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<title>hv_netvsc: Fix panic during namespace deletion with VF</title>
<updated>2025-08-20T16:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haiyang Zhang</name>
<email>haiyangz@microsoft.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-06T20:21:51+00:00</published>
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commit 33caa208dba6fa639e8a92fd0c8320b652e5550c upstream.

The existing code move the VF NIC to new namespace when NETDEV_REGISTER is
received on netvsc NIC. During deletion of the namespace,
default_device_exit_batch() &gt;&gt; default_device_exit_net() is called. When
netvsc NIC is moved back and registered to the default namespace, it
automatically brings VF NIC back to the default namespace. This will cause
the default_device_exit_net() &gt;&gt; for_each_netdev_safe loop unable to detect
the list end, and hit NULL ptr:

[  231.449420] mana 7870:00:00.0 enP30832s1: Moved VF to namespace with: eth0
[  231.449656] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[  231.450246] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  231.450579] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  231.450916] PGD 17b8a8067 P4D 0
[  231.451163] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[  231.451450] CPU: 82 UID: 0 PID: 1394 Comm: kworker/u768:1 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #3 VOLUNTARY
[  231.452042] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/21/2024
[  231.452692] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
[  231.452947] RIP: 0010:default_device_exit_batch+0x16c/0x3f0
[  231.453326] Code: c0 0c f5 b3 e8 d5 db fe ff 48 85 c0 74 15 48 c7 c2 f8 fd ca b2 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 7d c0 e8 7b 77 25 00 49 8b 86 28 01 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 8b 50 10 4c 8b 2a 4c 8d 62 f0 49 83 ed 10 4c 39 e0 0f 84 d6 00
[  231.454294] RSP: 0018:ff75fc7c9bf9fd00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  231.454610] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 61c8864680b583eb
[  231.455094] RDX: ff1fa9f71462d800 RSI: ff75fc7c9bf9fd38 RDI: 0000000030766564
[  231.455686] RBP: ff75fc7c9bf9fd78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  231.456126] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ff1fa9f70088e340
[  231.456621] R13: ff1fa9f70088e340 R14: ffffffffb3f50c20 R15: ff1fa9f7103e6340
[  231.457161] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1faa6783a08000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  231.457707] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  231.458031] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000179ab2006 CR4: 0000000000b73ef0
[  231.458434] Call Trace:
[  231.458600]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[  231.458777]  ops_undo_list+0x100/0x220
[  231.459015]  cleanup_net+0x1b8/0x300
[  231.459285]  process_one_work+0x184/0x340

To fix it, move the ns change to a workqueue, and take rtnl_lock to avoid
changing the netdev list when default_device_exit_net() is using it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c262801ea60 ("hv_netvsc: Fix VF namespace also in synthetic NIC NETDEV_REGISTER event")
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1754511711-11188-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 33caa208dba6fa639e8a92fd0c8320b652e5550c upstream.

The existing code move the VF NIC to new namespace when NETDEV_REGISTER is
received on netvsc NIC. During deletion of the namespace,
default_device_exit_batch() &gt;&gt; default_device_exit_net() is called. When
netvsc NIC is moved back and registered to the default namespace, it
automatically brings VF NIC back to the default namespace. This will cause
the default_device_exit_net() &gt;&gt; for_each_netdev_safe loop unable to detect
the list end, and hit NULL ptr:

[  231.449420] mana 7870:00:00.0 enP30832s1: Moved VF to namespace with: eth0
[  231.449656] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[  231.450246] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  231.450579] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  231.450916] PGD 17b8a8067 P4D 0
[  231.451163] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[  231.451450] CPU: 82 UID: 0 PID: 1394 Comm: kworker/u768:1 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #3 VOLUNTARY
[  231.452042] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/21/2024
[  231.452692] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
[  231.452947] RIP: 0010:default_device_exit_batch+0x16c/0x3f0
[  231.453326] Code: c0 0c f5 b3 e8 d5 db fe ff 48 85 c0 74 15 48 c7 c2 f8 fd ca b2 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 7d c0 e8 7b 77 25 00 49 8b 86 28 01 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 8b 50 10 4c 8b 2a 4c 8d 62 f0 49 83 ed 10 4c 39 e0 0f 84 d6 00
[  231.454294] RSP: 0018:ff75fc7c9bf9fd00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  231.454610] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 61c8864680b583eb
[  231.455094] RDX: ff1fa9f71462d800 RSI: ff75fc7c9bf9fd38 RDI: 0000000030766564
[  231.455686] RBP: ff75fc7c9bf9fd78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  231.456126] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ff1fa9f70088e340
[  231.456621] R13: ff1fa9f70088e340 R14: ffffffffb3f50c20 R15: ff1fa9f7103e6340
[  231.457161] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1faa6783a08000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  231.457707] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  231.458031] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000179ab2006 CR4: 0000000000b73ef0
[  231.458434] Call Trace:
[  231.458600]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[  231.458777]  ops_undo_list+0x100/0x220
[  231.459015]  cleanup_net+0x1b8/0x300
[  231.459285]  process_one_work+0x184/0x340

To fix it, move the ns change to a workqueue, and take rtnl_lock to avoid
changing the netdev list when default_device_exit_net() is using it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c262801ea60 ("hv_netvsc: Fix VF namespace also in synthetic NIC NETDEV_REGISTER event")
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1754511711-11188-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Set VF priv_flags to IFF_NO_ADDRCONF before open to prevent IPv6 addrconf</title>
<updated>2025-07-24T06:58:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Tian</name>
<email>litian@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T00:26:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d7501e076d859d2f381d57bd984ff6db13172727 ]

Set an additional flag IFF_NO_ADDRCONF to prevent ipv6 addrconf.

Commit under Fixes added a new flag change that was not made
to hv_netvsc resulting in the VF being assinged an IPv6.

Fixes: 8a321cf7becc ("net: add IFF_NO_ADDRCONF and use it in bonding to prevent ipv6 addrconf")
Suggested-by: Cathy Avery &lt;cavery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Tian &lt;litian@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xin Long &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716002607.4927-1-litian@redhat.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 d7501e076d859d2f381d57bd984ff6db13172727 ]

Set an additional flag IFF_NO_ADDRCONF to prevent ipv6 addrconf.

Commit under Fixes added a new flag change that was not made
to hv_netvsc resulting in the VF being assinged an IPv6.

Fixes: 8a321cf7becc ("net: add IFF_NO_ADDRCONF and use it in bonding to prevent ipv6 addrconf")
Suggested-by: Cathy Avery &lt;cavery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Tian &lt;litian@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xin Long &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716002607.4927-1-litian@redhat.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>hv_netvsc: fix potential deadlock in netvsc_vf_setxdp()</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Saurabh Sengar</name>
<email>ssengar@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-29T10:18:30+00:00</published>
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commit 3ec523304976648b45a3eef045e97d17122ff1b2 upstream.

The MANA driver's probe registers netdevice via the following call chain:

mana_probe()
  register_netdev()
    register_netdevice()

register_netdevice() calls notifier callback for netvsc driver,
holding the netdev mutex via netdev_lock_ops().

Further this netvsc notifier callback end up attempting to acquire the
same lock again in dev_xdp_propagate() leading to deadlock.

netvsc_netdev_event()
  netvsc_vf_setxdp()
    dev_xdp_propagate()

This deadlock was not observed so far because net_shaper_ops was never set,
and thus the lock was effectively a no-op in this case. Fix this by using
netif_xdp_propagate() instead of dev_xdp_propagate() to avoid recursive
locking in this path.

And, since no deadlock is observed on the other path which is via
netvsc_probe, add the lock exclusivly for that path.

Also, clean up the unregistration path by removing the unnecessary call to
netvsc_vf_setxdp(), since unregister_netdevice_many_notify() already
performs this cleanup via dev_xdp_uninstall().

Fixes: 97246d6d21c2 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during ndo_bpf")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar &lt;ssengar@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela &lt;ernis@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep &lt;sbhatta@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1748513910-23963-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3ec523304976648b45a3eef045e97d17122ff1b2 upstream.

The MANA driver's probe registers netdevice via the following call chain:

mana_probe()
  register_netdev()
    register_netdevice()

register_netdevice() calls notifier callback for netvsc driver,
holding the netdev mutex via netdev_lock_ops().

Further this netvsc notifier callback end up attempting to acquire the
same lock again in dev_xdp_propagate() leading to deadlock.

netvsc_netdev_event()
  netvsc_vf_setxdp()
    dev_xdp_propagate()

This deadlock was not observed so far because net_shaper_ops was never set,
and thus the lock was effectively a no-op in this case. Fix this by using
netif_xdp_propagate() instead of dev_xdp_propagate() to avoid recursive
locking in this path.

And, since no deadlock is observed on the other path which is via
netvsc_probe, add the lock exclusivly for that path.

Also, clean up the unregistration path by removing the unnecessary call to
netvsc_vf_setxdp(), since unregister_netdevice_many_notify() already
performs this cleanup via dev_xdp_uninstall().

Fixes: 97246d6d21c2 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during ndo_bpf")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar &lt;ssengar@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela &lt;ernis@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep &lt;sbhatta@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1748513910-23963-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Remove rmsg_pgcnt</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T02:45:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T00:06:03+00:00</published>
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init_page_array() now always creates a single page buffer array entry
for the rndis message, even if the rndis message crosses a page
boundary. As such, the number of page buffer array entries used for
the rndis message must no longer be tracked -- it is always just 1.
Remove the rmsg_pgcnt field and use "1" where the value is needed.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-5-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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init_page_array() now always creates a single page buffer array entry
for the rndis message, even if the rndis message crosses a page
boundary. As such, the number of page buffer array entries used for
the rndis message must no longer be tracked -- it is always just 1.
Remove the rmsg_pgcnt field and use "1" where the value is needed.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-5-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Preserve contiguous PFN grouping in the page buffer array</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T02:45:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T00:06:02+00:00</published>
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Starting with commit dca5161f9bd0 ("hv_netvsc: Check status in
SEND_RNDIS_PKT completion message") in the 6.3 kernel, the Linux
driver for Hyper-V synthetic networking (netvsc) occasionally reports
"nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete error status: 2".[1] This error indicates
that Hyper-V has rejected a network packet transmit request from the
guest, and the outgoing network packet is dropped. Higher level
network protocols presumably recover and resend the packet so there is
no functional error, but performance is slightly impacted. Commit
dca5161f9bd0 is not the cause of the error -- it only added reporting
of an error that was already happening without any notice. The error
has presumably been present since the netvsc driver was originally
introduced into Linux.

The root cause of the problem is that the netvsc driver in Linux may
send an incorrectly formatted VMBus message to Hyper-V when
transmitting the network packet. The incorrect formatting occurs when
the rndis header of the VMBus message crosses a page boundary due to
how the Linux skb head memory is aligned. In such a case, two PFNs are
required to describe the location of the rndis header, even though
they are contiguous in guest physical address (GPA) space. Hyper-V
requires that two rndis header PFNs be in a single "GPA range" data
struture, but current netvsc code puts each PFN in its own GPA range,
which Hyper-V rejects as an error.

The incorrect formatting occurs only for larger packets that netvsc
must transmit via a VMBus "GPA Direct" message. There's no problem
when netvsc transmits a smaller packet by copying it into a pre-
allocated send buffer slot because the pre-allocated slots don't have
page crossing issues.

After commit 14ad6ed30a10 ("net: allow small head cache usage with
large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values") in the 6.14-rc4 kernel, the error occurs
much more frequently in VMs with 16 or more vCPUs. It may occur every
few seconds, or even more frequently, in an ssh session that outputs a
lot of text. Commit 14ad6ed30a10 subtly changes how skb head memory is
allocated, making it much more likely that the rndis header will cross
a page boundary when the vCPU count is 16 or more. The changes in
commit 14ad6ed30a10 are perfectly valid -- they just had the side
effect of making the netvsc bug more prominent.

Current code in init_page_array() creates a separate page buffer array
entry for each PFN required to identify the data to be transmitted.
Contiguous PFNs get separate entries in the page buffer array, and any
information about contiguity is lost.

Fix the core issue by having init_page_array() construct the page
buffer array to represent contiguous ranges rather than individual
pages. When these ranges are subsequently passed to
netvsc_build_mpb_array(), it can build GPA ranges that contain
multiple PFNs, as required to avoid the error "nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete
error status: 2". If instead the network packet is sent by copying
into a pre-allocated send buffer slot, the copy proceeds using the
contiguous ranges rather than individual pages, but the result of the
copying is the same. Also fix rndis_filter_send_request() to construct
a contiguous range, since it has its own page buffer array.

This change has a side benefit in CoCo VMs in that netvsc_dma_map()
calls dma_map_single() on each contiguous range instead of on each
page. This results in fewer calls to dma_map_single() but on larger
chunks of memory, which should reduce contention on the swiotlb.

Since the page buffer array now contains one entry for each contiguous
range instead of for each individual page, the number of entries in
the array can be reduced, saving 208 bytes of stack space in
netvsc_xmit() when MAX_SKG_FRAGS has the default value of 17.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-4-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Starting with commit dca5161f9bd0 ("hv_netvsc: Check status in
SEND_RNDIS_PKT completion message") in the 6.3 kernel, the Linux
driver for Hyper-V synthetic networking (netvsc) occasionally reports
"nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete error status: 2".[1] This error indicates
that Hyper-V has rejected a network packet transmit request from the
guest, and the outgoing network packet is dropped. Higher level
network protocols presumably recover and resend the packet so there is
no functional error, but performance is slightly impacted. Commit
dca5161f9bd0 is not the cause of the error -- it only added reporting
of an error that was already happening without any notice. The error
has presumably been present since the netvsc driver was originally
introduced into Linux.

The root cause of the problem is that the netvsc driver in Linux may
send an incorrectly formatted VMBus message to Hyper-V when
transmitting the network packet. The incorrect formatting occurs when
the rndis header of the VMBus message crosses a page boundary due to
how the Linux skb head memory is aligned. In such a case, two PFNs are
required to describe the location of the rndis header, even though
they are contiguous in guest physical address (GPA) space. Hyper-V
requires that two rndis header PFNs be in a single "GPA range" data
struture, but current netvsc code puts each PFN in its own GPA range,
which Hyper-V rejects as an error.

The incorrect formatting occurs only for larger packets that netvsc
must transmit via a VMBus "GPA Direct" message. There's no problem
when netvsc transmits a smaller packet by copying it into a pre-
allocated send buffer slot because the pre-allocated slots don't have
page crossing issues.

After commit 14ad6ed30a10 ("net: allow small head cache usage with
large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values") in the 6.14-rc4 kernel, the error occurs
much more frequently in VMs with 16 or more vCPUs. It may occur every
few seconds, or even more frequently, in an ssh session that outputs a
lot of text. Commit 14ad6ed30a10 subtly changes how skb head memory is
allocated, making it much more likely that the rndis header will cross
a page boundary when the vCPU count is 16 or more. The changes in
commit 14ad6ed30a10 are perfectly valid -- they just had the side
effect of making the netvsc bug more prominent.

Current code in init_page_array() creates a separate page buffer array
entry for each PFN required to identify the data to be transmitted.
Contiguous PFNs get separate entries in the page buffer array, and any
information about contiguity is lost.

Fix the core issue by having init_page_array() construct the page
buffer array to represent contiguous ranges rather than individual
pages. When these ranges are subsequently passed to
netvsc_build_mpb_array(), it can build GPA ranges that contain
multiple PFNs, as required to avoid the error "nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete
error status: 2". If instead the network packet is sent by copying
into a pre-allocated send buffer slot, the copy proceeds using the
contiguous ranges rather than individual pages, but the result of the
copying is the same. Also fix rndis_filter_send_request() to construct
a contiguous range, since it has its own page buffer array.

This change has a side benefit in CoCo VMs in that netvsc_dma_map()
calls dma_map_single() on each contiguous range instead of on each
page. This results in fewer calls to dma_map_single() but on larger
chunks of memory, which should reduce contention on the swiotlb.

Since the page buffer array now contains one entry for each contiguous
range instead of for each individual page, the number of entries in
the array can be reduced, saving 208 bytes of stack space in
netvsc_xmit() when MAX_SKG_FRAGS has the default value of 17.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-4-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_sendpacket_mpb_desc() to send VMBus messages</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T02:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T00:06:01+00:00</published>
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netvsc currently uses vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer() to send VMBus
messages. This function creates a series of GPA ranges, each of which
contains a single PFN. However, if the rndis header in the VMBus
message crosses a page boundary, the netvsc protocol with the host
requires that both PFNs for the rndis header must be in a single "GPA
range" data structure, which isn't possible with
vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). As the first step in fixing this, add a
new function netvsc_build_mpb_array() to build a VMBus message with
multiple GPA ranges, each of which may contain multiple PFNs. Use
vmbus_sendpacket_mpb_desc() to send this VMBus message to the host.

There's no functional change since higher levels of netvsc don't
maintain or propagate knowledge of contiguous PFNs. Based on its
input, netvsc_build_mpb_array() still produces a separate GPA range
for each PFN and the behavior is the same as with
vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). But the groundwork is laid for a
subsequent patch to provide the necessary grouping.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-3-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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netvsc currently uses vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer() to send VMBus
messages. This function creates a series of GPA ranges, each of which
contains a single PFN. However, if the rndis header in the VMBus
message crosses a page boundary, the netvsc protocol with the host
requires that both PFNs for the rndis header must be in a single "GPA
range" data structure, which isn't possible with
vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). As the first step in fixing this, add a
new function netvsc_build_mpb_array() to build a VMBus message with
multiple GPA ranges, each of which may contain multiple PFNs. Use
vmbus_sendpacket_mpb_desc() to send this VMBus message to the host.

There's no functional change since higher levels of netvsc don't
maintain or propagate knowledge of contiguous PFNs. Based on its
input, netvsc_build_mpb_array() still produces a separate GPA range
for each PFN and the behavior is the same as with
vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). But the groundwork is laid for a
subsequent patch to provide the necessary grouping.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-3-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move misc netdev_lock flavors to a separate header</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:06:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T18:30:06+00:00</published>
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Use VF's tso_max_size value when data path is VF</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T09:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shradha Gupta</name>
<email>shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-17T03:42:42+00:00</published>
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On Azure, increasing VF's gso/gro packet size to up-to GSO_MAX_SIZE
is not possible without allowing the same for netvsc NIC
(as the NICs are bonded together). For bonded NICs, the min of the max
aggregated pkt size of the members is propagated in the stack.

Therefore, we use netif_set_tso_max_size() to set max aggregated pkt size
to VF's packet size for netvsc too, when the data path is switched over
to the VF
Tested on azure env with Accelerated Networking enabled and disabled.

Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta &lt;shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On Azure, increasing VF's gso/gro packet size to up-to GSO_MAX_SIZE
is not possible without allowing the same for netvsc NIC
(as the NICs are bonded together). For bonded NICs, the min of the max
aggregated pkt size of the members is propagated in the stack.

Therefore, we use netif_set_tso_max_size() to set max aggregated pkt size
to VF's packet size for netvsc too, when the data path is switched over
to the VF
Tested on azure env with Accelerated Networking enabled and disabled.

Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta &lt;shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Replace one-element array with flexible array member</title>
<updated>2025-01-18T03:07:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-16T21:19:32+00:00</published>
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Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array
member in the struct nvsp_1_message_send_receive_buffer_complete.

Use struct_size_t(,,1) instead of sizeof() to maintain the same size.

Compile-tested only.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250116211932.139564-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array
member in the struct nvsp_1_message_send_receive_buffer_complete.

Use struct_size_t(,,1) instead of sizeof() to maintain the same size.

Compile-tested only.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250116211932.139564-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2024-10-25T07:08:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-25T07:08:22+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts and no adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts and no adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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