linux.git/net/core, branch v7.0

Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-10T15:40:49+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "The kernfs rbtree is keyed by (hash, ns, name) where the hash
  is seeded with the raw namespace pointer via init_name_hash(ns).

  The resulting hash values are exposed to userspace through
  readdir seek positions, and the pointer-based ordering in
  kernfs_name_compare() is observable through entry order.

  Switch from raw pointers to ns_common::ns_id for both hashing
  and comparison.

  A preparatory commit first replaces all const void * namespace
  parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout kernfs, sysfs,
  and kobject so the code can access ns->ns_id. Also compare the
  ns_id when hashes match in the rbtree to handle crafted collisions.

  Also fix eventpoll RCU grace period issue and a cachefiles refcount
  problem"

* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  kernfs: make directory seek namespace-aware
  kernfs: use namespace id instead of pointer for hashing and comparison
  kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags
  eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period
  cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()

Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-04-09T15:39:25+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
 "Including fixes from netfilter, IPsec and wireless. This is again
  considerably bigger than the old average. No known outstanding
  regressions.

  Current release - regressions:

   - net: increase IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT to 5

   - eth: ice: fix PTP timestamping broken by SyncE code on E825C

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - eth: stmmac: dwmac-motorcomm: fix eFUSE MAC address read failure

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - core: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head

   - sched: act_csum: validate nested VLAN headers

   - rxrpc: fix call removal to use RCU safe deletion

   - xfrm:
      - wait for RCU readers during policy netns exit
      - fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find

   - wifi: rt2x00usb: fix devres lifetime

   - mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established

   - ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path

   - eth:
      - airoha: fix memory leak in airoha_qdma_rx_process()
      - lan966x: fix use-after-free and leak in lan966x_fdma_reload()

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - ipv6: ioam: fix potential NULL dereferences in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

   - ipv4: nexthop: avoid duplicate NHA_HW_STATS_ENABLE on nexthop group
     dump

   - bridge: guard local VLAN-0 FDB helpers against NULL vlan group

   - xsk: tailroom reservation and MTU validation

   - rxrpc:
      - fix to request an ack if window is limited
      - fix RESPONSE authenticator parser OOB read

   - netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy

   - batman-adv: hold claim backbone gateways by reference

   - eth:
      - stmmac: fix PTP ref clock for Tegra234
      - idpf: fix PREEMPT_RT raw/bh spinlock nesting for async VC handling
      - ipa: fix GENERIC_CMD register field masks for IPA v5.0+"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (104 commits)
  net: lan966x: fix use-after-free and leak in lan966x_fdma_reload()
  net: lan966x: fix page pool leak in error paths
  net: lan966x: fix page_pool error handling in lan966x_fdma_rx_alloc_page_pool()
  nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes
  l2tp: Drop large packets with UDP encap
  net: ipa: fix event ring index not programmed for IPA v5.0+
  net: ipa: fix GENERIC_CMD register field masks for IPA v5.0+
  MAINTAINERS: Add Prashanth as additional maintainer for amd-xgbe driver
  devlink: Fix incorrect skb socket family dumping
  af_unix: read UNIX_DIAG_VFS data under unix_state_lock
  Revert "mptcp: add needs_id for netlink appending addr"
  mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established
  net: txgbe: leave space for null terminators on property_entry
  net: ioam6: fix OOB and missing lock
  rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
  rxrpc: only handle RESPONSE during service challenge
  rxrpc: Fix buffer overread in rxgk_do_verify_authenticator()
  rxrpc: Fix leak of rxgk context in rxgk_verify_response()
  rxrpc: Fix integer overflow in rxgk_verify_response()
  rxrpc: Fix missing error checks for rxkad encryption/decryption failure
  ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net: avoid nul-deref trying to bind mp to incapable device

2026-04-08T01:57:56+00:00

Sashiko points out that we use qops in __net_mp_open_rxq()
but never validate they are null. This was introduced when
check was moved from netdev_rx_queue_restart().

Look at ops directly instead of the locking config.
qops imply netdev_need_ops_lock(). We used netdev_need_ops_lock()
initially to signify that the real_num_rx_queues check below
is safe without rtnl_lock, but I'm not sure if this is actually
clear to most people, anyway.

Fixes: da7772a2b4ad ("net: move mp->rx_page_size validation to __net_mp_open_rxq()")
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260404001938.2425670-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head

2026-04-07T01:46:53+00:00

SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2
value (e.g. 704 on x86_64) to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc
bucket sizes. This ensures that skb_kfree_head() can reliably use
skb_end_offset to distinguish skb heads allocated from
skb_small_head_cache vs. generic kmalloc caches.

However, when KFENCE is enabled, kfence_ksize() returns the exact
requested allocation size instead of the slab bucket size. If a caller
(e.g. bpf_test_init) allocates skb head data via kzalloc() and the
requested size happens to equal SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE, then
slab_build_skb() -> ksize() returns that exact value. After subtracting
skb_shared_info overhead, skb_end_offset ends up matching
SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, causing skb_kfree_head() to incorrectly free
the object to skb_small_head_cache instead of back to the original
kmalloc cache, resulting in a slab cross-cache free:

  kmem_cache_free(skbuff_small_head): Wrong slab cache. Expected
  skbuff_small_head but got kmalloc-1k

Fix this by always calling kfree(head) in skb_kfree_head(). This keeps
the free path generic and avoids allocator-specific misclassification
for KFENCE objects.

Fixes: bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head")
Reported-by: Antonius 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8a0jxC5L5N7hq-DT2_NhUyjBxrPocoiDazzsBk4TGgT1r4-A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403014517.142550-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rtnetlink: add missing netlink_ns_capable() check for peer netns

2026-04-03T22:07:18+00:00

rtnl_newlink() lacks a CAP_NET_ADMIN capability check on the peer
network namespace when creating paired devices (veth, vxcan,
netkit). This allows an unprivileged user with a user namespace
to create interfaces in arbitrary network namespaces, including
init_net.

Add a netlink_ns_capable() check for CAP_NET_ADMIN in the peer
namespace before allowing device creation to proceed.

Fixes: 81adee47dfb6 ("net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.")
Signed-off-by: Nikolaos Gkarlis 
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402181432.4126920-1-nickgarlis@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf

2026-04-03T01:59:56+00:00

Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Fix register equivalence for pointers to packet (Alexei Starovoitov)

 - Fix incorrect pruning due to atomic fetch precision tracking (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Fix grace period wait for bpf_link-ed tracepoints (Kumar Kartikeya
   Dwivedi)

 - Fix use-after-free of sockmap's sk->sk_socket (Kuniyuki Iwashima)

 - Reject direct access to nullable PTR_TO_BUF pointers (Qi Tang)

 - Reject sleepable kprobe_multi programs at attach time (Varun R
   Mallya)

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  selftests/bpf: Add more precision tracking tests for atomics
  bpf: Fix incorrect pruning due to atomic fetch precision tracking
  bpf: Reject sleepable kprobe_multi programs at attach time
  bpf: reject direct access to nullable PTR_TO_BUF pointers
  bpf: sockmap: Fix use-after-free of sk->sk_socket in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready().
  bpf: Fix grace period wait for tracepoint bpf_link
  bpf: Fix regsafe() for pointers to packet

bpf: sockmap: Fix use-after-free of sk->sk_socket in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready().

2026-04-02T01:54:04+00:00

syzbot reported use-after-free of AF_UNIX socket's sk->sk_socket
in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready(). [0]

In unix_stream_sendmsg(), the peer socket's ->sk_data_ready() is
called after dropping its unix_state_lock().

Although the sender socket holds the peer's refcount, it does not
prevent the peer's sock_orphan(), and the peer's sk_socket might
be freed after one RCU grace period.

Let's fetch the peer's sk->sk_socket and sk->sk_socket->ops under
RCU in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880594da860 by task syz.4.1842/11013

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 11013 Comm: syz.4.1842 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
 unix_stream_sendmsg+0x8a3/0xe80 net/unix/af_unix.c:2482
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:721 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2585
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2639
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2671 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2674
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7facf899c819
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007facf9827028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007facf8c15fa0 RCX: 00007facf899c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007facf8a32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007facf8c16038 R14: 00007facf8c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd41b01c78
 

Allocated by task 11013:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x2b8/0x640 mm/slub.c:4885
 sock_alloc_inode+0x28/0xc0 net/socket.c:316
 alloc_inode+0x6a/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:347
 new_inode_pseudo include/linux/fs.h:3003 [inline]
 sock_alloc net/socket.c:631 [inline]
 __sock_create+0x12d/0x9d0 net/socket.c:1562
 sock_create net/socket.c:1656 [inline]
 __sys_socketpair+0x1c4/0x560 net/socket.c:1803
 __do_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1856 [inline]
 __se_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1853 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socketpair+0x9b/0xb0 net/socket.c:1853
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 15:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x630 mm/slub.c:6295
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x7cd/0x1070 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd+0x36/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1063
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Fixes: c63829182c37 ("af_unix: Implement ->psock_update_sk_prot()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/69cc6b9f.a70a0220.128fd0.004b.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+2184232f07e3677fbaef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau 
Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401005418.2452999-1-kuniyu@google.com

net: use skb_header_pointer() for TCPv4 GSO frag_off check

2026-03-31T00:35:21+00:00

Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value warning in gso_features_check()
called from netif_skb_features() [1].

gso_features_check() reads iph->frag_off to decide whether to clear
mangleid_features. Accessing the IPv4 header via ip_hdr()/inner_ip_hdr()
can rely on skb header offsets that are not always safe for direct
dereference on packets injected from PF_PACKET paths.

Use skb_header_pointer() for the TCPv4 frag_off check so the header read
is robust whether data is already linear or needs copying.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1543a7d954d9c6d00407

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/willemdebruijn.kernel.1a9f35039caab@gmail.com/
Fixes: cbc53e08a793 ("GSO: Add GSO type for fixed IPv4 ID")
Reported-by: syzbot+1543a7d954d9c6d00407@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1543a7d954d9c6d00407
Tested-by: syzbot+1543a7d954d9c6d00407@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guoyu Su 
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327153507.39742-1-yss2813483011xxl@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rtnetlink: fix leak of SRCU struct in rtnl_link_register

2026-03-25T03:56:02+00:00

Commit 6b57ff21a310 ("rtnetlink: Protect link_ops by mutex.") swapped
the EEXIST check with the init_srcu_struct, but didn't add cleanup of
the SRCU struct we just allocated in case of error.

Fixes: 6b57ff21a310 ("rtnetlink: Protect link_ops by mutex.")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca 
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e77fe499f9a58c547b33b5212b3596dad417cec6.1774025341.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski