linux/drivers/net/hyperv, branch v6.17

net: hv_netvsc: fix loss of early receive events from host during channel open.

2025-08-27T01:15:19Z

The hv_netvsc driver currently enables NAPI after opening the primary and subchannels. This ordering creates a race: if the Hyper-V host places data in the host -> guest ring buffer and signals the channel before napi_enable() has been called, the channel callback will run but napi_schedule_prep() will return false. As a result, the NAPI poller never gets scheduled, the data in the ring buffer is not consumed, and the receive queue may remain permanently stuck until another interrupt happens to arrive. Fix this by enabling NAPI and registering it with the RX/TX queues before vmbus channel is opened. This guarantees that any early host signal after open will correctly trigger NAPI scheduling and the ring buffer will be drained. Fixes: 76bb5db5c749d ("netvsc: fix use after free on module removal") Signed-off-by: Dipayaan Roy Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250825115627.GA32189@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

hv_netvsc: Fix panic during namespace deletion with VF

2025-08-08T20:24:16Z

The existing code move the VF NIC to new namespace when NETDEV_REGISTER is received on netvsc NIC. During deletion of the namespace, default_device_exit_batch() >> default_device_exit_net() is called. When netvsc NIC is moved back and registered to the default namespace, it automatically brings VF NIC back to the default namespace. This will cause the default_device_exit_net() >> for_each_netdev_safe loop unable to detect the list end, and hit NULL ptr: [ 231.449420] mana 7870:00:00.0 enP30832s1: Moved VF to namespace with: eth0 [ 231.449656] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 [ 231.450246] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 231.450579] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 231.450916] PGD 17b8a8067 P4D 0 [ 231.451163] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 231.451450] CPU: 82 UID: 0 PID: 1394 Comm: kworker/u768:1 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #3 VOLUNTARY [ 231.452042] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/21/2024 [ 231.452692] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [ 231.452947] RIP: 0010:default_device_exit_batch+0x16c/0x3f0 [ 231.453326] Code: c0 0c f5 b3 e8 d5 db fe ff 48 85 c0 74 15 48 c7 c2 f8 fd ca b2 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 7d c0 e8 7b 77 25 00 49 8b 86 28 01 00 00 <48> 8b 50 10 4c 8b 2a 4c 8d 62 f0 49 83 ed 10 4c 39 e0 0f 84 d6 00 [ 231.454294] RSP: 0018:ff75fc7c9bf9fd00 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 231.454610] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 61c8864680b583eb [ 231.455094] RDX: ff1fa9f71462d800 RSI: ff75fc7c9bf9fd38 RDI: 0000000030766564 [ 231.455686] RBP: ff75fc7c9bf9fd78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 231.456126] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ff1fa9f70088e340 [ 231.456621] R13: ff1fa9f70088e340 R14: ffffffffb3f50c20 R15: ff1fa9f7103e6340 [ 231.457161] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1faa6783a08000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 231.457707] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 231.458031] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000179ab2006 CR4: 0000000000b73ef0 [ 231.458434] Call Trace: [ 231.458600] [ 231.458777] ops_undo_list+0x100/0x220 [ 231.459015] cleanup_net+0x1b8/0x300 [ 231.459285] process_one_work+0x184/0x340 To fix it, move the ns change to a workqueue, and take rtnl_lock to avoid changing the netdev list when default_device_exit_net() is using it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4c262801ea60 ("hv_netvsc: Fix VF namespace also in synthetic NIC NETDEV_REGISTER event") Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1754511711-11188-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-07-17T18:00:33Z

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.16-rc7). Conflicts: Documentation/netlink/specs/ovpn.yaml 880d43ca9aa4 ("netlink: specs: clean up spaces in brackets") af52020fc599 ("ovpn: reject unexpected netlink attributes") drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c a44312d58e78 ("net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy") f0f2b992d818 ("net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy") https://lore.kernel.org/20250710114926.7ec3a64f@kernel.org drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/regulatory.c drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/regulatory.c 5fde0fcbd760 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mask reserved bits in chan_state_active_bitmap") ea045a0de3b9 ("wifi: iwlwifi: add support for accepting raw DSM tables by firmware") net/ipv6/mcast.c ae3264a25a46 ("ipv6: mcast: Delay put pmc->idev in mld_del_delrec()") a8594c956cc9 ("ipv6: mcast: Avoid a duplicate pointer check in mld_del_delrec()") https://lore.kernel.org/8cc52891-3653-4b03-a45e-05464fe495cf@kernel.org No adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

hv_netvsc: Set VF priv_flags to IFF_NO_ADDRCONF before open to prevent IPv6 addrconf

2025-07-17T14:34:32Z

Set an additional flag IFF_NO_ADDRCONF to prevent ipv6 addrconf. Commit under Fixes added a new flag change that was not made to hv_netvsc resulting in the VF being assinged an IPv6. Fixes: 8a321cf7becc ("net: add IFF_NO_ADDRCONF and use it in bonding to prevent ipv6 addrconf") Suggested-by: Cathy Avery Signed-off-by: Li Tian Reviewed-by: Xin Long Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716002607.4927-1-litian@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: drv: hyperv: migrate to new RXFH callbacks

2025-06-13T00:47:09Z

Add support for the new rxfh_fields callbacks, instead of de-muxing the rxnfc calls. This driver does not support flow filtering so the set_rxnfc callback is completely removed. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611145949.2674086-10-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

hv_netvsc: fix potential deadlock in netvsc_vf_setxdp()

2025-05-31T02:31:25Z

The MANA driver's probe registers netdevice via the following call chain: mana_probe() register_netdev() register_netdevice() register_netdevice() calls notifier callback for netvsc driver, holding the netdev mutex via netdev_lock_ops(). Further this netvsc notifier callback end up attempting to acquire the same lock again in dev_xdp_propagate() leading to deadlock. netvsc_netdev_event() netvsc_vf_setxdp() dev_xdp_propagate() This deadlock was not observed so far because net_shaper_ops was never set, and thus the lock was effectively a no-op in this case. Fix this by using netif_xdp_propagate() instead of dev_xdp_propagate() to avoid recursive locking in this path. And, since no deadlock is observed on the other path which is via netvsc_probe, add the lock exclusivly for that path. Also, clean up the unregistration path by removing the unnecessary call to netvsc_vf_setxdp(), since unregister_netdevice_many_notify() already performs this cleanup via dev_xdp_uninstall(). Fixes: 97246d6d21c2 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during ndo_bpf") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar Tested-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang Reviewed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1748513910-23963-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: core: Convert dev_set_mac_address() to struct sockaddr_storage

2025-05-27T06:25:43Z

All users of dev_set_mac_address() are now using a struct sockaddr_storage. Convert the internal data type to struct sockaddr_storage, drop the casts, and update pointer types. Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521204619.2301870-6-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

hv_netvsc: Remove rmsg_pgcnt

2025-05-15T02:45:24Z

init_page_array() now always creates a single page buffer array entry for the rndis message, even if the rndis message crosses a page boundary. As such, the number of page buffer array entries used for the rndis message must no longer be tracked -- it is always just 1. Remove the rmsg_pgcnt field and use "1" where the value is needed. Cc: # 6.1.x Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-5-mhklinux@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

hv_netvsc: Preserve contiguous PFN grouping in the page buffer array

2025-05-15T02:45:24Z

Starting with commit dca5161f9bd0 ("hv_netvsc: Check status in SEND_RNDIS_PKT completion message") in the 6.3 kernel, the Linux driver for Hyper-V synthetic networking (netvsc) occasionally reports "nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete error status: 2".[1] This error indicates that Hyper-V has rejected a network packet transmit request from the guest, and the outgoing network packet is dropped. Higher level network protocols presumably recover and resend the packet so there is no functional error, but performance is slightly impacted. Commit dca5161f9bd0 is not the cause of the error -- it only added reporting of an error that was already happening without any notice. The error has presumably been present since the netvsc driver was originally introduced into Linux. The root cause of the problem is that the netvsc driver in Linux may send an incorrectly formatted VMBus message to Hyper-V when transmitting the network packet. The incorrect formatting occurs when the rndis header of the VMBus message crosses a page boundary due to how the Linux skb head memory is aligned. In such a case, two PFNs are required to describe the location of the rndis header, even though they are contiguous in guest physical address (GPA) space. Hyper-V requires that two rndis header PFNs be in a single "GPA range" data struture, but current netvsc code puts each PFN in its own GPA range, which Hyper-V rejects as an error. The incorrect formatting occurs only for larger packets that netvsc must transmit via a VMBus "GPA Direct" message. There's no problem when netvsc transmits a smaller packet by copying it into a pre- allocated send buffer slot because the pre-allocated slots don't have page crossing issues. After commit 14ad6ed30a10 ("net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values") in the 6.14-rc4 kernel, the error occurs much more frequently in VMs with 16 or more vCPUs. It may occur every few seconds, or even more frequently, in an ssh session that outputs a lot of text. Commit 14ad6ed30a10 subtly changes how skb head memory is allocated, making it much more likely that the rndis header will cross a page boundary when the vCPU count is 16 or more. The changes in commit 14ad6ed30a10 are perfectly valid -- they just had the side effect of making the netvsc bug more prominent. Current code in init_page_array() creates a separate page buffer array entry for each PFN required to identify the data to be transmitted. Contiguous PFNs get separate entries in the page buffer array, and any information about contiguity is lost. Fix the core issue by having init_page_array() construct the page buffer array to represent contiguous ranges rather than individual pages. When these ranges are subsequently passed to netvsc_build_mpb_array(), it can build GPA ranges that contain multiple PFNs, as required to avoid the error "nvsp_rndis_pkt_complete error status: 2". If instead the network packet is sent by copying into a pre-allocated send buffer slot, the copy proceeds using the contiguous ranges rather than individual pages, but the result of the copying is the same. Also fix rndis_filter_send_request() to construct a contiguous range, since it has its own page buffer array. This change has a side benefit in CoCo VMs in that netvsc_dma_map() calls dma_map_single() on each contiguous range instead of on each page. This results in fewer calls to dma_map_single() but on larger chunks of memory, which should reduce contention on the swiotlb. Since the page buffer array now contains one entry for each contiguous range instead of for each individual page, the number of entries in the array can be reduced, saving 208 bytes of stack space in netvsc_xmit() when MAX_SKG_FRAGS has the default value of 17. [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503 Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217503 Cc: # 6.1.x Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-4-mhklinux@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_sendpacket_mpb_desc() to send VMBus messages

2025-05-15T02:45:23Z

netvsc currently uses vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer() to send VMBus messages. This function creates a series of GPA ranges, each of which contains a single PFN. However, if the rndis header in the VMBus message crosses a page boundary, the netvsc protocol with the host requires that both PFNs for the rndis header must be in a single "GPA range" data structure, which isn't possible with vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). As the first step in fixing this, add a new function netvsc_build_mpb_array() to build a VMBus message with multiple GPA ranges, each of which may contain multiple PFNs. Use vmbus_sendpacket_mpb_desc() to send this VMBus message to the host. There's no functional change since higher levels of netvsc don't maintain or propagate knowledge of contiguous PFNs. Based on its input, netvsc_build_mpb_array() still produces a separate GPA range for each PFN and the behavior is the same as with vmbus_sendpacket_pagebuffer(). But the groundwork is laid for a subsequent patch to provide the necessary grouping. Cc: # 6.1.x Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513000604.1396-3-mhklinux@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski