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<title>De-pessimize rds_page_copy_user</title>
<updated>2010-10-15T18:09:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-10-15T18:09:28+00:00</published>
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Don't try to "optimize" rds_page_copy_user() by using kmap_atomic() and
the unsafe atomic user mode accessor functions.  It's actually slower
than the straightforward code on any reasonable modern CPU.

Back when the code was written (although probably not by the time it was
actually merged, though), 32-bit x86 may have been the dominant
architecture.  And there kmap_atomic() can be a lot faster than kmap()
(unless you have very good locality, in which case the virtual address
caching by kmap() can overcome all the downsides).

But these days, x86-64 may not be more populous, but it's getting there
(and if you care about performance, it's definitely already there -
you'd have upgraded your CPU's already in the last few years).  And on
x86-64, the non-kmap_atomic() version is faster, simply because the code
is simpler and doesn't have the "re-try page fault" case.

People with old hardware are not likely to care about RDS anyway, and
the optimization for the 32-bit case is simply buggy, since it doesn't
verify the user addresses properly.

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg &lt;drosenberg@vsecurity.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Don't try to "optimize" rds_page_copy_user() by using kmap_atomic() and
the unsafe atomic user mode accessor functions.  It's actually slower
than the straightforward code on any reasonable modern CPU.

Back when the code was written (although probably not by the time it was
actually merged, though), 32-bit x86 may have been the dominant
architecture.  And there kmap_atomic() can be a lot faster than kmap()
(unless you have very good locality, in which case the virtual address
caching by kmap() can overcome all the downsides).

But these days, x86-64 may not be more populous, but it's getting there
(and if you care about performance, it's definitely already there -
you'd have upgraded your CPU's already in the last few years).  And on
x86-64, the non-kmap_atomic() version is faster, simply because the code
is simpler and doesn't have the "re-try page fault" case.

People with old hardware are not likely to care about RDS anyway, and
the optimization for the 32-bit case is simply buggy, since it doesn't
verify the user addresses properly.

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg &lt;drosenberg@vsecurity.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions</title>
<updated>2010-10-11T19:23:25+00:00</updated>
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<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees.cook@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-11T19:23:25+00:00</published>
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Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>ATM: mpc, fix use after free</title>
<updated>2010-10-11T18:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-10T22:46:34+00:00</published>
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Stanse found that mpc_push frees skb and then it dereferences it. It
is a typo, new_skb should be dereferenced there.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Stanse found that mpc_push frees skb and then it dereferences it. It
is a typo, new_skb should be dereferenced there.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: clear heap allocation for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL</title>
<updated>2010-10-08T17:48:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees.cook@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-07T10:03:48+00:00</published>
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Calling ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL with a large rule_cnt will allocate kernel
heap without clearing it. For the one driver (niu) that implements it,
it will leave the unused portion of heap unchanged and copy the full
contents back to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Calling ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL with a large rule_cnt will allocate kernel
heap without clearing it. For the one driver (niu) that implements it,
it will leave the unused portion of heap unchanged and copy the full
contents back to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-08T17:36:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-08T17:36:51+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "mac80211: use netif_receive_skb in ieee80211_tx_status callpath"</title>
<updated>2010-10-07T15:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-07T15:35:40+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 5ed3bc7288487bd4f891f420a07319e0b538b4fe.

It turns-out that not all drivers are calling ieee80211_tx_status from a
compatible context.  Revert this for now and try again later...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 5ed3bc7288487bd4f891f420a07319e0b538b4fe.

It turns-out that not all drivers are calling ieee80211_tx_status from a
compatible context.  Revert this for now and try again later...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-07T07:59:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2010-10-07T07:59:39+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-07T02:11:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2010-10-07T02:11:17+00:00</published>
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<title>mac80211: delete AddBA response timer</title>
<updated>2010-10-06T19:58:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-05T19:40:33+00:00</published>
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We never delete the addBA response timer, which
is typically fine, but if the station it belongs
to is deleted very quickly after starting the BA
session, before the peer had a chance to reply,
the timer may fire after the station struct has
been freed already. Therefore, we need to delete
the timer in a suitable spot -- best when the
session is being stopped (which will happen even
then) in which case the delete will be a no-op
most of the time.

I've reproduced the scenario and tested the fix.

This fixes the crash reported at
http://mid.gmane.org/4CAB6F96.6090701@candelatech.com

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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We never delete the addBA response timer, which
is typically fine, but if the station it belongs
to is deleted very quickly after starting the BA
session, before the peer had a chance to reply,
the timer may fire after the station struct has
been freed already. Therefore, we need to delete
the timer in a suitable spot -- best when the
session is being stopped (which will happen even
then) in which case the delete will be a no-op
most of the time.

I've reproduced the scenario and tested the fix.

This fixes the crash reported at
http://mid.gmane.org/4CAB6F96.6090701@candelatech.com

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>caif: fix two caif_connect() bugs</title>
<updated>2010-10-06T03:35:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-04T22:42:08+00:00</published>
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caif_connect() might dereference a netdevice after dev_put() it.

It also doesnt check dev_get_by_index() return value and could
dereference a NULL pointer.

Fix it, using RCU to avoid taking a reference.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Sjur Braendeland &lt;sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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caif_connect() might dereference a netdevice after dev_put() it.

It also doesnt check dev_get_by_index() return value and could
dereference a NULL pointer.

Fix it, using RCU to avoid taking a reference.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Sjur Braendeland &lt;sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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