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66 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Stephen Hemminger
317a76f9a4 [TCP]: Add pluggable congestion control algorithm infrastructure.
Allow TCP to have multiple pluggable congestion control algorithms.
Algorithms are defined by a set of operations and can be built in
or modules.  The legacy "new RENO" algorithm is used as a starting
point and fallback.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:19:55 -07:00
Paulo Marques
543537bd92 [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:18 -07:00
Chuck Short
7abaa27c1c [IPV4]: Fix route.c gcc4 warnings
Signed-off by: Chuck Short <zulcss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 22:10:23 -07:00
Harald Welte
5d927eb010 [NETFILTER]: Fix handling of ICMP packets (RELATED) in ipt_CLUSTERIP target.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-22 12:37:50 -07:00
Kumar Gala
b535420739 [PATCH] Fix extra double quote in IPV4 Kconfig
Kconfig option had an extra double quote at the end of the line
which was causing in warning when building.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22 10:40:39 -07:00
David S. Miller
90f66914c8 [IPV4]: Fix fib_trie.c's args to fib_dump_info().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:43:28 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2715bcf9ef [NETFILTER]: Drop conntrack reference in ip_call_ra_chain()/ip_mr_input()
Drop reference before handing the packets to raw_rcv()

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:06:24 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6150bacfec [NETFILTER]: Check TCP checksum in ipt_REJECT
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:03:46 -07:00
Keir Fraser
e3be8ba792 [NETFILTER]: Avoid unncessary checksum validation in UDP connection tracking
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:03:23 -07:00
Phil Oester
1d3cdb41f5 [NETFILTER]: expectation timeouts are compulsory
Since expectation timeouts were made compulsory [1], there is no need to
check for them in ip_conntrack_expect_insert.

[1] https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-January/018143.html

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:02:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
18b8afc771 [NETFILTER]: Kill nf_debug
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:01:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e45b1be8bc [NETFILTER]: Kill lockhelp.h
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 14:01:30 -07:00
Robert Olsson
19baf839ff [IPV4]: Add LC-Trie FIB lookup algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 12:43:18 -07:00
Robert Olsson
246955fe4c [NETLINK]: fib_lookup() via netlink
Below is a more generic patch to do fib_lookup via netlink. For others 
we should say that we discussed this as a way to verify route selection.
It's also possible there are others uses for this.

In short the fist half of struct fib_result_nl is filled in by caller 
and netlink call fills in the other half and returns it.

In case anyone is interested there is a corresponding user app to compare 
the full routing table this was used to test implementation of the LC-trie. 

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-20 13:36:39 -07:00
Herbert Xu
dd87147eed [IPSEC]: Add XFRM_STATE_NOPMTUDISC flag
This patch adds the flag XFRM_STATE_NOPMTUDISC for xfrm states.  It is
similar to the nopmtudisc on IPIP/GRE tunnels.  It only has an effect
on IPv4 tunnel mode states.  For these states, it will ensure that the
DF flag is always cleared.

This is primarily useful to work around ICMP blackholes.

In future this flag could also allow a larger MTU to be set within the
tunnel just like IPIP/GRE tunnels.  This could be useful for short haul
tunnels where temporary fragmentation outside the tunnel is desired over
smaller fragments inside the tunnel.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-20 13:21:43 -07:00
Herbert Xu
72cb6962a9 [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_init_state
This patch adds xfrm_init_state which is simply a wrapper that calls
xfrm_get_type and subsequently x->type->init_state.  It also gets rid
of the unused args argument.

Abstracting it out allows us to add common initialisation code, e.g.,
to set family-specific flags.

The add_time setting in xfrm_user.c was deleted because it's already
set by xfrm_state_alloc.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-20 13:18:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
7df551254a [TCP]: Fix sysctl_tcp_low_latency
When enabled, this should disable UCOPY prequeue'ing altogether,
but it does not due to a missing test.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 23:01:10 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f7d7fc0322 [IPV4]: [4/4] signed vs unsigned cleanup in net/ipv4/raw.c
This patch changes the type of the third parameter 'length' of the 
raw_send_hdrinc() function from 'int' to 'size_t'.
This makes sense since this function is only ever called from one 
location, and the value passed as the third parameter in that location is 
itself of type size_t, so this makes the recieving functions parameter 
type match. Also, inside raw_send_hdrinc() the 'length' variable is 
used in comparisons with unsigned values and passed as parameter to 
functions expecting unsigned values (it's used in a single comparison with 
a signed value, but that one can never actually be negative so the patch 
also casts that one to size_t to stop gcc worrying, and it is passed in a 
single instance to memcpy_fromiovecend() which expects a signed int, but 
as far as I can see that's not a problem since the value of 'length' 
shouldn't ever exceed the value of a signed int).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 23:00:34 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
93765d8a43 [IPV4]: [3/4] signed vs unsigned cleanup in net/ipv4/raw.c
This patch changes the type of the local variable 'i' in 
raw_probe_proto_opt() from 'int' to 'unsigned int'. The only use of 'i' in 
this function is as a counter in a for() loop and subsequent index into 
the msg->msg_iov[] array.
Since 'i' is compared in a loop to the unsigned variable msg->msg_iovlen 
gcc -W generates this warning : 

net/ipv4/raw.c:340: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned

Changing 'i' to unsigned silences this warning and is safe since the array 
index can never be negative anyway, so unsigned int is the logical type to 
use for 'i' and also enables a larger msg_iov[] array (but I don't know if 
that will ever matter).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 23:00:15 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
926d4b8122 [IPV4]: [2/4] signed vs unsigned cleanup in net/ipv4/raw.c
This patch gets rid of the following gcc -W warning in net/ipv4/raw.c :

net/ipv4/raw.c:387: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false

Since 'len' is of type size_t it is unsigned and can thus never be <0, and 
since this is obvious from the function declaration just a few lines above 
I think it's ok to remove the pointless check for len<0.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 23:00:00 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
5418c6926f [IPV4]: [1/4] signed vs unsigned cleanup in net/ipv4/raw.c
This patch silences these two gcc -W warnings in net/ipv4/raw.c :

net/ipv4/raw.c:517: warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression
net/ipv4/raw.c:613: warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression

It doesn't change the behaviour of the code, simply writes the conditional 
expression with plain 'if()' syntax instead of '? :' , but since this 
breaks it into sepperate statements gcc no longer complains about having 
both a signed and unsigned value in the same conditional expression.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:59:45 -07:00
Herbert Xu
e0f9f8586a [IPV4/IPV6]: Replace spin_lock_irq with spin_lock_bh
In light of my recent patch to net/ipv4/udp.c that replaced the
spin_lock_irq calls on the receive queue lock with spin_lock_bh,
here is a similar patch for all other occurences of spin_lock_irq
on receive/error queue locks in IPv4 and IPv6.

In these stacks, we know that they can only be entered from user
or softirq context.  Therefore it's safe to disable BH only.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:56:18 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
9ed19f339e [NETLINK]: Set correct pid for ioctl originating netlink events
This patch ensures that netlink events created as a result of programns
using ioctls (such as ifconfig, route etc) contains the correct PID of
those events.
 
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:55:51 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
b6544c0b4c [NETLINK]: Correctly set NLM_F_MULTI without checking the pid
This patch rectifies some rtnetlink message builders that derive the
flags from the pid. It is now explicit like the other cases
which get it right. Also fixes half a dozen dumpers which did not
set NLM_F_MULTI at all.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:54:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
e52c1f17e4 [NET]: Move sysctl_max_syn_backlog into request_sock.c
This fixes the CONFIG_INET=n build failure noticed
by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:49:40 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2ad69c55a2 [NET] rename struct tcp_listen_opt to struct listen_sock
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:48:55 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
0e87506fcc [NET] Generalise tcp_listen_opt
This chunks out the accept_queue and tcp_listen_opt code and moves
them to net/core/request_sock.c and include/net/request_sock.h, to
make it useful for other transport protocols, DCCP being the first one
to use it.

Next patches will rename tcp_listen_opt to accept_sock and remove the
inline tcp functions that just call a reqsk_queue_ function.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:47:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
60236fdd08 [NET] Rename open_request to request_sock
Ok, this one just renames some stuff to have a better namespace and to
dissassociate it from TCP:

struct open_request  -> struct request_sock
tcp_openreq_alloc    -> reqsk_alloc
tcp_openreq_free     -> reqsk_free
tcp_openreq_fastfree -> __reqsk_free

With this most of the infrastructure closely resembles a struct
sock methods subset.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:47:21 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2e6599cb89 [NET] Generalise TCP's struct open_request minisock infrastructure
Kept this first changeset minimal, without changing existing names to
ease peer review.

Basicaly tcp_openreq_alloc now receives the or_calltable, that in turn
has two new members:

->slab, that replaces tcp_openreq_cachep
->obj_size, to inform the size of the openreq descendant for
  a specific protocol

The protocol specific fields in struct open_request were moved to a
class hierarchy, with the things that are common to all connection
oriented PF_INET protocols in struct inet_request_sock, the TCP ones
in tcp_request_sock, that is an inet_request_sock, that is an
open_request.

I.e. this uses the same approach used for the struct sock class
hierarchy, with sk_prot indicating if the protocol wants to use the
open_request infrastructure by filling in sk_prot->rsk_prot with an
or_calltable.

Results? Performance is improved and TCP v4 now uses only 64 bytes per
open request minisock, down from 96 without this patch :-)

Next changeset will rename some of the structs, fields and functions
mentioned above, struct or_calltable is way unclear, better name it
struct request_sock_ops, s/struct open_request/struct request_sock/g,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18 22:46:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
bcfff0b471 [NETFILTER]: ipt_recent: last_pkts is an array of "unsigned long" not "u_int32_t"
This fixes various crashes on 64-bit when using this module.

Based upon a patch by Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ACKed-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2005-06-15 20:51:14 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a96aca88ac [NETFILTER]: Advance seq-file position in exp_next_seq()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-13 18:27:13 -07:00
J. Simonetti
1c2fb7f93c [IPV4]: Sysctl configurable icmp error source address.
This patch alows you to change the source address of icmp error
messages. It applies cleanly to 2.6.11.11 and retains the default
behaviour.

In the old (default) behaviour icmp error messages are sent with the ip
of the exiting interface.

The new behaviour (when the sysctl variable is toggled on), it will send
the message with the ip of the interface that received the packet that
caused the icmp error. This is the behaviour network administrators will
expect from a router. It makes debugging complicated network layouts
much easier. Also, all 'vendor routers' I know of have the later
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-13 15:19:03 -07:00
Neil Horman
cdac4e0774 [SCTP] Add support for ip_nonlocal_bind sysctl & IP_FREEBIND socket option
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-13 15:12:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6efd8455cf [IPV4]: Multipath modules need a license to prevent kernel tainting.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-13 14:29:06 -07:00
Andi Kleen
e7626486c3 [TCP]: Adjust TCP mem order check to new alloc_large_system_hash
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-13 14:24:52 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
64a6c7aa38 [IPVS]: remove net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_icmp.c
ip_vs_proto_icmp.c was never finished.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-02 13:02:25 -07:00
Edgar E Iglesias
36839836e8 [IPSEC]: Fix esp_decap_data size verification in esp4.
Signed-off-by: Edgar E Iglesias <edgar@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-31 17:08:05 -07:00
Herbert Xu
208d89843b [IPV4]: Fix BUG() in 2.6.x, udp_poll(), fragments + CONFIG_HIGHMEM
Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Reconstructed forward trace: 
> 
>   net/ipv4/udp.c:1334   spin_lock_irq() 
>   net/ipv4/udp.c:1336   udp_checksum_complete() 
> net/core/skbuff.c:1069   skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags > 1
> net/core/skbuff.c:1086   kunmap_skb_frag()
> net/core/skbuff.h:1087   local_bh_enable()
> kernel/softirq.c:0140   WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());

The receive queue lock is never taken in IRQs (and should never be) so
we can simply substitute bh for irq.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-30 15:50:15 -07:00
Harald Welte
9bb7bc942d [NETFILTER]: Fix deadlock with ip_queue and tcp local input path.
When we have ip_queue being used from LOCAL_IN, then we end up with a
situation where the verdicts coming back from userspace traverse the TCP
input path from syscall context.  While this seems to work most of the
time, there's an ugly deadlock:

syscall context is interrupted by the timer interrupt.  When the timer
interrupt leaves, the timer softirq get's scheduled and calls
tcp_delack_timer() and alike.  They themselves do bh_lock_sock(sk),
which is already held from somewhere else -> boom.

I've now tested the suggested solution by Patrick McHardy and Herbert Xu to
simply use local_bh_{en,dis}able().

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-30 15:35:26 -07:00
Pravin B. Shelar
37e20a66db [IPV4]: Kill MULTIPATHHOLDROUTE flag.
It cannot work properly, so just ignore it in drr
and rr multipath algorithms just like the random
multipath algorithm does.

Suggested by Herbert Xu.

Signed-off by: Pravin B. Shelar <pravins@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:26:44 -07:00
Harald Welte
8f937c6099 [IPV4]: Primary and secondary addresses
Add an option to make secondary IP addresses get promoted
when primary IP addresses are removed from the device.
It defaults to off to preserve existing behavior.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:23:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
314324121f [TCP]: Fix stretch ACK performance killer when doing ucopy.
When we are doing ucopy, we try to defer the ACK generation to
cleanup_rbuf().  This works most of the time very well, but if the
ucopy prequeue is large, this ACKing behavior kills performance.

With TSO, it is possible to fill the prequeue so large that by the
time the ACK is sent and gets back to the sender, most of the window
has emptied of data and performance suffers significantly.

This behavior does help in some cases, so we should think about
re-enabling this trick in the future, using some kind of limit in
order to avoid the bug case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 12:03:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
8be58932ca [NETFILTER]: Do not be clever about SKB ownership in ip_ct_gather_frags().
Just do an skb_orphan() and be done with it.
Based upon discussions with Herbert Xu on netdev.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-19 12:36:33 -07:00
Julian Anastasov
d9fa0f392b [IP_VS]: Remove extra __ip_vs_conn_put() for incoming ICMP.
Remove extra __ip_vs_conn_put for incoming ICMP in direct routing
mode. Mark de Vries reports that IPVS connections are not leaked anymore.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-19 12:29:59 -07:00
Herbert Xu
2fdba6b085 [IPV4/IPV6] Ensure all frag_list members have NULL sk
Having frag_list members which holds wmem of an sk leads to nightmares
with partially cloned frag skb's.  The reason is that once you unleash
a skb with a frag_list that has individual sk ownerships into the stack
you can never undo those ownerships safely as they may have been cloned
by things like netfilter.  Since we have to undo them in order to make
skb_linearize happy this approach leads to a dead-end.

So let's go the other way and make this an invariant:

	For any skb on a frag_list, skb->sk must be NULL.

That is, the socket ownership always belongs to the head skb.
It turns out that the implementation is actually pretty simple.

The above invariant is actually violated in the following patch
for a short duration inside ip_fragment.  This is OK because the
offending frag_list member is either destroyed at the end of the
slow path without being sent anywhere, or it is detached from
the frag_list before being sent.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-18 22:52:33 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
02c30a84e6 [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email address
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>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
60d5306553 [IPV4]: multipath_wrandom.c GPF fixes
multipath_wrandom needs to use GFP_ATOMIC.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 14:30:15 -07:00
Herbert Xu
aabc9761b6 [IPSEC]: Store idev entries
I found a bug that stopped IPsec/IPv6 from working.  About
a month ago IPv6 started using rt6i_idev->dev on the cached socket dst
entries.  If the cached socket dst entry is IPsec, then rt6i_idev will
be NULL.

Since we want to look at the rt6i_idev of the original route in this
case, the easiest fix is to store rt6i_idev in the IPsec dst entry just
as we do for a number of other IPv6 route attributes.  Unfortunately
this means that we need some new code to handle the references to
rt6i_idev.  That's why this patch is bigger than it would otherwise be.

I've also done the same thing for IPv4 since it is conceivable that
once these idev attributes start getting used for accounting, we
probably need to dereference them for IPv4 IPsec entries too.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:27:10 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
bd96535b81 [NETFILTER]: Drop conntrack reference in ip_dev_loopback_xmit()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 16:21:37 -07:00
Herbert Xu
2a0a6ebee1 [NETLINK]: Synchronous message processing.
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>
2005-05-03 14:55:09 -07:00