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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/netlink, branch v6.17</title>
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<title>doc/netlink: Fix typos in operation attributes</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T23:30:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Remy D. Farley</name>
<email>one-d-wide@protonmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-13T14:05:28+00:00</published>
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I'm trying to generate Rust bindings for netlink using the yaml spec.

It looks like there's a typo in conntrack spec: attribute set conntrack-attrs
defines attributes "counters-{orig,reply}" (plural), while get operation
references "counter-{orig,reply}" (singular). The latter should be fixed, as it
denotes multiple counters (packet and byte). The corresonding C define is
CTA_COUNTERS_ORIG.

Also, dump request references "nfgen-family" attribute, which neither exists in
conntrack-attrs attrset nor ctattr_type enum. There's member of nfgenmsg struct
with the same name, which is where family value is actually taken from.

&gt; static int ctnetlink_dump_exp_ct(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl,
&gt;                struct sk_buff *skb,
&gt;                const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
&gt;                const struct nlattr * const cda[],
&gt;                struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
&gt; {
&gt;   int err;
&gt;   struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh);
&gt;   u_int8_t u3 = nfmsg-&gt;nfgen_family;
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Signed-off-by: Remy D. Farley &lt;one-d-wide@protonmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 23fc9311a526 ("netlink: specs: add conntrack dump and stats dump support")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250913140515.1132886-1-one-d-wide@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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I'm trying to generate Rust bindings for netlink using the yaml spec.

It looks like there's a typo in conntrack spec: attribute set conntrack-attrs
defines attributes "counters-{orig,reply}" (plural), while get operation
references "counter-{orig,reply}" (singular). The latter should be fixed, as it
denotes multiple counters (packet and byte). The corresonding C define is
CTA_COUNTERS_ORIG.

Also, dump request references "nfgen-family" attribute, which neither exists in
conntrack-attrs attrset nor ctattr_type enum. There's member of nfgenmsg struct
with the same name, which is where family value is actually taken from.

&gt; static int ctnetlink_dump_exp_ct(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl,
&gt;                struct sk_buff *skb,
&gt;                const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
&gt;                const struct nlattr * const cda[],
&gt;                struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
&gt; {
&gt;   int err;
&gt;   struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh);
&gt;   u_int8_t u3 = nfmsg-&gt;nfgen_family;
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Signed-off-by: Remy D. Farley &lt;one-d-wide@protonmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 23fc9311a526 ("netlink: specs: add conntrack dump and stats dump support")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250913140515.1132886-1-one-d-wide@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mptcp: pm: nl: announce deny-join-id0 flag</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T01:12:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)</name>
<email>matttbe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-12T12:52:21+00:00</published>
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During the connection establishment, a peer can tell the other one that
it cannot establish new subflows to the initial IP address and port by
setting the 'C' flag [1]. Doing so makes sense when the sender is behind
a strict NAT, operating behind a legacy Layer 4 load balancer, or using
anycast IP address for example.

When this 'C' flag is set, the path-managers must then not try to
establish new subflows to the other peer's initial IP address and port.
The in-kernel PM has access to this info, but the userspace PM didn't.

The RFC8684 [1] is strict about that:

  (...) therefore the receiver MUST NOT try to open any additional
  subflows toward this address and port.

So it is important to tell the userspace about that as it is responsible
for the respect of this flag.

When a new connection is created and established, the Netlink events
now contain the existing but not currently used 'flags' attribute. When
MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_DENY_JOIN_ID0 is set, it means no other subflows
to the initial IP address and port -- info that are also part of the
event -- can be established.

Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684#section-3.1-20.6 [1]
Fixes: 702c2f646d42 ("mptcp: netlink: allow userspace-driven subflow establishment")
Reported-by: Marek Majkowski &lt;marek@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/532
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912-net-mptcp-pm-uspace-deny_join_id0-v1-2-40171884ade8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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During the connection establishment, a peer can tell the other one that
it cannot establish new subflows to the initial IP address and port by
setting the 'C' flag [1]. Doing so makes sense when the sender is behind
a strict NAT, operating behind a legacy Layer 4 load balancer, or using
anycast IP address for example.

When this 'C' flag is set, the path-managers must then not try to
establish new subflows to the other peer's initial IP address and port.
The in-kernel PM has access to this info, but the userspace PM didn't.

The RFC8684 [1] is strict about that:

  (...) therefore the receiver MUST NOT try to open any additional
  subflows toward this address and port.

So it is important to tell the userspace about that as it is responsible
for the respect of this flag.

When a new connection is created and established, the Netlink events
now contain the existing but not currently used 'flags' attribute. When
MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_DENY_JOIN_ID0 is set, it means no other subflows
to the initial IP address and port -- info that are also part of the
event -- can be established.

Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684#section-3.1-20.6 [1]
Fixes: 702c2f646d42 ("mptcp: netlink: allow userspace-driven subflow establishment")
Reported-by: Marek Majkowski &lt;marek@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/532
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912-net-mptcp-pm-uspace-deny_join_id0-v1-2-40171884ade8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: specs: mptcp: fix if-idx attribute type</title>
<updated>2025-09-10T01:39:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)</name>
<email>matttbe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T21:27:27+00:00</published>
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This attribute is used as a signed number in the code in pm_netlink.c:

  nla_put_s32(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_IF_IDX, ssk-&gt;sk_bound_dev_if))

The specs should then reflect that. Note that other 'if-idx' attributes
from the same .yaml file use a signed number as well.

Fixes: bc8aeb2045e2 ("Documentation: netlink: add a YAML spec for mptcp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang &lt;geliang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250908-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-17-rc5-v1-1-5f2168a66079@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This attribute is used as a signed number in the code in pm_netlink.c:

  nla_put_s32(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_IF_IDX, ssk-&gt;sk_bound_dev_if))

The specs should then reflect that. Note that other 'if-idx' attributes
from the same .yaml file use a signed number as well.

Fixes: bc8aeb2045e2 ("Documentation: netlink: add a YAML spec for mptcp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang &lt;geliang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250908-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-17-rc5-v1-1-5f2168a66079@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: specs: ethtool: fix module EEPROM input/output arguments</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T17:57:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T17:21:37+00:00</published>
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Module (SFP) eeprom GET has a lot of input params, they are all
mistakenly listed as output in the spec. Looks like kernel doesn't
output them at all. Correct what are the inputs and what the outputs.

Reported-by: Duo Yi &lt;duo@meta.com&gt;
Fixes: a353318ebf24 ("tools: ynl: populate most of the ethtool spec")
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250730172137.1322351-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Module (SFP) eeprom GET has a lot of input params, they are all
mistakenly listed as output in the spec. Looks like kernel doesn't
output them at all. Correct what are the inputs and what the outputs.

Reported-by: Duo Yi &lt;duo@meta.com&gt;
Fixes: a353318ebf24 ("tools: ynl: populate most of the ethtool spec")
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250730172137.1322351-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: define an enum for the napi threaded state</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T01:34:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samiullah Khawaja</name>
<email>skhawaja@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-23T01:30:31+00:00</published>
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Instead of using '0' and '1' for napi threaded state use an enum with
'disabled' and 'enabled' states.

Tested:
 ./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py
 TAP version 13
 1..7
 ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check
 ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check
 ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check
 ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check
 ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded
 ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded
 ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down
 # Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja &lt;skhawaja@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-4-skhawaja@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Instead of using '0' and '1' for napi threaded state use an enum with
'disabled' and 'enabled' states.

Tested:
 ./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py
 TAP version 13
 1..7
 ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check
 ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check
 ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check
 ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check
 ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded
 ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded
 ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down
 # Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja &lt;skhawaja@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-4-skhawaja@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: netlink: specs: tc: Add DualPI2 specification</title>
<updated>2025-07-24T00:52:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chia-Yu Chang</name>
<email>chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-22T09:59:15+00:00</published>
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Introduce the specification of tc qdisc DualPI2 stats and attributes,
which is the reference implementation of IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9332) providing two different
queues: low latency queue (L-queue) and classic queue (C-queue).

Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang &lt;chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722095915.24485-7-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce the specification of tc qdisc DualPI2 stats and attributes,
which is the reference implementation of IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9332) providing two different
queues: low latency queue (L-queue) and classic queue (C-queue).

Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang &lt;chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722095915.24485-7-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: Fix excessive stack usage in rate TC bandwidth parsing</title>
<updated>2025-07-24T00:07:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carolina Jubran</name>
<email>cjubran@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-22T09:13:29+00:00</published>
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The devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse function uses a large stack array for
devlink attributes, which triggers a warning about excessive stack
usage:

net/devlink/rate.c: In function 'devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse':
net/devlink/rate.c:382:1: error: the frame size of 1648 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Introduce a separate attribute set specifically for rate TC bandwidth
parsing that only contains the two attributes actually used: index
and bandwidth. This reduces the stack array from DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX
entries to just 2 entries, solving the stack usage issue.

Update devlink selftest to use the new 'index' and 'bw' attribute names
consistent with the YAML spec.

Example usage with ynl with the new spec:

    ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \
      --do rate-set --json '{
      "bus-name": "pci",
      "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0",
      "port-index": 1,
      "rate-tc-bws": [
        {"index": 0, "bw": 50},
        {"index": 1, "bw": 50},
        {"index": 2, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 3, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 4, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 5, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 6, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 7, "bw": 0}
      ]
    }'

    ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \
      --do rate-get --json '{
      "bus-name": "pci",
      "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0",
      "port-index": 1
    }'

    output for rate-get:
    {'bus-name': 'pci',
     'dev-name': '0000:08:00.0',
     'port-index': 1,
     'rate-tc-bws': [{'bw': 50, 'index': 0},
                     {'bw': 50, 'index': 1},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 2},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 3},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 4},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 5},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 6},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 7}],
     'rate-tx-max': 0,
     'rate-tx-priority': 0,
     'rate-tx-share': 0,
     'rate-tx-weight': 0,
     'rate-type': 'leaf'}

Fixes: 566e8f108fc7 ("devlink: Extend devlink rate API with traffic classes bandwidth management")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250708160652.1810573-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202507171943.W7DJcs6Y-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1753175609-330621-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse function uses a large stack array for
devlink attributes, which triggers a warning about excessive stack
usage:

net/devlink/rate.c: In function 'devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse':
net/devlink/rate.c:382:1: error: the frame size of 1648 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Introduce a separate attribute set specifically for rate TC bandwidth
parsing that only contains the two attributes actually used: index
and bandwidth. This reduces the stack array from DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX
entries to just 2 entries, solving the stack usage issue.

Update devlink selftest to use the new 'index' and 'bw' attribute names
consistent with the YAML spec.

Example usage with ynl with the new spec:

    ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \
      --do rate-set --json '{
      "bus-name": "pci",
      "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0",
      "port-index": 1,
      "rate-tc-bws": [
        {"index": 0, "bw": 50},
        {"index": 1, "bw": 50},
        {"index": 2, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 3, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 4, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 5, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 6, "bw": 0},
        {"index": 7, "bw": 0}
      ]
    }'

    ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \
      --do rate-get --json '{
      "bus-name": "pci",
      "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0",
      "port-index": 1
    }'

    output for rate-get:
    {'bus-name': 'pci',
     'dev-name': '0000:08:00.0',
     'port-index': 1,
     'rate-tc-bws': [{'bw': 50, 'index': 0},
                     {'bw': 50, 'index': 1},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 2},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 3},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 4},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 5},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 6},
                     {'bw': 0, 'index': 7}],
     'rate-tx-max': 0,
     'rate-tx-priority': 0,
     'rate-tx-share': 0,
     'rate-tx-weight': 0,
     'rate-type': 'leaf'}

Fixes: 566e8f108fc7 ("devlink: Extend devlink rate API with traffic classes bandwidth management")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250708160652.1810573-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202507171943.W7DJcs6Y-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1753175609-330621-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ethtool: rss: support removing contexts via Netlink</title>
<updated>2025-07-22T01:21:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T23:43:42+00:00</published>
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Implement removing additional RSS contexts via Netlink.
Technically it'd be possible to shoehorn the delete operation
into ethnl_request_ops-compatible handler. The code ends
up longer than open coded version, and I think we'll need
a custom way of sending notifications at some stage (if we
allow tying the context lifetime to the netlink socket, in
the future).

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717234343.2328602-8-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Implement removing additional RSS contexts via Netlink.
Technically it'd be possible to shoehorn the delete operation
into ethnl_request_ops-compatible handler. The code ends
up longer than open coded version, and I think we'll need
a custom way of sending notifications at some stage (if we
allow tying the context lifetime to the netlink socket, in
the future).

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717234343.2328602-8-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ethtool: rss: support creating contexts via Netlink</title>
<updated>2025-07-22T01:20:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-07-17T23:43:41+00:00</published>
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Support creating contexts via Netlink. Setting flow hashing
fields on the new context is not supported at this stage,
it can be added later.

An empty indirection table is not supported. This is a carry
over from the IOCTL interface where empty indirection table
meant delete. We can repurpose empty indirection table in
Netlink but for now to avoid confusion reject it using the
policy.

Support letting user choose the ID for the new context. This was
not possible in IOCTL since the context ID field for the create
action had to be set to the ETH_RXFH_CONTEXT_ALLOC magic value.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717234343.2328602-7-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Support creating contexts via Netlink. Setting flow hashing
fields on the new context is not supported at this stage,
it can be added later.

An empty indirection table is not supported. This is a carry
over from the IOCTL interface where empty indirection table
meant delete. We can repurpose empty indirection table in
Netlink but for now to avoid confusion reject it using the
policy.

Support letting user choose the ID for the new context. This was
not possible in IOCTL since the context ID field for the create
action had to be set to the ETH_RXFH_CONTEXT_ALLOC magic value.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717234343.2328602-7-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ethtool: rss: support setting flow hashing fields</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T23:13:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T00:03:30+00:00</published>
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Add support for ETHTOOL_SRXFH (setting hashing fields) in RSS_SET.

The tricky part is dealing with symmetric hashing. In netlink user
can change the hashing fields and symmetric hash in one request,
in IOCTL the two used to be set via different uAPI requests.
Since fields and hash function config are still separate driver
callbacks - changes to the two are not atomic. Keep things simple
and validate the settings against both pre- and post- change ones.
Meaning that we will reject the config request if user tries
to correct the flow fields and set input_xfrm in one request,
or disables input_xfrm and makes flow fields non-symmetric.

We can adjust it later if there's a real need. Starting simple feels
right, and potentially partially applying the settings isn't nice,
either.

Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716000331.1378807-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add support for ETHTOOL_SRXFH (setting hashing fields) in RSS_SET.

The tricky part is dealing with symmetric hashing. In netlink user
can change the hashing fields and symmetric hash in one request,
in IOCTL the two used to be set via different uAPI requests.
Since fields and hash function config are still separate driver
callbacks - changes to the two are not atomic. Keep things simple
and validate the settings against both pre- and post- change ones.
Meaning that we will reject the config request if user tries
to correct the flow fields and set input_xfrm in one request,
or disables input_xfrm and makes flow fields non-symmetric.

We can adjust it later if there's a real need. Starting simple feels
right, and potentially partially applying the settings isn't nice,
either.

Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman &lt;gal@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716000331.1378807-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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