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<title>tcp: sysctl: Fix a race to avoid unexpected 0 window from space</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Feng</name>
<email>fgao@ikuai8.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T23:05:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c48367427a39ea0b85c7cf018fe4256627abfd9e ]

Because sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale could be changed any time, so there
is one race in tcp_win_from_space.
For example,
1.sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale&lt;=0 (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is negative now)
2.space&gt;&gt;(-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale) (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is postive now)

As a result, tcp_win_from_space returns 0. It is unexpected.

Certainly if the compiler put the sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale into one
register firstly, then use the register directly, it would be ok.
But we could not depend on the compiler behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;fgao@ikuai8.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c48367427a39ea0b85c7cf018fe4256627abfd9e ]

Because sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale could be changed any time, so there
is one race in tcp_win_from_space.
For example,
1.sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale&lt;=0 (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is negative now)
2.space&gt;&gt;(-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale) (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is postive now)

As a result, tcp_win_from_space returns 0. It is unexpected.

Certainly if the compiler put the sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale into one
register firstly, then use the register directly, it would be ok.
But we could not depend on the compiler behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng &lt;fgao@ikuai8.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>udplite: fix partial checksum initialization</title>
<updated>2018-03-11T15:12:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Kodanev</name>
<email>alexey.kodanev@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T17:18:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 15f35d49c93f4fa9875235e7bf3e3783d2dd7a1b ]

Since UDP-Lite is always using checksum, the following path is
triggered when calculating pseudo header for it:

  udp4_csum_init() or udp6_csum_init()
    skb_checksum_init_zero_check()
      __skb_checksum_validate_complete()

The problem can appear if skb-&gt;len is less than CHECKSUM_BREAK. In
this particular case __skb_checksum_validate_complete() also invokes
__skb_checksum_complete(skb). If UDP-Lite is using partial checksum
that covers only part of a packet, the function will return bad
checksum and the packet will be dropped.

It can be fixed if we skip skb_checksum_init_zero_check() and only
set the required pseudo header checksum for UDP-Lite with partial
checksum before udp4_csum_init()/udp6_csum_init() functions return.

Fixes: ed70fcfcee95 ("net: Call skb_checksum_init in IPv4")
Fixes: e4f45b7f40bd ("net: Call skb_checksum_init in IPv6")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev &lt;alexey.kodanev@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 15f35d49c93f4fa9875235e7bf3e3783d2dd7a1b ]

Since UDP-Lite is always using checksum, the following path is
triggered when calculating pseudo header for it:

  udp4_csum_init() or udp6_csum_init()
    skb_checksum_init_zero_check()
      __skb_checksum_validate_complete()

The problem can appear if skb-&gt;len is less than CHECKSUM_BREAK. In
this particular case __skb_checksum_validate_complete() also invokes
__skb_checksum_complete(skb). If UDP-Lite is using partial checksum
that covers only part of a packet, the function will return bad
checksum and the packet will be dropped.

It can be fixed if we skip skb_checksum_init_zero_check() and only
set the required pseudo header checksum for UDP-Lite with partial
checksum before udp4_csum_init()/udp6_csum_init() functions return.

Fixes: ed70fcfcee95 ("net: Call skb_checksum_init in IPv4")
Fixes: e4f45b7f40bd ("net: Call skb_checksum_init in IPv6")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev &lt;alexey.kodanev@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: red: Avoid illegal values</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nogah Frankel</name>
<email>nogahf@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-04T11:31:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8afa10cbe281b10371fee5a87ab266e48d71a7f9 ]

Check the qmin &amp; qmax values doesn't overflow for the given Wlog value.
Check that qmin &lt;= qmax.

Fixes: a783474591f2 ("[PKT_SCHED]: Generic RED layer")
Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel &lt;nogahf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8afa10cbe281b10371fee5a87ab266e48d71a7f9 ]

Check the qmin &amp; qmax values doesn't overflow for the given Wlog value.
Check that qmin &lt;= qmax.

Fixes: a783474591f2 ("[PKT_SCHED]: Generic RED layer")
Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel &lt;nogahf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: red: Avoid devision by zero</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nogah Frankel</name>
<email>nogahf@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-04T11:31:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5c472203421ab4f928aa1ae9e1dbcfdd80324148 ]

Do not allow delta value to be zero since it is used as a divisor.

Fixes: 8af2a218de38 ("sch_red: Adaptative RED AQM")
Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel &lt;nogahf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5c472203421ab4f928aa1ae9e1dbcfdd80324148 ]

Do not allow delta value to be zero since it is used as a divisor.

Fixes: 8af2a218de38 ("sch_red: Adaptative RED AQM")
Signed-off-by: Nogah Frankel &lt;nogahf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: Map neigh lookup keys in __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref()</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:14:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Han</name>
<email>wanghan1995315@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T15:06:51+00:00</published>
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Commit 6c16fa957e84 is an incorrect backport as we map the keys in
struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup(), but the correct place to add the
code is struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(), compared to upstream.

Fix it by moving the code, or fewer cases will be covered as
__ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref() will be called unconditionally from
__ipv4_neigh_lookup(), and it can be called from other places
such as ip_output.c.

Fixes: 6c16fa957e84 (ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY)
Signed-off-by: Wang Han &lt;wanghan1995315@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 6c16fa957e84 is an incorrect backport as we map the keys in
struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup(), but the correct place to add the
code is struct __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(), compared to upstream.

Fix it by moving the code, or fewer cases will be covered as
__ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref() will be called unconditionally from
__ipv4_neigh_lookup(), and it can be called from other places
such as ip_output.c.

Fixes: 6c16fa957e84 (ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY)
Signed-off-by: Wang Han &lt;wanghan1995315@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T13:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Westfall</name>
<email>jwestfall@surrealistic.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T12:18:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cd9ff4de0107c65d69d02253bb25d6db93c3dbc1 ]

Map all lookup neigh keys to INADDR_ANY for loopback/point-to-point devices
to avoid making an entry for every remote ip the device needs to talk to.

This used the be the old behavior but became broken in a263b3093641f
(ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path) and later removed
in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point
devices) because it was broken.

Signed-off-by: Jim Westfall &lt;jwestfall@surrealistic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cd9ff4de0107c65d69d02253bb25d6db93c3dbc1 ]

Map all lookup neigh keys to INADDR_ANY for loopback/point-to-point devices
to avoid making an entry for every remote ip the device needs to talk to.

This used the be the old behavior but became broken in a263b3093641f
(ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path) and later removed
in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point
devices) because it was broken.

Signed-off-by: Jim Westfall &lt;jwestfall@surrealistic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: tcp: close sock if net namespace is exiting</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T13:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T21:14:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4ee806d51176ba7b8ff1efd81f271d7252e03a1d ]

When a tcp socket is closed, if it detects that its net namespace is
exiting, close immediately and do not wait for FIN sequence.

For normal sockets, a reference is taken to their net namespace, so it will
never exit while the socket is open.  However, kernel sockets do not take a
reference to their net namespace, so it may begin exiting while the kernel
socket is still open.  In this case if the kernel socket is a tcp socket,
it will stay open trying to complete its close sequence.  The sock's dst(s)
hold a reference to their interface, which are all transferred to the
namespace's loopback interface when the real interfaces are taken down.
When the namespace tries to take down its loopback interface, it hangs
waiting for all references to the loopback interface to release, which
results in messages like:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1

These messages continue until the socket finally times out and closes.
Since the net namespace cleanup holds the net_mutex while calling its
registered pernet callbacks, any new net namespace initialization is
blocked until the current net namespace finishes exiting.

After this change, the tcp socket notices the exiting net namespace, and
closes immediately, releasing its dst(s) and their reference to the
loopback interface, which lets the net namespace continue exiting.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4ee806d51176ba7b8ff1efd81f271d7252e03a1d ]

When a tcp socket is closed, if it detects that its net namespace is
exiting, close immediately and do not wait for FIN sequence.

For normal sockets, a reference is taken to their net namespace, so it will
never exit while the socket is open.  However, kernel sockets do not take a
reference to their net namespace, so it may begin exiting while the kernel
socket is still open.  In this case if the kernel socket is a tcp socket,
it will stay open trying to complete its close sequence.  The sock's dst(s)
hold a reference to their interface, which are all transferred to the
namespace's loopback interface when the real interfaces are taken down.
When the namespace tries to take down its loopback interface, it hangs
waiting for all references to the loopback interface to release, which
results in messages like:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1

These messages continue until the socket finally times out and closes.
Since the net namespace cleanup holds the net_mutex while calling its
registered pernet callbacks, any new net namespace initialization is
blocked until the current net namespace finishes exiting.

After this change, the tcp socket notices the exiting net namespace, and
closes immediately, releasing its dst(s) and their reference to the
loopback interface, which lets the net namespace continue exiting.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: igmp: guard against silly MTU values</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T19:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T15:17:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b5476022bbada3764609368f03329ca287528dc8 ]

IPv4 stack reacts to changes to small MTU, by disabling itself under
RTNL.

But there is a window where threads not using RTNL can see a wrong
device mtu. This can lead to surprises, in igmp code where it is
assumed the mtu is suitable.

Fix this by reading device mtu once and checking IPv4 minimal MTU.

This patch adds missing IPV4_MIN_MTU define, to not abuse
ETH_MIN_MTU anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b5476022bbada3764609368f03329ca287528dc8 ]

IPv4 stack reacts to changes to small MTU, by disabling itself under
RTNL.

But there is a window where threads not using RTNL can see a wrong
device mtu. This can lead to surprises, in igmp code where it is
assumed the mtu is suitable.

Fix this by reading device mtu once and checking IPv4 minimal MTU.

This patch adds missing IPV4_MIN_MTU define, to not abuse
ETH_MIN_MTU anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>tom@herbertland.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T23:41:37+00:00</published>
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commit fc9e50f5a5a4e1fa9ba2756f745a13e693cf6a06 upstream.

The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fc9e50f5a5a4e1fa9ba2756f745a13e693cf6a06 upstream.

The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T10:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-31T06:08:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2b7cda9c35d3b940eb9ce74b30bbd5eb30db493d ]

Based on SNMP values provided by Roman, Yuchung made the observation
that some crashes in tcp_sacktag_walk() might be caused by MTU probing.

Looking at tcp_mtu_probe(), I found that when a new skb was placed
in front of the write queue, we were not updating tcp highest sack.

If one skb is freed because all its content was copied to the new skb
(for MTU probing), then tp-&gt;highest_sack could point to a now freed skb.

Bad things would then happen, including infinite loops.

This patch renames tcp_highest_sack_combine() and uses it
from tcp_mtu_probe() to fix the bug.

Note that I also removed one test against tp-&gt;sacked_out,
since we want to replace tp-&gt;highest_sack regardless of whatever
condition, since keeping a stale pointer to freed skb is a recipe
for disaster.

Fixes: a47e5a988a57 ("[TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct access")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on SNMP values provided by Roman, Yuchung made the observation
that some crashes in tcp_sacktag_walk() might be caused by MTU probing.

Looking at tcp_mtu_probe(), I found that when a new skb was placed
in front of the write queue, we were not updating tcp highest sack.

If one skb is freed because all its content was copied to the new skb
(for MTU probing), then tp-&gt;highest_sack could point to a now freed skb.

Bad things would then happen, including infinite loops.

This patch renames tcp_highest_sack_combine() and uses it
from tcp_mtu_probe() to fix the bug.

Note that I also removed one test against tp-&gt;sacked_out,
since we want to replace tp-&gt;highest_sack regardless of whatever
condition, since keeping a stale pointer to freed skb is a recipe
for disaster.

Fixes: a47e5a988a57 ("[TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct access")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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