kernel/linux.git/include/net/netlink.h, branch v7.1-rc5

netlink: add a nla_nest_end_safe() helper

2026-04-12T18:23:50+00:00

The nla_len field in struct nlattr is a __u16, which can only hold values up to 65535. If a nested attribute grows beyond this limit, nla_nest_end() silently truncates the length, producing a corrupted netlink message with no indication of the problem. Since nla_nest_end() is used everywhere and this issue rarely happens, let's add a new helper to check the length. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408-b4-ynl_ethtool-v2-4-7623a5e8f70b@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: introduce type-checking attribute iteration for nlmsg

2025-07-02T22:39:04+00:00

Add the nlmsg_for_each_attr_type() macro to simplify iteration over attributes of a specific type in a Netlink message. Convert existing users in vxlan and nfsd to use the new macro. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250629142138.361537-2-mbloch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: fix policy dump for int with validation callback

2025-05-13T01:50:09+00:00

Recent devlink change added validation of an integer value via NLA_POLICY_VALIDATE_FN, for sparse enums. Handle this in policy dump. We can't extract any info out of the callback, so report only the type. Fixes: 429ac6211494 ("devlink: define enum for attr types of dynamic attributes") Reported-by: syzbot+01eb26848144516e7f0a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250509212751.1905149-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: Introduce nlmsg_payload helper

2025-04-15T15:28:53+00:00

Create a new helper function, nlmsg_payload(), to simplify checking and retrieving Netlink message payloads. This reduces boilerplate code for users who need to verify the message length before accessing its data. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414-nlmsg-v2-1-3d90cb42c6af@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: Add nla_put_empty_nest helper

2025-02-18T00:46:03+00:00

Creating empty nests is helpful when the exact attributes to be exposed in the future are not known. Encapsulate the logic in a helper. Signed-off-by: Joe Damato Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214211255.14194-2-jdamato@fastly.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: reformat kdoc return statements

2024-12-09T22:44:59+00:00

kernel-doc -Wall warns about missing Return: statement for non-void functions. We have a number of kdocs in our headers which are missing the colon, IOW they use * Return some value or * Returns some value Having the colon makes some sense, it should help kdoc parser avoid false positives. So add them. This is mostly done with a sed script, and removing the unnecessary cases (mostly the comments which aren't kdoc). Acked-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Richard Cochran Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov Reviewed-by: Edward Cree Acked-by: Alexandra Winter Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241205165914.1071102-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: netlink: add nla_get_*_default() accessors

2024-11-11T18:32:06+00:00

There are quite a number of places that use patterns such as if (attr) val = nla_get_u16(attr); else val = DEFAULT; Add nla_get_u16_default() and friends like that to not have to type this out all the time. Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241108114145.acd2aadb03ac.I3df6aac71d38a5baa1c0a03d0c7e82d4395c030e@changeid Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netlink: add NLA_POLICY_MAX_LEN macro

2024-11-01T02:10:52+00:00

Similarly to NLA_POLICY_MIN_LEN, NLA_POLICY_MAX_LEN defines a policy with a maximum length value. The netlink generator for YAML specs has been extended accordingly. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241029-b4-ovpn-v11-1-de4698c73a25@openvpn.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Correct spelling in headers

2024-08-26T16:37:23+00:00

Correct spelling in Networking headers. As reported by codespell. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822-net-spell-v1-12-3a98971ce2d2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs. Notable series include: - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/ maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge() API". - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in one test. - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being allocated: number of calls and amount of memory. - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in largely similar code sites. - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene" Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction efficiency. - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent" Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should improve hugetlb allocation reliability. - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when memory almost met memcg limit". - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting" Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10% performance improvement in one test. - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor free_area_init_core()". - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement". - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove follow_pfn". - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various page->flags cleanups". - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring". - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series: "Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio" "khugepaged folio conversions" "Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers" "Use folio APIs in procfs" "Clean up __folio_put()" "Some cleanups for memory-failure" "Remove page_mapping()" "More folio compat code removal" - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert hugetlb functions to work on folis". - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2". - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the series "Cover a guard gap corner case". - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl". - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs. This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is "support multi-size THP numa balancing". - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address". - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes". - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting". - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's permission page faults in the series "arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess" "mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS" - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast". - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault path to use struct vm_fault". - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"". - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes". Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different memory types works as intended. - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes". - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups". - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to folio in KSM". - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout counters". - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap same-filled and limit checking cleanups". - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head documentation". - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free" optimizes the freeing of these things. - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback". - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback". - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test. - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series "mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck" "selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test" - Also some maintenance work in the series "mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout" "mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements" - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as XFAIL". - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg: reduce memory consumption by memcg stats". - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking"" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits) memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None' selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv() selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal ...