linux/drivers/net/ipvlan, branch master

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & 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 ...

ipvlan: avoid spinlock contention in ipvlan_multicast_enqueue()

2026-04-12T16:05:54Z

Under high stress, we spend a lot of time cloning skbs, then acquiring a spinlock, then freeing the clone because the queue is full. Add a shortcut to avoid these costs under pressure, as we did in macvlan with commit 0d5dc1d7aad1 ("macvlan: avoid spinlock contention in macvlan_broadcast_enqueue()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409085238.1122947-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvlan: ipvlan_handle_mode_l2() refactoring

2026-04-12T16:05:54Z

Reduce indentation level, and add a likely() clause as we expect to process more unicast packets than multicast ones. No functional change, this eases the following patch review. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409085238.1122947-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2026-04-09T12:36:52Z

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are cast to void *. Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers. This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(), and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags. Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction. This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net: dropreason: add MACVLAN_BROADCAST_BACKLOG and IPVLAN_MULTICAST_BACKLOG

2026-04-09T02:19:18Z

ipvlan and macvlan use queues to process broadcast/multicast packets from a work queue. Under attack these queues can drop packets. Add MACVLAN_BROADCAST_BACKLOG drop_reason for macvlan broadcast queue. Add IPVLAN_MULTICAST_BACKLOG drop_reason for ipvlan multicast queue. Use different reasons as some deployments use both ipvlan and macvlan. Also change ipvlan_rcv_frame() to use SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_READY when the device is not UP. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407150710.1640747-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

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

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

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

ipvlan: remove ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup()

2026-01-25T22:35:19Z

ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup() is called four times and not inlined. Split it to ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup6() and ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup4() and rework ipvlan_addr_lookup() to call these helpers once, so that they are (auto)inlined. After this change, ipvlan_addr_lookup() is faster, and we save 350 bytes of text on x86_64. $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 123/-473 (-350) Function old new delta ipvlan_addr_lookup 467 590 +123 __pfx_ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup 16 - -16 ipvlan_ht_addr_lookup 457 - -457 Total: Before=22571833, After=22571483, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Mahesh Bandewar Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122165049.2366985-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port

2026-01-19T18:03:30Z

Make the addrs_lock be per port, not per ipvlan dev. Initial code seems to be written in the assumption, that any address change must occur under RTNL. But it is not so for the case of IPv6. So 1) Introduce per-port addrs_lock. 2) It was needed to fix places where it was forgotten to take lock (ipvlan_open/ipvlan_close) This appears to be a very minor problem though. Since it's highly unlikely that ipvlan_add_addr() will be called on 2 CPU simultaneously. But nevertheless, this could cause: 1) False-negative of ipvlan_addr_busy(): one interface iterated through all port->ipvlans + ipvlan->addrs under some ipvlan spinlock, and another added IP under its own lock. Though this is only possible for IPv6, since looks like only ipvlan_addr6_event() can be called without rtnl_lock. 2) Race since ipvlan_ht_addr_add(port) is called under different ipvlan->addrs_lock locks This should not affect performance, since add/remove IP is a rare situation and spinlock is not taken on fast paths. Fixes: 8230819494b3 ("ipvlan: use per device spinlock to protect addrs list updates") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Skorodumov Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112142417.4039566-2-skorodumov.dmitry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvlan: Ignore PACKET_LOOPBACK in handle_mode_l2()

2025-12-04T12:43:12Z

Packets with pkt_type == PACKET_LOOPBACK are captured by handle_frame() function, but they don't have L2 header. We should not process them in handle_mode_l2(). This doesn't affect old L2 functionality, since handling was anyway incorrect. Handle them the same way as in br_handle_frame(): just pass the skb. To observe invalid behaviour, just start "ping -b" on bcast address of port-interface. Fixes: 2ad7bf363841 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Skorodumov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202103906.4087675-1-skorodumov.dmitry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni