kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/arp.c, branch v6.19.11

arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head

2026-01-08T17:04:24+00:00

arp_create() is the only dev_hard_header() caller making assumption about skb->head being unchanged. A recent commit broke this assumption. Initialize @arp pointer after dev_hard_header() call. Fixes: db5b4e39c4e6 ("ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust") Reported-by: syzbot+58b44a770a1585795351@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107212250.384552-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert struct sockaddr to fixed-size "sa_data[14]"

2025-11-05T03:10:33+00:00

Revert struct sockaddr from flexible array to fixed 14-byte "sa_data", to solve over 36,000 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings, since struct sockaddr is embedded within many network structs. With socket/proto sockaddr-based internal APIs switched to use struct sockaddr_unsized, there should be no more uses of struct sockaddr that depend on reading beyond the end of struct sockaddr::sa_data that might trigger bounds checking. Comparing an x86_64 "allyesconfig" vmlinux build before and after this patch showed no new "ud1" instructions from CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS nor any new "field-spanning" memcpy CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE instrumentations. Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-8-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

neighbour: Convert rwlock of struct neigh_table to spinlock.

2025-10-25T00:57:20+00:00

Only neigh_for_each() and neigh_seq_start/stop() are on the reader side of neigh_table.lock. Let's convert rwlock to the plain spinlock. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251022054004.2514876-6-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: set net.core.rmem_max and net.core.wmem_max to 4 MB

2025-08-21T02:35:00+00:00

SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF have limited range today, unless distros or system admins change rmem_max and wmem_max. Even iproute2 uses 1 MB SO_RCVBUF which is capped by the kernel. Decouple [rw]mem_max and [rw]mem_default and increase [rw]mem_max to 4 MB. Before: $ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max net.core.rmem_default = 212992 net.core.rmem_max = 212992 net.core.wmem_default = 212992 net.core.wmem_max = 212992 After: $ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max net.core.rmem_default = 212992 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 212992 net.core.wmem_max = 4194304 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819174030.1986278-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

neighbour: Update pneigh_entry in pneigh_create().

2025-07-17T23:25:22+00:00

neigh_add() updates pneigh_entry() found or created by pneigh_create(). This update is serialised by RTNL, but we will remove it. Let's move the update part to pneigh_create() and make it return errno instead of a pointer of pneigh_entry. Now, the pneigh code is RTNL free. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716221221.442239-16-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

neighbour: Split pneigh_lookup().

2025-07-17T23:25:20+00:00

pneigh_lookup() has ASSERT_RTNL() in the middle of the function, which is confusing. When called with the last argument, creat, 0, pneigh_lookup() literally looks up a proxy neighbour entry. This is the case of the reader path as the fast path and RTM_GETNEIGH. pneigh_lookup(), however, creates a pneigh_entry when called with creat 1 from RTM_NEWNEIGH and SIOCSARP, which require RTNL. Let's split pneigh_lookup() into two functions. We will convert all the reader paths to RCU, and read_lock_bh(&tbl->lock) in the new pneigh_lookup() will be dropped. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716221221.442239-6-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: arp: use kfree_skb_reason() in arp_rcv()

2025-06-14T00:30:02+00:00

Replace kfree_skb() with kfree_skb_reason() in arp_rcv(). Signed-off-by: Qiu Yutan Signed-off-by: Jiang Kun Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250612110259698Q2KNNOPQhnIApRskKN3Hi@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2025-02-20T18:37:30+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc4). No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

arp: switch to dev_getbyhwaddr() in arp_req_set_public()

2025-02-20T03:00:01+00:00

The arp_req_set_public() function is called with the rtnl lock held, which provides enough synchronization protection. This makes the RCU variant of dev_getbyhwaddr() unnecessary. Switch to using the simpler dev_getbyhwaddr() function since we already have the required rtnl locking. This change helps maintain consistency in the networking code by using the appropriate helper function for the existing locking context. Since we're not holding the RCU read lock in arp_req_set_public() existing code could trigger false positive locking warnings. Fixes: 941666c2e3e0 ("net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()") Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218-arm_fix_selftest-v5-2-d3d6892db9e1@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2025-02-13T20:43:30+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc3). No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski