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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/macvlan.c, branch v6.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: core: Convert dev_set_mac_address() to struct sockaddr_storage</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T06:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T20:46:14+00:00</published>
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All users of dev_set_mac_address() are now using a struct sockaddr_storage.
Convert the internal data type to struct sockaddr_storage, drop the casts,
and update pointer types.

Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521204619.2301870-6-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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All users of dev_set_mac_address() are now using a struct sockaddr_storage.
Convert the internal data type to struct sockaddr_storage, drop the casts,
and update pointer types.

Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521204619.2301870-6-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove __get_unaligned_cpu32 from macvlan driver</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T00:28:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Vetter</name>
<email>julian@outer-limits.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-08T09:15:48+00:00</published>
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The __get_unaligned_cpu32 function is deprecated. So, replace it with
the more generic get_unaligned and just cast the input parameter.

Signed-off-by: Julian Vetter &lt;julian@outer-limits.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408091548.2263911-1-julian@outer-limits.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The __get_unaligned_cpu32 function is deprecated. So, replace it with
the more generic get_unaligned and just cast the input parameter.

Signed-off-by: Julian Vetter &lt;julian@outer-limits.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408091548.2263911-1-julian@outer-limits.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move misc netdev_lock flavors to a separate header</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:06:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T18:30:06+00:00</published>
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Use link/peer netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T23:28:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Liang</name>
<email>shaw.leon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T12:50:29+00:00</published>
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Add two helper functions - rtnl_newlink_link_net() and
rtnl_newlink_peer_net() for netns fallback logic. Peer netns falls back
to link netns, and link netns falls back to source netns.

Convert the use of params-&gt;net in netdevice drivers to one of the helper
functions for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-4-shaw.leon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add two helper functions - rtnl_newlink_link_net() and
rtnl_newlink_peer_net() for netns fallback logic. Peer netns falls back
to link netns, and link netns falls back to source netns.

Convert the use of params-&gt;net in netdevice drivers to one of the helper
functions for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-4-shaw.leon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T23:28:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Liang</name>
<email>shaw.leon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T12:50:28+00:00</published>
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There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links:

 - source netns - where the netlink socket resides,
 - target netns - where to put the device being created,
 - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend),
 - peer netns - netns of peer device.

Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net"
parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as
follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request.

 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | absent            | source  | target  |
 | absent     +-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | present           | link    | link    |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | absent            | peer    | target  |
 | present    +-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | present           | peer    | link    |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+

When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns
first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects,
including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events.
These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from
the beginning.

On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It
varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective
link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use
dev_net instead.

To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing
newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer
netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid
confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use
of src_net are converted to params-&gt;net trivially.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links:

 - source netns - where the netlink socket resides,
 - target netns - where to put the device being created,
 - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend),
 - peer netns - netns of peer device.

Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net"
parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as
follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request.

 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | absent            | source  | target  |
 | absent     +-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | present           | link    | link    |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | absent            | peer    | target  |
 | present    +-------------------+---------+---------+
 |            | present           | peer    | link    |
 +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+

When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns
first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects,
including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events.
These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from
the beginning.

On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It
varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective
link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use
dev_net instead.

To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing
newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer
netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid
confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use
of src_net are converted to params-&gt;net trivially.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ndo_fdb_del: Add a parameter to report whether notification was sent</title>
<updated>2024-11-16T00:39:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-14T14:09:54+00:00</published>
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In a similar fashion to ndo_fdb_add, which was covered in the previous
patch, add the bool *notified argument to ndo_fdb_del. Callees that send a
notification on their own set the flag to true.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen &lt;amcohen@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/06b1acf4953ef0a5ed153ef1f32d7292044f2be6.1731589511.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In a similar fashion to ndo_fdb_add, which was covered in the previous
patch, add the bool *notified argument to ndo_fdb_del. Callees that send a
notification on their own set the flag to true.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen &lt;amcohen@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/06b1acf4953ef0a5ed153ef1f32d7292044f2be6.1731589511.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ndo_fdb_add: Add a parameter to report whether notification was sent</title>
<updated>2024-11-16T00:39:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-14T14:09:53+00:00</published>
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Currently when FDB entries are added to or deleted from a VXLAN netdevice,
the VXLAN driver emits one notification, including the VXLAN-specific
attributes. The core however always sends a notification as well, a generic
one. Thus two notifications are unnecessarily sent for these operations. A
similar situation comes up with bridge driver, which also emits
notifications on its own:

 # ip link add name vx type vxlan id 1000 dstport 4789
 # bridge monitor fdb &amp;
 [1] 1981693
 # bridge fdb add de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self dst 192.0.2.1
 de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx dst 192.0.2.1 self permanent
 de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self permanent

In order to prevent this duplicity, add a paremeter to ndo_fdb_add,
bool *notified. The flag is primed to false, and if the callee sends a
notification on its own, it sets it to true, thus informing the core that
it should not generate another notification.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen &lt;amcohen@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cbf6ae8195e85cbf922f8058ce4eba770f3b71ed.1731589511.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently when FDB entries are added to or deleted from a VXLAN netdevice,
the VXLAN driver emits one notification, including the VXLAN-specific
attributes. The core however always sends a notification as well, a generic
one. Thus two notifications are unnecessarily sent for these operations. A
similar situation comes up with bridge driver, which also emits
notifications on its own:

 # ip link add name vx type vxlan id 1000 dstport 4789
 # bridge monitor fdb &amp;
 [1] 1981693
 # bridge fdb add de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self dst 192.0.2.1
 de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx dst 192.0.2.1 self permanent
 de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self permanent

In order to prevent this duplicity, add a paremeter to ndo_fdb_add,
bool *notified. The flag is primed to false, and if the callee sends a
notification on its own, it sets it to true, thus informing the core that
it should not generate another notification.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen &lt;amcohen@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cbf6ae8195e85cbf922f8058ce4eba770f3b71ed.1731589511.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netpoll: remove ndo_netpoll_setup() second argument</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T11:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-18T05:21:08+00:00</published>
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npinfo is not used in any of the ndo_netpoll_setup() methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241018052108.2610827-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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npinfo is not used in any of the ndo_netpoll_setup() methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241018052108.2610827-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdev_features: convert NETIF_F_LLTX to dev-&gt;lltx</title>
<updated>2024-09-03T09:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>aleksander.lobakin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T12:33:37+00:00</published>
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NETIF_F_LLTX can't be changed via Ethtool and is not a feature,
rather an attribute, very similar to IFF_NO_QUEUE (and hot).
Free one netdev_features_t bit and make it a "hot" private flag.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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NETIF_F_LLTX can't be changed via Ethtool and is not a feature,
rather an attribute, very similar to IFF_NO_QUEUE (and hot).
Free one netdev_features_t bit and make it a "hot" private flag.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevice: convert private flags &gt; BIT(31) to bitfields</title>
<updated>2024-09-03T09:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>aleksander.lobakin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T12:33:36+00:00</published>
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Make dev-&gt;priv_flags `u32` back and define bits higher than 31 as
bitfield booleans as per Jakub's suggestion. This simplifies code
which accesses these bits with no optimization loss (testb both
before/after), allows to not extend &amp;netdev_priv_flags each time,
but also scales better as bits &gt; 63 in the future would only add
a new u64 to the structure with no complications, comparing to
that extending ::priv_flags would require converting it to a bitmap.
Note that I picked `unsigned long :1` to not lose any potential
optimizations comparing to `bool :1` etc.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Make dev-&gt;priv_flags `u32` back and define bits higher than 31 as
bitfield booleans as per Jakub's suggestion. This simplifies code
which accesses these bits with no optimization loss (testb both
before/after), allows to not extend &amp;netdev_priv_flags each time,
but also scales better as bits &gt; 63 in the future would only add
a new u64 to the structure with no complications, comparing to
that extending ::priv_flags would require converting it to a bitmap.
Note that I picked `unsigned long :1` to not lose any potential
optimizations comparing to `bool :1` etc.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</pre>
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