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Jordan Rife aea73dde71 net: Avoid address overwrite in kernel_connect
commit 0bdf399342c5acbd817c9098b6c7ed21f1974312 upstream.

BPF programs that run on connect can rewrite the connect address. For
the connect system call this isn't a problem, because a copy of the address
is made when it is moved into kernel space. However, kernel_connect
simply passes through the address it is given, so the caller may observe
its address value unexpectedly change.

A practical example where this is problematic is where NFS is combined
with a system such as Cilium which implements BPF-based load balancing.
A common pattern in software-defined storage systems is to have an NFS
mount that connects to a persistent virtual IP which in turn maps to an
ephemeral server IP. This is usually done to achieve high availability:
if your server goes down you can quickly spin up a replacement and remap
the virtual IP to that endpoint. With BPF-based load balancing, mounts
will forget the virtual IP address when the address rewrite occurs
because a pointer to the only copy of that address is passed down the
stack. Server failover then breaks, because clients have forgotten the
virtual IP address. Reconnects fail and mounts remain broken. This patch
was tested by setting up a scenario like this and ensuring that NFS
reconnects worked after applying the patch.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
arch m68k: Fix invalid .section syntax 2023-09-23 10:59:38 +02:00
block block/partition: fix signedness issue for Amiga partitions 2023-07-27 08:37:29 +02:00
certs
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature() 2023-06-21 15:44:08 +02:00
Documentation Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness 2023-08-30 16:27:27 +02:00
drivers platform/mellanox: Fix mlxbf-tmfifo not handling all virtio CONSOLE notifications 2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
fs cifs: add a warning when the in-flight count goes negative 2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
include fs/nls: make load_nls() take a const parameter 2023-09-23 10:59:38 +02:00
init x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier 2023-08-08 19:56:36 +02:00
ipc
kernel modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules 2023-09-23 10:59:36 +02:00
lib radix tree: remove unused variable 2023-08-30 16:27:26 +02:00
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mm mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the page lock 2023-08-30 16:27:26 +02:00
net net: Avoid address overwrite in kernel_connect 2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix buffer overflow in tcp_basertt 2023-07-27 08:37:07 +02:00
scripts modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section() 2023-07-27 08:37:18 +02:00
security security: keys: perform capable check only on privileged operations 2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
sound ALSA: seq: oss: Fix racy open/close of MIDI devices 2023-09-23 10:59:39 +02:00
tools selftests: mirror_gre_changes: Tighten up the TTL test match 2023-08-30 16:27:16 +02:00
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virt KVM: Destroy target device if coalesced MMIO unregistration fails 2023-03-11 16:44:01 +01:00
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Makefile Linux 5.4.256 2023-09-02 09:19:19 +02:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.