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

sctp: fix sockets_allocated imbalance after sk_clone()

2026-04-23T03:31:24+00:00

sk_clone() increments sockets_allocated and sets the socket refcount to 2. SCTP performs additional accounting in sctp_clone_sock(), so the clone-time increment must be undone to avoid double counting. Note we cannot simply remove the SCTP-side increment, because the SCTP destroy path in sctp_destroy_sock() only decrements sockets_allocated when sp->ep is set, which may not be true for all failure paths in sctp_clone_sock(). Fixes: 16942cf4d3e3 ("sctp: Use sk_clone() in sctp_accept().") Signed-off-by: Xin Long Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/af8d66f928dec3e9fcbee8d4a85b7d5a6b86f515.1776460180.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

sctp: fix OOB write to userspace in sctp_getsockopt_peer_auth_chunks

2026-04-18T19:16:14+00:00

sctp_getsockopt_peer_auth_chunks() checks that the caller's optval buffer is large enough for the peer AUTH chunk list with if (len < num_chunks) return -EINVAL; but then writes num_chunks bytes to p->gauth_chunks, which lives at offset offsetof(struct sctp_authchunks, gauth_chunks) == 8 inside optval. The check is missing the sizeof(struct sctp_authchunks) = 8-byte header. When the caller supplies len == num_chunks (for any num_chunks > 0) the test passes but copy_to_user() writes sizeof(struct sctp_authchunks) = 8 bytes past the declared buffer. The sibling function sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks() at the next line already has the correct check: if (len < sizeof(struct sctp_authchunks) + num_chunks) return -EINVAL; Align the peer variant with its sibling. Reproducer confirms on v7.0-13-generic: an unprivileged userspace caller that opens a loopback SCTP association with AUTH enabled, queries num_chunks with a short optval, then issues the real getsockopt with len == num_chunks and sentinel bytes painted past the buffer observes those sentinel bytes overwritten with the peer's AUTH chunk type. The bytes written are under the peer's control but land in the caller's own userspace; this is not a kernel memory corruption, but it is a kernel-side contract violation that can silently corrupt adjacent userspace data. Fixes: 65b07e5d0d09 ("[SCTP]: API updates to suport SCTP-AUTH extensions.") Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Acked-by: Xin Long Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416031903.1447072-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.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 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-04-14T19:04:00+00:00

Merge in late fixes in preparation for the net-next PR. Conflicts: include/net/sch_generic.h a6bd339dbb351 ("net_sched: fix skb memory leak in deferred qdisc drops") ff2998f29f390 ("net: sched: introduce qdisc-specific drop reason tracing") https://lore.kernel.org/adz0iX85FHMz0HdO@sirena.org.uk drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c 1acdfbdb516b ("net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC") bf3471e6e6c0 ("net: airoha: Make flow control source port mapping dependent on nbq parameter") Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c f44218cd5e6a ("net: airoha: Reset PPE cpu port configuration in airoha_ppe_hw_init()") 7da62262ec96 ("inet: add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to improve port usage distribution") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()

2026-04-13T23:50:28+00:00

udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions"), on the path: udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit() dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU. Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or __dev_queue_xmit(). Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths. In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP: # ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899 # ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899 # ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899 # ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899 # ip net exec ha iperf3 -s - without this patch: # ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver - with this patch: # ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Fixes: 046c052b475e ("sctp: enable udp tunneling socks") Signed-off-by: Xin Long Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c874a8548221dcd56ff03c65ba75a74e6cf99119.1776017727.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments

2026-04-13T23:49:37+00:00

encap_port in SCTP_INPUT_CB(skb) is used by sctp_vtag_verify() for SCTP-over-UDP processing. In the GSO case, it is only set on the head skb, while fragment skbs leave it 0. This results in fragment skbs seeing encap_port == 0, breaking SCTP-over-UDP connections. Fix it by propagating encap_port from the head skb cb when initializing fragment skbs in sctp_inq_pop(). Fixes: 046c052b475e ("sctp: enable udp tunneling socks") Signed-off-by: Xin Long Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ea65ed61b3598d8b4940f0170b9aa1762307e6c3.1776017631.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com 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

ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs

2026-03-29T18:21:22+00:00

Maintaining a modular IPv6 stack offers image size savings for specific setups, this benefit is outweighed by the architectural burden it imposes on the subsystems on implementation and maintenance. Therefore, drop it. Change CONFIG_IPV6 from tristate to bool. Remove all Kconfig dependencies across the tree that explicitly checked for IPV6=m. In addition, remove MODULE_DESCRIPTION(), MODULE_ALIAS(), MODULE_AUTHOR() and MODULE_LICENSE(). This is also replacing module_init() by device_initcall(). It is not possible to use fs_initcall() as IPv4 does because that creates a race condition on IPv6 addrconf. Finally, modify the default configs from CONFIG_IPV6=m to CONFIG_IPV6=y except for m68k as according to the bloat-o-meter the image is increasing by 330KB~ and that isn't acceptable. Instead, disable IPv6 on this architecture by default. This is aligned with m68k RAM requirements and recommendations [1]. [1] http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/ram.html Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Tested-by: Ricardo B. Marlière Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski # arm64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325120928.15848-2-fmancera@suse.de 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

net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers

2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00

Use msg->msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg(). This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls. $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/19 up/down: 26/-532 (-506) Function old new delta rawv6_recvmsg 744 767 +23 vsock_dgram_recvmsg 55 58 +3 vsock_connectible_recvmsg 50 47 -3 unix_stream_recvmsg 161 158 -3 unix_seqpacket_recvmsg 62 59 -3 unix_dgram_recvmsg 42 39 -3 tcp_recvmsg 546 543 -3 mptcp_recvmsg 1568 1565 -3 ping_recvmsg 806 800 -6 tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser 983 974 -9 ip_recv_error 588 576 -12 ipv6_recv_rxpmtu 442 428 -14 udp_recvmsg 1243 1224 -19 ipv6_recv_error 1046 1024 -22 udpv6_recvmsg 1487 1461 -26 raw_recvmsg 465 437 -28 udp_bpf_recvmsg 1027 984 -43 sock_common_recvmsg 103 27 -76 inet_recvmsg 257 175 -82 inet6_recvmsg 257 175 -82 tcp_bpf_recvmsg 663 568 -95 Total: Before=25143834, After=25143328, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski