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<title>kernel/linux.git/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c, branch linux-7.1.y</title>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.</title>
<updated>2025-03-21T21:10:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T19:28:37+00:00</published>
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SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to
br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat
below [0] under RTNL pressure.

Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and
Thread B is trying to remove the bridge.

In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by
netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()
also re-acquires RTNL.

In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove
the bridge device.  Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL
and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.

Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),
which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by
Thread B.

  Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF)           Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)
  ----------------------           ----------------------
  sock_ioctl                       sock_ioctl
  `- sock_do_ioctl                 `- br_ioctl_call
     `- dev_ioctl                     `- br_ioctl_stub
        |- rtnl_lock                     |
        |- dev_ifsioc                    '
        '  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
           |- netdev_hold(dev, ...)      .
       /   |- rtnl_unlock  ------.       |
       |   |- br_ioctl_call       `---&gt;  |- rtnl_lock
  Race |   |  `- br_ioctl_stub           |- br_del_bridge
  Window   |     |                       |  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
       |   |     |  May take long        |  `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)
       |   |     |  under RTNL pressure  |     `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)
       |   |     |               |       `- rtnl_unlock
       \   |     |- rtnl_lock  &lt;-'          `- netdev_run_todo
           |     |- ...                        `- netdev_run_todo
           |     `- rtnl_unlock                   |- __rtnl_unlock
           |                                      |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any
           |- netdev_put(dev, ...)  &lt;----------------'
                                                Wait refcnt decrement
                                                and log splat below

To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call
dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.

In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:

  1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()
  2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()
  3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()
  4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()

3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move
1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().

Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better
performed before RTNL.

SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since
the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process
them there.

[0]:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2
ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at
     __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]
     netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]
     dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624
     dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826
     sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213
     sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 893b19587534 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking")
Reported-by: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Reported-by: yan kang &lt;kangyan91@outlook.com&gt;
Reported-by: yue sun &lt;samsun1006219@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2021-12-31T14:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-31T14:35:40+00:00</published>
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Alexei Starovoitov says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2021-12-30

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

We've added 72 non-merge commits during the last 20 day(s) which contain
a total of 223 files changed, 3510 insertions(+), 1591 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Automatic setrlimit in libbpf when bpf is memcg's in the kernel, from Andrii.

2) Beautify and de-verbose verifier logs, from Christy.

3) Composable verifier types, from Hao.

4) bpf_strncmp helper, from Hou.

5) bpf.h header dependency cleanup, from Jakub.

6) get_func_[arg|ret|arg_cnt] helpers, from Jiri.

7) Sleepable local storage, from KP.

8) Extend kfunc with PTR_TO_CTX, PTR_TO_MEM argument support, from Kumar.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Don't include filter.h from net/sock.h</title>
<updated>2021-12-29T16:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-29T00:49:13+00:00</published>
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sock.h is pretty heavily used (5k objects rebuilt on x86 after
it's touched). We can drop the include of filter.h from it and
add a forward declaration of struct sk_filter instead.
This decreases the number of rebuilt objects when bpf.h
is touched from ~5k to ~1k.

There's a lot of missing includes this was masking. Primarily
in networking tho, this time.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella &lt;sgarzare@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211229004913.513372-1-kuba@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: Get SIOCGIFBR/SIOCSIFBR ioctl working in compat mode</title>
<updated>2021-12-27T12:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Remi Pommarel</name>
<email>repk@triplefau.lt</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-24T11:46:40+00:00</published>
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In compat mode SIOC{G,S}IFBR ioctls were only supporting
BRCTL_GET_VERSION returning an artificially version to spur userland
tool to use SIOCDEVPRIVATE instead. But some userland tools ignore that
and use SIOC{G,S}IFBR unconditionally as seen with busybox's brctl.

Example of non working 32-bit brctl with CONFIG_COMPAT=y:
$ brctl show
brctl: SIOCGIFBR: Invalid argument

Example of fixed 32-bit brctl with CONFIG_COMPAT=y:
$ brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0

Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel &lt;repk@triplefau.lt&gt;
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: bridge: fix ioctl old_deviceless bridge argument</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T17:53:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Remi Pommarel</name>
<email>repk@triplefau.lt</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-23T15:31:38+00:00</published>
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Commit 561d8352818f ("bridge: use ndo_siocdevprivate") changed the
source and destination arguments of copy_{to,from}_user in bridge's
old_deviceless() from args[1] to uarg breaking SIOC{G,S}IFBR ioctls.

Commit cbd7ad29a507 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl old_deviceless bridge
argument") fixed only BRCTL_{ADD,DEL}_BRIDGES commands leaving
BRCTL_GET_BRIDGES one untouched.

The fixes BRCTL_GET_BRIDGES as well and has been tested with busybox's
brctl.

Example of broken brctl:
$ brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
brctl: can't get bridge name for index 0: No such device or address

Example of fixed brctl:
$ brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.000000000000       no

Fixes: 561d8352818f ("bridge: use ndo_siocdevprivate")
Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel &lt;repk@triplefau.lt&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211223153139.7661-2-repk@triplefau.lt/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: make use of helper netif_is_bridge_master()</title>
<updated>2021-10-16T14:02:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyungrok Chung</name>
<email>acadx0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-16T11:21:36+00:00</published>
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Make use of netdev helper functions to improve code readability.
Replace 'dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp; IFF_EBRIDGE' with netif_is_bridge_master(dev).

Signed-off-by: Kyungrok Chung &lt;acadx0@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: Use array_size() helper in copy_to_user()</title>
<updated>2021-09-29T10:32:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-28T20:12:39+00:00</published>
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Use array_size() helper instead of the open-coded version in
copy_to_user(). These sorts of multiplication factors need
to be wrapped in array_size().

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: fix ioctl old_deviceless bridge argument</title>
<updated>2021-08-05T10:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Aleksandrov</name>
<email>nikolay@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-05T08:29:02+00:00</published>
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Commit ad2f99aedf8f ("net: bridge: move bridge ioctls out of .ndo_do_ioctl")
changed the source of the argument copy in bridge's old_deviceless() from
args[1] (user ptr to device name) to uarg (ptr to ioctl arguments) causing
wrong device name to be used.

Example (broken, bridge exists but is up):
$ brctl delbr bridge
bridge bridge doesn't exist; can't delete it

Example (working):
$ brctl delbr bridge
bridge bridge is still up; can't delete it

Fixes: ad2f99aedf8f ("net: bridge: move bridge ioctls out of .ndo_do_ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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