Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases f

Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.

It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations
disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a
bit.

Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar
number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling
the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also
*seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.

We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that
we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run
reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates
some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only
do so much.

The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe
errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us
ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to
tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to
letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork,
automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and
maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from
people we trust...

Core & protocols:

- A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence:
- per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g.
veth, ipvlan, tunnels)
- rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE)
- prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET

- Support BIG TCP (>64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)

- Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API

- Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when
out-of-order queue had to be pruned

- Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST

- Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE

- Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more
useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages:
instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep
every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot

- IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID
(address) in a different/specified routing table

- Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation

- Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN

- Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols
to iov_iter

Ethernet:

- Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch
with the CXL tree)

- New drivers:
- ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY
- Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers

- High-speed NICs:
- AMD/Pensando:
- support firmware flashing
- Cisco (enic):
- SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol
- Huawei (hns3):
- support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces
of the same device
- Marvell (octeontx2-pf):
- link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats
- Google vNIC:
- XDP metadata support for DQ RDA
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support forcing full-page RX buffers

- Other NICs:
- Synopsys IP:
- eic7700: support for eth1
- Microchip (lan743x):
- support for RMII interface
- Wangxun:
- support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs
- add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling
- Intel (igb/igc):
- RSS key get/set support
- support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation

- Switches:
- NXP (dpaa2):
- support bonding/LAG offload
- Mediatek:
- mt7530: EN7528 support
- initial support for MT7628
- Micrel (ksz8/9):
- refactoring work to move towards library model
- PTP support for KSZ8463
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks
- Realtek:
- rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code
- support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S

- PHYs:
- Airoha:
- EcoNet EN7528 PHY support
- DAPU Telecom
- DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support
- Realtek:
- support RTL8261C_CG
- support RTL8261D

Wireless:

- nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation

- mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast

- Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for
ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)

- New drivers:
- mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices
- nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)

- Driver changes:
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- DPP support, some Cypress part update
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7928 support
- mt7925 NAN support
- mt7996 AP powersave improvements
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- much kernel infrastructure integration work
- AHB platform MultiPD support
- Realtek (rt89):
- LED support
- RTL8922DE support
- dual-BT coex for RTL8922D
- Intel:
- new FW version support

Bluetooth:

- HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature

- af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations

- Driver changes:
- Intel:
- add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support
- add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR
- Mediatek:
- add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices
- Realtek:
- add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices
- NXP:
- add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq

Misc:

- DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO)
(implement in zl3073x)

- MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)

- Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers

- Remove the IBM EHEA driver

- Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"

* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits)
net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames
net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs()
net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion
sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted
dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support
dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations
dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout
ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
bonding: initialize err for empty target lists
net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver
net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW
net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport
net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport
net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core
dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU
vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect
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Merge branch 'netconsole-replace-target_list_lock-by-rcu-on-userdata-hot-path'

Breno Leitao says:

====================
netconsole: replace target_list_lock by RCU on userdata hot path

I would like

Merge branch 'netconsole-replace-target_list_lock-by-rcu-on-userdata-hot-path'

Breno Leitao says:

====================
netconsole: replace target_list_lock by RCU on userdata hot path

I would like to move netconsole to use RCU on the hot path for
a while instead of target_list_lock. My goal is to have no lock on the
tx side at all and eventually drop CON_NBCON_ATOMIC_UNSAFE, if that is
possible [1].

Start removing target_list_lock on certain parts of the code. This patch
transforms the userdata array into a RCU-protected pointer, and uses the
dynamic mutex as the write lock.

Added a selftest, given we didn't have any netconsole selftest for
userdata operations. Feel free to drop it if this is not useful, dear
maintainers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251121-nbcon-v1-0-503d17b2b4af@debian.org/[1]

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260810-netcons-userdata-rcu-v3-0-f65557f769ce@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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selftests: netconsole: add a userdata torture test

The userdata payload is rebuilt and republished on every configfs write,
including while the target is enabled and messages are being sent.

Add ne

selftests: netconsole: add a userdata torture test

The userdata payload is rebuilt and republished on every configfs write,
including while the target is enabled and messages are being sent.

Add netcons_userdata.sh that runs random tests with userdata.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260810-netcons-userdata-rcu-v3-2-f65557f769ce@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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Merge branch '20260507-ubwc-rework-v4-4-c19593d20c1d@oss.qualcomm.com' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/qcom/linux into HEAD

Merge the branch with the soc/qcom changes, required fo

Merge branch '20260507-ubwc-rework-v4-4-c19593d20c1d@oss.qualcomm.com' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/qcom/linux into HEAD

Merge the branch with the soc/qcom changes, required for the next UBWC
patches.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Backmerging to pull in commit 5401b9adebc9 ("i915: don't use
a vma that didn't match the context VM") to revert it.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Backmerging to pull in commit 5401b9adebc9 ("i915: don't use
a vma that didn't match the context VM") to revert it.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'timers-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksource

- Added the DT bindings for the compatible string 'fsl,imx25-epit'
(Fr

Merge tag 'timers-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksource

- Added the DT bindings for the compatible string 'fsl,imx25-epit'
(Frank Li)

- Made the rttm_cs variable static for the rtl otto timer driver
(Krzysztof Kozlowski)

- Fixed error return code handling in the sun5i timer driver (Chen Ni)

- Made the timer-of and the mmio code compatible with modules (Daniel
Lezcano)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/151feae1-39ba-4abd-a9f9-9bff377a2cd8@oss.qualcomm.com

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically
changes to ALPS driver.

Merge branch 'for-7.1-printf-kunit-build' into for-linus

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 7.00-rc3. Important ahead GPU SVM merging THP
support.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync with v7.0-rc1 which contains a few treewide changes affecting i915.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

7.0-rc1 was just released, let's merge it to kick the new release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- A significant effort all around the stac

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
the actual inlined helper.

- Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
basis.

- Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
by up to ~30%.

- Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
the HBH hint.

- Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

- Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
a single global rate on the interface.

- Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
that are safer in crash scenarios.

- Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

- Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

- Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

- Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

- Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

- Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
across different network namespaces.

- Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
optimizations.

- Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
back online.

Driver API:

- Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
DPLL device via netlink.

- Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
media ports over a single MAC.

- Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
signaling.

- Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

Device drivers:

- Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

- Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
controller.

- Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

- Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

- Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

- Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
- bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
and NVRAM defragmentation
- bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
used H/W resources
- add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
- add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
- use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
leading to 12% RX tput improvement
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
layouts
- ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
- Meta (fbnic):
- adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

- Ethernet virtual:
- geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- some code refactoring and cleanups
- RealTek (r8169):
- add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
- add dash and LTR support
- Airoha:
- AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
- Freescale (fec):
- add XDP zero-copy support
- Thunderbolt:
- add get link setting support to allow bonding
- Renesas:
- add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

- Ethernet switches:
- Maxlinear:
- support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
- add support for Intel GSW150
- Motorcomm (yt921x):
- add DCB/QoS support
- TI:
- icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
framework

- Ethernet PHYs:
- Realtek:
- enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
- simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
- Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

- CAN:
- move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
metadata access more robust

- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd:
- add support for FD-only mode
- add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
- sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

- WiFi:
- implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
- split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
- additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
- better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
- initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

- WiFi drivers:
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
- ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
- ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
- RealTek (rtw89):
- preparations for RTL8922DE support

- Bluetooth:
- implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
- set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
- btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6
ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
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netconsole: selftests: Move netconsole selftests to separate target

This patch moves netconsole selftests from drivers/net to its own target
in drivers/net/netconsole.

This change helps saving some

netconsole: selftests: Move netconsole selftests to separate target

This patch moves netconsole selftests from drivers/net to its own target
in drivers/net/netconsole.

This change helps saving some resources from CI since tests in
drivers/net automatically run against real hardware which are not used
by netconsole tests as they rely solely on netdevsim.

lib_netcons.sh is kept under drivers/net/lib since it is also used by
bonding selftests. Finally, drivers/net config remains unchanged as
netpoll_basic.py requires netconsole (and does leverage real HW testing).

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127-netcons-selftest-target-v2-1-f509ab65b3bc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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