kernel/linux.git/net/mctp/device.c, branch linux-7.0.y

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

net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised

2026-02-13T02:35:45+00:00

Syed Faraz Abrar (@farazsth98) from Zellic, and Pumpkin (@u1f383) from DEVCORE Research Team working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative report that a RTM_GETNEIGH will return uninitalised data in the pad bytes of the ndmsg data. Ensure we're initialising the netlink data to zero, in the link, addr and neigh response messages. Fixes: 831119f88781 ("mctp: Add neighbour netlink interface") Fixes: 06d2f4c583a7 ("mctp: Add netlink route management") Fixes: 583be982d934 ("mctp: Add device handling and netlink interface") Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260209-dev-mctp-nlmsg-v1-1-f1e30c346a43@codeconstruct.com.au Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: mctp: use nlmsg_payload() for netlink message data extraction

2025-05-26T15:38:27+00:00

Jakub suggests: > I have a different request :) Matt, once this ends up in net-next > (end of this week) could you refactor it to use nlmsg_payload() ? > It doesn't exist in net but this is exactly why it was added. This refactors the additions to both mctp_dump_addrinfo(), and mctp_rtm_getneigh() - two cases where we're calling nlh_data() on an an incoming netlink message, without a prior nlmsg_parse(). For the neigh.c case, we cannot hit the failure where the nlh does not contain a full ndmsg at present, as the core handler (net/core/neighbour.c, neigh_get()) has already validated the size through neigh_valid_req_get(), and would have failed the get operation before the MCTP hander is called. However, relying on that is a bit fragile, so apply the nlmsg_payload refector here too. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521-mctp-nlmsg-payload-v2-1-e85df160c405@codeconstruct.com.au Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: mctp: Don't access ifa_index when missing

2025-05-09T22:03:53+00:00

In mctp_dump_addrinfo, ifa_index can be used to filter interfaces, but only when the struct ifaddrmsg is provided. Otherwise it will be comparing to uninitialised memory - reproducible in the syzkaller case from dhcpd, or busybox "ip addr show". The kernel MCTP implementation has always filtered by ifa_index, so existing userspace programs expecting to dump MCTP addresses must already be passing a valid ifa_index value (either 0 or a real index). BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128 mctp_dump_addrinfo+0x208/0xac0 net/mctp/device.c:128 rtnl_dump_all+0x3ec/0x5b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4380 rtnl_dumpit+0xd5/0x2f0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6824 netlink_dump+0x97b/0x1690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2309 Fixes: 583be982d934 ("mctp: Add device handling and netlink interface") Reported-by: syzbot+e76d52dadc089b9d197f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68135815.050a0220.3a872c.000e.GAE@google.com/ Reported-by: syzbot+1065a199625a388fce60@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/681357d6.050a0220.14dd7d.000d.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Matt Johnston Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508-mctp-addr-dump-v2-1-c8a53fd2dd66@codeconstruct.com.au Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mctp: no longer rely on net->dev_index_head[]

2024-12-09T22:29:14+00:00

mctp_dump_addrinfo() is one of the last users of net->dev_index_head[] in the control path. Switch to for_each_netdev_dump() for better scalability. Use C99 for mctp_device_rtnl_msg_handlers[] to prepare future RTNL removal from mctp_dump_addrinfo() (mdev->addrs is not yet RCU protected) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Matt Johnston Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241206223811.1343076-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: mctp: Expose transport binding identifier via IFLA attribute

2024-11-09T17:04:54+00:00

MCTP control protocol implementations are transport binding dependent. Endpoint discovery is mandatory based on transport binding. Message timing requirements are specified in each respective transport binding specification. However, we currently have no means to get this information from MCTP links. Add a IFLA_MCTP_PHYS_BINDING netlink link attribute, which represents the transport type using the DMTF DSP0239-defined type numbers, returned as part of RTM_GETLINK data. We get an IFLA_MCTP_PHYS_BINDING attribute for each MCTP link, for example: - 0x00 (unspec) for loopback interface; - 0x01 (SMBus/I2C) for mctpi2c%d interfaces; and - 0x05 (serial) for mctpserial%d interfaces. Signed-off-by: Khang Nguyen Reviewed-by: Matt Johnston Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241105071915.821871-1-khangng@os.amperecomputing.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rtnetlink: Return int from rtnl_af_register().

2024-10-22T09:02:05+00:00

The next patch will add init_srcu_struct() in rtnl_af_register(), then we need to handle its error. Let's add the error handling in advance to make the following patch cleaner. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Matt Johnston Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

mctp: Handle error of rtnl_register_module().

2024-10-10T13:39:35+00:00

Since introduced, mctp has been ignoring the returned value of rtnl_register_module(), which could fail silently. Handling the error allows users to view a module as an all-or-nothing thing in terms of the rtnetlink functionality. This prevents syzkaller from reporting spurious errors from its tests, where OOM often occurs and module is automatically loaded. Let's handle the errors by rtnl_register_many(). Fixes: 583be982d934 ("mctp: Add device handling and netlink interface") Fixes: 831119f88781 ("mctp: Add neighbour netlink interface") Fixes: 06d2f4c583a7 ("mctp: Add netlink route management") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Jeremy Kerr Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

mctp: Remove device type check at unregister

2022-12-20T01:20:22+00:00

The unregister check could be incorrectly triggered if a netdev changes its type after register. That is possible for a tun device using TUNSETLINK ioctl, resulting in mctp unregister failing and the netdev unregister waiting forever. This was encountered by https://github.com/openthread/openthread/issues/8523 Neither check at register or unregister is required. They were added in an attempt to track down mctp_ptr being set unexpectedly, which should not happen in normal operation. Fixes: 7b1871af75f3 ("mctp: Warn if pointer is set for a wrong dev type") Signed-off-by: Matt Johnston Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221215054933.2403401-1-matt@codeconstruct.com.au Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski