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

netconsole: fix sysdata_release_enabled_show checking wrong flag

2026-03-04T01:23:50+00:00

sysdata_release_enabled_show() checks SYSDATA_TASKNAME instead of SYSDATA_RELEASE, causing the configfs release_enabled attribute to reflect the taskname feature state rather than the release feature state. This is a copy-paste error from the adjacent sysdata_taskname_enabled_show() function. The corresponding _store function already uses the correct SYSDATA_RELEASE flag. Fixes: 343f90227070 ("netconsole: implement configfs for release_enabled") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302-sysdata_release_fix-v1-1-e5090f677c7c@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-02-26T16:00:13+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni: "Including fixes from IPsec, Bluetooth and netfilter Current release - regressions: - wifi: fix dev_alloc_name() return value check - rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available Current release - new code bugs: - vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once Previous releases - regressions: - core: - do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu() - consume xmit errors of GSO frames - netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated - netfilter: h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() - tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 - udplite: fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb(). - wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential kernel oops when probe fails - phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid AB-BA deadlock - eth: - bnxt_en: fix deleting of Ntuple filters - wan: farsync: fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets - xscale: check for PTP support properly Previous releases - always broken: - tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() - kcm: fix zero-frag skb in frag_list on partial sendmsg error - xfrm: - fix race condition in espintcp_close() - always flush state and policy upon NETDEV_UNREGISTER event - bluetooth: - purge error queues in socket destructors - fix response to L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ - eth: - mlx5: - fix circular locking dependency in dump - fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query - gve: fix incorrect buffer cleanup for QPL - team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave - usb: validate USB endpoints" * tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits) netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() dpaa2-switch: validate num_ifs to prevent out-of-bounds write net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once selftests/vsock: change tests to respect write-once child ns mode net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query net/mlx5: Fix missing devlink lock in SRIOV enable error path net/mlx5: E-switch, Clear legacy flag when moving to switchdev net/mlx5: LAG, disable MPESW in lag_disable_change() net/mlx5: DR, Fix circular locking dependency in dump selftests: team: Add a reference count leak test team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer entry for QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER dpll: zl3073x: Remove redundant cleanup in devm_dpll_init() selftests/net: packetdrill: Verify acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 vsock: Use container_of() to get net namespace in sysctl handlers net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints ...

netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated

2026-02-24T09:46:29+00:00

msg passed to netconsole from the console subsystem is not guaranteed to be nul-terminated. Before recent commit 7eab73b18630 ("netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure") the message would be placed in printk_shared_pbufs, a static global buffer, so KASAN had harder time catching OOB accesses. Now we see: printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594 CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9 Call Trace: kasan_report+0xe4/0x120 string+0x1f7/0x240 vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0 scnprintf+0xba/0x120 netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10 nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860 nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750 Allocated by task 1: nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450 register_console+0x26b/0xe10 init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, ffff88813b6d4c00) Fixes: c62c0a17f9b7 ("netconsole: Append kernel version to message") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219195021.2099699-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

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

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

netconsole: Use printk context for CPU and task information

2026-02-11T03:51:57+00:00

Use the CPU and task name captured at printk() time from nbcon_write_context instead of querying the current execution context. This provides accurate information about where the message originated, rather than where netconsole happens to be running. For CPU, use wctxt->cpu instead of raw_smp_processor_id(). For taskname, use wctxt->comm directly which contains the task name captured at printk time. This change ensures netconsole outputs reflect the actual context that generated the log message, which is especially important when the console driver runs asynchronously in a dedicated thread. Reviewed-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-4-62bda69b1b41@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure

2026-02-11T03:51:57+00:00

Convert netconsole from the legacy console API to the NBCON framework. NBCON provides threaded printing which unblocks printk()s and flushes in a thread, decoupling network TX from printk() when netconsole is in use. Since netconsole relies on the network stack which cannot safely operate from all atomic contexts, mark both consoles with CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE. (See discussion in [1]) CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE restricts write_atomic() usage to emergency scenarios (panic) where regular messages are sent in threaded mode. Implementation changes: - Unify write_ext_msg() and write_msg() into netconsole_write() - Add device_lock/device_unlock callbacks to manage target_list_lock - Use nbcon_enter_unsafe()/nbcon_exit_unsafe() around network operations. - If nbcon_enter_unsafe() fails, just return given netconsole lost the ownership of the console. - Set write_thread and write_atomic callbacks (both use same function) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b2qps3uywhmjaym4mht2wpxul4yqtuuayeoq4iv4k3zf5wdgh3@tocu6c7mj4lt/ [1] Reviewed-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-3-62bda69b1b41@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: extract message fragmentation into send_msg_udp()

2026-02-11T03:51:56+00:00

Extract the message fragmentation logic from write_msg() into a dedicated send_msg_udp() function. This improves code readability and prepares for future enhancements. The new send_msg_udp() function handles splitting messages that exceed MAX_PRINT_CHUNK into smaller fragments and sending them sequentially. This function is placed before send_ext_msg_udp() to maintain a logical ordering of related functions. No functional changes - this is purely a refactoring commit. Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: John Ogness Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-2-62bda69b1b41@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: resume previously deactivated target

2026-01-22T03:09:11+00:00

Attempt to resume a previously deactivated target when the associated interface comes back (NETDEV_REGISTER) or when it changes name (NETDEV_CHANGENAME) by calling netpoll_setup on the device. Depending on how the target was setup (by mac or interface name), the corresponding field is compared with the device being brought up. Targets that match the incoming device, are scheduled for resume on a workqueue. Resuming happens on a workqueue as we can't execute netpoll_setup in the context of the netdev event. A standalone workqueue (as opposed to the global one) is used to allow for proper cleanup process during netconsole module cleanup as we need to be able to flush all pending work before traversing the target list given that targets are temporarily removed from the list during resume_target. Target transitions to STATE_DISABLED in case of failures resuming it to avoid retrying the same target indefinitely. Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao Tested-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260118-netcons-retrigger-v11-6-4de36aebcf48@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski