commit d10b95b412369a7f1d437304db7d02d41fe33e22 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sat Sep 14 06:02:37 2013 -0700 Linux 3.4.62 commit 5e1f777d673a7d618087f093d1ca551da118d34b Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu Sep 12 09:53:11 2013 -0700 Revert "KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x instructions" This reverts commit 5b5b30580218eae22609989546bac6e44d0eda6e, which was commit 660696d1d16a71e15549ce1bf74953be1592bcd3 upstream. Paul Gortmaker writes: [this patch] introduces the following: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c: In function ‘decode_operand’: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:3974:4: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘decode_register’ makes integer from pointer +without a cast [enabled by default] arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:789:14: note: expected ‘u8’ but argument is of type ‘struct x86_emulate_ctxt *’ arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:3974:4: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘decode_register’ makes pointer from integer +without a cast [enabled by default] arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:789:14: note: expected ‘long unsigned int *’ but argument is of type ‘u8’ Based on the severity of the warnings above, I'm reasonably sure there will be some kind of runtime regressions due to this, but I stopped to investigate the warnings as soon as I saw them, before any run time testing. It happens because mainline v3.7-rc1~113^2~40 (dd856efafe60) does this: -static void *decode_register(u8 modrm_reg, unsigned long *regs, +static void *decode_register(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, u8 modrm_reg, Since 660696d1d16a71e1 was only applied to stable 3.4, 3.8, and 3.9 -- and the prerequisite above is in 3.7+, the issue should be limited to 3.4.44+ Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Gleb Natapov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit f37d940d1b9a0104b857fee8dd2b934cb05dcdfb Author: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue Jul 17 15:48:05 2012 -0700 m32r: make memset() global for CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2=y commit 9a75c6e5240f7edc5955e8da5b94bde6f96070b3 upstream. Fix the m32r compile error: arch/m32r/boot/compressed/misc.c:31:14: error: static declaration of 'memset' follows non-static declaration make[5]: *** [arch/m32r/boot/compressed/misc.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [arch/m32r/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 by removing the static keyword. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Hirokazu Takata Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 73efe77679cf4f7e59d20fb1e366771edb9595f5 Author: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue Jul 17 15:48:04 2012 -0700 m32r: add memcpy() for CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y commit a8abbca6617e1caa2344d2d38d0a35f3e5928b79 upstream. Fix the m32r link error: LD arch/m32r/boot/compressed/vmlinux arch/m32r/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `zlib_updatewindow': misc.c:(.text+0x190): undefined reference to `memcpy' misc.c:(.text+0x190): relocation truncated to fit: R_M32R_26_PLTREL against undefined symbol `memcpy' make[5]: *** [arch/m32r/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1 by adding our own implementation of memcpy(). Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Hirokazu Takata Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit a44315aeee52062dea1f1f40acd084ab7fc2c8e2 Author: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue Jul 17 15:48:02 2012 -0700 m32r: consistently use "suffix-$(...)" commit df12aef6a19bb2d69859a94936bda0e6ccaf3327 upstream. Commit a556bec9955c ("m32r: fix arch/m32r/boot/compressed/Makefile") changed "$(suffix_y)" to "$(suffix-y)", but didn't update any location where "suffix_y" is set, causing: make[5]: *** No rule to make target `arch/m32r/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.', needed by `arch/m32r/boot/compressed/piggy.o'. Stop. make[4]: *** [arch/m32r/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make[3]: *** [zImage] Error 2 Correct the other locations to fix this. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Hirokazu Takata Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 0aa1fedab07204880b8d1e935cc0782b55dfae21 Author: Ying Xue Date: Thu Aug 16 12:09:07 2012 +0000 tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization [ Upstream commit 4225a398c1352a7a5c14dc07277cb5cc4473983b ] When the lockdep validator is enabled, it will report the below warning when we enable a TIPC bearer: [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] --------------------------------------------------------- Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(ptype_lock); local_irq_disable(); lock(tipc_net_lock); lock(ptype_lock); lock(tipc_net_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** the shortest dependencies between 2nd lock and 1st lock: -> (ptype_lock){+.+...} ops: 10 { [...] SOFTIRQ-ON-W at: [] __lock_acquire+0x528/0x13e0 [] lock_acquire+0x90/0x100 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50 [] dev_add_pack+0x3a/0x60 [] arp_init+0x1a/0x48 [] inet_init+0x181/0x27e [] do_one_initcall+0x34/0x170 [] kernel_init+0x110/0x1b2 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 [...] ... key at: [] ptype_lock+0x10/0x20 ... acquired at: [] lock_acquire+0x90/0x100 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50 [] dev_add_pack+0x3a/0x60 [] enable_bearer+0xf2/0x140 [tipc] [] tipc_enable_bearer+0x1ba/0x450 [tipc] [] tipc_cfg_do_cmd+0x5c4/0x830 [tipc] [] handle_cmd+0x42/0xd0 [tipc] [] genl_rcv_msg+0x232/0x280 [] netlink_rcv_skb+0x86/0xb0 [] genl_rcv+0x1c/0x30 [] netlink_unicast+0x174/0x1f0 [] netlink_sendmsg+0x1eb/0x2d0 [] sock_aio_write+0x161/0x170 [] do_sync_write+0xac/0xf0 [] vfs_write+0x156/0x170 [] sys_write+0x42/0x70 [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 [...] } -> (tipc_net_lock){+..-..} ops: 4 { [...] IN-SOFTIRQ-R at: [] __lock_acquire+0x64a/0x13e0 [] lock_acquire+0x90/0x100 [] _raw_read_lock_bh+0x3d/0x50 [] tipc_recv_msg+0x1d/0x830 [tipc] [] recv_msg+0x3f/0x50 [tipc] [] __netif_receive_skb+0x22a/0x590 [] netif_receive_skb+0x2b/0xf0 [] pcnet32_poll+0x292/0x780 [] net_rx_action+0xfa/0x1e0 [] __do_softirq+0xae/0x1e0 [...] } >From the log, we can see three different call chains between CPU0 and CPU1: Time 0 on CPU0: kernel_init()->inet_init()->dev_add_pack() At time 0, the ptype_lock is held by CPU0 in dev_add_pack(); Time 1 on CPU1: tipc_enable_bearer()->enable_bearer()->dev_add_pack() At time 1, tipc_enable_bearer() first holds tipc_net_lock, and then wants to take ptype_lock to register TIPC protocol handler into the networking stack. But the ptype_lock has been taken by dev_add_pack() on CPU0, so at this time the dev_add_pack() running on CPU1 has to be busy looping. Time 2 on CPU0: netif_receive_skb()->recv_msg()->tipc_recv_msg() At time 2, an incoming TIPC packet arrives at CPU0, hence tipc_recv_msg() will be invoked. In tipc_recv_msg(), it first wants to hold tipc_net_lock. At the moment, below scenario happens: On CPU0, below is our sequence of taking locks: lock(ptype_lock)->lock(tipc_net_lock) On CPU1, our sequence of taking locks looks like: lock(tipc_net_lock)->lock(ptype_lock) Obviously deadlock may happen in this case. But please note the deadlock possibly doesn't occur at all when the first TIPC bearer is enabled. Before enable_bearer() -- running on CPU1 does not hold ptype_lock, so the TIPC receive handler (i.e. recv_msg()) is not registered successfully via dev_add_pack(), so the tipc_recv_msg() cannot be called by recv_msg() even if a TIPC message comes to CPU0. But when the second TIPC bearer is registered, the deadlock can perhaps really happen. To fix it, we will push the work of registering TIPC protocol handler into workqueue context. After the change, both paths taking ptype_lock are always in process contexts, thus, the deadlock should never occur. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit d60aa7fc969ffe14cac79b685aad011e66beb210 Author: Jason Wang Date: Tue Aug 6 17:29:19 2013 +0800 macvtap: do not zerocopy if iov needs more pages than MAX_SKB_FRAGS commit ece793fcfc417b3925844be88a6a6dc82ae8f7c6 upstream. We try to linearize part of the skb when the number of iov is greater than MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This is not enough since each single vector may occupy more than one pages, so zerocopy_sg_fromiovec() may still fail and may break the guest network. Solve this problem by calculate the pages needed for iov before trying to do zerocopy and switch to use copy instead of zerocopy if it needs more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This is done through introducing a new helper to count the pages for iov, and call uarg->callback() manually when switching from zerocopy to copy to notify vhost. We can do further optimization on top. This bug were introduced from b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73 (macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb). Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 334e23c6f2c893985cc011fbd9a26f2960ec1a97 Author: Jason Wang Date: Tue Aug 6 17:29:18 2013 +0800 vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback commit c70aa540c7a9f67add11ad3161096fb95233aa2e upstream. We add used and signal guest in worker thread but did not poll the virtqueue during the zero copy callback. This may lead the missing of adding and signalling during zerocopy. Solve this by polling the virtqueue and let it wakeup the worker during callback. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit d22586ffdda8938a66e198acff0f2ea64d7ce62e Author: Daniel Borkmann Date: Tue Sep 3 19:29:12 2013 +0200 net: ipv6: tcp: fix potential use after free in tcp_v6_do_rcv [ Upstream commit 3a1c756590633c0e86df606e5c618c190926a0df ] In tcp_v6_do_rcv() code, when processing pkt options, we soley work on our skb clone opt_skb that we've created earlier before entering tcp_rcv_established() on our way. However, only in condition ... if (np->rxopt.bits.rxtclass) np->rcv_tclass = ipv6_get_dsfield(ipv6_hdr(skb)); ... we work on skb itself. As we extract every other information out of opt_skb in ipv6_pktoptions path, this seems wrong, since skb can already be released by tcp_rcv_established() earlier on. When we try to access it in ipv6_hdr(), we will dereference freed skb. [ Bug added by commit 4c507d2897bd9b ("net: implement IP_RECVTOS for IP_PKTOPTIONS") ] Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Jiri Benc Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 8708ea2b682963ce30dfd638771e7e4022094a90 Author: Jiri Bohac Date: Fri Aug 30 11:18:45 2013 +0200 ICMPv6: treat dest unreachable codes 5 and 6 as EACCES, not EPROTO [ Upstream commit 61e76b178dbe7145e8d6afa84bb4ccea71918994 ] RFC 4443 has defined two additional codes for ICMPv6 type 1 (destination unreachable) messages: 5 - Source address failed ingress/egress policy 6 - Reject route to destination Now they are treated as protocol error and icmpv6_err_convert() converts them to EPROTO. RFC 4443 says: "Codes 5 and 6 are more informative subsets of code 1." Treat codes 5 and 6 as code 1 (EACCES) Btw, connect() returning -EPROTO confuses firefox, so that fallback to other/IPv4 addresses does not work: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910773 Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 98fadc18d23f40203ff154d0220692834e0de8f1 Author: Daniel Borkmann Date: Thu Aug 29 23:55:05 2013 +0200 net: bridge: convert MLDv2 Query MRC into msecs_to_jiffies for max_delay [ Upstream commit 2d98c29b6fb3de44d9eaa73c09f9cf7209346383 ] While looking into MLDv1/v2 code, I noticed that bridging code does not convert it's max delay into jiffies for MLDv2 messages as we do in core IPv6' multicast code. RFC3810, 5.1.3. Maximum Response Code says: The Maximum Response Code field specifies the maximum time allowed before sending a responding Report. The actual time allowed, called the Maximum Response Delay, is represented in units of milliseconds, and is derived from the Maximum Response Code as follows: [...] As we update timers that work with jiffies, we need to convert it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Linus Lüssing Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit cce0727ab07058c745d1a104d84c4d0e3a100ef9 Author: Thomas Graf Date: Tue Sep 3 13:37:01 2013 +0200 ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages [ Upstream commit 25a6e6b84fba601eff7c28d30da8ad7cfbef0d43 ] Allocating skbs when sending out neighbour discovery messages currently uses sock_alloc_send_skb() based on a per net namespace socket and thus share a socket wmem buffer space. If a netdevice is temporarily unable to transmit due to carrier loss or for other reasons, the queued up ndisc messages will cosnume all of the wmem space and will thus prevent from any more skbs to be allocated even for netdevices that are able to transmit packets. The number of neighbour discovery messages sent is very limited, use of alloc_skb() bypasses the socket wmem buffer size enforcement while the manual call to skb_set_owner_w() maintains the socket reference needed for the IPv6 output path. This patch has orginally been posted by Eric Dumazet in a modified form. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Stephen Warren Cc: Fabio Estevam Tested-by: Fabio Estevam Tested-by: Stephen Warren Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 055c396300ee15d990777841278ba94d2bc7868a Author: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Fri Aug 16 13:30:07 2013 +0200 ipv6: drop packets with multiple fragmentation headers [ Upstream commit f46078cfcd77fa5165bf849f5e568a7ac5fa569c ] It is not allowed for an ipv6 packet to contain multiple fragmentation headers. So discard packets which were already reassembled by fragmentation logic and send back a parameter problem icmp. The updates for RFC 6980 will come in later, I have to do a bit more research here. Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit f4cb837d1bdb6e1592523ce76c3f45188d120b4e Author: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Fri Aug 16 13:02:27 2013 +0200 ipv6: remove max_addresses check from ipv6_create_tempaddr [ Upstream commit 4b08a8f1bd8cb4541c93ec170027b4d0782dab52 ] Because of the max_addresses check attackers were able to disable privacy extensions on an interface by creating enough autoconfigured addresses: But the check is not actually needed: max_addresses protects the kernel to install too many ipv6 addresses on an interface and guards addrconf_prefix_rcv to install further addresses as soon as this limit is reached. We only generate temporary addresses in direct response of a new address showing up. As soon as we filled up the maximum number of addresses of an interface, we stop installing more addresses and thus also stop generating more temp addresses. Even if the attacker tries to generate a lot of temporary addresses by announcing a prefix and removing it again (lifetime == 0) we won't install more temp addresses, because the temporary addresses do count to the maximum number of addresses, thus we would stop installing new autoconfigured addresses when the limit is reached. This patch fixes CVE-2013-0343 (but other layer-2 attacks are still possible). Thanks to Ding Tianhong to bring this topic up again. Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Ding Tianhong Cc: George Kargiotakis Cc: P J P Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Acked-by: Ding Tianhong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 62d5a1d2a8a7c247c1f2dcd87b1e8c533b03017b Author: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu Aug 15 15:52:57 2013 +0300 tun: signedness bug in tun_get_user() [ Upstream commit 15718ea0d844e4816dbd95d57a8a0e3e264ba90e ] The recent fix d9bf5f1309 "tun: compare with 0 instead of total_len" is not totally correct. Because "len" and "sizeof()" are size_t type, that means they are never less than zero. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit abdf975d2095b3f41939ec0e2259af5d485f2889 Author: Dave Jones Date: Fri Aug 9 11:16:34 2013 -0700 8139cp: Fix skb leak in rx_status_loop failure path. [ Upstream commit d06f5187469eee1b2932c02fd093d113cfc60d5e ] Introduced in cf3c4c03060b688cbc389ebc5065ebcce5653e96 ("8139cp: Add dma_mapping_error checking") Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 7f1322071c591867b963eac2c42643b0dce29bca Author: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Wed Aug 7 02:34:31 2013 +0200 ipv6: don't stop backtracking in fib6_lookup_1 if subtree does not match [ Upstream commit 3e3be275851bc6fc90bfdcd732cd95563acd982b ] In case a subtree did not match we currently stop backtracking and return NULL (root table from fib_lookup). This could yield in invalid routing table lookups when using subtrees. Instead continue to backtrack until a valid subtree or node is found and return this match. Also remove unneeded NULL check. Reported-by: Teco Boot Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Cc: David Lamparter Cc: Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 6b7f7bf782f38216c7584a21e4189ff637056e56 Author: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon Aug 5 20:05:12 2013 -0700 tcp: cubic: fix bug in bictcp_acked() [ Upstream commit cd6b423afd3c08b27e1fed52db828ade0addbc6b ] While investigating about strange increase of retransmit rates on hosts ~24 days after boot, Van found hystart was disabled if ca->epoch_start was 0, as following condition is true when tcp_time_stamp high order bit is set. (s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ Quoting Van : At initialization & after every loss ca->epoch_start is set to zero so I believe that the above line will turn off hystart as soon as the 2^31 bit is set in tcp_time_stamp & hystart will stay off for 24 days. I think we've observed that cubic's restart is too aggressive without hystart so this might account for the higher drop rate we observe. Diagnosed-by: Van Jacobson Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit a0dfebe913d760806692764ef33c2c9b85d60025 Author: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon Aug 5 17:10:15 2013 -0700 tcp: cubic: fix overflow error in bictcp_update() [ Upstream commit 2ed0edf9090bf4afa2c6fc4f38575a85a80d4b20 ] commit 17a6e9f1aa9 ("tcp_cubic: fix clock dependency") added an overflow error in bictcp_update() in following code : /* change the unit from HZ to bictcp_HZ */ t = ((tcp_time_stamp + msecs_to_jiffies(ca->delay_min>>3) - ca->epoch_start) << BICTCP_HZ) / HZ; Because msecs_to_jiffies() being unsigned long, compiler does implicit type promotion. We really want to constrain (tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) to a signed 32bit value, or else 't' has unexpected high values. This bugs triggers an increase of retransmit rates ~24 days after boot [1], as the high order bit of tcp_time_stamp flips. [1] for hosts with HZ=1000 Big thanks to Van Jacobson for spotting this problem. Diagnosed-by: Van Jacobson Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 07d5c260fe3ff9d13277902ec6d0434b0fcd0e95 Author: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon Aug 5 11:18:49 2013 -0700 fib_trie: remove potential out of bound access [ Upstream commit aab515d7c32a34300312416c50314e755ea6f765 ] AddressSanitizer [1] dynamic checker pointed a potential out of bound access in leaf_walk_rcu() We could allocate one more slot in tnode_new() to leave the prefetch() in-place but it looks not worth the pain. Bug added in commit 82cfbb008572b ("[IPV4] fib_trie: iterator recode") [1] : https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 71244e7b9f89ee8825f265a821475a553589a726 Author: Veaceslav Falico Date: Fri Aug 2 19:07:39 2013 +0200 bonding: modify only neigh_parms owned by us [ Upstream commit 9918d5bf329d0dc5bb2d9d293bcb772bdb626e65 ] Otherwise, on neighbour creation, bond_neigh_init() will be called with a foreign netdev. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 3b5c0012686fac17b4fac1c11fba65f45bbdbff8 Author: Veaceslav Falico Date: Fri Aug 2 19:07:38 2013 +0200 neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling ndo_neigh_setup [ Upstream commit 63134803a6369dcf7dddf7f0d5e37b9566b308d2 ] dev->ndo_neigh_setup() might need some of the values of neigh_parms, so populate them before calling it. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit dbe3f7527fa31ccdb0aff8635dc03124f487a1f4 Author: Roman Gushchin Date: Fri Aug 2 18:36:40 2013 +0400 net: check net.core.somaxconn sysctl values [ Upstream commit 5f671d6b4ec3e6d66c2a868738af2cdea09e7509 ] It's possible to assign an invalid value to the net.core.somaxconn sysctl variable, because there is no checks at all. The sk_max_ack_backlog field of the sock structure is defined as unsigned short. Therefore, the backlog argument in inet_listen() shouldn't exceed USHRT_MAX. The backlog argument in the listen() syscall is truncated to the somaxconn value. So, the somaxconn value shouldn't exceed 65535 (USHRT_MAX). Also, negative values of somaxconn are meaningless. before: $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=256 net.core.somaxconn = 256 $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=65536 net.core.somaxconn = 65536 $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=-100 net.core.somaxconn = -100 after: $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=256 net.core.somaxconn = 256 $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=65536 error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.core.somaxconn" $ sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=-100 error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.core.somaxconn" Based on a prior patch from Changli Gao. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reported-by: Changli Gao Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 8da9d4fa4361a160c0cfc8b5e8b6111c89f1f2ef Author: stephen hemminger Date: Thu Aug 1 22:32:07 2013 -0700 htb: fix sign extension bug [ Upstream commit cbd375567f7e4811b1c721f75ec519828ac6583f ] When userspace passes a large priority value the assignment of the unsigned value hopt->prio to signed int cl->prio causes cl->prio to become negative and the comparison is with TC_HTB_NUMPRIO is always false. The result is that HTB crashes by referencing outside the array when processing packets. With this patch the large value wraps around like other values outside the normal range. See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60669 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman