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| 24-Apr-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski: "Delete some obsolete networking code
Old code like amat
Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski: "Delete some obsolete networking code
Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them.
If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.
We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code behind us"
* tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER
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| 20-Apr-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers that are no longer in active use.
The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers that are no longer in active use.
The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM, BR2684, and USB DSL modem drivers (drivers/usb/atm/) are retained in-tree to maintain PPP over ATM (PPPoA) and PPPoE-over-BR2684 support for DSL connections. The Solos ADSL2+ PCI driver is also retained.
Removed ATM protocol modules: - net/atm/clip.c - Classical IP over ATM (RFC 2225) - net/atm/lec.c - LAN Emulation Client (LANE) - net/atm/mpc.c, mpoa_caches.c, mpoa_proc.c - Multi-Protocol Over ATM
Removed PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers (drivers/atm/): - adummy, atmtcp - software/testing ATM devices - eni - Efficient Networks ENI155P (OC-3, ~1995) - fore200e - FORE Systems 200E PCI/SBUS (OC-3, ~1999) - he - ForeRunner HE (OC-3/OC-12, ~2000) - idt77105 - IDT 77105 25 Mbps ATM PHY - idt77252 - IDT 77252 NICStAR II (OC-3, ~2000) - iphase - Interphase ATM PCI (OC-3/DS3/E3) - lanai - Efficient Networks Speedstream 3010 - nicstar - IDT 77201 NICStAR (155/25 Mbps, ~1999) - suni - PMC S/UNI SONET PHY library
Also clean up references in: - net/bridge/ - remove ATM LANE hook (br_fdb_test_addr_hook, br_fdb_test_addr) - net/core/dev.c - remove br_fdb_test_addr_hook export - defconfig files - remove ATM driver config options
The removed code is moved to an out-of-tree module package (mod-orphan).
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 21-Apr-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. This
net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet, and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree to protect our sanity.
The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.
Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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| 15-Apr-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Support HW queue leasing, allowing co
Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
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 ...
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| 12-Apr-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Final updates, notably: - crypto: move Micha
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Final updates, notably: - crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only) - mac80211: - multi-link 4-addr support - NAN data support (but no drivers yet) - ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices - ath12k: IPQ5424 support - rtw89: USB improvements for performance
* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits) wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include <linux/export.h> in michael-mic.c wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211 wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic() wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424 dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424 wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy ... ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 08-Apr-2026 |
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> |
crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
Remove the "michael_mic" crypto_shash algorithm, since it's no longer used. Its only users were wireless drivers, which have now been converted to u
crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
Remove the "michael_mic" crypto_shash algorithm, since it's no longer used. Its only users were wireless drivers, which have now been converted to use the michael_mic() function instead.
It makes sense that no other users ever appeared: Michael MIC is an insecure algorithm that is specific to WPA TKIP, which itself was an interim security solution to replace the broken WEP standard.
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408030651.80336-7-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Revision tags: v7.0-rc7, v7.0-rc6, v7.0-rc5, v7.0-rc4, v7.0-rc3, v7.0-rc2, v7.0-rc1, v6.19, v6.19-rc8, v6.19-rc7, v6.19-rc6, v6.19-rc5, v6.19-rc4, v6.19-rc3, v6.19-rc2, v6.19-rc1, v6.18, v6.18-rc7, v6.18-rc6, v6.18-rc5, v6.18-rc4, v6.18-rc3, v6.18-rc2, v6.18-rc1, v6.17, v6.17-rc7 |
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| 16-Sep-2025 |
Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Backmerge in order to get the commit:
048832a3f400 ("drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter")
To drm-intel-gt-next as there are f
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Backmerge in order to get the commit:
048832a3f400 ("drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter")
To drm-intel-gt-next as there are followup fixes to be applied.
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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| 06-Aug-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 6.17 merge window.
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| 04-Aug-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next
Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve conflicts for the mer
Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next
Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve conflicts for the merge window pull request.
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| 29-Jun-2025 |
Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next
Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making stall-on-fault more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next
Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making stall-on-fault more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>
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| 11-Jun-2025 |
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to forward to v6.16-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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| 09-Jun-2025 |
Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Backmerging to bring in 6.16
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
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| 09-Jun-2025 |
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next
Sync to v6.16-rc1, among other things to get the fixed size GENMASK_U*() and BIT_U*() macros.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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| 28-May-2025 |
Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0") in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0") in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04).
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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| 16-May-2025 |
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next
Backmerge to sync with v6.15-rc, xe, and specifically async flip changes in drm-misc.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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| 02-Jun-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 6.16 merge window.
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| 16-May-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v6.15-rc6' into next
Sync up with mainline to bring in xpad controller changes.
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| 29-May-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core:
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allo
Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core:
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.
- Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope, under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times faster.
- Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane scalability.
- Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded abstraction layers and improving significantly the related micro-benchmarks.
- Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10% performance improvement in related stream tests.
- Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable() on PREMPT_RT.
- Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.
Netfilter:
- Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still use this interface.
- Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and flowtables.
- Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.
- Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better introspection.
BPF:
- BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs using the "tc qdisc" command.
- Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.
Protocols:
- Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.
- Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.
- Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always matches the nexthop device.
- Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS, and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.
- Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit in the fast path.
- Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.
Driver API:
- Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new unsupported flags.
- Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.
- Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for dump operations targeting PHYs.
Tests and tooling:
- Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and qdisc layer configuration.
- Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic netlink output.
- Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.
- Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.
New hardware / drivers:
- OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the user-space implementation.
- Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
- Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.
- AMD Renoir ethernet device.
- ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.
- Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.
Drivers:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - refactor the steering table handling to significantly reduce the amount of memory used - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering - improve flow streeing error handling - convert to netdev instance locking - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf): - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration - idpf: introduce RDMA support - idpf: add initial PTP support - Meta (fbnic): - extend hardware stats coverage - add devlink dev flash support - Broadcom (bnxt): - add support for RX-side device memory TCP - Wangxun (txgbe): - implement support for udp tunnel offload - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Google (gve): - add device memory TCP TX support - Amazon (ena): - support persistent per-NAPI config - Airoha: - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload - add per flow stats for flow offloading - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet - Synopsys (stmmac): - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support - add Loongson-2K3000 support - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping - Broadcom (bcmgenet): - expose more H/W stats - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth): - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops
- Ethernet switches: - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support
- Ethernet PHYs: - RealTek (rtl8211): - add support for WoL magic packet - add support for PHY LEDs
- CAN: - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver. - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support. - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.
- WiFi: - mac80211: - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - enable AHB support for IPQ5332 - add monitor interface support to QCN9274 - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850 - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850 - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory - Qualcomm (ath11k): - restore hibernation support - MediaTek (mt76): - WiFi-7 improvements - implement support for mt7990 - Intel (iwlwifi): - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links - rework device configuration - RealTek (rtw88): - improve throughput for RTL8814AU - RealTek (rtw89): - add multi-link operation support - STA/P2P concurrency improvements - support different SAR configs by antenna
- Bluetooth: - introduce HCI Driver protocol - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925 - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"
* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits) selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk. selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support net: devmem: preserve sockc_err page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf. selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping ...
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| 29-Apr-2025 |
Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-next
Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display: hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").
Signe
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-next
Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display: hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
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| 24-Apr-2025 |
Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Backmerge to bring in linux 6.15-rc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
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| 12-Apr-2025 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge branch 'net-retire-dccp-socket'
Kuniyuki Iwashima says:
==================== net: Retire DCCP socket.
As announced by commit b144fcaf46d4 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice."), it's time to re
Merge branch 'net-retire-dccp-socket'
Kuniyuki Iwashima says:
==================== net: Retire DCCP socket.
As announced by commit b144fcaf46d4 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice."), it's time to remove DCCP socket.
The patch 2 removes net/dccp, LSM code, doc, and etc, leaving DCCP netfilter modules.
The patch 3 unexports shared functions for DCCP, and the patch 4 renames tcp_or_dccp_get_hashinfo() to tcp_get_hashinfo().
We can do more cleanup; for example, remove IPPROTO_TCP checks in __inet6?_check_established(), remove __module_get() for twsk, remove timewait_sock_ops.twsk_destructor(), etc, but it will be more of TCP stuff, so I'll defer to a later series.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/20250409003014.19697-1-kuniyu@amazon.com v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407231823.95927-1-kuniyu@amazon.com ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-1-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 10-Apr-2025 |
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> |
net: Retire DCCP socket.
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd05 ("MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer had been inactive for five years.
net: Retire DCCP socket.
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd05 ("MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer had been inactive for five years.
In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that, the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates or adjustments related to TCP.
Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit b144fcaf46d4 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").
Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]
There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license, the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:
"This is not Open Source software."
The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further communication since then.
Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.
Therefore, it's time to remove it.
Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.
Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3] Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux) Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 07-Apr-2025 |
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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| 26-May-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'v6.16-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu: "API: - Fix memcpy_sglist to handle partially overlapping SG lists
Merge tag 'v6.16-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu: "API: - Fix memcpy_sglist to handle partially overlapping SG lists - Use memcpy_sglist to replace null skcipher - Rename CRYPTO_TESTS to CRYPTO_BENCHMARK - Flip CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TEST into CRYPTO_SELFTESTS - Hide CRYPTO_MANAGER - Add delayed freeing of driver crypto_alg structures
Compression: - Allocate large buffers on first use instead of initialisation in scomp - Drop destination linearisation buffer in scomp - Move scomp stream allocation into acomp - Add acomp scatter-gather walker - Remove request chaining - Add optional async request allocation
Hashing: - Remove request chaining - Add optional async request allocation - Move partial block handling into API - Add ahash support to hmac - Fix shash documentation to disallow usage in hard IRQs
Algorithms: - Remove unnecessary SIMD fallback code on x86 and arm/arm64 - Drop avx10_256 xts(aes)/ctr(aes) on x86 - Improve avx-512 optimisations for xts(aes) - Move chacha arch implementations into lib/crypto - Move poly1305 into lib/crypto and drop unused Crypto API algorithm - Disable powerpc/poly1305 as it has no SIMD fallback - Move sha256 arch implementations into lib/crypto - Convert deflate to acomp - Set block size correctly in cbcmac
Drivers: - Do not use sg_dma_len before mapping in sun8i-ss - Fix warm-reboot failure by making shutdown do more work in qat - Add locking in zynqmp-sha - Remove cavium/zip - Add support for PCI device 0x17D8 to ccp - Add qat_6xxx support in qat - Add support for RK3576 in rockchip-rng - Add support for i.MX8QM in caam
Others: - Fix irq_fpu_usable/kernel_fpu_begin inconsistency during CPU bring-up - Add new SEV/SNP platform shutdown API in ccp"
* tag 'v6.16-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (382 commits) x86/fpu: Fix irq_fpu_usable() to return false during CPU onlining crypto: qat - add missing header inclusion crypto: api - Redo lookup on EEXIST Revert "crypto: testmgr - Add hash export format testing" crypto: marvell/cesa - Do not chain submitted requests crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now Revert "crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - Add SIMD fallback" crypto: ccp - Add missing tee info reg for teev2 crypto: ccp - Add missing bootloader info reg for pspv5 crypto: sun8i-ce - move fallback ahash_request to the end of the struct crypto: octeontx2 - Use dynamic allocated memory region for lmtst crypto: octeontx2 - Initialize cptlfs device info once crypto: xts - Only add ecb if it is not already there crypto: lrw - Only add ecb if it is not already there crypto: testmgr - Add hash export format testing crypto: testmgr - Use ahash for generic tfm crypto: hmac - Add ahash support crypto: testmgr - Ignore EEXIST on shash allocation crypto: algapi - Add driver template support to crypto_inst_setname crypto: shash - Set reqsize in shash_alg ...
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Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> |
crypto: tcrypt - rename CRYPTO_TEST to CRYPTO_BENCHMARK
tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests. This regularly causes confusion. Update the kconfig option name and help
crypto: tcrypt - rename CRYPTO_TEST to CRYPTO_BENCHMARK
tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests. This regularly causes confusion. Update the kconfig option name and help text accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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