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<title>linux-stable.git/include/net/sock.h, branch v6.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>net: Fix null-ptr-deref by sock_lock_init_class_and_name() and rmmod.</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T02:11:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T16:33:11+00:00</published>
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When I ran the repro [0] and waited a few seconds, I observed two
LOCKDEP splats: a warning immediately followed by a null-ptr-deref. [1]

Reproduction Steps:

  1) Mount CIFS
  2) Add an iptables rule to drop incoming FIN packets for CIFS
  3) Unmount CIFS
  4) Unload the CIFS module
  5) Remove the iptables rule

At step 3), the CIFS module calls sock_release() for the underlying
TCP socket, and it returns quickly.  However, the socket remains in
FIN_WAIT_1 because incoming FIN packets are dropped.

At this point, the module's refcnt is 0 while the socket is still
alive, so the following rmmod command succeeds.

  # ss -tan
  State      Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
  FIN-WAIT-1 0      477        10.0.2.15:51062   10.0.0.137:445

  # lsmod | grep cifs
  cifs                 1159168  0

This highlights a discrepancy between the lifetime of the CIFS module
and the underlying TCP socket.  Even after CIFS calls sock_release()
and it returns, the TCP socket does not die immediately in order to
close the connection gracefully.

While this is generally fine, it causes an issue with LOCKDEP because
CIFS assigns a different lock class to the TCP socket's sk-&gt;sk_lock
using sock_lock_init_class_and_name().

Once an incoming packet is processed for the socket or a timer fires,
sk-&gt;sk_lock is acquired.

Then, LOCKDEP checks the lock context in check_wait_context(), where
hlock_class() is called to retrieve the lock class.  However, since
the module has already been unloaded, hlock_class() logs a warning
and returns NULL, triggering the null-ptr-deref.

If LOCKDEP is enabled, we must ensure that a module calling
sock_lock_init_class_and_name() (CIFS, NFS, etc) cannot be unloaded
while such a socket is still alive to prevent this issue.

Let's hold the module reference in sock_lock_init_class_and_name()
and release it when the socket is freed in sk_prot_free().

Note that sock_lock_init() clears sk-&gt;sk_owner for svc_create_socket()
that calls sock_lock_init_class_and_name() for a listening socket,
which clones a socket by sk_clone_lock() without GFP_ZERO.

[0]:
CIFS_SERVER="10.0.0.137"
CIFS_PATH="//${CIFS_SERVER}/Users/Administrator/Desktop/CIFS_TEST"
DEV="enp0s3"
CRED="/root/WindowsCredential.txt"

MNT=$(mktemp -d /tmp/XXXXXX)
mount -t cifs ${CIFS_PATH} ${MNT} -o vers=3.0,credentials=${CRED},cache=none,echo_interval=1

iptables -A INPUT -s ${CIFS_SERVER} -j DROP

for i in $(seq 10);
do
    umount ${MNT}
    rmmod cifs
    sleep 1
done

rm -r ${MNT}

iptables -D INPUT -s ${CIFS_SERVER} -j DROP

[1]:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 hlock_class (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:223)
Modules linked in: cifs_arc4 nls_ucs2_utils cifs_md4 [last unloaded: cifs]
CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/10 Not tainted 6.14.0 #36
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:hlock_class (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:223)
...
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5178)
 lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:469 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5816)
 _raw_spin_lock_nested (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:379)
 tcp_v4_rcv (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1678 ./include/net/tcp.h:2547 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2350)
...

