linux/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.0.61

rtnetlink: fix rtnl_calcit() and rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

2013-01-17T16:43:58Z

commit a4b64fbe482c7766f7925f03067fc637716bfa3f upstream. nlmsg_parse() might return an error, so test its return value before potential random memory accesses. Errors introduced in commit 115c9b81928 (rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Greg Rose Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

2013-01-17T16:43:58Z

commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream. Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK. The mask is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application. At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information about the VFs belonging to the interface. This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions. Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel. Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed in via the new netlink attribute filter mask. If no filter mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE. With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible in the future. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose Acked-by: Greg Rose Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [bwh: Backported to 3.0: - Adjust context - Drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts commit f18da1456581 ('net: RTNETLINK adjusting values of min_ifinfo_dump_size'), which was never applied here] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

2013-01-17T16:43:58Z

commit c7ac8679bec9397afe8918f788cbcef88c38da54 upstream. The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to a single page. This is not enough for additional interface info available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately 40 VFs were created per interface. Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate enough data to satisfy the request. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device

2012-08-15T19:04:13Z

commit 7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd upstream. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: David Miller Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling

2012-08-09T15:27:52Z

[ Upstream commit b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ] When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev->gflags according to the passed value but do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits from dev->flags. This can be easily trigerred by doing: tcpdump -i eth0 & ip l s up eth0 ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set IFF_PROMISC in gflags. Reported-by: Max Matveev Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd

2011-05-26T01:10:16Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd: net: fix get_net_ns_by_fd for !CONFIG_NET_NS ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry. ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace ns proc: Add support for the network namespace. ns: Introduce the setns syscall ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.

net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks

2011-05-25T21:55:32Z

Commit e67f88dd12f6 (dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks) missed fact that rtnl_fill_ifinfo() must be called with rtnl held. Because of possible deadlocks between two mutexes (cb_mutex and rtnl), its not easy to solve this problem, so revert this part of the patch. It also forgot one rcu_read_unlock() in FIB dump_rules() Add one ASSERT_RTNL() in rtnl_fill_ifinfo() to remind us the rule. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Patrick McHardy CC: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: ignore NETDEV_RELEASE and NETDEV_JOIN event

2011-05-23T01:01:19Z

These two events are not expected to be caught by userspace. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd

2011-05-10T21:36:03Z

Take advantage of the new abstraction and allow network devices to be placed in any network namespace that we have a fd to talk about. Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

net: use batched device unregister in veth and macvlan

2011-05-09T18:41:40Z

veth devices dont use the batched device unregisters yet. Since veth are a pair of devices, it makes sense to use a batch of two unregisters, this roughly divides dismantle time by two. Fix this by changing dellink() callers to always provide a non NULL head. (Idea from Michał Mirosław) This patch also handles macvlan case : We now dismantle all macvlans on top of a lower dev at once. Reported-by: Alex Bligh Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Michał Mirosław Cc: Jesse Gross Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller