lwn.git/include/net, branch docs-fixes

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-02-19T18:39:08+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Including fixes from Netfilter. Current release - new code bugs: - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols Previous releases - regressions: - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free() Previous releases - always broken: - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() - fixes for ICMP rate limiting Misc: - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200" * tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits) net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down bnge: fix reserving resources from FW eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features. rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow() inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow() selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests ...

inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line

2026-02-19T00:46:36+00:00

icmp_global_credit was meant to be changed ~1000 times per second, but if an admin sets net.ipv4.icmp_msgs_per_sec to a very high value, icmp_global_credit changes can inflict false sharing to surrounding fields that are read mostly. Move icmp_global_credit and icmp_global_stamp to a separate cacheline aligned group. Fixes: b056b4cd9178 ("icmp: move icmp_global.credit and icmp_global.stamp to per netns storage") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216142832.3834174-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'sysctl-7.00-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl

2026-02-18T18:45:36+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Remove macros from proc handler converters Replace the proc converter macros with "regular" functions. Though it is more verbose than the macro version, it helps when debugging and better aligns with coding-style.rst. - General cleanup Remove superfluous ctl_table forward declarations. Const qualify the memory_allocation_profiling_sysctl and loadpin_sysctl_table arrays. Add missing kernel doc to proc_dointvec_conv. - Testing This series was run through sysctl selftests/kunit test suite in x86_64. And went into linux-next after rc4, giving it a good 3 weeks of testing * tag 'sysctl-7.00-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: sysctl: replace SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM macro with functions sysctl: Replace unidirectional INT converter macros with functions sysctl: Add kernel doc to proc_douintvec_conv sysctl: Replace UINT converter macros with functions sysctl: Add CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL guards for converter macros sysctl: clarify proc_douintvec_minmax doc sysctl: Return -ENOSYS from proc_douintvec_conv when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n sysctl: Remove unused ctl_table forward declarations loadpin: Implement custom proc_handler for enforce alloc_tag: move memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls into .rodata sysctl: Add missing kernel-doc for proc_dointvec_conv

ipv6: addrconf: reduce default temp_valid_lft to 2 days

2026-02-18T01:12:06+00:00

This is a recommendation from RFC 8981 and it was intended to be changed by commit 969c54646af0 ("ipv6: Implement draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis") but it only changed the sysctl documentation. Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260214172543.5783-1-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix a race in ip6_sock_set_v6only()

2026-02-18T00:45:29+00:00

It is unlikely that this function will be ever called with isk->inet_num being not zero. Perform the check on isk->inet_num inside the locked section for complete safety. Fixes: 9b115749acb24 ("ipv6: add ip6_sock_set_v6only") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216102202.3343588-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

2026-02-13T20:24:05+00:00

On the receive path, __ioam6_fill_trace_data() uses trace->nodelen to decide how much data to write for each node. It trusts this field as-is from the incoming packet, with no consistency check against trace->type (the 24-bit field that tells which data items are present). A crafted packet can set nodelen=0 while setting type bits 0-21, causing the function to write ~100 bytes past the allocated region (into skb_shared_info), which corrupts adjacent heap memory and leads to a kernel panic. Add a shared helper ioam6_trace_compute_nodelen() in ioam6.c to derive the expected nodelen from the type field, and use it: - in ioam6_iptunnel.c (send path, existing validation) to replace the open-coded computation; - in exthdrs.c (receive path, ipv6_hop_ioam) to drop packets whose nodelen is inconsistent with the type field, before any data is written. Per RFC 9197, bits 12-21 are each short (4-octet) fields, so they are included in IOAM6_MASK_SHORT_FIELDS (changed from 0xff100000 to 0xff1ffc00). Fixes: 9ee11f0fff20 ("ipv6: ioam: Data plane support for Pre-allocated Trace") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Junxi Qian Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260211040412.86195-1-qjx1298677004@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma

2026-02-13T01:05:20+00:00

Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe: "Usual smallish cycle. The NFS biovec work to push it down into RDMA instead of indirecting through a scatterlist is pretty nice to see, been talked about for a long time now. - Various code improvements in irdma, rtrs, qedr, ocrdma, irdma, rxe - Small driver improvements and minor bug fixes to hns, mlx5, rxe, mana, mlx5, irdma - Robusness improvements in completion processing for EFA - New query_port_speed() verb to move past limited IBA defined speed steps - Support for SG_GAPS in rts and many other small improvements - Rare list corruption fix in iwcm - Better support different page sizes in rxe - Device memory support for mana - Direct bio vec to kernel MR for use by NFS-RDMA - QP rate limiting for bnxt_re - Remote triggerable NULL pointer crash in siw - DMA-buf exporter support for RDMA mmaps like doorbells" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (66 commits) RDMA/mlx5: Implement DMABUF export ops RDMA/uverbs: Add DMABUF object type and operations RDMA/uverbs: Support external FD uobjects RDMA/siw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in header processing RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write IB/core: Extend rate limit support for RC QPs RDMA/mlx5: Support rate limit only for Raw Packet QP RDMA/bnxt_re: Report QP rate limit in debugfs RDMA/bnxt_re: Report packet pacing capabilities when querying device RDMA/bnxt_re: Add support for QP rate limiting MAINTAINERS: Drop RDMA files from Hyper-V section RDMA/uverbs: Add __GFP_NOWARN to ib_uverbs_unmarshall_recv() kmalloc svcrdma: use bvec-based RDMA read/write API RDMA/core: add rdma_rw_max_sge() helper for SQ sizing RDMA/core: add MR support for bvec-based RDMA operations RDMA/core: use IOVA-based DMA mapping for bvec RDMA operations RDMA/core: add bio_vec based RDMA read/write API RDMA/irdma: Use kvzalloc for paged memory DMA address array RDMA/rxe: Fix race condition in QP timer handlers RDMA/mana_ib: Add device‑memory support ...