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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/net/macvtap.c, branch linux-4.13.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2017-11-18T10:30:38+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>tap: reference to KVA of an unloaded module causes kernel panic</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T10:30:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Girish Moodalbail</name>
<email>girish.moodalbail@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2017-10-27T07:00:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dea6e19f4ef746aa18b4c33d1a7fed54356796ed ]

The commit 9a393b5d5988 ("tap: tap as an independent module") created a
separate tap module that implements tap functionality and exports
interfaces that will be used by macvtap and ipvtap modules to create
create respective tap devices.

However, that patch introduced a regression wherein the modules macvtap
and ipvtap can be removed (through modprobe -r) while there are
applications using the respective /dev/tapX devices. These applications
cause kernel to hold reference to /dev/tapX through 'struct cdev
macvtap_cdev' and 'struct cdev ipvtap_dev' defined in macvtap and ipvtap
modules respectively. So,  when the application is later closed the
kernel panics because we are referencing KVA that is present in the
unloaded modules.

----------8&lt;------- Example ----------8&lt;----------
$ sudo ip li add name mv0 link enp7s0 type macvtap
$ sudo ip li show mv0 |grep mv0| awk -e '{print $1 $2}'
  14:mv0@enp7s0:
$ cat /dev/tap14 &amp;
$ lsmod |egrep -i 'tap|vlan'
macvtap                16384  0
macvlan                24576  1 macvtap
tap                    24576  3 macvtap
$ sudo modprobe -r macvtap
$ fg
cat /dev/tap14
^C

&lt;...system panics...&gt;
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa038c500
IP: cdev_put+0xf/0x30
----------8&lt;-----------------8&lt;----------

The fix is to set cdev.owner to the module that creates the tap device
(either macvtap or ipvtap). With this set, the operations (in
fs/char_dev.c) on char device holds and releases the module through
cdev_get() and cdev_put() and will not allow the module to unload
prematurely.

Fixes: 9a393b5d5988ea4e (tap: tap as an independent module)
Signed-off-by: Girish Moodalbail &lt;girish.moodalbail@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.newlink</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:55:59+00:00</published>
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Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup &amp; sigpending methods from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; into &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T18:15:33+00:00</published>
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Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tap: tap as an independent module</title>
<updated>2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sainath Grandhi</name>
<email>sainath.grandhi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-11T00:03:51+00:00</published>
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This patch makes tap a separate module for other types of virtual interfaces, for example,
ipvlan to use.

Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi &lt;sainath.grandhi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tap: Refactoring macvtap.c</title>
<updated>2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sainath Grandhi</name>
<email>sainath.grandhi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-11T00:03:46+00:00</published>
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macvtap module has code for tap/queue management and link management. This patch splits
the code into macvtap_main.c for link management and tap.c for tap/queue management.
Functionality in tap.c can be re-used for implementing tap on other virtual interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi &lt;sainath.grandhi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>macvtap: read vnet_hdr_size once</title>
<updated>2017-02-07T03:41:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T23:20:49+00:00</published>
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When IFF_VNET_HDR is enabled, a virtio_net header must precede data.
Data length is verified to be greater than or equal to expected header
length tun-&gt;vnet_hdr_sz before copying.

Macvtap functions read the value once, but unless READ_ONCE is used,
the compiler may ignore this and read multiple times. Enforce a single
read and locally cached value to avoid updates between test and use.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio-net: restore VIRTIO_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on receiving</title>
<updated>2017-01-20T16:01:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T06:32:42+00:00</published>
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Commit 501db511397f ("virtio: don't set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on
xmit") in fact disables VIRTIO_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on receiving path too,
fixing this by adding a hint (has_data_valid) and set it only on the
receiving path.

Cc: Rolf Neugebauer &lt;rolf.neugebauer@docker.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rolf Neugebauer &lt;rolf.neugebauer@docker.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-12-16T18:24:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-16T18:24:44+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - more -&gt;d_init() stuff (work.dcache)

 - pathname resolution cleanups (work.namei)

 - a few missing iov_iter primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and
   friends. Either copy the full requested amount, advance the iterator
   and return true, or fail, return false and do _not_ advance the
   iterator. Quite a few open-coded callers converted (and became more
   readable and harder to fuck up that way) (work.iov_iter)

 - several assorted patches, the big one being logfs removal

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  logfs: remove from tree
  vfs: fix put_compat_statfs64() does not handle errors
  namei: fold should_follow_link() with the step into not-followed link
  namei: pass both WALK_GET and WALK_MORE to should_follow_link()
  namei: invert WALK_PUT logics
  namei: shift interpretation of LOOKUP_FOLLOW inside should_follow_link()
  namei: saner calling conventions for mountpoint_last()
  namei.c: get rid of user_path_parent()
  switch getfrag callbacks to ..._full() primitives
  make skb_add_data,{_nocache}() and skb_copy_to_page_nocache() advance only on success
  [iov_iter] new primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and friends
  don't open-code file_inode()
  ceph: switch to use of -&gt;d_init()
  ceph: unify dentry_operations instances
  lustre: switch to use of -&gt;d_init()
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<entry>
<title>[iov_iter] new primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and friends</title>
<updated>2016-12-05T19:33:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T02:09:04+00:00</published>
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copy_from_iter_full(), copy_from_iter_full_nocache() and
csum_and_copy_from_iter_full() - counterparts of copy_from_iter()
et.al., advancing iterator only in case of successful full copy
and returning whether it had been successful or not.

Convert some obvious users.  *NOTE* - do not blindly assume that
something is a good candidate for those unless you are sure that
not advancing iov_iter in failure case is the right thing in
this case.  Anything that does short read/short write kind of
stuff (or is in a loop, etc.) is unlikely to be a good one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-12-03T17:29:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-03T16:46:54+00:00</published>
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Couple conflicts resolved here:

1) In the MACB driver, a bug fix to properly initialize the
   RX tail pointer properly overlapped with some changes
   to support variable sized rings.

2) In XGBE we had a "CONFIG_PM" --&gt; "CONFIG_PM_SLEEP" fix
   overlapping with a reorganization of the driver to support
   ACPI, OF, as well as PCI variants of the chip.

3) In 'net' we had several probe error path bug fixes to the
   stmmac driver, meanwhile a lot of this code was cleaned up
   and reorganized in 'net-next'.

4) The cls_flower classifier obtained a helper function in
   'net-next' called __fl_delete() and this overlapped with
   Daniel Borkamann's bug fix to use RCU for object destruction
   in 'net'.  It also overlapped with Jiri's change to guard
   the rhashtable_remove_fast() call with a check against
   tc_skip_sw().

5) In mlx4, a revert bug fix in 'net' overlapped with some
   unrelated changes in 'net-next'.

6) In geneve, a stale header pointer after pskb_expand_head()
   bug fix in 'net' overlapped with a large reorganization of
   the same code in 'net-next'.  Since the 'net-next' code no
   longer had the bug in question, there was nothing to do
   other than to simply take the 'net-next' hunks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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