When skb_segment_list() is called during packet forwarding, it handles
packets that were aggregated by the GRO engine.
Historically, the segmentation logic in skb_segment_list assumes that
individual segments are split from a parent SKB and may need to carry
their own socket memory accounting. Accordingly, the code transfers
truesize from the parent to the newly created segments.
Prior to commit ed4cccef64 ("gro: fix ownership transfer"), this
truesize subtraction in skb_segment_list() was valid because fragments
still carry a reference to the original socket.
However, commit ed4cccef64 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") changed
this behavior by ensuring that fraglist entries are explicitly
orphaned (skb->sk = NULL) to prevent illegal orphaning later in the
stack. This change meant that the entire socket memory charge remained
with the head SKB, but the corresponding accounting logic in
skb_segment_list() was never updated.
As a result, the current code unconditionally adds each fragment's
truesize to delta_truesize and subtracts it from the parent SKB. Since
the fragments are no longer charged to the socket, this subtraction
results in an effective under-count of memory when the head is freed.
This causes sk_wmem_alloc to remain non-zero, preventing socket
destruction and leading to a persistent memory leak.
The leak can be observed via KMEMLEAK when tearing down the networking
environment:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881e6eb9100 (size 2048):
comm "ping", pid 6720, jiffies 4295492526
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x5c6/0x800
sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220
sk_alloc+0x35/0xa00
inet6_create.part.0+0x303/0x10d0
__sock_create+0x248/0x640
__sys_socket+0x11b/0x1d0
Since skb_segment_list() is exclusively used for SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST
packets constructed by GRO, the truesize adjustment is removed.
The call to skb_release_head_state() must be preserved. As documented in
commit cf673ed0e0 ("net: fix fraglist segmentation reference count
leak"), it is still required to correctly drop references to SKB
extensions that may be overwritten during __copy_skb_header().
Fixes: ed4cccef64 ("gro: fix ownership transfer")
Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104213101.352887-1-mheib@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:
- Unify how task_work cancelations are detected, placing it in the
task_work running state rather than needing to check the task state
- Series cleaning up and moving the cancelation code to where it
belongs, in cancel.c
- Cleanup of waitid and futex argument handling
- Add support for mixed sized SQEs. 6.18 added support for mixed sized
CQEs, improving flexibility and efficiency of workloads that need big
CQEs. This adds similar support for SQEs, where the occasional need
for a 128b SQE doesn't necessitate having all SQEs be 128b in size
- Introduce zcrx and SQ/CQ layout queries. The former returns what zcrx
features are available. And both return the ring size information to
help with allocation size calculation for user provided rings like
IORING_SETUP_NO_MMAP and IORING_MEM_REGION_TYPE_USER
- Zcrx updates for 6.19. It includes a bunch of small patches,
IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL and RQ flushing and David's work on sharing
zcrx b/w multiple io_uring instances
- Series cleaning up ring initializations, notable deduplicating ring
size and offset calculations. It also moves most of the checking
before doing any allocations, making the code simpler
- Add support for getsockname and getpeername, which is mostly a
trivial hookup after a bit of refactoring on the networking side
- Various fixes and cleanups
* tag 'for-6.19/io_uring-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits)
io_uring: Introduce getsockname io_uring cmd
socket: Split out a getsockname helper for io_uring
socket: Unify getsockname and getpeername implementation
io_uring/query: drop unused io_handle_query_entry() ctx arg
io_uring/kbuf: remove obsolete buf_nr_pages and update comments
io_uring/register: use correct location for io_rings_layout
io_uring/zcrx: share an ifq between rings
io_uring/zcrx: add io_fill_zcrx_offsets()
io_uring/zcrx: export zcrx via a file
io_uring/zcrx: move io_zcrx_scrub() and dependencies up
io_uring/zcrx: count zcrx users
io_uring/zcrx: add sync refill queue flushing
io_uring/zcrx: introduce IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL
io_uring/zcrx: elide passing msg flags
io_uring/zcrx: use folio_nr_pages() instead of shift operation
io_uring/zcrx: convert to use netmem_desc
io_uring/query: introduce rings info query
io_uring/query: introduce zcrx query
io_uring: move cq/sq user offset init around
io_uring: pre-calculate scq layout
...
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.
Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue.
Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.
Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
did for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
pressure, improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API:
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
IPsec and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers:
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
debugfs interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"
* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
...
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to
test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré)
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien
Curutchet)
- Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in
bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree
(Puranjay Mohan)
- Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT
(Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)
- Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee)
- Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports
(Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan)
- Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar
Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance
from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong)
- Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul
Chaignon)
- Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel
Borkmann)
- Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh
Oedayrajsingh Varma)
- Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai)
* tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits)
bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types
bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline
selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program
selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh
selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs
selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type
selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test
rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check
rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback
rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy
rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions
bpf: Remove runqslower tool
selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest
bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook
bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment
bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation
bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak
selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test
selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test
...
Pull scoped user access updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Scoped user mode access and related changes:
- Implement the missing u64 user access function on ARM when
CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE=n.
This makes it possible to access a 64bit value in generic code with
[unsafe_]get_user(). All other architectures and ARM variants
provide the relevant accessors already.
- Ensure that ASM GOTO jump label usage in the user mode access
helpers always goes through a local C scope label indirection
inside the helpers.
This is required because compilers are not supporting that a ASM
GOTO target leaves a auto cleanup scope. GCC silently fails to emit
the cleanup invocation and CLANG fails the build.
[ Editor's note: gcc-16 will have fixed the code generation issue
in commit f68fe3ddda4 ("eh: Invoke cleanups/destructors in asm
goto jumps [PR122835]"). But we obviously have to deal with clang
and older versions of gcc, so.. - Linus ]
This provides generic wrapper macros and the conversion of affected
architecture code to use them.
- Scoped user mode access with auto cleanup
Access to user mode memory can be required in hot code paths, but
if it has to be done with user controlled pointers, the access is
shielded with a speculation barrier, so that the CPU cannot
speculate around the address range check. Those speculation
barriers impact performance quite significantly.
This cost can be avoided by "masking" the provided pointer so it is
guaranteed to be in the valid user memory access range and
otherwise to point to a guaranteed unpopulated address space. This
has to be done without branches so it creates an address dependency
for the access, which the CPU cannot speculate ahead.
This results in repeating and error prone programming patterns:
if (can_do_masked_user_access())
from = masked_user_read_access_begin((from));
else if (!user_read_access_begin(from, sizeof(*from)))
return -EFAULT;
unsafe_get_user(val, from, Efault);
user_read_access_end();
return 0;
Efault:
user_read_access_end();
return -EFAULT;
which can be replaced with scopes and automatic cleanup:
scoped_user_read_access(from, Efault)
unsafe_get_user(val, from, Efault);
return 0;
Efault:
return -EFAULT;
- Convert code which implements the above pattern over to
scope_user.*.access(). This also corrects a couple of imbalanced
masked_*_begin() instances which are harmless on most
architectures, but prevent PowerPC from implementing the masking
optimization.
- Add a missing speculation barrier in copy_from_user_iter()"
* tag 'core-uaccess-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
lib/strn*,uaccess: Use masked_user_{read/write}_access_begin when required
scm: Convert put_cmsg() to scoped user access
iov_iter: Add missing speculation barrier to copy_from_user_iter()
iov_iter: Convert copy_from_user_iter() to masked user access
select: Convert to scoped user access
x86/futex: Convert to scoped user access
futex: Convert to get/put_user_inline()
uaccess: Provide put/get_user_inline()
uaccess: Provide scoped user access regions
arm64: uaccess: Use unsafe wrappers for ASM GOTO
s390/uaccess: Use unsafe wrappers for ASM GOTO
riscv/uaccess: Use unsafe wrappers for ASM GOTO
powerpc/uaccess: Use unsafe wrappers for ASM GOTO
x86/uaccess: Use unsafe wrappers for ASM GOTO
uaccess: Provide ASM GOTO safe wrappers for unsafe_*_user()
ARM: uaccess: Implement missing __get_user_asm_dword()
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new
system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups.
The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support.
Features:
- listns() system call
Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate
through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic
interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing
longstanding limitations:
Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate
namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across
all processes, which is:
- Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes
- Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running
process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or
parent references
- Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes
- No ordering or ownership information
- No filtering per namespace type
The listns() system call solves these problems:
ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids,
size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags);
struct ns_id_req {
__u32 size;
__u32 spare;
__u64 ns_id;
struct /* listns */ {
__u32 ns_type;
__u32 spare2;
__u64 user_ns_id;
};
};
Features include:
- Pagination support for large namespace sets
- Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.)
- Filtering by owning user namespace
- Permission checks respecting namespace isolation
- Active Reference Counting
Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace
visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following
cases:
- The namespace is in use by a task
- The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
descriptor or bind-mount)
- The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child
namespaces
The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still
done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility
to namespace file handles and listns().
This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for
internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by
file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should
not be accessible via (1)-(3).
- Unified Namespace Tree
Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with:
- Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces
- Lookup based solely on inode number
- Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace
- Simplified rbtree comparison helpers
Cleanups
- Header Reorganization:
- Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h)
- Decouple nstree from ns_common header
- Move nstree types into separate header
- Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions
- Use guards for ns_tree_lock
- Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization
- Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid
pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go
away
- Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
- Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces
- pid: rely on common reference count behavior
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
- Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const
- Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
- Simplify owner list iteration in nstree
- nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- nsfs: use inode_just_drop()
- pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls
- libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags
- cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set
- nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
Fixes:
- setns(pidfd, ...) race condition
Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target
task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the
namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If
setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active
reference count from zero without taking the required reference on
the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented.
The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller
succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should
succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped.
- Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success
- Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some
namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last
reference)
- Don't skip active reference count initialization for network
namespace
- Add asserts for active refcount underflow
- Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive
and active)
- ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
- Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions
- Selftests
- 15 active reference count tests
- 9 listns() functionality tests
- 7 listns() permission tests
- 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests
- 3 threaded active reference count tests
- commit_creds() active reference tests
- Pagination and stress tests
- EFAULT handling test
- nsid tests fixes"
* tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits)
pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls
nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions
nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests
ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
pid: rely on common reference count behavior
ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts
ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts
ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop
ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
ns: rename is_initial_namespace()
ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const
nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock
nstree: simplify owner list iteration
nstree: switch to new structures
nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root}
nstree: move nstree types into separate header
nstree: decouple from ns_common header
ns: move namespace types into separate header
...
Prevent a kernel warning when netconsole setup fails on devices with
IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL flag. The warning (at kernel/workqueue.c:4242 in
__flush_work) occurs because the cleanup path tries to cancel an
uninitialized work queue.
When __netpoll_setup() encounters a device with IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL,
it fails early and calls skb_pool_flush() for cleanup. This function
calls cancel_work_sync(&np->refill_wq), but refill_wq hasn't been
initialized yet, triggering the warning.
Move INIT_WORK() to the beginning of __netpoll_setup(), ensuring the
work queue is properly initialized before any potential failure points.
This allows the cleanup path to safely cancel the work queue regardless
of where the setup fails.
Fixes: 248f6571fd ("netpoll: Optimize skb refilling on critical path")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127-netpoll_fix_init_work-v1-1-65c07806d736@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Commit e20dfbad8a ("net: fix napi_consume_skb() with alien skbs")
added a skb->cpu check to napi_consume_skb(), before the point where
napi_consume_skb() validated skb is not NULL.
Add an explicit check to the early exit condition.
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Convert all the legacy code directly accessing the pp fields in net_iov
to access them through @desc in net_iov.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Some qdisc like cake, codel, fq_codel might drop packets
in their dequeue() method.
This is currently problematic because dequeue() runs with
the qdisc spinlock held. Freeing skbs can be extremely expensive.
Add qdisc_dequeue_drop() method and a new TCQ_F_DEQUEUE_DROPS
so that these qdiscs can opt-in to defer the skb frees
after the socket spinlock is released.
TCQ_F_DEQUEUE_DROPS is an attempt to not penalize other qdiscs
with an extra cache line miss.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121083256.674562-14-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Most qdiscs need to read skb->priority at enqueue time().
In commit 100dfa74ca ("net: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption")
I added a prefetch(next), lets add another one for the second
half of skb.
Note that skb->priority and skb->hash share a common cache line,
so this patch helps qdiscs needing both fields.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121083256.674562-11-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc7).
No conflicts, adjacent changes:
tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/Makefile
e1bb28bf13 ("selftest: af_unix: Add test for SO_PEEK_OFF.")
45a1cd8346 ("selftests: af_unix: Add tests for ECONNRESET and EOF semantics")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
- Replace NAPI_SKB_CACHE_HALF with NAPI_SKB_CACHE_FREE
- Only free 32 skbs in napi_skb_cache_put()
Since the first patch adjusting NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE to 128, the number
of packets to be freed in the softirq was increased from 32 to 64.
Considering a subsequent net_rx_action() calling napi_poll() a few
times can easily consume the 64 available slots and we can afford
keeping a higher value of sk_buffs in per-cpu storage, decrease
NAPI_SKB_CACHE_FREE to 32 like before. So now the logic is 1) keeping
96 skbs, 2) freeing 32 skbs at one time.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118070646.61344-4-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
After commit b61785852e ("net: increase skb_defer_max default to 128")
changed the value sysctl_skb_defer_max to avoid many calls to
kick_defer_list_purge(), the same situation can be applied to
NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE that was proposed in 2016. It's a trade-off between
using pre-allocated memory in skb_cache and saving more a bit heavy
function calls in the softirq context.
With this patch applied, we can have more skbs per-cpu to accelerate the
sending path that needs to acquire new skbs.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118070646.61344-2-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This is a followup of commit e20dfbad8a ("net: fix napi_consume_skb()
with alien skbs").
Now the per-cpu napi_skb_cache is populated from TX completion path,
we can make use of this cache, especially for cpus not used
from a driver NAPI poll (primary user of napi_cache).
We can use the napi_skb_cache only if current context is not from hard irq.
With this patch, I consistently reach 130 Mpps on my UDP tx stress test
and reduce SLUB spinlock contention to smaller values.
Note there is still some SLUB contention for skb->head allocations.
I had to tune /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_small_head/cpu_partial
and /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_small_head/min_partial depending
on the platform taxonomy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251116202717.1542829-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Since selem already saves a pointer to smap, use it instead of an
additional argument in bpf_selem_free(). This requires moving the
SDATA(selem)->smap assignment from bpf_selem_link_map() to
bpf_selem_alloc() since bpf_selem_free() may be called without the
selem being linked to smap in bpf_local_storage_update().
Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251114201329.3275875-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The bpf_skb_check_mtu helper needs to use skb->transport_header when
the BPF_MTU_CHK_SEGS flag is used:
bpf_skb_check_mtu(skb, ifindex, &mtu_len, 0, BPF_MTU_CHK_SEGS)
The transport_header is not always set. There is a WARN_ON_ONCE
report when CONFIG_DEBUG_NET is enabled + skb->gso_size is set +
bpf_prog_test_run is used:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2216 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3071
skb_gso_validate_network_len
bpf_skb_check_mtu
bpf_prog_3920e25740a41171_tc_chk_segs_flag # A test in the next patch
bpf_test_run
bpf_prog_test_run_skb
For a normal ingress skb (not test_run), skb_reset_transport_header
is performed but there is plan to avoid setting it as described in
commit 2170a1f091 ("net: no longer reset transport_header in __netif_receive_skb_core()").
This patch fixes the bpf helper by checking
skb_transport_header_was_set(). The check is done just before
skb->transport_header is used, to avoid breaking the existing bpf prog.
The WARN_ON_ONCE is limited to bpf_prog_test_run, so targeting bpf-next.
Fixes: 34b2021cc6 ("bpf: Add BPF-helper for MTU checking")
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei <M202472210@hust.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Yinhao Hu <dddddd@hust.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251112232331.1566074-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The ethtool tsconfig Netlink path can trigger a null pointer
dereference. A call chain such as:
tsconfig_prepare_data() ->
dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib() ->
vlan_hwtstamp_get() ->
generic_hwtstamp_get_lower() ->
generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()
results in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() being called with
kernel_cfg->ifr as NULL.
The generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() function does not expect
a NULL ifr and dereferences it, leading to a system crash.
Fix this by adding a NULL check for kernel_cfg->ifr in
generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower(). If ifr is NULL, return -EINVAL.
Fixes: 6e9e2eed4f ("net: ethtool: Add support for tsconfig command to get/set hwtstamp config")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/cd6a7056-fa6d-43f8-b78a-f5e811247ba8@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jiaming Zhang <r772577952@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111173652.749159-2-r772577952@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc6).
No conflicts, adjacent changes in:
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
96a9178a29 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface")
61b7ade9ba ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814")
and a trivial one in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Need to call netdev_get_by_index_lock() from io_uring/zcrx.c, but it is
currently private to net. Export the function in linux/netdevice.h.
Signed-off-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Bring in the shared branch with the kbuild tree to enable
'-fms-extensions' for 6.19. Further namespace cleanup work
requires this extension.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
commit efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free") incorrectly
ignored the refcount and prematurely set dev->npinfo to NULL during
netpoll cleanup, leading to improper behavior and memory leaks.
Scenario causing lack of proper cleanup:
1) A netpoll is associated with a NIC (e.g., eth0) and netdev->npinfo is
allocated, and refcnt = 1
- Keep in mind that npinfo is shared among all netpoll instances. In
this case, there is just one.
2) Another netpoll is also associated with the same NIC and
npinfo->refcnt += 1.
- Now dev->npinfo->refcnt = 2;
- There is just one npinfo associated to the netdev.
3) When the first netpolls goes to clean up:
- The first cleanup succeeds and clears np->dev->npinfo, ignoring
refcnt.
- It basically calls `RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);`
- Set dev->npinfo = NULL, without proper cleanup
- No ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is either called
4) Now the second target tries to clean up
- The second cleanup fails because np->dev->npinfo is already NULL.
* In this case, ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() was never called, and
the skb pool is not cleaned as well (for the second netpoll
instance)
- This leaks npinfo and skbpool skbs, which is clearly reported by
kmemleak.
Revert commit efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free") and adds
clarifying comments emphasizing that npinfo cleanup should only happen
once the refcount reaches zero, ensuring stable and correct netpoll
behavior.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17.x
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Fixes: efa95b01da ("netpoll: fix use after free")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107-netconsole_torture-v10-1-749227b55f63@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
