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

bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()

2026-03-25T10:13:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit b7405dcf7385445e10821777143f18c3ce20fa04 ] bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup, because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new "const struct net_device *dev" parameter to (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse method is called. Fixes: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen Tested-by: Jiayuan Chen Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: Andrew Lunn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260315104152.1436867-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ip_tunnel: adapt iptunnel_xmit_stats() to NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS

2026-03-25T10:13:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8431c602f551549f082bbfa67f3003f2d8e3e132 ] Blamed commits forgot that vxlan/geneve use udp_tunnel[6]_xmit_skb() which call iptunnel_xmit_stats(). iptunnel_xmit_stats() was assuming tunnels were only using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_TSTATS. @syncp offset in pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_dstats is different. 32bit kernels would either have corruptions or freezes if the syncp sequence was overwritten. This patch also moves pcpu_stat_type closer to dev->{t,d}stats to avoid a potential cache line miss since iptunnel_xmit_stats() needs to read it. Fixes: 6fa6de302246 ("geneve: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.") Fixes: be226352e8dc ("vxlan: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311123110.1471930-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions

2026-03-19T15:14:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6f1a9140ecda3baba3d945b9a6155af4268aafc4 ] Tunnel xmit functions (iptunnel_xmit, ip6tunnel_xmit) lack their own recursion limit. When a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the bond, multicast/broadcast traffic triggers infinite recursion between bond_xmit_broadcast() and ip_tunnel_xmit()/ip6_tnl_xmit(), causing kernel stack overflow. The existing XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT (8) in the no-qdisc path is not sufficient because tunnel recursion involves route lookups and full IP output, consuming much more stack per level. Use a lower limit of 4 (IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) to prevent overflow. Add recursion detection using dev_xmit_recursion helpers directly in iptunnel_xmit() and ip6tunnel_xmit() to cover all IPv4/IPv6 tunnel paths including UDP encapsulated tunnels (VXLAN, Geneve, etc.). Move dev_xmit_recursion helpers from net/core/dev.h to public header include/linux/netdevice.h so they can be used by tunnel code. BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in blake2s.constprop.0+0xe7/0x160 Write of size 32 at addr ffff88810033fed0 by task kworker/0:1/11 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work Call Trace: __build_flow_key.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/route.c:515) ip_rt_update_pmtu (net/ipv4/route.c:1073) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:84) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) mld_sendpack mld_ifc_work process_one_work worker_thread Fixes: 745e20f1b626 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Provide a PREEMPT_RT specific check for netdev_queue::_xmit_lock

2026-03-12T11:09:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit b824c3e16c1904bf80df489e293d1e3cbf98896d ] After acquiring netdev_queue::_xmit_lock the number of the CPU owning the lock is recorded in netdev_queue::xmit_lock_owner. This works as long as the BH context is not preemptible. On PREEMPT_RT the softirq context is preemptible and without the softirq-lock it is possible to have multiple user in __dev_queue_xmit() submitting a skb on the same CPU. This is fine in general but this means also that the current CPU is recorded as netdev_queue::xmit_lock_owner. This in turn leads to the recursion alert and the skb is dropped. Instead checking the for CPU number, that owns the lock, PREEMPT_RT can check if the lockowner matches the current task. Add netif_tx_owned() which returns true if the current context owns the lock by comparing the provided CPU number with the recorded number. This resembles the current check by negating the condition (the current check returns true if the lock is not owned). On PREEMPT_RT use rt_mutex_owner() to return the lock owner and compare the current task against it. Use the new helper in __dev_queue_xmit() and netif_local_xmit_active() which provides a similar check. Update comments regarding pairing READ_ONCE(). Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260216134333.412332-1-spasswolf@web.de Fixes: 3253cb49cbad4 ("softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302162631.uGUyIqDT@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netdev: preserve NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL across TSO updates

2026-01-04T18:26:11+00:00

Directly increment the TSO features incurs a side effect: it will also directly clear the flags in NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL on the master device, which can cause issues such as the inability to enable the nocache copy feature on the bonding driver. The fix is to include NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL in the update mask, thereby preventing it from being cleared. Fixes: b0ce3508b25e ("bonding: allow TSO being set on bonding master") Signed-off-by: Di Zhu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251224012224.56185-1-zhud@hygon.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'for-6.19/io_uring-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-12-04T02:58:57+00:00

Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe: - Unify how task_work cancelations are detected, placing it in the task_work running state rather than needing to check the task state - Series cleaning up and moving the cancelation code to where it belongs, in cancel.c - Cleanup of waitid and futex argument handling - Add support for mixed sized SQEs. 6.18 added support for mixed sized CQEs, improving flexibility and efficiency of workloads that need big CQEs. This adds similar support for SQEs, where the occasional need for a 128b SQE doesn't necessitate having all SQEs be 128b in size - Introduce zcrx and SQ/CQ layout queries. The former returns what zcrx features are available. And both return the ring size information to help with allocation size calculation for user provided rings like IORING_SETUP_NO_MMAP and IORING_MEM_REGION_TYPE_USER - Zcrx updates for 6.19. It includes a bunch of small patches, IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL and RQ flushing and David's work on sharing zcrx b/w multiple io_uring instances - Series cleaning up ring initializations, notable deduplicating ring size and offset calculations. It also moves most of the checking before doing any allocations, making the code simpler - Add support for getsockname and getpeername, which is mostly a trivial hookup after a bit of refactoring on the networking side - Various fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.19/io_uring-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits) io_uring: Introduce getsockname io_uring cmd socket: Split out a getsockname helper for io_uring socket: Unify getsockname and getpeername implementation io_uring/query: drop unused io_handle_query_entry() ctx arg io_uring/kbuf: remove obsolete buf_nr_pages and update comments io_uring/register: use correct location for io_rings_layout io_uring/zcrx: share an ifq between rings io_uring/zcrx: add io_fill_zcrx_offsets() io_uring/zcrx: export zcrx via a file io_uring/zcrx: move io_zcrx_scrub() and dependencies up io_uring/zcrx: count zcrx users io_uring/zcrx: add sync refill queue flushing io_uring/zcrx: introduce IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL io_uring/zcrx: elide passing msg flags io_uring/zcrx: use folio_nr_pages() instead of shift operation io_uring/zcrx: convert to use netmem_desc io_uring/query: introduce rings info query io_uring/query: introduce zcrx query io_uring: move cq/sq user offset init around io_uring: pre-calculate scq layout ...

netfilter: flowtable: Add IPIP rx sw acceleration

2025-11-28T00:00:38+00:00

Introduce sw acceleration for rx path of IPIP tunnels relying on the netfilter flowtable infrastructure. Subsequent patches will add sw acceleration for IPIP tunnels tx path. This series introduces basic infrastructure to accelerate other tunnel types (e.g. IP6IP6). IPIP rx sw acceleration can be tested running the following scenario where the traffic is forwarded between two NICs (eth0 and eth1) and an IPIP tunnel is used to access a remote site (using eth1 as the underlay device): ETH0 -- TUN0 <==> ETH1 -- [IP network] -- TUN1 (192.168.100.2) $ip addr show 6: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:00:22:33:11:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.0.2/24 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 7: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:11:22:33:11:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.1/24 scope global eth1 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 8: tun0@NONE: mtu 1480 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ipip 192.168.1.1 peer 192.168.1.2 inet 192.168.100.1/24 scope global tun0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever $ip route show default via 192.168.100.2 dev tun0 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.1 192.168.100.0/24 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.100.1 $nft list ruleset table inet filter { flowtable ft { hook ingress priority filter devices = { eth0, eth1 } } chain forward { type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept; meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft } } Reproducing the scenario described above using veths I got the following results: - TCP stream received from the IPIP tunnel: - net-next: (baseline) ~ 71Gbps - net-next + IPIP flowtbale support: ~101Gbps Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

net: export netdev_get_by_index_lock()

2025-11-11T14:53:33+00:00

Need to call netdev_get_by_index_lock() from io_uring/zcrx.c, but it is currently private to net. Export the function in linux/netdevice.h. Signed-off-by: David Wei Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

net: Extend NAPI threaded polling to allow kthread based busy polling

2025-11-04T02:11:40+00:00

Add a new state NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL to the NAPI state enum to enable and disable threaded busy polling. When threaded busy polling is enabled for a NAPI, enable NAPI_STATE_THREADED also. When the threaded NAPI is scheduled, set NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL to signal napi_complete_done not to rearm interrupts. Whenever NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL is unset, the NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL will be unset, napi_complete_done unsets the NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED bit also, which in turn will make the kthread go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Martin Karsten Tested-by: Martin Karsten Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028203007.575686-2-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: rps: softnet_data reorg to make enqueue_to_backlog() fast

2025-10-29T00:41:17+00:00

enqueue_to_backlog() is showing up in kernel profiles on hosts with many cores, when RFS/RPS is used. The following softnet_data fields need to be updated: - input_queue_tail - input_pkt_queue (next, prev, qlen, lock) - backlog.state (if input_pkt_queue was empty) Unfortunately they are currenly using two cache lines: /* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */ call_single_data_t csd __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 0xc0 0x20 */ struct softnet_data * rps_ipi_next; /* 0xe0 0x8 */ unsigned int cpu; /* 0xe8 0x4 */ unsigned int input_queue_tail; /* 0xec 0x4 */ struct sk_buff_head input_pkt_queue; /* 0xf0 0x18 */ /* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */ struct napi_struct backlog __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 0x108 0x1f0 */ Add one ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to make sure they now are using a single cache line. Also, because napi_struct has written fields, make @state its first field. We want to make sure that cpus adding packets to sd->input_pkt_queue are not slowing down cpus processing their backlog because of false sharing. After this patch new layout is: /* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) --- */ long int pad[3] __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 0x140 0x18 */ unsigned int input_queue_tail; /* 0x158 0x4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct sk_buff_head input_pkt_queue; /* 0x160 0x18 */ struct napi_struct backlog __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 0x178 0x1f0 */ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024091240.3292546-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski