kernel/linux.git/net/mac80211, branch master

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 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux

2026-04-14T00:31:39+00:00

Pull crypto library updates from Eric Biggers: - Migrate more hash algorithms from the traditional crypto subsystem to lib/crypto/ Like the algorithms migrated earlier (e.g. SHA-*), this simplifies the implementations, improves performance, enables further simplifications in calling code, and solves various other issues: - AES CBC-based MACs (AES-CMAC, AES-XCBC-MAC, and AES-CBC-MAC) - Support these algorithms in lib/crypto/ using the AES library and the existing arm64 assembly code - Reimplement the traditional crypto API's "cmac(aes)", "xcbc(aes)", and "cbcmac(aes)" on top of the library - Convert mac80211 to use the AES-CMAC library. Note: several other subsystems can use it too and will be converted later - Drop the broken, nonstandard, and likely unused support for "xcbc(aes)" with key lengths other than 128 bits - Enable optimizations by default - GHASH - Migrate the standalone GHASH code into lib/crypto/ - Integrate the GHASH code more closely with the very similar POLYVAL code, and improve the generic GHASH implementation to resist cache-timing attacks and use much less memory - Reimplement the AES-GCM library and the "gcm" crypto_aead template on top of the GHASH library. Remove "ghash" from the crypto_shash API, as it's no longer needed - Enable optimizations by default - SM3 - Migrate the kernel's existing SM3 code into lib/crypto/, and reimplement the traditional crypto API's "sm3" on top of it - I don't recommend using SM3, but this cleanup is worthwhile to organize the code the same way as other algorithms - Testing improvements: - Add a KUnit test suite for each of the new library APIs - Migrate the existing ChaCha20Poly1305 test to KUnit - Make the KUnit all_tests.config enable all crypto library tests - Move the test kconfig options to the Runtime Testing menu - Other updates to arch-optimized crypto code: - Optimize SHA-256 for Zhaoxin CPUs using the Padlock Hash Engine - Remove some MD5 implementations that are no longer worth keeping - Drop big endian and voluntary preemption support from the arm64 code, as those configurations are no longer supported on arm64 - Make jitterentropy and samples/tsm-mr use the crypto library APIs * tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (66 commits) lib/crypto: arm64: Assume a little-endian kernel arm64: fpsimd: Remove obsolete cond_yield macro lib/crypto: arm64/sha3: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/sha512: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/sha256: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/sha1: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/gf128hash: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/chacha: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: arm64/aes: Remove obsolete chunking logic lib/crypto: Include instead of lib/crypto: aesgcm: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption lib/crypto: aescfb: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption lib/crypto: tests: Migrate ChaCha20Poly1305 self-test to KUnit lib/crypto: sparc: Drop optimized MD5 code lib/crypto: mips: Drop optimized MD5 code lib: Move crypto library tests to Runtime Testing menu crypto: sm3 - Remove 'struct sm3_state' crypto: sm3 - Remove the original "sm3_block_generic()" crypto: sm3 - Remove sm3_base.h ...

Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

2026-04-12T16:17:42+00:00

Johannes Berg says: ==================== Final updates, notably: - crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only) - mac80211: - multi-link 4-addr support - NAN data support (but no drivers yet) - ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices - ath12k: IPQ5424 support - rtw89: USB improvements for performance * tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits) wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include in michael-mic.c wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211 wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic() wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424 dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424 wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy ... ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate

2026-04-10T02:27:43+00:00

Use the typed random integer helpers instead of get_random_bytes() when filling a single integer variable. The helpers return the value directly, require no pointer or size argument, and better express intent. Skipped sites writing into __be16 (netdevsim) and __le64 (ceph) fields where a direct assignment would trigger sparse endianness warnings. Signed-off-by: David Carlier Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407150758.5889-1-devnexen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211

2026-04-08T06:55:15+00:00

Export michael_mic() so that the ath11k and ath12k drivers can call it. In addition, move it from mac80211 to cfg80211 so that the ipw2x00 drivers, which depend on cfg80211 but not mac80211, can also call it. Currently these drivers have their own local implementations of michael_mic() based on crypto_shash, which is redundant and inefficient. By consolidating all the Michael MIC code into cfg80211, we'll be able to remove the duplicate Michael MIC code in the crypto/ directory. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408030651.80336-3-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: enable MLO support for 4-address mode interfaces

2026-04-07T13:43:02+00:00

The current code does not support establishing MLO connections for interfaces operating in 4-address AP_VLAN mode. MLO bringup is blocked by sanity checks in cfg.c, iface.c, and mlme.c, which prevent MLD initialization when use_4addr is enabled. Remove these restrictions to allow 4-address AP_VLAN interfaces to initialize as part of an MLD and successfully participate in MLO connections. This patch series also adds the necessary changes to support WDS operation in MLO, making these modifications valid. Allow 4-address mode interfaces to: - Proceed with MLD initialization during interface setup - Add MLO links dynamically via ieee80211_add_intf_link() - Establish associations with MLO-capable access points - Support AP_VLAN interfaces with MLO parent APs Signed-off-by: Tamizh Chelvam Raja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326164723.553927-4-tamizh.raja@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: use ap_addr for 4-address NULL frame destination

2026-04-07T13:43:02+00:00

Currently ieee80211_send_4addr_nullfunc() uses deflink.u.mgd.bssid for addr1 and addr3 fields. In MLO configurations, deflink.u.mgd.bssid represents link 0's BSSID and is not updated when link 0 is not an assoc link. This causes 4-address NULL frames to be sent to the wrong address, preventing WDS AP_VLAN interface creation on the peer AP. To fix this use sdata->vif.cfg.ap_addr instead, which contains the AP's MLD address populated during authentication/association and remains valid regardless of which links are active. This ensures 4-address NULL frames reach the correct AP, allowing proper WDS operation over MLO connections. Co-developed-by: Sathishkumar Muruganandam Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar Muruganandam Signed-off-by: Tamizh Chelvam Raja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326164723.553927-3-tamizh.raja@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: synchronize valid links for WDS AP_VLAN interfaces

2026-04-07T13:43:02+00:00

The current code does not provide any link-configuration support for 4-address mode WDS AP_VLAN interfaces in MLO setups, preventing MLD stations from being added correctly. Add the required handling to enable proper integration of 4-address WDS stations into an MLO environment. When a 4-address station associates with an MLO AP, compute the intersection of valid links between the master AP interface and the station's advertised capabilities. Configure the AP_VLAN interface with only these common links to ensure correct data-path operation. This update ensures AP_VLAN interfaces correctly track link-state transitions and maintain consistent addressing across all active MLO links. Co-developed-by: Muna Sinada Signed-off-by: Muna Sinada Signed-off-by: Tamizh Chelvam Raja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326164723.553927-2-tamizh.raja@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: handle VHT EXT NSS in ieee80211_determine_our_sta_mode()

2026-04-07T13:41:14+00:00

A station which has a NSS ratio on the number of streams it is capable of in 160MHz VHT operation is supposed to use the 'Extended NSS BW Support' as defined by section '9.4.2.156.2 VHT Capabilities Information field'. This was missing in ieee80211_determine_our_sta_mode() and so we would wrongfully downgrade our bandwidth when connecting to an AP that supported 160MHz with messages such as: [ 37.638346] wlan1: AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX changed bandwidth in assoc response, new used config is 5280.000 MHz, width 3 (5290.000/0 MHz) Fixes: 310c8387c638 ("wifi: mac80211: clean up connection process") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327100256.3101348-1-nico.escande@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: remove unused variables in minstrel_ht_alloc_sta

2026-04-07T13:40:25+00:00

Remove the unused variable max_rates and related code. Also remove the variable mi and pass type to kzalloc_obj instead. Signed-off-by: Jiajia Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407063205.68471-1-liujiajia@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg