kernel/linux.git/Documentation/networking, branch v6.1.175

bonding: add support for per-port LACP actor priority

2026-06-01T15:39:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b6dc81ee7e8ca87c71a533e1d69cf96a4f1e986 ] Introduce a new netlink attribute 'actor_port_prio' to allow setting the LACP actor port priority on a per-slave basis. This extends the existing bonding infrastructure to support more granular control over LACP negotiations. The priority value is embedded in LACPDU packets and will be used by subsequent patches to influence aggregator selection policies. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902064501.360822-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: c4f050ce06c5 ("bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bonding: add broadcast_neighbor option for 802.3ad

2026-06-01T15:39:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit ce7a381697cb3958ffe0b45e5028ac69444e9288 ] Stacking technology is a type of technology used to expand ports on Ethernet switches. It is widely used as a common access method in large-scale Internet data center architectures. Years of practice have proved that stacking technology has advantages and disadvantages in high-reliability network architecture scenarios. For instance, in stacking networking arch, conventional switch system upgrades require multiple stacked devices to restart at the same time. Therefore, it is inevitable that the business will be interrupted for a while. It is for this reason that "no-stacking" in data centers has become a trend. Additionally, when the stacking link connecting the switches fails or is abnormal, the stack will split. Although it is not common, it still happens in actual operation. The problem is that after the split, it is equivalent to two switches with the same configuration appearing in the network, causing network configuration conflicts and ultimately interrupting the services carried by the stacking system. To improve network stability, "non-stacking" solutions have been increasingly adopted, particularly by public cloud providers and tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Didi. "non-stacking" is a method of mimicing switch stacking that convinces a LACP peer, bonding in this case, connected to a set of "non-stacked" switches that all of its ports are connected to a single switch (i.e., LACP aggregator), as if those switches were stacked. This enables the LACP peer's ports to aggregate together, and requires (a) special switch configuration, described in the linked article, and (b) modifications to the bonding 802.3ad (LACP) mode to send all ARP/ND packets across all ports of the active aggregator. Note that, with multiple aggregators, the current broadcast mode logic will send only packets to the selected aggregator(s). +-----------+ +-----------+ | switch1 | | switch2 | +-----------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ | | +-----------------+ | bond4 lacp | +-----------------+ | | | NIC1 | NIC2 +-----------------+ | server | +-----------------+ - https://www.ruijie.com/fr-fr/support/tech-gallery/de-stack-data-center-network-architecture/ Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Signed-off-by: Zengbing Tu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/84d0a044514157bb856a10b6d03a1028c4883561.1751031306.git.tonghao@bamaicloud.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: c4f050ce06c5 ("bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dpaa2: replace dpaa2_mac_is_type_fixed() with dpaa2_mac_is_type_phy()

2026-03-25T10:02:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 320fefa9e2edc67011e235ea1d50f0d00ddfe004 ] dpaa2_mac_is_type_fixed() is a header with no implementation and no callers, which is referenced from the documentation though. It can be deleted. On the other hand, it would be useful to reuse the code between dpaa2_eth_is_type_phy() and dpaa2_switch_port_is_type_phy(). That common code should be called dpaa2_mac_is_type_phy(), so let's create that. The removal and the addition are merged into the same patch because, in fact, is_type_phy() is the logical opposite of is_type_fixed(). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Reviewed-by: Ioana Ciornei Tested-by: Ioana Ciornei Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 74badb9c20b1 ("dpaa2-switch: Fix interrupt storm after receiving bad if_id in IRQ handler") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

doc: fix seg6_flowlabel path

2025-10-29T13:04:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0b4b77eff5f8cd9be062783a1c1e198d46d0a753 ] This sysctl is not per interface; it's global per netns. Fixes: 292ecd9f5a94 ("doc: move seg6_flowlabel to seg6-sysctl.rst") Reported-by: Philippe Guibert Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

docs: networking: can: change bcm_msg_head frames member to support flexible array

2025-09-19T14:29:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit 641427d5bf90af0625081bf27555418b101274cd ] The documentation of the 'bcm_msg_head' struct does not match how it is defined in 'bcm.h'. Changed the frames member to a flexible array, matching the definition in the header file. See commit 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members") Signed-off-by: Alex Tran Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250904031709.1426895-1-alex.t.tran@gmail.com Fixes: 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members") Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217783 Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bonding: Add independent control state machine

2025-08-28T14:26:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 240fd405528bbf7fafa0559202ca7aa524c9cd96 ] Add support for the independent control state machine per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing implementation of the coupled control state machine. Introduces two new states, AD_MUX_COLLECTING and AD_MUX_DISTRIBUTING in the LACP MUX state machine for separated handling of an initial Collecting state before the Collecting and Distributing state. This enables a port to be in a state where it can receive incoming packets while not still distributing. This is useful for reducing packet loss when a port begins distributing before its partner is able to collect. Added new functions such as bond_set_slave_tx_disabled_flags and bond_set_slave_rx_enabled_flags to precisely manage the port's collecting and distributing states. Previously, there was no dedicated method to disable TX while keeping RX enabled, which this patch addresses. Note that the regular flow process in the kernel's bonding driver remains unaffected by this patch. The extension requires explicit opt-in by the user (in order to ensure no disruptions for existing setups) via netlink support using the new bonding parameter coupled_control. The default value for coupled_control is set to 1 so as to preserve existing behaviour. Signed-off-by: Aahil Awatramani Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202175858.1573852-1-aahila@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 0599640a21e9 ("bonding: send LACPDUs periodically in passive mode after receiving partner's LACPDU") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mptcp: disable add_addr retransmission when timeout is 0

2025-08-28T14:26:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit f5ce0714623cffd00bf2a83e890d09c609b7f50a ] When add_addr_timeout was set to 0, this caused the ADD_ADDR to be retransmitted immediately, which looks like a buggy behaviour. Instead, interpret 0 as "no retransmissions needed". The documentation is updated to explicitly state that setting the timeout to 0 disables retransmission. Fixes: 93f323b9cccc ("mptcp: add a new sysctl add_addr_timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Matthieu Baerts Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-17-rc2-v1-5-521fe9957892@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [ Apply to net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c , structural changes in mptcp_pm_alloc_anno_list ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

strparser: Add read_sock callback

2025-03-07T15:56:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0532a79efd68a4d9686b0385e4993af4b130ff82 ] Added a new read_sock handler, allowing users to customize read operations instead of relying on the native socket's read_sock. Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki Acked-by: John Fastabend Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122100917.49845-2-mrpre@163.com Stable-dep-of: 36b62df5683c ("bpf: Fix wrong copied_seq calculation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

can: j1939: fix error in J1939 documentation.

2024-12-14T18:53:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit b6ec62e01aa4229bc9d3861d1073806767ea7838 ] The description of PDU1 format usage mistakenly referred to PDU2 format. Signed-off-by: Alexander Hölzl Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel Acked-by: Vincent Mailhol Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241023145257.82709-1-alexander.hoelzl@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code

2024-11-01T00:56:04+00:00

[ Upstream commit c91c46de6bbc1147ae5dfe046b87f5f3d6593215 ] A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues without introducing locks between xmit and NAPI tx completions. I'm guessing they all copy'n'paste each other's code. The original code dates back all the way to e1000 and Linux 2.6.19. Smaller drivers shy away from the scheme and introduce a lock which may cause deadlocks in netpoll. Provide macros which encapsulate the necessary logic. The macros do not prevent false wake ups, the extra barrier required to close that race is not worth it. See discussion in: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c39312a2-4537-14b4-270c-9fe1fbb91e89@gmail.com/ Acked-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 95ecba62e2fd ("net: fix races in netdev_tx_sent_queue()/dev_watchdog()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin