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Lorenzo Colitti
c1e64e298b net: diag: Support destroying TCP sockets.
This implements SOCK_DESTROY for TCP sockets. It causes all
blocking calls on the socket to fail fast with ECONNABORTED and
causes a protocol close of the socket. It informs the other end
of the connection by sending a RST, i.e., initiating a TCP ABORT
as per RFC 793. ECONNABORTED was chosen for consistency with
FreeBSD.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-12-15 23:26:52 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
00fd38d938 tcp: ensure proper barriers in lockless contexts
Some functions access TCP sockets without holding a lock and
might output non consistent data, depending on compiler and or
architecture.

tcp_diag_get_info(), tcp_get_info(), tcp_poll(), get_tcp4_sock() ...

Introduce sk_state_load() and sk_state_store() to fix the issues,
and more clearly document where this lack of locking is happening.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-15 18:36:38 -05:00
Craig Gallek
35ac838a9b sock_diag: implement a get_info handler for inet
This get_info handler will simply dispatch to the appropriate
existing inet protocol handler.

This patch also includes a new netlink attribute
(INET_DIAG_PROTOCOL).  This attribute is currently only used
for multicast messages.  Without this attribute, there is no
way of knowing the IP protocol used by the socket information
being broadcast.  This attribute is not necessary in the 'dump'
variant of this protocol (though it could easily be added)
because dump requests are issued for specific family/protocol
pairs.

Tested: ss -E (note, the -E option has not yet been merged into
the upstream version of ss).

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-15 19:49:22 -07:00
Craig Gallek
3fd22af808 sock_diag: specify info_size per inet protocol
Previously, there was no clear distinction between the inet protocols
that used struct tcp_info to report information and those that didn't.
This change adds a specific size attribute to the inet_diag_handler
struct which defines these interfaces.  This will make dispatching
sock_diag get_info requests identical for all inet protocols in a
following patch.

Tested: ss -au
Tested: ss -at
Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-15 19:49:22 -07:00
Ian Morris
00db41243e ipv4: coding style: comparison for inequality with NULL
The ipv4 code uses a mixture of coding styles. In some instances check
for non-NULL pointer is done as x != NULL and sometimes as x. x is
preferred according to checkpatch and this patch makes the code
consistent by adopting the latter form.

No changes detected by objdiff.

Signed-off-by: Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-03 12:11:15 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
34160ea3f9 inet_diag: add const to inet_diag_req_v2
diag dumpers should not modify the request.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-10 13:45:28 -04:00
stephen hemminger
688d1945bc tcp: whitespace fixes
Fix places where there is space before tab, long lines, and
awkward if(){, double spacing etc. Add blank line after declaration/initialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-01 18:12:45 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c8991362a0 inet_diag: Rename inet_diag_req into inet_diag_req_v2
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-11 12:56:06 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
aec8dc62f6 sock_diag: Fix module netlink aliases
I've made a mistake when fixing the sock_/inet_diag aliases :(

1. The sock_diag layer should request the family-based alias,
   not just the IPPROTO_IP one;
2. The inet_diag layer should request for AF_INET+protocol alias,
   not just the protocol one.

Thus fix this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-16 13:48:27 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov
1942c518ca inet_diag: Generalize inet_diag dump and get_exact calls
Introduce two callbacks in inet_diag_handler -- one for dumping all
sockets (with filters) and the other one for dumping a single sk.

Replace direct calls to icsk handlers with indirect calls to callbacks
provided by handlers.

Make existing TCP and DCCP handlers use provided helpers for icsk-s.

The UDP diag module will provide its own.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-09 14:14:08 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7b35eadd7e inet_diag: Remove indirect sizeof from inet diag handlers
There's an info_size value stored on inet_diag_handler, but for existing
code this value is effectively constant, so just use sizeof(struct tcp_info)
where required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-09 14:14:07 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov
f13c95f0e2 inet_diag: Switch from _GETSOCK to IPPROTO_ numbers
Sorry, but the vger didn't let this message go to the list. Re-sending it with
less spam-filter-prone subject.

When dumping the AF_INET/AF_INET6 sockets user will also specify the protocol,
so prepare the protocol diag handlers to work with IPPROTO_ constants.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:58:01 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7f1fb60c4f inet_diag: Partly rename inet_ to sock_
The ultimate goal is to get the sock_diag module, that works in
family+protocol terms. Currently this is suitable to do on the
inet_diag basis, so rename parts of the code. It will be moved
to sock_diag.c later.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:57:36 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
49d0900787 tcp: diag: Dont report negative values for rx queue
Both netlink and /proc/net/tcp interfaces can report transient
negative values for rx queue.

ss ->
State   Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
ESTAB   -6     6       127.0.0.1:45956     127.0.0.1:3333 

netstat ->
tcp   4294967290      6 127.0.0.1:37784  127.0.0.1:3333 ESTABLISHED

This is because we dont lock socket while computing 
tp->rcv_nxt - tp->copied_seq,
and another CPU can update copied_seq before rcv_next in RX path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 16:06:13 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
a7a0d6a87b net: inet_diag_handler structs can be const
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 15:43:27 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Jean Delvare
305e1e9691 [INET]: Let inet_diag and friends autoload
By adding module aliases to inet_diag, tcp_diag and dccp_diag, we let
them load automatically as needed. This makes tools like "ss" run
faster.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22 02:59:54 -07:00
Rick Jones
5ee3afba88 [TCP]: Return useful listenq info in tcp_info and INET_DIAG_INFO.
Return some useful information such as the maximum listen backlog and
the current listen backlog in the tcp_info structure and
INET_DIAG_INFO.

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:35 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Sridhar Samudrala
47da8ee681 [TCP]: Export accept queue len of a TCP listening socket via rx_queue
While debugging a TCP server hang issue, we noticed that currently there is
no way for a user to get the acceptq backlog value for a TCP listen socket.

All the standard networking utilities that display socket info like netstat,
ss and /proc/net/tcp have 2 fields called rx_queue and tx_queue. These
fields do not mean much for listening sockets. This patch uses one of these
unused fields(rx_queue) to export the accept queue len for listening sockets.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:57:57 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
17b085eace [INET_DIAG]: Move the tcp_diag interface to the proper place
With this the previous setup is back, i.e. tcp_diag can be built as a module,
as dccp_diag and both share the infrastructure available in inet_diag.

If one selects CONFIG_INET_DIAG as module CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG will also be
built as a module, as will CONFIG_INET_DCCP_DIAG, if CONFIG_IP_DCCP was
selected static or as a module, if CONFIG_INET_DIAG is y, being statically
linked CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG will follow suit and CONFIG_INET_DCCP_DIAG will be
built in the same manner as CONFIG_IP_DCCP.

Now to aim at UDP, converting it to use inet_hashinfo, so that we can use
iproute2 for UDP sockets as well.

Ah, just to show an example of this new infrastructure working for DCCP :-)

[root@qemu ~]# ./ss -dane
State      Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
LISTEN     0      0                  *:5001             *:*     ino:942 sk:cfd503a0
ESTAB      0      0          127.0.0.1:5001     127.0.0.1:32770 ino:943 sk:cfd50a60
ESTAB      0      0          127.0.0.1:32770    127.0.0.1:5001  ino:947 sk:cfd50700
TIME-WAIT  0      0          127.0.0.1:32769    127.0.0.1:5001  timer:(timewait,3.430ms,0) ino:0 sk:cf209620

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:57:54 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
a8c2190ee7 [INET_DIAG]: Rename tcp_diag.[ch] to inet_diag.[ch]
Next changeset will introduce net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c, moving the code that was put
transitioanlly in inet_diag.c.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:57:48 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
73c1f4a033 [TCPDIAG]: Just rename everything to inet_diag
Next changeset will rename tcp_diag.[ch] to inet_diag.[ch].

I'm taking this longer route so as to easy review, making clear the changes
made all along the way.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:57:44 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4f5736c4c7 [TCPDIAG]: Introduce inet_diag_{register,unregister}
Next changeset will rename tcp_diag to inet_diag and move the tcp_diag code out
of it and into a new tcp_diag.c, similar to the net/dccp/diag.c introduced in
this changeset, completing the transition to a generic inet_diag
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:57:38 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
505cbfc577 [IPV6]: Generalise the tcp_v6_lookup routines
In the same way as was done with the v4 counterparts, this will be moved
to inet6_hashtables.c.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:57:24 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e41aac41e3 [TCPDIAG]: Introduce CONFIG_IP_TCPDIAG_DCCP
Similar to CONFIG_IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:56:49 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
540722ffc3 [TCPDIAG]: Implement cheapest way of supporting DCCPDIAG_GETSOCK
With ugly ifdefs, etc, but this actually:

1. keeps the existing ABI, i.e. no need to recompile the iproute2
   utilities if not interested in DCCP.

2. Provides all the tcp_diag functionality in DCCP, with just a
   small patch that makes iproute2 support DCCP.

Of course I'll get this cleaned-up in time, but for now I think its
OK to be this way to quickly get this functionality.

iproute2-ss050808 patch at:

http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/iproute2-ss050808.dccp.patch

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:56:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6687e988d9 [ICSK]: Move TCP congestion avoidance members to icsk
This changeset basically moves tcp_sk()->{ca_ops,ca_state,etc} to inet_csk(),
minimal renaming/moving done in this changeset to ease review.

Most of it is just changes of struct tcp_sock * to struct sock * parameters.

With this we move to a state closer to two interesting goals:

1. Generalisation of net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c, becoming inet_diag.c, being used
   for any INET transport protocol that has struct inet_hashinfo and are
   derived from struct inet_connection_sock. Keeps the userspace API, that will
   just not display DCCP sockets, while newer versions of tools can support
   DCCP.

2. INET generic transport pluggable Congestion Avoidance infrastructure, using
   the current TCP CA infrastructure with DCCP.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:56:18 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
463c84b97f [NET]: Introduce inet_connection_sock
This creates struct inet_connection_sock, moving members out of struct
tcp_sock that are shareable with other INET connection oriented
protocols, such as DCCP, that in my private tree already uses most of
these members.

The functions that operate on these members were renamed, using a
inet_csk_ prefix while not being moved yet to a new file, so as to
ease the review of these changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:43:19 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e48c414ee6 [INET]: Generalise the TCP sock ID lookup routines
And also some TIME_WAIT functions.

[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$ grep built-in /tmp/before.size /tmp/after.size
/tmp/before.size: 282955   13122    9312  305389   4a8ed net/ipv4/built-in.o
/tmp/after.size:  281566   13122    9312  304000   4a380 net/ipv4/built-in.o
[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$

I kept them still inlined, will uninline at some point to see what
would be the performance difference.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:42:18 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8feaf0c0a5 [INET]: Generalise tcp_tw_bucket, aka TIME_WAIT sockets
This paves the way to generalise the rest of the sock ID lookup
routines and saves some bytes in TCPv4 TIME_WAIT sockets on distro
kernels (where IPv6 is always built as a module):

[root@qemu ~]# grep tw_sock /proc/slabinfo
tw_sock_TCPv6  0  0  128  31  1
tw_sock_TCP    0  0   96  41  1
[root@qemu ~]#

Now if a protocol wants to use the TIME_WAIT generic infrastructure it
only has to set the sk_prot->twsk_obj_size field with the size of its
inet_timewait_sock derived sock and proto_register will create
sk_prot->twsk_slab, for now its only for INET sockets, but we can
introduce timewait_sock later if some non INET transport protocolo
wants to use this stuff.

Next changesets will take advantage of this new infrastructure to
generalise even more TCP code.

[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$ grep built-in /tmp/before.size /tmp/after.size
/tmp/before.size: 188646   11764    5068  205478   322a6 net/ipv4/built-in.o
/tmp/after.size:  188144   11764    5068  204976   320b0 net/ipv4/built-in.o
[acme@toy net-2.6.14]$

Tested with both IPv4 & IPv6 (::1 (localhost) & ::ffff:172.20.0.1
(qemu host)).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:42:13 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f3f05f7046 [INET]: Generalise the tcp_listen_ lock routines
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:41:49 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6e04e02165 [INET]: Move tcp_port_rover to inet_hashinfo
Also expose all of the tcp_hashinfo members, i.e. killing those
tcp_ehash, etc macros, this will more clearly expose already generic
functions and some that need just a bit of work to become generic, as
we'll see in the upcoming changesets.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:41:44 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
0f7ff9274e [INET]: Just rename the TCP hashtable functions/structs to inet_
This is to break down the complexity of the series of patches,
making it very clear that this one just does:

1. renames tcp_ prefixed hashtable functions and data structures that
   were already mostly generic to inet_ to share it with DCCP and
   other INET transport protocols.

2. Removes not used functions (__tb_head & tb_head)

3. Removes some leftover prototypes in the headers (tcp_bucket_unlock &
   tcp_v4_build_header)

Next changesets will move tcp_sk(sk)->bind_hash to inet_sock so that we can
make functions such as tcp_inherit_port, __tcp_inherit_port, tcp_v4_get_port,
__tcp_put_port,  generic and get others like tcp_destroy_sock closer to generic
(tcp_orphan_count will go to sk->sk_prot to allow this).

Eventually most of these functions will be used passing the transport protocol
inet_hashinfo structure.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:38:32 -07:00
Harald Welte
4fdb3bb723 [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
  protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
  as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:35:08 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
056ede6cfa [TCP]: Report congestion control algorithm in tcp_diag.
Enhancement to the tcp_diag interface used by the iproute2 ss command
to report the tcp congestion control being used by a socket.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:21:28 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
7c99c909fa [TCP]: Change tcp_diag to use the existing __RTA_PUT() macro.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:20:36 -07:00
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
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
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
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00