kernel/linux.git/net/core/netdev-genl.c, branch v7.0.13

netdev: fix double-free in netdev_nl_bind_rx_doit()

2026-06-19T11:47:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit c849de7d8757a7af801fc4a4058f71d481d367f2 ] Sashiko flags that genlmsg_reply() always consumes the skb. The error path calls nlmsg_free(rsp) so we can't jump directly to it. Let's not unbind, just propagate the error to the user. This is the typical way of handling genlmsg_reply() failures. They shouldn't happen unless user does something silly like calling the kernel with an already-full rcvbuf. Reported-by: Sashiko Fixes: 170aafe35cb9 ("netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice") Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: devmem: allow binding on rx queues with same DMA devices

2025-08-28T23:05:32+00:00

Multi-PF netdevs have queues belonging to different PFs which also means different DMA devices. This means that the binding on the DMA buffer can be done to the incorrect device. This change allows devmem binding to multiple queues only when the queues have the same DMA device. Otherwise an error is returned. Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827144017.1529208-9-dtatulea@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: devmem: pre-read requested rx queues during bind

2025-08-28T23:05:32+00:00

Instead of reading the requested rx queues after binding the buffer, read the rx queues in advance in a bitmap and iterate over them when needed. This is a preparation for fetching the DMA device for each queue. This patch has no functional changes besides adding an extra rq index bounds check. Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827144017.1529208-8-dtatulea@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: devmem: pull out dma_dev out of net_devmem_bind_dmabuf

2025-08-28T23:05:32+00:00

Fetch the DMA device before calling net_devmem_bind_dmabuf() and pass it on as a parameter. This is needed for an upcoming change which will read the DMA device per queue. This patch has no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827144017.1529208-7-dtatulea@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: define an enum for the napi threaded state

2025-07-25T01:34:55+00:00

Instead of using '0' and '1' for napi threaded state use an enum with 'disabled' and 'enabled' states. Tested: ./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py TAP version 13 1..7 ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down # Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-4-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Add support to set NAPI threaded for individual NAPI

2025-07-15T01:02:37+00:00

A net device has a threaded sysctl that can be used to enable threaded NAPI polling on all of the NAPI contexts under that device. Allow enabling threaded NAPI polling at individual NAPI level using netlink. Extend the netlink operation `napi-set` and allow setting the threaded attribute of a NAPI. This will enable the threaded polling on a NAPI context. Add a test in `nl_netdev.py` that verifies various cases of threaded NAPI being set at NAPI and at device level. Tested ./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py TAP version 13 1..7 ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down # Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250710211203.3979655-1-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.

2025-05-28T02:19:35+00:00

It's annoying for the list_add to be outside net_devmem_bind_dmabuf, but the list_del is in net_devmem_unbind_dmabuf. Make it consistent by having both the list_add/del be inside the net_devmem_[un]bind_dmabuf. Cc: ap420073@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Tested-by: Taehee Yoo Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250523230524.1107879-2-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2025-05-15T18:28:30+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.15-rc7). Conflicts: tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c 97c4e094a4b2 ("tests/ncdevmem: Fix double-free of queue array") 2f1a805f32ba ("selftests: ncdevmem: Implement devmem TCP TX") https://lore.kernel.org/20250514122900.1e77d62d@canb.auug.org.au Adjacent changes: net/core/devmem.c net/core/devmem.h 0afc44d8cdf6 ("net: devmem: fix kernel panic when netlink socket close after module unload") bd61848900bf ("net: devmem: Implement TX path") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: devmem: fix kernel panic when netlink socket close after module unload

2025-05-15T15:05:32+00:00

Kernel panic occurs when a devmem TCP socket is closed after NIC module is unloaded. This is Devmem TCP unregistration scenarios. number is an order. (a)netlink socket close (b)pp destroy (c)uninstall result 1 2 3 OK 1 3 2 (d)Impossible 2 1 3 OK 3 1 2 (e)Kernel panic 2 3 1 (d)Impossible 3 2 1 (d)Impossible (a) netdev_nl_sock_priv_destroy() is called when devmem TCP socket is closed. (b) page_pool_destroy() is called when the interface is down. (c) mp_ops->uninstall() is called when an interface is unregistered. (d) There is no scenario in mp_ops->uninstall() is called before page_pool_destroy(). Because unregister_netdevice_many_notify() closes interfaces first and then calls mp_ops->uninstall(). (e) netdev_nl_sock_priv_destroy() accesses struct net_device to acquire netdev_lock(). But if the interface module has already been removed, net_device pointer is invalid, so it causes kernel panic. In summary, there are only 3 possible scenarios. A. sk close -> pp destroy -> uninstall. B. pp destroy -> sk close -> uninstall. C. pp destroy -> uninstall -> sk close. Case C is a kernel panic scenario. In order to fix this problem, It makes mp_dmabuf_devmem_uninstall() set binding->dev to NULL. It indicates an bound net_device was unregistered. It makes netdev_nl_sock_priv_destroy() do not acquire netdev_lock() if binding->dev is NULL. A new binding->lock is added to protect a dev of a binding. So, lock ordering is like below. priv->lock netdev_lock(dev) binding->lock Tests: Scenario A: ./ncdevmem -s 192.168.1.4 -c 192.168.1.2 -f $interface -l -p 8000 \ -v 7 -t 1 -q 1 & pid=$! sleep 10 kill $pid ip link set $interface down modprobe -rv $module Scenario B: ./ncdevmem -s 192.168.1.4 -c 192.168.1.2 -f $interface -l -p 8000 \ -v 7 -t 1 -q 1 & pid=$! sleep 10 ip link set $interface down kill $pid modprobe -rv $module Scenario C: ./ncdevmem -s 192.168.1.4 -c 192.168.1.2 -f $interface -l -p 8000 \ -v 7 -t 1 -q 1 & pid=$! sleep 10 modprobe -rv $module sleep 5 kill $pid Splat looks like: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc001fffa9f7: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x00000000fffd4fb8-0x00000000fffd4fbf] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2041 Comm: ncdevmem Tainted: G B W 6.15.0-rc1+ #2 PREEMPT(undef) 0947ec89efa0fd68838b78e36aa1617e97ff5d7f Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock (./include/linux/sched.h:2244 kernel/locking/mutex.c:400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:443 kernel/locking/mutex.c:605 kernel/locking/mutex.c:746) Code: ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 4f 13 00 00 49 8b 1e 48 83 e3 f8 74 6a 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d 7b 34 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 f RSP: 0018:ffff88826f7ef730 EFLAGS: 00010203 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 00000000fffd4f88 RCX: ffffffffaa9bc811 RDX: 000000001fffa9f7 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 00000000fffd4fbc RBP: ffff88826f7ef8b0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed103e6aa1a4 R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffff88826f7ef442 R12: fffffbfff669f65e R13: ffff88812a830040 R14: ffff8881f3550d20 R15: 00000000fffd4f88 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888866c05000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000563bed0cb288 CR3: 00000001a7c98000 CR4: 00000000007506f0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ... netdev_nl_sock_priv_destroy (net/core/netdev-genl.c:953 (discriminator 3)) genl_release (net/netlink/genetlink.c:653 net/netlink/genetlink.c:694 net/netlink/genetlink.c:705) ... netlink_release (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:737) ... __sock_release (net/socket.c:647) sock_close (net/socket.c:1393) Fixes: 1d22d3060b9b ("net: drop rtnl_lock for queue_mgmt operations") Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250514154028.1062909-1-ap420073@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: check for driver support in netmem TX

2025-05-13T09:12:49+00:00

We should not enable netmem TX for drivers that don't declare support. Check for driver netmem TX support during devmem TX binding and fail if the driver does not have the functionality. Check for driver support in validate_xmit_skb as well. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508004830.4100853-9-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni