kernel/linux.git/include/net/sock.h, branch v7.2-rc1

tcp: rehash onto different local ECMP path on retransmit timeout

2026-06-15T22:57:31+00:00

Currently sk_rethink_txhash() re-rolls the socket's txhash on RTO, PLB, and spurious-retransmission events, but the cached route is reused and the new hash is not propagated into the ECMP path selection logic. Two changes are needed to make rehash select a different local ECMP path: 1. Add __sk_dst_reset() alongside sk_rethink_txhash() in tcp_write_timeout(), tcp_rcv_spurious_retrans(), and tcp_plb_check_rehash() so the cached dst is invalidated and the next transmit triggers a fresh route lookup. 2. Set fl6->mp_hash from sk_txhash (or tcp_rsk(req)->txhash for SYN/ACK retransmits and syncookies) in tcp_v6_connect(), inet6_sk_rebuild_header(), inet6_csk_route_req(), inet6_csk_route_socket(), tcp_v6_send_response(), and cookie_v6_check() so fib6_select_path() picks a path based on the new hash. The mp_hash override only applies to fib_multipath_hash_policy 0 (the default L3 policy). Its hash includes the flow label, but that is 0 by default -- np->flow_label is unset, and auto_flowlabels only computes the on-wire label later, per packet -- so flows to the same peer share one local path. Keying the hash on sk_txhash makes the local path per-connection and lets a rehash re-select it. Policies 1-3 are left unchanged. The mp_hash assignment is factored into a small helper, ip6_ecmp_set_mp_hash(), shared by inet6_csk_route_req(), inet6_csk_route_socket(), tcp_v6_connect(), inet6_sk_rebuild_header(), tcp_v6_send_response(), and cookie_v6_check(). It applies (txhash >> 1) ?: 1 for policy 0 (the >> 1 keeps mp_hash in the 31-bit range; ?: 1 keeps it non-zero, since 0 would fall back to rt6_multipath_hash()). inet6_csk_route_socket() calls it only for sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP so that non-TCP callers (e.g., L2TP via inet6_csk_xmit) fall through to rt6_multipath_hash() and retain their existing flow-key-based ECMP behavior. tcp_v6_send_response() also sets mp_hash from the response txhash so that a control packet (a RST from the full socket, or an ACK from a time-wait socket) selects the same local ECMP nexthop as the connection's txhash rather than falling back to the flow hash. The time-wait socket's tw_txhash is copied from sk_txhash when the connection enters TIME_WAIT, so it reflects any rehash that occurred. Setting mp_hash explicitly is necessary because the default ECMP hash derives from fl6->flowlabel via np->flow_label, which is not updated from sk_txhash (REPFLOW is off by default). ip6_make_flowlabel() cannot help either, as it runs after the route lookup. As a consequence, for policy 0 the local ECMP path of an IPv6 TCP flow follows sk_txhash even when fl6->flowlabel is non-zero, e.g. a reflected (REPFLOW) or explicitly set (IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR) flow label. This is intentional: only local path selection changes, so rehash can recover from a failed path; the on-wire flow label is unchanged. sk_set_txhash() is moved before ip6_dst_lookup_flow() in tcp_v6_connect() so the initial ECMP path is selected by the same txhash that subsequent route rebuilds will use. This avoids unintended path changes when the cached dst is naturally invalidated (e.g., by PMTU discovery or route changes). The rehash sites (tcp_write_timeout(), tcp_plb_check_rehash(), and tcp_rcv_spurious_retrans()) call __sk_rethink_txhash_reset_dst(), which re-rolls the txhash and, when it changed, drops the cached dst so the next transmit re-runs route selection. The dst reset is guarded by sk->sk_family == AF_INET6 since IPv4 ECMP does not currently use sk_txhash for path selection. For IPv4-mapped IPv6 sockets this produces a redundant dst reset on a cold path (RTO/PLB); the subsequent IPv4 route lookup returns the same result. The helper is deliberately separate from sk_rethink_txhash() itself: dst_negative_advice() calls sk_rethink_txhash() before its own dst op, so resetting the dst inside sk_rethink_txhash() would skip that op (e.g. rt6_remove_exception_rt()). For syncookies, cookie_init_sequence() computes the cookie value before route_req() and sets txhash so the SYN-ACK selects the same ECMP path that cookie_v6_check() will use when the full socket is created. cookie_tcp_reqsk_init() derives txhash from the cookie so the full socket's ECMP path matches the SYN-ACK. Both the SYN-ACK assignment in tcp_conn_request() and the full-socket assignment in cookie_tcp_reqsk_init() set txhash from the cookie for IPv4 and IPv6 alike. On IPv6 this drives ECMP path selection; on IPv4, which does not use sk_txhash for ECMP, it only affects TX-queue selection. That selection scales the hash by its high bits (reciprocal_scale()), which are uniform in the keyed secure_tcp_syn_cookie() output -- the MSS index only perturbs the low bits -- so the queue distribution matches net_tx_rndhash(). cookie_init_sequence() is split from the former version that also called tcp_synq_overflow() and incremented SYNCOOKIESSENT; those side effects are now in cookie_record_sent(), called after route_req() succeeds so they are not bumped when route_req() fails. cookie_record_sent() is guarded by CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES to match the guard on tcp_synq_overflow(). route_req() receives 0 as tw_isn for the syncookie path so that tcp_v6_init_req() still saves ireq->pktopts for REPFLOW flowlabel reflection and IPv6 cmsg options. The ecn_ok clear for syncookies without timestamps stays after tcp_ecn_create_request() so it takes precedence. Signed-off-by: Neil Spring Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615042158.1600746-2-ntspring@meta.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-06-11T21:33:35+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.1-rc8). Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_aml.c f67aead16e85 ("net: txgbe: rework service event handling") 57d39faed4c9 ("net: txgbe: improve functions of AML 40G devices") net/rds/info.c 512db8267b73 ("rds: mark snapshot pages dirty in rds_info_getsockopt()") 6e94eeb2a2a6 ("rds: convert to getsockopt_iter") Adjacent changes: include/net/sock.h 1ee90b77b727 ("net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs") f0de88303d5e ("net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs

2026-06-10T01:32:08+00:00

skb_is_err_queue() treats PACKET_OUTGOING as the sole marker for an skb from sk_error_queue. That assumption is not true for AF_PACKET sockets: outgoing packet taps are also delivered to packet sockets with skb->pkt_type == PACKET_OUTGOING, but their skb->cb is owned by AF_PACKET instead of struct sock_exterr_skb. If such an skb is received with timestamping enabled, the generic timestamp cmsg path can read AF_PACKET control-buffer state as sock_exterr_skb::opt_stats. With SO_RXQ_OVFL enabled, the packet drop counter overlaps opt_stats. An odd drop count makes the path emit SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS with skb->len and skb->data. For non-linear skbs this copies past the linear head and can trigger hardened usercopy or disclose adjacent heap contents. Keep skb_is_err_queue() local to net/socket.c, but make it verify that the PACKET_OUTGOING marker is paired with the sock_rmem_free destructor installed by sock_queue_err_skb(). AF_PACKET receive skbs use normal receive ownership and no longer pass as error-queue skbs, while legitimate sk_error_queue entries keep the PACKET_OUTGOING marker and sock_rmem_free ownership. Fixes: 8605330aac5a ("tcp: fix SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS for normal skbs") Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607021819.49698-1-kylebot@openai.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: always declare __sock_wfree() and tcp_wfree()

2026-05-16T00:39:39+00:00

Even if guarded by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET) compilers need to know what __sock_wfree() and tcp_wfree() are: include/net/sock.h:1861:63: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in include/net/sock.h:1862:63: error: 'tcp_wfree' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'sock_wfree'? 1862 | (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET) && skb->destructor == tcp_wfree); Fixes: f0de88303d5e ("net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202605141607.mDXnYFKY-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514095506.3919094-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules

2026-05-14T02:13:41+00:00

Following patch will use is_skb_wmem() from fq_codel. Provide __sock_wfree() only if CONFIG_INET=y Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512094859.3673997-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...

Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-13T19:19:01+00:00

Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner: "For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long, which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field for an inode. This changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64. This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but 32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment. The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out carefully. With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to keep this simple" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group() EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64 audit: widen ino fields to u64 vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64

net: change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return a drop_reason

2026-04-12T21:30:25+00:00

Change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return the drop_reason directly instead of using a reference. This is part of an effort to remove stack canaries and reduce bloat. $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/7 up/down: 79/-301 (-222) Function old new delta vsock_queue_rcv_skb 50 79 +29 ipmr_cache_report 1290 1315 +25 ip6mr_cache_report 1322 1347 +25 packet_rcv_spkt 329 327 -2 sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason 166 128 -38 raw_rcv_skb 122 80 -42 ping_queue_rcv_skb 109 61 -48 ping_rcv 215 162 -53 rawv6_rcv_skb 278 224 -54 raw_rcv 591 527 -64 Total: Before=29722890, After=29722668, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409145625.2306224-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

udp: Remove struct proto.h.udp_table.

2026-03-14T01:57:45+00:00

Since UDP and UDP-Lite had dedicated socket hash tables for each, we have had to fetch them from different pointers. UDP always has its global or per-netns table in net->ipv4.udp_table and struct proto.h.udp_table is NULL. OTOH, UDP-Lite had only one global table in the pointer. We no longer use the field. Let's remove it and udp_get_table_prot(). Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311052020.1213705-11-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4: Retire UDP-Lite.

2026-03-14T01:57:44+00:00

We have deprecated IPv6 UDP-Lite sockets. Let's drop support for IPv4 UDP-Lite sockets as well. Most of the changes are similar to the IPv6 patch: removing udplite.c and udp_impl.h, marking most functions in udp_impl.h as static, moving the prototype for udp_recvmsg() to udp.h, and adding INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE for it. In addition, the INET_DIAG support for UDP-Lite is dropped. We will remove the remaining dead code in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311052020.1213705-5-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski