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

net: netlink: reduce extack cookie size

2025-05-19T23:06:42+00:00

Seems like the extack cookie hasn't found any users outside of wireless, which always uses nl_set_extack_cookie_u64(). Thus, allocating 20 bytes for it is pointless, reduce that to 8 bytes, and add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure it's enough (obviously it is, for a u64, but in case it changes again.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250516115927.38209-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2024-11-21T16:28:08+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained. Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be a more reliable replacement for the latter. Core: - Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising: - RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path - introduce basic per netns locking helpers - namespacified the IPv4 address hash table - remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of rtnl_register_many() - refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as possible out of RTNL lock - convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU - convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL - convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim. - Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing. - Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN handling consistent and reliable. - Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing better introspection in case of packets drop. - Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access. - Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable. - Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets and timestamps Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops size. - Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag implementation. Netfilter: - Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption - Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure. - Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the option to configure iptables without enabling any other config. - Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI improvements. BPF: - Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall, this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads. - Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in combination with BPF cpumap. - Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also add a batch of new BPF selftests for it. - Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb->{mark,priority} scrubbing to its BPF program. - Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF programs. Protocols: - Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up significantly connected sockets lookup. - Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after close, the socket lock contention. - Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state lookups. - Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing risks on loosing them. - Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per device neigh lists. Driver API: - Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink. - Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation. Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are: nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice. - Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks. - Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core. - Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror offload. - Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on device-specific entries. - Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space. - Support master-slave PHY config via device tree. Tests and tooling: - forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup phase Drivers: - Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic, Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better introspection. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - mlx5: - a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch scheduling - refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better - H/W GRO cleanups - Intel (100G, ice):: - add support for ethtool reset - implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping - AMD/Solarflare: - implement per device queue stats support - Broadcom (bnxt): - improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules - Marvell Octeon: - Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit (RVU) device. - Hisilicon: - add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet - IBM (EMAC): - driver cleanup and modernization - Cisco (VIC): - raise the queues number limit to 256 - Ethernet virtual: - Google vNIC: - implement page pool support - macsec: - inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when offloading - virtio_net: - enable premapped mode by default - support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX - wireguard: - set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger packets. - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Broadcom ASP: - enable software timestamping - Freescale: - add enetc4 PF driver - MediaTek: Airoha SoC: - implement BQL support - RealTek r8169: - enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125 - implement extended ethtool stats - Renesas AVB: - enable TX checksum offload - Synopsys (stmmac): - support header splitting for vlan tagged packets - move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE module. - add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC - Synopsys (xpcs): - driver refactor and cleanup - TI: - icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support - Xilinx emaclite: - add clock support - Ethernet switches: - Microchip: - implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family - add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver - Ethernet PHYs: - Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation - Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2 - PTP: - Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device - Add PtP driver for s390 clocks - WiFi: - mac80211 - EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions - new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added - support radio separation of multi-band devices - move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw - Broadcom: - brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support - Microchip: - add support for Atmel WILC3000 - Qualcomm (ath12k): - firmware coredump collection support - add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics - Qualcomm (ath5k): - Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 & Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support - Realtek: - rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support - rtw89: add thermal protection - rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience - rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip - Bluetooth - add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and 0x13d3:0x3623 - add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123 - add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids - btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware - btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism - btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature" * tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits) mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr() bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem() bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem() bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85 selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present ...

switch netlink_getsockbyfilp() to taking descriptor

2024-11-03T06:28:06+00:00

the only call site (in do_mq_notify()) obtains the argument from an immediately preceding fdget() and it is immediately followed by fdput(); might as well just replace it with a variant that would take a descriptor instead of struct file * and have file lookups handled inside that function. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

genetlink: extend info user-storage to match NL cb ctx

2024-10-10T15:30:21+00:00

This allows a more uniform implementation of non-dump and dump operations, and will be used later in the series to avoid some per-operation allocation. Additionally rename the NL_ASSERT_DUMP_CTX_FITS macro, to fit a more extended usage. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1130cc2896626b84587a2a5f96a5c6829638f4da.1728460186.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: netlink: remove the cb_mutex "injection" from netlink core

2024-06-10T12:15:40+00:00

Back in 2007, in commit af65bdfce98d ("[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it") netlink core was extended to allow subsystems to replace the dump mutex lock with its own lock. The mechanism was used by rtnetlink to take rtnl_lock but it isn't sufficiently flexible for other users. Over the 17 years since it was added no other user appeared. Since rtnetlink needs conditional locking now, and doesn't use it either, axe this feature complete. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: add RTNL_FLAG_DUMP_UNLOCKED flag

2024-02-26T11:46:12+00:00

Similarly to RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED, this new flag allows dump operations registered via rtnl_register() or rtnl_register_module() to opt-out from RTNL protection. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: introduce typedef for filter function

2023-12-19T14:31:40+00:00

Make the code using filter function a bit nicer by consolidating the filter function arguments using typedef. Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

rtnetlink: introduce nlmsg_new_large and use it in rtnl_getlink

2023-11-19T04:18:25+00:00

if a PF has 256 or more VFs, ip link command will allocate an order 3 memory or more, and maybe trigger OOM due to memory fragment, the VFs needed memory size is computed in rtnl_vfinfo_size. so introduce nlmsg_new_large which calls netlink_alloc_large_skb in which vmalloc is used for large memory, to avoid the failure of allocating memory ip invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xc2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|\ __GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), order=3, oom_score_adj=0 CPU: 74 PID: 204414 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Tainted: P OE Call Trace: dump_stack+0x57/0x6a dump_header+0x4a/0x210 oom_kill_process+0xe4/0x140 out_of_memory+0x3e8/0x790 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.116+0x953/0xc50 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2af/0x310 kmalloc_large_node+0x38/0xf0 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x417/0x4d0 __kmalloc_reserve.isra.61+0x2e/0x80 __alloc_skb+0x82/0x1c0 rtnl_getlink+0x24f/0x370 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12c/0x350 netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 netlink_unicast+0x1b2/0x280 netlink_sendmsg+0x355/0x4a0 sock_sendmsg+0x5b/0x60 ____sys_sendmsg+0x1ea/0x250 ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0 __sys_sendmsg+0x5e/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x7f95a65a5b70 Cc: Yunsheng Lin Signed-off-by: Li RongQing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115120108.3711-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: Add new netlink_release function

2023-07-23T10:34:22+00:00

A new function netlink_release is added in netlink_sock to store the protocol's release function. This is called when the socket is deleted. This can be supplied by the protocol via the release function in netlink_kernel_cfg. This is being added for the NETLINK_CONNECTOR protocol, so it can free it's data when socket is deleted. Signed-off-by: Anjali Kulkarni Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Reverse the patch which removed filtering

2023-07-23T10:34:22+00:00

To use filtering at the connector & cn_proc layers, we need to enable filtering in the netlink layer. This reverses the patch which removed netlink filtering - commit ID for that patch: 549017aa1bb7 (netlink: remove netlink_broadcast_filtered). Signed-off-by: Anjali Kulkarni Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller