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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:40Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>net: fix uninit-value in __hw_addr_add_ex()</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T20:42:40Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 77d36398d99f2565c0a8d43a86fd520a82e64bb8 ]

syzbot complained :

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in memcmp+0x119/0x180 lib/string.c:861
CPU: 0 PID: 3 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 4.16.0+ #82
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x185/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:53
 kmsan_report+0x142/0x240 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1067
 __msan_warning_32+0x6c/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:676
 memcmp+0x119/0x180 lib/string.c:861
 __hw_addr_add_ex net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:60 [inline]
 __dev_mc_add+0x1c2/0x8e0 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:670
 dev_mc_add+0x6d/0x80 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:687
 igmp6_group_added+0x2db/0xa00 net/ipv6/mcast.c:662
 ipv6_dev_mc_inc+0xe9e/0x1130 net/ipv6/mcast.c:914
 addrconf_join_solict net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2078 [inline]
 addrconf_dad_begin net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3828 [inline]
 addrconf_dad_work+0x427/0x2150 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3954
 process_one_work+0x12c6/0x1f60 kernel/workqueue.c:2113
 worker_thread+0x113c/0x24f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2247
 kthread+0x539/0x720 kernel/kthread.c:239

Fixes: f001fde5eadd ("net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: initialize skb-&gt;peeked when cloning</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T20:42:39Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b13dda9f9aa7caceeee61c080c2e544d5f5d85e5 ]

syzbot reported __skb_try_recv_from_queue() was using skb-&gt;peeked
while it was potentially unitialized.

We need to clear it in __skb_clone()

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy table</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfgang Bumiller</name>
<email>w.bumiller@proxmox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T08:46:55Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 53b76cdf7e8fecec1d09e38aad2f8579882591a8 ]

When coming from ndisc_netdev_event() in net/ipv6/ndisc.c,
neigh_ifdown() is called with &amp;nd_tbl, locking this while
clearing the proxy neighbor entries when eg. deleting an
interface. Calling the table's pndisc_destructor() with the
lock still held, however, can cause a deadlock: When a
multicast listener is available an IGMP packet of type
ICMPV6_MGM_REDUCTION may be sent out. When reaching
ip6_finish_output2(), if no neighbor entry for the target
address is found, __neigh_create() is called with &amp;nd_tbl,
which it'll want to lock.

Move the elements into their own list, then unlock the table
and perform the destruction.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199289
Fixes: 6fd6ce2056de ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt-&gt;n in ip6_finish_output2().")
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller &lt;w.bumiller@proxmox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vlan: Fix reading memory beyond skb-&gt;tail in skb_vlan_tagged_multi</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshiaki Makita</name>
<email>makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-17T09:46:14Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7ce2367254e84753bceb07327aaf5c953cfce117 ]

Syzkaller spotted an old bug which leads to reading skb beyond tail by 4
bytes on vlan tagged packets.
This is caused because skb_vlan_tagged_multi() did not check
skb_headlen.

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in eth_type_vlan include/linux/if_vlan.h:283 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in skb_vlan_tagged_multi include/linux/if_vlan.h:656 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in vlan_features_check include/linux/if_vlan.h:672 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in dflt_features_check net/core/dev.c:2949 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in netif_skb_features+0xd1b/0xdc0 net/core/dev.c:3009
CPU: 1 PID: 3582 Comm: syzkaller435149 Not tainted 4.16.0+ #82
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
  dump_stack+0x185/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:53
  kmsan_report+0x142/0x240 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1067
  __msan_warning_32+0x6c/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:676
  eth_type_vlan include/linux/if_vlan.h:283 [inline]
  skb_vlan_tagged_multi include/linux/if_vlan.h:656 [inline]
  vlan_features_check include/linux/if_vlan.h:672 [inline]
  dflt_features_check net/core/dev.c:2949 [inline]
  netif_skb_features+0xd1b/0xdc0 net/core/dev.c:3009
  validate_xmit_skb+0x89/0x1320 net/core/dev.c:3084
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1cb2/0x2b60 net/core/dev.c:3549
  dev_queue_xmit+0x4b/0x60 net/core/dev.c:3590
  packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:2944 [inline]
  packet_sendmsg+0x7c57/0x8a10 net/packet/af_packet.c:2969
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:630 [inline]
  sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:640 [inline]
  sock_write_iter+0x3b9/0x470 net/socket.c:909
  do_iter_readv_writev+0x7bb/0x970 include/linux/fs.h:1776
  do_iter_write+0x30d/0xd40 fs/read_write.c:932
  vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:977 [inline]
  do_writev+0x3c9/0x830 fs/read_write.c:1012
  SYSC_writev+0x9b/0xb0 fs/read_write.c:1085
  SyS_writev+0x56/0x80 fs/read_write.c:1082
  do_syscall_64+0x309/0x430 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
RIP: 0033:0x43ffa9
RSP: 002b:00007fff2cff3948 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004002c8 RCX: 000000000043ffa9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000020000080 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000006cb018 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 00000000004018d0
R13: 0000000000401960 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

Uninit was created at:
  kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:278 [inline]
  kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb8/0x1b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:188
  kmsan_kmalloc+0x94/0x100 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:314
  kmsan_slab_alloc+0x11/0x20 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:321
  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:445 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2737 [inline]
  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xaed/0x11c0 mm/slub.c:4369
  __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:138 [inline]
  __alloc_skb+0x2cf/0x9f0 net/core/skbuff.c:206
  alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:984 [inline]
  alloc_skb_with_frags+0x1d4/0xb20 net/core/skbuff.c:5234
  sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xb56/0x1190 net/core/sock.c:2085
  packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2803 [inline]
  packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:2894 [inline]
  packet_sendmsg+0x6444/0x8a10 net/packet/af_packet.c:2969
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:630 [inline]
  sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:640 [inline]
  sock_write_iter+0x3b9/0x470 net/socket.c:909
  do_iter_readv_writev+0x7bb/0x970 include/linux/fs.h:1776
  do_iter_write+0x30d/0xd40 fs/read_write.c:932
  vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:977 [inline]
  do_writev+0x3c9/0x830 fs/read_write.c:1012
  SYSC_writev+0x9b/0xb0 fs/read_write.c:1085
  SyS_writev+0x56/0x80 fs/read_write.c:1082
  do_syscall_64+0x309/0x430 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

Fixes: 58e998c6d239 ("offloading: Force software GSO for multiple vlan tags.")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+0bbe42c764feafa82c5a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita &lt;makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fool proof dev_valid_name()</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T13:39:26Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit a9d48205d0aedda021fc3728972a9e9934c2b9de ]

We want to use dev_valid_name() to validate tunnel names,
so better use strnlen(name, IFNAMSIZ) than strlen(name) to make
sure to not upset KASAN.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fix possible out-of-bound read in skb_network_protocol()</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T15:08:07Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1dfe82ebd7d8fd43dba9948fdfb31f145014baa0 ]

skb mac header is not necessarily set at the time skb_network_protocol()
is called. Use skb-&gt;data instead.

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in skb_network_protocol+0x46b/0x4b0 net/core/dev.c:2739
Read of size 2 at addr ffff8801b3097a0b by task syz-executor5/14242

CPU: 1 PID: 14242 Comm: syz-executor5 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc6+ #280
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x194/0x24d lib/dump_stack.c:53
 print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:256
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x23c/0x360 mm/kasan/report.c:412
 __asan_report_load_n_noabort+0xf/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:443
 skb_network_protocol+0x46b/0x4b0 net/core/dev.c:2739
 harmonize_features net/core/dev.c:2924 [inline]
 netif_skb_features+0x509/0x9b0 net/core/dev.c:3011
 validate_xmit_skb+0x81/0xb00 net/core/dev.c:3084
 validate_xmit_skb_list+0xbf/0x120 net/core/dev.c:3142
 packet_direct_xmit+0x117/0x790 net/packet/af_packet.c:256
 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:2944 [inline]
 packet_sendmsg+0x3aed/0x60b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:2969
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:629 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xca/0x110 net/socket.c:639
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x767/0x8b0 net/socket.c:2047
 __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x210 net/socket.c:2081

Fixes: 19acc327258a ("gso: Handle Trans-Ether-Bridging protocol in skb_network_protocol()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@ovn.org&gt;
Reported-by: Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff: only inherit relevant tx_flags</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T15:35:03Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit fff88030b3ff930ca7a3d74acfee0472f33887ea ]

When inheriting tx_flags from one skbuff to another, always apply a
mask to avoid overwriting unrelated other bits in the field.

The two SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG cases clears all other bits. In practice,
tx_flags are zero at this point now. But this is fragile. Timestamp
flags are set, for instance, if in tcp_gso_segment, after this clear
in skb_segment.

The SKBTX_ANY_TSTAMP mask in __skb_tstamp_tx ensures that new
skbs do not accidentally inherit flags such as SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff: return -EMSGSIZE in skb_to_sgvec to prevent overflow</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-04T02:16:22Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 48a1df65334b74bd7531f932cca5928932abf769 ]

This is a defense-in-depth measure in response to bugs like
4d6fa57b4dab ("macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec"). There's
not only a potential overflow of sglist items, but also a stack overflow
potential, so we fix this by limiting the amount of recursion this function
is allowed to do. Not actually providing a bounded base case is a future
disaster that we can easily avoid here.

As a small matter of house keeping, we take this opportunity to move the
documentation comment over the actual function the documentation is for.

While this could be implemented by using an explicit stack of skbuffs,
when implementing this, the function complexity increased considerably,
and I don't think such complexity and bloat is actually worth it. So,
instead I built this and tested it on x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, and MIPS,
and measured the stack usage there. I also reverted the recent MIPS
changes that give it a separate IRQ stack, so that I could experience
some worst-case situations. I found that limiting it to 24 layers deep
yielded a good stack usage with room for safety, as well as being much
deeper than any driver actually ever creates.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move somaxconn init from sysctl code</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Kapl</name>
<email>roman.kapl@sysgo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:22:22Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7c3f1875c66fbc19762760097cabc91849ea0bbb ]

The default value for somaxconn is set in sysctl_core_net_init(), but this
function is not called when kernel is configured without CONFIG_SYSCTL.

This results in the kernel not being able to accept TCP connections,
because the backlog has zero size. Usually, the user ends up with:
"TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 7. Dropping request.  Check SNMP counters."
If SYN cookies are not enabled the connection is rejected.

Before ef547f2ac16 (tcp: remove max_qlen_log), the effects were less
severe, because the backlog was always at least eight slots long.

Signed-off-by: Roman Kapl &lt;roman.kapl@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: update neigh timestamps iff update is effective</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ihar Hrachyshka</name>
<email>ihrachys@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-16T15:44:24Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 77d7123342dcf6442341b67816321d71da8b2b16 ]

It's a common practice to send gratuitous ARPs after moving an
IP address to another device to speed up healing of a service. To
fulfill service availability constraints, the timing of network peers
updating their caches to point to a new location of an IP address can be
particularly important.

Sometimes neigh_update calls won't touch neither lladdr nor state, for
example if an update arrives in locktime interval. The neigh-&gt;updated
value is tested by the protocol specific neigh code, which in turn
will influence whether NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE gets set in the
call to neigh_update() or not. As a result, we may effectively ignore
the update request, bailing out of touching the neigh entry, except that
we still bump its timestamps inside neigh_update.

This may be a problem for updates arriving in quick succession. For
example, consider the following scenario:

A service is moved to another device with its IP address. The new device
sends three gratuitous ARP requests into the network with ~1 seconds
interval between them. Just before the first request arrives to one of
network peer nodes, its neigh entry for the IP address transitions from
STALE to DELAY.  This transition, among other things, updates
neigh-&gt;updated. Once the kernel receives the first gratuitous ARP, it
ignores it because its arrival time is inside the locktime interval. The
kernel still bumps neigh-&gt;updated. Then the second gratuitous ARP
request arrives, and it's also ignored because it's still in the (new)
locktime interval. Same happens for the third request. The node
eventually heals itself (after delay_first_probe_time seconds since the
initial transition to DELAY state), but it just wasted some time and
require a new ARP request/reply round trip. This unfortunate behaviour
both puts more load on the network, as well as reduces service
availability.

This patch changes neigh_update so that it bumps neigh-&gt;updated (as well
as neigh-&gt;confirmed) only once we are sure that either lladdr or entry
state will change). In the scenario described above, it means that the
second gratuitous ARP request will actually update the entry lladdr.

Ideally, we would update the neigh entry on the very first gratuitous
ARP request. The locktime mechanism is designed to ignore ARP updates in
a short timeframe after a previous ARP update was honoured by the kernel
layer. This would require tracking timestamps for state transitions
separately from timestamps when actual updates are received. This would
probably involve changes in neighbour struct. Therefore, the patch
doesn't tackle the issue of the first gratuitous APR ignored, leaving
it for a follow-up.

Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka &lt;ihrachys@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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