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<title>linux.git/include/net/inet_common.h, branch v7.1-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T15:11:20+00:00</published>
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Use msg-&gt;msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a
temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg().

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/19 up/down: 26/-532 (-506)
Function                                     old     new   delta
rawv6_recvmsg                                744     767     +23
vsock_dgram_recvmsg                           55      58      +3
vsock_connectible_recvmsg                     50      47      -3
unix_stream_recvmsg                          161     158      -3
unix_seqpacket_recvmsg                        62      59      -3
unix_dgram_recvmsg                            42      39      -3
tcp_recvmsg                                  546     543      -3
mptcp_recvmsg                               1568    1565      -3
ping_recvmsg                                 806     800      -6
tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser                       983     974      -9
ip_recv_error                                588     576     -12
ipv6_recv_rxpmtu                             442     428     -14
udp_recvmsg                                 1243    1224     -19
ipv6_recv_error                             1046    1024     -22
udpv6_recvmsg                               1487    1461     -26
raw_recvmsg                                  465     437     -28
udp_bpf_recvmsg                             1027     984     -43
sock_common_recvmsg                          103      27     -76
inet_recvmsg                                 257     175     -82
inet6_recvmsg                                257     175     -82
tcp_bpf_recvmsg                              663     568     -95
Total: Before=25143834, After=25143328, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Use msg-&gt;msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a
temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg().

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/19 up/down: 26/-532 (-506)
Function                                     old     new   delta
rawv6_recvmsg                                744     767     +23
vsock_dgram_recvmsg                           55      58      +3
vsock_connectible_recvmsg                     50      47      -3
unix_stream_recvmsg                          161     158      -3
unix_seqpacket_recvmsg                        62      59      -3
unix_dgram_recvmsg                            42      39      -3
tcp_recvmsg                                  546     543      -3
mptcp_recvmsg                               1568    1565      -3
ping_recvmsg                                 806     800      -6
tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser                       983     974      -9
ip_recv_error                                588     576     -12
ipv6_recv_rxpmtu                             442     428     -14
udp_recvmsg                                 1243    1224     -19
ipv6_recv_error                             1046    1024     -22
udpv6_recvmsg                               1487    1461     -26
raw_recvmsg                                  465     437     -28
udp_bpf_recvmsg                             1027     984     -43
sock_common_recvmsg                          103      27     -76
inet_recvmsg                                 257     175     -82
inet6_recvmsg                                257     175     -82
tcp_bpf_recvmsg                              663     568     -95
Total: Before=25143834, After=25143328, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T03:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T00:26:13+00:00</published>
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Convert struct proto pre_connect(), connect(), bind(), and bind_add()
callback function prototypes from struct sockaddr to struct sockaddr_unsized.
This does not change per-implementation use of sockaddr for passing around
an arbitrarily sized sockaddr struct. Those will be addressed in future
patches.

Additionally removes the no longer referenced struct sockaddr from
include/net/inet_common.h.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-5-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Convert struct proto pre_connect(), connect(), bind(), and bind_add()
callback function prototypes from struct sockaddr to struct sockaddr_unsized.
This does not change per-implementation use of sockaddr for passing around
an arbitrarily sized sockaddr struct. Those will be addressed in future
patches.

Additionally removes the no longer referenced struct sockaddr from
include/net/inet_common.h.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-5-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T00:26:11+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from
"struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the
compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts
that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from
"struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the
compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts
that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T00:26:10+00:00</published>
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<id>0e50474fa514822e9d990874e554bf8043a201d7</id>
<content type='text'>
Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from
"struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the
compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts
that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from
"struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the
compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts
that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch.

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: change proto and proto_ops accept type</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T00:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-09T15:20:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=92ef0fd55ac80dfc2e4654edfe5d1ddfa6e070fe'/>
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<content type='text'>
Rather than pass in flags, error pointer, and whether this is a kernel
invocation or not, add a struct proto_accept_arg struct as the argument.
This then holds all of these arguments, and prepares accept for being
able to pass back more information.

No functional changes in this patch.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Rather than pass in flags, error pointer, and whether this is a kernel
invocation or not, add a struct proto_accept_arg struct as the argument.
This then holds all of these arguments, and prepares accept for being
able to pass back more information.

No functional changes in this patch.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: factor out __inet_listen_sk() helper</title>
<updated>2023-08-14T06:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-11T15:57:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The mptcp protocol maintains an additional socket just to easily
invoke a few stream operations on the first subflow. One of them
is inet_listen().

Factor out an helper operating directly on the (locked) struct sock,
to allow get rid of the above dependency in the next patch without
duplicating the existing code.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
The mptcp protocol maintains an additional socket just to easily
invoke a few stream operations on the first subflow. One of them
is inet_listen().

Factor out an helper operating directly on the (locked) struct sock,
to allow get rid of the above dependency in the next patch without
duplicating the existing code.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: factor out inet{,6}_bind_sk helpers</title>
<updated>2023-08-14T06:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-11T15:57:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The mptcp protocol maintains an additional socket just to easily
invoke a few stream operations on the first subflow. One of
them is bind().

Factor out the helpers operating directly on the struct sock, to
allow get rid of the above dependency in the next patch without
duplicating the existing code.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
The mptcp protocol maintains an additional socket just to easily
invoke a few stream operations on the first subflow. One of
them is bind().

Factor out the helpers operating directly on the struct sock, to
allow get rid of the above dependency in the next patch without
duplicating the existing code.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sock: Remove -&gt;sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)</title>
<updated>2023-06-24T22:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-23T22:55:12+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Remove -&gt;sendpage() and -&gt;sendpage_locked().  sendmsg() with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES should be used instead.  This allows multiple pages and
multipage folios to be passed through.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt; # for net/can
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: mptcp@lists.linux.dev
cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
cc: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623225513.2732256-16-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Remove -&gt;sendpage() and -&gt;sendpage_locked().  sendmsg() with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES should be used instead.  This allows multiple pages and
multipage folios to be passed through.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt; # for net/can
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: mptcp@lists.linux.dev
cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
cc: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623225513.2732256-16-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4, ipv6: Use splice_eof() to flush</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T02:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-07T18:19:13+00:00</published>
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Allow splice to undo the effects of MSG_MORE after prematurely ending a
splice/sendfile due to getting an EOF condition (-&gt;splice_read() returned
0) after splice had called sendmsg() with MSG_MORE set when the user didn't
set MSG_MORE.

For UDP, a pending packet will not be emitted if the socket is closed
before it is flushed; with this change, it be flushed by -&gt;splice_eof().

For TCP, it's not clear that MSG_MORE is actually effective.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=V579PDYvkpnTobCLGczbgxpMgGmmhqiTyE34Cpi5Gg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Allow splice to undo the effects of MSG_MORE after prematurely ending a
splice/sendfile due to getting an EOF condition (-&gt;splice_read() returned
0) after splice had called sendmsg() with MSG_MORE set when the user didn't
set MSG_MORE.

For UDP, a pending packet will not be emitted if the socket is closed
before it is flushed; with this change, it be flushed by -&gt;splice_eof().

For TCP, it's not clear that MSG_MORE is actually effective.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=V579PDYvkpnTobCLGczbgxpMgGmmhqiTyE34Cpi5Gg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: factor out locked section of inet_accept() in a new helper</title>
<updated>2023-05-19T03:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T19:16:14+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
No functional changes intended. The new helper will be used
by the MPTCP protocol in the next patch to avoid duplicating
a few LoC.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
No functional changes intended. The new helper will be used
by the MPTCP protocol in the next patch to avoid duplicating
a few LoC.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts &lt;matthieu.baerts@tessares.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau &lt;martineau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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