kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/metrics.c, branch v7.1

net: remove EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() macros

2026-03-29T18:21:22+00:00

As IPv6 is built-in only, the macro is always evaluating to an empty one. Remove it completely from the code. Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325120928.15848-3-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

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

ipv4: Use EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for ip_fib_metrics_init().

2026-01-29T03:33:38+00:00

ip_fib_metrics_init() is only called from fib_create_info() and ip6_route_info_create(). Let's use EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() instead. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127081335.646666-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: remove NULL-pointer net parameter in ip_metrics_convert

2024-06-05T09:06:00+00:00

When I was doing some experiments, I found that when using the first parameter, namely, struct net, in ip_metrics_convert() always triggers NULL pointer crash. Then I digged into this part, realizing that we can remove this one due to its uselessness. Signed-off-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ip_metrics_convert()

2023-01-24T05:37:25+00:00

if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return -EINVAL; ... metrics[type - 1] = val; @type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content. Fixes: 6cf9dfd3bd62 ("net: fib: move metrics parsing to a helper") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120133040.3623463-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: remove redundant check in ip_metrics_convert()

2022-11-05T02:28:06+00:00

Now ip_metrics_convert() is only called by ip_fib_metrics_init(). Before ip_fib_metrics_init() invokes ip_metrics_convert(), it checks whether input parameter fc_mx is NULL. Therefore, ip_metrics_convert() doesn't need to check fc_mx. Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104022513.168868-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy.

2020-11-16T16:08:54+00:00

Calls to nla_strlcpy are now replaced by calls to nla_strscpy which is the new name of this function. Signed-off-by: Francis Laniel Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: Add extack argument to ip_fib_metrics_init

2018-11-06T23:00:45+00:00

Add extack argument to ip_fib_metrics_init and add messages for invalid metrics. Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller