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<updated>2025-09-25T07:18:17+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>afs: Fix potential null pointer dereference in afs_put_server</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:18:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhen Ni</name>
<email>zhen.ni@easystack.cn</email>
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<published>2025-09-23T07:51:04+00:00</published>
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afs_put_server() accessed server-&gt;debug_id before the NULL check, which
could lead to a null pointer dereference. Move the debug_id assignment,
ensuring we never dereference a NULL server pointer.

Fixes: 2757a4dc1849 ("afs: Fix access after dec in put functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni &lt;zhen.ni@easystack.cn&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman &lt;jaltman@auristor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</published>
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Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm:
  introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

  This is preferred to the existing f_op-&gt;mmap() hook as it does require
  a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
  this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
  address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.

  This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
  single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
  reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.

  Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
  incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
  the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.

  The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op-&gt;mmap, and in that vein this
  series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare.

  Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
  capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
  directly checking for f_op-&gt;mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
  secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
  parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.

  Commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
  nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
  systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
  f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op-&gt;mmap() callback.

  This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
  with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
  finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.

  As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
  can nest all other file systems.

  We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
  remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
  series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
  insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
  syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
  We shall return to all of these later"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
  fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
  fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
  mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
  fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
  fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
  mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
  mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T16:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T16:17:57+00:00</published>
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Pull dentry d_flags updates from Al Viro:
 "The current exclusion rules for dentry-&gt;d_flags stores are rather
  unpleasant. The basic rules are simple:

   - stores to dentry-&gt;d_flags are OK under dentry-&gt;d_lock

   - stores to dentry-&gt;d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
     becomes potentially visible to other threads

  Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's
  where the headache comes from.

  The main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets -&gt;d_op of
  dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
  methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
  of correctness is brittle.

  Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we might
  as well precalculate the initial value of 'd_flags' when we set the
  default -&gt;d_op for given superblock and set 'd_flags' directly instead
  of messing with that helper.

  The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not
  going to reproduce it here. See [1] for gory details, if you care. The
  critical part is using d_set_d_op() only just prior to
  d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias() with
  setting -&gt;d_op, etc a natural replacement primitive.

  Better yet, if we go that way, it's easy to take setting -&gt;d_op and
  modifying 'd_flags' under -&gt;d_lock, which eliminates the headache as
  far as 'd_flags' exclusion rules are concerned. Other exceptions are
  minor and easy to deal with.

  What this series does:

   - d_set_d_op() is no longer available; instead a new primitive
     (d_splice_alias_ops()) is provided, equivalent to combination of
     d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().

   - new field of struct super_block - 's_d_flags'. This sets the
     default value of 'd_flags' to be used when allocating dentries on
     this filesystem.

   - new primitive for setting 's_d_op': set_default_d_op(). This
     replaces stores to 's_d_op' at mount time.

     All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree ones will get caught
     by the compiler ('s_d_op' is renamed, so stores to it will be
     caught). 's_d_flags' is set by the same primitive to match the
     's_d_op'.

   - a lot of filesystems had sb-&gt;s_d_op-&gt;d_delete equal to
     always_delete_dentry; that is equivalent to setting
     DCACHE_DONTCACHE in 'd_flags', so such filesystems can bloody well
     set that bit in 's_d_flags' and drop 'd_delete()' from
     dentry_operations.

     In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations, which
     means that we can get rid of those.

   - kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore

   - massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt
     'd_flags' stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we
     allocate the new dentry; no need to delay that until we commit to
     using the sucker.

  As the result, 'd_flags' stores are all either under -&gt;d_lock or done
  before the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/ [1]

* tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
  configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
  debugfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
  efivarfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE instead of always_delete_dentry()
  9p: don't bother with always_delete_dentry
  ramfs, hugetlbfs, mqueue: set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
  kill simple_dentry_operations
  devpts, sunrpc, hostfs: don't bother with -&gt;d_op
  shmem: no dentry retention past the refcount reaching zero
  d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlier
  make d_set_d_op() static
  simple_lookup(): just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
  tracefs: Add d_delete to remove negative dentries
  set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for -&gt;d_flags
  correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() time
  split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op()
  new helper: set_default_d_op()
  fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry
  switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops()
  new helper: d_splice_alias_ops()
  procfs: kill -&gt;proc_dops
  ...
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<title>afs: Set vllist to NULL if addr parsing fails</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T11:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Adam Davis</name>
<email>eadavis@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-21T14:26:51+00:00</published>
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syzbot reported a bug in in afs_put_vlserverlist.

  kAFS: bad VL server IP address
  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffa
  ...
  Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
  ...
  RIP: 0010:refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:afs_put_vlserverlist+0x3a/0x220 fs/afs/vl_list.c:67
  ...
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   afs_alloc_cell fs/afs/cell.c:218 [inline]
   afs_lookup_cell+0x12a5/0x1680 fs/afs/cell.c:264
   afs_cell_init+0x17a/0x380 fs/afs/cell.c:386
   afs_proc_rootcell_write+0x21f/0x290 fs/afs/proc.c:247
   proc_simple_write+0x114/0x1b0 fs/proc/generic.c:825
   pde_write fs/proc/inode.c:330 [inline]
   proc_reg_write+0x23d/0x330 fs/proc/inode.c:342
   vfs_write+0x25c/0x1180 fs/read_write.c:682
   ksys_write+0x12a/0x240 fs/read_write.c:736
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x260 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Because afs_parse_text_addrs() parses incorrectly, its return value -EINVAL
is assigned to vllist, which results in -EINVAL being used as the vllist
address when afs_put_vlserverlist() is executed.

Set the vllist value to NULL when a parsing error occurs to avoid this
issue.

Fixes: e2c2cb8ef07a ("afs: Simplify cell record handling")
Reported-by: syzbot+5c042fbab0b292c98fc6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c042fbab0b292c98fc6
Tested-by: syzbot+5c042fbab0b292c98fc6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4119365.1753108011@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>afs: Fix check for NULL terminator</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T11:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Stone</name>
<email>leocstone@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-21T14:29:12+00:00</published>
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Add a missing check for reaching the end of the string while attempting
to split a command.

Fixes: f94f70d39cc2 ("afs: Provide a way to configure address priorities")
Reported-by: syzbot+7741f872f3c53385a2e2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7741f872f3c53385a2e2
Signed-off-by: Leo Stone &lt;leocstone@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4119428.1753108152@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T11:56:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-16T19:33:28+00:00</published>
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Update nearly all generic_file_mmap() and generic_file_readonly_mmap()
callers to use generic_file_mmap_prepare() and
generic_file_readonly_mmap_prepare() respectively.

We update blkdev, 9p, afs, erofs, ext2, nfs, ntfs3, smb, ubifs and vboxsf
file systems this way.

Remaining users we cannot yet update are ecryptfs, fuse and cramfs. The
former two are nested file systems that must support any underlying file
ssytem, and cramfs inserts a mixed mapping which currently requires a VMA.

Once all file systems have been converted to mmap_prepare(), we can then
update nested file systems.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/08db85970d89b17a995d2cffae96fb4cc462377f.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: set_default_d_op()</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T02:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T00:39:47+00:00</published>
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... to be used instead of manually assigning to -&gt;s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-06-02T22:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T22:04:06+00:00</published>
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Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:

 - The main API document has been extensively updated/rewritten

 - Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator

 - Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads

 - Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby
   avoiding the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context

 - Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used

 - Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ, NETFS_INVALID_WRITE,
   NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH, NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR,
   NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS, and NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED

 - Reorder structs to eliminate holes

 - Remove netfs_io_request::ractl

 - Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y

 - Remove folio_queue::marks3

 - Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
  netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used
  netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref
  netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads
  netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
  fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
  fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
  folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
  fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
  fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
  fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
  fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
  fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
  fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
  fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</published>
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Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
 "Automount wart removal

  A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
  those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
  mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.

  But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
  itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
  grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
  that once it attaches that mount.

  Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
  flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.

  vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
  had been switched to saner primitives"

* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill vfs_submount()
  saner calling conventions for -&gt;d_automount()
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
     data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.

   - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
     under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
     faster.

   - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
     the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
     scalability.

   - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
     abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
     micro-benchmarks.

   - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
     performance improvement in related stream tests.

   - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
     prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
     on PREMPT_RT.

   - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
     verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.

  Netfilter:

   - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
     considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
     use this interface.

   - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
     flowtables.

   - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.

   - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
     introspection.

  BPF:

   - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
     programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
     using the "tc qdisc" command.

   - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
     WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.

  Protocols:

   - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
     upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
     single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.

   - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
     security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.

   - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
     matches the nexthop device.

   - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
     and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.

   - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
     distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
     organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
     in the fast path.

   - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.

  Driver API:

   - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
     the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
     unsupported flags.

   - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.

   - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
     dump operations targeting PHYs.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
     ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
     qdisc layer configuration.

   - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
     known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
     netlink output.

   - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.

   - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
     the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
     user-space implementation.

   - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.

   - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.

   - AMD Renoir ethernet device.

   - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.

   - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
       - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
           - refactor the steering table handling to significantly
             reduce the amount of memory used
           - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
           - improve flow streeing error handling
           - convert to netdev instance locking
       - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
           - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
           - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
           - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
           - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
           - idpf: introduce RDMA support
           - idpf: add initial PTP support
       - Meta (fbnic):
           - extend hardware stats coverage
           - add devlink dev flash support
       - Broadcom (bnxt):
           - add support for RX-side device memory TCP
       - Wangxun (txgbe):
           - implement support for udp tunnel offload
           - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
       - Google (gve):
           - add device memory TCP TX support
       - Amazon (ena):
           - support persistent per-NAPI config
       - Airoha:
           - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
           - add per flow stats for flow offloading
       - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
       - Synopsys (stmmac):
           - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
           - add Loongson-2K3000 support
           - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
       - Broadcom (bcmgenet):
           - expose more H/W stats
       - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
           - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
           - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
       - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
       - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops

   - Ethernet switches:
       - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
       - RealTek (rtl8211):
           - add support for WoL magic packet
           - add support for PHY LEDs

   - CAN:
       - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
       - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
       - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.

   - WiFi:
       - mac80211:
           - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
       - Qualcomm (ath12k):
           - enable AHB support for IPQ5332
           - add monitor interface support to QCN9274
           - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
           - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
           - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
       - Qualcomm (ath11k):
           - restore hibernation support
       - MediaTek (mt76):
           - WiFi-7 improvements
           - implement support for mt7990
       - Intel (iwlwifi):
           - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
           - rework device configuration
       - RealTek (rtw88):
           - improve throughput for RTL8814AU
       - RealTek (rtw89):
           - add multi-link operation support
           - STA/P2P concurrency improvements
           - support different SAR configs by antenna

   - Bluetooth:
       - introduce HCI Driver protocol
       - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
       - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
       - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
       - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
  selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
  net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
  net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
  calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
  selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
  net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
  net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
  net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
  net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
  net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
  net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
  net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
  net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
  page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
  net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
  selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
  net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
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