AT91 SoC fixes for 4.10:
- change email addresses for Nicolas and Ludovic following the
Microchip-Atmel merger
* tag 'at91-ab-4.10-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux:
MAINTAINERS: change email address from atmel to microchip
MAINTAINERS: at91: change email address
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Following the Microchip / Atmel merger and the unification of internal IT, it's
more convenient for me to swith to the microchip.com address. Change all my
entries to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Kalle Valo says:
====================
wireless-drivers fixes for 4.10
Most important here are fixes to two iwlwifi crashes, but there's also
a firmware naming fix for iwlwifi and a revert of an older bcma patch.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ZTE PM domain driver support for 4.11:
- It includes a series which adds DT bindings and PM domain driver for
PCU (Power Control Unit) block found on ZTE ZX2967 family SoC.
* tag 'zte-pd-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux:
soc: zte: pm_domains: Add support for zx296718
soc: zte: pm_domains: Prepare for supporting ARMv8 zx2967 family
soc: zte: Add header for PM domains specifiers
MAINTAINERS: add zx2967 SoC drivers to ARM ZTE architecture
dt-bindings: zte: add bindings document for zx2967 power domain controller
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
This is the pxa changes for v4.11 cycle.
This cycle is a minor fixes one, covering :
- build fixes from Arnd, mainly include related
- transfer of maintainance of Motorala phone to Robert
* tag 'pxa-for-4.11' of https://github.com/rjarzmik/linux:
MAINTAINERS: transfer maintainership for the EZX platform
ARM: pxa: include linux/leds.h
ARM: pxa: ezx: fix a910 camera data
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
SoC changes for omaps for v4.11 merge window. This adds support
for keeping the interconnect target module active for uart if
earlycon is specified. And we're adding Aaro Koskinen as a
co-maintainer for omap1 to make sure things stay working for
omap1. The other changes are mostly clean-up of old legacy code:
- Remove unused omap_display_init()
- Make omapdss_find_dss_of_node() function static
- Add support for earlycon
- Tidy up omap1 usb logging output with pr_cont
- Make omap_otg_init() static
- Delete redundant CPU class checks for omap1
- Remove unused mpurate cmdline option that has not done
anything for past 1.5 years at least
* tag 'omap-for-v4.11/soc-signed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap:
ARM: OMAP: clock: Remove unused mpurate cmdline option
ARM: OMAP2+: omap_hwmod: Add support for earlycon
MAINTAINERS: Add Aaro Koskinen as TI omap1 SoC co-maintainer
ARM: OMAP1: USB: delete redundant CPU class checks
ARM: OMAP1: USB: make omap_otg_init() static
ARM: OMAP1: USB: tidy up logging output
ARM: OMAP2+: Make the omapdss_find_dss_of_node() function static
ARM: OMAP2+: Remove unused omap_display_init() function
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Qualcomm ARM Based Driver Updates for v4.11
* Fix issues with SCM compile testing
* Add SCM set remote state API
* Mask APQ8064 SCM clock dependency issue
* Add Qualcomm DMA folder to MAINTAINERS
* Fix EBI2 dependencies
* tag 'qcom-drivers-for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agross/linux:
firmware: qcom_scm: Add set remote state API
MAINTAINERS: Update the files to include the Qualcomm DMA folder
bus: qcom_ebi2: default y if ARCH_QCOM
firmware: qcom: scm: Mask APQ8064 core clk dependency
firmware: qcom: scm: Add empty functions to help compile testing
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) GTP fixes from Andreas Schultz (missing genl module alias, clear IP
DF on transmit).
2) Netfilter needs to reflect the fwmark when sending resets, from Pau
Espin Pedrol.
3) nftable dump OOPS fix from Liping Zhang.
4) Fix erroneous setting of VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on transmit,
from Rolf Neugebauer.
5) Fix build error of ipt_CLUSTERIP when procfs is disabled, from Arnd
Bergmann.
6) Fix regression in handling of NETIF_F_SG in harmonize_features(),
from Eric Dumazet.
7) Fix RTNL deadlock wrt. lwtunnel module loading, from David Ahern.
8) tcp_fastopen_create_child() needs to setup tp->max_window, from
Alexey Kodanev.
9) Missing kmemdup() failure check in ipv6 segment routing code, from
Eric Dumazet.
10) Don't execute unix_bind() under the bindlock, otherwise we deadlock
with splice. From WANG Cong.
11) ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() potentially reallocates the skb buffer,
therefore callers must reload cached header pointers into that skb.
Fix from Eric Dumazet.
12) Fix various bugs in legacy IRQ fallback handling in alx driver, from
Tobias Regnery.
13) Do not allow lwtunnel drivers to be unloaded while they are
referenced by active instances, from Robert Shearman.
14) Fix truncated PHY LED trigger names, from Geert Uytterhoeven.
15) Fix a few regressions from virtio_net XDP support, from John
Fastabend and Jakub Kicinski.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (102 commits)
ISDN: eicon: silence misleading array-bounds warning
net: phy: micrel: add support for KSZ8795
gtp: fix cross netns recv on gtp socket
gtp: clear DF bit on GTP packet tx
gtp: add genl family modules alias
tcp: don't annotate mark on control socket from tcp_v6_send_response()
ravb: unmap descriptors when freeing rings
virtio_net: reject XDP programs using header adjustment
virtio_net: use dev_kfree_skb for small buffer XDP receive
r8152: check rx after napi is enabled
r8152: re-schedule napi for tx
r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled
r8152: avoid start_xmit to call napi_schedule during autosuspend
net: dsa: Bring back device detaching in dsa_slave_suspend()
net: phy: leds: Fix truncated LED trigger names
net: phy: leds: Break dependency of phy.h on phy_led_triggers.h
net: phy: leds: Clear phy_num_led_triggers on failure to avoid crash
net-next: ethernet: mediatek: change the compatible string
Documentation: devicetree: change the mediatek ethernet compatible string
bnxt_en: Fix RTNL lock usage on bnxt_get_port_module_status().
...
More fixes than I'd like at this stage, but I think the holidays and
conferences have delayed finding and fixing the stuff a bit. Almost all
of them have Fixes: tags, so it's not just random fixes, we can point
fingers at the commits that broke stuff.
There's an ABI fix to GVT from Alex, before we go on an release a kernel
with the wrong attribute name.
* tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2017-01-26' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel:
drm/i915: reinstate call to trace_i915_vma_bind
drm/i915: Move atomic state free from out of fence release
drm/i915: Check for NULL atomic state in intel_crtc_disable_noatomic()
drm/i915: Fix calculation of rotated x and y offsets for planar formats
drm/i915: Don't init hpd polling for vlv and chv from runtime_suspend()
drm/i915: Don't leak edid in intel_crt_detect_ddc()
drm/i915: Release temporary load-detect state upon switching
drm/i915: prevent crash with .disable_display parameter
drm/i915: Avoid drm_atomic_state_put(NULL) in intel_display_resume
MAINTAINERS: update new mail list for intel gvt driver
drm/i915/gvt: Fix kmem_cache_create() name
drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt: mdev ABI is available_instances, not available_instance
drm/i915/gvt: Fix relocation of shadow bb
drm/i915/gvt: Enable the shadow batch buffer
Backmerge Linus master to get the connector locking revert.
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux: (645 commits)
sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax()
Revert "drm/probe-helpers: Drop locking from poll_enable"
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zbud maintainers
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zswap maintainers
mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module
mn10300: fix build error of missing fpu_save()
romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD
frv: add missing atomic64 operations
mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update
mm, page_alloc: move cpuset seqcount checking to slowpath
mm, page_alloc: fix fast-path race with cpuset update or removal
mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone
kernel/panic.c: add missing \n
fbdev: color map copying bounds checking
frv: add atomic64_add_unless()
mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
radix-tree: fix private list warnings
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin
mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges
proc: add a schedule point in proc_pid_readdir()
...
Neither Daniel, Harald or myself are looking into this anymore.
Robert thankfully agreed to handle the maintenance from now on.
Also remove the outdated entries for website, git tree and
mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
"26 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (26 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zbud maintainers
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zswap maintainers
mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module
mn10300: fix build error of missing fpu_save()
romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD
frv: add missing atomic64 operations
mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update
mm, page_alloc: move cpuset seqcount checking to slowpath
mm, page_alloc: fix fast-path race with cpuset update or removal
mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone
kernel/panic.c: add missing \n
fbdev: color map copying bounds checking
frv: add atomic64_add_unless()
mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
radix-tree: fix private list warnings
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin
mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges
proc: add a schedule point in proc_pid_readdir()
mm: alloc_contig: re-allow CMA to compact FS pages
mm/slub.c: trace free objects at KERN_INFO
...
Pull x86 platform-driver fixes from Andy Shevchenko:
"This is my first pull request since I become a co-maintainer of
Platform Drivers x86 subsystem. It's a bit bigger than usual due to
material collected for almost two weeks in a row.
MAINTAINERS:
- Add myself to X86 PLATFORM DRIVERS as a co-maintainer
ideapad-laptop:
- handle ACPI event 1
intel_mid_powerbtn:
- Set IRQ_ONESHOT
surface3-wmi:
- fix uninitialized symbol
- Shut up unused-function warning
mlx-platform:
- free first dev on error"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.10-4' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86:
MAINTAINERS: Add myself to X86 PLATFORM DRIVERS as a co-maintainer
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: handle ACPI event 1
platform/x86: intel_mid_powerbtn: Set IRQ_ONESHOT
platform/x86: surface3-wmi: fix uninitialized symbol
platform/x86: surface3-wmi: Shut up unused-function warning
platform/x86: mlx-platform: free first dev on error
Add a general way for kernel modules to sample packets, without being tied
to any specific subsystem. This netlink channel can be used by tc,
iptables, etc. and allow to standardize packet sampling in the kernel.
For every sampled packet, the psample module adds the following metadata
fields:
PSAMPLE_ATTR_IIFINDEX - the packets input ifindex, if applicable
PSAMPLE_ATTR_OIFINDEX - the packet output ifindex, if applicable
PSAMPLE_ATTR_ORIGSIZE - the packet's original size, in case it has been
truncated during sampling
PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_GROUP - the packet's sample group, which is set by the
user who initiated the sampling. This field allows the user to
differentiate between several samplers working simultaneously and
filter packets relevant to him
PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP_SEQ - sequence counter of last sent packet. The
sequence is kept for each group
PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE - the sampling rate used for sampling the packets
PSAMPLE_ATTR_DATA - the actual packet bits
The sampled packets are sent to the PSAMPLE_NL_MCGRP_SAMPLE multicast
group. In addition, add the GET_GROUPS netlink command which allows the
user to see the current sample groups, their refcount and sequence number.
This command currently supports only netlink dump mode.
Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For last few months Darren and I are co-maintaining PDx86 subsystem.
Make this fact official by updating MAINTAINERS database.
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
"drm fixes across the board.
Okay holidays and LCA kinda caught up with me, I thought I'd get some
of this dequeued last week, but Hobart was sunny and warm and not all
gloomy and rainy as usual.
This is a bit large, but not too much considering it's two weeks stuff
from AMD and Intel.
core:
- one locking fix that helps with dynamic suspend/resume races
i915:
- mostly GVT updates, GVT was a recent introduction so fixes for it
shouldn't cause any notable side effects.
amdgpu:
- a bunch of fixes for GPUs with a different memory controller design
that need different firmware.
exynos:
- decon regression fixes
msm:
- two regression fixes
etnaviv:
- a workaround for an mmu bug that needs a lot more work.
virtio:
- sparse fix, and a maintainers update"
* tag 'drm-fixes-for-v4.10-rc6' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (56 commits)
drm/exynos/decon5433: set STANDALONE_UPDATE_F on output enablement
drm/exynos/decon5433: fix CMU programming
drm/exynos/decon5433: do not disable video after reset
drm/i915: Ignore bogus plane coordinates on SKL when the plane is not visible
drm/i915: Remove WaDisableLSQCROPERFforOCL KBL workaround.
drm/amdgpu: add support for new hainan variants
drm/radeon: add support for new hainan variants
drm/amdgpu: change clock gating mode for uvd_v4.
drm/amdgpu: fix program vce instance logic error.
drm/amdgpu: fix bug set incorrect value to vce register
Revert "drm/amdgpu: Only update the CUR_SIZE register when necessary"
drm/msm: fix potential null ptr issue in non-iommu case
drm/msm/mdp5: rip out plane->pending tracking
drm/exynos/decon5433: set STANDALONE_UPDATE_F also if planes are disabled
drm/exynos/decon5433: update shadow registers iff there are active windows
drm/i915/gvt: rewrite gt reset handler using new function intel_gvt_reset_vgpu_locked
drm/i915/gvt: fix vGPU instance reuse issues by vGPU reset function
drm/i915/gvt: introduce intel_vgpu_reset_mmio() to reset mmio space
drm/i915/gvt: move mmio init/clean function to mmio.c
drm/i915/gvt: introduce intel_vgpu_reset_cfg_space to reset configuration space
...
Add driver for IDT VersaClock 5 5P49V5923 and 5P49V5933 chips. These
chips have two clock inputs, XTAL or CLK, which are muxed into single
PLL/VCO input. In case of 5P49V5923, the XTAL in built into the chip
while the 5P49V5923 requires external XTAL.
The PLL feeds two fractional dividers. Each fractional divider feeds
output mux, which allows selecting between clock from the fractional
divider itself or from output mux on output N-1. In case of output
mux 0, the output N-1 is instead connected to the output from the mux
feeding the PLL.
The driver thus far supports only the 5P49V5923 and 5P49V5933, while
it should be easily extensible to the whole 5P49V59xx family of chips
as they are all pretty similar.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Add the zx2967 reset controller driver as maintained by ARM ZTE
architecture maintainers, as they're parts of the core IP.
Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
"We've been sitting on fixes for a while, and they keep trickling in at
a low rate. Nothing in here comes across as particularly scary or
noteworthy, for the most part it's a large collection of small DT
tweaks"
* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (24 commits)
ARM: dts: da850-evm: fix read access to SPI flash
ARM: dts: omap3: Fix Card Detect and Write Protect on Logic PD SOM-LV
ARM64: dts: meson-gxbb-odroidc2: Disable SCPI DVFS
ARM: dts: OMAP5 / DRA7: indicate that SATA port 0 is available.
ARM: dts: NSP: Fix DT ranges error
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: set bcm47xx watchdog
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: fix config typo
ARM: dts: dra72-evm-revc: fix typo in ethernet-phy node
soc: ti: wkup_m3_ipc: Fix error return code in wkup_m3_ipc_probe()
ARM: ux500: fix prcmu_is_cpu_in_wfi() calculation
ARM: dts: sunxi: Change node name for pwrseq pin on Olinuxino-lime2-emmc
ARM: dts: sun8i: Support DTB build for NanoPi M1
ARM: dts: sun6i: hummingbird: Enable display engine again
ARM: dts: sun6i: Disable display pipeline by default
ARM, ARM64: dts: drop "arm,amba-bus" in favor of "simple-bus" part 3
ARM: dts: imx6qdl-nitrogen6_som2: fix sgtl5000 pinctrl init
ARM: dts: imx6qdl-nitrogen6_max: fix sgtl5000 pinctrl init
ARM: OMAP1: DMA: Correct the number of logical channels
ARM: dts: am335x-icev2: Remove the duplicated pinmux setting
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix WL1283 Bluetooth Baud Rate
...
As part of the effort to separate out architecture specific code, move the
hypercall page setup to an architecture specific file.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
"A few ARM fixes:
- fix a crash while performing TLB maintanence on early ARM SMP cores
- blacklist Scorpion CPUs for hardware breakpoints
- ARMs asm/types.h has been included as part of the UAPI due to the
way the makefiles work, move it to uapi/asm/types.h to make it
official
- fix up ftrace syscall name matching"
* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 8613/1: Fix the uaccess crash on PB11MPCore
MAINTAINERS: update rmk's entries
ARM: put types.h in uapi
ARM: 8634/1: hw_breakpoint: blacklist Scorpion CPUs
ARM: 8632/1: ftrace: fix syscall name matching
Samsung fixes for v4.10:
1. Update maintainers entry with Patchwork address.
2. Fix invalid values for NF_CT_PROTO_* in s3c2410 defconfig (these options
cannot be modules anymore).
* tag 'samsung-fixes-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krzk/linux:
ARM: s3c2410_defconfig: Fix invalid values for NF_CT_PROTO_*
MAINTAINERS: Add Patchwork URL to Samsung Exynos entry
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Recently all qcom dma drivers were moved a separate directory. Update
the files to include the same
Signed-off-by: Pramod Gurav <pramod.gurav@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Update my entries in the MAINTAINERS file with the same email address
for kernel work, and, now that the git tree is hosted on more suitable
hardware, add git tree references where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Pull dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
"The fixes this time around are spread over drivers, pretty normal
update:
- PCI ID for SKL ioatdma, workaround for SKX and
ioat_alloc_chan_resources sleepy allocation fix
- dw kconfig typo fix
- null pointer deref for stm32
- MAINTAINERS Update for at_hdmac
- pl330 runtime pm fixes
- omap-dma port window fix
- rcar-dmac unmap slave resource fix"
* tag 'dmaengine-fix-4.10-rc4' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
dmaengine: rcar-dmac: unmap slave resource when channel is freed
dmaengine: omap-dma: Fix the port_window support
dmaengine: iota: ioat_alloc_chan_resources should not perform sleeping allocations.
dmaengine: pl330: Fix runtime PM support for terminated transfers
MAINTAINERS: dmaengine: Update + Hand over the at_hdmac driver to Ludovic
dmaengine: omap-dma: Fix dynamic lch_map allocation
dmaengine: ti-dma-crossbar: Add some 'of_node_put()' in error path.
dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix null pointer dereference in stm32_dma_tx_status
dmaengine: stm32-dma: Set correct args number for DMA request from DT
dmaengine: dw: fix typo in Kconfig
dmaengine: ioatdma: workaround SKX ioatdma version
dmaengine: ioatdma: Add Skylake PCI Dev ID
The old maintainers email is bouncing and I've rewritten most of this
driver in the recent months. Also add linux-block to the mailinglist
and remove the old tree, I will send patches through the linux-block
tree. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add the ZTE SoC drivers as maintained by ARM ZTE
architecture maintainers, as they're parts of the core IP.
By the way, this patch adds the maintainer for ARM
ZTE architecture to Baoyou Xie.
Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things:
Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies
and can't keep up with todays needs. More background:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
Better alternatives are:
- stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+)
- qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice)
- virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Changes:
* add myself as maintainer, so patches land in my inbox.
* add virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org mailing list.
* add drm-qemu git repo.
* flip bochs and qxl status to "Maintained".
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
* enable smc module loading and unloading
* register new socket family
* basic smc socket creation and deletion
* use backing TCP socket to run CLC (Connection Layer Control)
handshake of SMC protocol
* Setup for infiniband traffic is implemented in follow-on patches.
For now fallback to TCP socket is always used.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
SipHash is a 64-bit keyed hash function that is actually a
cryptographically secure PRF, like HMAC. Except SipHash is super fast,
and is meant to be used as a hashtable keyed lookup function, or as a
general PRF for short input use cases, such as sequence numbers or RNG
chaining.
For the first usage:
There are a variety of attacks known as "hashtable poisoning" in which an
attacker forms some data such that the hash of that data will be the
same, and then preceeds to fill up all entries of a hashbucket. This is
a realistic and well-known denial-of-service vector. Currently
hashtables use jhash, which is fast but not secure, and some kind of
rotating key scheme (or none at all, which isn't good). SipHash is meant
as a replacement for jhash in these cases.
There are a modicum of places in the kernel that are vulnerable to
hashtable poisoning attacks, either via userspace vectors or network
vectors, and there's not a reliable mechanism inside the kernel at the
moment to fix it. The first step toward fixing these issues is actually
getting a secure primitive into the kernel for developers to use. Then
we can, bit by bit, port things over to it as deemed appropriate.
While SipHash is extremely fast for a cryptographically secure function,
it is likely a bit slower than the insecure jhash, and so replacements
will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis based on whether or not the
difference in speed is negligible and whether or not the current jhash usage
poses a real security risk.
For the second usage:
A few places in the kernel are using MD5 or SHA1 for creating secure
sequence numbers, syn cookies, port numbers, or fast random numbers.
SipHash is a faster and more fitting, and more secure replacement for MD5
in those situations. Replacing MD5 and SHA1 with SipHash for these uses is
obvious and straight-forward, and so is submitted along with this patch
series. There shouldn't be much of a debate over its efficacy.
Dozens of languages are already using this internally for their hash
tables and PRFs. Some of the BSDs already use this in their kernels.
SipHash is a widely known high-speed solution to a widely known set of
problems, and it's time we catch-up.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
