kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/ipv4/ping.c, branch master

net: Replace %pK output with 0

2026-09-03T01:38:16+00:00

Commit 71338aa7d050c ("net: convert %p usage to %pK") which is from 2011 and changed the %p annotation for pointer to %pK. Back then the default behaviour for %p was to print the pointer. The %pK modifier was introduced to able to control the behaviour of specific pointer values without changing the behaviour of %p for everyone. It was dedicated to avoid leaking pointers via /proc. There was also the idea to remove the check from formatting the string and move to the open callback with some helpers but this did not happen. Things changed over time. The default behaviour for %p is now to print a hash pointer which does not leak the address but allows to correlate if two pointers are equal. The policy on %p is to not introduce new ones. This is somehow in between since it already exists. The pointer are usually socket pointers and I don't see any value in exposing them. Therefore I am following the recommendation of removing them. Since their usage in /proc/ can be considered ABI I replace the pointer with a 0. Replace the %pK annotation with 0 value. Correct the spacing for the cases where pointer is at the beginning. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901160345.eeknHmY2@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

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 ...

net: change sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason() to return a drop_reason

2026-04-12T21:30:25+00:00

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 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409145625.2306224-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: remove EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() macros

2026-03-29T18:21:22+00:00

As IPv6 is built-in only, the macro is always evaluating to an empty one. Remove it completely from the code. Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325120928.15848-3-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64

2026-03-06T13:31:26+00:00

inode->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 -> %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 # for net/can Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-3-2257ad83d372@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers

2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00

Use msg->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 Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ping: annotate data-races in ping_lookup()

2026-02-18T01:11:08+00:00

isk->inet_num, isk->inet_rcv_saddr and sk->sk_bound_dev_if are read locklessly in ping_lookup(). Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations. The race on isk->inet_rcv_saddr is probably coming from IPv6 support, but does not deserve a specific backport. Fixes: dbca1596bbb0 ("ping: convert to RCU lookups, get rid of rwlock") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216100149.3319315-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2026-01-08T19:38:33+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.19-rc5). No conflicts, or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv4/inet_sock.h: Avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings

2026-01-07T01:02:52+00:00

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 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aVteBadWA6AbTp7X@kspp Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

inet: ping: Fix icmp out counting

2026-01-04T17:48:53+00:00

When the ping program uses an IPPROTO_ICMP socket to send ICMP_ECHO messages, ICMP_MIB_OUTMSGS is counted twice. ping_v4_sendmsg ping_v4_push_pending_frames ip_push_pending_frames ip_finish_skb __ip_make_skb icmp_out_count(net, icmp_type); // first count icmp_out_count(sock_net(sk), user_icmph.type); // second count However, when the ping program uses an IPPROTO_RAW socket, ICMP_MIB_OUTMSGS is counted correctly only once. Therefore, the first count should be removed. Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind") Signed-off-by: yuan.gao Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Tested-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251224063145.3615282-1-yuan.gao@ucloud.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski