<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/net/802, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
<id>bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43</id>
<content type='text'>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f'/>
<id>69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f</id>
<content type='text'>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove HIPPI support and RoadRunner HIPPI driver</title>
<updated>2026-01-21T03:12:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ethan Nelson-Moore</name>
<email>enelsonmoore@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-19T02:24:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d8f87aa5fa0a4276491fa8ef436cd22605a3f9ba'/>
<id>d8f87aa5fa0a4276491fa8ef436cd22605a3f9ba</id>
<content type='text'>
HIPPI has not been relevant for over two decades. It was rapidly
eclipsed by Fibre Channel, and even when it was new, it was
confined to very high-end hardware. The HIPPI code has only
received tree-wide changes and fixes by inspection in the entire
Git history. Remove HIPPI support and the rrunner HIPPI driver,
and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file. Keep the
include/uapi/linux/if_hippi.h header because it is used by the TUN
code, and to avoid breaking userspace, however unlikely that may be.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119022451.22344-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
HIPPI has not been relevant for over two decades. It was rapidly
eclipsed by Fibre Channel, and even when it was new, it was
confined to very high-end hardware. The HIPPI code has only
received tree-wide changes and fixes by inspection in the entire
Git history. Remove HIPPI support and the rrunner HIPPI driver,
and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file. Keep the
include/uapi/linux/if_hippi.h header because it is used by the TUN
code, and to avoid breaking userspace, however unlikely that may be.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119022451.22344-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=41cb08555c4164996d67c78b3bf1c658075b75f1'/>
<id>41cb08555c4164996d67c78b3bf1c658075b75f1</id>
<content type='text'>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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<pre>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: 802: Remove unused p8022 code</title>
<updated>2025-04-22T14:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-18T01:15:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=45bd443bfd8697a7da308c16c3e75e2bb353b3d1'/>
<id>45bd443bfd8697a7da308c16c3e75e2bb353b3d1</id>
<content type='text'>
p8022.c defines two external functions, register_8022_client()
and unregister_8022_client(), the last use of which was removed in
2018 by
commit 7a2e838d28cf ("staging: ipx: delete it from the tree")

Remove the p8022.c file, it's corresponding header, and glue
surrounding it.  There was one place the header was included in vlan.c
but it didn't use the functions it declared.

There was a comment in net/802/Makefile about checking
against net/core/Makefile, but that's at least 20 years old and
there's no sign of net/core/Makefile mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250418011519.145320-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
p8022.c defines two external functions, register_8022_client()
and unregister_8022_client(), the last use of which was removed in
2018 by
commit 7a2e838d28cf ("staging: ipx: delete it from the tree")

Remove the p8022.c file, it's corresponding header, and glue
surrounding it.  There was one place the header was included in vlan.c
but it didn't use the functions it declared.

There was a comment in net/802/Makefile about checking
against net/core/Makefile, but that's at least 20 years old and
there's no sign of net/core/Makefile mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250418011519.145320-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: 802: LLC+SNAP OID:PID lookup on start of skb data</title>
<updated>2025-01-04T16:06:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Antonio Pastor</name>
<email>antonio.pastor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T01:23:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1e9b0e1c550c42c13c111d1a31e822057232abc4'/>
<id>1e9b0e1c550c42c13c111d1a31e822057232abc4</id>
<content type='text'>
802.2+LLC+SNAP frames received by napi_complete_done() with GRO and DSA
have skb-&gt;transport_header set two bytes short, or pointing 2 bytes
before network_header &amp; skb-&gt;data. This was an issue as snap_rcv()
expected offset to point to SNAP header (OID:PID), causing packet to
be dropped.

A fix at llc_fixup_skb() (a024e377efed) resets transport_header for any
LLC consumers that may care about it, and stops SNAP packets from being
dropped, but doesn't fix the problem which is that LLC and SNAP should
not use transport_header offset.

Ths patch eliminates the use of transport_header offset for SNAP lookup
of OID:PID so that SNAP does not rely on the offset at all.
The offset is reset after pull for any SNAP packet consumers that may
(but shouldn't) use it.

Fixes: fda55eca5a33 ("net: introduce skb_transport_header_was_set()")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Pastor &lt;antonio.pastor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250103012303.746521-1-antonio.pastor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
802.2+LLC+SNAP frames received by napi_complete_done() with GRO and DSA
have skb-&gt;transport_header set two bytes short, or pointing 2 bytes
before network_header &amp; skb-&gt;data. This was an issue as snap_rcv()
expected offset to point to SNAP header (OID:PID), causing packet to
be dropped.

A fix at llc_fixup_skb() (a024e377efed) resets transport_header for any
LLC consumers that may care about it, and stops SNAP packets from being
dropped, but doesn't fix the problem which is that LLC and SNAP should
not use transport_header offset.

Ths patch eliminates the use of transport_header offset for SNAP lookup
of OID:PID so that SNAP does not rely on the offset at all.
The offset is reset after pull for any SNAP packet consumers that may
(but shouldn't) use it.

Fixes: fda55eca5a33 ("net: introduce skb_transport_header_was_set()")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Pastor &lt;antonio.pastor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250103012303.746521-1-antonio.pastor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5f60d5f6bbc12e782fac78110b0ee62698f3b576'/>
<id>5f60d5f6bbc12e782fac78110b0ee62698f3b576</id>
<content type='text'>
asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s under net/802*</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T10:29:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T21:13:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ce1afe280419911b29bc7228f28d4ae85d7e7a2b'/>
<id>ce1afe280419911b29bc7228f28d4ae85d7e7a2b</id>
<content type='text'>
W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION().

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION().

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()</title>
<updated>2022-12-25T21:38:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T18:45:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=292a089d78d3e2f7944e60bb897c977785a321e3'/>
<id>292a089d78d3e2f7944e60bb897c977785a321e3</id>
<content type='text'>
Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown".  After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed.  It also ignores any locations where
the timer-&gt;function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

    $ cat timer.cocci
    @@
    expression ptr, slab;
    identifier timer, rfield;
    @@
    (
    -       del_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    |
    -       del_timer_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    )
      ... when strict
          when != ptr-&gt;timer
    (
            kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
    |
            kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
    |
            kfree(ptr);
    )

    $ spatch timer.cocci . &gt; /tmp/t.patch
    $ patch -p1 &lt; /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt; [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt; [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt; [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown".  After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed.  It also ignores any locations where
the timer-&gt;function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

    $ cat timer.cocci
    @@
    expression ptr, slab;
    identifier timer, rfield;
    @@
    (
    -       del_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    |
    -       del_timer_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    )
      ... when strict
          when != ptr-&gt;timer
    (
            kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
    |
            kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
    |
            kfree(ptr);
    )

    $ spatch timer.cocci . &gt; /tmp/t.patch
    $ patch -p1 &lt; /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt; [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt; [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt; [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:47:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7e68dd7d07a28faa2e6574dd6b9dbd90cdeaae91'/>
<id>7e68dd7d07a28faa2e6574dd6b9dbd90cdeaae91</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Allow live renaming when an interface is up

   - Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
     performances of complex queue discipline configurations

   - Add inet drop monitor support

   - A few GRO performance improvements

   - Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
     data races

   - De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
     infrastructure

   - A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements

   - Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets

   - Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
     workload with the number of available CPUs

   - Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload

  BPF:

   - Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
     own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
     blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
     lists in BPF

   - Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
     programs

   - Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
     storage helpers

   - A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements

   - Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
     and replay of results

   - Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code

   - Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps

   - Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs

   - Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
     access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs

   - Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps

   - Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
     values

   - Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions

  Protocols:

   - TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links

   - TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
     to fast[er]-path

   - UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table

   - IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal

   - Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
     operation

   - MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support

   - MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events

   - SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices

   - Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

   - Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
     support multicast scenarios

   - More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
     existing drivers to internal TX queue usage

   - IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
     complete header processing and crypto offloading

   - IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
     reporting

   - RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
     per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
     required locking

   - IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
     initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks

   - Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

   - Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support

  Driver API:

   - PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
     the higher power levels

   - New API for netdev &lt;-&gt; devlink_port linkage

   - PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
     implementation

   - DSA: add support for rx offloading

   - Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol

   - Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging

   - Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed

   - Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
     migratable

   - Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
     queuing

   - Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory

   - New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem

   - New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
      - Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
      - WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
      - Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
      - Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
      - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
      - Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter

   - PHY:
      - Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
      - Motorcomm YT8531S

   - PTP:
      - Orolia ART-CARD

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
      - RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
        devices

   - Bluetooth:
      - Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
      - Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
      - Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device

  Drivers:

   - CAN:
      - gs_usb: bus error reporting support
      - kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G):
         - extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
         - implement devlink-rate support
         - support direct read from memory
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
         - Support for enhanced events compression
         - extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
         - implement IPSec packet offload mode
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
         - better big TCP support
      - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
         - IPsec offload support
         - add support for multicast filter
      - Broadcom:
         - RSS and PTP support improvements
      - AMD/SolarFlare:
         - netlink extened ack improvements
         - add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
      - Virtual NICs:
         - ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
      - small / embedded:
         - FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
         - Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
         - TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
         - Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
         - Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
           default

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
      - Mellanox mlxsw:
         - add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
         - add ip6gre support

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
         - improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
         - enable flow offload support
      - Renesas:
         - add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
      - Microchip (lan966x):
         - add full XDP support
         - add TC H/W offload via VCAP
         - enable PTP on bridge interfaces
      - Microchip (ksz8):
         - add MTU support for KSZ8 series

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - support configuring channel dwell time during scan

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
      - add ack signal support
      - enable coredump support
      - remain_on_channel support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
      - 320 MHz channels support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - new dynamic header firmware format support
      - wake-over-WLAN support"

* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
  ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
  net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
  net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
  dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
  bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
  IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
  selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
  selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
  bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
  bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
  bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
  bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
  bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
  bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Allow live renaming when an interface is up

   - Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
     performances of complex queue discipline configurations

   - Add inet drop monitor support

   - A few GRO performance improvements

   - Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
     data races

   - De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
     infrastructure

   - A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements

   - Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets

   - Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
     workload with the number of available CPUs

   - Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload

  BPF:

   - Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
     own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
     blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
     lists in BPF

   - Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
     programs

   - Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
     storage helpers

   - A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements

   - Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
     and replay of results

   - Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code

   - Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps

   - Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs

   - Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
     access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs

   - Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps

   - Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
     values

   - Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions

  Protocols:

   - TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links

   - TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
     to fast[er]-path

   - UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table

   - IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal

   - Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
     operation

   - MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support

   - MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events

   - SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices

   - Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

   - Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
     support multicast scenarios

   - More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
     existing drivers to internal TX queue usage

   - IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
     complete header processing and crypto offloading

   - IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
     reporting

   - RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
     per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
     required locking

   - IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
     initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks

   - Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

   - Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support

  Driver API:

   - PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
     the higher power levels

   - New API for netdev &lt;-&gt; devlink_port linkage

   - PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
     implementation

   - DSA: add support for rx offloading

   - Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol

   - Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging

   - Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed

   - Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
     migratable

   - Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
     queuing

   - Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory

   - New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem

   - New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
      - Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
      - WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
      - Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
      - Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
      - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
      - Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter

   - PHY:
      - Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
      - Motorcomm YT8531S

   - PTP:
      - Orolia ART-CARD

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
      - RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
        devices

   - Bluetooth:
      - Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
      - Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
      - Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device

  Drivers:

   - CAN:
      - gs_usb: bus error reporting support
      - kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G):
         - extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
         - implement devlink-rate support
         - support direct read from memory
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
         - Support for enhanced events compression
         - extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
         - implement IPSec packet offload mode
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
         - better big TCP support
      - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
         - IPsec offload support
         - add support for multicast filter
      - Broadcom:
         - RSS and PTP support improvements
      - AMD/SolarFlare:
         - netlink extened ack improvements
         - add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
      - Virtual NICs:
         - ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
      - small / embedded:
         - FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
         - Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
         - TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
         - Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
         - Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
           default

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
      - Mellanox mlxsw:
         - add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
         - add ip6gre support

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
         - improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
         - enable flow offload support
      - Renesas:
         - add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
      - Microchip (lan966x):
         - add full XDP support
         - add TC H/W offload via VCAP
         - enable PTP on bridge interfaces
      - Microchip (ksz8):
         - add MTU support for KSZ8 series

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - support configuring channel dwell time during scan

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
      - add ack signal support
      - enable coredump support
      - remain_on_channel support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
      - 320 MHz channels support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - new dynamic header firmware format support
      - wake-over-WLAN support"

* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
  ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
  net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
  net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
  dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
  bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
  IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
  selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
  selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
  bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
  bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
  bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
  bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
  bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
  bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
  ...
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