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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/macsec.c, branch v4.14.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2017-10-11T21:07:20+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>macsec: fix memory leaks when skb_to_sgvec fails</title>
<updated>2017-10-11T21:07:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T15:07:12+00:00</published>
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Fixes: cda7ea690350 ("macsec: check return value of skb_to_sgvec always")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>macsec: add genl family module alias</title>
<updated>2017-08-22T21:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-22T13:36:08+00:00</published>
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This helps tools such as wpa_supplicant can start even if the macsec
module isn't loaded yet.

Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.validate</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:56:01+00:00</published>
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Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.changelink</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:56:00+00:00</published>
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Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add netlink_ext_ack argument to rtnl_link_ops.newlink</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T03:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T21:55:59+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add support for extended error reporting.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</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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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T15:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-15T15:31:37+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The conflicts were two cases of overlapping changes in
batman-adv and the qed driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T19:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T16:52:56+00:00</published>
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Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init().  However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.

Either netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() or netdev-&gt;destructor().

The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.

netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.

netdev-&gt;destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.

Further complicating the situation is that netdev-&gt;destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().

This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.

If netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit().  But
it is not able to invoke netdev-&gt;destructor().

This is because netdev-&gt;destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.

However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev-&gt;destructor() will not be.

Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.

Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.

Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev-&gt;destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev-&gt;destructor(), except for
free_netdev().

netdev-&gt;needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().

Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops-&gt;ndo_uninit()
and netdev-&gt;priv_destructor().

And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev-&gt;priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: check return value of skb_to_sgvec always</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T03:01:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-04T02:16:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: double accounting of dropped rx/tx packets</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T15:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Girish Moodalbail</name>
<email>girish.moodalbail@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-19T22:25:44+00:00</published>
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The macsec implementation shouldn't account for rx/tx packets that are
dropped in the netdev framework. The netdev framework itself accounts
for such packets by atomically updating struct net_device`rx_dropped and
struct net_device`tx_dropped fields. Later on when the stats for macsec
link is retrieved, the packets dropped in netdev framework will be
included in dev_get_stats() after calling macsec.c`macsec_get_stats64()

Signed-off-by: Girish Moodalbail &lt;girish.moodalbail@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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