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2016-02-05SUNRPC: Make NFS swap work with multipathTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-05SUNRPC: Add a helper to apply a function to all the rpc_clnt's transportsTrond Myklebust
Add a helper for tasks that require us to apply a function to all the transports in an rpc_clnt. An example of a usecase would be BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, where we want to send one RPC call down each transport. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-05SUNRPC: Allow caller to specify the transport to useTrond Myklebust
This is needed in order to allow the NFSv4.1 backchannel and BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION function to work. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-05SUNRPC: Use the multipath iterator to assign a transport to each taskTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-05SUNRPC: Make rpc_clnt store the multipath iteratorsTrond Myklebust
This is a pre-patch for the RPC multipath code. It sets up the storage in struct rpc_clnt for the multipath code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-05SUNRPC: Add a structure to track multiple transportsTrond Myklebust
In order to support multipathing/trunking we will need the ability to track multiple transports. This patch sets up a basic structure for doing so. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-04libceph: MOSDOpReply v7 encodingIlya Dryomov
Empty request_redirect_t (struct ceph_request_redirect in the kernel client) is now encoded with a bool. NEW_OSDOPREPLY_ENCODING feature bit overlaps with already supported CRUSH_TUNABLES5. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
2016-02-04crush: decode and initialize chooseleaf_stableIlya Dryomov
Also add missing \n while at it. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
2016-02-04crush: add chooseleaf_stable tunableIlya Dryomov
Add a tunable to fix the bug that chooseleaf may cause unnecessary pg migrations when some device fails. Reflects ceph.git commit fdb3f664448e80d984470f32f04e2e6f03ab52ec. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
2016-02-04crush: ensure take bucket value is validIlya Dryomov
Ensure that the take argument is a valid bucket ID before indexing the buckets array. Reflects ceph.git commit 93ec538e8a667699876b72459b8ad78966d89c61. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
2016-02-04crush: ensure bucket id is valid before indexing buckets arrayIlya Dryomov
We were indexing the buckets array without verifying the index was within the [0,max_buckets) range. This could happen because a multistep rule does not have enough buckets and has CRUSH_ITEM_NONE for an intermediate result, which would feed in CRUSH_ITEM_NONE and make us crash. Reflects ceph.git commit 976a24a326da8931e689ee22fce35feab5b67b76. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
2016-02-03batman-adv: Switch to HTTPS version of linksSven Eckelmann
open-mesh.org and its subdomains can only be accessed via HTTPS. HTTP-only requests are currently redirected automatically to HTTPS but references in the source code should be only https. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02mac80211: minstrel: Change expected throughput unit back to KbpsSven Eckelmann
The change from cur_tp to the function minstrel_get_tp_avg/minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg changed the unit used for the current throughput. For example in minstrel_ht the correct conversion between them would be: mrs->cur_tp / 10 == minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(..). This factor 10 must also be included in the calculation of minstrel_get_expected_throughput and minstrel_ht_get_expected_throughput to return values with the unit [Kbps] instead of [10Kbps]. Otherwise routing algorithms like B.A.T.M.A.N. V will make incorrect decision based on these values. Its kernel based implementation expects expected_throughput always to have the unit [Kbps] and not sometimes [10Kbps] and sometimes [Kbps]. The same requirement has iw or olsrdv2's nl80211 based statistics module which retrieve the same data via NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6a27b2c40b48 ("mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into function") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-02mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix out-of-bound in minstrel_ht_set_best_prob_rateKonstantin Khlebnikov
Patch fixes this splat BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in minstrel_ht_update_stats.isra.7+0x6e1/0x9e0 [mac80211] at addr ffff8800cee640f4 Read of size 4 by task swapper/3/0 Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALYGNiNyJhSaVnE35qS6UCGaSb2Dx1_i5HcRavuOX14oTz2P+w@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-02batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kernel-doc for batadv_claim_free_refSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: add kerneldoc for batadv_iv_ogm_aggr_packetSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: add kernel doc for AP isolation attributes in bat_privAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: fix kerneldoc for TT functionsAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: fix kerneldoc for DAT functionsAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Update/repair bridge loop avoidance kerneldocSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc of network-coding functionsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc of main functionsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc parsing of return descriptionSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: kernel doc readability updatesMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Drop invalid kerneldoc for variable batadv_vlan_attrsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix names in kerneldoc of functionsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Remove kerneldoc for missing parametersSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc parsing of structs/enumsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: "This looks like a lot but it's a mixture of regression fixes as well as fixes for longer standing issues. 1) Fix on-channel cancellation in mac80211, from Johannes Berg. 2) Handle CHECKSUM_COMPLETE properly in xt_TCPMSS netfilter xtables module, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Avoid infinite loop in UDP SO_REUSEPORT logic, also from Eric Dumazet. 4) Avoid a NULL deref if we try to set SO_REUSEPORT after a socket is bound, from Craig Gallek. 5) GRO key comparisons don't take lightweight tunnels into account, from Jesse Gross. 6) Fix struct pid leak via SCM credentials in AF_UNIX, from Eric Dumazet. 7) We need to set the rtnl_link_ops of ipv6 SIT tunnels before we register them, otherwise the NEWLINK netlink message is missing the proper attributes. From Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo. 8) Several Spectrum chip bug fixes for mlxsw switch driver, from Ido Schimmel 9) Handle fragments properly in ipv4 easly socket demux, from Eric Dumazet. 10) Don't ignore the ifindex key specifier on ipv6 output route lookups, from Paolo Abeni" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (128 commits) tcp: avoid cwnd undo after receiving ECN irda: fix a potential use-after-free in ircomm_param_request net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning net: nb8800: avoid uninitialized variable warning net: vxge: avoid unused function warnings net: bgmac: clarify CONFIG_BCMA dependency net: hp100: remove unnecessary #ifdefs net: davinci_cpdma: use dma_addr_t for DMA address ipv6/udp: use sticky pktinfo egress ifindex on connect() ipv6: enforce flowi6_oif usage in ip6_dst_lookup_tail() netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump vxlan: fix a out of bounds access in __vxlan_find_mac net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix port VLAN maps fib_trie: Fix shift by 32 in fib_table_lookup net: moxart: use correct accessors for DMA memory ipv4: ipconfig: avoid unused ic_proto_used symbol bnxt_en: Fix crash in bnxt_free_tx_skbs() during tx timeout. bnxt_en: Exclude rx_drop_pkts hw counter from the stack's rx_dropped counter. bnxt_en: Ring free response from close path should use completion ring net_sched: drr: check for NULL pointer in drr_dequeue ...
2016-01-31SUNRPC: Make freeing of struct xprt rcu-safeTrond Myklebust
Have it call kfree_rcu() to ensure that we can use it on rcu-protected lists. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-01-31SUNRPC: Uninline xprt_get(); It isn't performance critical.Trond Myklebust
Also allow callers to pass NULL arguments to xprt_get() and xprt_put(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-01-31SUNRPC: Remove unused function rpc_task_reset_clientTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2016-02-01netfilter: cttimeout: fix deadlock due to erroneous unlock/lock conversionFlorian Westphal
The spin_unlock call should have been left as-is, revert. Fixes: b16c29191dc89bd ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: use safer way to lock all buckets") Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-02-01netfilter: nfnetlink: use original skbuff when acking batchesPablo Neira Ayuso
Since bd678e09dc17 ("netfilter: nfnetlink: fix splat due to incorrect socket memory accounting in skbuff clones"), we don't manually attach the sk to the skbuff clone anymore, so we have to use the original skbuff from netlink_ack() which needs to access the sk pointer. Fixes: bd678e09dc17 ("netfilter: nfnetlink: fix splat due to incorrect socket memory accounting in skbuff clones") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-02-01netfilter: conntrack: resched in nf_ct_iterate_cleanupFlorian Westphal
Ulrich reports soft lockup with following (shortened) callchain: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6e4/0x774 process_backlog+0x94/0x160 net_rx_action+0x88/0x178 call_do_softirq+0x24/0x3c do_softirq+0x54/0x6c __local_bh_enable_ip+0x7c/0xbc nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x11c/0x22c [nf_conntrack] masq_inet_event+0x20/0x30 [nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x1c/0x2c ipv6_del_addr+0x1bc/0x220 [ipv6] Problem is that nf_ct_iterate_cleanup can run for a very long time since it can be interrupted by softirq processing. Moreover, atomic_notifier_call_chain runs with rcu readlock held. So lets call cond_resched() in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup and defer the call to a work queue for the atomic_notifier_call_chain case. We also need another cond_resched in get_next_corpse, since we have to deal with iter() always returning false, in that case get_next_corpse will walk entire conntrack table. Reported-by: Ulrich Weber <uw@ocedo.com> Tested-by: Ulrich Weber <uw@ocedo.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-01-30Merge branch 'for-upstream' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth Johan Hedberg says: ==================== pull request: bluetooth 2016-01-30 Here's a set of important Bluetooth fixes for the 4.5 kernel: - Two fixes to 6LoWPAN code (one fixing a potential crash) - Fix LE pairing with devices using both public and random addresses - Fix allocation of dynamic LE PSM values - Fix missing COMPATIBLE_IOCTL for UART line discipline Please let me know if there are any issues pulling. Thanks. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29tcp: avoid cwnd undo after receiving ECNYuchung Cheng
RFC 4015 section 3.4 says the TCP sender MUST refrain from reversing the congestion control state when the ACK signals congestion through the ECN-Echo flag. Currently we may not always do that when prior_ssthresh is reset upon receiving ACKs with ECE marks. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29irda: fix a potential use-after-free in ircomm_param_requestWANG Cong
self->ctrl_skb is protected by self->spinlock, we should not access it out of the lock. Move the debugging printk inside. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29ipv6/udp: use sticky pktinfo egress ifindex on connect()Paolo Abeni
Currently, the egress interface index specified via IPV6_PKTINFO is ignored by __ip6_datagram_connect(), so that RFC 3542 section 6.7 can be subverted when the user space application calls connect() before sendmsg(). Fix it by initializing properly flowi6_oif in connect() before performing the route lookup. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29ipv6: enforce flowi6_oif usage in ip6_dst_lookup_tail()Paolo Abeni
The current implementation of ip6_dst_lookup_tail basically ignore the egress ifindex match: if the saddr is set, ip6_route_output() purposefully ignores flowi6_oif, due to the commit d46a9d678e4c ("net: ipv6: Dont add RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE flag if saddr set"), if the saddr is 'any' the first route lookup in ip6_dst_lookup_tail fails, but upon failure a second lookup will be performed with saddr set, thus ignoring the ifindex constraint. This commit adds an output route lookup function variant, which allows the caller to specify lookup flags, and modify ip6_dst_lookup_tail() to enforce the ifindex match on the second lookup via said helper. ip6_route_output() becames now a static inline function build on top of ip6_route_output_flags(); as a side effect, out-of-tree modules need now a GPL license to access the output route lookup functionality. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dumpKen-ichirou MATSUZAWA
We should not trim skb for mmaped socket since its buf size is fixed and userspace will read as frame which data equals head. mmaped socket will not call recvmsg, means max_recvmsg_len is 0, skb_reserve was not called before commit: db65a3aaf29e. Fixes: db65a3aaf29e (netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC) Signed-off-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <chamas@h4.dion.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29fib_trie: Fix shift by 32 in fib_table_lookupAlexander Duyck
The fib_table_lookup function had a shift by 32 that triggered a UBSAN warning. This was due to the fact that I had placed the shift first and then followed it with the check for the suffix length to ignore the undefined behavior. If we reorder this so that we verify the suffix is less than 32 before shifting the value we can avoid the issue. Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29ipv4: ipconfig: avoid unused ic_proto_used symbolArnd Bergmann
When CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP, CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP and CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP are all disabled, we get a warning about the ic_proto_used variable being unused: net/ipv4/ipconfig.c:146:12: error: 'ic_proto_used' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-variable] This avoids the warning, by making the definition conditional on whether a dynamic IP configuration protocol is configured. If not, we know that the value is always zero, so we can optimize away the variable and all code that depends on it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29net_sched: drr: check for NULL pointer in drr_dequeueBernie Harris
There are cases where qdisc_dequeue_peeked can return NULL, and the result is dereferenced later on in the function. Similarly to the other qdisc dequeue functions, check whether the skb pointer is NULL and if it is, goto out. Signed-off-by: Bernie Harris <bernie.harris@alliedtelesis.co.nz> Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29tipc: fix connection abort during subscription cancelParthasarathy Bhuvaragan
In 'commit 7fe8097cef5f ("tipc: fix nullpointer bug when subscribing to events")', we terminate the connection if the subscription creation fails. In the same commit, the subscription creation result was based on the value of the subscription pointer (set in the function) instead of the return code. Unfortunately, the same function tipc_subscrp_create() handles subscription cancel request. For a subscription cancellation request, the subscription pointer cannot be set. Thus if a subscriber has several subscriptions and cancels any of them, the connection is terminated. In this commit, we terminate the connection based on the return value of tipc_subscrp_create(). Fixes: commit 7fe8097cef5f ("tipc: fix nullpointer bug when subscribing to events") Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29ipv4: early demux should be aware of fragmentsEric Dumazet
We should not assume a valid protocol header is present, as this is not the case for IPv4 fragments. Lets avoid extra cache line misses and potential bugs if we actually find a socket and incorrectly uses its dst. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-29mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregationChris Bainbridge
Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc for struct tid_ampdu_rx to initialize the "removed" field (all others are initialized manually). That fixes: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/mac80211/rx.c:932:29 load of value 2 is not a valid value for type '_Bool' CPU: 3 PID: 1134 Comm: kworker/u16:7 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1+ #265 Workqueue: phy0 rt2x00usb_work_rxdone 0000000000000004 ffff880254a7ba50 ffffffff8181d866 0000000000000007 ffff880254a7ba78 ffff880254a7ba68 ffffffff8188422d ffffffff8379b500 ffff880254a7bab8 ffffffff81884747 0000000000000202 0000000348620032 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8181d866>] dump_stack+0x45/0x5f [<ffffffff8188422d>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40 [<ffffffff81884747>] __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x67/0x70 [<ffffffff82227b4d>] ieee80211_sta_reorder_release.isra.16+0x5ed/0x730 [<ffffffff8222ca14>] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0xd04/0x1c00 [<ffffffff8222db03>] __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet+0x1f3/0x750 [<ffffffff8222e4a7>] ieee80211_rx_napi+0x447/0x990 While at it, convert to use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx) instead. Fixes: 788211d81bfdf ("mac80211: fix RX A-MPDU session reorder timer deletion") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com> [reword commit message, use sizeof(*tid_agg_rx)] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-01-29cfg80211/wext: fix message orderingJohannes Berg
Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example, the following can happen: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether when setting the interface down causes the wext message. To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-01-29wext: fix message delay/orderingJohannes Berg
Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted caused a wext message. For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link" prints just rudimentary information: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Deleted 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether (from my hwsim reproduction) This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK. The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out to userspace in different order. To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier itself. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>