linux-toradex.git/net/netlink, branch v3.15-rc1

net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.

2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00

Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

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

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

Furthermore, the skb->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

netlink: autosize skb lengthes

2014-03-10T17:56:26+00:00

One known problem with netlink is the fact that NLMSG_GOODSIZE is
really small on PAGE_SIZE==4096 architectures, and it is difficult
to know in advance what buffer size is used by the application.

This patch adds an automatic learning of the size.

First netlink message will still be limited to ~4K, but if user used
bigger buffers, then following messages will be able to use up to 16KB.

This speedups dump() operations by a large factor and should be safe
for legacy applications.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Thomas Graf 
Acked-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2014-03-06T01:32:02+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand
in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper
was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this.

The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix permission check in netlink_connect()

2014-02-25T23:35:14+00:00

netlink_sendmsg() was changed to prevent non-root processes from sending
messages with dst_pid != 0.
netlink_connect() however still only checks if nladdr->nl_groups is set.
This patch modifies netlink_connect() to check for the same condition.

Signed-off-by: Mike Pecovnik 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: fix checkpatch errors space and "foo *bar"

2014-02-17T21:57:28+00:00

ERROR: spaces required and "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"

Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size

2014-01-19T07:04:16+00:00

This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg
handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic").

DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the
name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved
for msg->msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR
consistently in sendmsg code paths.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle 
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch

2014-01-07T00:48:38+00:00

Jesse Gross says:

====================
[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Avoid netlink mmap alloc if msg size exceeds frame size

2014-01-06T23:52:06+00:00

An insufficent ring frame size configuration can lead to an
unnecessary skb allocation for every Netlink message. Check frame
size before taking the queue lock and allocating the skb and
re-check with lock to be safe.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation

2014-01-06T23:51:53+00:00

Allocates a new sk_buff large enough to cover the specified payload
plus required Netlink headers. Will check receiving socket for
memory mapped i/o capability and use it if enabled. Will fall back
to non-mapped skb if message size exceeds the frame size of the ring.

Signed-of-by: Thomas Graf 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

netlink: cleanup tap related functions

2014-01-02T04:43:36+00:00

Cleanups in netlink_tap code
 * remove unused function netlink_clear_multicast_users
 * make local function static

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller