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<title>raw: annotate lockless match fields in raw_v4_match()</title>
<updated>2026-07-23T14:46:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Runyu Xiao</name>
<email>runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-16T14:29:58+00:00</published>
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raw_v4_match() is a lockless match helper under sk_for_each_rcu(). It
still reads inet-&gt;inet_daddr, inet-&gt;inet_rcv_saddr and
sk-&gt;sk_bound_dev_if with plain loads while bind, connect and
bind-to-device paths can update the same match fields concurrently.

Annotate only those mutable match fields in raw_v4_match(), and do so
at the point of use instead of hoisting the bound-device read before
the earlier short-circuit tests.

Also annotate the raw bind writer and the shared IPv4 datagram connect
writer used by raw sockets, so the address fields updated on bind and
connect match explicit WRITE_ONCE() updates.

This version intentionally leaves the shared disconnect-side IPv4
writers to follow-up cleanup and limits the writer changes here to the
raw bind path and the datagram connect path directly exercised by raw
sockets.

Fixes: 0daf07e52709 ("raw: convert raw sockets to RCU")
Signed-off-by: Runyu Xiao &lt;runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260716142958.3064224-1-runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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raw_v4_match() is a lockless match helper under sk_for_each_rcu(). It
still reads inet-&gt;inet_daddr, inet-&gt;inet_rcv_saddr and
sk-&gt;sk_bound_dev_if with plain loads while bind, connect and
bind-to-device paths can update the same match fields concurrently.

Annotate only those mutable match fields in raw_v4_match(), and do so
at the point of use instead of hoisting the bound-device read before
the earlier short-circuit tests.

Also annotate the raw bind writer and the shared IPv4 datagram connect
writer used by raw sockets, so the address fields updated on bind and
connect match explicit WRITE_ONCE() updates.

This version intentionally leaves the shared disconnect-side IPv4
writers to follow-up cleanup and limits the writer changes here to the
raw bind path and the datagram connect path directly exercised by raw
sockets.

Fixes: 0daf07e52709 ("raw: convert raw sockets to RCU")
Signed-off-by: Runyu Xiao &lt;runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260716142958.3064224-1-runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: raw: remove six obsolete EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T01:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-02T16:50:36+00:00</published>
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IPv6 can not be a module anymore, we no longer need to export:

- raw_hash_sk()
- raw_unhash_sk()
- raw_abort()
- raw_seq_start()
- raw_seq_next()
- raw_seq_stop()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602165036.2712408-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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IPv6 can not be a module anymore, we no longer need to export:

- raw_hash_sk()
- raw_unhash_sk()
- raw_abort()
- raw_seq_start()
- raw_seq_next()
- raw_seq_stop()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602165036.2712408-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: raw: reject IP_HDRINCL packets with ihl &lt; 5</title>
<updated>2026-05-15T22:55:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-12T20:51:14+00:00</published>
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raw_send_hdrinc() validates that the caller-supplied IPv4 header
fits within the message length:

    iphlen = iph-&gt;ihl * 4;
    err = -EINVAL;
    if (iphlen &gt; length)
        goto error_free;

    if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph)) {
        /* fix up saddr, tot_len, id, csum, transport_header */
    }

It does not, however, reject ihl &lt; 5.  For such a packet the
"if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph))" branch is skipped, leaving the
crafted iphdr untouched, but the packet is still handed to
__ip_local_out() and onward.  Downstream consumers that read
iph-&gt;ihl assume a sane value: net/ipv4/ah4.c:ah_output() in
particular subtracts sizeof(struct iphdr) from top_iph-&gt;ihl * 4
and passes the (signed-int-negative, then cast to size_t)
result to memcpy(), producing an OOB access of length close to
SIZE_MAX and a host kernel panic.

An IPv4 header with ihl &lt; 5 is malformed by definition (RFC 791:
"Internet Header Length is the length of the internet header in
32 bit words ... Note that the minimum value for a correct header
is 5.").  The kernel should not be willing to inject such a
packet into its own output path.

Reject "iphlen &lt; sizeof(*iph)" alongside the existing
"iphlen &gt; length" check.  This matches the principle that locally
constructed packets that re-enter the IP stack must pass the same
basic sanity tests that a foreign packet would be subjected to.

Once this lands, the "if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph))" wrapper around
the fixup branch becomes redundant; left in place to keep the
patch minimal and backport-friendly.  A follow-up can unwrap it.

Note that commit 86f4c90a1c5c ("ipv4, ipv6: ensure raw socket
message is big enough to hold an IP header") ensures the message
buffer is large enough to hold an iphdr, but does not constrain
the self-reported iph-&gt;ihl.

Reachability: the malformed packet source is any caller with
CAP_NET_RAW, including an unprivileged process in a user+net
namespace on a kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS=y.  The reproduced AH
crash also requires a matching xfrm AH policy on the outgoing
route; a container granted CAP_NET_ADMIN can install that state
and policy in its netns.  Loopback bypasses xfrm_output, so the
trigger uses a real netdev.

Reproduced on UML + KASAN: kernel-mode fault at addr 0x0 with
memcpy_orig at the crash site.  Same shape reproduces inside a
rootless Docker container with --cap-add NET_ADMIN on a stock
distro kernel.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/77ec2b5e8111961c2c39883c92e8aa2709039c17.1778614451.git.michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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raw_send_hdrinc() validates that the caller-supplied IPv4 header
fits within the message length:

    iphlen = iph-&gt;ihl * 4;
    err = -EINVAL;
    if (iphlen &gt; length)
        goto error_free;

    if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph)) {
        /* fix up saddr, tot_len, id, csum, transport_header */
    }

It does not, however, reject ihl &lt; 5.  For such a packet the
"if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph))" branch is skipped, leaving the
crafted iphdr untouched, but the packet is still handed to
__ip_local_out() and onward.  Downstream consumers that read
iph-&gt;ihl assume a sane value: net/ipv4/ah4.c:ah_output() in
particular subtracts sizeof(struct iphdr) from top_iph-&gt;ihl * 4
and passes the (signed-int-negative, then cast to size_t)
result to memcpy(), producing an OOB access of length close to
SIZE_MAX and a host kernel panic.

An IPv4 header with ihl &lt; 5 is malformed by definition (RFC 791:
"Internet Header Length is the length of the internet header in
32 bit words ... Note that the minimum value for a correct header
is 5.").  The kernel should not be willing to inject such a
packet into its own output path.

Reject "iphlen &lt; sizeof(*iph)" alongside the existing
"iphlen &gt; length" check.  This matches the principle that locally
constructed packets that re-enter the IP stack must pass the same
basic sanity tests that a foreign packet would be subjected to.

Once this lands, the "if (iphlen &gt;= sizeof(*iph))" wrapper around
the fixup branch becomes redundant; left in place to keep the
patch minimal and backport-friendly.  A follow-up can unwrap it.

Note that commit 86f4c90a1c5c ("ipv4, ipv6: ensure raw socket
message is big enough to hold an IP header") ensures the message
buffer is large enough to hold an iphdr, but does not constrain
the self-reported iph-&gt;ihl.

Reachability: the malformed packet source is any caller with
CAP_NET_RAW, including an unprivileged process in a user+net
namespace on a kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS=y.  The reproduced AH
crash also requires a matching xfrm AH policy on the outgoing
route; a container granted CAP_NET_ADMIN can install that state
and policy in its netns.  Loopback bypasses xfrm_output, so the
trigger uses a real netdev.

Reproduced on UML + KASAN: kernel-mode fault at addr 0x0 with
memcpy_orig at the crash site.  Same shape reproduces inside a
rootless Docker container with --cap-add NET_ADMIN on a stock
distro kernel.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/77ec2b5e8111961c2c39883c92e8aa2709039c17.1778614451.git.michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return a drop_reason</title>
<updated>2026-04-12T21:30:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-09T14:56:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=900f27fb797c7eaf0b84b7a6516613e19746bc4e'/>
<id>900f27fb797c7eaf0b84b7a6516613e19746bc4e</id>
<content type='text'>
Change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return the drop_reason directly
instead of using a reference.

This is part of an effort to remove stack canaries and reduce bloat.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/7 up/down: 79/-301 (-222)
Function                                     old     new   delta
vsock_queue_rcv_skb                           50      79     +29
ipmr_cache_report                           1290    1315     +25
ip6mr_cache_report                          1322    1347     +25
packet_rcv_spkt                              329     327      -2
sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason                    166     128     -38
raw_rcv_skb                                  122      80     -42
ping_queue_rcv_skb                           109      61     -48
ping_rcv                                     215     162     -53
rawv6_rcv_skb                                278     224     -54
raw_rcv                                      591     527     -64
Total: Before=29722890, After=29722668, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409145625.2306224-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return the drop_reason directly
instead of using a reference.

This is part of an effort to remove stack canaries and reduce bloat.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/7 up/down: 79/-301 (-222)
Function                                     old     new   delta
vsock_queue_rcv_skb                           50      79     +29
ipmr_cache_report                           1290    1315     +25
ip6mr_cache_report                          1322    1347     +25
packet_rcv_spkt                              329     327      -2
sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason                    166     128     -38
raw_rcv_skb                                  122      80     -42
ping_queue_rcv_skb                           109      61     -48
ping_rcv                                     215     162     -53
rawv6_rcv_skb                                278     224     -54
raw_rcv                                      591     527     -64
Total: Before=29722890, After=29722668, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409145625.2306224-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T13:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T15:32:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0fe27e5985925de8f0243f91658af7a6fea05725'/>
<id>0fe27e5985925de8f0243f91658af7a6fea05725</id>
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inode-&gt;i_ino is being converted to a u64. sock.sk_ino (which caches the
inode number) must also be widened to avoid truncation on 32-bit
architectures where unsigned long is only 32 bits.

Change sk_ino from unsigned long to u64, and update the return type
of sock_i_ino() to match. Fix all format strings that print the
result of sock_i_ino() (%lu -&gt; %llu), and widen the intermediate
variables and function parameters in the diag modules that were
using int to hold the inode number.

Note that the UAPI socket diag structures (inet_diag_msg.idiag_inode,
unix_diag_msg.udiag_ino, etc.) are all __u32 and cannot be changed
without breaking the ABI. The assignments to those fields will
silently truncate, which is the existing behavior.

Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt; # for net/can
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-3-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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inode-&gt;i_ino is being converted to a u64. sock.sk_ino (which caches the
inode number) must also be widened to avoid truncation on 32-bit
architectures where unsigned long is only 32 bits.

Change sk_ino from unsigned long to u64, and update the return type
of sock_i_ino() to match. Fix all format strings that print the
result of sock_i_ino() (%lu -&gt; %llu), and widen the intermediate
variables and function parameters in the diag modules that were
using int to hold the inode number.

Note that the UAPI socket diag structures (inet_diag_msg.idiag_inode,
unix_diag_msg.udiag_ino, etc.) are all __u32 and cannot be changed
without breaking the ABI. The assignments to those fields will
silently truncate, which is the existing behavior.

Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt; # for net/can
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-3-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T15:11:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8341c989ac77d712c7d6e2bce29e8a4bcb2eeae4'/>
<id>8341c989ac77d712c7d6e2bce29e8a4bcb2eeae4</id>
<content type='text'>
Use msg-&gt;msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a
temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg().

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

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

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

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

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

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4/inet_sock.h: Avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings</title>
<updated>2026-01-07T01:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-05T06:45:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c'/>
<id>c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c</id>
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Use DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() to avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end
warnings.

Remove struct ip_options_data, and adjust the rest of the code so that
flexible-array member struct ip_options_rcu::opt.__data[] ends last
in struct icmp_bxm.

Compensate for this by using the DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() helper to define each
on-stack struct instance that contained struct ip_options_data as a member,
and to define struct ip_options_rcu with a fixed on-stack size for its
nested flexible-array member opt.__data[].

Also, add a couple of code comments to prevent people from adding members
to a struct after another member that contains a flexible array.

With these changes, fix 2600 warnings of the following type:

include/net/inet_sock.h:65:33: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aVteBadWA6AbTp7X@kspp
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Use DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() to avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end
warnings.

Remove struct ip_options_data, and adjust the rest of the code so that
flexible-array member struct ip_options_rcu::opt.__data[] ends last
in struct icmp_bxm.

Compensate for this by using the DEFINE_RAW_FLEX() helper to define each
on-stack struct instance that contained struct ip_options_data as a member,
and to define struct ip_options_rcu with a fixed on-stack size for its
nested flexible-array member opt.__data[].

Also, add a couple of code comments to prevent people from adding members
to a struct after another member that contains a flexible array.

With these changes, fix 2600 warnings of the following type:

include/net/inet_sock.h:65:33: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aVteBadWA6AbTp7X@kspp
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T03:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T00:26:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=449f68f8fffa2c41fc265730bd05a3c4947916c1'/>
<id>449f68f8fffa2c41fc265730bd05a3c4947916c1</id>
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Convert struct proto pre_connect(), connect(), bind(), and bind_add()
callback function prototypes from struct sockaddr to struct sockaddr_unsized.
This does not change per-implementation use of sockaddr for passing around
an arbitrarily sized sockaddr struct. Those will be addressed in future
patches.

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

No binary changes expected.

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

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

No binary changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-5-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: raw: add drop_counters to raw sockets</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T11:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-26T12:50:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b81aa23234d94d99951761d9864061d774633ba9'/>
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When a packet flood hits one or more RAW sockets, many cpus
have to update sk-&gt;sk_drops.

This slows down other cpus, because currently
sk_drops is in sock_write_rx group.

Add a socket_drop_counters structure to raw sockets.

Using dedicated cache lines to hold drop counters
makes sure that consumers no longer suffer from
false sharing if/when producers only change sk-&gt;sk_drops.

This adds 128 bytes per RAW socket.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250826125031.1578842-6-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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When a packet flood hits one or more RAW sockets, many cpus
have to update sk-&gt;sk_drops.

This slows down other cpus, because currently
sk_drops is in sock_write_rx group.

Add a socket_drop_counters structure to raw sockets.

Using dedicated cache lines to hold drop counters
makes sure that consumers no longer suffer from
false sharing if/when producers only change sk-&gt;sk_drops.

This adds 128 bytes per RAW socket.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250826125031.1578842-6-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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