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<title>linux-stable.git/net/bridge, branch v6.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>net: bridge: Bounce invalid boolopts</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T01:23:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T11:12:33+00:00</published>
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The bridge driver currently tolerates options that it does not recognize.
Instead, it should bounce them.

Fixes: a428afe82f98 ("net: bridge: add support for user-controlled bool options")
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e6fdca3b5a8d54183fbda075daffef38bdd7ddce.1757070067.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The bridge driver currently tolerates options that it does not recognize.
Instead, it should bounce them.

Fixes: a428afe82f98 ("net: bridge: add support for user-controlled bool options")
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e6fdca3b5a8d54183fbda075daffef38bdd7ddce.1757070067.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: br_netfilter: do not check confirmed bit in br_nf_local_in() after confirm</title>
<updated>2025-08-27T09:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Liang</name>
<email>wangliang74@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-22T03:52:19+00:00</published>
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When send a broadcast packet to a tap device, which was added to a bridge,
br_nf_local_in() is called to confirm the conntrack. If another conntrack
with the same hash value is added to the hash table, which can be
triggered by a normal packet to a non-bridge device, the below warning
may happen.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:632 br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 96 Comm: tap_send Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-dirty #44 PREEMPT(voluntary)
  RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xf0
   br_pass_frame_up+0x103/0x180
   br_handle_frame_finish+0x2de/0x5b0
   br_nf_hook_thresh+0xc0/0x120
   br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x168/0x3a0
   br_nf_pre_routing+0x237/0x5e0
   br_handle_frame+0x1ec/0x3c0
   __netif_receive_skb_core+0x225/0x1210
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x37/0xa0
   netif_receive_skb+0x36/0x160
   tun_get_user+0xa54/0x10c0
   tun_chr_write_iter+0x65/0xb0
   vfs_write+0x305/0x410
   ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   &lt;/TASK&gt;
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To solve the hash conflict, nf_ct_resolve_clash() try to merge the
conntracks, and update skb-&gt;_nfct. However, br_nf_local_in() still use the
old ct from local variable 'nfct' after confirm(), which leads to this
warning.

If confirm() does not insert the conntrack entry and return NF_DROP, the
warning may also occur. There is no need to reserve the WARN_ON_ONCE, just
remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250820043329.2902014-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Fixes: 62e7151ae3eb ("netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack")
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang &lt;wangliang74@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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When send a broadcast packet to a tap device, which was added to a bridge,
br_nf_local_in() is called to confirm the conntrack. If another conntrack
with the same hash value is added to the hash table, which can be
triggered by a normal packet to a non-bridge device, the below warning
may happen.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:632 br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 96 Comm: tap_send Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-dirty #44 PREEMPT(voluntary)
  RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x168/0x200
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xf0
   br_pass_frame_up+0x103/0x180
   br_handle_frame_finish+0x2de/0x5b0
   br_nf_hook_thresh+0xc0/0x120
   br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x168/0x3a0
   br_nf_pre_routing+0x237/0x5e0
   br_handle_frame+0x1ec/0x3c0
   __netif_receive_skb_core+0x225/0x1210
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x37/0xa0
   netif_receive_skb+0x36/0x160
   tun_get_user+0xa54/0x10c0
   tun_chr_write_iter+0x65/0xb0
   vfs_write+0x305/0x410
   ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   &lt;/TASK&gt;
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To solve the hash conflict, nf_ct_resolve_clash() try to merge the
conntracks, and update skb-&gt;_nfct. However, br_nf_local_in() still use the
old ct from local variable 'nfct' after confirm(), which leads to this
warning.

If confirm() does not insert the conntrack entry and return NF_DROP, the
warning may also occur. There is no need to reserve the WARN_ON_ONCE, just
remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250820043329.2902014-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Fixes: 62e7151ae3eb ("netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack")
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang &lt;wangliang74@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired()</title>
<updated>2025-08-15T00:49:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Liang</name>
<email>wangliang74@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-13T02:10:54+00:00</published>
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When set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable
'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller
than jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer()
again, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup
issue.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66]
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none)
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   __netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0
   br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70
   __br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0
   br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510
   br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0
   call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0
   __run_timers+0x619/0x950
   run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220
   handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560
   __irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;

This issue can be reproduced with:
  ip link add br0 type bridge
  echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier
  echo 0xffffffffffffffff &gt;
  	/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval
  ip link set dev br0 up

The multicast_startup_query_interval can also cause this issue. Similar to
the commit 99b40610956a ("net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce query
interval minimum"), add check for the query interval maximum to fix this
issue.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250806094941.1285944-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250812091818.542238-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Fixes: d902eee43f19 ("bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries")
Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang &lt;wangliang74@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250813021054.1643649-1-wangliang74@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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When set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable
'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller
than jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer()
again, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup
issue.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66]
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none)
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   __netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0
   br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70
   __br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0
   br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510
   br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0
   call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0
   __run_timers+0x619/0x950
   run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220
   handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560
   __irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;

This issue can be reproduced with:
  ip link add br0 type bridge
  echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier
  echo 0xffffffffffffffff &gt;
  	/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval
  ip link set dev br0 up

The multicast_startup_query_interval can also cause this issue. Similar to
the commit 99b40610956a ("net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce query
interval minimum"), add check for the query interval maximum to fix this
issue.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250806094941.1285944-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250812091818.542238-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Fixes: d902eee43f19 ("bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries")
Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang &lt;wangliang74@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250813021054.1643649-1-wangliang74@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: add back NETFILTER_XTABLES dependencies</title>
<updated>2025-08-07T11:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T21:45:32+00:00</published>
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Some Kconfig symbols were changed to depend on the 'bool' symbol
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY, which means they can now be set to built-in
when the xtables code itself is in a loadable module:

x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `arpt_unregister_table_pre_exit':
(.text+0x1831987): undefined reference to `xt_find_table'
x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `get_info.constprop.0':
arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831aab): undefined reference to `xt_request_find_table_lock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831bea): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock'
x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `do_arpt_get_ctl':
arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183205d): undefined reference to `xt_find_table_lock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x18320c1): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183219a): undefined reference to `xt_recseq'

Change these to depend on both NETFILTER_XTABLES and
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY.

Fixes: 9fce66583f06 ("netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Tested-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Some Kconfig symbols were changed to depend on the 'bool' symbol
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY, which means they can now be set to built-in
when the xtables code itself is in a loadable module:

x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `arpt_unregister_table_pre_exit':
(.text+0x1831987): undefined reference to `xt_find_table'
x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `get_info.constprop.0':
arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831aab): undefined reference to `xt_request_find_table_lock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831bea): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock'
x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `do_arpt_get_ctl':
arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183205d): undefined reference to `xt_find_table_lock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x18320c1): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock'
x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183219a): undefined reference to `xt_recseq'

Change these to depend on both NETFILTER_XTABLES and
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY.

Fixes: 9fce66583f06 ("netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Tested-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T19:15:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T19:15:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=22c5696e3fe029f4fc2decbe7cc6663b5d281223'/>
<id>22c5696e3fe029f4fc2decbe7cc6663b5d281223</id>
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Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "debugfs:
   - Remove unneeded debugfs_file_{get,put}() instances
   - Remove last remnants of debugfs_real_fops()
   - Allow storing non-const void * in struct debugfs_inode_info::aux

  sysfs:
   - Switch back to attribute_group::bin_attrs (treewide)
   - Switch back to bin_attribute::read()/write() (treewide)
   - Constify internal references to 'struct bin_attribute'

  Support cache-ids for device-tree systems:
   - Add arch hook arch_compact_of_hwid()
   - Use arch_compact_of_hwid() to compact MPIDR values on arm64

  Rust:
   - Device:
       - Introduce CoreInternal device context (for bus internal methods)
       - Provide generic drvdata accessors for bus devices
       - Provide Driver::unbind() callbacks
       - Use the infrastructure above for auxiliary, PCI and platform
       - Implement Device::as_bound()
       - Rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw() (treewide)
       - Implement fwnode and device property abstractions
       - Implement example usage in the Rust platform sample driver
   - Devres:
       - Remove the inner reference count (Arc) and use pin-init instead
       - Replace Devres::new_foreign_owned() with devres::register()
       - Require T to be Send in Devres&lt;T&gt;
       - Initialize the data kept inside a Devres last
       - Provide an accessor for the Devres associated Device
   - Device ID:
       - Add support for ACPI device IDs and driver match tables
       - Split up generic device ID infrastructure
       - Use generic device ID infrastructure in net::phy
   - DMA:
       - Implement the dma::Device trait
       - Add DMA mask accessors to dma::Device
       - Implement dma::Device for PCI and platform devices
       - Use DMA masks from the DMA sample module
   - I/O:
       - Implement abstraction for resource regions (struct resource)
       - Implement resource-based ioremap() abstractions
       - Provide platform device accessors for I/O (remap) requests
   - Misc:
       - Support fallible PinInit types in Revocable
       - Implement Wrapper&lt;T&gt; for Opaque&lt;T&gt;
       - Merge pin-init blanket dependencies (for Devres)

  Misc:
   - Fix OF node leak in auxiliary_device_create()
   - Use util macros in device property iterators
   - Improve kobject sample code
   - Add device_link_test() for testing device link flags
   - Fix typo in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-address_bits
   - Hint to prefer container_of_const() over container_of()"

* tag 'driver-core-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (84 commits)
  rust: io: fix broken intra-doc links to `platform::Device`
  rust: io: fix broken intra-doc link to missing `flags` module
  rust: io: mem: enable IoRequest doc-tests
  rust: platform: add resource accessors
  rust: io: mem: add a generic iomem abstraction
  rust: io: add resource abstraction
  rust: samples: dma: set DMA mask
  rust: platform: implement the `dma::Device` trait
  rust: pci: implement the `dma::Device` trait
  rust: dma: add DMA addressing capabilities
  rust: dma: implement `dma::Device` trait
  rust: net::phy Change module_phy_driver macro to use module_device_table macro
  rust: net::phy represent DeviceId as transparent wrapper over mdio_device_id
  rust: device_id: split out index support into a separate trait
  device: rust: rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw()
  arm64: cacheinfo: Provide helper to compress MPIDR value into u32
  cacheinfo: Add arch hook to compress CPU h/w id into 32 bits for cache-id
  cacheinfo: Set cache 'id' based on DT data
  container_of: Document container_of() is not to be used in new code
  driver core: auxiliary bus: fix OF node leak
  ...
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<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "debugfs:
   - Remove unneeded debugfs_file_{get,put}() instances
   - Remove last remnants of debugfs_real_fops()
   - Allow storing non-const void * in struct debugfs_inode_info::aux

  sysfs:
   - Switch back to attribute_group::bin_attrs (treewide)
   - Switch back to bin_attribute::read()/write() (treewide)
   - Constify internal references to 'struct bin_attribute'

  Support cache-ids for device-tree systems:
   - Add arch hook arch_compact_of_hwid()
   - Use arch_compact_of_hwid() to compact MPIDR values on arm64

  Rust:
   - Device:
       - Introduce CoreInternal device context (for bus internal methods)
       - Provide generic drvdata accessors for bus devices
       - Provide Driver::unbind() callbacks
       - Use the infrastructure above for auxiliary, PCI and platform
       - Implement Device::as_bound()
       - Rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw() (treewide)
       - Implement fwnode and device property abstractions
       - Implement example usage in the Rust platform sample driver
   - Devres:
       - Remove the inner reference count (Arc) and use pin-init instead
       - Replace Devres::new_foreign_owned() with devres::register()
       - Require T to be Send in Devres&lt;T&gt;
       - Initialize the data kept inside a Devres last
       - Provide an accessor for the Devres associated Device
   - Device ID:
       - Add support for ACPI device IDs and driver match tables
       - Split up generic device ID infrastructure
       - Use generic device ID infrastructure in net::phy
   - DMA:
       - Implement the dma::Device trait
       - Add DMA mask accessors to dma::Device
       - Implement dma::Device for PCI and platform devices
       - Use DMA masks from the DMA sample module
   - I/O:
       - Implement abstraction for resource regions (struct resource)
       - Implement resource-based ioremap() abstractions
       - Provide platform device accessors for I/O (remap) requests
   - Misc:
       - Support fallible PinInit types in Revocable
       - Implement Wrapper&lt;T&gt; for Opaque&lt;T&gt;
       - Merge pin-init blanket dependencies (for Devres)

  Misc:
   - Fix OF node leak in auxiliary_device_create()
   - Use util macros in device property iterators
   - Improve kobject sample code
   - Add device_link_test() for testing device link flags
   - Fix typo in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-address_bits
   - Hint to prefer container_of_const() over container_of()"

* tag 'driver-core-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (84 commits)
  rust: io: fix broken intra-doc links to `platform::Device`
  rust: io: fix broken intra-doc link to missing `flags` module
  rust: io: mem: enable IoRequest doc-tests
  rust: platform: add resource accessors
  rust: io: mem: add a generic iomem abstraction
  rust: io: add resource abstraction
  rust: samples: dma: set DMA mask
  rust: platform: implement the `dma::Device` trait
  rust: pci: implement the `dma::Device` trait
  rust: dma: add DMA addressing capabilities
  rust: dma: implement `dma::Device` trait
  rust: net::phy Change module_phy_driver macro to use module_device_table macro
  rust: net::phy represent DeviceId as transparent wrapper over mdio_device_id
  rust: device_id: split out index support into a separate trait
  device: rust: rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw()
  arm64: cacheinfo: Provide helper to compress MPIDR value into u32
  cacheinfo: Add arch hook to compress CPU h/w id into 32 bits for cache-id
  cacheinfo: Set cache 'id' based on DT data
  container_of: Document container_of() is not to be used in new code
  driver core: auxiliary bus: fix OF node leak
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T16:38:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T15:44:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9fce66583f06c212e95e4b76dd61d8432ffa56b6'/>
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The seqcount xt_recseq is used to synchronize the replacement of
xt_table::private in xt_replace_table() against all readers such as
ipt_do_table()

To ensure that there is only one writer, the writing side disables
bottom halves. The sequence counter can be acquired recursively. Only the
first invocation modifies the sequence counter (signaling that a writer
is in progress) while the following (recursive) writer does not modify
the counter.
The lack of a proper locking mechanism for the sequence counter can lead
to live lock on PREEMPT_RT if the high prior reader preempts the
writer. Additionally if the per-CPU lock on PREEMPT_RT is removed from
local_bh_disable() then there is no synchronisation for the per-CPU
sequence counter.

The affected code is "just" the legacy netfilter code which is replaced
by "netfilter tables". That code can be disabled without sacrificing
functionality because everything is provided by the newer
implementation. This will only requires the usage of the "-nft" tools
instead of the "-legacy" ones.
The long term plan is to remove the legacy code so lets accelerate the
progress.

Relax dependencies on iptables legacy, replace select with depends on,
this should cause no harm to existing kernel configs and users can still
toggle IP{6}_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY in any case.
Make EBTABLES_LEGACY, IPTABLES_LEGACY and ARPTABLES depend on
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Hide xt_recseq and its users,
xt_register_table() and xt_percpu_counter_alloc() behind
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Let NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY depend on
!PREEMPT_RT.

This will break selftest expecing the legacy options enabled and will be
addressed in a following patch.

Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<pre>
The seqcount xt_recseq is used to synchronize the replacement of
xt_table::private in xt_replace_table() against all readers such as
ipt_do_table()

To ensure that there is only one writer, the writing side disables
bottom halves. The sequence counter can be acquired recursively. Only the
first invocation modifies the sequence counter (signaling that a writer
is in progress) while the following (recursive) writer does not modify
the counter.
The lack of a proper locking mechanism for the sequence counter can lead
to live lock on PREEMPT_RT if the high prior reader preempts the
writer. Additionally if the per-CPU lock on PREEMPT_RT is removed from
local_bh_disable() then there is no synchronisation for the per-CPU
sequence counter.

The affected code is "just" the legacy netfilter code which is replaced
by "netfilter tables". That code can be disabled without sacrificing
functionality because everything is provided by the newer
implementation. This will only requires the usage of the "-nft" tools
instead of the "-legacy" ones.
The long term plan is to remove the legacy code so lets accelerate the
progress.

Relax dependencies on iptables legacy, replace select with depends on,
this should cause no harm to existing kernel configs and users can still
toggle IP{6}_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY in any case.
Make EBTABLES_LEGACY, IPTABLES_LEGACY and ARPTABLES depend on
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Hide xt_recseq and its users,
xt_register_table() and xt_percpu_counter_alloc() behind
NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Let NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY depend on
!PREEMPT_RT.

This will break selftest expecing the legacy options enabled and will be
addressed in a following patch.

Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: s/dev_get_flags/netif_get_flags/</title>
<updated>2025-07-19T00:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T17:23:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=93893a57efd431b9b4e72359bc8a8428681ca688'/>
<id>93893a57efd431b9b4e72359bc8a8428681ca688</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-6-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-6-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: s/dev_pre_changeaddr_notify/netif_pre_changeaddr_notify/</title>
<updated>2025-07-19T00:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
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<published>2025-07-17T17:23:29+00:00</published>
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Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

netif_pre_changeaddr_notify is used only by ipvlan/bond, so move it into
NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-4-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

netif_pre_changeaddr_notify is used only by ipvlan/bond, so move it into
NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-4-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: s/dev_get_port_parent_id/netif_get_port_parent_id/</title>
<updated>2025-07-19T00:27:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T17:23:27+00:00</published>
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Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-2-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-2-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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