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Merge tag 'nf-26-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter fixes for net

The following patchset contains Netfilter fixes for net:

1) IEEE1394 ARP payload contains no target hardware address in the
   ARP packet. Apparently, arp_tables was never updated to deal with
   IEEE1394 ARP properly. To deal with this, return no match in case
   the target hardware address selector is used, either for inverse or
   normal match. Moreover, arpt_mangle disallows mangling of the target
   hardware and IP address because, it is not worth to adjust the
   offset calculation to fix this, we suspect no users of arp_tables
   for this family.

2) Use list_del_rcu() to delete device hooks in nf_tables, this hook
   list is RCU protected, concurrent netlink dump readers can be
   walking on this list, fix it by adding a helper function and use it
   for consistency. From Florian Westphal.

3) Add list_splice_rcu(), this is useful for joining the local list of
   new device hooks to the RCU protected hook list in chain and
   flowtable. Reviewed by Paul E. McKenney.

4) Use list_splice_rcu() to publish the new device hooks in chain and
   flowtable to fix concurrent netlink dump traversal.

5) Add a new hook transaction object to track device hook deletions.
   The current approach moves device hooks to be deleted around during
   the preparation phase, this breaks concurrent RCU reader via netlink
   dump. This new hook transaction is combined with NFT_HOOK_REMOVE
   flag to annotate hooks for removal in the preparation phase.

6) xt_policy inbound policy check in strict mode can lead to
   out-of-bound access of the secpath array due to incorrect.
   The iteration over the secpath needs to be reversed in the inbound
   to check for the human readable policy, expecting inner in first
   position and outer in second position, the secpath from inbound
   actually stores outer in first position then in second position.
   From Jiexun Wang.

7) Fix possible zero shift in nft_bitwise triggering UBSAN splat,
   reject zero shift from control plane, from Kai Ma.

8) Replace simple_strtoul() in the conntrack SIP helper since it relies
   on nul-terminated strings. From Florian Westphal.

* tag 'nf-26-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf:
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: don't use simple_strtoul
  netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise
  netfilter: xt_policy: fix strict mode inbound policy matching
  netfilter: nf_tables: add hook transactions for device deletions
  netfilter: nf_tables: join hook list via splice_list_rcu() in commit phase
  rculist: add list_splice_rcu() for private lists
  netfilter: nf_tables: use list_del_rcu for netlink hooks
  netfilter: arp_tables: fix IEEE1394 ARP payload parsing
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428095840.51961-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 17:41:06 -07:00
arch ARM development for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-25 07:44:26 -07:00
block block: only restrict bio allocation gfp mask asked to block 2026-04-21 11:42:12 -06:00
certs Clang build fixes for 7.1 2026-04-24 09:29:51 -07:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2026-04-21 08:06:43 -07:00
Documentation RTC for 7.1 2026-04-25 16:39:03 -07:00
drivers net: phy: dp83869: fix setting CLK_O_SEL field. 2026-04-28 15:51:55 +02:00
fs ARM development for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-25 07:44:26 -07:00
include netfilter pull request 26-04-28 2026-04-28 17:41:06 -07:00
init memblock: updates for 7.0-rc1 2026-04-18 11:29:14 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: take page references for NOMMU pbuf_ring mmaps 2026-04-21 20:14:39 -06:00
ipc Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
kernel ring-buffer fix for 7.1: 2026-04-24 15:17:23 -07:00
lib RISC-V updates for v7.1 2026-04-24 10:00:37 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add modern form of the LGPL-2.1 tags to the usage guide section 2025-10-22 07:58:19 +02:00
mm slab fix for 7.1 2026-04-24 09:39:03 -07:00
net netfilter pull request 26-04-28 2026-04-28 17:41:06 -07:00
rust Char/Misc/IIO/and others driver updates for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-24 13:23:50 -07:00
samples soc: drivers for 7.1 2026-04-16 20:34:34 -07:00
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tools selftests/tc-testing: add taprio test for class dump after child delete 2026-04-27 18:41:36 -07:00
usr kbuild: uapi: also test UAPI headers against C++ compilers 2026-03-25 13:24:42 +01:00
virt Arm: 2026-04-17 07:18:03 -07:00
.clang-format Devicetree updates for v7.0: 2026-02-11 18:27:08 -08:00
.clippy.toml rust: bump Clippy's MSRV and clean incompatible_msrv allows 2026-04-07 09:51:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig editorconfig: add rst extension 2026-01-26 19:07:09 -08:00
.get_maintainer.ignore .get_maintainer.ignore: add myself 2026-04-02 16:48:25 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
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COPYING
CREDITS Delete some obsolete networking code 2026-04-24 09:41:58 -07:00
Kbuild checksyscalls: move instance functionality into generic code 2026-04-05 09:21:32 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add pcnet_cs to PCMCIA 2026-04-27 16:30:25 -07:00
Makefile Linux 7.1-rc1 2026-04-26 14:19:00 -07:00
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