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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/firewire/net.c, branch v6.1.186</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-08-19T15:15:58+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>firewire: net: Fix fragmented datagram reassembly</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T15:15:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ruoyu Wang</name>
<email>ruoyuw560@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-07T15:04:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d52a13adbb8ccbab99cd3bad36804e87d8b5c052 ]

fwnet_frag_new() keeps a sorted list of received fragments for a partial
datagram. When a new fragment is adjacent to an existing fragment, the
code checks whether the new fragment also closes the gap to the next or
previous list entry.

Those neighbor lookups currently assume that the current fragment always
has a real next or previous fragment. At a list edge, the next or
previous entry is the list head, not a struct fwnet_fragment_info.

The gap checks also compare against the old edge of the current fragment
instead of the edge after adding the new fragment. As a result, a
fragment that bridges two existing ranges may leave two adjacent ranges
unmerged, so fwnet_pd_is_complete() can miss a complete datagram.

Check for the list head before looking up the neighboring fragment, and
compare the neighbor against the new fragment's far edge when deciding
whether to merge all three ranges.

This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by
manual source review.

Fixes: c76acec6d551 ("firewire: add IPv4 support")
Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang &lt;ruoyuw560@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260707150454.2265951-1-ruoyuw560@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: net: fix use after free in fwnet_finish_incoming_packet()</title>
<updated>2023-08-23T15:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Shurong</name>
<email>zhang_shurong@foxmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-23T05:39:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3ff256751a2853e1ffaa36958ff933ccc98c6cb5 ]

The netif_rx() function frees the skb so we can't dereference it to
save the skb-&gt;len.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Shurong &lt;zhang_shurong@foxmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_3B3D24B66ED66A6BB73CC0E63C6A14E45109@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: net: Make use of get_unaligned_be48(), put_unaligned_be48()</title>
<updated>2022-07-29T05:21:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-26T14:49:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Since we have a proper endianness converters for BE 48-bit data use
them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220726144906.5217-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: don't write directly to netdev-&gt;dev_addr</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T11:47:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T17:53:52+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:aaaaa1377e7afca758749b302192b719d58234ed</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev-&gt;dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it go through appropriate helpers.

Prepare fwnet_hwaddr on the stack and use dev_addr_set() to copy
it to netdev-&gt;dev_addr. We no longer need to worry about alignment.
union fwnet_hwaddr does not have any padding and we set all fields
so we don't need to zero it upfront.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: net: remove unused variable 'guid'</title>
<updated>2021-07-05T20:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pu Lehui</name>
<email>pulehui@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-14T06:44:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
GCC reports the following warning with W=1:

drivers/firewire/net.c:493:9: warning:
 variable ‘guid’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  493 |  __be64 guid;
      |         ^~~~

This variable is not used anymore since commit 6752c8db8e0c ("firewire
net, ipv4 arp: Extend hardware address and remove driver-level packet
inspection."). Remove it to fix the warning.

Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add annotations on hh-&gt;hh_len lockless accesses</title>
<updated>2019-11-08T04:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-08T02:29:11+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
KCSAN reported a data-race [1]

While we can use READ_ONCE() on the read sides,
we need to make sure hh-&gt;hh_len is written last.

[1]

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in eth_header_cache / neigh_resolve_output

write to 0xffff8880b9dedcb8 of 4 bytes by task 29760 on cpu 0:
 eth_header_cache+0xa9/0xd0 net/ethernet/eth.c:247
 neigh_hh_init net/core/neighbour.c:1463 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output net/core/neighbour.c:1480 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output+0x415/0x470 net/core/neighbour.c:1470
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:511 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output2+0x7a2/0xec0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:116
 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:142 [inline]
 __ip6_finish_output+0x2d7/0x330 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:127
 ip6_finish_output+0x41/0x160 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:152
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:294 [inline]
 ip6_output+0xf2/0x280 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:175
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:436 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:305 [inline]
 ndisc_send_skb+0x459/0x5f0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:505
 ndisc_send_ns+0x207/0x430 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:647
 rt6_probe_deferred+0x98/0xf0 net/ipv6/route.c:615
 process_one_work+0x3d4/0x890 kernel/workqueue.c:2269
 worker_thread+0xa0/0x800 kernel/workqueue.c:2415
 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

read to 0xffff8880b9dedcb8 of 4 bytes by task 29572 on cpu 1:
 neigh_resolve_output net/core/neighbour.c:1479 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output+0x113/0x470 net/core/neighbour.c:1470
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:511 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output2+0x7a2/0xec0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:116
 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:142 [inline]
 __ip6_finish_output+0x2d7/0x330 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:127
 ip6_finish_output+0x41/0x160 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:152
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:294 [inline]
 ip6_output+0xf2/0x280 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:175
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:436 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:305 [inline]
 ndisc_send_skb+0x459/0x5f0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:505
 ndisc_send_ns+0x207/0x430 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:647
 rt6_probe_deferred+0x98/0xf0 net/ipv6/route.c:615
 process_one_work+0x3d4/0x890 kernel/workqueue.c:2269
 worker_thread+0xa0/0x800 kernel/workqueue.c:2415
 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 29572 Comm: kworker/1:4 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc6+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events rt6_probe_deferred

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;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:20+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:09c434b8a0047c69e48499de0107de312901e798</id>
<content type='text'>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: kmalloc() -&gt; kmalloc_array()</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T23:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T20:55:00+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The kmalloc() function has a 2-factor argument form, kmalloc_array(). This
patch replaces cases of:

        kmalloc(a * b, gfp)

with:
        kmalloc_array(a * b, gfp)

as well as handling cases of:

        kmalloc(a * b * c, gfp)

with:

        kmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp)

as it's slightly less ugly than:

        kmalloc_array(array_size(a, b), c, gfp)

This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like:

        kmalloc(4 * 1024, gfp)

though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion.

Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were
dropped, since they're redundant.

The tools/ directory was manually excluded, since it has its own
implementation of kmalloc().

The Coccinelle script used for this was:

// Fix redundant parens around sizeof().
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING, E;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	(sizeof(TYPE)) * E
+	sizeof(TYPE) * E
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(sizeof(THING)) * E
+	sizeof(THING) * E
  , ...)
)

// Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens.
@@
expression COUNT;
typedef u8;
typedef __u8;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant.
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING;
identifier COUNT_ID;
constant COUNT_CONST;
@@

(
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product, only identifiers.
@@
identifier SIZE, COUNT;
@@

- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	SIZE * COUNT
+	COUNT, SIZE
  , ...)

// 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with
// redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING;
identifier STRIDE, COUNT;
type TYPE;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING1, THING2;
identifier COUNT;
type TYPE1, TYPE2;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed.
@@
identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
)

// Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products,
// when they're not all constants...
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * (E3)
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	E1 * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
)

// And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants,
// keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument.
@@
expression THING, E1, E2;
type TYPE;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kmalloc(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...)
|
  kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...)
|
  kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kmalloc(C1 * C2, ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	(E1) * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	(E1) * (E2)
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	E1 * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: net: max MTU off by one</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T15:37:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T20:09:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=4adf7bf7bbaefe71133305193c25d32863115dda'/>
<id>urn:sha1:4adf7bf7bbaefe71133305193c25d32863115dda</id>
<content type='text'>
The latest max_mtu patch missed that datagram_size is actually one less
than the datagram's Total Length.

Fixes: 357f4aae859b ("firewire: net: really fix maximum possible MTU")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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