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# 97bf6f81 30-Apr-2024 Xin Long <[email protected]>

tipc: fix a possible memleak in tipc_buf_append

__skb_linearize() doesn't free the skb when it fails, so move
'*buf = NULL' after __skb_linearize(), so that the skb can be
freed on the err path.

Fi

tipc: fix a possible memleak in tipc_buf_append

__skb_linearize() doesn't free the skb when it fails, so move
'*buf = NULL' after __skb_linearize(), so that the skb can be
freed on the err path.

Fixes: b7df21cf1b79 ("tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs")
Reported-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90710748c29a1521efac4f75ea01b3b7e61414cf.1714485818.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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# 080cbb89 30-Apr-2024 Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

tipc: fix UAF in error path

Sam Page (sam4k) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative reported
a UAF in the tipc_buf_append() error path:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kfree_skb_list_reaso

tipc: fix UAF in error path

Sam Page (sam4k) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative reported
a UAF in the tipc_buf_append() error path:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kfree_skb_list_reason+0x47e/0x4c0
linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1183
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88804d2a7c80 by task poc/8034

CPU: 1 PID: 8034 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.8.2 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.0-debian-1.16.0-5 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack linux/lib/dump_stack.c:88
dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x1b0 linux/lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description linux/mm/kasan/report.c:377
print_report+0xc4/0x620 linux/mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0xda/0x110 linux/mm/kasan/report.c:601
kfree_skb_list_reason+0x47e/0x4c0 linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1183
skb_release_data+0x5af/0x880 linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1026
skb_release_all linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1094
__kfree_skb linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1108
kfree_skb_reason+0x12d/0x210 linux/net/core/skbuff.c:1144
kfree_skb linux/./include/linux/skbuff.h:1244
tipc_buf_append+0x425/0xb50 linux/net/tipc/msg.c:186
tipc_link_input+0x224/0x7c0 linux/net/tipc/link.c:1324
tipc_link_rcv+0x76e/0x2d70 linux/net/tipc/link.c:1824
tipc_rcv+0x45f/0x10f0 linux/net/tipc/node.c:2159
tipc_udp_recv+0x73b/0x8f0 linux/net/tipc/udp_media.c:390
udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0xad2/0x1850 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:2108
udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x131/0xb00 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:2186
udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x165/0x3b0 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:2346
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x2594/0x3400 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:2422
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x30c/0x4e0 linux/net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x2e4/0x520 linux/net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233
NF_HOOK linux/./include/linux/netfilter.h:314
NF_HOOK linux/./include/linux/netfilter.h:308
ip_local_deliver+0x18e/0x1f0 linux/net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254
dst_input linux/./include/net/dst.h:461
ip_rcv_finish linux/net/ipv4/ip_input.c:449
NF_HOOK linux/./include/linux/netfilter.h:314
NF_HOOK linux/./include/linux/netfilter.h:308
ip_rcv+0x2c5/0x5d0 linux/net/ipv4/ip_input.c:569
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x199/0x1e0 linux/net/core/dev.c:5534
__netif_receive_skb+0x1f/0x1c0 linux/net/core/dev.c:5648
process_backlog+0x101/0x6b0 linux/net/core/dev.c:5976
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xba/0x550 linux/net/core/dev.c:6576
napi_poll linux/net/core/dev.c:6645
net_rx_action+0x95a/0xe90 linux/net/core/dev.c:6781
__do_softirq+0x21f/0x8e7 linux/kernel/softirq.c:553
do_softirq linux/kernel/softirq.c:454
do_softirq+0xb2/0xf0 linux/kernel/softirq.c:441
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x100/0x120 linux/kernel/softirq.c:381
local_bh_enable linux/./include/linux/bottom_half.h:33
rcu_read_unlock_bh linux/./include/linux/rcupdate.h:851
__dev_queue_xmit+0x871/0x3ee0 linux/net/core/dev.c:4378
dev_queue_xmit linux/./include/linux/netdevice.h:3169
neigh_hh_output linux/./include/net/neighbour.h:526
neigh_output linux/./include/net/neighbour.h:540
ip_finish_output2+0x169f/0x2550 linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:235
__ip_finish_output linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:313
__ip_finish_output+0x49e/0x950 linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:295
ip_finish_output+0x31/0x310 linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:323
NF_HOOK_COND linux/./include/linux/netfilter.h:303
ip_output+0x13b/0x2a0 linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:433
dst_output linux/./include/net/dst.h:451
ip_local_out linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:129
ip_send_skb+0x3e5/0x560 linux/net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1492
udp_send_skb+0x73f/0x1530 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:963
udp_sendmsg+0x1a36/0x2b40 linux/net/ipv4/udp.c:1250
inet_sendmsg+0x105/0x140 linux/net/ipv4/af_inet.c:850
sock_sendmsg_nosec linux/net/socket.c:730
__sock_sendmsg linux/net/socket.c:745
__sys_sendto+0x42c/0x4e0 linux/net/socket.c:2191
__do_sys_sendto linux/net/socket.c:2203
__se_sys_sendto linux/net/socket.c:2199
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 linux/net/socket.c:2199
do_syscall_x64 linux/arch/x86/entry/common.c:52
do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x270 linux/arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77 linux/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120
RIP: 0033:0x7f3434974f29
Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48
89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d
01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 37 8f 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fff9154f2b8 EFLAGS: 00000212 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3434974f29
RDX: 00000000000032c8 RSI: 00007fff9154f300 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fff915532e0 R08: 00007fff91553360 R09: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000212 R12: 000055ed86d261d0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>

In the critical scenario, either the relevant skb is freed or its
ownership is transferred into a frag_lists. In both cases, the cleanup
code must not free it again: we need to clear the skb reference earlier.

Fixes: 1149557d64c9 ("tipc: eliminate unnecessary linearization of incoming buffers")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: [email protected] # ZDI-CAN-23852
Acked-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/752f1ccf762223d109845365d07f55414058e5a3.1714484273.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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# d4cfb7fe 28-Jun-2021 Menglong Dong <[email protected]>

net: tipc: replace align() with ALIGN in msg.c

The function align() which is defined in msg.c is redundant, replace it
with ALIGN() and introduce a BUF_ALIGN().

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dong.m

net: tipc: replace align() with ALIGN in msg.c

The function align() which is defined in msg.c is redundant, replace it
with ALIGN() and introduce a BUF_ALIGN().

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# 0c6de0c9 28-Jun-2021 Menglong Dong <[email protected]>

net: tipc: fix FB_MTU eat two pages

FB_MTU is used in 'tipc_msg_build()' to alloc smaller skb when memory
allocation fails, which can avoid unnecessary sending failures.

The value of FB_MTU now is

net: tipc: fix FB_MTU eat two pages

FB_MTU is used in 'tipc_msg_build()' to alloc smaller skb when memory
allocation fails, which can avoid unnecessary sending failures.

The value of FB_MTU now is 3744, and the data size will be:

(3744 + SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) + \
SKB_DATA_ALIGN(BUF_HEADROOM + BUF_TAILROOM + 3))

which is larger than one page(4096), and two pages will be allocated.

To avoid it, replace '3744' with a calculation:

(PAGE_SIZE - SKB_DATA_ALIGN(BUF_OVERHEAD) - \
SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)))

What's more, alloc_skb_fclone() will call SKB_DATA_ALIGN for data size,
and it's not necessary to make alignment for buf_size in
tipc_buf_acquire(). So, just remove it.

Fixes: 4c94cc2d3d57 ("tipc: fall back to smaller MTU if allocation of local send skb fails")
Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.13, v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1
# b7df21cf 07-May-2021 Xin Long <[email protected]>

tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs

It's not a good idea to append the frag skb to a skb's frag_list if
the frag_list already has skbs from elsewhere, such as this skb was
create

tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs

It's not a good idea to append the frag skb to a skb's frag_list if
the frag_list already has skbs from elsewhere, such as this skb was
created by pskb_copy() where the frag_list was cloned (all the skbs
in it were skb_get'ed) and shared by multiple skbs.

However, the new appended frag skb should have been only seen by the
current skb. Otherwise, it will cause use after free crashes as this
appended frag skb are seen by multiple skbs but it only got skb_get
called once.

The same thing happens with a skb updated by pskb_may_pull() with a
skb_cloned skb. Li Shuang has reported quite a few crashes caused
by this when doing testing over macvlan devices:

[] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:1970!
[] Call Trace:
[] skb_clone+0x4d/0xb0
[] macvlan_broadcast+0xd8/0x160 [macvlan]
[] macvlan_process_broadcast+0x148/0x150 [macvlan]
[] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[] worker_thread+0x30/0x390

[] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
[] Call Trace:
[] __check_heap_object+0xd3/0x100
[] __check_object_size+0xff/0x16b
[] simple_copy_to_iter+0x1c/0x30
[] __skb_datagram_iter+0x7d/0x310
[] __skb_datagram_iter+0x2a5/0x310
[] skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x3b/0x90
[] tipc_recvmsg+0x14a/0x3a0 [tipc]
[] ____sys_recvmsg+0x91/0x150
[] ___sys_recvmsg+0x7b/0xc0

[] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:305!
[] Call Trace:
[] <IRQ>
[] kmem_cache_free+0x3ff/0x400
[] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x12c/0xc40
[] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12e/0x270
[] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x3d/0xb0
[] ? get_rx_page_info+0x8e/0xa0 [be2net]
[] be_poll+0x6ef/0xd00 [be2net]
[] ? irq_exit+0x4f/0x100
[] net_rx_action+0x149/0x3b0

...

This patch is to fix it by linearizing the head skb if it has frag_list
set in tipc_buf_append(). Note that we choose to do this before calling
skb_unshare(), as __skb_linearize() will avoid skb_copy(). Also, we can
not just drop the frag_list either as the early time.

Fixes: 45c8b7b175ce ("tipc: allow non-linear first fragment buffer")
Reported-by: Li Shuang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4
# 908148bc 17-Mar-2021 Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

tipc: refactor tipc_sendmsg() and tipc_lookup_anycast()

We simplify the signature if function tipc_nametbl_lookup_anycast(),
using address structures instead of discrete integers.

This also makes i

tipc: refactor tipc_sendmsg() and tipc_lookup_anycast()

We simplify the signature if function tipc_nametbl_lookup_anycast(),
using address structures instead of discrete integers.

This also makes it possible to make some improvements to the functions
__tipc_sendmsg() in socket.c and tipc_msg_lookup_dest() in msg.c.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tung Nguyen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# 66db239c 17-Mar-2021 Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

tipc: rename binding table lookup functions

The binding table provides four different lookup functions, which
purpose is not obvious neither by their names nor by the (lack of)
descriptions.

We now

tipc: rename binding table lookup functions

The binding table provides four different lookup functions, which
purpose is not obvious neither by their names nor by the (lack of)
descriptions.

We now give these functions names that better match their purposes,
and improve the comments that describe what they are doing.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tung Nguyen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6
# 2a9063b7 27-Jan-2021 Hoang Huu Le <[email protected]>

tipc: remove duplicated code in tipc_msg_create

Remove a duplicate code checking for header size in tipc_msg_create() as
it's already being done in tipc_msg_init().

Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redh

tipc: remove duplicated code in tipc_msg_create

Remove a duplicate code checking for header size in tipc_msg_create() as
it's already being done in tipc_msg_init().

Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hoang Huu Le <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6
# 637b77fd 29-Nov-2020 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

net/tipc: fix all function Return: notation

Fix Return: kernel-doc notation in all net/tipc/ source files.
Also keep ReST list notation intact for output formatting.
Fix a few typos in comments.

Si

net/tipc: fix all function Return: notation

Fix Return: kernel-doc notation in all net/tipc/ source files.
Also keep ReST list notation intact for output formatting.
Fix a few typos in comments.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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# 5fcb7d47 29-Nov-2020 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

net/tipc: fix various kernel-doc warnings

kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes to eliminate lots of warnings
in preparation for adding to the networking docbook.

../net/tipc/crypto.c:57: warning: cannot und

net/tipc: fix various kernel-doc warnings

kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes to eliminate lots of warnings
in preparation for adding to the networking docbook.

../net/tipc/crypto.c:57: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'enum '
../net/tipc/crypto.c:69: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'enum '
../net/tipc/crypto.c:130: warning: Function parameter or member 'tfm' not described in 'tipc_tfm'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:130: warning: Function parameter or member 'list' not described in 'tipc_tfm'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:172: warning: Function parameter or member 'stat' not described in 'tipc_crypto_stats'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:232: warning: Function parameter or member 'flags' not described in 'tipc_crypto'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:329: warning: Function parameter or member 'ukey' not described in 'tipc_aead_key_validate'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:329: warning: Function parameter or member 'info' not described in 'tipc_aead_key_validate'
../net/tipc/crypto.c:482: warning: Function parameter or member 'aead' not described in 'tipc_aead_tfm_next'
../net/tipc/trace.c:43: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'unsigned long sysctl_tipc_sk_filter[5] __read_mostly = '

Documentation/networking/tipc:57: ../net/tipc/msg.c:584: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/networking/tipc:63: ../net/tipc/name_table.c:536: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/networking/tipc:63: ../net/tipc/name_table.c:537: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/networking/tipc:78: ../net/tipc/socket.c:3809: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/networking/tipc:78: ../net/tipc/socket.c:3807: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string.
Documentation/networking/tipc:72: ../net/tipc/node.c:904: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/networking/tipc:39: ../net/tipc/crypto.c:97: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/networking/tipc:39: ../net/tipc/crypto.c:98: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/networking/tipc:39: ../net/tipc/crypto.c:141: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string.

../net/tipc/discover.c:82: warning: Function parameter or member 'skb' not described in 'tipc_disc_init_msg'

../net/tipc/msg.c:69: warning: Function parameter or member 'gfp' not described in 'tipc_buf_acquire'
../net/tipc/msg.c:382: warning: Function parameter or member 'offset' not described in 'tipc_msg_build'
../net/tipc/msg.c:708: warning: Function parameter or member 'net' not described in 'tipc_msg_lookup_dest'

../net/tipc/subscr.c:65: warning: Function parameter or member 'seq' not described in 'tipc_sub_check_overlap'
../net/tipc/subscr.c:65: warning: Function parameter or member 'found_lower' not described in 'tipc_sub_check_overlap'
../net/tipc/subscr.c:65: warning: Function parameter or member 'found_upper' not described in 'tipc_sub_check_overlap'

../net/tipc/udp_media.c:75: warning: Function parameter or member 'proto' not described in 'udp_media_addr'
../net/tipc/udp_media.c:75: warning: Function parameter or member 'port' not described in 'udp_media_addr'
../net/tipc/udp_media.c:75: warning: Function parameter or member 'ipv4' not described in 'udp_media_addr'
../net/tipc/udp_media.c:75: warning: Function parameter or member 'ipv6' not described in 'udp_media_addr'
../net/tipc/udp_media.c:98: warning: Function parameter or member 'rcast' not described in 'udp_bearer'

Also fixed a typo of "duest" to "dest".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2
# ceb1eb2f 27-Oct-2020 Tung Nguyen <[email protected]>

tipc: fix memory leak caused by tipc_buf_append()

Commit ed42989eab57 ("tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()")
replaced skb_unshare() with skb_copy() to not reduce the data reference
cou

tipc: fix memory leak caused by tipc_buf_append()

Commit ed42989eab57 ("tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()")
replaced skb_unshare() with skb_copy() to not reduce the data reference
counter of the original skb intentionally. This is not the correct
way to handle the cloned skb because it causes memory leak in 2
following cases:
1/ Sending multicast messages via broadcast link
The original skb list is cloned to the local skb list for local
destination. After that, the data reference counter of each skb
in the original list has the value of 2. This causes each skb not
to be freed after receiving ACK:
tipc_link_advance_transmq()
{
...
/* release skb */
__skb_unlink(skb, &l->transmq);
kfree_skb(skb); <-- memory exists after being freed
}

2/ Sending multicast messages via replicast link
Similar to the above case, each skb cannot be freed after purging
the skb list:
tipc_mcast_xmit()
{
...
__skb_queue_purge(pkts); <-- memory exists after being freed
}

This commit fixes this issue by using skb_unshare() instead. Besides,
to avoid use-after-free error reported by KASAN, the pointer to the
fragment is set to NULL before calling skb_unshare() to make sure that
the original skb is not freed after freeing the fragment 2 times in
case skb_unshare() returns NULL.

Fixes: ed42989eab57 ("tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Thang Hoang Ngo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.10-rc1, v5.9
# ed42989e 08-Oct-2020 Cong Wang <[email protected]>

tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()

skb_unshare() drops a reference count on the old skb unconditionally,
so in the failure case, we end up freeing the skb twice here.
And because the s

tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()

skb_unshare() drops a reference count on the old skb unconditionally,
so in the failure case, we end up freeing the skb twice here.
And because the skb is allocated in fclone and cloned by caller
tipc_msg_reassemble(), the consequence is actually freeing the
original skb too, thus triggered the UAF by syzbot.

Fix this by replacing this skb_unshare() with skb_cloned()+skb_copy().

Fixes: ff48b6222e65 ("tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()")
Reported-and-tested-by: [email protected]
Cc: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6
# 60462191 18-Sep-2020 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

net: tipc: delete duplicated words

Drop repeated words in net/tipc/.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.

net: tipc: delete duplicated words

Drop repeated words in net/tipc/.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.9-rc5
# ff48b622 13-Sep-2020 Xin Long <[email protected]>

tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()

In tipc_buf_append() it may change skb's frag_list, and it causes
problems when this skb is cloned. skb_unclone() doesn't really
make this skb's

tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()

In tipc_buf_append() it may change skb's frag_list, and it causes
problems when this skb is cloned. skb_unclone() doesn't really
make this skb's flag_list available to change.

Shuang Li has reported an use-after-free issue because of this
when creating quite a few macvlan dev over the same dev, where
the broadcast packets will be cloned and go up to the stack:

[ ] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in pskb_expand_head+0x86d/0xea0
[ ] Call Trace:
[ ] dump_stack+0x7c/0xb0
[ ] print_address_description.constprop.7+0x1a/0x220
[ ] kasan_report.cold.10+0x37/0x7c
[ ] check_memory_region+0x183/0x1e0
[ ] pskb_expand_head+0x86d/0xea0
[ ] process_backlog+0x1df/0x660
[ ] net_rx_action+0x3b4/0xc90
[ ]
[ ] Allocated by task 1786:
[ ] kmem_cache_alloc+0xbf/0x220
[ ] skb_clone+0x10a/0x300
[ ] macvlan_broadcast+0x2f6/0x590 [macvlan]
[ ] macvlan_process_broadcast+0x37c/0x516 [macvlan]
[ ] process_one_work+0x66a/0x1060
[ ] worker_thread+0x87/0xb10
[ ]
[ ] Freed by task 3253:
[ ] kmem_cache_free+0x82/0x2a0
[ ] skb_release_data+0x2c3/0x6e0
[ ] kfree_skb+0x78/0x1d0
[ ] tipc_recvmsg+0x3be/0xa40 [tipc]

So fix it by using skb_unshare() instead, which would create a new
skb for the cloned frag and it'll be safe to change its frag_list.
The similar things were also done in sctp_make_reassembled_event(),
which is using skb_copy().

Reported-by: Shuang Li <[email protected]>
Fixes: 37e22164a8a3 ("tipc: rename and move message reassembly function")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5
# d8141208 12-Jul-2020 Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>

net: tipc: kerneldoc fixes

Simple fixes which require no deep knowledge of the code.

Cc: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.

net: tipc: kerneldoc fixes

Simple fixes which require no deep knowledge of the code.

Cc: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1
# c9aa81fa 11-Jun-2020 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: fix kernel WARNING in tipc_msg_append()

syzbot found the following issue:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6808 at include/linux/thread_info.h:150 check_copy_size include/linux/thread_info.h:150 [inline]

tipc: fix kernel WARNING in tipc_msg_append()

syzbot found the following issue:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6808 at include/linux/thread_info.h:150 check_copy_size include/linux/thread_info.h:150 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6808 at include/linux/thread_info.h:150 copy_from_iter include/linux/uio.h:144 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6808 at include/linux/thread_info.h:150 tipc_msg_append+0x49a/0x5e0 net/tipc/msg.c:242
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

This happens after commit 5e9eeccc58f3 ("tipc: fix NULL pointer
dereference in streaming") that tried to build at least one buffer even
when the message data length is zero... However, it now exposes another
bug that the 'mss' can be zero and the 'cpy' will be negative, thus the
above kernel WARNING will appear!
The zero value of 'mss' is never expected because it means Nagle is not
enabled for the socket (actually the socket type was 'SOCK_SEQPACKET'),
so the function 'tipc_msg_append()' must not be called at all. But that
was in this particular case since the message data length was zero, and
the 'send <= maxnagle' check became true.

We resolve the issue by explicitly checking if Nagle is enabled for the
socket, i.e. 'maxnagle != 0' before calling the 'tipc_msg_append()'. We
also reinforce the function to against such a negative values if any.

Reported-by: [email protected]
Fixes: c0bceb97db9e ("tipc: add smart nagle feature")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# 5e9eeccc 03-Jun-2020 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: fix NULL pointer dereference in streaming

syzbot found the following crash:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN:

tipc: fix NULL pointer dereference in streaming

syzbot found the following crash:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
CPU: 1 PID: 7060 Comm: syz-executor394 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__tipc_sendstream+0xbde/0x11f0 net/tipc/socket.c:1591
Code: 00 00 00 00 48 39 5c 24 28 48 0f 44 d8 e8 fa 3e db f9 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d bb c8 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 e2 04 00 00 48 8b 9b c8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ef7818 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8797fd9d
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: ffffffff8797fde6 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: ffff888099848040 R08: ffff88809a5f6440 R09: fffffbfff1860b4c
R10: ffffffff8c305a5f R11: fffffbfff1860b4b R12: ffff88809984857e
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888086aa4000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00000000009b4880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000140 CR3: 00000000a7fdf000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
tipc_sendstream+0x4c/0x70 net/tipc/socket.c:1533
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:672
____sys_sendmsg+0x32f/0x810 net/socket.c:2352
___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2406
__sys_sendmmsg+0x195/0x480 net/socket.c:2496
__do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2525 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2522 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x99/0x100 net/socket.c:2522
do_syscall_64+0xf6/0x7d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:295
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3
RIP: 0033:0x440199
...

This bug was bisected to commit 0a3e060f340d ("tipc: add test for Nagle
algorithm effectiveness"). However, it is not the case, the trouble was
from the base in the case of zero data length message sending, we would
unexpectedly make an empty 'txq' queue after the 'tipc_msg_append()' in
Nagle mode.

A similar crash can be generated even without the bisected patch but at
the link layer when it accesses the empty queue.

We solve the issues by building at least one buffer to go with socket's
header and an optional data section that may be empty like what we had
with the 'tipc_msg_build()'.

Note: the previous commit 4c21daae3dbc ("tipc: Fix NULL pointer
dereference in __tipc_sendstream()") is obsoleted by this one since the
'txq' will be never empty and the check of 'skb != NULL' is unnecessary
but it is safe anyway.

Reported-by: [email protected]
Fixes: c0bceb97db9e ("tipc: add smart nagle feature")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7
# 8298a419 28-May-2020 YueHaibing <[email protected]>

tipc: remove set but not used variable 'prev'

Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

net/tipc/msg.c: In function 'tipc_msg_append':
net/tipc/msg.c:215:24: warning:
variable 'prev' set but

tipc: remove set but not used variable 'prev'

Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

net/tipc/msg.c: In function 'tipc_msg_append':
net/tipc/msg.c:215:24: warning:
variable 'prev' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

commit 0a3e060f340d ("tipc: add test for Nagle algorithm effectiveness")
left behind this, remove it.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# 0a3e060f 26-May-2020 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: add test for Nagle algorithm effectiveness

When streaming in Nagle mode, we try to bundle small messages from user
as many as possible if there is one outstanding buffer, i.e. not ACK-ed
by th

tipc: add test for Nagle algorithm effectiveness

When streaming in Nagle mode, we try to bundle small messages from user
as many as possible if there is one outstanding buffer, i.e. not ACK-ed
by the receiving side, which helps boost up the overall throughput. So,
the algorithm's effectiveness really depends on when Nagle ACK comes or
what the specific network latency (RTT) is, compared to the user's
message sending rate.

In a bad case, the user's sending rate is low or the network latency is
small, there will not be many bundles, so making a Nagle ACK or waiting
for it is not meaningful.
For example: a user sends its messages every 100ms and the RTT is 50ms,
then for each messages, we require one Nagle ACK but then there is only
one user message sent without any bundles.

In a better case, even if we have a few bundles (e.g. the RTT = 300ms),
but now the user sends messages in medium size, then there will not be
any difference at all, that says 3 x 1000-byte data messages if bundled
will still result in 3 bundles with MTU = 1500.

When Nagle is ineffective, the delay in user message sending is clearly
wasted instead of sending directly.

Besides, adding Nagle ACKs will consume some processor load on both the
sending and receiving sides.

This commit adds a test on the effectiveness of the Nagle algorithm for
an individual connection in the network on which it actually runs.
Particularly, upon receipt of a Nagle ACK we will compare the number of
bundles in the backlog queue to the number of user messages which would
be sent directly without Nagle. If the ratio is good (e.g. >= 2), Nagle
mode will be kept for further message sending. Otherwise, we will leave
Nagle and put a 'penalty' on the connection, so it will have to spend
more 'one-way' messages before being able to re-enter Nagle.

In addition, the 'ack-required' bit is only set when really needed that
the number of Nagle ACKs will be reduced during Nagle mode.

Testing with benchmark showed that with the patch, there was not much
difference in throughput for small messages since the tool continuously
sends messages without a break, so Nagle would still take in effect.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# 03b6fefd 26-May-2020 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: add support for broadcast rcv stats dumping

This commit enables dumping the statistics of a broadcast-receiver link
like the traditional 'broadcast-link' one (which is for broadcast-
sender).

tipc: add support for broadcast rcv stats dumping

This commit enables dumping the statistics of a broadcast-receiver link
like the traditional 'broadcast-link' one (which is for broadcast-
sender). The link dumping can be triggered via netlink (e.g. the
iproute2/tipc tool) by the link flag - 'TIPC_NLA_LINK_BROADCAST' as the
indicator.

The name of a broadcast-receiver link of a specific peer will be in the
format: 'broadcast-link:<peer-id>'.

For example:

Link <broadcast-link:1001002>
Window:50 packets
RX packets:7841 fragments:2408/440 bundles:0/0
TX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
RX naks:0 defs:124 dups:0
TX naks:21 acks:0 retrans:0
Congestion link:0 Send queue max:0 avg:0

In addition, the broadcast-receiver link statistics can be reset in the
usual way via netlink by specifying that link name in command.

Note: the 'tipc_link_name_ext()' is removed because the link name can
now be retrieved simply via the 'l->name'.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1, v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6
# e228c5c0 13-Mar-2020 Hoang Le <[email protected]>

tipc: simplify trivial boolean return

Checking and returning 'true' boolean is useless as it will be
returning at end of function

Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ying

tipc: simplify trivial boolean return

Checking and returning 'true' boolean is useless as it will be
returning at end of function

Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7
# fc1b6d6d 08-Nov-2019 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: introduce TIPC encryption & authentication

This commit offers an option to encrypt and authenticate all messaging,
including the neighbor discovery messages. The currently most advanced
algori

tipc: introduce TIPC encryption & authentication

This commit offers an option to encrypt and authenticate all messaging,
including the neighbor discovery messages. The currently most advanced
algorithm supported is the AEAD AES-GCM (like IPSec or TLS). All
encryption/decryption is done at the bearer layer, just before leaving
or after entering TIPC.

Supported features:
- Encryption & authentication of all TIPC messages (header + data);
- Two symmetric-key modes: Cluster and Per-node;
- Automatic key switching;
- Key-expired revoking (sequence number wrapped);
- Lock-free encryption/decryption (RCU);
- Asynchronous crypto, Intel AES-NI supported;
- Multiple cipher transforms;
- Logs & statistics;

Two key modes:
- Cluster key mode: One single key is used for both TX & RX in all
nodes in the cluster.
- Per-node key mode: Each nodes in the cluster has one specific TX key.
For RX, a node requires its peers' TX key to be able to decrypt the
messages from those peers.

Key setting from user-space is performed via netlink by a user program
(e.g. the iproute2 'tipc' tool).

Internal key state machine:

Attach Align(RX)
+-+ +-+
| V | V
+---------+ Attach +---------+
| IDLE |---------------->| PENDING |(user = 0)
+---------+ +---------+
A A Switch| A
| | | |
| | Free(switch/revoked) | |
(Free)| +----------------------+ | |Timeout
| (TX) | | |(RX)
| | | |
| | v |
+---------+ Switch +---------+
| PASSIVE |<----------------| ACTIVE |
+---------+ (RX) +---------+
(user = 1) (user >= 1)

The number of TFMs is 10 by default and can be changed via the procfs
'net/tipc/max_tfms'. At this moment, as for simplicity, this file is
also used to print the crypto statistics at runtime:

echo 0xfff1 > /proc/sys/net/tipc/max_tfms

The patch defines a new TIPC version (v7) for the encryption message (-
backward compatibility as well). The message is basically encapsulated
as follows:

+----------------------------------------------------------+
| TIPCv7 encryption | Original TIPCv2 | Authentication |
| header | packet (encrypted) | Tag |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

The throughput is about ~40% for small messages (compared with non-
encryption) and ~9% for large messages. With the support from hardware
crypto i.e. the Intel AES-NI CPU instructions, the throughput increases
upto ~85% for small messages and ~55% for large messages.

By default, the new feature is inactive (i.e. no encryption) until user
sets a key for TIPC. There is however also a new option - "TIPC_CRYPTO"
in the kernel configuration to enable/disable the new code when needed.

MAINTAINERS | add two new files 'crypto.h' & 'crypto.c' in tipc

Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.4-rc6
# 06e7c70c 01-Nov-2019 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: improve message bundling algorithm

As mentioned in commit e95584a889e1 ("tipc: fix unlimited bundling of
small messages"), the current message bundling algorithm is inefficient
that can genera

tipc: improve message bundling algorithm

As mentioned in commit e95584a889e1 ("tipc: fix unlimited bundling of
small messages"), the current message bundling algorithm is inefficient
that can generate bundles of only one payload message, that causes
unnecessary overheads for both the sender and receiver.

This commit re-designs the 'tipc_msg_make_bundle()' function (now named
as 'tipc_msg_try_bundle()'), so that when a message comes at the first
place, we will just check & keep a reference to it if the message is
suitable for bundling. The message buffer will be put into the link
backlog queue and processed as normal. Later on, when another one comes
we will make a bundle with the first message if possible and so on...
This way, a bundle if really needed will always consist of at least two
payload messages. Otherwise, we let the first buffer go its way without
any need of bundling, so reduce the overheads to zero.

Moreover, since now we have both the messages in hand, we can even
optimize the 'tipc_msg_bundle()' function, make bundle of a very large
(size ~ MSS) and small messages which is not with the current algorithm
e.g. [1400-byte message] + [10-byte message] (MTU = 1500).

Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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# c0bceb97 30-Oct-2019 Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

tipc: add smart nagle feature

We introduce a feature that works like a combination of TCP_NAGLE and
TCP_CORK, but without some of the weaknesses of those. In particular,
we will not observe long del

tipc: add smart nagle feature

We introduce a feature that works like a combination of TCP_NAGLE and
TCP_CORK, but without some of the weaknesses of those. In particular,
we will not observe long delivery delays because of delayed acks, since
the algorithm itself decides if and when acks are to be sent from the
receiving peer.

- The nagle property as such is determined by manipulating a new
'maxnagle' field in struct tipc_sock. If certain conditions are met,
'maxnagle' will define max size of the messages which can be bundled.
If it is set to zero no messages are ever bundled, implying that the
nagle property is disabled.
- A socket with the nagle property enabled enters nagle mode when more
than 4 messages have been sent out without receiving any data message
from the peer.
- A socket leaves nagle mode whenever it receives a data message from
the peer.

In nagle mode, messages smaller than 'maxnagle' are accumulated in the
socket write queue. The last buffer in the queue is marked with a new
'ack_required' bit, which forces the receiving peer to send a CONN_ACK
message back to the sender upon reception.

The accumulated contents of the write queue is transmitted when one of
the following events or conditions occur.

- A CONN_ACK message is received from the peer.
- A data message is received from the peer.
- A SOCK_WAKEUP pseudo message is received from the link level.
- The write queue contains more than 64 1k blocks of data.
- The connection is being shut down.
- There is no CONN_ACK message to expect. I.e., there is currently
no outstanding message where the 'ack_required' bit was set. As a
consequence, the first message added after we enter nagle mode
is always sent directly with this bit set.

This new feature gives a 50-100% improvement of throughput for small
(i.e., less than MTU size) messages, while it might add up to one RTT
to latency time when the socket is in nagle mode.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2
# e95584a8 02-Oct-2019 Tuong Lien <[email protected]>

tipc: fix unlimited bundling of small messages

We have identified a problem with the "oversubscription" policy in the
link transmission code.

When small messages are transmitted, and the sending li

tipc: fix unlimited bundling of small messages

We have identified a problem with the "oversubscription" policy in the
link transmission code.

When small messages are transmitted, and the sending link has reached
the transmit window limit, those messages will be bundled and put into
the link backlog queue. However, bundles of data messages are counted
at the 'CRITICAL' level, so that the counter for that level, instead of
the counter for the real, bundled message's level is the one being
increased.
Subsequent, to-be-bundled data messages at non-CRITICAL levels continue
to be tested against the unchanged counter for their own level, while
contributing to an unrestrained increase at the CRITICAL backlog level.

This leaves a gap in congestion control algorithm for small messages
that can result in starvation for other users or a "real" CRITICAL
user. Even that eventually can lead to buffer exhaustion & link reset.

We fix this by keeping a 'target_bskb' buffer pointer at each levels,
then when bundling, we only bundle messages at the same importance
level only. This way, we know exactly how many slots a certain level
have occupied in the queue, so can manage level congestion accurately.

By bundling messages at the same level, we even have more benefits. Let
consider this:
- One socket sends 64-byte messages at the 'CRITICAL' level;
- Another sends 4096-byte messages at the 'LOW' level;

When a 64-byte message comes and is bundled the first time, we put the
overhead of message bundle to it (+ 40-byte header, data copy, etc.)
for later use, but the next message can be a 4096-byte one that cannot
be bundled to the previous one. This means the last bundle carries only
one payload message which is totally inefficient, as for the receiver
also! Later on, another 64-byte message comes, now we make a new bundle
and the same story repeats...

With the new bundling algorithm, this will not happen, the 64-byte
messages will be bundled together even when the 4096-byte message(s)
comes in between. However, if the 4096-byte messages are sent at the
same level i.e. 'CRITICAL', the bundling algorithm will again cause the
same overhead.

Also, the same will happen even with only one socket sending small
messages at a rate close to the link transmit's one, so that, when one
message is bundled, it's transmitted shortly. Then, another message
comes, a new bundle is created and so on...

We will solve this issue radically by another patch.

Fixes: 365ad353c256 ("tipc: reduce risk of user starvation during link congestion")
Reported-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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