linux/net, branch v3.4-rc2

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

2012-04-06T17:37:38Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Fix inaccuracies in network driver interface documentation, from Ben Hutchings. 2) Fix handling of negative offsets in BPF JITs, from Jan Seiffert. 3) Compile warning, locking, and refcounting fixes in netfilter's xt_CT, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 4) phonet sendmsg needs to validate user length just like any other datagram protocol, fix from Sasha Levin. 5) Ipv6 multicast code uses wrong loop index, from RongQing Li. 6) Link handling and firmware fixes in bnx2x driver from Yaniv Rosner and Yuval Mintz. 7) mlx4 erroneously allocates 4 pages at a time, regardless of page size, fix from Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo. 8) SCTP socket option wasn't extended in a backwards compatible way, fix from Thomas Graf. 9) Add missing address change event emissions to bonding, from Shlomo Pongratz. 10) /proc/net/dev regressed because it uses a private offset to track where we are in the hash table, but this doesn't track the offset pullback that the seq_file code does resulting in some entries being missed in large dumps. Fix from Eric Dumazet. 11) do_tcp_sendpage() unloads the send queue way too fast, because it invokes tcp_push() when it shouldn't. Let the natural sequence generated by the splice paths, and the assosciated MSG_MORE settings, guide the tcp_push() calls. Otherwise what goes out of TCP is spaghetti and doesn't batch effectively into GSO/TSO clusters. From Eric Dumazet. 12) Once we put a SKB into either the netlink receiver's queue or a socket error queue, it can be consumed and freed up, therefore we cannot touch it after queueing it like that. Fixes from Eric Dumazet. 13) PPP has this annoying behavior in that for every transmit call it immediately stops the TX queue, then calls down into the next layer to transmit the PPP frame. But if that next layer can take it immediately, it just un-stops the TX queue right before returning from the transmit method. Besides being useless work, it makes several facilities unusable, in particular things like the equalizers. Well behaved devices should only stop the TX queue when they really are full, and in PPP's case when it gets backlogged to the downstream device. David Woodhouse therefore fixed PPP to not stop the TX queue until it's downstream can't take data any more. 14) IFF_UNICAST_FLT got accidently lost in some recent stmmac driver changes, re-add. From Marc Kleine-Budde. 15) Fix link flaps in ixgbe, from Eric W. Multanen. 16) Descriptor writeback fixes in e1000e from Matthew Vick. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits) net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb() netlink: fix races after skb queueing doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start doc, net: Update netdev operation names doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll ethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock MAINTAINERS: update for Marvell Ethernet drivers bonding: properly unset current_arp_slave on slave link up phonet: Check input from user before allocating tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src() mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages stmmac: re-add IFF_UNICAST_FLT for dwmac1000 bnx2x: Clear MDC/MDIO warning message bnx2x: Fix BCM57711+BCM84823 link issue bnx2x: Clear BCM84833 LED after fan failure bnx2x: Fix BCM84833 PHY FW version presentation bnx2x: Fix link issue for BCM8727 boards. ...

net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()

2012-04-06T09:07:21Z

As soon as an skb is queued into socket error queue, another thread can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk use after free. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: fix races after skb queueing

2012-04-06T08:21:06Z

As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk use after free. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

phonet: Check input from user before allocating

2012-04-05T23:05:56Z

A phonet packet is limited to USHRT_MAX bytes, this is never checked during tx which means that the user can specify any size he wishes, and the kernel will attempt to allocate that size. In the good case, it'll lead to the following warning, but it may also cause the kernel to kick in the OOM and kill a random task on the server. [ 8921.744094] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2255 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730() [ 8921.749770] Pid: 5081, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.4.0-rc1-next-20120402-sasha #46 [ 8921.756672] Call Trace: [ 8921.758185] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0 [ 8921.762868] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 8921.765399] [] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730 [ 8921.769226] [] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1a/0x20 [ 8921.771686] [] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x625/0x660 [ 8921.773919] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f8/0x240 [ 8921.776248] [] kmalloc_large_node+0x70/0xc0 [ 8921.778294] [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x34/0x1c0 [ 8921.780847] [] ? sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260 [ 8921.783179] [] __alloc_skb+0x75/0x170 [ 8921.784971] [] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260 [ 8921.787111] [] ? release_sock+0x7e/0x90 [ 8921.788973] [] sock_alloc_send_skb+0x10/0x20 [ 8921.791052] [] pep_sendmsg+0x60/0x380 [ 8921.792931] [] ? pn_socket_bind+0x156/0x180 [ 8921.794917] [] ? pn_socket_autobind+0x3f/0x90 [ 8921.797053] [] pn_socket_sendmsg+0x4f/0x70 [ 8921.798992] [] sock_aio_write+0x187/0x1b0 [ 8921.801395] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0 [ 8921.803501] [] ? __lock_acquire+0x42c/0x4b0 [ 8921.805505] [] ? __sock_recv_ts_and_drops+0x140/0x140 [ 8921.807860] [] do_sync_readv_writev+0xbc/0x110 [ 8921.809986] [] ? might_fault+0x97/0xa0 [ 8921.811998] [] ? security_file_permission+0x1e/0x90 [ 8921.814595] [] do_readv_writev+0xe2/0x1e0 [ 8921.816702] [] ? do_setitimer+0x1ac/0x200 [ 8921.818819] [] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50 [ 8921.820863] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0 [ 8921.823318] [] vfs_writev+0x46/0x60 [ 8921.825219] [] sys_writev+0x4f/0xb0 [ 8921.827127] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 8921.829384] ---[ end trace dffe390f30db9eb7 ]--- Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once

2012-04-05T23:04:27Z

commit 2f533844242 (tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets) added a regression for splice() calls using SPLICE_F_MORE. We need to call tcp_flush() at the end of the last page processed in tcp_sendpages(), or else transmits can be deferred and future sends stall. Add a new internal flag, MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST, acting like MSG_MORE, but with different semantic. For all sendpage() providers, its a transparent change. Only sock_sendpage() and tcp_sendpages() can differentiate the two different flags provided by pipe_to_sendpage() Reported-by: Tom Herbert Cc: Nandita Dukkipati Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Mahesh Bandewar Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-04-05T22:30:34Z

Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton: "The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to merge things. I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches. I've been wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall prospects for success of the project. But after speaking with Pavel at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped complaining" stage regarding the net changes. So I need to go back and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion." * emailed from Andrew Morton : (16 patches) memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1 C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open() scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open() libfs: add simple_open() hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr() sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA

simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()

2012-04-05T22:25:50Z

Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire tree. Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we can replace all the users of this function with simple_open(). This replacement was done with the following semantic patch: @ open @ identifier open_f != simple_open; identifier i, f; @@ -int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) -{ ( -if (i->i_private) -f->private_data = i->i_private; | -f->private_data = i->i_private; ) -return 0; -} @ has_open depends on open @ identifier fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... -.open = open_f, +.open = simple_open, ... }; [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Al Viro Cc: Julia Lawall Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src()

2012-04-05T04:00:42Z

Convert array index from the loop bound to the loop index. And remove the void type conversion to ip6_mc_del1_src() return code, seem it is unnecessary, since ip6_mc_del1_src() does not use __must_check similar attribute, no compiler will report the warning when it is removed. v2: enrich the commit header Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sctp: Allow struct sctp_event_subscribe to grow without breaking binaries

2012-04-04T22:05:02Z

getsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) performs a length check and returns an error if the user provides less bytes than the size of struct sctp_event_subscribe. Struct sctp_event_subscribe needs to be extended by an u8 for every new event or notification type that is added. This obviously makes getsockopt fail for binaries that are compiled against an older versions of which do not contain all event types. This patch changes getsockopt behaviour to no longer return an error if not enough bytes are being provided by the user. Instead, it returns as much of sctp_event_subscribe as fits into the provided buffer. This leads to the new behavior that users see what they have been aware of at compile time. The setsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) API is already behaving like this. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix count leak in error path of __nf_conntrack_alloc

2012-04-03T23:20:30Z

We have to decrement the conntrack counter if we fail to access the zone extension. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller