Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:

- Improve drop account scalability on NUM

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:

- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS

- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions

- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities

- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath

- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW

- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds

- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete

- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches

- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios

- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
recent TCP autotuning changes

- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down

- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups

- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races

- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication

- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser

Driver API:

- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection

- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups

- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath

- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration

- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause

- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor

Device drivers:

- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)

- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts

- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency

- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups

- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115

- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling

- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support

- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes

- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"

* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
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psp: Fix typo in kdoc for struct psp_dev_caps.assoc_drv_spc.

assoc_drv_spc is the size of psp_assoc.drv_data[].

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms

psp: Fix typo in kdoc for struct psp_dev_caps.assoc_drv_spc.

assoc_drv_spc is the size of psp_assoc.drv_data[].

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918192539.1587586-1-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'add-basic-psp-encryption-for-tcp-connections'

Daniel Zahka says:

==================
add basic PSP encryption for TCP connections

This is v13 of the PSP RFC [1] posted by Jakub Kicins

Merge branch 'add-basic-psp-encryption-for-tcp-connections'

Daniel Zahka says:

==================
add basic PSP encryption for TCP connections

This is v13 of the PSP RFC [1] posted by Jakub Kicinski one year
ago. General developments since v1 include a fork of packetdrill [2]
with support for PSP added, as well as some test cases, and an
implementation of PSP key exchange and connection upgrade [3]
integrated into the fbthrift RPC library. Both [2] and [3] have been
tested on server platforms with PSP-capable CX7 NICs. Below is the
cover letter from the original RFC:

Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections.

PSP is a protocol out of Google:
https://github.com/google/psp/blob/main/doc/PSP_Arch_Spec.pdf
which shares some similarities with IPsec. I added some more info
in the first patch so I'll keep it short here.

The protocol can work in multiple modes including tunneling.
But I'm mostly interested in using it as TLS replacement because
of its superior offload characteristics. So this patch does three
things:

- it adds "core" PSP code
PSP is offload-centric, and requires some additional care and
feeding, so first chunk of the code exposes device info.
This part can be reused by PSP implementations in xfrm, tunneling etc.

- TCP integration TLS style
Reuse some of the existing concepts from TLS offload, such as
attaching crypto state to a socket, marking skbs as "decrypted",
egress validation. PSP does not prescribe key exchange protocols.
To use PSP as a more efficient TLS offload we intend to perform
a TLS handshake ("inline" in the same TCP connection) and negotiate
switching to PSP based on capabilities of both endpoints.
This is also why I'm not including a software implementation.
Nobody would use it in production, software TLS is faster,
it has larger crypto records.

- mlx5 implementation
That's mostly other people's work, not 100% sure those folks
consider it ready hence the RFC in the title. But it works :)

Not posted, queued a branch [4] are follow up pieces:
- standard stats
- netdevsim implementation and tests

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240510030435.120935-1-kuba@kernel.org/
[2] https://github.com/danieldzahka/packetdrill
[3] https://github.com/danieldzahka/fbthrift/tree/dzahka/psp
[4] https://github.com/kuba-moo/linux/tree/psp

Comments we intend to defer to future series:
- we prefer to keep the version field in the tx-assoc netlink
request, because it makes parsing keys require less state early
on, but we are willing to change in the next version of this
series.
- using a static branch to wrap psp_enqueue_set_decrypted() and
other functions called from tcp.
- using INDIRECT_CALL for tls/psp in sk_validate_xmit_skb(). We
prefer to address this in a dedicated patch series, so that this
series does not need to modify the way tls_validate_xmit_skb() is
declared and stubbed out.

v12: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250916000559.1320151-1-kuba@kernel.org/
v11: https://lore.kernel.org/20250911014735.118695-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
v10: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250828162953.2707727-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v9: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250827155340.2738246-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v8: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250825200112.1750547-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v7: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250820113120.992829-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v6: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250812003009.2455540-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250723203454.519540-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250716144551.3646755-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250702171326.3265825-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250625135210.2975231-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240510030435.120935-1-kuba@kernel.org/
==================

Links: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-1-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
---
* add-basic-psp-encryption-for-tcp-connections:
net/mlx5e: Implement PSP key_rotate operation
net/mlx5e: Add Rx data path offload
psp: provide decapsulation and receive helper for drivers
net/mlx5e: Configure PSP Rx flow steering rules
net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX
net/mlx5e: Implement PSP Tx data path
psp: provide encapsulation helper for drivers
net/mlx5e: Implement PSP operations .assoc_add and .assoc_del
net/mlx5e: Support PSP offload functionality
psp: track generations of device key
net: psp: update the TCP MSS to reflect PSP packet overhead
net: psp: add socket security association code
net: tcp: allow tcp_timewait_sock to validate skbs before handing to device
net: move sk_validate_xmit_skb() to net/core/dev.c
psp: add op for rotation of device key
tcp: add datapath logic for PSP with inline key exchange
net: modify core data structures for PSP datapath support
psp: base PSP device support
psp: add documentation

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psp: provide encapsulation helper for drivers

Create a new function psp_encapsulate(), which takes a TCP packet and
PSP encapsulates it according to the "Transport Mode Packet Format"
section of the

psp: provide encapsulation helper for drivers

Create a new function psp_encapsulate(), which takes a TCP packet and
PSP encapsulates it according to the "Transport Mode Packet Format"
section of the PSP Architecture Specification.

psp_encapsulate() does not push a PSP trailer onto the skb. Both IPv6
and IPv4 are supported. Virtualization cookie is not included.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Raed Salem <raeds@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-14-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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psp: track generations of device key

There is a (somewhat theoretical in absence of multi-host support)
possibility that another entity will rotate the key and we won't
know. This may lead to accept

psp: track generations of device key

There is a (somewhat theoretical in absence of multi-host support)
possibility that another entity will rotate the key and we won't
know. This may lead to accepting packets with matching SPI but
which used different crypto keys than we expected.

The PSP Architecture specification mentions that an implementation
should track device key generation when device keys are managed by the
NIC. Some PSP implementations may opt to include this key generation
state in decryption metadata each time a device key is used to decrypt
a packet. If that is the case, that key generation counter can also be
used when policy checking a decrypted skb against a psp_assoc. This is
an optional feature that is not explicitly part of the PSP spec, but
can provide additional security in the case where an attacker may have
the ability to force key rotations faster than rekeying can occur.

Since we're tracking "key generations" more explicitly now,
maintain different lists for associations from different generations.
This way we can catch stale associations (the user space should
listen to rotation notifications and change the keys).

Drivers can "opt out" of generation tracking by setting
the generation value to 0.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-11-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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net: psp: update the TCP MSS to reflect PSP packet overhead

PSP eats 40B of header space. Adjust MSS appropriately.

We can either modify tcp_mtu_to_mss() / tcp_mss_to_mtu()
or reuse icsk_ext_hdr_le

net: psp: update the TCP MSS to reflect PSP packet overhead

PSP eats 40B of header space. Adjust MSS appropriately.

We can either modify tcp_mtu_to_mss() / tcp_mss_to_mtu()
or reuse icsk_ext_hdr_len. The former option is more TCP
specific and has runtime overhead. The latter is a bit
of a hack as PSP is not an ext_hdr. If one squints hard
enough, UDP encap is just a more practical version of
IPv6 exthdr, so go with the latter. Happy to change.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-10-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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net: psp: add socket security association code

Add the ability to install PSP Rx and Tx crypto keys on TCP
connections. Netlink ops are provided for both operations.
Rx side combines allocating a ne

net: psp: add socket security association code

Add the ability to install PSP Rx and Tx crypto keys on TCP
connections. Netlink ops are provided for both operations.
Rx side combines allocating a new Rx key and installing it
on the socket. Theoretically these are separate actions,
but in practice they will always be used one after the
other. We can add distinct "alloc" and "install" ops later.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-9-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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psp: add op for rotation of device key

Rotating the device key is a key part of the PSP protocol design.
Some external daemon needs to do it once a day, or so.
Add a netlink op to perform this opera

psp: add op for rotation of device key

Rotating the device key is a key part of the PSP protocol design.
Some external daemon needs to do it once a day, or so.
Add a netlink op to perform this operation.
Add a notification group for informing users that key has been
rotated and they should rekey (next rotation will cut them off).

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-6-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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net: modify core data structures for PSP datapath support

Add pointers to psp data structures to core networking structs,
and an SKB extension to carry the PSP information from the drivers
to the so

net: modify core data structures for PSP datapath support

Add pointers to psp data structures to core networking structs,
and an SKB extension to carry the PSP information from the drivers
to the socket layer.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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psp: base PSP device support

Add a netlink family for PSP and allow drivers to register support.

The "PSP device" is its own object. This allows us to perform more
flexible reference counting / lif

psp: base PSP device support

Add a netlink family for PSP and allow drivers to register support.

The "PSP device" is its own object. This allows us to perform more
flexible reference counting / lifetime control than if PSP information
was part of net_device. In the future we should also be able
to "delegate" PSP access to software devices, such as *vlan, veth
or netkit more easily.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-3-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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