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<title>linux.git/net/core/dev.c, branch v7.0-rc2</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T16:00:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-26T16:00:13+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
 "Including fixes from IPsec, Bluetooth and netfilter

  Current release - regressions:

   - wifi: fix dev_alloc_name() return value check

   - rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - core:
      - do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu()
      - consume xmit errors of GSO frames

   - netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated

   - netfilter: h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()

   - tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0

   - udplite: fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb().

   - wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential kernel oops when probe fails

   - phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid AB-BA deadlock

   - eth:
      - bnxt_en: fix deleting of Ntuple filters
      - wan: farsync: fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets
      - xscale: check for PTP support properly

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()

   - kcm: fix zero-frag skb in frag_list on partial sendmsg error

   - xfrm:
      - fix race condition in espintcp_close()
      - always flush state and policy upon NETDEV_UNREGISTER event

   - bluetooth:
      - purge error queues in socket destructors
      - fix response to L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ

   - eth:
      - mlx5:
         - fix circular locking dependency in dump
         - fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query
      - gve: fix incorrect buffer cleanup for QPL
      - team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave
      - usb: validate USB endpoints"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits)
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()
  dpaa2-switch: validate num_ifs to prevent out-of-bounds write
  net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames
  vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl
  vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once
  selftests/vsock: change tests to respect write-once child ns mode
  net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query
  net/mlx5: Fix missing devlink lock in SRIOV enable error path
  net/mlx5: E-switch, Clear legacy flag when moving to switchdev
  net/mlx5: LAG, disable MPESW in lag_disable_change()
  net/mlx5: DR, Fix circular locking dependency in dump
  selftests: team: Add a reference count leak test
  team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave
  net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path
  MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer entry for QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER
  dpll: zl3073x: Remove redundant cleanup in devm_dpll_init()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: Verify acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0
  tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0
  vsock: Use container_of() to get net namespace in sysctl handlers
  net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
 "Including fixes from IPsec, Bluetooth and netfilter

  Current release - regressions:

   - wifi: fix dev_alloc_name() return value check

   - rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - core:
      - do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu()
      - consume xmit errors of GSO frames

   - netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated

   - netfilter: h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()

   - tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0

   - udplite: fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb().

   - wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential kernel oops when probe fails

   - phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid AB-BA deadlock

   - eth:
      - bnxt_en: fix deleting of Ntuple filters
      - wan: farsync: fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets
      - xscale: check for PTP support properly

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()

   - kcm: fix zero-frag skb in frag_list on partial sendmsg error

   - xfrm:
      - fix race condition in espintcp_close()
      - always flush state and policy upon NETDEV_UNREGISTER event

   - bluetooth:
      - purge error queues in socket destructors
      - fix response to L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ

   - eth:
      - mlx5:
         - fix circular locking dependency in dump
         - fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query
      - gve: fix incorrect buffer cleanup for QPL
      - team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave
      - usb: validate USB endpoints"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits)
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()
  dpaa2-switch: validate num_ifs to prevent out-of-bounds write
  net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames
  vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl
  vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once
  selftests/vsock: change tests to respect write-once child ns mode
  net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query
  net/mlx5: Fix missing devlink lock in SRIOV enable error path
  net/mlx5: E-switch, Clear legacy flag when moving to switchdev
  net/mlx5: LAG, disable MPESW in lag_disable_change()
  net/mlx5: DR, Fix circular locking dependency in dump
  selftests: team: Add a reference count leak test
  team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave
  net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path
  MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer entry for QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER
  dpll: zl3073x: Remove redundant cleanup in devm_dpll_init()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: Verify acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0
  tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0
  vsock: Use container_of() to get net namespace in sysctl handlers
  net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints
  ...
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<entry>
<title>net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T10:35:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T23:51:00+00:00</published>
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udpgro_frglist.sh and udpgro_bench.sh are the flakiest tests
currently in NIPA. They fail in the same exact way, TCP GRO
test stalls occasionally and the test gets killed after 10min.

These tests use veth to simulate GRO. They attach a trivial
("return XDP_PASS;") XDP program to the veth to force TSO off
and NAPI on.

Digging into the failure mode we can see that the connection
is completely stuck after a burst of drops. The sender's snd_nxt
is at sequence number N [1], but the receiver claims to have
received (rcv_nxt) up to N + 3 * MSS [2]. Last piece of the puzzle
is that senders rtx queue is not empty (let's say the block in
the rtx queue is at sequence number N - 4 * MSS [3]).

In this state, sender sends a retransmission from the rtx queue
with a single segment, and sequence numbers N-4*MSS:N-3*MSS [3].
Receiver sees it and responds with an ACK all the way up to
N + 3 * MSS [2]. But sender will reject this ack as TCP_ACK_UNSENT_DATA
because it has no recollection of ever sending data that far out [1].
And we are stuck.

The root cause is the mess of the xmit return codes. veth returns
an error when it can't xmit a frame. We end up with a loss event
like this:

  -------------------------------------------------
  |   GSO super frame 1   |   GSO super frame 2   |
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg |
  |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |
  -------------------------------------------------
     x    ok    ok    &lt;ok&gt;|  ok    ok    ok   &lt;x&gt;
                          \\
			   snd_nxt

"x" means packet lost by veth, and "ok" means it went thru.
Since veth has TSO disabled in this test it sees individual segments.
Segment 1 is on the retransmit queue and will be resent.

So why did the sender not advance snd_nxt even tho it clearly did
send up to seg 8? tcp_write_xmit() interprets the return code
from the core to mean that data has not been sent at all. Since
TCP deals with GSO super frames, not individual segment the crux
of the problem is that loss of a single segment can be interpreted
as loss of all. TCP only sees the last return code for the last
segment of the GSO frame (in &lt;&gt; brackets in the diagram above).

Of course for the problem to occur we need a setup or a device
without a Qdisc. Otherwise Qdisc layer disconnects the protocol
layer from the device errors completely.

We have multiple ways to fix this.

 1) make veth not return an error when it lost a packet.
    While this is what I think we did in the past, the issue keeps
    reappearing and it's annoying to debug. The game of whack
    a mole is not great.

 2) fix the damn return codes
    We only talk about NETDEV_TX_OK and NETDEV_TX_BUSY in the
    documentation, so maybe we should make the return code from
    ndo_start_xmit() a boolean. I like that the most, but perhaps
    some ancient, not-really-networking protocol would suffer.

 3) make TCP ignore the errors
    It is not entirely clear to me what benefit TCP gets from
    interpreting the result of ip_queue_xmit()? Specifically once
    the connection is established and we're pushing data - packet
    loss is just packet loss?

 4) this fix
    Ignore the rc in the Qdisc-less+GSO case, since it's unreliable.
    We already always return OK in the TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS case.
    In the Qdisc-less case let's be a bit more conservative and only
    mask the GSO errors. This path is taken by non-IP-"networks"
    like CAN, MCTP etc, so we could regress some ancient thing.
    This is the simplest, but also maybe the hackiest fix?

Similar fix has been proposed by Eric in the past but never committed
because original reporter was working with an OOT driver and wasn't
providing feedback (see Link).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CANn89iJcLepEin7EtBETrZ36bjoD9LrR=k4cfwWh046GB+4f9A@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 1f59533f9ca5 ("qdisc: validate frames going through the direct_xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223235100.108939-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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udpgro_frglist.sh and udpgro_bench.sh are the flakiest tests
currently in NIPA. They fail in the same exact way, TCP GRO
test stalls occasionally and the test gets killed after 10min.

These tests use veth to simulate GRO. They attach a trivial
("return XDP_PASS;") XDP program to the veth to force TSO off
and NAPI on.

Digging into the failure mode we can see that the connection
is completely stuck after a burst of drops. The sender's snd_nxt
is at sequence number N [1], but the receiver claims to have
received (rcv_nxt) up to N + 3 * MSS [2]. Last piece of the puzzle
is that senders rtx queue is not empty (let's say the block in
the rtx queue is at sequence number N - 4 * MSS [3]).

In this state, sender sends a retransmission from the rtx queue
with a single segment, and sequence numbers N-4*MSS:N-3*MSS [3].
Receiver sees it and responds with an ACK all the way up to
N + 3 * MSS [2]. But sender will reject this ack as TCP_ACK_UNSENT_DATA
because it has no recollection of ever sending data that far out [1].
And we are stuck.

The root cause is the mess of the xmit return codes. veth returns
an error when it can't xmit a frame. We end up with a loss event
like this:

  -------------------------------------------------
  |   GSO super frame 1   |   GSO super frame 2   |
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg |
  |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |
  -------------------------------------------------
     x    ok    ok    &lt;ok&gt;|  ok    ok    ok   &lt;x&gt;
                          \\
			   snd_nxt

"x" means packet lost by veth, and "ok" means it went thru.
Since veth has TSO disabled in this test it sees individual segments.
Segment 1 is on the retransmit queue and will be resent.

So why did the sender not advance snd_nxt even tho it clearly did
send up to seg 8? tcp_write_xmit() interprets the return code
from the core to mean that data has not been sent at all. Since
TCP deals with GSO super frames, not individual segment the crux
of the problem is that loss of a single segment can be interpreted
as loss of all. TCP only sees the last return code for the last
segment of the GSO frame (in &lt;&gt; brackets in the diagram above).

Of course for the problem to occur we need a setup or a device
without a Qdisc. Otherwise Qdisc layer disconnects the protocol
layer from the device errors completely.

We have multiple ways to fix this.

 1) make veth not return an error when it lost a packet.
    While this is what I think we did in the past, the issue keeps
    reappearing and it's annoying to debug. The game of whack
    a mole is not great.

 2) fix the damn return codes
    We only talk about NETDEV_TX_OK and NETDEV_TX_BUSY in the
    documentation, so maybe we should make the return code from
    ndo_start_xmit() a boolean. I like that the most, but perhaps
    some ancient, not-really-networking protocol would suffer.

 3) make TCP ignore the errors
    It is not entirely clear to me what benefit TCP gets from
    interpreting the result of ip_queue_xmit()? Specifically once
    the connection is established and we're pushing data - packet
    loss is just packet loss?

 4) this fix
    Ignore the rc in the Qdisc-less+GSO case, since it's unreliable.
    We already always return OK in the TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS case.
    In the Qdisc-less case let's be a bit more conservative and only
    mask the GSO errors. This path is taken by non-IP-"networks"
    like CAN, MCTP etc, so we could regress some ancient thing.
    This is the simplest, but also maybe the hackiest fix?

Similar fix has been proposed by Eric in the past but never committed
because original reporter was working with an OOT driver and wasn't
providing feedback (see Link).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CANn89iJcLepEin7EtBETrZ36bjoD9LrR=k4cfwWh046GB+4f9A@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 1f59533f9ca5 ("qdisc: validate frames going through the direct_xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223235100.108939-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu()</title>
<updated>2026-02-24T01:07:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-20T22:26:05+00:00</published>
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Blamed commit made the assumption that the RPS table for each receive
queue would have the same size, and that it would not change.

Compute flow_id in set_rps_cpu(), do not assume we can use the value
computed by get_rps_cpu(). Otherwise we risk out-of-bound access
and/or crashes.

Fixes: 48aa30443e52 ("net: Cache hash and flow_id to avoid recalculation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Krishna Kumar &lt;krikku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220222605.3468081-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Blamed commit made the assumption that the RPS table for each receive
queue would have the same size, and that it would not change.

Compute flow_id in set_rps_cpu(), do not assume we can use the value
computed by get_rps_cpu(). Otherwise we risk out-of-bound access
and/or crashes.

Fixes: 48aa30443e52 ("net: Cache hash and flow_id to avoid recalculation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Krishna Kumar &lt;krikku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220222605.3468081-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' 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>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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'/>
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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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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>
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</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>
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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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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 WARN_ON_ONCE when accessing forward path array</title>
<updated>2026-02-17T14:04:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T11:56:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=008e7a7c293b30bc43e4368dac6ea3808b75a572'/>
<id>008e7a7c293b30bc43e4368dac6ea3808b75a572</id>
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Although unlikely, recent support for IPIP tunnels increases chances of
reaching this WARN_ON_ONCE if userspace manages to build a sufficiently
long forward path.

Remove it.

Fixes: ddb94eafab8b ("net: resolve forwarding path from virtual netdevice and HW destination address")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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Although unlikely, recent support for IPIP tunnels increases chances of
reaching this WARN_ON_ONCE if userspace manages to build a sufficiently
long forward path.

Remove it.

Fixes: ddb94eafab8b ("net: resolve forwarding path from virtual netdevice and HW destination address")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT</title>
<updated>2026-02-17T12:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-13T12:04:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=26f29b14916964043bc25b55ad1b9f5e9a12ca53'/>
<id>26f29b14916964043bc25b55ad1b9f5e9a12ca53</id>
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CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is special, make this clear in backlog_lock_irq_save()
and backlog_unlock_irq_restore().

The issue shows up with CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS=y

raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled
 WARNING: kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 at warn_bogus_irq_restore+0xc/0x20 kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10, CPU#1: aoe_tx0/1321
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1321 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
 RIP: 0010:warn_bogus_irq_restore+0xc/0x20 kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
  backlog_unlock_irq_restore net/core/dev.c:253 [inline]
  enqueue_to_backlog+0x525/0xcf0 net/core/dev.c:5347
  netif_rx_internal+0x120/0x550 net/core/dev.c:5659
  __netif_rx+0xa9/0x110 net/core/dev.c:5679
  loopback_xmit+0x43a/0x660 drivers/net/loopback.c:90
  __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5275 [inline]
  netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5284 [inline]
  xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3864 [inline]
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2df/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3880
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x16f4/0x3990 net/core/dev.c:4829
  dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3384 [inline]

Fixes: 27a01c1969a5 ("net: fully inline backlog_unlock_irq_restore()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213120427.2914544-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is special, make this clear in backlog_lock_irq_save()
and backlog_unlock_irq_restore().

The issue shows up with CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS=y

raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled
 WARNING: kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 at warn_bogus_irq_restore+0xc/0x20 kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10, CPU#1: aoe_tx0/1321
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1321 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
 RIP: 0010:warn_bogus_irq_restore+0xc/0x20 kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
  backlog_unlock_irq_restore net/core/dev.c:253 [inline]
  enqueue_to_backlog+0x525/0xcf0 net/core/dev.c:5347
  netif_rx_internal+0x120/0x550 net/core/dev.c:5659
  __netif_rx+0xa9/0x110 net/core/dev.c:5679
  loopback_xmit+0x43a/0x660 drivers/net/loopback.c:90
  __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5275 [inline]
  netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5284 [inline]
  xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3864 [inline]
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2df/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3880
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x16f4/0x3990 net/core/dev.c:4829
  dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3384 [inline]

Fixes: 27a01c1969a5 ("net: fully inline backlog_unlock_irq_restore()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213120427.2914544-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: Remove jumbo_remove step from TX path</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T04:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Mikityanska</name>
<email>alice@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-05T13:39:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1676ebba391dee944988ce3de1c23e038a3121d3'/>
<id>1676ebba391dee944988ce3de1c23e038a3121d3</id>
<content type='text'>
Now that the kernel doesn't insert HBH for BIG TCP IPv6 packets, remove
unnecessary steps from the GSO TX path, that used to check and remove
HBH.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska &lt;alice@isovalent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-5-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now that the kernel doesn't insert HBH for BIG TCP IPv6 packets, remove
unnecessary steps from the GSO TX path, that used to check and remove
HBH.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska &lt;alice@isovalent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-5-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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