kernel/linux.git/net/packet, 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 ...

af_packet: convert to getsockopt_iter

2026-04-13T21:56:29+00:00

Convert AF_PACKET's getsockopt implementation to use the new getsockopt_iter callback with sockopt_t. Key changes: - Replace (char __user *optval, int __user *optlen) with sockopt_t *opt - Use opt->optlen for buffer length (input) and returned size (output) - Use copy_to_iter() instead of put_user()/copy_to_user() - For PACKET_HDRLEN which reads from optval: use opt->iter_in with copy_from_iter() for the input read, then the common opt->iter_out copy_to_iter() epilogue handles the output Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408-getsockopt-v3-3-061bb9cb355d@debian.org 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

net: fix fanout UAF in packet_release() via NETDEV_UP race

2026-03-24T00:07:19+00:00

`packet_release()` has a race window where `NETDEV_UP` can re-register a socket into a fanout group's `arr[]` array. The re-registration is not cleaned up by `fanout_release()`, leaving a dangling pointer in the fanout array. `packet_release()` does NOT zero `po->num` in its `bind_lock` section. After releasing `bind_lock`, `po->num` is still non-zero and `po->ifindex` still matches the bound device. A concurrent `packet_notifier(NETDEV_UP)` that already found the socket in `sklist` can re-register the hook. For fanout sockets, this re-registration calls `__fanout_link(sk, po)` which adds the socket back into `f->arr[]` and increments `f->num_members`, but does NOT increment `f->sk_ref`. The fix sets `po->num` to zero in `packet_release` while `bind_lock` is held to prevent NETDEV_UP from linking, preventing the race window. This bug was found following an additional audit with Claude Code based on CVE-2025-38617. Fixes: ce06b03e60fc ("packet: Add helpers to register/unregister ->prot_hook") Link: https://blog.calif.io/p/a-race-within-a-race-exploiting-cve Signed-off-by: Yochai Eisenrich Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319200610.25101-1-echelonh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64

2026-03-06T13:31:26+00:00

inode->i_ino is being converted to a u64. sock.sk_ino (which caches the inode number) must also be widened to avoid truncation on 32-bit architectures where unsigned long is only 32 bits. Change sk_ino from unsigned long to u64, and update the return type of sock_i_ino() to match. Fix all format strings that print the result of sock_i_ino() (%lu -> %llu), and widen the intermediate variables and function parameters in the diag modules that were using int to hold the inode number. Note that the UAPI socket diag structures (inet_diag_msg.idiag_inode, unix_diag_msg.udiag_ino, etc.) are all __u32 and cannot be changed without breaking the ABI. The assignments to those fields will silently truncate, which is the existing behavior. Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde # for net/can Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-3-2257ad83d372@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

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: add vlan_get_protocol_offset_inline() helper

2026-02-05T15:33:52+00:00

skb_protocol() is bloated, and forces slow stack canaries in many fast paths. Add vlan_get_protocol_offset_inline() which deals with the non-vlan common cases. __vlan_get_protocol_offset() is now out of line. It returns a vlan_type_depth struct to avoid stack canaries in callers. struct vlan_type_depth { __be16 type; u16 depth; }; $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 0/22 up/down: 0/-6320 (-6320) Function old new delta vlan_get_protocol_dgram 61 59 -2 __pfx_skb_protocol 16 - -16 __vlan_get_protocol_offset 307 273 -34 tap_get_user 1374 1207 -167 ip_md_tunnel_xmit 1625 1452 -173 tap_sendmsg 940 753 -187 netif_skb_features 1079 866 -213 netem_enqueue 3017 2800 -217 vlan_parse_protocol 271 50 -221 tso_start 567 344 -223 fq_dequeue 1908 1685 -223 skb_network_protocol 434 205 -229 ip6_tnl_xmit 2639 2409 -230 br_dev_queue_push_xmit 474 236 -238 skb_protocol 258 - -258 packet_parse_headers 621 357 -264 __ip6_tnl_rcv 1306 1039 -267 skb_csum_hwoffload_help 515 224 -291 ip_tunnel_xmit 2635 2339 -296 sch_frag_xmit_hook 1582 1233 -349 bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce 868 457 -411 IP6_ECN_decapsulate 1297 768 -529 ip_tunnel_rcv 2121 1489 -632 ipip6_rcv 2572 1922 -650 Total: Before=24892803, After=24886483, chg -0.03% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204053023.1622775-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: Convert struct sockaddr to fixed-size "sa_data[14]"

2025-11-05T03:10:33+00:00

Revert struct sockaddr from flexible array to fixed 14-byte "sa_data", to solve over 36,000 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings, since struct sockaddr is embedded within many network structs. With socket/proto sockaddr-based internal APIs switched to use struct sockaddr_unsized, there should be no more uses of struct sockaddr that depend on reading beyond the end of struct sockaddr::sa_data that might trigger bounds checking. Comparing an x86_64 "allyesconfig" vmlinux build before and after this patch showed no new "ud1" instructions from CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS nor any new "field-spanning" memcpy CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE instrumentations. Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-8-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski