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* [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl2005-05-052-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [IPV6]: Fix OOPS when using IPV6_ADDRFORMArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-05-051-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | This causes sk->sk_prot to change, which makes the socket release free the sock into the wrong SLAB cache. Fix this by introducing sk_prot_creator so that we always remember where the sock came from. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Drop conntrack reference in ip_dev_loopback_xmit()Patrick McHardy2005-05-031-2/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Fix nf_debug_ip_local_deliver()Patrick McHardy2005-05-031-13/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Disable queueing when carrier is lost.Tommy S. Christensen2005-05-031-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | Some network drivers call netif_stop_queue() when detecting loss of carrier. This leads to packets being queued up at the qdisc level for an unbound period of time. In order to prevent this effect, the core networking stack will now cease to queue packets for any device, that is operationally down (i.e. the queue is flushed and disabled). Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [XFRM/RTNETLINK]: Decrement qlen properly in {xfrm_,rt}netlink_rcv().David S. Miller2005-05-031-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | If we free up a partially processed packet because it's skb->len dropped to zero, we need to decrement qlen because we are dropping out of the top-level loop so it will do the decrement for us. Spotted by Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix infinite loops in synchronous netlink changes.David S. Miller2005-05-031-4/+3
| | | | | | | The qlen should continue to decrement, even if we pop partially processed SKBs back onto the receive queue. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Synchronous message processing.Herbert Xu2005-05-031-9/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Let's recap the problem. The current asynchronous netlink kernel message processing is vulnerable to these attacks: 1) Hit and run: Attacker sends one or more messages and then exits before they're processed. This may confuse/disable the next netlink user that gets the netlink address of the attacker since it may receive the responses to the attacker's messages. Proposed solutions: a) Synchronous processing. b) Stream mode socket. c) Restrict/prohibit binding. 2) Starvation: Because various netlink rcv functions were written to not return until all messages have been processed on a socket, it is possible for these functions to execute for an arbitrarily long period of time. If this is successfully exploited it could also be used to hold rtnl forever. Proposed solutions: a) Synchronous processing. b) Stream mode socket. Firstly let's cross off solution c). It only solves the first problem and it has user-visible impacts. In particular, it'll break user space applications that expect to bind or communicate with specific netlink addresses (pid's). So we're left with a choice of synchronous processing versus SOCK_STREAM for netlink. For the moment I'm sticking with the synchronous approach as suggested by Alexey since it's simpler and I'd rather spend my time working on other things. However, it does have a number of deficiencies compared to the stream mode solution: 1) User-space to user-space netlink communication is still vulnerable. 2) Inefficient use of resources. This is especially true for rtnetlink since the lock is shared with other users such as networking drivers. The latter could hold the rtnl while communicating with hardware which causes the rtnetlink user to wait when it could be doing other things. 3) It is still possible to DoS all netlink users by flooding the kernel netlink receive queue. The attacker simply fills the receive socket with a single netlink message that fills up the entire queue. The attacker then continues to call sendmsg with the same message in a loop. Point 3) can be countered by retransmissions in user-space code, however it is pretty messy. In light of these problems (in particular, point 3), we should implement stream mode netlink at some point. In the mean time, here is a patch that implements synchronous processing. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK] Cleanup rtnetlink_link tablesThomas Graf2005-05-031-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Converts remaining rtnetlink_link tables to use c99 designated initializers to make greping a little bit easier. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK] Fix & cleanup rtm_min/rtm_maxThomas Graf2005-05-031-18/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Converts rtm_min and rtm_max arrays to use c99 designated initializers for easier insertion of new message families. RTM_GETMULTICAST and RTM_GETANYCAST did not have the minimal message size specified which means that the netlink message was parsed for routing attributes starting from the header. Adds the proper minimal message sizes for these messages (netlink header + common rtnetlink header) to fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentationPavel Pisa2005-05-013-26/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0 time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well. So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are not too much skewed. I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some #ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc. You can see result of the modified documentation build at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick cleanup work. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanupsJesper Juhl2005-05-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for access_ok - deprecate those. There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out code, fix those up to use access_ok. After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release or two. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney2005-05-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: /proc/net/stat/* header cleanupOlaf Rempel2005-04-281-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Olaf Rempel <razzor@kopf-tisch.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] kill gratitious includes of major.h under net/*Al Viro2005-04-253-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason whatsoever. Removed. And yes, it still builds. The history of that stuff is often amusing. E.g. for net/core/sock.c the story looks so, as far as I've been able to reconstruct it: we used to need major.h in net/socket.c circa 1.1.early. In 1.1.13 that need had disappeared, along with register_chrdev(SOCKET_MAJOR, "socket", &net_fops) in sock_init(). Include had not. When 1.2 -> 1.3 reorg of net/* had moved a lot of stuff from net/socket.c to net/core/sock.c, this crap had followed... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: Document ->hard_start_xmit() locking in comments.Ben Greear2005-04-241-0/+13
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add missing newline for skb_*_panicPatrick McHardy2005-04-211-4/+8
| | | | | | | | While we're at it, lets also replace KERN_INFO by KERN_EMERG to make sure the user gets to see it. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [SOCK]: on failure free the sock from the right placeArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-04-191-1/+4
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: skbuff: remove old NET_CALLER macroStephen Hemminger2005-04-191-9/+3
| | | | | | | | Here is a revised alternative that uses BUG_ON/WARN_ON (as suggested by Herbert Xu) to eliminate NET_CALLER. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Add comma to final entry in link_rtnetlink_tableDavid S. Miller2005-04-191-1/+1
| | | | | | Noticed by Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Protocol family wildcard dumping for routing rulesThomas Graf2005-04-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | Be kind to userspace and don't force them to hardcode protocol families just to have it changed again once we support routing rules for more than one protocol family. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option can corrupt kernel memoryHerbert Xu2005-04-191-0/+88
| | | | | | | | So here is a patch that introduces skb_store_bits -- the opposite of skb_copy_bits, and uses them to read/write the csum field in rawv6. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Fix dst_destroy() raceHerbert Xu2005-04-161-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When we are not the real parent of the dst (e.g., when we're xfrm_dst and the child is an rtentry), it may already be on the GC list. In fact the current code is buggy to, we need to check dst->flags before the dec as dst may no longer be valid afterwards. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] net: don't call kmem_cache_create with a spinlock heldArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-04-161-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | This fixes the warning reported by Marcel Holtmann (Thanks!). Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-1626-0/+21067
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!