kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/ip_output.c, branch v7.0-rc7

ipv4: use dst4_mtu() instead of dst_mtu()

2026-02-03T01:49:29+00:00

When we expect an IPv4 dst, use dst4_mtu() instead of dst_mtu() to save some code space. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130210303.3888261-8-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4/inet_sock.h: Avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings

2026-01-07T01:02:52+00:00

Use DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() to avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings. Remove struct ip_options_data, and adjust the rest of the code so that flexible-array member struct ip_options_rcu::opt.__data[] ends last in struct icmp_bxm. Compensate for this by using the DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() helper to define each on-stack struct instance that contained struct ip_options_data as a member, and to define struct ip_options_rcu with a fixed on-stack size for its nested flexible-array member opt.__data[]. Also, add a couple of code comments to prevent people from adding members to a struct after another member that contains a flexible array. With these changes, fix 2600 warnings of the following type: include/net/inet_sock.h:65:33: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end] Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aVteBadWA6AbTp7X@kspp Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: psp: don't assume reply skbs will have a socket

2025-10-03T17:23:50+00:00

Rx path may be passing around unreferenced sockets, which means that skb_set_owner_edemux() may not set skb->sk and PSP will crash: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] RIP: 0010:psp_reply_set_decrypted (./include/net/psp/functions.h:132 net/psp/psp_sock.c:287) tcp_v6_send_response.constprop.0 (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:979) tcp_v6_send_reset (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1140 (discriminator 1)) tcp_v6_do_rcv (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1683) tcp_v6_rcv (net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1912) Fixes: 659a2899a57d ("tcp: add datapath logic for PSP with inline key exchange") Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251001022426.2592750-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: add datapath logic for PSP with inline key exchange

2025-09-18T10:32:06+00:00

Add validation points and state propagation to support PSP key exchange inline, on TCP connections. The expectation is that application will use some well established mechanism like TLS handshake to establish a secure channel over the connection and if both endpoints are PSP-capable - exchange and install PSP keys. Because the connection can existing in PSP-unsecured and PSP-secured state we need to make sure that there are no race conditions or retransmission leaks. On Tx - mark packets with the skb->decrypted bit when PSP key is at the enqueue time. Drivers should only encrypt packets with this bit set. This prevents retransmissions getting encrypted when original transmission was not. Similarly to TLS, we'll use sk->sk_validate_xmit_skb to make sure PSP skbs can't "escape" via a PSP-unaware device without being encrypted. On Rx - validation is done under socket lock. This moves the validation point later than xfrm, for example. Please see the documentation patch for more details on the flow of securing a connection, but for the purpose of this patch what's important is that we want to enforce the invariant that once connection is secured any skb in the receive queue has been encrypted with PSP. Add GRO and coalescing checks to prevent PSP authenticated data from being combined with cleartext data, or data with non-matching PSP state. On Rx, check skb's with psp_skb_coalesce_diff() at points before psp_sk_rx_policy_check(). After skb's are policy checked and on the socket receive queue, skb_cmp_decrypted() is sufficient for checking for coalescable PSP state. On Tx, tcp_write_collapse_fence() should be called when transitioning a socket into PSP Tx state to prevent data sent as cleartext from being coalesced with PSP encapsulated data. This change only adds the validation points, for ease of review. Subsequent change will add the ability to install keys, and flesh the enforcement logic out Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-5-daniel.zahka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.

2025-08-27T00:34:31+00:00

Convert the ->flowic_tos field of struct flowi_common from __u8 to dscp_t, rename it ->flowic_dscp and propagate these changes to struct flowi and struct flowi4. We've had several bugs in the past where ECN bits could interfere with IPv4 routing, because these bits were not properly cleared when setting ->flowi4_tos. These bugs should be fixed now and the dscp_t type has been introduced to ensure that variables carrying DSCP values don't accidentally have any ECN bits set. Several variables and structure fields have been converted to dscp_t already, but the main IPv4 routing structure, struct flowi4, is still using a __u8. To avoid any future regression, this patch converts it to dscp_t. There are many users to convert at once. Fortunately, around half of ->flowi4_tos users already have a dscp_t value at hand, which they currently convert to __u8 using inet_dscp_to_dsfield(). For all of these users, we just need to drop that conversion. But, although we try to do the __u8 <-> dscp_t conversions at the boundaries of the network or of user space, some places still store TOS/DSCP variables as __u8 in core networking code. Those can hardly be converted either because the data structure is part of UAPI or because the same variable or field is also used for handling ECN in other parts of the code. In all of these cases where we don't have a dscp_t variable at hand, we need to use inet_dsfield_to_dscp() when interacting with ->flowi4_dscp. Changes since v1: * Fix space alignment in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4() (Ido). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/29acecb45e911d17446b9a3dbdb1ab7b821ea371.1756128932.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Add locking to protect skb->dev access in ip_output

2025-08-01T22:17:52+00:00

In ip_output() skb->dev is updated from the skb_dst(skb)->dev this can become invalid when the interface is unregistered and freed, Introduced new skb_dst_dev_rcu() function to be used instead of skb_dst_dev() within rcu_locks in ip_output.This will ensure that all the skb's associated with the dev being deregistered will be transnmitted out first, before freeing the dev. Given that ip_output() is called within an rcu_read_lock() critical section or from a bottom-half context, it is safe to introduce an RCU read-side critical section within it. Multiple panic call stacks were observed when UL traffic was run in concurrency with device deregistration from different functions, pasting one sample for reference. [496733.627565][T13385] Call trace: [496733.627570][T13385] bpf_prog_ce7c9180c3b128ea_cgroupskb_egres+0x24c/0x7f0 [496733.627581][T13385] __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb+0x128/0x498 [496733.627595][T13385] ip_finish_output+0xa4/0xf4 [496733.627605][T13385] ip_output+0x100/0x1a0 [496733.627613][T13385] ip_send_skb+0x68/0x100 [496733.627618][T13385] udp_send_skb+0x1c4/0x384 [496733.627625][T13385] udp_sendmsg+0x7b0/0x898 [496733.627631][T13385] inet_sendmsg+0x5c/0x7c [496733.627639][T13385] __sys_sendto+0x174/0x1e4 [496733.627647][T13385] __arm64_sys_sendto+0x28/0x3c [496733.627653][T13385] invoke_syscall+0x58/0x11c [496733.627662][T13385] el0_svc_common+0x88/0xf4 [496733.627669][T13385] do_el0_svc+0x2c/0xb0 [496733.627676][T13385] el0_svc+0x2c/0xa4 [496733.627683][T13385] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xb4 [496733.627689][T13385] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8 Changes in v3: - Replaced WARN_ON() with WARN_ON_ONCE(), as suggested by Willem de Bruijn. - Dropped legacy lines mistakenly pulled in from an outdated branch. Changes in v2: - Addressed review comments from Eric Dumazet - Used READ_ONCE() to prevent potential load/store tearing - Added skb_dst_dev_rcu() and used along with rcu_read_lock() in ip_output Signed-off-by: Sharath Chandra Vurukala Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250730105118.GA26100@hu-sharathv-hyd.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: splice: Drop unused @gfp

2025-07-08T15:37:15+00:00

Since its introduction in commit 2e910b95329c ("net: Add a function to splice pages into an skbuff for MSG_SPLICE_PAGES"), skb_splice_from_iter() never used the @gfp argument. Remove it and adapt callers. No functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702-splice-drop-unused-v3-2-55f68b60d2b7@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4: adopt dst_dev, skb_dst_dev and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]

2025-07-02T21:32:30+00:00

Use the new helpers as a first step to deal with potential dst->dev races. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-8-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: devmem: Implement TX path

2025-05-13T09:12:48+00:00

Augment dmabuf binding to be able to handle TX. Additional to all the RX binding, we also create tx_vec needed for the TX path. Provide API for sendmsg to be able to send dmabufs bound to this device: - Provide a new dmabuf_tx_cmsg which includes the dmabuf to send from. - MSG_ZEROCOPY with SCM_DEVMEM_DMABUF cmsg indicates send from dma-buf. Devmem is uncopyable, so piggyback off the existing MSG_ZEROCOPY implementation, while disabling instances where MSG_ZEROCOPY falls back to copying. We additionally pipe the binding down to the new zerocopy_fill_skb_from_devmem which fills a TX skb with net_iov netmems instead of the traditional page netmems. We also special case skb_frag_dma_map to return the dma-address of these dmabuf net_iovs instead of attempting to map pages. The TX path may release the dmabuf in a context where we cannot wait. This happens when the user unbinds a TX dmabuf while there are still references to its netmems in the TX path. In that case, the netmems will be put_netmem'd from a context where we can't unmap the dmabuf, Resolve this by making __net_devmem_dmabuf_binding_free schedule_work'd. Based on work by Stanislav Fomichev . A lot of the meat of the implementation came from devmem TCP RFC v1[1], which included the TX path, but Stan did all the rebasing on top of netmem/net_iov. Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508004830.4100853-5-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: add new TCP_TW_ACK_OOW state and allow ECN bits in TOS

2025-03-17T13:56:17+00:00

ECN bits in TOS are always cleared when sending in ACKs in TW. Clearing them is problematic for TCP flows that used Accurate ECN because ECN bits decide which service queue the packet is placed into (L4S vs Classic). Effectively, TW ACKs are always downgraded from L4S to Classic queue which might impact, e.g., delay the ACK will experience on the path compared with the other packets of the flow. Change the TW ACK sending code to differentiate: - In tcp_v4_send_reset(), commit ba9e04a7ddf4f ("ip: fix tos reflection in ack and reset packets") cleans ECN bits for TW reset and this is not affected. - In tcp_v4_timewait_ack(), ECN bits for all TW ACKs are cleaned. But now only ECN bits of ACKs for oow data or paws_reject are cleaned, and ECN bits of other ACKs will not be cleaned. - In tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack(), commit 66b13d99d96a1 ("ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT") did not clean ECN bits of ACKs for oow data or paws_reject. But now the ECN bits rae cleaned for these ACKs. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller