kernel/linux.git/Documentation/netlink/specs, branch v6.19.11

net: shaper: protect from late creation of hierarchy

2026-03-25T10:13:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit d75ec7e8ba1979a1eb0b9211d94d749cdce849c8 ] We look up a netdev during prep of Netlink ops (pre- callbacks) and take a ref to it. Then later in the body of the callback we take its lock or RCU which are the actual protections. The netdev may get unregistered in between the time we take the ref and the time we lock it. We may allocate the hierarchy after flush has already run, which would lead to a leak. Take the instance lock in pre- already, this saves us from the race and removes the need for dedicated lock/unlock callbacks completely. After all, if there's any chance of write happening concurrently with the flush - we're back to leaking the hierarchy. We may take the lock for devices which don't support shapers but we're only dealing with SET operations here, not taking the lock would be optimizing for an error case. Fixes: 93954b40f6a4 ("net-shapers: implement NL set and delete operations") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260309173450.538026-1-p@1g4.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317161014.779569-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'net-6.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-01-22T17:32:11+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Including fixes from CAN and wireless. Pretty big, but hard to make up any cohesive story that would explain it, a random collection of fixes. The two reverts of bad patches from this release here feel like stuff that'd normally show up by rc5 or rc6. Perhaps obvious thing to say, given the holiday timing. That said, no active investigations / regressions. Let's see what the next week brings. Current release - fix to a fix: - can: alloc_candev_mqs(): add missing default CAN capabilities Current release - regressions: - usbnet: fix crash due to missing BQL accounting after resume - Revert "net: wwan: mhi_wwan_mbim: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not ... Previous releases - regressions: - Revert "nfc/nci: Add the inconsistency check between the input ... Previous releases - always broken: - number of driver fixes for incorrect use of seqlocks on stats - rxrpc: fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue, don't corrupt rcv queue when MSG_PEEK was set - ipvlan: make the addrs_lock be per port avoid races in the port hash table - sched: enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc - virtio: coalesce only linear skb - wifi: ath12k: fix dead lock while flushing management frames - eth: igc: reduce TSN TX packet buffer from 7KB to 5KB per queue" * tag 'net-6.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (96 commits) Octeontx2-af: Add proper checks for fwdata dpll: Prevent duplicate registrations net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref hinic3: Fix netif_queue_set_napi queue_index input parameter error vsock/test: add stream TX credit bounds test vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size vsock/test: fix seqpacket message bounds test vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit() net: fec: account for VLAN header in frame length calculations net: openvswitch: fix data race in ovs_vport_get_upcall_stats octeontx2-af: Fix error handling net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: report in-band capability for 2500Base-X rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing net: dsa: fix off-by-one in maximum bridge ID determination net: bcmasp: Fix network filter wake for asp-3.0 bonding: provide a net pointer to __skb_flow_dissect() selftests: net: amt: wait longer for connection before sending packets be2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list Revert "net: wwan: mhi_wwan_mbim: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning" netrom: fix double-free in nr_route_frame() ...

fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.

2026-01-18T00:00:24+00:00

fou_udp_recv() has the same problem mentioned in the previous patch. If FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO is set to 0, skb is not freed by fou_udp_recv() nor "resubmit"-ted in ip_protocol_deliver_rcu(). Let's forbid 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO. Fixes: 23461551c0062 ("fou: Support for foo-over-udp RX path") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115172533.693652-4-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge branch 'pm-em'

2026-01-16T15:16:24+00:00

Merge fixes related to the energy model management for 6.19-rc6: - Fix a memory leak in em_create_pd() error path (Malaya Kumar Rout) - Fix stale description of the cost field in struct em_perf_state to reflect the current code (Yaxiong Tian) - Fix and revamp the energy model YNL specification added recently along with the energy model netlink interface (Changwoo Min) * pm-em: PM: EM: Add dump to get-perf-domains in the EM YNL spec PM: EM: Change cpus' type from string to u64 array in the EM YNL spec PM: EM: Rename em.yaml to dev-energymodel.yaml PM: EM: Fix yamllint warnings in the EM YNL spec PM: EM: Fix memory leak in em_create_pd() error path PM: EM: Fix incorrect description of the cost field in struct em_perf_state

PM: EM: Add dump to get-perf-domains in the EM YNL spec

2026-01-09T20:44:46+00:00

Add dump to get-perf-domains, so that a user can fetch either information about a specific performance domain with do or information about all performance domains with dump. Share the reply format of do and dump using perf-domain-attrs, so remove perf-domains. The YNL spec, autogenerated files, and the do implementation are updated, and the dump implementation is added. Suggested-by: Donald Hunter Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108053212.642478-5-changwoo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: EM: Change cpus' type from string to u64 array in the EM YNL spec

2026-01-09T20:44:46+00:00

Previously, the cpus attribute was a string format which was a "%*pb" stringification of a bitmap. That is not very consumable for a UAPI, so let’s change it to an u64 array of CPU ids. Suggested-by: Donald Hunter Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108053212.642478-4-changwoo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: EM: Rename em.yaml to dev-energymodel.yaml

2026-01-09T20:44:46+00:00

The EM YNL specification used many acronyms, including ‘em’, ‘pd’, ‘ps’, etc. While the acronyms are short and convenient, they could be confusing. So, let’s spell them out to be more specific. The following changes were made in the spec. Note that the protocol name cannot exceed GENL_NAMSIZ (16). em -> dev-energymodel pds -> perf-domains pd -> perf-domain pd-id -> perf-domain-id pd-table -> perf-table ps -> perf-state get-pds -> get-perf-domains get-pd-table -> get-perf-table pd-created -> perf-domain-created pd-updated -> perf-domain-updated pd-deleted -> perf-domain-deleted In addition. doc strings were added to the spec. based on the comments in energy_model.h. Two flag attributes (perf-state-flags and perf-domain-flags) were added for easily interpreting the bit flags. Finally, the autogenerated files and em_netlink.c were updated accordingly to reflect the name changes. Suggested-by: Donald Hunter Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108053212.642478-3-changwoo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: EM: Fix yamllint warnings in the EM YNL spec

2026-01-09T20:44:46+00:00

The energy model YNL spec has the following two warnings when checking with yamlint: 3:1 warning missing document start "---" (document-start) 107:13 error wrong indentation: expected 10 but found 12 (indentation) So let’s fix whose lint warnings. Fixes: bd26631ccdfd ("PM: EM: Add em.yaml and autogen files") Suggested-by: Donald Hunter Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108053212.642478-2-changwoo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

netlink: specs: netdev: clarify the page pool API a little

2026-01-06T00:49:54+00:00

The phrasing of the page-pool-get doc is very confusing. It's supposed to highlight that support depends on the driver doing its part but it sounds like orphaned page pools won't be visible. The description of the ifindex is completely wrong. We move the page pool to loopback and skip the attribute if ifindex is loopback. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260104084347.5de3a537@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104165232.710460-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-12-04T01:24:33+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list. Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles. - Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC queue. Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle, but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy. Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet reordering. - Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths. - Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already did for Rx skbs). - Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric. - Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines. - Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for packets. - Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock pressure, improving the Rx performance. - Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory. - Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting (using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using cgroups. - Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection. - Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of RTT. - Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the connection RTT is low. - Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations. - Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload. - Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC 5837). - Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449). - Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL. - Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock. - Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC. - Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length, from Kees. - Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers. - Some preparations for slimming down struct page. - YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard. - Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly computed derived statistics and summarized system state. Driver API: - Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface. - Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification. - Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in zl3073x). - Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads IPsec and performs RSS. - Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default. - Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload. - Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload. - Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes. Device drivers: - Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support. - Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series. - Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control, and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET operations for PHY timestamping. - Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for reading the Rx ring count. - Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support PPS in/out on all pins - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats - i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF - iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration - disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is unused - Meta (fbnic): - add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links - Wangxun: - support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback - support Rx coalescing offload - support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules - Ethernet virtual: - Google (gve): - allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len - implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor format - Microsoft vNIC (mana): - support HW link state events - handle hardware recovery events when probing the device - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL) - AMD (amd-xgbe): - add device selftests - NXP (enetc): - add i.MX94 support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN - Broadcom switches (b53): - support port isolation - support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats - Lantiq/MaxLinear switches: - support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port - use regmap for register access - allow user to enable/disable learning - support Energy Efficient Ethernet - support configuring RMII clock delays - add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches - Synopsys (stmmac): - support using the HW clock in free running mode - add Eswin EIC7700 support - add Rockchip RK3506 support - add Altera Agilex5 support - Cadence (macb): - cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling - add EyeQ5 support - TI: - icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP - Airoha access points: - add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback - add AN7583 support - support out-of-order Tx completion processing - Power over Ethernet: - pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots - add support for TPS23881B devices - Ethernet PHYs: - Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support - Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs - micrel: - support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814 - enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814 - realtek: - cable testing support on RTL8224 - interrupt support on RTL8221B - motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853 - microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag - mscc: support for PHY LED control - CAN drivers: - m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up - remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling - mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality - Bluetooth: - add initial support for PASTa - WiFi: - split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big - improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks - improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211 debugfs interface for it - HT action frame handling on 6 GHz - initial chanctx work towards NAN - MU-MIMO sniffer improvements - WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw89): - support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU - initial work for RTL8922DE - improved injection support - Intel: - iwlwifi: new sniffer API support - MediaTek (mt76): - WED support for >32-bit DMA - airoha NPU support - regdomain improvements - continued WiFi7/MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath10k: factory test support - ath11k: TX power insertion support - ath12k: BSS color change support - ath12k: statistics improvements - brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk - rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support" * tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits) net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen wireguard: uapi: move flag enums wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive() Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox ...