kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c, branch v6.18.21

ipv6: make ipv6_pinfo.daddr_cache a boolean

2025-09-18T08:17:09+00:00

ipv6_pinfo.daddr_cache is either NULL or &sk->sk_v6_daddr We do not need 8 bytes, a boolean is enough. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-3-edumazet@google.com Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv6: make ipv6_pinfo.saddr_cache a boolean

2025-09-18T08:17:09+00:00

ipv6_pinfo.saddr_cache is either NULL or &np->saddr. We do not need 8 bytes, a boolean is enough. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-2-edumazet@google.com Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()

2025-08-30T02:36:32+00:00

Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from ip6_finish_output2(). Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-5-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit()

2025-08-30T02:36:32+00:00

Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828195823.3958522-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: add `force_forwarding` sysctl to enable per-interface forwarding

2025-07-25T20:06:19+00:00

It is currently impossible to enable ipv6 forwarding on a per-interface basis like in ipv4. To enable forwarding on an ipv6 interface we need to enable it on all interfaces and disable it on the other interfaces using a netfilter rule. This is especially cumbersome if you have lots of interfaces and only want to enable forwarding on a few. According to the sysctl docs [0] the `net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding` enables forwarding for all interfaces, while the interface-specific `net.ipv6.conf..forwarding` configures the interface Host/Router configuration. Introduce a new sysctl flag `force_forwarding`, which can be set on every interface. The ip6_forwarding function will then check if the global forwarding flag OR the force_forwarding flag is active and forward the packet. To preserve backwards-compatibility reset the flag (on all interfaces) to 0 if the net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding flag is set to 0. Add a short selftest that checks if a packet gets forwarded with and without `force_forwarding`. [0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722081847.132632-1-g.goller@proxmox.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: 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

ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers

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

Use the new helpers as a step to deal with potential dst->dev races. v2: fix typo in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() (kernel test robot ) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-10-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: adopt dst_dev() helper

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

Use the new helper as a step to deal with potential dst->dev races. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-9-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