linux-toradex.git/net, branch v4.1.25

nf_conntrack: avoid kernel pointer value leak in slab name

2016-05-17T17:43:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 31b0b385f69d8d5491a4bca288e25e63f1d945d0 ]

The slab name ends up being visible in the directory structure under
/sys, and even if you don't have access rights to the file you can see
the filenames.

Just use a 64-bit counter instead of the pointer to the 'net' structure
to generate a unique name.

This code will go away in 4.7 when the conntrack code moves to a single
kmemcache, but this is the backportable simple solution to avoiding
leaking kernel pointers to user space.

Fixes: 5b3501faa874 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification

2016-05-08T12:08:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb ]

A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as
used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd
process) with a different protocol number.

Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's
socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as
removing a virtual interface.

Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC.
Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the
problem more generically.

Fixes: 026331c4d9b5 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov 
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netlink: don't send NETLINK_URELEASE for unbound sockets

2016-05-08T12:08:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit e27260203912b40751fa353d009eaa5a642c739f ]

All existing users of NETLINK_URELEASE use it to clean up resources that
were previously allocated to a socket via some command. As a result, no
users require getting this notification for unbound sockets.

Sending it for unbound sockets, however, is a problem because any user
(including unprivileged users) can create a socket that uses the same ID
as an existing socket. Binding this new socket will fail, but if the
NETLINK_URELEASE notification is generated for such sockets, the users
thereof will be tricked into thinking the socket that they allocated the
resources for is closed.

In the nl80211 case, this will cause destruction of virtual interfaces
that still belong to an existing hostapd process; this is the case that
Dmitry noticed. In the NFC case, it will cause a poll abort. In the case
of netlink log/queue it will cause them to stop reporting events, as if
NFULNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND/NFQNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND had been called.

Fix this problem by checking that the socket is bound before generating
the NETLINK_URELEASE notification.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp_cubic: do not set epoch_start in the future

2016-04-25T15:57:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit c2e7204d180f8efc80f27959ca9cf16fa17f67db ]

Tracking idle time in bictcp_cwnd_event() is imprecise, as epoch_start
is normally set at ACK processing time, not at send time.

Doing a proper fix would need to add an additional state variable,
and does not seem worth the trouble, given CUBIC bug has been there
forever before Jana noticed it.

Let's simply not set epoch_start in the future, otherwise
bictcp_update() could overflow and CUBIC would again
grow cwnd too fast.

This was detected thanks to a packetdrill test Neal wrote that was flaky
before applying this fix.

Fixes: 30927520dbae ("tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Jana Iyengar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period

2016-04-20T05:13:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 30927520dbae297182990bb21d08762bcc35ce1d ]

Jana Iyengar found an interesting issue on CUBIC :

The epoch is only updated/reset initially and when experiencing losses.
The delta "t" of now - epoch_start can be arbitrary large after app idle
as well as the bic_target. Consequentially the slope (inverse of
ca->cnt) would be really large, and eventually ca->cnt would be
lower-bounded in the end to 2 to have delayed-ACK slow-start behavior.

This particularly shows up when slow_start_after_idle is disabled
as a dangerous cwnd inflation (1.5 x RTT) after few seconds of idle
time.

Jana initial fix was to reset epoch_start if app limited,
but Neal pointed out it would ask the CUBIC algorithm to recalculate the
curve so that we again start growing steeply upward from where cwnd is
now (as CUBIC does just after a loss). Ideally we'd want the cwnd growth
curve to be the same shape, just shifted later in time by the amount of
the idle period.

Reported-by: Jana Iyengar 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Sangtae Ha 
Cc: Lawrence Brakmo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors

2016-04-20T05:08:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit 62b14b241ca6f790a17ccd9dd9f62ce1b006d406 ]

The original hand-implemented hash-table in mac80211 couldn't result
in insertion errors, and while converting to rhashtable I evidently
forgot to check the errors.

This surfaced now only because Ben is adding many identical keys and
that resulted in hidden insertion errors.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7bedd0cfad4e1 ("mac80211: use rhashtable for station table")
Reported-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode

2016-03-22T15:10:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1ec7bae8bec9b72e347e01330c745ab5cdd66f0e ]

Public Action frames use special rules for how the BSSID field (Address
3) is set. A wildcard BSSID is used in cases where the transmitter and
recipient are not members of the same BSS. As such, we need to accept
Public Action frames with wildcard BSSID.

Commit db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when
operating as AP") added a rule that drops Action frames to TDLS-peers
based on an Action frame having different DA (Address 1) and BSSID
(Address 3) values. This is not correct since it misses the possibility
of BSSID being a wildcard BSSID in which case the Address 1 would not
necessarily match.

Fix this by allowing mac80211 to accept wildcard BSSID in an Action
frame when in AP mode.

Fixes: db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when operating as AP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mac80211: check PN correctly for GCMP-encrypted fragmented MPDUs

2016-03-22T15:10:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9acc54beb474c81148e2946603d141cf8716b19f ]

Just like for CCMP we need to check that for GCMP the fragments
have PNs that increment by one; the spec was updated to fix this
security issue and now has the following text:

	The receiver shall discard MSDUs and MMPDUs whose constituent
	MPDU PN values are not incrementing in steps of 1.

Adapt the code for CCMP to work for GCMP as well, luckily the
relevant fields already alias each other so no code duplication
is needed (just check the aliasing with BUILD_BUG_ON.)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

2016-03-18T03:13:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 ]

The value 5000 was put here with the addition of the timeout field to
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session. It was originally added in mac80211 to
save resources for drivers like iwlwifi, which only supports a limited
number of concurrent aggregation sessions.

Since iwlwifi does not use minstrel_ht and other drivers don't need
this, 0 is a better default - especially since there have been
recent reports of aggregation setup related issues reproduced with
ath9k. This should improve stability without causing any adverse
effects.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Avery Pennarun 
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mac80211: minstrel: Change expected throughput unit back to Kbps

2016-03-18T03:13:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit 212c5a5e6ba61678be6b5fee576e38bccb50b613 ]

The change from cur_tp to the function
minstrel_get_tp_avg/minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg changed the unit used for the
current throughput. For example in minstrel_ht the correct
conversion between them would be:

    mrs->cur_tp / 10 == minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(..).

This factor 10 must also be included in the calculation of
minstrel_get_expected_throughput and minstrel_ht_get_expected_throughput to
return values with the unit [Kbps] instead of [10Kbps]. Otherwise routing
algorithms like B.A.T.M.A.N. V will make incorrect decision based on these
values. Its kernel based implementation expects expected_throughput always
to have the unit [Kbps] and not sometimes [10Kbps] and sometimes [Kbps].

The same requirement has iw or olsrdv2's nl80211 based statistics module
which retrieve the same data via NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6a27b2c40b48 ("mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into function")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin