[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: unix socket code abuses csum_partial" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: unix socket code abuses csum_partial

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.21.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ca0f5b702daa22645782f0942f63b486d4265608 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:29:58 +1100
Subject: net: unix socket code abuses csum_partial

commit 0a13404dd3bf4ea870e3d96270b5a382edca85c0 upstream.

The unix socket code is using the result of csum_partial to
hash into a lookup table:

	unix_hash_fold(csum_partial(sunaddr, len, 0));

csum_partial is only guaranteed to produce something that can be
folded into a checksum, as its prototype explains:

 * returns a 32-bit number suitable for feeding into itself
 * or csum_tcpudp_magic

The 32bit value should not be used directly.

Depending on the alignment, the ppc64 csum_partial will return
different 32bit partial checksums that will fold into the same
16bit checksum.

This difference causes the following testcase (courtesy of
Gustavo) to sometimes fail:

#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	int fd = socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0);

	int i = 1;
	setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &i, 4);

	struct sockaddr addr;
	addr.sa_family = AF_LOCAL;
	bind(fd, &addr, 2);

	listen(fd, 128);

	struct sockaddr_storage ss;
	socklen_t sslen = (socklen_t)sizeof(ss);
	getsockname(fd, (struct sockaddr*)&ss, &sslen);

	fd = socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0);

	if (connect(fd, (struct sockaddr*)&ss, sslen) == -1){
		perror(NULL);
		return 1;
	}
	printf("OK\n");
	return 0;
}

As suggested by davem, fix this by using csum_fold to fold the
partial 32bit checksum into a 16bit checksum before using it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/unix/af_unix.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index fdf0900..72f4e97 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -160,9 +160,8 @@ static inline void unix_set_secdata(struct scm_cookie *scm, struct sk_buff *skb)

 static inline unsigned int unix_hash_fold(__wsum n)
 {
-	unsigned int hash = (__force unsigned int)n;
+	unsigned int hash = (__force unsigned int)csum_fold(n);

-	hash ^= hash>>16;
 	hash ^= hash>>8;
 	return hash&(UNIX_HASH_SIZE-1);
 }
--
1.8.3.2