kernel/linux.git/net/netlink, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: remove obsolete WARN_ON(refcount_read(&sk->sk_refcnt) == 1)

2025-10-16T00:18:38+00:00

sk->sk_refcnt has been converted to refcount_t in 2017. __sock_put(sk) being refcount_dec(&sk->sk_refcnt), it will complain loudly if the current refcnt is 1 (or less) in a non racy way. We can remove four WARN_ON() in favor of the generic refcount_dec() check. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Xuanqiang Luo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014140605.2982703-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-09-12T00:40:13+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc6). Conflicts: net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c c4eaca2e1052 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: don't check genbit from packetpath lookups") 84c1da7b38d9 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: use avx2 algorithm for insertions too") Only trivial adjacent changes (in a doc and a Makefile). Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM

2025-09-09T00:50:36+00:00

Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop producing events depending on listeners. However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the syscall still returned failure to user space. Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check i.e. after permission checks have succeeded. Fixes: 3de21a8990d3 ("genetlink: Add per family bind/unbind callbacks") Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905135731.3026965-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-09-04T20:33:00+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc5). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: include/net/sock.h c51613fa276f ("net: add sk->sk_drop_counters") 5d6b58c932ec ("net: lockless sock_i_ino()") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: lockless sock_i_ino()

2025-09-03T23:08:24+00:00

Followup of commit c51da3f7a161 ("net: remove sock_i_uid()") A recent syzbot report was the trigger for this change. Over the years, we had many problems caused by the read_lock[_bh](&sk->sk_callback_lock) in sock_i_uid(). We could fix smc_diag_dump_proto() or make a more radical move: Instead of waiting for new syzbot reports, cache the socket inode number in sk->sk_ino, so that we no longer need to acquire sk->sk_callback_lock in sock_i_ino(). This makes socket dumps faster (one less cache line miss, and two atomic ops avoided). Prior art: commit 25a9c8a4431c ("netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump().") commit 4f9bf2a2f5aa ("tcp: Don't acquire inet_listen_hashbucket::lock with disabled BH.") commit efc3dbc37412 ("rds: Make rds_sock_lock BH rather than IRQ safe.") Fixes: d2d6422f8bd1 ("x86: Allow to enable PREEMPT_RT.") Reported-by: syzbot+50603c05bbdf4dfdaffa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68b73804.050a0220.3db4df.01d8.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902183603.740428-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski