linux-stable.git/net/smc/smc_sysctl.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

net/smc: bpf: Introduce generic hook for handshake flow

2025-11-10T19:19:41+00:00

The introduction of IPPROTO_SMC enables eBPF programs to determine
whether to use SMC based on the context of socket creation, such as
network namespaces, PID and comm name, etc.

As a subsequent enhancement, to introduce a new generic hook that
allows decisions on whether to use SMC or not at runtime, including
but not limited to local/remote IP address or ports.

User can write their own implememtion via bpf_struct_ops now to choose
whether to use SMC or not before TCP 3rd handshake to be comleted.

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe 
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau 
Reviewed-by: Dust Li 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107035632.115950-3-alibuda@linux.alibaba.com

net/smc: make wr buffer count configurable

2025-10-30T12:31:43+00:00

Think SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_SEND := SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in send context and
SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_RECV := 3 * SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in recv context. Those
get replaced with lgr->max_send_wr and lgr->max_recv_wr respective.

Please note that although with the default sysctl values
qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr ==  qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr is maintained but
can not be assumed to be generally true any more. I see no downside to
that, but my confidence level is rather modest.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic 
Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond 
Reviewed-by: Dust Li 
Tested-by: Mahanta Jambigi 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027224856.2970019-2-pasic@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net/smc: add sysctl for smc_limit_hs

2024-09-10T10:11:04+00:00

In commit 48b6190a0042 ("net/smc: Limit SMC visits when handshake workqueue congested"),
we introduce a mechanism to put constraint on SMC connections visit
according to the pressure of SMC handshake process.

At that time, we believed that controlling the feature through netlink
was sufficient. However, most people have realized now that netlink is
not convenient in container scenarios, and sysctl is a more suitable
approach.

In addition, since commit 462791bbfa35 ("net/smc: add sysctl interface for SMC")
had introcuded smc_sysctl_net_init(), it is reasonable for us to
initialize limit_smc_hs in it instead of initializing it in
smc_pnet_net_int().

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe 
Reviewed-by: Wen Gu 
Reviewed-by: Jan Karcher 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1725590135-5631-1-git-send-email-alibuda@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: Remove ctl_table sentinel elements from several networking subsystems

2024-05-03T12:29:42+00:00

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

To avoid lots of small commits, this commit brings together network
changes from (as they appear in MAINTAINERS) LLC, MPTCP, NETROM NETWORK
LAYER, PHONET PROTOCOL, ROSE NETWORK LAYER, RXRPC SOCKETS, SCTP
PROTOCOL, SHARED MEMORY COMMUNICATIONS (SMC), TIPC NETWORK LAYER and
NETWORKING [IPSEC]

* Remove sentinel element from ctl_table structs.
* Replace empty array registration with the register_net_sysctl_sz call
  in llc_sysctl_init
* Replace the for loop stop condition that tests for procname == NULL
  with one that depends on array size in sctp_sysctl_net_register
* Remove instances where an array element is zeroed out to make it look
  like a sentinel in xfrm_sysctl_init. This is not longer needed and is
  safe after commit c899710fe7f9 ("networking: Update to
  register_net_sysctl_sz") added the array size to the ctl_table
  registration
* Use a table_size variable to keep the value of ARRAY_SIZE

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg

2024-04-22T07:56:31+00:00

To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to
remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the
sysctl core.
One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header.

Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of
struct ctl_table instances.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/smc: add sysctl for max conns per lgr for SMC-R v2.1

2023-11-24T12:13:14+00:00

Add a new sysctl: net.smc.smcr_max_conns_per_lgr, which is
used to control the preferred max connections per lgr for
SMC-R v2.1. The default value of this sysctl is 255, and
the acceptable value ranges from 16 to 255.

Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang 
Reviewed-by: Dust Li 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/smc: add sysctl for max links per lgr for SMC-R v2.1

2023-11-24T12:13:14+00:00

Add a new sysctl: net.smc.smcr_max_links_per_lgr, which is
used to control the preferred max links per lgr for SMC-R
v2.1. The default value of this sysctl is 2, and the acceptable
value ranges from 1 to 2.

Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang 
Reviewed-by: Dust Li 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX->ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl

networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz

2023-08-15T22:26:18+00:00

Move from register_net_sysctl to register_net_sysctl_sz for all the
networking related files. Do this while making sure to mirror the NULL
assignments with a table_size of zero for the unprivileged users.

We need to move to the new function in preparation for when we change
SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE() in the register_net_sysctl macro. Failing to do
so would erroneously allow ARRAY_SIZE() to be called on a pointer. We
hold off the SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE change until we have migrated all
the relevant net sysctl registering functions to register_net_sysctl_sz
in subsequent commits.

An additional size function was added to the following files in order to
calculate the size of an array that is defined in another file:
    include/net/ipv6.h
    net/ipv6/icmp.c
    net/ipv6/route.c
    net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados 
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

net/smc: Fix setsockopt and sysctl to specify same buffer size again

2023-08-09T10:20:28+00:00

Commit 0227f058aa29 ("net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock
and make them tunable") introduced the net.smc.rmem and net.smc.wmem
sysctls to specify the size of buffers to be used for SMC type
connections. This created a regression for users that specified the
buffer size via setsockopt() as the effective buffer size was now
doubled.

Re-introduce the division by 2 in the SMC buffer create code and level
this out by duplicating the net.smc.[rw]mem values used for initializing
sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf at socket creation time. This gives users of both
methods (setsockopt or sysctl) the effective buffer size that they
expect.

Initialize net.smc.[rw]mem from its own constant of 64kB, respectively.
Internal performance tests show that this value is a good compromise
between throughput/latency and memory consumption. Also, this decouples
it from any tuning that was done to net.ipv4.tcp_[rw]mem[1] before the
module for SMC protocol was loaded. Check that no more than INT_MAX / 2
is assigned to net.smc.[rw]mem, in order to avoid any overflow condition
when that is doubled for use in sk_sndbuf or sk_rcvbuf.

While at it, drop the confusing sk_buf_size variable from
__smc_buf_create and name "compressed" buffer size variables more
consistently.

Background:

Before the commit mentioned above, SMC's buffer allocator in
__smc_buf_create() always used half of the sockets' sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf
value as initial value to search for appropriate buffers. If the search
resorted to using a bigger buffer when all buffers of the specified
size were busy, the duplicate of the used effective buffer size is
stored back to sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf.

When available, buffers of exactly the size that a user had specified as
input to setsockopt() were used, despite setsockopt()'s documentation in
"man 7 socket" talking of a mandatory duplication:

[...]
SO_SNDBUF
Sets or gets the maximum socket send buffer in bytes.
The kernel doubles this value (to allow space for book‐
keeping overhead) when it is set using setsockopt(2),
and this doubled value is returned by getsockopt(2).
The default value is set by the
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default file and the maximum
allowed value is set by the /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
file. The minimum (doubled) value for this option is
2048.
[...]

Fixes: 0227f058aa29 ("net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock and make them tunable")
Co-developed-by: Jan Karcher
Signed-off-by: Jan Karcher
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang
Reviewed-by: Tony Lu
Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller