kernel/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c, branch linux-6.2.y

genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes

2022-08-29T11:47:15Z

We had historically not checked that genlmsghdr.reserved is 0 on input which prevents us from using those precious bytes in the future. One use case would be to extend the cmd field, which is currently just 8 bits wide and 256 is not a lot of commands for some core families. To make sure that new families do the right thing by default put the onus of opting out of validation on existing families. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Paul Moore (NetLabel) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save.

2022-07-22T11:06:17Z

While reading sysctl_tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: 65e6d90168f3 ("net-tcp: Disable TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save.

2022-07-22T11:06:17Z

While reading sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_reordering.

2022-07-18T11:21:54Z

While reading sysctl_tcp_reordering, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd

2022-04-06T19:05:41Z

We had various bugs over the years with code breaking the assumption that tp->snd_cwnd is greater than zero. Lately, syzbot reported the WARN_ON_ONCE(!tp->prior_cwnd) added in commit 8b8a321ff72c ("tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction") can trigger, and without a repro we would have to spend considerable time finding the bug. Instead of complaining too late, we want to catch where and when tp->snd_cwnd is set to an illegal value. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Suggested-by: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405233538.947344-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2020-12-15T00:40:27Z

Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner: "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a single branch: - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces() - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical for all namespaces. - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak. - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this tree-wide. Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I didn't rebase and kept them" * tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces() sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation time: Use generic ns_common::count cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count mnt: Use generic ns_common::count user: Use generic ns_common::count pid: Use generic ns_common::count ipc: Use generic ns_common::count uts: Use generic ns_common::count net: Use generic ns_common::count ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()

genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible

2020-10-03T02:11:11Z

Bulk of the genetlink users can use smaller ops, move them. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use generic ns_common::count

2020-08-19T12:06:36Z

Switch over network namespaces to use the newly introduced common lifetime counter. Network namespaces have an additional counter named "passive". This counter does not guarantee that the network namespace is not already de-initialized and so isn't concerned with the actual lifetime of the network namespace; only the "count" counter is. So the latter is moved into struct ns_common. Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and these are not altered. This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them. It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces. Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace struct out of struct ns_common. Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Christian Brauner [christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: rewrite commit] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644977635.604812.1319877322927063560.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net-tcp: Disable TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default

2019-12-10T04:17:48Z

This patch introduces a sysctl knob "net.ipv4.tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save" that disables TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default. Other parts of TCP metrics cache, e.g. rtt, cwnd, remain unchanged. As modern networks becoming more and more dynamic, TCP metrics cache today often causes more harm than benefits. For example, the same IP address is often shared by different subscribers behind NAT in residential networks. Even if the IP address is not shared by different users, caching the slow-start threshold of a previous short flow using loss-based congestion control (e.g. cubic) often causes the future longer flows of the same network path to exit slow-start prematurely with abysmal throughput. Caching ssthresh is very risky and can lead to terrible performance. Therefore it makes sense to make disabling ssthresh caching by default and opt-in for specific networks by the administrators. This practice also has worked well for several years of deployment with CUBIC congestion control at Google. Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Kevin(Yudong) Yang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: refactor setting the initial congestion window

2019-05-01T15:47:54Z

Relocate the congestion window initialization from tcp_init_metrics() to tcp_init_transfer() to improve code readability. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller