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<title>wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails</title>
<updated>2026-05-06T09:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T13:15:34+00:00</published>
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If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the
interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must
not keep the station since it's related to the link of the vif
being removed. Delete an existing station. Any "new_sta" is
already being removed, so that doesn't need changes.

This fixes a use-after-free/double-free in debugfs if that's
enabled, because a vif going from MLD (and to MLD, but that's
not relevant here) recreates its entire debugfs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 81151ce462e5 ("wifi: mac80211: support MLO authentication/association with one link")
Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151533.c4e52deb06ad.Iafe56cec7de8512626169496b134bce3a6c17010@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the
interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must
not keep the station since it's related to the link of the vif
being removed. Delete an existing station. Any "new_sta" is
already being removed, so that doesn't need changes.

This fixes a use-after-free/double-free in debugfs if that's
enabled, because a vif going from MLD (and to MLD, but that's
not relevant here) recreates its entire debugfs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 81151ce462e5 ("wifi: mac80211: support MLO authentication/association with one link")
Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151533.c4e52deb06ad.Iafe56cec7de8512626169496b134bce3a6c17010@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: use safe list iteration in radar detect work</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T16:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Berg</name>
<email>benjamin.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T13:15:40+00:00</published>
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The call to ieee80211_dfs_cac_cancel can cause the iterated chanctx to
be freed and removed from the list. Guard against this to avoid a
slab-use-after-free error.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bca8bc0399ac ("wifi: mac80211: handle ieee80211_radar_detected() for MLO")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151539.236d63a1b736.I35dbb9e96a2d4a480be208770fdd99ba3b817b79@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The call to ieee80211_dfs_cac_cancel can cause the iterated chanctx to
be freed and removed from the list. Guard against this to avoid a
slab-use-after-free error.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bca8bc0399ac ("wifi: mac80211: handle ieee80211_radar_detected() for MLO")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151539.236d63a1b736.I35dbb9e96a2d4a480be208770fdd99ba3b817b79@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: tests: mark HT check strict</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T06:54:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-04T06:54:27+00:00</published>
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The HT check now only applies in strict mode since APs
were found to be broken. Mark it as such.

Fixes: 711a9c018ad2 ("wifi: mac80211: skip ieee80211_verify_sta_ht_mcs_support check in non-strict mode")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The HT check now only applies in strict mode since APs
were found to be broken. Mark it as such.

Fixes: 711a9c018ad2 ("wifi: mac80211: skip ieee80211_verify_sta_ht_mcs_support check in non-strict mode")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: drop stray 'static' from fast-RX rx_result</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T10:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catherine</name>
<email>enderaoelyther@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-24T13:14:36+00:00</published>
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ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx() is documented as safe for parallel RX, but
its per-invocation rx_result is declared static. Concurrent callers then
share one instance and can overwrite each other's result between
ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() and the switch on res.

That can make a packet that was queued or consumed by
ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() fall through into ieee80211_rx_8023(), or make
a packet that should continue return as queued.

Make res an automatic variable so each invocation keeps its own result.

Fixes: 3468e1e0c639 ("wifi: mac80211: add mesh fast-rx support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catherine &lt;enderaoelyther@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424131435.83212-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx() is documented as safe for parallel RX, but
its per-invocation rx_result is declared static. Concurrent callers then
share one instance and can overwrite each other's result between
ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() and the switch on res.

That can make a packet that was queued or consumed by
ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() fall through into ieee80211_rx_8023(), or make
a packet that should continue return as queued.

Make res an automatic variable so each invocation keeps its own result.

Fixes: 3468e1e0c639 ("wifi: mac80211: add mesh fast-rx support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catherine &lt;enderaoelyther@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424131435.83212-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: check ieee80211_rx_data_set_link return in pubsta MLO path</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T10:41:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-22T00:06:51+00:00</published>
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__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet() resolves the link via
ieee80211_rx_data_set_link() on the pubsta-&gt;mlo path but ignores the
helper's return value.  Inside the helper,
  rx-&gt;link = rcu_dereference(rx-&gt;sdata-&gt;link[link_id]);
can leave rx-&gt;link NULL if link_id references a slot already cleared
by ieee80211_vif_set_links() during station-initiated ML
reconfiguration (see mlme.c's ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration(), which
invalidates sdata-&gt;link[] before the matching
ieee80211_sta_remove_link() loop walks the link-sta hash).  RX dispatch
still resolves a link_sta from the hash and then drops into
ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(), which dereferences link-&gt;conf-&gt;addr.

Every other user site of ieee80211_rx_data_set_link() checks the return
and bails on failure; only this branch did not.  Mirror the safe
pattern.

Fixes: e66b7920aa5a ("wifi: mac80211: fix initialization of rx-&gt;link and rx-&gt;link_sta")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422000651.4184602-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet() resolves the link via
ieee80211_rx_data_set_link() on the pubsta-&gt;mlo path but ignores the
helper's return value.  Inside the helper,
  rx-&gt;link = rcu_dereference(rx-&gt;sdata-&gt;link[link_id]);
can leave rx-&gt;link NULL if link_id references a slot already cleared
by ieee80211_vif_set_links() during station-initiated ML
reconfiguration (see mlme.c's ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration(), which
invalidates sdata-&gt;link[] before the matching
ieee80211_sta_remove_link() loop walks the link-sta hash).  RX dispatch
still resolves a link_sta from the hash and then drops into
ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(), which dereferences link-&gt;conf-&gt;addr.

Every other user site of ieee80211_rx_data_set_link() checks the return
and bails on failure; only this branch did not.  Mirror the safe
pattern.

Fixes: e66b7920aa5a ("wifi: mac80211: fix initialization of rx-&gt;link and rx-&gt;link_sta")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422000651.4184602-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: skip ieee80211_verify_sta_ht_mcs_support check in non-strict mode</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T10:02:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rio Liu</name>
<email>rio@r26.me</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T16:57:13+00:00</published>
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Some Xfinity XB8 firmware advertises &gt;1 spatial stream MCS indexes in
their basic HT-MCS set. On cards with lower spatial streams, the check
would fail, and we'd be stuck with no HT when in fact work fine with its
own supported rate. This change makes it so the check is only performed
in strict mode.

Fixes: 574faa0e936d ("wifi: mac80211: add HT and VHT basic set verification")
Signed-off-by: Rio Liu &lt;rio@r26.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/99Mv9QEceyPrQhSP52MtAVmz0_kWJmzqotJjD9YW6LGLqk-AZloAueUyHCURilFkuqOh6Ecv8i2KKdSE1ujP3AnbU5QEouVisT1w_V3xdfc=@r26.me
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Some Xfinity XB8 firmware advertises &gt;1 spatial stream MCS indexes in
their basic HT-MCS set. On cards with lower spatial streams, the check
would fail, and we'd be stuck with no HT when in fact work fine with its
own supported rate. This change makes it so the check is only performed
in strict mode.

Fixes: 574faa0e936d ("wifi: mac80211: add HT and VHT basic set verification")
Signed-off-by: Rio Liu &lt;rio@r26.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/99Mv9QEceyPrQhSP52MtAVmz0_kWJmzqotJjD9YW6LGLqk-AZloAueUyHCURilFkuqOh6Ecv8i2KKdSE1ujP3AnbU5QEouVisT1w_V3xdfc=@r26.me
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux</title>
<updated>2026-04-14T00:31:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T00:31:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=370c3883195566ee3e7d79e0146c3d735a406573'/>
<id>370c3883195566ee3e7d79e0146c3d735a406573</id>
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Pull crypto library updates from Eric Biggers:

 - Migrate more hash algorithms from the traditional crypto subsystem to
   lib/crypto/

   Like the algorithms migrated earlier (e.g. SHA-*), this simplifies
   the implementations, improves performance, enables further
   simplifications in calling code, and solves various other issues:

     - AES CBC-based MACs (AES-CMAC, AES-XCBC-MAC, and AES-CBC-MAC)

         - Support these algorithms in lib/crypto/ using the AES library
           and the existing arm64 assembly code

         - Reimplement the traditional crypto API's "cmac(aes)",
           "xcbc(aes)", and "cbcmac(aes)" on top of the library

         - Convert mac80211 to use the AES-CMAC library. Note: several
           other subsystems can use it too and will be converted later

         - Drop the broken, nonstandard, and likely unused support for
           "xcbc(aes)" with key lengths other than 128 bits

         - Enable optimizations by default

     - GHASH

         - Migrate the standalone GHASH code into lib/crypto/

         - Integrate the GHASH code more closely with the very similar
           POLYVAL code, and improve the generic GHASH implementation to
           resist cache-timing attacks and use much less memory

         - Reimplement the AES-GCM library and the "gcm" crypto_aead
           template on top of the GHASH library. Remove "ghash" from the
           crypto_shash API, as it's no longer needed

         - Enable optimizations by default

     - SM3

         - Migrate the kernel's existing SM3 code into lib/crypto/, and
           reimplement the traditional crypto API's "sm3" on top of it

         - I don't recommend using SM3, but this cleanup is worthwhile
           to organize the code the same way as other algorithms

 - Testing improvements:

     - Add a KUnit test suite for each of the new library APIs

     - Migrate the existing ChaCha20Poly1305 test to KUnit

     - Make the KUnit all_tests.config enable all crypto library tests

     - Move the test kconfig options to the Runtime Testing menu

 - Other updates to arch-optimized crypto code:

     - Optimize SHA-256 for Zhaoxin CPUs using the Padlock Hash Engine

     - Remove some MD5 implementations that are no longer worth keeping

     - Drop big endian and voluntary preemption support from the arm64
       code, as those configurations are no longer supported on arm64

 - Make jitterentropy and samples/tsm-mr use the crypto library APIs

* tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (66 commits)
  lib/crypto: arm64: Assume a little-endian kernel
  arm64: fpsimd: Remove obsolete cond_yield macro
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha3: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha512: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha256: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha1: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/gf128hash: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/chacha: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/aes: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: Include &lt;crypto/utils.h&gt; instead of &lt;crypto/algapi.h&gt;
  lib/crypto: aesgcm: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  lib/crypto: aescfb: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  lib/crypto: tests: Migrate ChaCha20Poly1305 self-test to KUnit
  lib/crypto: sparc: Drop optimized MD5 code
  lib/crypto: mips: Drop optimized MD5 code
  lib: Move crypto library tests to Runtime Testing menu
  crypto: sm3 - Remove 'struct sm3_state'
  crypto: sm3 - Remove the original "sm3_block_generic()"
  crypto: sm3 - Remove sm3_base.h
  ...
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<pre>
Pull crypto library updates from Eric Biggers:

 - Migrate more hash algorithms from the traditional crypto subsystem to
   lib/crypto/

   Like the algorithms migrated earlier (e.g. SHA-*), this simplifies
   the implementations, improves performance, enables further
   simplifications in calling code, and solves various other issues:

     - AES CBC-based MACs (AES-CMAC, AES-XCBC-MAC, and AES-CBC-MAC)

         - Support these algorithms in lib/crypto/ using the AES library
           and the existing arm64 assembly code

         - Reimplement the traditional crypto API's "cmac(aes)",
           "xcbc(aes)", and "cbcmac(aes)" on top of the library

         - Convert mac80211 to use the AES-CMAC library. Note: several
           other subsystems can use it too and will be converted later

         - Drop the broken, nonstandard, and likely unused support for
           "xcbc(aes)" with key lengths other than 128 bits

         - Enable optimizations by default

     - GHASH

         - Migrate the standalone GHASH code into lib/crypto/

         - Integrate the GHASH code more closely with the very similar
           POLYVAL code, and improve the generic GHASH implementation to
           resist cache-timing attacks and use much less memory

         - Reimplement the AES-GCM library and the "gcm" crypto_aead
           template on top of the GHASH library. Remove "ghash" from the
           crypto_shash API, as it's no longer needed

         - Enable optimizations by default

     - SM3

         - Migrate the kernel's existing SM3 code into lib/crypto/, and
           reimplement the traditional crypto API's "sm3" on top of it

         - I don't recommend using SM3, but this cleanup is worthwhile
           to organize the code the same way as other algorithms

 - Testing improvements:

     - Add a KUnit test suite for each of the new library APIs

     - Migrate the existing ChaCha20Poly1305 test to KUnit

     - Make the KUnit all_tests.config enable all crypto library tests

     - Move the test kconfig options to the Runtime Testing menu

 - Other updates to arch-optimized crypto code:

     - Optimize SHA-256 for Zhaoxin CPUs using the Padlock Hash Engine

     - Remove some MD5 implementations that are no longer worth keeping

     - Drop big endian and voluntary preemption support from the arm64
       code, as those configurations are no longer supported on arm64

 - Make jitterentropy and samples/tsm-mr use the crypto library APIs

* tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (66 commits)
  lib/crypto: arm64: Assume a little-endian kernel
  arm64: fpsimd: Remove obsolete cond_yield macro
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha3: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha512: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha256: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha1: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/gf128hash: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/chacha: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: arm64/aes: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  lib/crypto: Include &lt;crypto/utils.h&gt; instead of &lt;crypto/algapi.h&gt;
  lib/crypto: aesgcm: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  lib/crypto: aescfb: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  lib/crypto: tests: Migrate ChaCha20Poly1305 self-test to KUnit
  lib/crypto: sparc: Drop optimized MD5 code
  lib/crypto: mips: Drop optimized MD5 code
  lib: Move crypto library tests to Runtime Testing menu
  crypto: sm3 - Remove 'struct sm3_state'
  crypto: sm3 - Remove the original "sm3_block_generic()"
  crypto: sm3 - Remove sm3_base.h
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next</title>
<updated>2026-04-12T16:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-12T16:17:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=118cbd428e434bc1b8aac92a74b4992c7683f0fe'/>
<id>118cbd428e434bc1b8aac92a74b4992c7683f0fe</id>
<content type='text'>
Johannes Berg says:

====================
Final updates, notably:
 - crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only)
 - mac80211:
   - multi-link 4-addr support
   - NAN data support (but no drivers yet)
 - ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices
 - ath12k: IPQ5424 support
 - rtw89: USB improvements for performance

* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits)
  wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include &lt;linux/export.h&gt; in michael-mic.c
  wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
  dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
  crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
  wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211
  wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic()
  wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support
  wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424
  dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424
  wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect
  wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy
  ...
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Johannes Berg says:

====================
Final updates, notably:
 - crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only)
 - mac80211:
   - multi-link 4-addr support
   - NAN data support (but no drivers yet)
 - ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices
 - ath12k: IPQ5424 support
 - rtw89: USB improvements for performance

* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits)
  wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include &lt;linux/export.h&gt; in michael-mic.c
  wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
  dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
  crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
  wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
  wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211
  wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic()
  wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup
  wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support
  wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424
  wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424
  dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424
  wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect
  wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy
  ...
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate</title>
<updated>2026-04-10T02:27:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carlier</name>
<email>devnexen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T15:07:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9addea5d44b69d377ba97a36f7a19e1097969e18'/>
<id>9addea5d44b69d377ba97a36f7a19e1097969e18</id>
<content type='text'>
Use the typed random integer helpers instead of
get_random_bytes() when filling a single integer variable.
The helpers return the value directly, require no pointer
or size argument, and better express intent.

Skipped sites writing into __be16 (netdevsim) and __le64
(ceph) fields where a direct assignment would trigger
sparse endianness warnings.

Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407150758.5889-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Use the typed random integer helpers instead of
get_random_bytes() when filling a single integer variable.
The helpers return the value directly, require no pointer
or size argument, and better express intent.

Skipped sites writing into __be16 (netdevsim) and __le64
(ceph) fields where a direct assignment would trigger
sparse endianness warnings.

Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407150758.5889-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
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