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c4
 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/10 Tainted: G        W          6.14.0 #36
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4852 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5178)
Code: 15 41 09 c7 41 8b 44 24 20 25 ff 1f 00 00 41 09 c7 8b 84 24 a0 00 00 00 45 89 7c 24 20 41 89 44 24 24 e8 e1 bc ff ff 4c 89 e7 &lt;44&gt; 0f b6 b8 c4 00 00 00 e8 d1 bc ff ff 0f b6 80 c5 00 00 00 88 44
RSP: 0018:ffa0000000468a10 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff1100010091cc38 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ff1100081f09ca48 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ff1100010091cc88
RBP: ff1100010091c200 R08: ff1100083fe6e228 R09: 00000000ffffbfff
R10: ff1100081eca0000 R11: ff1100083fe10dc0 R12: ff1100010091cc88
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000424b1
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1100081f080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000000c4 CR3: 0000000002c4a003 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:469 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5816)
 _raw_spin_lock_nested (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:379)
 tcp_v4_rcv (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1678 ./include/net/tcp.h:2547 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2350)
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205 (discriminator 1))
 ip_local_deliver_finish (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:878 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234)
 ip_sublist_rcv_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:576)
 ip_list_rcv_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:628)
 ip_list_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:670)
 __netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:5939 net/core/dev.c:5986)
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:6040 net/core/dev.c:6129)
 napi_complete_done (./include/linux/list.h:37 ./include/net/gro.h:519 ./include/net/gro.h:514 net/core/dev.c:6496)
 e1000_clean (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3815)
 __napi_poll.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:7191)
 net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7262 net/core/dev.c:7382)
 handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:561)
 __irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:596 kernel/softirq.c:435 kernel/softirq.c:662)
 irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:680)
 common_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:280 (discriminator 14))
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 asm_common_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:693)
RIP: 0010:default_idle (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:37 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:92 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:744)
Code: 4c 01 c7 4c 29 c2 e9 72 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa eb 07 0f 00 2d c3 2b 15 00 fb f4 &lt;fa&gt; c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffa00000000ffee8 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 000000000000640b RBX: ff1100010091c200 RCX: 0000000000061aa4
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff812f30c5
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 ? do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:186 kernel/sched/idle.c:325)
 default_idle_call (./include/linux/cpuidle.h:143 kernel/sched/idle.c:118)
 do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:186 kernel/sched/idle.c:325)
 cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:422 (discriminator 1))
 start_secondary (arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:315)
 common_startup_64 (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:421)
 &lt;/TASK&gt;
Modules linked in: cifs_arc4 nls_ucs2_utils cifs_md4 [last unloaded: cifs]
CR2: 00000000000000c4

Fixes: ed07536ed673 ("[PATCH] lockdep: annotate nfs/nfsd in-kernel sockets")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250407163313.22682-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
When I ran the repro [0] and waited a few seconds, I observed two
LOCKDEP splats: a warning immediately followed by a null-ptr-deref. [1]

Reproduction Steps:

  1) Mount CIFS
  2) Add an iptables rule to drop incoming FIN packets for CIFS
  3) Unmount CIFS
  4) Unload the CIFS module
  5) Remove the iptables rule

At step 3), the CIFS module calls sock_release() for the underlying
TCP socket, and it returns quickly.  However, the socket remains in
FIN_WAIT_1 because incoming FIN packets are dropped.

At this point, the module's refcnt is 0 while the socket is still
alive, so the following rmmod command succeeds.

  # ss -tan
  State      Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
  FIN-WAIT-1 0      477        10.0.2.15:51062   10.0.0.137:445

  # lsmod | grep cifs
  cifs                 1159168  0

This highlights a discrepancy between the lifetime of the CIFS module
and the underlying TCP socket.  Even after CIFS calls sock_release()
and it returns, the TCP socket does not die immediately in order to
close the connection gracefully.

While this is generally fine, it causes an issue with LOCKDEP because
CIFS assigns a different lock class to the TCP socket's sk-&gt;sk_lock
using sock_lock_init_class_and_name().

Once an incoming packet is processed for the socket or a timer fires,
sk-&gt;sk_lock is acquired.

Then, LOCKDEP checks the lock context in check_wait_context(), where
hlock_class() is called to retrieve the lock class.  However, since
the module has already been unloaded, hlock_class() logs a warning
and returns NULL, triggering the null-ptr-deref.

If LOCKDEP is enabled, we must ensure that a module calling
sock_lock_init_class_and_name() (CIFS, NFS, etc) cannot be unloaded
while such a socket is still alive to prevent this issue.

Let's hold the module reference in sock_lock_init_class_and_name()
and release it when the socket is freed in sk_prot_free().

Note that sock_lock_init() clears sk-&gt;sk_owner for svc_create_socket()
that calls sock_lock_init_class_and_name() for a listening socket,
which clones a socket by sk_clone_lock() without GFP_ZERO.

[0]:
CIFS_SERVER="10.0.0.137"
CIFS_PATH="//${CIFS_SERVER}/Users/Administrator/Desktop/CIFS_TEST"
DEV="enp0s3"
CRED="/root/WindowsCredential.txt"

MNT=$(mktemp -d /tmp/XXXXXX)
mount -t cifs ${CIFS_PATH} ${MNT} -o vers=3.0,credentials=${CRED},cache=none,echo_interval=1

iptables -A INPUT -s ${CIFS_SERVER} -j DROP

for i in $(seq 10);
do
    umount ${MNT}
    rmmod cifs
    sleep 1
done

rm -r ${MNT}

iptables -D INPUT -s ${CIFS_SERVER} -j DROP

[1]:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 hlock_class (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:223)
Modules linked in: cifs_arc4 nls_ucs2_utils cifs_md4 [last unloaded: cifs]
CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/10 Not tainted 6.14.0 #36
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:hlock_class (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:223)
...
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5178)
 lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:469 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5816)
 _raw_spin_lock_nested (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:379)
 tcp_v4_rcv (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1678 ./include/net/tcp.h:2547 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2350)
...

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c4
 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/10 Tainted: G        W          6.14.0 #36
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4852 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5178)
Code: 15 41 09 c7 41 8b 44 24 20 25 ff 1f 00 00 41 09 c7 8b 84 24 a0 00 00 00 45 89 7c 24 20 41 89 44 24 24 e8 e1 bc ff ff 4c 89 e7 &lt;44&gt; 0f b6 b8 c4 00 00 00 e8 d1 bc ff ff 0f b6 80 c5 00 00 00 88 44
RSP: 0018:ffa0000000468a10 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff1100010091cc38 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ff1100081f09ca48 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ff1100010091cc88
RBP: ff1100010091c200 R08: ff1100083fe6e228 R09: 00000000ffffbfff
R10: ff1100081eca0000 R11: ff1100083fe10dc0 R12: ff1100010091cc88
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000424b1
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1100081f080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000000c4 CR3: 0000000002c4a003 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:469 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5853 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5816)
 _raw_spin_lock_nested (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:379)
 tcp_v4_rcv (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1678 ./include/net/tcp.h:2547 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2350)
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205 (discriminator 1))
 ip_local_deliver_finish (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:878 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234)
 ip_sublist_rcv_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:576)
 ip_list_rcv_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:628)
 ip_list_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:670)
 __netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:5939 net/core/dev.c:5986)
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:6040 net/core/dev.c:6129)
 napi_complete_done (./include/linux/list.h:37 ./include/net/gro.h:519 ./include/net/gro.h:514 net/core/dev.c:6496)
 e1000_clean (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3815)
 __napi_poll.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:7191)
 net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7262 net/core/dev.c:7382)
 handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:561)
 __irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:596 kernel/softirq.c:435 kernel/softirq.c:662)
 irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:680)
 common_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:280 (discriminator 14))
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 asm_common_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:693)
RIP: 0010:default_idle (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:37 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:92 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:744)
Code: 4c 01 c7 4c 29 c2 e9 72 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa eb 07 0f 00 2d c3 2b 15 00 fb f4 &lt;fa&gt; c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffa00000000ffee8 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 000000000000640b RBX: ff1100010091c200 RCX: 0000000000061aa4
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff812f30c5
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 ? do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:186 kernel/sched/idle.c:325)
 default_idle_call (./include/linux/cpuidle.h:143 kernel/sched/idle.c:118)
 do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:186 kernel/sched/idle.c:325)
 cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:422 (discriminator 1))
 start_secondary (arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:315)
 common_startup_64 (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:421)
 &lt;/TASK&gt;
Modules linked in: cifs_arc4 nls_ucs2_utils cifs_md4 [last unloaded: cifs]
CR2: 00000000000000c4

Fixes: ed07536ed673 ("[PATCH] lockdep: annotate nfs/nfsd in-kernel sockets")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250407163313.22682-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sock: add sock_kmemdup helper</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T01:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geliang Tang</name>
<email>tanggeliang@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T10:01:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=456cc675b6d4cadd4872a477d8976ff56eef4b6f'/>
<id>456cc675b6d4cadd4872a477d8976ff56eef4b6f</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch adds the sock version of kmemdup() helper, named sock_kmemdup(),
to duplicate the input "src" memory block using the socket's option memory
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang &lt;tanggeliang@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f828077394c7d1f3560123497348b438c875b510.1740735165.git.tanggeliang@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This patch adds the sock version of kmemdup() helper, named sock_kmemdup(),
to duplicate the input "src" memory block using the socket's option memory
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang &lt;tanggeliang@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f828077394c7d1f3560123497348b438c875b510.1740735165.git.tanggeliang@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T18:20:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-27T18:14:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=357660d7596bd40d1004762739e426b1fbe10a14'/>
<id>357660d7596bd40d1004762739e426b1fbe10a14</id>
<content type='text'>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc5).

Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
  fa52f15c745c ("net: cadence: macb: Synchronize stats calculations")
  75696dd0fd72 ("net: cadence: macb: Convert to get_stats64")
https://lore.kernel.org/20250224125848.68ee63e5@canb.auug.org.au

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
  79990cf5e7ad ("ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path")
  a203163274a4 ("ice: simplify VF MSI-X managing")

net/ipv4/tcp.c
  18912c520674 ("tcp: devmem: don't write truncated dmabuf CMSGs to userspace")
  297d389e9e5b ("net: prefix devmem specific helpers")

net/mptcp/subflow.c
  8668860b0ad3 ("mptcp: reset when MPTCP opts are dropped after join")
  c3349a22c200 ("mptcp: consolidate subflow cleanup")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc5).

Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
  fa52f15c745c ("net: cadence: macb: Synchronize stats calculations")
  75696dd0fd72 ("net: cadence: macb: Convert to get_stats64")
https://lore.kernel.org/20250224125848.68ee63e5@canb.auug.org.au

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
  79990cf5e7ad ("ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path")
  a203163274a4 ("ice: simplify VF MSI-X managing")

net/ipv4/tcp.c
  18912c520674 ("tcp: devmem: don't write truncated dmabuf CMSGs to userspace")
  297d389e9e5b ("net: prefix devmem specific helpers")

net/mptcp/subflow.c
  8668860b0ad3 ("mptcp: reset when MPTCP opts are dropped after join")
  c3349a22c200 ("mptcp: consolidate subflow cleanup")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: better track kernel sockets lifetime</title>
<updated>2025-02-22T00:00:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T13:18:54+00:00</published>
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While kernel sockets are dismantled during pernet_operations-&gt;exit(),
their freeing can be delayed by any tx packets still held in qdisc
or device queues, due to skb_set_owner_w() prior calls.

This then trigger the following warning from ref_tracker_dir_exit() [1]

To fix this, make sure that kernel sockets own a reference on net-&gt;passive.

Add sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() helper, used whenever a kernel socket
is converted to a refcounted one.

[1]

[  136.263918][   T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at
[  136.263918][   T35]      sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370
[  136.263918][   T35]      inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0
[  136.263918][   T35]      __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30
[  136.263918][   T35]      inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250
[  136.263918][   T35]      igmp6_net_init+0x39/0x390
[  136.263918][   T35]      ops_init+0x31e/0x590
[  136.263918][   T35]      setup_net+0x287/0x9e0
[  136.263918][   T35]      copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570
[  136.263918][   T35]      create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0
[  136.263918][   T35]      unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180
[  136.263918][   T35]      ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70
[  136.263918][   T35]      __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40
[  136.263918][   T35]      do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
[  136.263918][   T35]      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  136.263918][   T35]
[  136.343488][   T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at
[  136.343488][   T35]      sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370
[  136.343488][   T35]      inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0
[  136.343488][   T35]      __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30
[  136.343488][   T35]      inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250
[  136.343488][   T35]      ndisc_net_init+0xa7/0x2b0
[  136.343488][   T35]      ops_init+0x31e/0x590
[  136.343488][   T35]      setup_net+0x287/0x9e0
[  136.343488][   T35]      copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570
[  136.343488][   T35]      create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0
[  136.343488][   T35]      unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180
[  136.343488][   T35]      ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70
[  136.343488][   T35]      __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40
[  136.343488][   T35]      do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
[  136.343488][   T35]      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 0cafd77dcd03 ("net: add a refcount tracker for kernel sockets")
Reported-by: syzbot+30a19e01a97420719891@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/67b72aeb.050a0220.14d86d.0283.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220131854.4048077-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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While kernel sockets are dismantled during pernet_operations-&gt;exit(),
their freeing can be delayed by any tx packets still held in qdisc
or device queues, due to skb_set_owner_w() prior calls.

This then trigger the following warning from ref_tracker_dir_exit() [1]

To fix this, make sure that kernel sockets own a reference on net-&gt;passive.

Add sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() helper, used whenever a kernel socket
is converted to a refcounted one.

[1]

[  136.263918][   T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at
[  136.263918][   T35]      sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370
[  136.263918][   T35]      inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0
[  136.263918][   T35]      __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30
[  136.263918][   T35]      inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250
[  136.263918][   T35]      igmp6_net_init+0x39/0x390
[  136.263918][   T35]      ops_init+0x31e/0x590
[  136.263918][   T35]      setup_net+0x287/0x9e0
[  136.263918][   T35]      copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570
[  136.263918][   T35]      create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0
[  136.263918][   T35]      unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180
[  136.263918][   T35]      ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70
[  136.263918][   T35]      __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40
[  136.263918][   T35]      do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
[  136.263918][   T35]      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  136.263918][   T35]
[  136.343488][   T35] ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@ffff8880638f01e0 has 1/2 users at
[  136.343488][   T35]      sk_alloc+0x2b3/0x370
[  136.343488][   T35]      inet6_create+0x6ce/0x10f0
[  136.343488][   T35]      __sock_create+0x4c0/0xa30
[  136.343488][   T35]      inet_ctl_sock_create+0xc2/0x250
[  136.343488][   T35]      ndisc_net_init+0xa7/0x2b0
[  136.343488][   T35]      ops_init+0x31e/0x590
[  136.343488][   T35]      setup_net+0x287/0x9e0
[  136.343488][   T35]      copy_net_ns+0x33f/0x570
[  136.343488][   T35]      create_new_namespaces+0x425/0x7b0
[  136.343488][   T35]      unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x124/0x180
[  136.343488][   T35]      ksys_unshare+0x57d/0xa70
[  136.343488][   T35]      __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40
[  136.343488][   T35]      do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230
[  136.343488][   T35]      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 0cafd77dcd03 ("net: add a refcount tracker for kernel sockets")
Reported-by: syzbot+30a19e01a97420719891@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/67b72aeb.050a0220.14d86d.0283.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220131854.4048077-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T23:59:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-21T23:59:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e87700965abeddcdb84c9540107c69ce08b87431'/>
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Martin KaFai Lau says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2025-02-20

We've added 19 non-merge commits during the last 8 day(s) which contain
a total of 35 files changed, 1126 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Add TCP_RTO_MAX_MS support to bpf_set/getsockopt, from Jason Xing

2) Add network TX timestamping support to BPF sock_ops, from Jason Xing

3) Add TX metadata Launch Time support, from Song Yoong Siang

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  igc: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
  igc: Refactor empty frame insertion for launch time support
  net: stmmac: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
  selftests/bpf: Add launch time request to xdp_hw_metadata
  xsk: Add launch time hardware offload support to XDP Tx metadata
  selftests/bpf: Add simple bpf tests in the tx path for timestamping feature
  bpf: Support selective sampling for bpf timestamping
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SENDMSG_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_ACK_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_HW_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_SW_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SCHED_CB callback
  net-timestamp: Prepare for isolating two modes of SO_TIMESTAMPING
  bpf: Disable unsafe helpers in TX timestamping callbacks
  bpf: Prevent unsafe access to the sock fields in the BPF timestamping callback
  bpf: Prepare the sock_ops ctx and call bpf prog for TX timestamping
  bpf: Add networking timestamping support to bpf_get/setsockopt()
  selftests/bpf: Add rto max for bpf_setsockopt test
  bpf: Support TCP_RTO_MAX_MS for bpf_setsockopt
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250221022104.386462-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Martin KaFai Lau says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2025-02-20

We've added 19 non-merge commits during the last 8 day(s) which contain
a total of 35 files changed, 1126 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Add TCP_RTO_MAX_MS support to bpf_set/getsockopt, from Jason Xing

2) Add network TX timestamping support to BPF sock_ops, from Jason Xing

3) Add TX metadata Launch Time support, from Song Yoong Siang

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  igc: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
  igc: Refactor empty frame insertion for launch time support
  net: stmmac: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
  selftests/bpf: Add launch time request to xdp_hw_metadata
  xsk: Add launch time hardware offload support to XDP Tx metadata
  selftests/bpf: Add simple bpf tests in the tx path for timestamping feature
  bpf: Support selective sampling for bpf timestamping
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SENDMSG_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_ACK_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_HW_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_SW_CB callback
  bpf: Add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SCHED_CB callback
  net-timestamp: Prepare for isolating two modes of SO_TIMESTAMPING
  bpf: Disable unsafe helpers in TX timestamping callbacks
  bpf: Prevent unsafe access to the sock fields in the BPF timestamping callback
  bpf: Prepare the sock_ops ctx and call bpf prog for TX timestamping
  bpf: Add networking timestamping support to bpf_get/setsockopt()
  selftests/bpf: Add rto max for bpf_setsockopt test
  bpf: Support TCP_RTO_MAX_MS for bpf_setsockopt
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250221022104.386462-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Prepare the sock_ops ctx and call bpf prog for TX timestamping</title>
<updated>2025-02-20T22:28:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Xing</name>
<email>kerneljasonxing@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T07:29:30+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces a new bpf_skops_tx_timestamping() function
that prepares the "struct bpf_sock_ops" ctx and then executes the
sockops BPF program.

The subsequent patch will utilize bpf_skops_tx_timestamping() at
the existing TX timestamping kernel callbacks (__sk_tstamp_tx
specifically) to call the sockops BPF program. Later, four callback
points to report information to user space based on this patch will
be introduced.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-3-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
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This patch introduces a new bpf_skops_tx_timestamping() function
that prepares the "struct bpf_sock_ops" ctx and then executes the
sockops BPF program.

The subsequent patch will utilize bpf_skops_tx_timestamping() at
the existing TX timestamping kernel callbacks (__sk_tstamp_tx
specifically) to call the sockops BPF program. Later, four callback
points to report information to user space based on this patch will
be introduced.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-3-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add networking timestamping support to bpf_get/setsockopt()</title>
<updated>2025-02-20T22:28:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Xing</name>
<email>kerneljasonxing@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T07:29:29+00:00</published>
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The new SK_BPF_CB_FLAGS and new SK_BPF_CB_TX_TIMESTAMPING are
added to bpf_get/setsockopt. The later patches will implement the
BPF networking timestamping. The BPF program will use
bpf_setsockopt(SK_BPF_CB_FLAGS, SK_BPF_CB_TX_TIMESTAMPING) to
enable the BPF networking timestamping on a socket.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-2-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
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The new SK_BPF_CB_FLAGS and new SK_BPF_CB_TX_TIMESTAMPING are
added to bpf_get/setsockopt. The later patches will implement the
BPF networking timestamping. The BPF program will use
bpf_setsockopt(SK_BPF_CB_FLAGS, SK_BPF_CB_TX_TIMESTAMPING) to
enable the BPF networking timestamping on a socket.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-2-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dismiss sk_forward_alloc_get()</title>
<updated>2025-02-20T03:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T18:36:16+00:00</published>
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After the previous patch we can remove the forward_alloc_get
proto callback, basically reverting commit 292e6077b040 ("net: introduce
sk_forward_alloc_get()") and commit 66d58f046c9d ("net: use
sk_forward_alloc_get() in sk_get_meminfo()").

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218-net-next-mptcp-rx-path-refactor-v1-5-4a47d90d7998@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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After the previous patch we can remove the forward_alloc_get
proto callback, basically reverting commit 292e6077b040 ("net: introduce
sk_forward_alloc_get()") and commit 66d58f046c9d ("net: use
sk_forward_alloc_get() in sk_get_meminfo()").

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218-net-next-mptcp-rx-path-refactor-v1-5-4a47d90d7998@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: initialize mark in sockcm_init</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T02:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T22:26:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6ad861519a69ecf3cf032c579e18569f62b81263'/>
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Avoid open coding initialization of sockcm fields.
Avoid reading the sk_priority field twice.

This ensures all callers, existing and future, will correctly try a
cmsg passed mark before sk_mark.

This patch extends support for cmsg mark to:
packet_spkt and packet_tpacket and net/can/raw.c.

This patch extends support for cmsg priority to:
packet_spkt and packet_tpacket.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214222720.3205500-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Avoid open coding initialization of sockcm fields.
Avoid reading the sk_priority field twice.

This ensures all callers, existing and future, will correctly try a
cmsg passed mark before sk_mark.

This patch extends support for cmsg mark to:
packet_spkt and packet_tpacket and net/can/raw.c.

This patch extends support for cmsg priority to:
packet_spkt and packet_tpacket.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214222720.3205500-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX</title>
<updated>2025-02-13T03:37:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-11T17:17:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f0e70409b7eb0584d451f74db0c72af67b6170b3'/>
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After commit 5d4cc87414c5 ("net: reorganize "struct sock" fields"),
the sk_tsflags field shares the same cacheline with sk_forward_alloc.

The UDP protocol does not acquire the sock lock in the RX path;
forward allocations are protected via the receive queue spinlock;
additionally udp_recvmsg() calls sock_recv_cmsgs() unconditionally
touching sk_tsflags on each packet reception.

Due to the above, under high packet rate traffic, when the BH and the
user-space process run on different CPUs, UDP packet reception
experiences a cache miss while accessing sk_tsflags.

The receive path doesn't strictly need to access the problematic field;
change sock_set_timestamping() to maintain the relevant information
in a newly allocated sk_flags bit, so that sock_recv_cmsgs() can
take decisions accessing the latter field only.

With this patch applied, on an AMD epic server with i40e NICs, I
measured a 10% performance improvement for small packets UDP flood
performance tests - possibly a larger delta could be observed with more
recent H/W.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/dbd18c8a1171549f8249ac5a8b30b1b5ec88a425.1739294057.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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After commit 5d4cc87414c5 ("net: reorganize "struct sock" fields"),
the sk_tsflags field shares the same cacheline with sk_forward_alloc.

The UDP protocol does not acquire the sock lock in the RX path;
forward allocations are protected via the receive queue spinlock;
additionally udp_recvmsg() calls sock_recv_cmsgs() unconditionally
touching sk_tsflags on each packet reception.

Due to the above, under high packet rate traffic, when the BH and the
user-space process run on different CPUs, UDP packet reception
experiences a cache miss while accessing sk_tsflags.

The receive path doesn't strictly need to access the problematic field;
change sock_set_timestamping() to maintain the relevant information
in a newly allocated sk_flags bit, so that sock_recv_cmsgs() can
take decisions accessing the latter field only.

With this patch applied, on an AMD epic server with i40e NICs, I
measured a 10% performance improvement for small packets UDP flood
performance tests - possibly a larger delta could be observed with more
recent H/W.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/dbd18c8a1171549f8249ac5a8b30b1b5ec88a425.1739294057.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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