lwn.git/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c, branch docs-4.16

mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()

2017-11-20T15:57:15+00:00

hwsim_new_radio_nl() now copies the name attribute in order to add a null-terminator. mac80211_hwsim_new_radio() (indirectly) copies it again into the net_device structure, so the first copy is not used or freed later. Free the first copy before returning. Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

genetlink: fix genlmsg_nlhdr()

2017-11-16T01:49:00+00:00

According to the description, first argument of genlmsg_nlhdr() points to what genlmsg_put() returns, i.e. beginning of user header. Therefore we should only subtract size of genetlink header and netlink message header, not user header. This also means we don't need to pass the pointer to genetlink family and the same is true for genl_dump_check_consistent() which is the only caller of genlmsg_nlhdr(). (Note that at the moment, these functions are only used for families which do not have user header so that they are not affected.) Fixes: 670dc2833d14 ("netlink: advertise incomplete dumps") Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2017-11-15T19:56:19+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Maintain the TCP retransmit queue using an rbtree, with 1GB windows at 100Gb this really has become necessary. From Eric Dumazet. 2) Multi-program support for cgroup+bpf, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Perform broadcast flooding in hardware in mv88e6xxx, from Andrew Lunn. 4) Add meter action support to openvswitch, from Andy Zhou. 5) Add a data meta pointer for BPF accessible packets, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Namespace-ify almost all TCP sysctl knobs, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Turn on Broadcom Tags in b53 driver, from Florian Fainelli. 8) More work to move the RTNL mutex down, from Florian Westphal. 9) Add 'bpftool' utility, to help with bpf program introspection. From Jakub Kicinski. 10) Add new 'cpumap' type for XDP_REDIRECT action, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 11) Support 'blocks' of transformations in the packet scheduler which can span multiple network devices, from Jiri Pirko. 12) TC flower offload support in cxgb4, from Kumar Sanghvi. 13) Priority based stream scheduler for SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner. 14) Thunderbolt networking driver, from Amir Levy and Mika Westerberg. 15) Add RED qdisc offloadability, and use it in mlxsw driver. From Nogah Frankel. 16) eBPF based device controller for cgroup v2, from Roman Gushchin. 17) Add some fundamental tracepoints for TCP, from Song Liu. 18) Remove garbage collection from ipv6 route layer, this is a significant accomplishment. From Wei Wang. 19) Add multicast route offload support to mlxsw, from Yotam Gigi" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2177 commits) tcp: highest_sack fix geneve: fix fill_info when link down bpf: fix lockdep splat net: cdc_ncm: GetNtbFormat endian fix openvswitch: meter: fix NULL pointer dereference in ovs_meter_cmd_reply_start netem: remove unnecessary 64 bit modulus netem: use 64 bit divide by rate tcp: Namespace-ify sysctl_tcp_default_congestion_control net: Protect iterations over net::fib_notifier_ops in fib_seq_sum() ipv6: set all.accept_dad to 0 by default uapi: fix linux/tls.h userspace compilation error usbnet: ipheth: prevent TX queue timeouts when device not ready vhost_net: conditionally enable tx polling uapi: fix linux/rxrpc.h userspace compilation errors net: stmmac: fix LPI transitioning for dwmac4 atm: horizon: Fix irq release error net-sysfs: trigger netlink notification on ifalias change via sysfs openvswitch: Using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code openvswitch: Make local function ovs_nsh_key_attr_size() static openvswitch: Fix return value check in ovs_meter_cmd_features() ...

locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

2017-10-25T09:01:08+00:00

Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the coccinelle script shown below and apply its output. For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in churn. However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following coccinelle script: ---- // Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and // WRITE_ONCE() // $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ expression E1, E2; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2 + WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2) @ depends on patch @ expression E; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E) + READ_ONCE(E) ---- Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: shuah@kernel.org Cc: snitzer@redhat.com Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mac80211_hwsim: use dyndbg for debug messages

2017-09-21T09:42:02+00:00

The mac80211_hwsim doesn't offer a way to disable the debugging output. Unfortunately, it's pretty chatty, dumping a lot of stuff into the message buffer. This patch changes it to use dyndbg for controlling the debug output. It's disabled by default, but can be enabled by a module parameter (1), at runtime (2) or persisted in modprobe.conf (3). (1) modprobe mac80211_hwsim dyndbg=+p (2) echo "module mac80211_hwsim +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control (3) echo "options mac80211_hwsim dyndbg=+p" >>/etc/modprobe.d/my.conf Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211_hwsim: Use proper TX power

2017-09-05T09:28:52+00:00

In struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.vif pointer and rate_driver_data[0] falls on the same place, depending on the union usage. During the whole TX process, the union is referred to as a control struct, which holds the vif that is later used in the tx flow, especially in order to derive the used tx power. Referring direcly to rate_driver_data[0] and assigning a value to it, overwrites the vif pointer, hence making all later references irrelevant. Moreover, rate_driver_data[0] isn't used later in the flow in order to retrieve the channel that it is pointing to. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Beni Lev Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

networking: make skb_push & __skb_push return void pointers

2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00

It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *, and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not. Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the following spatch: @@ expression SKB, LEN; typedef u8; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - *(fn(SKB, LEN)) + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression E, SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; type T; @@ - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN))) + E = fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - fn(SKB, LEN)[0] + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

networking: make skb_put & friends return void pointers

2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00

It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *, and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not. Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void * and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the following spatch: @@ expression SKB, LEN; typedef u8; identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put }; @@ - *(fn(SKB, LEN)) + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression E, SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put }; type T; @@ - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN))) + E = fn(SKB, LEN) which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three users overall. A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

networking: introduce and use skb_put_data()

2017-06-16T15:48:37+00:00

A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy() some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for this. An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many of the places using it: @@ identifier p, p2; expression len, skb, data; type t, t2; @@ ( -p = skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len); | -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len); ) ( p2 = (t2)p; -memcpy(p2, data, len); | -memcpy(p, data, len); ) @@ type t, t2; identifier p, p2; expression skb, data; @@ t *p; ... ( -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t)); | -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t)); ) ( p2 = (t2)p; -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p)); | -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p)); ) @@ expression skb, len, data; @@ -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len); +skb_put_data(skb, data, len); (again, manually post-processed to retain some comments) Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.

2017-06-07T19:53:24+00:00

Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using netdev_ops->ndo_init(). However, the release of these resources can occur in one of two different places. Either netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() or netdev->destructor(). The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it is safe to perform the freeing. netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast address lists are flushed. netdev->destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the netdev references all go away. Further complicating the situation is that netdev->destructor() almost universally does also a free_netdev(). This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice(). Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice() fails. If netdev_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops->ndo_uninit(). But it is not able to invoke netdev->destructor(). This is because netdev->destructor() will do a free_netdev() and then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same. However, this means that the resources that would normally be released by netdev->destructor() will not be. Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice() fails. Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks. Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what private things need to be freed up by netdev->destructor() and whether the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev(). netdev->priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private resources that used to be freed by netdev->destructor(), except for free_netdev(). netdev->needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice(). Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after ndo_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops->ndo_uninit() and netdev->priv_destructor(). And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke netdev->priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller