kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c, branch linux-7.0.y

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

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

Merge branch 'for-uring-ubufops' into HEAD

2024-04-23T00:15:39+00:00

Pavel Begunkov says: ==================== implement io_uring notification (ubuf_info) stacking (net part) To have per request buffer notifications each zerocopy io_uring send request allocates a new ubuf_info. However, as an skb can carry only one uarg, it may force the stack to create many small skbs hurting performance in many ways. The patchset implements notification, i.e. an io_uring's ubuf_info extension, stacking. It attempts to link ubuf_info's into a list, allowing to have multiple of them per skb. liburing/examples/send-zerocopy shows up 6 times performance improvement for TCP with 4KB bytes per send, and levels it with MSG_ZEROCOPY. Without the patchset it requires much larger sends to utilise all potential. bytes | before | after (Kqps) 1200 | 195 | 1023 4000 | 193 | 1386 8000 | 154 | 1058 ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1713369317.git.asml.silence@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: extend ubuf_info callback to ops structure

2024-04-22T23:21:35+00:00

We'll need to associate additional callbacks with ubuf_info, introduce a structure holding ubuf_info callbacks. Apart from a more smarter io_uring notification management introduced in next patches, it can be used to generalise msg_zerocopy_put_abort() and also store ->sg_from_iter, which is currently passed in struct msghdr. Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a62015541de49c0e2a8a0377a1d5d0a5aeb07016.1713369317.git.asml.silence@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: move skb ref helpers to new header

2024-04-12T02:29:22+00:00

Add a new header, linux/skbuff_ref.h, which contains all the skb_*_ref() helpers. Many of the consumers of skbuff.h do not actually use any of the skb ref helpers, and we can speed up compilation a bit by minimizing this header file. Additionally in the later patch in the series we add page_pool support to skb_frag_ref(), which requires some page_pool dependencies. We can now add these dependencies to skbuff_ref.h instead of a very ubiquitous skbuff.h Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410190505.1225848-2-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s for xen-netback

2024-02-15T16:03:45+00:00

W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). Add descriptions to the Xen backend network module. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Paul Durrant Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214152741.670178-2-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

xen-netback: properly sync TX responses

2024-02-01T16:29:36+00:00

Invoking the make_tx_response() / push_tx_responses() pair with no lock held would be acceptable only if all such invocations happened from the same context (NAPI instance or dealloc thread). Since this isn't the case, and since the interface "spec" also doesn't demand that multicast operations may only be performed with no in-flight transmits, MCAST_{ADD,DEL} processing also needs to acquire the response lock around the invocations. To prevent similar mistakes going forward, "downgrade" the present functions to private helpers of just the two remaining ones using them directly, with no forward declarations anymore. This involves renaming what so far was make_tx_response(), for the new function of that name to serve the new (wrapper) purpose. While there, - constify the txp parameters, - correct xenvif_idx_release()'s status parameter's type, - rename {,_}make_tx_response()'s status parameters for consistency with xenvif_idx_release()'s. Fixes: 210c34dcd8d9 ("xen-netback: add support for multicast control") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/980c6c3d-e10e-4459-8565-e8fbde122f00@suse.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

xen-netback: don't produce zero-size SKB frags

2024-01-08T06:41:39+00:00

While frontends may submit zero-size requests (wasting a precious slot), core networking code as of at least 3ece782693c4b ("sock: skb_copy_ubufs support for compound pages") can't deal with SKBs when they have all zero-size fragments. Respond to empty requests right when populating fragments; all further processing is fragment based and hence won't encounter these empty requests anymore. In a way this should have been that way from the beginning: When no data is to be transferred for a particular request, there's not even a point in validating the respective grant ref. That's no different from e.g. passing NULL into memcpy() when at the same time the size is 0. This is XSA-448 / CVE-2023-46838. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant

xen/netback: Fix buffer overrun triggered by unusual packet

2023-08-03T07:04:08+00:00

It is possible that a guest can send a packet that contains a head + 18 slots and yet has a len <= XEN_NETBACK_TX_COPY_LEN. This causes nr_slots to underflow in xenvif_get_requests() which then causes the subsequent loop's termination condition to be wrong, causing a buffer overrun of queue->tx_map_ops. Rework the code to account for the extra frag_overflow slots. This is CVE-2023-34319 / XSA-432. Fixes: ad7f402ae4f4 ("xen/netback: Ensure protocol headers don't fall in the non-linear area") Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant Reviewed-by: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2023-07-06T17:06:04+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "These are cleanups for architecture specific header files: - the comments in include/linux/syscalls.h have gone out of sync and are really pointless, so these get removed - The asm/bitsperlong.h header no longer needs to be architecture specific on modern compilers, so use a generic version for newer architectures that use new enough userspace compilers - A cleanup for virt_to_pfn/virt_to_bus to have proper type checking, forcing the use of pointers" * tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: syscalls: Remove file path comments from headers tools arch: Remove uapi bitsperlong.h of hexagon and microblaze asm-generic: Unify uapi bitsperlong.h for arm64, riscv and loongarch m68k/mm: Make pfn accessors static inlines arm64: memory: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline asm-generic/page.h: Make pfn accessors static inlines xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page() netfs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() in cifsglob cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() riscv: mm: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() ARC: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() in init m68k: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() virt_to_page() fs/proc/kcore.c: Pass a pointer to virt_addr_valid()