linux/net
Linus Torvalds 91ec203513 Networking changes for 7.3.
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
 --------
 
  - Marge 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.
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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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
  ...
2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
..
6lowpan net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide 2026-07-22 13:47:02 +02:00
9p 9p: Add missing read barrier in virtio zero-copy path 2026-06-21 05:22:57 +00:00
802 appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
8021q vlan: defer real device state propagation to netdev_work 2026-06-25 10:18:40 -07:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-06 11:53:47 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: remove negative returns for batadv_send_skb_unicast 2026-08-05 10:00:16 +02:00
bluetooth Networking changes for 7.3. 2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
bpf bpf: Fix partial copy of non-linear test_run output 2026-06-21 17:55:06 -07:00
bridge Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
can can: isotp: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in module init 2026-07-29 11:26:41 +02:00
ceph libceph: Avoid using invalid osd indices from primary_temp 2026-08-12 21:21:41 +02:00
core Networking changes for 7.3. 2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
dcb
devlink devlink: add generic device max_sfs parameter 2026-08-11 18:06:30 -07:00
dns_resolver keys, dns: Drop unused NUL terminator from upayload->data 2026-08-10 16:20:42 -07:00
dsa net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver 2026-08-18 15:50:13 +02:00
ethernet
ethtool ethtool: tsconfig: reject zero-valued tx_type and rx_filter bitsets 2026-08-13 17:44:54 -07:00
handshake handshake: Require admin permission for DONE command 2026-06-12 15:45:44 -07:00
hsr Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: convert dgram getsockopt to sockopt_t 2026-08-03 16:55:23 -07:00
ife net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode() 2026-06-13 17:34:39 -07:00
ipv4 Networking changes for 7.3. 2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
iucv net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn() 2026-07-21 13:36:35 -07:00
kcm net: kcm: Hold RCU read lock while running BPF parser 2026-08-17 13:43:58 -07:00
key ipsec-2026-06-22 2026-06-23 16:22:24 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: send netlink notifications in the tunnel's net namespace 2026-08-13 17:33:31 -07:00
l3mdev
lapb
llc llc: fix SAP refcount leak when creating incoming sockets 2026-07-17 13:17:46 +02:00
mac80211 Networking changes for 7.3. 2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix netdev use-after-free in beacon worker 2026-08-05 17:12:50 -07:00
mctp mctp: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in mctp_device_init() 2026-07-23 09:17:36 -07:00
mpls mpls: reload header after pskb_may_pull() 2026-08-18 10:51:37 +02:00
mptcp mptcp: add per-event MIB counters for MPTCP_RST_EMPTCP resets 2026-08-17 17:25:49 -07:00
ncsi net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length 2026-08-05 17:24:57 -07:00
netfilter netfilter pull request 26-08-10 2026-08-14 12:23:12 -07:00
netlabel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-06-11 14:33:35 -07:00
netlink netlink: drop unneeded semicolon 2026-08-05 17:32:34 -07:00
nfc nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection 2026-08-11 18:10:04 +02:00
nsh
openvswitch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
packet af_packet: Don't send zero-byte data in tpacket_snd(). 2026-08-11 17:32:53 -07:00
phonet phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t 2026-08-03 16:55:23 -07:00
psample net: psample: fix info leak in PSAMPLE_ATTR_DATA 2026-06-17 16:35:50 -07:00
psp psp: use unrcu_pointer() for the cmpxchg() on netdev psp_dev 2026-08-17 11:06:14 -07:00
qrtr net: qrtr: ns: Raise lookup limit to 128 2026-08-06 08:10:44 -07:00
rds net/rds: clear i_rx_lat_trace in rds_inc_path_init() 2026-08-13 12:53:14 +02:00
rfkill Replace <linux/mod_devicetable.h> by more specific <linux/device-id/*.h> (c files) 2026-07-03 07:38:17 +02:00
rxrpc rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() 2026-07-21 11:52:29 +02:00
sched net: add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations for dev->prio_tc_map 2026-08-17 10:27:48 -07:00
sctp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
shaper net: shaper: add a note that we expect cap dumps to be tiny 2026-06-11 12:55:23 +02:00
smc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
strparser
sunrpc SUNRPC: pin upper rpc_clnt across the TLS connect_worker 2026-07-08 14:07:19 -04:00
switchdev
tipc tipc: read le->link under the node lock in tipc_node_link_down() 2026-08-11 15:50:22 +02:00
tls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
unix Networking changes for 7.3. 2026-08-20 08:16:04 -07:00
vmw_vsock Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
wireless Quite a bunch more work, of note: 2026-08-06 12:39:11 -07:00
x25 net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers 2026-07-30 18:46:45 -07:00
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-06 11:53:47 -07:00
xfrm net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally 2026-08-13 13:12:24 +02:00
compat.c net: af_unix: useful handling of LSM denials on SCM_RIGHTS 2026-08-17 18:14:52 -07:00
devres.c
Kconfig appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
socket.c Major changes: 2026-08-20 07:36:20 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: enforce net sysctl registration 2026-08-13 13:12:21 +02:00