kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/macvtap.c, branch v7.1-rc5

kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are cast to void *. Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers. This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(), and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags. Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction. This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct

2025-02-21T23:28:02+00:00

There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links: - source netns - where the netlink socket resides, - target netns - where to put the device being created, - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend), - peer netns - netns of peer device. Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net" parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request. +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | source | target | | absent +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | link | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | peer | target | | present +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | peer | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects, including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events. These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from the beginning. On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use dev_net instead. To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use of src_net are converted to params->net trivially. Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.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

drivers: remove struct module * setting from struct class

2023-03-17T14:16:27+00:00

There is no need to manually set the owner of a struct class, as the registering function does it automatically, so remove all of the explicit settings from various drivers that did so as it is unneeded. This allows us to remove this pointer entirely from this structure going forward. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: class: make namespace and get_ownership take const *

2022-11-09T14:49:32+00:00

The callbacks in struct class namespace() and get_ownership() do not modify the struct device passed to them, so mark the pointer as constant and fix up all callbacks in the kernel to have the correct function signature. This helps make it more obvious what calls and callbacks do, and do not, modify structures passed to them. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221001165426.2690912-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: macvtap: add init/exit annotations to module init/exit funcs

2022-09-22T01:22:30+00:00

Add missing __init/__exit annotations to module init/exit funcs. Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220917083535.20040-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

macvtap: advertise link netns via netlink

2022-03-02T01:59:28+00:00

Assign rtnl_link_ops->get_link_net() callback so that IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is added to rtnetlink messages. This fixes iproute2 which otherwise resolved the link interface to an interface in the wrong namespace. Test commands: ip netns add nst ip link add dummy0 type dummy ip link add link macvtap0 link dummy0 type macvtap ip link set macvtap0 netns nst ip -netns nst link show macvtap0 Before: 10: macvtap0@gre0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500 link/ether 5e:8f:ae:1d:60:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff After: 10: macvtap0@if2: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500 link/ether 5e:8f:ae:1d:60:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0 Reported-by: Leonardo Mörlein Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228003240.1337426-1-sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: macvtap: fix template string argument of device_create() call

2021-10-16T07:51:21+00:00

The last argument of device_create() call should be a template string. The tap_name variable should be the argument to the string, but not the argument of the call itself. We should add the template string and turn tap_name into its argument. Signed-off-by: Jean Sacren Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2017-10-30T12:09:24+00:00

Several conflicts here. NFP driver bug fix adding nfp_netdev_is_nfp_repr() check to nfp_fl_output() needed some adjustments because the code block is in an else block now. Parallel additions to net/pkt_cls.h and net/sch_generic.h A bug fix in __tcp_retransmit_skb() conflicted with some of the rbtree changes in net-next. The tc action RCU callback fixes in 'net' had some overlap with some of the recent tcf_block reworking. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller