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<title>net: lockless sock_i_ino()</title>
<updated>2025-09-03T23:08:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-02T18:36:03+00:00</published>
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Followup of commit c51da3f7a161 ("net: remove sock_i_uid()")

A recent syzbot report was the trigger for this change.

Over the years, we had many problems caused by the
read_lock[_bh](&amp;sk-&gt;sk_callback_lock) in sock_i_uid().

We could fix smc_diag_dump_proto() or make a more radical move:

Instead of waiting for new syzbot reports, cache the socket
inode number in sk-&gt;sk_ino, so that we no longer
need to acquire sk-&gt;sk_callback_lock in sock_i_ino().

This makes socket dumps faster (one less cache line miss,
and two atomic ops avoided).

Prior art:

commit 25a9c8a4431c ("netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump().")
commit 4f9bf2a2f5aa ("tcp: Don't acquire inet_listen_hashbucket::lock with disabled BH.")
commit efc3dbc37412 ("rds: Make rds_sock_lock BH rather than IRQ safe.")

Fixes: d2d6422f8bd1 ("x86: Allow to enable PREEMPT_RT.")
Reported-by: syzbot+50603c05bbdf4dfdaffa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68b73804.050a0220.3db4df.01d8.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902183603.740428-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Followup of commit c51da3f7a161 ("net: remove sock_i_uid()")

A recent syzbot report was the trigger for this change.

Over the years, we had many problems caused by the
read_lock[_bh](&amp;sk-&gt;sk_callback_lock) in sock_i_uid().

We could fix smc_diag_dump_proto() or make a more radical move:

Instead of waiting for new syzbot reports, cache the socket
inode number in sk-&gt;sk_ino, so that we no longer
need to acquire sk-&gt;sk_callback_lock in sock_i_ino().

This makes socket dumps faster (one less cache line miss,
and two atomic ops avoided).

Prior art:

commit 25a9c8a4431c ("netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump().")
commit 4f9bf2a2f5aa ("tcp: Don't acquire inet_listen_hashbucket::lock with disabled BH.")
commit efc3dbc37412 ("rds: Make rds_sock_lock BH rather than IRQ safe.")

Fixes: d2d6422f8bd1 ("x86: Allow to enable PREEMPT_RT.")
Reported-by: syzbot+50603c05bbdf4dfdaffa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68b73804.050a0220.3db4df.01d8.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902183603.740428-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: track pfmemalloc drops via SKB_DROP_REASON_PFMEMALLOC</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T23:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jesper Dangaard Brouer</name>
<email>hawk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T16:26:53+00:00</published>
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Add a new SKB drop reason (SKB_DROP_REASON_PFMEMALLOC) to track packets
dropped due to memory pressure. In production environments, we've observed
memory exhaustion reported by memory layer stack traces, but these drops
were not properly tracked in the SKB drop reason infrastructure.

While most network code paths now properly report pfmemalloc drops, some
protocol-specific socket implementations still use sk_filter() without
drop reason tracking:
- Bluetooth L2CAP sockets
- CAIF sockets
- IUCV sockets
- Netlink sockets
- SCTP sockets
- Unix domain sockets

These remaining cases represent less common paths and could be converted
in a follow-up patch if needed. The current implementation provides
significantly improved observability into memory pressure events in the
network stack, especially for key protocols like TCP and UDP, helping to
diagnose problems in production environments.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/175268316579.2407873.11634752355644843509.stgit@firesoul
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a new SKB drop reason (SKB_DROP_REASON_PFMEMALLOC) to track packets
dropped due to memory pressure. In production environments, we've observed
memory exhaustion reported by memory layer stack traces, but these drops
were not properly tracked in the SKB drop reason infrastructure.

While most network code paths now properly report pfmemalloc drops, some
protocol-specific socket implementations still use sk_filter() without
drop reason tracking:
- Bluetooth L2CAP sockets
- CAIF sockets
- IUCV sockets
- Netlink sockets
- SCTP sockets
- Unix domain sockets

These remaining cases represent less common paths and could be converted
in a follow-up patch if needed. The current implementation provides
significantly improved observability into memory pressure events in the
network stack, especially for key protocols like TCP and UDP, helping to
diagnose problems in production environments.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/175268316579.2407873.11634752355644843509.stgit@firesoul
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dst: add four helpers to annotate data-races around dst-&gt;dev</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T21:32:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T12:19:30+00:00</published>
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dst-&gt;dev is read locklessly in many contexts,
and written in dst_dev_put().

Fixing all the races is going to need many changes.

We probably will have to add full RCU protection.

Add three helpers to ease this painful process.

static inline struct net_device *dst_dev(const struct dst_entry *dst)
{
       return READ_ONCE(dst-&gt;dev);
}

static inline struct net_device *skb_dst_dev(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dst_dev(skb_dst(skb));
}

static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dev_net(skb_dst_dev(skb));
}

static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net_rcu(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dev_net_rcu(skb_dst_dev(skb));
}

Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-7-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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dst-&gt;dev is read locklessly in many contexts,
and written in dst_dev_put().

Fixing all the races is going to need many changes.

We probably will have to add full RCU protection.

Add three helpers to ease this painful process.

static inline struct net_device *dst_dev(const struct dst_entry *dst)
{
       return READ_ONCE(dst-&gt;dev);
}

static inline struct net_device *skb_dst_dev(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dst_dev(skb_dst(skb));
}

static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dev_net(skb_dst_dev(skb));
}

static inline struct net *skb_dst_dev_net_rcu(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
       return dev_net_rcu(skb_dst_dev(skb));
}

Fixes: 4a6ce2b6f2ec ("net: introduce a new function dst_dev_put()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-7-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dst: annotate data-races around dst-&gt;obsolete</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T21:32:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T12:19:25+00:00</published>
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(dst_entry)-&gt;obsolete is read locklessly, add corresponding
annotations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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(dst_entry)-&gt;obsolete is read locklessly, add corresponding
annotations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: make sk-&gt;sk_rcvtimeo lockless</title>
<updated>2025-06-24T00:05:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-20T15:55:36+00:00</published>
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Followup of commit 285975dd6742 ("net: annotate data-races around
sk-&gt;sk_{rcv|snd}timeo").

Remove lock_sock()/release_sock() from ksmbd_tcp_rcv_timeout()
and add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() where it is needed.

Also SO_RCVTIMEO_OLD and SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW can call sock_set_timeout()
without holding the socket lock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620155536.335520-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Followup of commit 285975dd6742 ("net: annotate data-races around
sk-&gt;sk_{rcv|snd}timeo").

Remove lock_sock()/release_sock() from ksmbd_tcp_rcv_timeout()
and add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() where it is needed.

Also SO_RCVTIMEO_OLD and SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW can call sock_set_timeout()
without holding the socket lock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620155536.335520-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: make sk-&gt;sk_sndtimeo lockless</title>
<updated>2025-06-24T00:05:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-20T15:55:35+00:00</published>
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Followup of commit 285975dd6742 ("net: annotate data-races around
sk-&gt;sk_{rcv|snd}timeo").

Remove lock_sock()/release_sock() from sock_set_sndtimeo(),
and add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() where it is needed.

Also SO_SNDTIMEO_OLD and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW can call sock_set_timeout()
without holding the socket lock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620155536.335520-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Followup of commit 285975dd6742 ("net: annotate data-races around
sk-&gt;sk_{rcv|snd}timeo").

Remove lock_sock()/release_sock() from sock_set_sndtimeo(),
and add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() where it is needed.

Also SO_SNDTIMEO_OLD and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW can call sock_set_timeout()
without holding the socket lock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620155536.335520-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove sock_i_uid()</title>
<updated>2025-06-24T00:04:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-20T13:30:01+00:00</published>
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Difference between sock_i_uid() and sk_uid() is that
after sock_orphan(), sock_i_uid() returns GLOBAL_ROOT_UID
while sk_uid() returns the last cached sk-&gt;sk_uid value.

None of sock_i_uid() callers care about this.

Use sk_uid() which is much faster and inlined.

Note that diag/dump users are calling sock_i_ino() and
can not see the full benefit yet.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620133001.4090592-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Difference between sock_i_uid() and sk_uid() is that
after sock_orphan(), sock_i_uid() returns GLOBAL_ROOT_UID
while sk_uid() returns the last cached sk-&gt;sk_uid value.

None of sock_i_uid() callers care about this.

Use sk_uid() which is much faster and inlined.

Note that diag/dump users are calling sock_i_ino() and
can not see the full benefit yet.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620133001.4090592-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove unused sock_enable_timestamps</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T21:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-09T15:32:35+00:00</published>
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This function was introduced in commit 783da70e8396 ("net: add
sock_enable_timestamps"), with one caller in rxrpc.

That only caller was removed in commit 7903d4438b3f ("rxrpc: Don't use
received skbuff timestamps").

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250609153254.3504909-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This function was introduced in commit 783da70e8396 ("net: add
sock_enable_timestamps"), with one caller in rxrpc.

That only caller was removed in commit 7903d4438b3f ("rxrpc: Don't use
received skbuff timestamps").

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250609153254.3504909-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix sock_exceed_buf_limit not being triggered in __sk_mem_raise_allocated</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T02:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tengteng Yang</name>
<email>yangtengteng@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T03:04:19+00:00</published>
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When a process under memory pressure is not part of any cgroup and
the charged flag is false, trace_sock_exceed_buf_limit was not called
as expected.

This regression was introduced by commit 2def8ff3fdb6 ("sock:
Code cleanup on __sk_mem_raise_allocated()"). The fix changes the
default value of charged to true while preserving existing logic.

Fixes: 2def8ff3fdb6 ("sock: Code cleanup on __sk_mem_raise_allocated()")
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu &lt;wuyun.abel@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tengteng Yang &lt;yangtengteng@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250527030419.67693-1-yangtengteng@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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When a process under memory pressure is not part of any cgroup and
the charged flag is false, trace_sock_exceed_buf_limit was not called
as expected.

This regression was introduced by commit 2def8ff3fdb6 ("sock:
Code cleanup on __sk_mem_raise_allocated()"). The fix changes the
default value of charged to true while preserving existing logic.

Fixes: 2def8ff3fdb6 ("sock: Code cleanup on __sk_mem_raise_allocated()")
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu &lt;wuyun.abel@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tengteng Yang &lt;yangtengteng@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250527030419.67693-1-yangtengteng@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
     data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.

   - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
     under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
     faster.

   - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
     the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
     scalability.

   - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
     abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
     micro-benchmarks.

   - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
     performance improvement in related stream tests.

   - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
     prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
     on PREMPT_RT.

   - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
     verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.

  Netfilter:

   - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
     considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
     use this interface.

   - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
     flowtables.

   - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.

   - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
     introspection.

  BPF:

   - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
     programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
     using the "tc qdisc" command.

   - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
     WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.

  Protocols:

   - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
     upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
     single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.

   - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
     security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.

   - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
     matches the nexthop device.

   - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
     and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.

   - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
     distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
     organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
     in the fast path.

   - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.

  Driver API:

   - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
     the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
     unsupported flags.

   - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.

   - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
     dump operations targeting PHYs.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
     ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
     qdisc layer configuration.

   - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
     known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
     netlink output.

   - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.

   - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
     the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
     user-space implementation.

   - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.

   - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.

   - AMD Renoir ethernet device.

   - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.

   - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
       - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
           - refactor the steering table handling to significantly
             reduce the amount of memory used
           - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
           - improve flow streeing error handling
           - convert to netdev instance locking
       - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
           - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
           - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
           - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
           - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
           - idpf: introduce RDMA support
           - idpf: add initial PTP support
       - Meta (fbnic):
           - extend hardware stats coverage
           - add devlink dev flash support
       - Broadcom (bnxt):
           - add support for RX-side device memory TCP
       - Wangxun (txgbe):
           - implement support for udp tunnel offload
           - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
       - Google (gve):
           - add device memory TCP TX support
       - Amazon (ena):
           - support persistent per-NAPI config
       - Airoha:
           - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
           - add per flow stats for flow offloading
       - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
       - Synopsys (stmmac):
           - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
           - add Loongson-2K3000 support
           - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
       - Broadcom (bcmgenet):
           - expose more H/W stats
       - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
           - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
           - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
       - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
       - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops

   - Ethernet switches:
       - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
       - RealTek (rtl8211):
           - add support for WoL magic packet
           - add support for PHY LEDs

   - CAN:
       - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
       - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
       - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.

   - WiFi:
       - mac80211:
           - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
       - Qualcomm (ath12k):
           - enable AHB support for IPQ5332
           - add monitor interface support to QCN9274
           - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
           - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
           - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
       - Qualcomm (ath11k):
           - restore hibernation support
       - MediaTek (mt76):
           - WiFi-7 improvements
           - implement support for mt7990
       - Intel (iwlwifi):
           - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
           - rework device configuration
       - RealTek (rtw88):
           - improve throughput for RTL8814AU
       - RealTek (rtw89):
           - add multi-link operation support
           - STA/P2P concurrency improvements
           - support different SAR configs by antenna

   - Bluetooth:
       - introduce HCI Driver protocol
       - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
       - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
       - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
       - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
  selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
  net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
  net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
  calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
  selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
  net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
  net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
  net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
  net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
  net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
  net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
  net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
  net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
  page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
  net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
  selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
  net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
     data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.

   - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
     under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
     faster.

   - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
     the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
     scalability.

   - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
     abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
     micro-benchmarks.

   - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
     performance improvement in related stream tests.

   - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
     prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
     on PREMPT_RT.

   - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
     verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.

  Netfilter:

   - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
     considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
     use this interface.

   - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
     flowtables.

   - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.

   - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
     introspection.

  BPF:

   - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
     programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
     using the "tc qdisc" command.

   - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
     WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.

  Protocols:

   - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
     upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
     single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.

   - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
     security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.

   - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
     matches the nexthop device.

   - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
     and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.

   - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
     distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
     organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
     in the fast path.

   - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.

  Driver API:

   - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
     the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
     unsupported flags.

   - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.

   - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
     dump operations targeting PHYs.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
     ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
     qdisc layer configuration.

   - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
     known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
     netlink output.

   - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.

   - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
     the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
     user-space implementation.

   - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.

   - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.

   - AMD Renoir ethernet device.

   - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.

   - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
       - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
           - refactor the steering table handling to significantly
             reduce the amount of memory used
           - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
           - improve flow streeing error handling
           - convert to netdev instance locking
       - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
           - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
           - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
           - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
           - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
           - idpf: introduce RDMA support
           - idpf: add initial PTP support
       - Meta (fbnic):
           - extend hardware stats coverage
           - add devlink dev flash support
       - Broadcom (bnxt):
           - add support for RX-side device memory TCP
       - Wangxun (txgbe):
           - implement support for udp tunnel offload
           - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
       - Google (gve):
           - add device memory TCP TX support
       - Amazon (ena):
           - support persistent per-NAPI config
       - Airoha:
           - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
           - add per flow stats for flow offloading
       - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
       - Synopsys (stmmac):
           - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
           - add Loongson-2K3000 support
           - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
       - Broadcom (bcmgenet):
           - expose more H/W stats
       - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
           - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
           - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
       - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
       - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops

   - Ethernet switches:
       - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
       - RealTek (rtl8211):
           - add support for WoL magic packet
           - add support for PHY LEDs

   - CAN:
       - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
       - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
       - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.

   - WiFi:
       - mac80211:
           - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
       - Qualcomm (ath12k):
           - enable AHB support for IPQ5332
           - add monitor interface support to QCN9274
           - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
           - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
           - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
       - Qualcomm (ath11k):
           - restore hibernation support
       - MediaTek (mt76):
           - WiFi-7 improvements
           - implement support for mt7990
       - Intel (iwlwifi):
           - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
           - rework device configuration
       - RealTek (rtw88):
           - improve throughput for RTL8814AU
       - RealTek (rtw89):
           - add multi-link operation support
           - STA/P2P concurrency improvements
           - support different SAR configs by antenna

   - Bluetooth:
       - introduce HCI Driver protocol
       - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
       - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
       - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
       - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
  selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
  net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
  net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
  calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
  selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
  net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
  net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
  net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
  net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
  net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
  net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
  net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
  net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
  page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
  net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
  selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
  net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
  ...
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