commit fb2162df74 upstream.
Commit 48b32a3553 ("reiserfs: use generic
xattr handlers") introduced a problem that causes corruption when extended
attributes are replaced with a smaller value.
The issue is that the reiserfs_setattr to shrink the xattr file was moved
from before the write to after the write.
The root issue has always been in the reiserfs xattr code, but was papered
over by the fact that in the shrink case, the file would just be expanded
again while the xattr was written.
The end result is that the last 8 bytes of xattr data are lost.
This patch fixes it to use new_size.
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14826
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl>
Cc: Greg Surbey <gregsurbey@hotmail.com>
Cc: Marco Gatti <marco.gatti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit cac36f7071 upstream.
Commit 677c9b2e39 ("reiserfs: remove
privroot hiding in lookup") removed the magic from the lookup code to hide
the .reiserfs_priv directory since it was getting loaded at mount-time
instead. The intent was that the entry would be hidden from the user via
a poisoned d_compare, but this was faulty.
This introduced a security issue where unprivileged users could access and
modify extended attributes or ACLs belonging to other users, including
root.
This patch resolves the issue by properly hiding .reiserfs_priv. This was
the intent of the xattr poisoning code, but it appears to have never
worked as expected. This is fixed by using d_revalidate instead of
d_compare.
This patch makes -oexpose_privroot a no-op. I'm fine leaving it this way.
The effort involved in working out the corner cases wrt permissions and
caching outweigh the benefit of the feature.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Tested-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 23be7468e8 upstream.
If a futex key happens to be located within a huge page mapped
MAP_PRIVATE, get_futex_key() can go into an infinite loop waiting for a
page->mapping that will never exist.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552257 for more details
about the problem.
This patch makes page->mapping a poisoned value that includes
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON mapped MAP_PRIVATE. This is enough for futex to
continue but because of PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, the poisoned value is not
dereferenced or used by futex. No other part of the VM should be
dereferencing the page->mapping of a hugetlbfs page as its page cache is
not on the LRU.
This patch fixes the problem with the test case described in the bugzilla.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mel cant spel]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit a29815a333 upstream.
The list macros use LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2 as undereferencable
pointers in order to trap erronous use of freed list_heads. Unfortunately
userspace can arrange for those pointers to actually be dereferencable,
potentially turning an oops to an expolit.
To avoid this allow architectures (currently x86_64 only) to override
the default values for these pointers with truly-undereferencable values.
This is easy on x86_64 as the virtual address space is large and contains
areas that cannot be mapped.
Other 64-bit architectures will likely find similar unmapped ranges.
[ingo: switch to 0xdead000000000000 as the unmapped area]
[ingo: add comments, cleanup]
[jaswinder: eliminate sparse warnings]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit b4bb5c3fd9 upstream.
When the addba timer expires but has no work to do,
it should not affect the state machine. If it does,
TX will not see the successfully established and we
can also crash trying to re-establish the session.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit fa41efdae7 upstream.
blk_abort_request() expectes queue lock to be held by the caller.
Grab it before calling the function.
Lack of this synchronization led to infinite loop on corrupt
q->timeout_list.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 6e3b96ed61 upstream.
Previous patch changes stripe and chunk_number to sector_t but
mistakenly did not update all of the divisions to use sector_dev().
This patch changes all the those divisions (actually the '%' operator)
to sector_div.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 35f2a59119 upstream.
With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible
to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks. Make sure this
works.
Reported-by: Brett King <king.br@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 0e5f231bc1 upstream.
This patch (as1369) fixes a problem in ehci-hcd. Some controllers
occasionally run into trouble when the driver reclaims siTDs too
quickly. This can happen while streaming audio; it causes the
controller to crash.
The patch changes siTD reclamation to work the same way as iTD
reclamation: Completed siTDs are stored on a list and not reused until
at least one frame has passed.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 93f4d91d87 upstream.
Fix formatting on r8169 printk
Brandon Philips noted that I had a spacing issue in my printk for the
last r8169 patch that made it quite ugly. Fix that up and add the PFX
macro to it as well so it looks like the other r8169 printks
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 4b83873d3d upstream.
If we boot into a crash-kernel the gart might still be
enabled and its caches might be dirty. This can result in
undefined behavior later. Fix it by explicitly disabling the
gart hardware before initialization and flushing the caches
after enablement.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit e8861cfe2c)
A 16-bit TSS is only 44 bytes long. So make sure to test for the correct
size on task switch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit e80e2a60ff)
This patch increases the current hardcoded limit of NR_IOBUS_DEVS
from 6 to 200. We are hitting this limit when creating a guest with more
than 1 virtio-net device using vhost-net backend. Each virtio-net
device requires 2 such devices to service notifications from rx/tx queues.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit 87bf6e7de1)
Int is not long enough to store the size of a dirty bitmap.
This patch fixes this problem with the introduction of a wrapper
function to calculate the sizes of dirty bitmaps.
Note: in mark_page_dirty(), we have to consider the fact that
__set_bit() takes the offset as int, not long.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit 78ac8b47c5)
Currently we set eflags.vm unconditionally when entering real mode emulation
through virtual-8086 mode, and clear it unconditionally when we enter protected
mode. The means that the following sequence
KVM_SET_REGS (rflags.vm=1)
KVM_SET_SREGS (cr0.pe=1)
Ends up with rflags.vm clear due to KVM_SET_SREGS triggering enter_pmode().
Fix by shadowing rflags.vm (and rflags.iopl) correctly while in real mode:
reads and writes to those bits access a shadow register instead of the actual
register.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit 114be429c8)
There is a quirk for AMD K8 CPUs in many Linux kernels (see
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:__mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks()) that
clears bit 10 in that MCE related MSR. KVM can only cope with all
zeros or all ones, so it will inject a #GP into the guest, which
will let it panic.
So lets add a quirk to the quirk and ignore this single cleared bit.
This fixes -cpu kvm64 on all machines and -cpu host on K8 machines
with some guest Linux kernels.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit d6a23895aa)
These are guest-triggerable.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit b7af404338)
svm_create_vcpu() does not free the pages allocated during the creation
when it fails to complete the allocations. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 9b53b39243 upstream.
Errata:
Certain conditions on the scsi bus may casue the 53C1030 to incorrectly signal
a SCSI_DATA_UNDERRUN to the host.
Workaround 1:
For an Errata on LSI53C1030 When the length of request data
and transfer data are different with result of command (READ or VERIFY),
DID_SOFT_ERROR is set.
Workaround 2:
For potential trouble on LSI53C1030. It is checked whether the length of
request data is equal to the length of transfer and residual.
MEDIUM_ERROR is set by incorrect data.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit c1ccaf2478 upstream.
After dma-mapping an SG list provided by the SCSI midlayer, iser has
to make sure the mapped SG is "aligned for RDMA" in the sense that its
possible to produce one mapping in the HCA IOMMU which represents the
whole SG. Next, the mapped SG is formatted for registration with the HCA.
This patch re-writes the logic that does the above, to make it clearer
and simpler. It also fixes a bug in the being aligned for RDMA checks,
where a "start" check wasn't done but rather only "end" check.
[commit message in RH kernel tree: "Under heavy load, without the patch,
the HCA can be programmed to write (corrupt) into pages/location which
doesn't belong to the SG associated with the actual I/O and cause a
kernel oops."]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nezhinsky <alexandern@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 31bde71c20 upstream.
The tpm_tis driver already has a list of supported pnp_device_ids.
This patch simply exports that list as a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() so that
the module autoloader will discover and load the module at boottime.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit a1de02dccf upstream.
The "offset" member in ext4_io_end holds bytes, not blocks, so
ext4_lblk_t is wrong - and too small (u32).
This caused the async i/o writes to sparse files beyond 4GB to fail
when they wrapped around to 0.
Also fix up the type of arguments to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(),
it gets ssize_t from ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock() and
ext4_ext_direct_IO().
Reported-by: Giel de Nijs <giel@vectorwise.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit c8afb44682 upstream.
Creating many small files in rapid succession on a small
filesystem can lead to spurious ENOSPC; on a 104MB filesystem:
for i in `seq 1 22500`; do
echo -n > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
echo XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > $SCRATCH_MNT/$i
done
leads to ENOSPC even though after a sync, 40% of the fs is free
again.
This is because we reserve worst-case metadata for delalloc writes,
and when data is allocated that worst-case reservation is not
usually needed.
When freespace is low, kicking off an async writeback will start
converting that worst-case space usage into something more realistic,
almost always freeing up space to continue.
This resolves the testcase for me, and survives all 4 generic
ENOSPC tests in xfstests.
We'll still need a hard synchronous sync to squeeze out the last bit,
but this fixes things up to a large degree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 17bd55d037 upstream.
ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts
to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc
writes. Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case
predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space
before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation.
Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function,
& the naming help.
I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was
started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch;
it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this
in some cases.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit c0ce77b832 upstream.
Reinette found the reason for the warnings that
happened occasionally when a hw-offloaded scan
finished; her description of the problem:
mac80211 will defer the handling of scan requests if it is
busy with management work at the time. The scan requests
are deferred and run after the work has completed. When
this occurs there are currently two problems.
* The scan request for hardware scan is not fully populated
with the band and channels to scan not initialized.
* When the scan is queued the state is not correctly updated
to reflect that a scan is in progress. The problem here is
that when the driver completes the scan and calls
ieee80211_scan_completed() a warning will be triggered
since mac80211 was not aware that a scan was in progress.
The reason is that the queued scan work will start
the hw scan right away when the hw_scan_req struct
has already been allocated. However, in the first
pass it will not have been filled, which happens
at the same time as setting the bits. To fix this,
simply move the allocation after the pending work
test as well, so that the first iteration of the
scan work will call __ieee80211_start_scan() even
in the hardware scan case.
Bug-identified-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 301e99ce4a upstream.
One the changes in commit d7979ae4a "svc: Move close processing to a
single place" is:
err_delete:
- svc_delete_socket(svsk);
+ set_bit(SK_CLOSE, &svsk->sk_flags);
return -EAGAIN;
This is insufficient. The recvfrom methods must always call
svc_xprt_received on completion so that the socket gets re-queued if
there is any more work to do. This particular path did not make that
call because it actually destroyed the svsk, making requeue pointless.
When the svc_delete_socket was change to just set a bit, we should have
added a call to svc_xprt_received,
This is the problem that b0401d7253 attempted to fix, incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 1b644b6e6f upstream.
This reverts commit b0401d7253, which
moved svc_delete_xprt() outside of XPT_BUSY, and allowed it to be called
after svc_xpt_recived(), removing its last reference and destroying it
after it had already been queued for future processing.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit f5822754ea upstream.
This reverts commit b292cf9ce7. The
commit that it attempted to patch up,
b0401d7253, was fundamentally wrong, and
will also be reverted.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit dc83d6e27f upstream.
For nfsd we provide users the option of mapping uid's to server-side
supplementary group lists. That makes sense for nfsd, but not
necessarily for other rpc users (such as the callback client).
So move that lookup to svcauth_unix_set_client, which is a
program-specific method.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 627a2d3c29 upstream.
If a component device has a merge_bvec_fn then as we never call it
we must ensure we never need to. Currently this is done by setting
max_sector to 1 PAGE, however this does not stop a bio being created
with several sub-page iovecs that would violate the merge_bvec_fn.
So instead set max_phys_segments to 1 and set the segment boundary to the
same as a page boundary to ensure there is only ever one single-page
segment of IO requested at a time.
This can particularly be an issue when 'xen' is used as it is
known to submit multiple small buffers in a single bio.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The __module_ref_addr() problem disappears in 2.6.34-rc kernels because these
percpu accesses were re-factored.
__module_ref_addr() should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the pointer
(RELOC_HIDE is needed for per cpu pointers).
This non-standard per-cpu pointer use has been introduced by commit
720eba31f4
It causes a NULL pointer exception on some configurations when CONFIG_TRACING is
enabled on 2.6.33. This patch fixes the problem (acknowledged by Randy who
reported the bug).
It did not appear to hurt previously because most of the accesses were done
through local_inc, which probably obfuscated the access enough that no compiler
optimizations were done. But with local_read() done when CONFIG_TRACING is
active, this becomes a problem. Non-CONFIG_TRACING is probably affected as well
(module.c contains local_set and local_read that use __module_ref_addr()), but I
guess nobody noticed because we've been lucky enough that the compiler did not
generate the inappropriate optimization pattern there.
This patch should be queued for the 2.6.29.x through 2.6.33.x stable branches.
(tested on 2.6.33.1 x86_64)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The mainline kernel as of 2.6.34-rc5 is not affected by this problem because
commit 10fad5e46f fixed it by refactoring.
lockdep fix incorrect percpu usage
Should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the per cpu pointers (RELOC_HIDE is needed
for per cpu pointers).
git blame points to commit:
lockdep.c: commit 8e18257d29
But it's really just moving the code around. But it's enough to say that the
problems appeared before Jul 19 01:48:54 2007, which brings us back to 2.6.23.
It should be applied to stable 2.6.23.x to 2.6.33.x (or whichever of these
stable branches are still maintained).
(tested on 2.6.33.1 x86_64)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 014f61504a upstream.
When Wacom devices wake up from a sleep, the switch mode command
(wacom_query_tablet_data) is needed before wacom_open is called.
wacom_query_tablet_data should not be executed inside wacom_open
since wacom_open is called more than once during probe.
Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Anikin <Anton@Anikin.name>
Signed-off-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 598856407d upstream.
Make sure, that TCP has a nonzero RTT estimation after three-way
handshake. Currently, a listening TCP has a value of 0 for srtt,
rttvar and rto right after the three-way handshake is completed
with TCP timestamps disabled.
This will lead to corrupt RTO recalculation and retransmission
flood when RTO is recalculated on backoff reversion as introduced
in "Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable"
(f1ecd5d9e7).
This behaviour can be provoked by connecting to a server which
"responds first" (like SMTP) and rejecting every packet after
the handshake with dest-unreachable, which will lead to softirq
load on the server (up to 30% per socket in some tests).
Thanks to Ilpo Jarvinen for providing debug patches and to
Denys Fedoryshchenko for reporting and testing.
Changes since v3: Removed bad characters in patchfile.
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit c0cd884af0 upstream.
Official patch to fix the r8169 frame length check error.
Based on this initial thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=126202972828626&w=1
This is the official patch to fix the frame length problems in the r8169
driver. As noted in the previous thread, while this patch incurs a performance
hit on the driver, its possible to improve performance dynamically by updating
the mtu and rx_copybreak values at runtime to return performance to what it was
for those NICS which are unaffected by the ideosyncracy (if there are any).
Summary:
A while back Eric submitted a patch for r8169 in which the proper
allocated frame size was written to RXMaxSize to prevent the NIC from dmaing too
much data. This was done in commit fdd7b4c330. A
long time prior to that however, Francois posted
126fa4b9ca, which expiclitly disabled the MaxSize
setting due to the fact that the hardware behaved in odd ways when overlong
frames were received on NIC's supported by this driver. This was mentioned in a
security conference recently:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan//events/3596.en.html
It seems that if we can't enable frame size filtering, then, as Eric correctly
noticed, we can find ourselves DMA-ing too much data to a buffer, causing
corruption. As a result is seems that we are forced to allocate a frame which
is ready to handle a maximally sized receive.
This obviously has performance issues with it, so to mitigate that issue, this
patch does two things:
1) Raises the copybreak value to the frame allocation size, which should force
appropriately sized packets to get allocated on rx, rather than a full new 16k
buffer.
2) This patch only disables frame filtering initially (i.e., during the NIC
open), changing the MTU results in ring buffer allocation of a size in relation
to the new mtu (along with a warning indicating that this is dangerous).
Because of item (2), individuals who can't cope with the performance hit (or can
otherwise filter frames to prevent the bug), or who have hardware they are sure
is unaffected by this issue, can manually lower the copybreak and reset the mtu
such that performance is restored easily.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
