt_get_ctl, calls
ipt_find_table_lock, which in this case calls request_module to load
ip_tables_nat.ko

5) request_module forks a copy of modprobe (process C) to load the module and
blocks until modprobe exits.

6) Process C. forked by request_module process the dependencies of
ip_tables_nat.ko, of which ip_tables.ko is one.

7) Process C attempts to lock the request module and all its dependencies, it
blocks when it attempts to lock ip_tables.ko (which was previously locked in
step 3)

Theres not really any great permanent solution to this that I can see, but I've
developed a two part solution that corrects the problem

Part 1) Modifies the nf_sockopt registration code so that, instead of using a
use counter internal to the nf_sockopt_ops structure, we instead use a pointer
to the registering modules owner to do module reference counting when nf_sockopt
calls a modules set/get routine.  This prevents the deadlock by preventing set 4
from happening.

Part 2) Enhances the modprobe utilty so that by default it preforms non-blocking
remove operations (the same way rmmod does), and add an option to explicity
request blocking operation.  So if you select blocking operation in modprobe you
can still cause the above deadlock, but only if you explicity try (and since
root can do any old stupid thing it would like....  :)  ).

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPV6]: Freeing alive inet6 address

2007-09-11T09:04:49+00:00

From: Denis V. Lunev 

addrconf_dad_failure calls addrconf_dad_stop which takes referenced address
and drops the count. So, in6_ifa_put perrformed at out: is extra. This
results in message: "Freeing alive inet6 address" and not released dst entries.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller