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<updated>2020-06-11T07:22:58+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>airo: Fix read overflows sending packets</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T07:22:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T18:48:30+00:00</published>
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commit 11e7a91994c29da96d847f676be023da6a2c1359 upstream.

The problem is that we always copy a minimum of ETH_ZLEN (60) bytes from
skb-&gt;data even when skb-&gt;len is less than ETH_ZLEN so it leads to a read
overflow.

The fix is to pad skb-&gt;data to at least ETH_ZLEN bytes.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hu Jiahui &lt;kirin.say@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527184830.GA1164846@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>airo: Add missing CAP_NET_ADMIN check in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE</title>
<updated>2020-02-05T14:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-22T04:07:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 78f7a7566f5eb59321e99b55a6fdb16ea05b37d1 ]

The driver for Cisco Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards (airo.c),
implements AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE in airo_ioctl().

The ioctl handler copies an aironet_ioctl struct from userspace, which
includes a command. Some of the commands are handled in readrids(),
where the user controlled command is converted into a driver-internal
value called "ridcode".

There are two command values, AIROGWEPKTMP and AIROGWEPKNV, which
correspond to ridcode values of RID_WEP_TEMP and RID_WEP_PERM
respectively. These commands both have checks that the user has
CAP_NET_ADMIN, with the comment that "Only super-user can read WEP
keys", otherwise they return -EPERM.

However there is another command value, AIRORRID, that lets the user
specify the ridcode value directly, with no other checks. This means
the user can bypass the CAP_NET_ADMIN check on AIROGWEPKTMP and
AIROGWEPKNV.

Fix it by moving the CAP_NET_ADMIN check out of the command handling
and instead do it later based on the ridcode. That way regardless of
whether the ridcode is set via AIROGWEPKTMP or AIROGWEPKNV, or passed
in using AIRORID, we always do the CAP_NET_ADMIN check.

Found by Ilja by code inspection, not tested as I don't have the
required hardware.

Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel &lt;ivansprundel@ioactive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>airo: Fix possible info leak in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE</title>
<updated>2020-02-05T14:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-22T04:07:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d6bce2137f5d6bb1093e96d2f801479099b28094 ]

The driver for Cisco Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards (airo.c),
implements AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE in airo_ioctl().

The ioctl handler copies an aironet_ioctl struct from userspace, which
includes a command and a length. Some of the commands are handled in
readrids(), which kmalloc()'s a buffer of RIDSIZE (2048) bytes.

That buffer is then passed to PC4500_readrid(), which has two cases.
The else case does some setup and then reads up to RIDSIZE bytes from
the hardware into the kmalloc()'ed buffer.

Here len == RIDSIZE, pBuf is the kmalloc()'ed buffer:

	// read the rid length field
	bap_read(ai, pBuf, 2, BAP1);
	// length for remaining part of rid
	len = min(len, (int)le16_to_cpu(*(__le16*)pBuf)) - 2;
	...
	// read remainder of the rid
	rc = bap_read(ai, ((__le16*)pBuf)+1, len, BAP1);

PC4500_readrid() then returns to readrids() which does:

	len = comp-&gt;len;
	if (copy_to_user(comp-&gt;data, iobuf, min(len, (int)RIDSIZE))) {

Where comp-&gt;len is the user controlled length field.

So if the "rid length field" returned by the hardware is &lt; 2048, and
the user requests 2048 bytes in comp-&gt;len, we will leak the previous
contents of the kmalloc()'ed buffer to userspace.

Fix it by kzalloc()'ing the buffer.

Found by Ilja by code inspection, not tested as I don't have the
required hardware.

Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel &lt;ivansprundel@ioactive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: airo: potential buffer overflow in sprintf()</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T08:14:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T08:33:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3d39e1bb1c88f32820c5f9271f2c8c2fb9a52bac ]

It looks like we wanted to print a maximum of BSSList_rid.ssidLen bytes
of the ssid, but we accidentally use "%*s" (width) instead of "%.*s"
(precision) so if the ssid doesn't have a NUL terminator this could lead
to an overflow.

Static analysis.  Not tested.

Fixes: e174961ca1a0 ("net: convert print_mac to %pM")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: airo: remove unnecessary static in writerids()</title>
<updated>2017-07-19T23:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T20:37:11+00:00</published>
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Remove unnecessary static on local function pointer _writer_.
Such pointer is initialized before being used, on every
execution path throughout the function. The static has no
benefit and, removing it reduces the object file size.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@

static T x@p;
...
x = &lt;+...x...+&gt;

@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@

-static
 T x@p;
 ... when != x
     when strict
?x = e;

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the object
file size. This log is the output of the size command, before and after
the code change:

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 113797   19152    1216  134165   20c15 drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.o

after:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 113881	  19096	   1152	 134129	  20bf1	drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.o

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13+00:00</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_put &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:21+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 (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) 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_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T11:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-04T15:54:27+00:00</published>
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When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
device to access or modify the kernel image.

To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
default values for those parameters is.

Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
to manually coded parameters.

This patch annotates drivers in drivers/net/wireless/.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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