kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/ipv6/addrconf.c, branch master

ipv6: record the reason for kernel-initiated route deletions

2026-08-13T10:30:27+00:00

Record why the kernel deletes an IPv6 route on its own: - RT_DEL_REASON_EXPIRED for routes reaped by the FIB6 garbage collector after their RTF_EXPIRES lifetime ran out. - RT_DEL_REASON_RA_WITHDRAWN for default routes, prefix routes and RFC 4191 route information routes withdrawn by a zero-lifetime Router Advertisement. Deleting a default route because its metric changed is not a withdrawal, so it keeps RT_DEL_REASON_UNSPEC. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260808005642.26901-4-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv6: remove unnecessary reset of position pointer

2026-07-30T09:16:29+00:00

The position pointer is only advanced if the return value of the proc handler is positive at new_sync_write(). Therefore no need to manually reset it when doing error handling. Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727091834.6645-2-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: ipv6: report multicast group user count

2026-07-03T06:50:44+00:00

The previous patch added IFA_MC_USERS and emits it for IPv4 multicast groups. Add the same snapshot attribute to IPv6 RTM_GETMULTICAST replies and entry-lifecycle notifications, carrying ifmcaddr6::mca_users. This makes the multicast rtnetlink ABI symmetric across IPv4 and IPv6 and gives userspace the same user count that /proc/net/igmp6 exposes. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630110207.37841-3-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ipv6: fix missing notification for ignore_routes_with_linkdown

2026-06-24T02:12:48+00:00

When changing the ignore_routes_with_linkdown sysctl for a specific interface, the RTM_NEWNETCONF netlink notification was not being emitted to userspace. Fix this by emitting the notification when needed. In addition, fix bogus return value for successful "all" and specific interface write operation leading to a wrong reset of the position pointer. Fixes: 35103d11173b ("net: ipv6 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-7-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix state corruption during proxy_ndp sysctl restart

2026-06-24T02:12:47+00:00

When handling proxy_ndp, if rtnl_net_trylock() fails, the operation is retried but as the value was already modified by the initial proc_dointvec() call, the restarted syscall will read the newly modified value as the 'old' state. Fix this by taking the RTNL lock before parsing the input value if the operation is a write. Fixes: c92d5491a6d9 ("netconf: add support for IPv6 proxy_ndp") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-6-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix error handling in disable_policy sysctl

2026-06-24T02:12:47+00:00

When writing to the disable_policy sysctl, if proc_dointvec() fails to parse the input, it returns a negative error code. The current implementation is resetting the position argument even if an error occurred during proc_dointvec() and not only during sysctl restart. Fix this by checking the return value of proc_dointvec() and returning early on failure. Fixes: df789fe75206 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of "disable_policy" sysctl") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-5-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix error handling in forwarding sysctl

2026-06-24T02:12:47+00:00

When writing to the forwarding sysctl, if proc_dointvec() fails to parse the input, it returns a negative error code. The current implementation is overwriting that error for write operations. This results in a silent failure, it returns a successful write although the configuration was not modified at all. When modifying the "all" variant it can also modify the configuration of existing interfaces to the wrong value. Fix this by checking the return value of proc_dointvec() and returning early on failure. In addition, adjust return code of addrconf_fixup_forwarding() for successful operation. Fixes: b325fddb7f86 ("ipv6: Fix sysctl unregistration deadlock") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-4-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix error handling in ignore_routes_with_linkdown sysctl

2026-06-24T02:12:47+00:00

When writing to the ignore_routes_with_linkdown sysctl, if proc_dointvec() fails to parse the input, it returns a negative error code. The current implementation is overwriting that error for write operations. This results in a silent failure, it returns a successful write although the configuration was not modified at all. When modifying the "all" variant it can also modify the configuration of existing interfaces to the wrong value. Fix this by checking the return value of proc_dointvec() and returning early on failure. Fixes: 35103d11173b ("net: ipv6 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-3-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: fix error handling in disable_ipv6 sysctl

2026-06-24T02:12:47+00:00

When writing to the disable_ipv6 sysctl, if proc_dointvec() fails to parse the input, it returns a negative error code. The current implementation is overwriting that error for write operations. This results in a silent failure, it returns a successful write although the configuration was not modified at all. When modifying the "all" variant it can also modify the configuration of existing interfaces to the wrong value. Fix this by checking the return value of proc_dointvec() and returning early on failure. Fixes: 56d417b12e57 ("IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parameters") Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622130857.5115-2-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2026-06-11T21:33:35+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.1-rc8). Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_aml.c f67aead16e85 ("net: txgbe: rework service event handling") 57d39faed4c9 ("net: txgbe: improve functions of AML 40G devices") net/rds/info.c 512db8267b73 ("rds: mark snapshot pages dirty in rds_info_getsockopt()") 6e94eeb2a2a6 ("rds: convert to getsockopt_iter") Adjacent changes: include/net/sock.h 1ee90b77b727 ("net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs") f0de88303d5e ("net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski