kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6, branch master

ipv6: Cap TLV scan in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim

2026-04-23T18:52:07+00:00

Commit 47d3d7ac656a ("ipv6: Implement limits on Hop-by-Hop and Destination options") added net.ipv6.max_{hbh,dst}_opts_{cnt,len} and applied them in ip6_parse_tlv(), the generic TLV walker invoked from ipv6_destopt_rcv() and ipv6_parse_hopopts(). ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() does not go through ip6_parse_tlv(); it has its own hand-rolled TLV scanner inside its NEXTHDR_DEST branch which looks for IPV6_TLV_TNL_ENCAP_LIMIT. That inner loop is bounded only by optlen, which can be up to 2048 bytes. Stuffing the Destination Options header with 2046 Pad1 (type=0) entries advances the scanner a single byte at a time, yielding ~2000 TLV iterations per extension header. Reusing max_dst_opts_cnt to bound the TLV iterations, matching the semantics from 47d3d7ac656a, would require duplicating ip6_parse_tlv() to also validate Pad1/PadN payload. It would also mandate enforcing max_dst_opts_len, since otherwise an attacker shifts the axis to few options with a giant PadN and recovers the original DoS. Allowing up to 8 options before the tunnel encapsulation limit TLV is liberal enough; in practice encap limit is the first TLV. Thus, go with a hard-coded limit IP6_TUNNEL_MAX_DEST_TLVS (8). Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'nf-26-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf

2026-04-23T09:20:38+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter/IPVS fixes for net The following batch contains Netfilter/IPVS fixes for net: 1) nft_osf actually only supports IPv4, restrict it. 2) Address possible division by zero in nfnetlink_osf, from Xiang Mei. 3) Remove unsafe use of sprintf to fix possible buffer overflow in the SIP NAT helper, from Florian Westphal. 4) Restrict xt_mac, xt_owner and xt_physdev to inet families only; xt_realm is only for ipv4, otherwise null-pointer-deref is possible. 5) Use kfree_rcu() in nat core to release hooks, this can be an issue once nfnetlink_hook gets support to dump NAT hook information, not currently a real issue but better fix it now. From Florian Westphal. 6) Fix MTU checks in IPVS, from Yingnan Zhang. 7) Fix possible out-of-bounds when matching TCP options in nfnetlink_osf, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera. 8) Fix potential nul-ptr-deref in ttl check in nfnetlink_osf, remove useless loop to fix this, also from Fernando. This is a smaller batch, there are more patches pending in the queue to arm another pull request as soon as this is considered good enough. AI might complain again about one more issue regarding osf and big-endian arches in osf but this batch is targetting crash fixes for osf at this stage. netfilter pull request 26-04-20 * tag 'nf-26-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf: netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix potential NULL dereference in ttl check netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix out-of-bounds read on option matching ipvs: fix MTU check for GSO packets in tunnel mode netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops netfilter: xtables: restrict several matches to inet family netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix divide-by-zero in OSF_WSS_MODULO netfilter: nft_osf: restrict it to ipv4 ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420220215.111510-1-pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

seg6: fix seg6 lwtunnel output redirect for L2 reduced encap mode

2026-04-23T03:32:38+00:00

When SEG6_IPTUN_MODE_L2ENCAP_RED (L2ENCAP_RED) was introduced, the condition in seg6_build_state() that excludes L2 encap modes from setting LWTUNNEL_STATE_OUTPUT_REDIRECT was not updated to account for the new mode. As a consequence, L2ENCAP_RED routes incorrectly trigger seg6_output() on the output path, where the packet is silently dropped because skb_mac_header_was_set() fails on L3 packets. Extend the check to also exclude L2ENCAP_RED, consistent with L2ENCAP. Fixes: 13f0296be8ec ("seg6: add support for SRv6 H.L2Encaps.Red behavior") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260418162838.31979-1-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops

2026-04-20T21:45:41+00:00

Florian Westphal says: "Historically this is not an issue, even for normal base hooks: the data path doesn't use the original nf_hook_ops that are used to register the callbacks. However, in v5.14 I added the ability to dump the active netfilter hooks from userspace. This code will peek back into the nf_hook_ops that are available at the tail of the pointer-array blob used by the datapath. The nat hooks are special, because they are called indirectly from the central nat dispatcher hook. They are currently invisible to the nfnl hook dump subsystem though. But once that changes the nat ops structures have to be deferred too." Update nf_nat_register_fn() to deal with partial exposition of the hooks from error path which can be also an issue for nfnetlink_hook. Fixes: e2cf17d3774c ("netfilter: add new hook nfnl subsystem") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipv6: fix possible UAF in icmpv6_rcv()

2026-04-18T19:09:52+00:00

Caching saddr and daddr before pskb_pull() is problematic since skb->head can change. Remove these temporary variables: - We only access &ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr and &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr when net_dbg_ratelimited() is called in the slow path. - Avoid potential future misuse after pskb_pull() call. Fixes: 4b3418fba0fe ("ipv6: icmp: include addresses in debug messages") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Joe Damato Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416103505.2380753-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...

Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2026-04-15T01:04:04+00:00

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Welcome new BPF maintainers: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Eduard Zingerman while Martin KaFai Lau reduced his load to Reviwer. - Lots of fixes everywhere from many first time contributors. Thank you All. - Diff stat is dominated by mechanical split of verifier.c into multiple components: - backtrack.c: backtracking logic and jump history - states.c: state equivalence - cfg.c: control flow graph, postorder, strongly connected components - liveness.c: register and stack liveness - fixups.c: post-verification passes: instruction patching, dead code removal, bpf_loop inlining, finalize fastcall 8k line were moved. verifier.c still stands at 20k lines. Further refactoring is planned for the next release. - Replace dynamic stack liveness with static stack liveness based on data flow analysis. This improved the verification time by 2x for some programs and equally reduced memory consumption. New logic is in liveness.c and supported by constant folding in const_fold.c (Eduard Zingerman, Alexei Starovoitov) - Introduce BTF layout to ease addition of new BTF kinds (Alan Maguire) - Use kmalloc_nolock() universally in BPF local storage (Amery Hung) - Fix several bugs in linked registers delta tracking (Daniel Borkmann) - Improve verifier support of arena pointers (Emil Tsalapatis) - Improve verifier tracking of register bounds in min/max and tnum domains (Harishankar Vishwanathan, Paul Chaignon, Hao Sun) - Further extend support for implicit arguments in the verifier (Ihor Solodrai) - Add support for nop,nop5 instruction combo for USDT probes in libbpf (Jiri Olsa) - Support merging multiple module BTFs (Josef Bacik) - Extend applicability of bpf_kptr_xchg (Kaitao Cheng) - Retire rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Support variable offset context access for 'syscall' programs (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Migrate bpf_task_work and dynptr to kmalloc_nolock() (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Fix UAF in in open-coded task_vma iterator (Puranjay Mohan) * tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (241 commits) selftests/bpf: cover short IPv4/IPv6 inputs with adjust_room bpf: reject short IPv4/IPv6 inputs in bpf_prog_test_run_skb selftests/bpf: Use memfd_create instead of shm_open in cgroup_iter_memcg selftests/bpf: Add test for cgroup storage OOB read bpf: Fix OOB in pcpu_init_value selftests/bpf: Fix reg_bounds to match new tnum-based refinement selftests/bpf: Add tests for non-arena/arena operations bpf: Allow instructions with arena source and non-arena dest registers bpftool: add missing fsession to the usage and docs of bpftool docs/bpf: add missing fsession attach type to docs bpf: add missing fsession to the verifier log bpf: Move BTF checking logic into check_btf.c bpf: Move backtracking logic to backtrack.c bpf: Move state equivalence logic to states.c bpf: Move check_cfg() into cfg.c bpf: Move compute_insn_live_regs() into liveness.c bpf: Move fixup/post-processing logic from verifier.c into fixups.c bpf: Simplify do_check_insn() bpf: Move checks for reserved fields out of the main pass bpf: Delete unused variable ...

udp: Force compute_score to always inline

2026-04-13T22:44:42+00:00

Back in 2024 I reported a 7-12% regression on an iperf3 UDP loopback thoughput test that we traced to the extra overhead of calling compute_score on two places, introduced by commit f0ea27e7bfe1 ("udp: re-score reuseport groups when connected sockets are present"). At the time, I pointed out the overhead was caused by the multiple calls, associated with cpu-specific mitigations, and merged commit 50aee97d1511 ("udp: Avoid call to compute_score on multiple sites") to jump back explicitly, to force the rescore call in a single place. Recently though, we got another regression report against a newer distro version, which a team colleague traced back to the same root-cause. Turns out that once we updated to gcc-13, the compiler got smart enough to unroll the loop, undoing my previous mitigation. Let's bite the bullet and __always_inline compute_score on both ipv4 and ipv6 to prevent gcc from de-optimizing it again in the future. These functions are only called in two places each, udpX_lib_lookup1 and udpX_lib_lookup2, so the extra size shouldn't be a problem and it is hot enough to be very visible in profilings. In fact, with gcc13, forcing the inline will prevent gcc from unrolling the fix from commit 50aee97d1511, so we don't end up increasing udpX_lib_lookup2 at all. I haven't recollected the results myself, as I don't have access to the machine at the moment. But the same colleague reported 4.67% inprovement with this patch in the loopback benchmark, solving the regression report within noise margins. Eric Dumazet reported no size change to vmlinux when built with clang. I report the same also with gcc-13: scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux vmlinux-inline add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 4/0 up/down: 616/-416 (200) Function old new delta udp6_lib_lookup2 762 949 +187 __udp6_lib_lookup 810 975 +165 udp4_lib_lookup2 757 906 +149 __udp4_lib_lookup 871 986 +115 __pfx_compute_score 32 - -32 compute_score 384 - -384 Total: Before=35011784, After=35011984, chg +0.00% Fixes: 50aee97d1511 ("udp: Avoid call to compute_score on multiple sites") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410155936.654915-1-krisman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-13T19:19:01+00:00

Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner: "For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long, which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field for an inode. This changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64. This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but 32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment. The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out carefully. With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to keep this simple" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group() EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64 audit: widen ino fields to u64 vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64

tcp: update window_clamp when SO_RCVBUF is set

2026-04-13T13:32:35+00:00

Commit under Fixes moved recomputing the window clamp to tcp_measure_rcv_mss() (when scaling_ratio changes). I suspect it missed the fact that we don't recompute the clamp when rcvbuf is set. Until scaling_ratio changes we are stuck with the old window clamp which may be based on the small initial buffer. scaling_ratio may never change. Inspired by Eric's recent commit d1361840f8c5 ("tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT and RCVBUF autotuning") plumb the user action thru to TCP and have it update the clamp. A smaller fix would be to just have tcp_rcvbuf_grow() adjust the clamp even if SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK is set. But IIUC this is what we were trying to get away from in the first place. Fixes: a2cbb1603943 ("tcp: Update window clamping condition") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408001438.129165-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni