linux-toradex.git/net/packet, branch v3.17

packet: handle too big packets for PACKET_V3

2014-08-21T23:44:28+00:00

af_packet can currently overwrite kernel memory by out of bound
accesses, because it assumed a [new] block can always hold one frame.

This is not generally the case, even if most existing tools do it right.

This patch clamps too long frames as API permits, and issue a one time
error on syslog.

[  394.357639] tpacket_rcv: packet too big, clamped from 5042 to 3966. macoff=82

In this example, packet header tp_snaplen was set to 3966,
and tp_len was set to 5042 (skb->len)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Fixes: f6fb8f100b80 ("af-packet: TPACKET_V3 flexible buffer implementation.")
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: remove deprecated syststamp timestamp

2014-07-29T18:39:50+00:00

No device driver will ever return an skb_shared_info structure with
syststamp non-zero, so remove the branch that tests for this and
optionally marks the packet timestamp as TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE.

Do not remove the definition TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE, as processes
may refer to it.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: remove unnecessary break after return

2014-07-15T23:26:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

2014-04-24T17:44:54+00:00

It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Move the permission check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo to packet_diag_dump

2014-04-24T17:44:53+00:00

The permission check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo is wrong, and it is so removed
from it's sources it is not clear why it is wrong.  Move the computation
into packet_diag_dump and pass a bool of the result into sock_diag_filterinfo.

This does not yet correct the capability check but instead simply moves it to make
it clear what is going on.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix ns_capable check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo

2014-04-22T16:49:39+00:00

The caller needs capabilities on the namespace being queried, not on
their own namespace.  This is a security bug, although it likely has
only a minor impact.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

packet: fix packet_direct_xmit for BQL enabled drivers

2014-04-03T18:29:12+00:00

Currently, in packet_direct_xmit() we test the assigned netdevice queue
for netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped() before doing an ndo_start_xmit().

This can have the side-effect that BQL enabled drivers which make use
of netdev_tx_sent_queue() internally, set __QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF from
within the stack and would not fully fill the device's TX ring from
packet sockets with PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS enabled.

Instead, use a test without BQL bit so that bursts can be absorbed
into the NICs TX ring. Fix and code suggested by Eric Dumazet, thanks!

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: report tx_dropped in packet_direct_xmit

2014-04-03T18:29:11+00:00

Since commit 015f0688f57c ("net: net: add a core netdev->tx_dropped
counter"), we can now account for TX drops from within the core
stack instead of drivers.

Therefore, fix packet_direct_xmit() and increase drop count when we
encounter a problem before driver's xmit function was called (we do
not want to doubly account for it).

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: respect devices with LLTX flag in direct xmit

2014-03-28T20:49:48+00:00

Quite often it can be useful to test with dummy or similar
devices as a blackhole sink for skbs. Such devices are only
equipped with a single txq, but marked as NETIF_F_LLTX as
they do not require locking their internal queues on xmit
(or implement locking themselves). Therefore, rather use
HARD_TX_{UN,}LOCK API, so that NETIF_F_LLTX will be respected.

trafgen mmap/TX_RING example against dummy device with config
foo: { fill(0xff, 64) } results in the following performance
improvements for such scenarios on an ordinary Core i7/2.80GHz:

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'trafgen -i foo -o du0 -n100000000' (10 runs):

   160,975,944,159 instructions:k            #    0.55  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.09% )
   293,319,390,278 cycles:k                  #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.35% )
       192,501,104 branch-misses:k                                               ( +-  1.63% )
               831 context-switches:k                                            ( +-  9.18% )
                 7 cpu-migrations:k                                              ( +-  7.40% )
            69,382 cache-misses:k            #    0.010 % of all cache refs      ( +-  2.18% )
       671,552,021 cache-references:k                                            ( +-  1.29% )

      22.856401569 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.33% )

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'trafgen -i foo -o du0 -n100000000' (10 runs):

   133,788,739,692 instructions:k            #    0.92  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.06% )
   145,853,213,256 cycles:k                  #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.17% )
        59,867,100 branch-misses:k                                               ( +-  4.72% )
               384 context-switches:k                                            ( +-  3.76% )
                 6 cpu-migrations:k                                              ( +-  6.28% )
            70,304 cache-misses:k            #    0.077 % of all cache refs      ( +-  1.73% )
        90,879,408 cache-references:k                                            ( +-  1.35% )

      11.719372413 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.24% )

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller