kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ifb.c, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

net: ifb: use u64_stats_t with u64_stats_sync properly

2026-01-22T12:00:36+00:00

On 64bit arches, struct u64_stats_sync is empty and provides no help against load/store tearing. Convert to u64_stats_t to ensure atomic operations. Signed-off-by: David Yang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121082348.2388314-1-mmyangfl@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: ifb: support BIG TCP packets

2025-07-02T21:46:19+00:00

Set the driver limit to GSO_MAX_SIZE (512 KB). This allows the admin/user to set a GSO limit up to this value, to avoid segmenting too large GRO packets in the netem -> ifb path. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250701084540.459261-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rtnetlink: Remove __rtnl_link_register()

2024-11-12T01:26:51+00:00

link_ops is protected by link_ops_mutex and no longer needs RTNL, so we have no reason to have __rtnl_link_register() separately. Let's remove it and call rtnl_link_register() from ifb.ko and dummy.ko. Note that both modules' init() work on init_net only, so we need not export pernet_ops_rwsem and can use rtnl_net_lock() there. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241108004823.29419-4-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rtnetlink: Remove __rtnl_link_unregister().

2024-11-12T01:26:51+00:00

rtnl_link_unregister() holds RTNL and calls __rtnl_link_unregister(), where we call synchronize_srcu() to wait inflight RTM_NEWLINK requests for per-netns RTNL. We put synchronize_srcu() in __rtnl_link_unregister() due to ifb.ko and dummy.ko. However, rtnl_newlink() will acquire SRCU before RTNL later in this series. Then, lockdep will detect the deadlock: rtnl_link_unregister() rtnl_newlink() ---- ---- lock(rtnl_mutex); lock(&ops->srcu); lock(rtnl_mutex); sync(&ops->srcu); To avoid the problem, we must call synchronize_srcu() before RTNL in rtnl_link_unregister(). As a preparation, let's remove __rtnl_link_unregister(). Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241108004823.29419-2-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s under drivers/net/

2023-10-28T10:29:28+00:00

W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Taehee Yoo Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove the obsolte u64_stats_fetch_*_irq() users (drivers).

2022-10-29T03:13:54+00:00

Now that the 32bit UP oddity is gone and 32bit uses always a sequence count, there is no need for the fetch_irq() variants anymore. Convert to the regular interface. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ifb: support ethtools stats

2021-11-30T04:15:03+00:00

With this feature, we can use the ethtools to get tx/rx queues stats. This patch, introduce the ifb_update_q_stats helper to update the queues stats, and ifb_q_stats to simplify the codes. Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211128014631.43627-1-xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ifb: fix building without CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT

2021-10-29T13:01:11+00:00

The driver no longer depends on this option, but it fails to build if it's disabled because the skb->tc_skip_classify is hidden behind an #ifdef: drivers/net/ifb.c:81:8: error: no member named 'tc_skip_classify' in 'struct sk_buff' skb->tc_skip_classify = 1; Use the same #ifdef around the assignment. Fixes: 046178e726c2 ("ifb: Depend on netfilter alternatively to tc") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller