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* [PATCH net 0/3] rxrpc: Fixes
@ 2019-12-20 23:05 David Howells
  2019-12-20 23:05 ` [PATCH net 1/3] rxrpc: Unlock new call in rxrpc_new_incoming_call() rather than the caller David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2019-12-20 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: dhowells, linux-afs, linux-kernel


Here are a couple of bugfixes plus a patch that makes one of the bugfixes
easier:

 (1) Move the ping and mutex unlock on a new call from rxrpc_input_packet()
     into rxrpc_new_incoming_call(), which it calls.  This means the
     lock-unlock section is entirely within the latter function.  This
     simplifies patch (2).

 (2) Don't take the call->user_mutex at all in the softirq path.  Mutexes
     aren't allowed to be taken or released there and a patch was merged
     that caused a warning to be emitted every time this happened.  Looking
     at the code again, it looks like that taking the mutex isn't actually
     necessary, as the value of call->state will block access to the call.

 (3) Fix the incoming call path to check incoming calls earlier to reject
     calls to RPC services for which we don't have a security key of the
     appropriate class.  This avoids an assertion failure if YFS tries
     making a secure call to the kafs cache manager RPC service.

The patches are tagged here:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
	rxrpc-fixes-20191220

and can also be found on the following branch:

	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=rxrpc-fixes

David
---
David Howells (3):
      rxrpc: Unlock new call in rxrpc_new_incoming_call() rather than the caller
      rxrpc: Don't take call->user_mutex in rxrpc_new_incoming_call()
      rxrpc: Fix missing security check on incoming calls


 net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h  |   10 +++++--
 net/rxrpc/call_accept.c  |   60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c   |   16 +----------
 net/rxrpc/conn_service.c |    4 +++
 net/rxrpc/input.c        |   18 ------------
 net/rxrpc/rxkad.c        |    5 ++-
 net/rxrpc/security.c     |   70 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 7 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)


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