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<title>vsprintf: check real user/group id for %pK</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T19:05:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Mallon</name>
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<published>2013-11-12T23:08:51Z</published>
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commit 312b4e226951f707e120b95b118cbc14f3d162b2 upstream.

Some setuid binaries will allow reading of files which have read
permission by the real user id.  This is problematic with files which
use %pK because the file access permission is checked at open() time,
but the kptr_restrict setting is checked at read() time.  If a setuid
binary opens a %pK file as an unprivileged user, and then elevates
permissions before reading the file, then kernel pointer values may be
leaked.

This happens for example with the setuid pppd application on Ubuntu 12.04:

  $ head -1 /proc/kallsyms
  00000000 T startup_32

  $ pppd file /proc/kallsyms
  pppd: In file /proc/kallsyms: unrecognized option 'c1000000'

This will only leak the pointer value from the first line, but other
setuid binaries may leak more information.

Fix this by adding a check that in addition to the current process having
CAP_SYSLOG, that effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids.
If a setuid binary reads the contents of a file which uses %pK then the
pointer values will be printed as NULL if the real user is unprivileged.

Update the sysctl documentation to reflect the changes, and also correct
the documentation to state the kptr_restrict=0 is the default.

This is a only temporary solution to the issue.  The correct solution is
to do the permission check at open() time on files, and to replace %pK
with a function which checks the open() time permission.  %pK uses in
printk should be removed since no sane permission check can be done, and
instead protected by using dmesg_restrict.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>add formats for dentry/file pathnames</title>
<updated>2013-09-04T04:13:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-03T16:00:44Z</published>
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New formats: %p[dD][234]?.  The next pointer is interpreted as struct dentry *
or struct file * resp. ('d' =&gt; dentry, 'D' =&gt; file) and the last component(s)
of pathname are printed (%pd =&gt; just the last one, %pd2 =&gt; the last two, etc.)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2013-07-10T01:24:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T01:24:39Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge
  window.  The only difference from the one I made the other day is that
  this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes
  made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have
  trickeled in.

  Highlights:

   1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt
      handling and context switches.  Allows direct polling of a network
      device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll().

      Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature.

      Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in
      commit 0a4db187a999 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'")

      From Eliezer Tamir.

   2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised
      more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast
      addresses.  Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from
      Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski,
      Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan.

   4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from
      Pavel Emelyanov.

   5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from
      Rony Efraim.

   6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar.

   7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from
      Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet.

   8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis,
      from Cong Wang.

   9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen
      Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport.  In particular,
      support receiving on multiple UDP ports.

  10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie
      lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code.  From Daniel
      Borkmann.

  11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel
      devices.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

  12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a
      manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all.
      From Daniel Borkmann.

  13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver,
      from Johannes Berg.

  14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue,
      by using an rbtree.  From Eric Dumazet.

  15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung
      Cheng.

  16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon
      Horman.

  17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque
      pointer that's passed into them.  Use this to properly handle
      network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event().  From Jiri
      Pirko and Timo Teräs.

  18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter
      Huewe.

  19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a
      O(1) calculation instead.  From Eric Dumazet.

  20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just
      like ipv4.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

  21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet.

  22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu
      during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding.  From
      Willem de Bruijn.

  23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's
      burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead.  Also
      from Eric Dumazet.

  25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix
      from Vlad Yasevich.

  26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets.  From Lorenzo Colitti.

  27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time
      too, from David Majnemer.

  28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due
      to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs.

  29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in
      upd_v6_push_pending_frames().  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

  30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits)
  drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage
  drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path
  vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush
  net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id
  net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress
  virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
  virtio: support unlocked queue poll
  net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit
  Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org
  net/fs: change busy poll time accounting
  net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll
  bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer
  sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets
  sit: fix tunnel update via netlink
  dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support.
  dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710
  dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL.
  net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method
  ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available
  net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value
  ...
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<entry>
<title>lib: vsprintf: add IPv4/v6 generic %p[Ii]S[pfs] format specifier</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T06:22:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T17:49:39Z</published>
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In order to avoid making code that deals with printing both, IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses, unnecessary complicated as for example ...

  if (sa.sa_family == AF_INET6)
    printk("... %pI6 ...", ..sin6_addr);
  else
    printk("... %pI4 ...", ..sin_addr.s_addr);

... it would be better to introduce a format specifier that can deal
with those kind of situations internally; just as we have a "struct
sockaddr" for generic mapping into "struct sockaddr_in" or "struct
sockaddr_in6" as e.g. done in "union sctp_addr". Then, we could
reduce the above statement into something like:

  printk("... %pIS ..", &amp;sockaddr);

In case our pointer is NULL, pointer() then deals with that already at
an earlier point in time internally. While we're at it, support for both
%piS/%pIS, where 'S' stands for sockaddr, comes (almost) for free.

Additionally to that, postfix specifiers 'p', 'f' and 's' are supported
as suggested and initially implemented in 2009 by Joe Perches [1].
Handling of those additional specifiers orientate on the initial RFC that
was proposed. Also we support IPv6 compressed format specified by 'c' and
various other IPv4 extensions as stated in the documentation part.

Likely, there are many other areas than just SCTP in the kernel to make
use of this extension as well.

 [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/31480/

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sprintf: hex_string(): fix comment</title>
<updated>2013-05-28T23:14:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T19:47:39Z</published>
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hex_string() had a typo in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>vsprintf: Add extension %pSR - print_symbol replacement</title>
<updated>2013-04-30T20:31:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T18:18:50Z</published>
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print_symbol takes a long and converts it to a function
name and offset.  %pS does something similar, but doesn't
translate the address via __builtin_extract_return_addr.
%pSR does the translation.

This will enable replacing multiple calls like
	printk(...);
	printk_symbol(addr);
	printk("\n");
with a single non-interleavable in dmesg
	printk("... %pSR\n", (void *)addr);

Update documentation too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>lib/vsprintf.c: add %pa format specifier for phys_addr_t types</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T01:22:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stepan Moskovchenko</name>
<email>stepanm@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T00:43:09Z</published>
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Add the %pa format specifier for printing a phys_addr_t type and its
derivative types (such as resource_size_t), since the physical address
size on some platforms can vary based on build options, regardless of
the native integer type.

Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko &lt;stepanm@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: George Spelvin &lt;linux@horizon.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Andrei Emeltchenko &lt;andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>simple_strto*: annotate function as obsolete</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T01:15:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eldad Zack</name>
<email>eldad@fogrefinery.com</email>
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<published>2012-12-18T00:03:05Z</published>
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Update the documentation for simple_strto* to reflect that it has been
obsoleted and advise the usage of kstrto*.

Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack &lt;eldad@fogrefinery.com&gt;
Cc: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sscanf: don't ignore field widths for numeric conversions</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T01:15:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-18T00:01:31Z</published>
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This is another step towards better standard conformance.  Rather than
adding a local buffer to store the specified portion of the string (with
the need to enforce an arbitrary maximum supported width to limit the
buffer size), do a maximum width conversion and then drop as much of it as
is necessary to meet the caller's request.

Also fail on negative field widths.

Uses the deprecated simple_strto*() functions because kstrtoXX() fail on
non-zero terminated strings.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>lib/vsprintf.c: fix handling of %zd when using ssize_t</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T01:15:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-17T23:59:58Z</published>
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Documentation/printk-formats.txt says to use %zd for a ssize_t argument
and some drivers do.  Unfortunately this prints a positive number for
negative values eg:

  tpm_tis 70030000.tpm_tis: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error 4294967234

Add a case to va_args a ssize_t type if the interpretation should be
signed.

Tested on PPC32.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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