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<title>bonding: 3ad: fix mux port state on oper down</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Scalbert</name>
<email>louis.scalbert@6wind.com</email>
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<published>2026-06-03T15:03:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 807afc7544b865d4d09068a415fd5b71bf5665cc ]

When the bonding interface has carrier down due to the absence of
usable slaves and a slave transitions from down to up, the bonding
interface briefly goes carrier up, then down again, and finally up
once LACP negotiates collecting and distributing on the port.

When lacp_strict mode is on, the interface should not transition to
carrier up until LACP negotiation is complete.

This happens because the actor and partner port states remain in
Collecting_Distributing when the port goes down. When the port
comes back up, it temporarily remains in this state until LACP
renegotiation occurs.

Previously this was mostly cosmetic, but since the bonding carrier
state may depend on the LACP negotiation state, it causes the
interface to flap.

According to IEEE 802.3ad-2000 and IEEE 802.1ax-2014, Collecting and
Distributing should be reset when a port goes down:
- In the Receive state machine, port_enabled == FALSE causes a
  transition to the PORT_DISABLED state, which is expected to clear
  Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization.
- In the Mux state machine, Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization ==
  FALSE causes a transition to the ATTACHED state, which disables
  Collecting and Distributing.

However, Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization is not cleared in the
PORT_DISABLED state.

Clear Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization in the Receive
PORT_DISABLED state.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-6-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 807afc7544b865d4d09068a415fd5b71bf5665cc ]

When the bonding interface has carrier down due to the absence of
usable slaves and a slave transitions from down to up, the bonding
interface briefly goes carrier up, then down again, and finally up
once LACP negotiates collecting and distributing on the port.

When lacp_strict mode is on, the interface should not transition to
carrier up until LACP negotiation is complete.

This happens because the actor and partner port states remain in
Collecting_Distributing when the port goes down. When the port
comes back up, it temporarily remains in this state until LACP
renegotiation occurs.

Previously this was mostly cosmetic, but since the bonding carrier
state may depend on the LACP negotiation state, it causes the
interface to flap.

According to IEEE 802.3ad-2000 and IEEE 802.1ax-2014, Collecting and
Distributing should be reset when a port goes down:
- In the Receive state machine, port_enabled == FALSE causes a
  transition to the PORT_DISABLED state, which is expected to clear
  Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization.
- In the Mux state machine, Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization ==
  FALSE causes a transition to the ATTACHED state, which disables
  Collecting and Distributing.

However, Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization is not cleared in the
PORT_DISABLED state.

Clear Partner_Oper_Port_State.Synchronization in the Receive
PORT_DISABLED state.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-6-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bonding: 3ad: fix carrier when no usable slaves</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Scalbert</name>
<email>louis.scalbert@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T15:03:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0bd695db23c6262e9cb980017a6273925172ec5b ]

Apply the "lacp_strict" configuration from the previous commit.

"lacp_strict" mode "on" asserts that the bonding master carrier is up
only when at least 'min_links' slaves are in the Collecting_Distributing
state.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-5-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0bd695db23c6262e9cb980017a6273925172ec5b ]

Apply the "lacp_strict" configuration from the previous commit.

"lacp_strict" mode "on" asserts that the bonding master carrier is up
only when at least 'min_links' slaves are in the Collecting_Distributing
state.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-5-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Scalbert</name>
<email>louis.scalbert@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T15:03:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 32b0b8953343eaceaa816a9ead3b6bb66355c64e ]

When an 802.3ad (LACP) bonding interface has no slaves in the
collecting/distributing state, the bonding master still reports
carrier as up as long as at least 'min_links' slaves have carrier.

In this situation, only one slave is effectively used for TX/RX,
while traffic received on other slaves is dropped. Upper-layer
daemons therefore consider the interface operational, even though
traffic may be blackholed if the lack of LACP negotiation means
the partner is not ready to deal with traffic.

Introduce a configuration knob to control this behavior. It allows
the bonding master to assert carrier only when at least 'min_links'
slaves are in Collecting_Distributing state.

The default mode preserves the existing behavior. This patch only
introduces the knob; its behavior is implemented in the subsequent
commit.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-4-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 32b0b8953343eaceaa816a9ead3b6bb66355c64e ]

When an 802.3ad (LACP) bonding interface has no slaves in the
collecting/distributing state, the bonding master still reports
carrier as up as long as at least 'min_links' slaves have carrier.

In this situation, only one slave is effectively used for TX/RX,
while traffic received on other slaves is dropped. Upper-layer
daemons therefore consider the interface operational, even though
traffic may be blackholed if the lack of LACP negotiation means
the partner is not ready to deal with traffic.

Introduce a configuration knob to control this behavior. It allows
the bonding master to assert carrier only when at least 'min_links'
slaves are in Collecting_Distributing state.

The default mode preserves the existing behavior. This patch only
introduces the knob; its behavior is implemented in the subsequent
commit.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-4-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: annotate data-races arcound churn variables</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T15:58:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T12:35:14+00:00</published>
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These fields are updated asynchronously by the bonding state machine
in ad_churn_machine() while holding bond-&gt;mode_lock.

bond_info_show_slave() and bond_fill_slave_info() read them without
bond-&gt;mode_lock being held, we need to add READ_ONCE() and
WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

Note that AD_CHURN_MONITOR, AD_CHURN, and AD_NO_CHURN are defined
exclusively in (kernel private) include/net/bond_3ad.h header.

They should be moved to include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h or userspace
tools will have to hardcode their values.

Fixes: 4916f2e2f3fc ("bonding: print churn state via netlink")
Fixes: 14c9551a32eb ("bonding: Implement port churn-machine (AD standard 43.4.17).")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603123514.388226-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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These fields are updated asynchronously by the bonding state machine
in ad_churn_machine() while holding bond-&gt;mode_lock.

bond_info_show_slave() and bond_fill_slave_info() read them without
bond-&gt;mode_lock being held, we need to add READ_ONCE() and
WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

Note that AD_CHURN_MONITOR, AD_CHURN, and AD_NO_CHURN are defined
exclusively in (kernel private) include/net/bond_3ad.h header.

They should be moved to include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h or userspace
tools will have to hardcode their values.

Fixes: 4916f2e2f3fc ("bonding: print churn state via netlink")
Fixes: 14c9551a32eb ("bonding: Implement port churn-machine (AD standard 43.4.17).")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603123514.388226-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in bond_do_ioctl()</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T09:38:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ZhaoJinming</name>
<email>zhaojinming@uniontech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-01T08:56:49+00:00</published>
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In bond_do_ioctl(), slave_dev is obtained via __dev_get_by_name() which
can return NULL if the requested interface name does not exist. However,
the subsequent slave_dbg() call is placed before the NULL check:

    slave_dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr-&gt;ifr_slave);
    slave_dbg(bond_dev, slave_dev, "slave_dev=%p:\n", slave_dev); //here
    if (!slave_dev)
        return -ENODEV;

The slave_dbg() macro expands to netdev_dbg(bond_dev, "(slave %s): " fmt,
(slave_dev)-&gt;name, ...) which unconditionally dereferences slave_dev-&gt;name
before the NULL check is performed. This results in a NULL pointer
dereference kernel oops when a user calls bonding ioctl (e.g.
SIOCBONDENSLAVE, SIOCBONDRELEASE, etc.) with a non-existent slave
interface name.

This is reachable from userspace via the bonding ioctl interface with
CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, making it a potential local denial-of-service
vector.

Fix by moving the slave_dbg() call after the NULL check.

Fixes: e2a7420df2e0 ("bonding/main: convert to using slave printk macros")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: ZhaoJinming &lt;zhaojinming@uniontech.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601085649.4029067-1-zhaojinming@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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In bond_do_ioctl(), slave_dev is obtained via __dev_get_by_name() which
can return NULL if the requested interface name does not exist. However,
the subsequent slave_dbg() call is placed before the NULL check:

    slave_dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr-&gt;ifr_slave);
    slave_dbg(bond_dev, slave_dev, "slave_dev=%p:\n", slave_dev); //here
    if (!slave_dev)
        return -ENODEV;

The slave_dbg() macro expands to netdev_dbg(bond_dev, "(slave %s): " fmt,
(slave_dev)-&gt;name, ...) which unconditionally dereferences slave_dev-&gt;name
before the NULL check is performed. This results in a NULL pointer
dereference kernel oops when a user calls bonding ioctl (e.g.
SIOCBONDENSLAVE, SIOCBONDRELEASE, etc.) with a non-existent slave
interface name.

This is reachable from userspace via the bonding ioctl interface with
CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, making it a potential local denial-of-service
vector.

Fix by moving the slave_dbg() call after the NULL check.

Fixes: e2a7420df2e0 ("bonding/main: convert to using slave printk macros")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: ZhaoJinming &lt;zhaojinming@uniontech.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601085649.4029067-1-zhaojinming@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices</title>
<updated>2026-05-27T23:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Hartkopp</name>
<email>socketcan@hartkopp.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-26T19:33:19+00:00</published>
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syzbot reported a kernel paging request crash in
can_rx_unregister() inside net/can/af_can.c. The crash occurs
because a virtual CAN device (vxcan) is being enslaved to a
bonding master.

During the enslavement process, the bonding driver mutates
and modifies the network device states to fit an Ethernet-like
aggregation model. However, CAN devices operate on a completely
different Layer 2 architecture, relying on the CAN mid-layer
private data structure (can_ml_priv) instead of standard
Ethernet structures. Since bonding does not initialize or
maintain these CAN structures, subsequent operations on the
half-enslaved interface (such as closing associated sockets
via isotp_release) lead to a null-pointer dereference when
accessing the CAN receiver lists.

Bonding CAN interfaces is architecturally invalid as CAN lacks
MAC addresses, ARP capabilities, and standard Ethernet
link-layer mechanisms. While generic loopback devices are
blocked globally in net/core/dev.c, virtual CAN devices
bypass this check because they do not carry the IFF_LOOPBACK
flag, despite acting as local software-loopbacks.

Fix this by explicitly blocking network devices of type
ARPHRD_CAN from being enslaved at the very beginning of
bond_enslave(). This prevents illegal state mutations,
eliminates the resulting KASAN crashes, and avoids potential
memory leaks from incomplete socket cleanups.

As the CAN support has been added a long time after bonding
the Fixes-tag points to the introduction of ARPHRD_CAN that
would have needed a specific handling in bonding_main.c.

Fixes: cd05acfe65ed ("[CAN]: Allocate protocol numbers for PF_CAN")
Reported-by: syzbot+8ed98cbd0161632bce95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8ed98cbd0161632bce95
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-bonding-candev-v1-1-ba1df400918a@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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syzbot reported a kernel paging request crash in
can_rx_unregister() inside net/can/af_can.c. The crash occurs
because a virtual CAN device (vxcan) is being enslaved to a
bonding master.

During the enslavement process, the bonding driver mutates
and modifies the network device states to fit an Ethernet-like
aggregation model. However, CAN devices operate on a completely
different Layer 2 architecture, relying on the CAN mid-layer
private data structure (can_ml_priv) instead of standard
Ethernet structures. Since bonding does not initialize or
maintain these CAN structures, subsequent operations on the
half-enslaved interface (such as closing associated sockets
via isotp_release) lead to a null-pointer dereference when
accessing the CAN receiver lists.

Bonding CAN interfaces is architecturally invalid as CAN lacks
MAC addresses, ARP capabilities, and standard Ethernet
link-layer mechanisms. While generic loopback devices are
blocked globally in net/core/dev.c, virtual CAN devices
bypass this check because they do not carry the IFF_LOOPBACK
flag, despite acting as local software-loopbacks.

Fix this by explicitly blocking network devices of type
ARPHRD_CAN from being enslaved at the very beginning of
bond_enslave(). This prevents illegal state mutations,
eliminates the resulting KASAN crashes, and avoids potential
memory leaks from incomplete socket cleanups.

As the CAN support has been added a long time after bonding
the Fixes-tag points to the introduction of ARPHRD_CAN that
would have needed a specific handling in bonding_main.c.

Fixes: cd05acfe65ed ("[CAN]: Allocate protocol numbers for PF_CAN")
Reported-by: syzbot+8ed98cbd0161632bce95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8ed98cbd0161632bce95
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp &lt;socketcan@hartkopp.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-bonding-candev-v1-1-ba1df400918a@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port-&gt;aggregator</title>
<updated>2026-04-30T01:32:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-28T12:32:07+00:00</published>
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syzbot found a data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info /
bond_3ad_state_machine_handler [1] which hints at lack of proper
RCU implementation.

Add __rcu qualifier to port-&gt;aggregator, and add proper RCU API.

[1]

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler

write to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 36 on cpu 0:
  ad_port_selection_logic drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:1659 [inline]
  bond_3ad_state_machine_handler+0x9d5/0x2d60 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2569
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0x4f0/0x9c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
  worker_thread+0x58a/0x780 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
  kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436
  ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 22063 on cpu 1:
  __bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2858 [inline]
  bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info+0x8c/0x230 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2881
  bond_fill_info+0xe0f/0x10f0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c:853
  rtnl_link_info_fill net/core/rtnetlink.c:906 [inline]
  rtnl_link_fill+0x1d7/0x4e0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:927
  rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xf8e/0x1380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2168
  rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x11c/0x1b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4453
  rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4486 [inline]
  rtmsg_ifinfo+0x6d/0x110 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4495
  __dev_notify_flags+0x76/0x390 net/core/dev.c:9790
  netif_change_flags+0xac/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:9823
  do_setlink+0x905/0x2950 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180
  rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3813 [inline]
  __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3981 [inline]
  rtnl_newlink+0xf55/0x1400 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4109
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x64b/0x720 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6995
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
  rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7022
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0x5a8/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
  netlink_sendmsg+0x5c8/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
  __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x563/0x5b0 net/socket.c:2698
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x195/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2752
  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xd4/0x160 net/socket.c:2787
  x64_sys_call+0x194c/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -&gt; 0xffff88813cf5c400

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22063 Comm: syz.0.31122 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026

Fixes: 47e91f56008b ("bonding: use RCU protection for 3ad xmit path")
Reported-by: syzbot+9bb2ff2a4ab9e17307e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/69f0a82f.050a0220.3aadc4.0000.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew+netdev@lunn.ch&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428123207.3809211-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
syzbot found a data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info /
bond_3ad_state_machine_handler [1] which hints at lack of proper
RCU implementation.

Add __rcu qualifier to port-&gt;aggregator, and add proper RCU API.

[1]

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler

write to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 36 on cpu 0:
  ad_port_selection_logic drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:1659 [inline]
  bond_3ad_state_machine_handler+0x9d5/0x2d60 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2569
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0x4f0/0x9c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
  worker_thread+0x58a/0x780 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
  kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436
  ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 22063 on cpu 1:
  __bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2858 [inline]
  bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info+0x8c/0x230 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2881
  bond_fill_info+0xe0f/0x10f0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c:853
  rtnl_link_info_fill net/core/rtnetlink.c:906 [inline]
  rtnl_link_fill+0x1d7/0x4e0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:927
  rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xf8e/0x1380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2168
  rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x11c/0x1b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4453
  rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4486 [inline]
  rtmsg_ifinfo+0x6d/0x110 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4495
  __dev_notify_flags+0x76/0x390 net/core/dev.c:9790
  netif_change_flags+0xac/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:9823
  do_setlink+0x905/0x2950 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180
  rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3813 [inline]
  __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3981 [inline]
  rtnl_newlink+0xf55/0x1400 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4109
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x64b/0x720 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6995
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
  rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7022
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0x5a8/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
  netlink_sendmsg+0x5c8/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
  __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x563/0x5b0 net/socket.c:2698
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x195/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2752
  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xd4/0x160 net/socket.c:2787
  x64_sys_call+0x194c/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -&gt; 0xffff88813cf5c400

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22063 Comm: syz.0.31122 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026

Fixes: 47e91f56008b ("bonding: use RCU protection for 3ad xmit path")
Reported-by: syzbot+9bb2ff2a4ab9e17307e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/69f0a82f.050a0220.3aadc4.0000.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew+netdev@lunn.ch&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428123207.3809211-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=91a4855d6c03e770e42f17c798a36a3c46e63de2'/>
<id>91a4855d6c03e770e42f17c798a36a3c46e63de2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; 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
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; 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
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-10T15:40:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-10T15:40:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7c6c4ed80b874f721bc7c2c937e098c56e37d2f0'/>
<id>7c6c4ed80b874f721bc7c2c937e098c56e37d2f0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "The kernfs rbtree is keyed by (hash, ns, name) where the hash
  is seeded with the raw namespace pointer via init_name_hash(ns).

  The resulting hash values are exposed to userspace through
  readdir seek positions, and the pointer-based ordering in
  kernfs_name_compare() is observable through entry order.

  Switch from raw pointers to ns_common::ns_id for both hashing
  and comparison.

  A preparatory commit first replaces all const void * namespace
  parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout kernfs, sysfs,
  and kobject so the code can access ns-&gt;ns_id. Also compare the
  ns_id when hashes match in the rbtree to handle crafted collisions.

  Also fix eventpoll RCU grace period issue and a cachefiles refcount
  problem"

* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  kernfs: make directory seek namespace-aware
  kernfs: use namespace id instead of pointer for hashing and comparison
  kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags
  eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period
  cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "The kernfs rbtree is keyed by (hash, ns, name) where the hash
  is seeded with the raw namespace pointer via init_name_hash(ns).

  The resulting hash values are exposed to userspace through
  readdir seek positions, and the pointer-based ordering in
  kernfs_name_compare() is observable through entry order.

  Switch from raw pointers to ns_common::ns_id for both hashing
  and comparison.

  A preparatory commit first replaces all const void * namespace
  parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout kernfs, sysfs,
  and kobject so the code can access ns-&gt;ns_id. Also compare the
  ns_id when hashes match in the rbtree to handle crafted collisions.

  Also fix eventpoll RCU grace period issue and a cachefiles refcount
  problem"

* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  kernfs: make directory seek namespace-aware
  kernfs: use namespace id instead of pointer for hashing and comparison
  kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags
  eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period
  cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()
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<title>kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-01T10:15:58+00:00</published>
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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