linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v7.1-rc2

Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-24T16:41:58+00:00

Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Delete some obsolete networking code

  Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core
  networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and
  noobs try to fix them.

  If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse
  this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked
  about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time
  someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many
  of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it
  go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most
  users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow
  stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.

  We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so
  we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code
  behind us"

* tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next:
  drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
  drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
  net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir
  net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver
  net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
  net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
  net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP
  caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.

The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.

Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao 
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman 
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: cache snapshot entries for ndo_set_rx_mode_async

2026-04-21T10:50:13+00:00

Add a per-device netdev_hw_addr_list cache (rx_mode_addr_cache) that
allows __hw_addr_list_snapshot() and __hw_addr_list_reconcile() to
reuse previously allocated entries instead of hitting GFP_ATOMIC on
every snapshot cycle.

snapshot pops entries from the cache when available, falling back to
__hw_addr_create(). reconcile splices both snapshot lists back into
the cache via __hw_addr_splice(). The cache is flushed in
free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416185712.2155425-4-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: introduce ndo_set_rx_mode_async and netdev_rx_mode_work

2026-04-21T10:50:03+00:00

Add ndo_set_rx_mode_async callback that drivers can implement instead
of the legacy ndo_set_rx_mode. The legacy callback runs under the
netif_addr_lock spinlock with BHs disabled, preventing drivers from
sleeping. The async variant runs from a work queue with rtnl_lock and
netdev_lock_ops held, in fully sleepable context.

When __dev_set_rx_mode() sees ndo_set_rx_mode_async, it schedules
netdev_rx_mode_work instead of calling the driver inline. The work
function takes two snapshots of each address list (uc/mc) under
the addr_lock, then drops the lock and calls the driver with the
work copies. After the driver returns, it reconciles the snapshots
back to the real lists under the lock.

Add netif_rx_mode_sync() to opportunistically execute the pending
workqueue update inline, so that rx mode changes are committed
before returning to userspace:
  - dev_change_flags (SIOCSIFFLAGS / RTM_NEWLINK)
  - dev_set_promiscuity
  - dev_set_allmulti
  - dev_ifsioc SIOCADDMULTI / SIOCDELMULTI
  - do_setlink (RTM_SETLINK)

Note that some deep hierarchies still do skip the lower updates via:
  - dev_uc_sync
  - dev_mc_sync

If we do end up hitting user-visible issues, we can add more calls to
netif_rx_mode_sync in specific places. But hopefully we should not,
the actual user-visible lists are still synced, it's that just HW state
that might be lagging.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416185712.2155425-3-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: add address list snapshot and reconciliation infrastructure

2026-04-21T10:50:03+00:00

Introduce __hw_addr_list_snapshot() and __hw_addr_list_reconcile()
for use by the upcoming ndo_set_rx_mode_async callback.

The async rx_mode path needs to snapshot the device's unicast and
multicast address lists under the addr_lock, hand those snapshots
to the driver (which may sleep), and then propagate any sync_cnt
changes back to the real lists. Two identical snapshots are taken:
a work copy for the driver to pass to __hw_addr_sync_dev() and a
reference copy to compute deltas against.

__hw_addr_list_reconcile() walks the reference snapshot comparing
each entry against the work snapshot to determine what the driver
synced or unsynced. It then applies those deltas to the real list,
handling concurrent modifications:

  - If the real entry was concurrently removed but the driver synced
    it to hardware (delta > 0), re-insert a stale entry so the next
    work run properly unsyncs it from hardware.
  - If the entry still exists, apply the delta normally. An entry
    whose refcount drops to zero is removed.

  # dev_addr_test_snapshot_benchmark: 1024 addrs x 1000 snapshots: 89872802 ns total, 89872 ns/iter
  # dev_addr_test_snapshot_benchmark.speed: slow

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov 
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416185712.2155425-2-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & 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
  ...

netkit: Add netkit notifier to check for unregistering devices

2026-04-10T01:21:47+00:00

Add a netdevice notifier in netkit to watch for NETDEV_UNREGISTER events.
If the target device is indeed NETREG_UNREGISTERING and previously leased
a queue to a netkit device, then collect the related netkit devices and
batch-unregister_netdevice_many() them.

If this were not done, then the netkit device would hold a reference on
the physical device preventing it from going away. However, in case of
both io_uring zero-copy as well as AF_XDP this situation is handled
gracefully and the allocated resources are torn down.

In the case where mentioned infra is used through netkit, the applications
have a reference on netkit, and netkit in turn holds a reference on the
physical device. In order to have netkit release the reference on the
physical device, we need such watcher to then unregister the netkit ones.

This is generally quite similar to the dependency handling in case of
tunnels (e.g. vxlan bound to a underlying netdev) where the tunnel device
gets removed along with the physical device.

  # ip a
  [...]
  4: enp10s0f0np0:  mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
      link/ether e8:eb:d3:a3:43:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
      inet 10.0.0.2/24 scope global enp10s0f0np0
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  [...]
  8: nk@NONE:  mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  [...]

  # rmmod mlx5_ib
  # rmmod mlx5_core
  [...]
  [  309.261822] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.0 mlx5_0: Port: 1 Link DOWN
  [  344.235236] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Unload vfs: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.246948] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.463754] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.770155] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: cleanup
  [...]

  # ip a
  [...]
  [ both enp10s0f0np0 and nk gone ]
  [...]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Co-developed-by: David Wei 
Signed-off-by: David Wei 
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402231031.447597-13-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit

2026-04-10T01:21:45+00:00

Implement netdev_nl_queue_create_doit which creates a new rx queue in a
virtual netdev and then leases it to a rx queue in a physical netdev.

Example with ynl client:

  # ynl --family netdev --output-json --do queue-create \
        --json '{"ifindex": 8, "type": "rx", "lease": {"ifindex": 4, "queue": {"type": "rx", "id": 15}}}'
  {'id': 1}

Note that the netdevice locking order is always from the virtual to
the physical device.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Co-developed-by: David Wei 
Signed-off-by: David Wei 
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402231031.447597-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ethtool: Track user-provided RSS indirection table size

2026-03-24T00:59:53+00:00

Track the number of indirection table entries the user originally
provided (context 0/default as well!).

Replace IFF_RXFH_CONFIGURED with rss_indir_user_size: the flag is
redundant now that user_size captures the same information.

Add ethtool_rxfh_indir_lost() for drivers that must reset the
indirection table.

Convert bnxt and mlx5 to use it.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320085826.1957255-2-bjorn@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski