kernel/linux.git/include/linux/net.h, branch v6.19.11

net: Remove struct sockaddr from net.h

2025-11-05T03:10:33+00:00

Now that struct sockaddr is no longer used by net.h, remove it. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-4-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core: - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire. - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope, under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times faster. - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane scalability. - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded abstraction layers and improving significantly the related micro-benchmarks. - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10% performance improvement in related stream tests. - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable() on PREMPT_RT. - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages. Netfilter: - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still use this interface. - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and flowtables. - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure. - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better introspection. BPF: - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs using the "tc qdisc" command. - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets. Protocols: - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%. - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server. - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always matches the nexthop device. - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS, and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs. - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit in the fast path. - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks. Driver API: - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new unsupported flags. - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs. - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for dump operations targeting PHYs. Tests and tooling: - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and qdisc layer configuration. - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic netlink output. - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage. - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP. New hardware / drivers: - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the user-space implementation. - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC. - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver. - AMD Renoir ethernet device. - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver. - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - refactor the steering table handling to significantly reduce the amount of memory used - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering - improve flow streeing error handling - convert to netdev instance locking - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf): - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration - idpf: introduce RDMA support - idpf: add initial PTP support - Meta (fbnic): - extend hardware stats coverage - add devlink dev flash support - Broadcom (bnxt): - add support for RX-side device memory TCP - Wangxun (txgbe): - implement support for udp tunnel offload - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Google (gve): - add device memory TCP TX support - Amazon (ena): - support persistent per-NAPI config - Airoha: - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload - add per flow stats for flow offloading - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet - Synopsys (stmmac): - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support - add Loongson-2K3000 support - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping - Broadcom (bcmgenet): - expose more H/W stats - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth): - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops - Ethernet switches: - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support - Ethernet PHYs: - RealTek (rtl8211): - add support for WoL magic packet - add support for PHY LEDs - CAN: - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver. - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support. - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces. - WiFi: - mac80211: - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - enable AHB support for IPQ5332 - add monitor interface support to QCN9274 - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850 - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850 - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory - Qualcomm (ath11k): - restore hibernation support - MediaTek (mt76): - WiFi-7 improvements - implement support for mt7990 - Intel (iwlwifi): - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links - rework device configuration - RealTek (rtw88): - improve throughput for RTL8814AU - RealTek (rtw89): - add multi-link operation support - STA/P2P concurrency improvements - support different SAR configs by antenna - Bluetooth: - introduce HCI Driver protocol - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925 - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature" * tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits) selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk. selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support net: devmem: preserve sockc_err page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf. selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping ...

af_unix: Move SOCK_PASS{CRED,PIDFD,SEC} to struct sock.

2025-05-23T09:24:18+00:00

As explained in the next patch, SO_PASSRIGHTS would have a problem if we assigned a corresponding bit to socket->flags, so it must be managed in struct sock. Mixing socket->flags and sk->sk_flags for similar options will look confusing, and sk->sk_flags does not have enough space on 32bit system. Also, as mentioned in commit 16e572626961 ("af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default"), SOCK_PASSCRED and SOCK_PASSPID handling is known to be slow, and managing the flags in struct socket cannot avoid that for embryo sockets. Let's move SOCK_PASS{CRED,PIDFD,SEC} to struct sock. While at it, other SOCK_XXX flags in net.h are grouped as enum. Note that assign_bit() was atomic, so the writer side is moved down after lock_sock() in setsockopt(), but the bit is only read once in sendmsg() and recvmsg(), so lock_sock() is not needed there. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mips, net: ensure that SOCK_COREDUMP is defined

2025-05-23T09:02:16+00:00

For historical reasons mips has to override the socket enum values but the defines are all the same. So simply move the ARCH_HAS_SOCKET_TYPES scope. Fixes: a9194f88782a ("coredump: add coredump socket") Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

coredump: add coredump socket

2025-05-21T11:59:11+00:00

Coredumping currently supports two modes: (1) Dumping directly into a file somewhere on the filesystem. (2) Dumping into a pipe connected to a usermode helper process spawned as a child of the system_unbound_wq or kthreadd. For simplicity I'm mostly ignoring (1). There's probably still some users of (1) out there but processing coredumps in this way can be considered adventurous especially in the face of set*id binaries. The most common option should be (2) by now. It works by allowing userspace to put a string into /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern like: |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h The "|" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that a pipe must be used. The path following the pipe indicator is a path to a binary that will be spawned as a usermode helper process. Any additional parameters pass information about the task that is generating the coredump to the binary that processes the coredump. In the example core_pattern shown above systemd-coredump is spawned as a usermode helper. There's various conceptual consequences of this (non-exhaustive list): - systemd-coredump is spawned with file descriptor number 0 (stdin) connected to the read-end of the pipe. All other file descriptors are closed. That specifically includes 1 (stdout) and 2 (stderr). This has already caused bugs because userspace assumed that this cannot happen (Whether or not this is a sane assumption is irrelevant.). - systemd-coredump will be spawned as a child of system_unbound_wq. So it is not a child of any userspace process and specifically not a child of PID 1. It cannot be waited upon and is in a weird hybrid upcall which are difficult for userspace to control correctly. - systemd-coredump is spawned with full kernel privileges. This necessitates all kinds of weird privilege dropping excercises in userspace to make this safe. - A new usermode helper has to be spawned for each crashing process. This series adds a new mode: (3) Dumping into an AF_UNIX socket. Userspace can set /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to: @/path/to/coredump.socket The "@" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that an AF_UNIX coredump socket will be used to process coredumps. The coredump socket must be located in the initial mount namespace. When a task coredumps it opens a client socket in the initial network namespace and connects to the coredump socket. - The coredump server uses SO_PEERPIDFD to get a stable handle on the connected crashing task. The retrieved pidfd will provide a stable reference even if the crashing task gets SIGKILLed while generating the coredump. - By setting core_pipe_limit non-zero userspace can guarantee that the crashing task cannot be reaped behind it's back and thus process all necessary information in /proc/. The SO_PEERPIDFD can be used to detect whether /proc/ still refers to the same process. The core_pipe_limit isn't used to rate-limit connections to the socket. This can simply be done via AF_UNIX sockets directly. - The pidfd for the crashing task will grow new information how the task coredumps. - The coredump server should mark itself as non-dumpable. - A container coredump server in a separate network namespace can simply bind to another well-know address and systemd-coredump fowards coredumps to the container. - Coredumps could in the future also be handled via per-user/session coredump servers that run only with that users privileges. The coredump server listens on the coredump socket and accepts a new coredump connection. It then retrieves SO_PEERPIDFD for the client, inspects uid/gid and hands the accepted client to the users own coredump handler which runs with the users privileges only (It must of coure pay close attention to not forward crashing suid binaries.). The new coredump socket will allow userspace to not have to rely on usermode helpers for processing coredumps and provides a safer way to handle them instead of relying on super privileged coredumping helpers that have and continue to cause significant CVEs. This will also be significantly more lightweight since no fork()+exec() for the usermodehelper is required for each crashing process. The coredump server in userspace can e.g., just keep a worker pool. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-4-664f3caf2516@kernel.org Acked-by: Luca Boccassi Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

socket: Remove unused kernel_sendmsg_locked

2025-01-15T01:29:04+00:00

The last use of kernel_sendmsg_locked() was removed in 2023 by commit dc97391e6610 ("sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)") Remove it. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Joe Damato Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250112131318.63753-1-linux@treblig.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: introduce helper sendpages_ok()

2024-07-28T22:47:51+00:00

Network drivers are using sendpage_ok() to check the first page of an iterator in order to disable MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. The iterator can represent list of contiguous pages. When MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is enabled skb_splice_from_iter() is being used, it requires all pages in the iterator to be sendable. Therefore it needs to check that each page is sendable. The patch introduces a helper sendpages_ok(), it returns true if all the contiguous pages are sendable. Drivers who want to send contiguous pages with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES may use this helper to check whether the page list is OK. If the helper does not return true, the driver should remove MSG_SPLICE_PAGES flag. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg Signed-off-by: Ofir Gal Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718084515.3833733-2-ofir.gal@volumez.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

net: change proto and proto_ops accept type

2024-05-14T00:19:09+00:00

Rather than pass in flags, error pointer, and whether this is a kernel invocation or not, add a struct proto_accept_arg struct as the argument. This then holds all of these arguments, and prepares accept for being able to pass back more information. No functional changes in this patch. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe