kernel/linux.git/net/core/net-sysfs.c, branch v7.1-rc5

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 ...

kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are cast to void *. Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers. This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(), and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags. Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction. This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net-sysfs: switch xps_queue_show() to sysfs_emit()

2026-03-24T10:08:17+00:00

Switch the function to use the proper sysfs_emit("%pb"). Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319201713.941956-3-ynorov@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net-sysfs: use rps_tag_ptr and remove metadata from rps_dev_flow_table

2026-03-05T00:54:10+00:00

Instead of storing the @log at the beginning of rps_dev_flow_table use 5 low order bits of the rps_tag_ptr to store the log of the size. This removes a potential cache line miss (for light traffic). This allows us to switch to one high-order allocation instead of vmalloc() when CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL is not set. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302181432.1836150-8-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net-sysfs: remove rcu field from 'struct rps_dev_flow_table'

2026-03-05T00:54:10+00:00

Remove rps_dev_flow_table_release() in favor of kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(). In the following pach, we will remove "u8 @log" field and 'struct rps_dev_flow_table' size will be a power-of-two. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302181432.1836150-7-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net-sysfs: get rid of rps_dev_flow_lock

2026-03-05T00:54:10+00:00

Use unrcu_pointer() and xchg() in store_rps_dev_flow_table_cnt() instead of a dedicated spinlock. Make a similar change in rx_queue_release(), so that both functions use a similar construct and synchronization. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302181432.1836150-6-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Keep ignoring isolated cpuset change

2026-02-03T14:23:33+00:00

RPS cpumask can be overriden through sysfs/syctl. The boot defined isolated CPUs are then excluded from that cpumask. However HK_TYPE_DOMAIN will soon integrate cpuset isolated CPUs updates and the RPS infrastructure needs more thoughts to be able to propagate such changes and synchronize against them. Keep handling only what was passed through "isolcpus=" for now. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Marco Crivellari Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Waiman Long Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention, revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads capabilities - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to better fit modern link speeds - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on delete - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude faster on large switches - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent TCP autotuning changes - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is administratively down - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per connection and simplify common MPTCP setups - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing code duplication - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP buffer Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML parser Driver API: - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue selection - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs datapath - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX ring queries and RSS configuration - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling the average smoothing factor Device drivers: - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3) - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices (dibps) - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs - support RSS for IPSec offload - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5 - support for disabling host PFs. - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk - Broadcom (bnxt): - support Hyper-V VF ID - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE - Meta (fbnic): - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx - support basic XDP functionalities - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause - Wangxun: - support ethtool coalesce options - support for multiple RSS contexts - Ethernet virtual: - Macsec: - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks - Bonding: - support aggregator selection based on port priority - Microsoft vNIC: - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU - Freescale - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM - Renesas (R-Car S4): - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling - TI: - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth) - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups - Ethernet PHYs: - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS driver - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115 - CAN: - a large CAN-XL preparation work - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling - WiFi: - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - S1G channel representation cleanup - improve S1G support - WiFi drivers: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major refactor and cleanup - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support for AP isolation - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89: - preparation work for RTL8922DE support - MediaTek (mt76): - HW restart improvements - MLO support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k): - GTK rekey fixes - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925 - btintel: support for BlazarIW core - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume() - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs" * tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits) net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200 dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API" octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set" net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free() net: use llist for sd->defer_list net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS ...

net-sysfs: use check_net()

2025-09-19T14:22:37+00:00

Don't directly acess the namespace count. There's even a dedicated helper for this. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net: Prevent RPS table overwrite of active flows

2025-08-28T01:24:13+00:00

This patch fixes an issue where two different flows on the same RXq produce the same hash resulting in continuous flow overwrites. Flow #1: A packet for Flow #1 comes in, kernel calls the steering function. The driver gives back a filter id. The kernel saves this filter id in the selected slot. Later, the driver's service task checks if any filters have expired and then installs the rule for Flow #1. Flow #2: A packet for Flow #2 comes in. It goes through the same steps. But this time, the chosen slot is being used by Flow #1. The driver gives a new filter id and the kernel saves it in the same slot. When the driver's service task runs, it runs through all the flows, checks if Flow #1 should be expired, the kernel returns True as the slot has a different filter id, and then the driver installs the rule for Flow #2. Flow #1: Another packet for Flow #1 comes in. The same thing repeats. The slot is overwritten with a new filter id for Flow #1. This causes a repeated cycle of flow programming for missed packets, wasting CPU cycles while not improving performance. This problem happens at higher rates when the RPS table is small, but tests show it still happens even with 12,000 connections and an RPS size of 16K per queue (global table size = 144x16K = 64K). This patch prevents overwriting an rps_dev_flow entry if it is active. The intention is that it is better to do aRFS for the first flow instead of hurting all flows on the same hash. Without this, two (or more) flows on one RX queue with the same hash can keep overwriting each other. This causes the driver to reprogram the flow repeatedly. Changes: 1. Add a new 'hash' field to struct rps_dev_flow. 2. Add rps_flow_is_active(): a helper function to check if a flow is active or not, extracted from rps_may_expire_flow(). It is further simplified as per reviewer feedback. 3. In set_rps_cpu(): - Avoid overwriting by programming a new filter if: - The slot is not in use, or - The slot is in use but the flow is not active, or - The slot has an active flow with the same hash, but target CPU differs. - Save the hash in the rps_dev_flow entry. 4. rps_may_expire_flow(): Use earlier extracted rps_flow_is_active(). Testing & results: - Driver: ice (E810 NIC), Kernel: net-next - #CPUs = #RXq = 144 (1:1) - Number of flows: 12K - Eight RPS settings from 256 to 32768. Though RPS=256 is not ideal, it is still sufficient to cover 12K flows (256*144 rx-queues = 64K global table slots) - Global Table Size = 144 * RPS (effectively equal to 256 * RPS) - Each RPS test duration = 8 mins (org code) + 8 mins (new code). - Metrics captured on client Legend for following tables: Steer-C: #times ndo_rx_flow_steer() was Called by set_rps_cpu() Steer-L: #times ice_arfs_flow_steer() Looped over aRFS entries Add: #times driver actually programmed aRFS (ice_arfs_build_entry()) Del: #times driver deleted the flow (ice_arfs_del_flow_rules()) Units: K = 1,000 times, M = 1 million times |-------|---------|------| Org Code |---------|---------| | RPS | Latency | CPU | Add | Del | Steer-C | Steer-L | |-------|---------|------|--------|--------|---------|---------| | 256 | 227.0 | 93.2 | 1.6M | 1.6M | 121.7M | 267.6M | | 512 | 225.9 | 94.1 | 11.5M | 11.2M | 65.7M | 199.6M | | 1024 | 223.5 | 95.6 | 16.5M | 16.5M | 27.1M | 187.3M | | 2048 | 222.2 | 96.3 | 10.5M | 10.5M | 12.5M | 115.2M | | 4096 | 223.9 | 94.1 | 5.5M | 5.5M | 7.2M | 65.9M | | 8192 | 224.7 | 92.5 | 2.7M | 2.7M | 3.0M | 29.9M | | 16384 | 223.5 | 92.5 | 1.3M | 1.3M | 1.4M | 13.9M | | 32768 | 219.6 | 93.2 | 838.1K | 838.1K | 965.1K | 8.9M | |-------|---------|------| New Code |---------|---------| | 256 | 201.5 | 99.1 | 13.4K | 5.0K | 13.7K | 75.2K | | 512 | 202.5 | 98.2 | 11.2K | 5.9K | 11.2K | 55.5K | | 1024 | 207.3 | 93.9 | 11.5K | 9.7K | 11.5K | 59.6K | | 2048 | 207.5 | 96.7 | 11.8K | 11.1K | 15.5K | 79.3K | | 4096 | 206.9 | 96.6 | 11.8K | 11.7K | 11.8K | 63.2K | | 8192 | 205.8 | 96.7 | 11.9K | 11.8K | 11.9K | 63.9K | | 16384 | 200.9 | 98.2 | 11.9K | 11.9K | 11.9K | 64.2K | | 32768 | 202.5 | 98.0 | 11.9K | 11.9K | 11.9K | 64.2K | |-------|---------|------|--------|--------|---------|---------| Some observations: 1. Overall Latency improved: (1790.19-1634.94)/1790.19*100 = 8.67% 2. Overall CPU increased: (777.32-751.49)/751.45*100 = 3.44% 3. Flow Management (add/delete) remained almost constant at ~11K compared to values in millions. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250825031005.3674864-2-krikku@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski