kernel.git/include/net, branch linux-6.6.y

ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

2026-03-04T12:21:18Z

[ Upstream commit 6db8b56eed62baacaf37486e83378a72635c04cc ] On the receive path, __ioam6_fill_trace_data() uses trace->nodelen to decide how much data to write for each node. It trusts this field as-is from the incoming packet, with no consistency check against trace->type (the 24-bit field that tells which data items are present). A crafted packet can set nodelen=0 while setting type bits 0-21, causing the function to write ~100 bytes past the allocated region (into skb_shared_info), which corrupts adjacent heap memory and leads to a kernel panic. Add a shared helper ioam6_trace_compute_nodelen() in ioam6.c to derive the expected nodelen from the type field, and use it: - in ioam6_iptunnel.c (send path, existing validation) to replace the open-coded computation; - in exthdrs.c (receive path, ipv6_hop_ioam) to drop packets whose nodelen is inconsistent with the type field, before any data is written. Per RFC 9197, bits 12-21 are each short (4-octet) fields, so they are included in IOAM6_MASK_SHORT_FIELDS (changed from 0xff100000 to 0xff1ffc00). Fixes: 9ee11f0fff20 ("ipv6: ioam: Data plane support for Pre-allocated Trace") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Junxi Qian Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260211040412.86195-1-qjx1298677004@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix invalid response to L2CAP_ECRED_RECONF_REQ

2026-03-04T12:21:00Z

[ Upstream commit 7accb1c4321acb617faf934af59d928b0b047e2b ] This fixes responding with an invalid result caused by checking the wrong size of CID which should have been (cmd_len - sizeof(*req)) and on top of it the wrong result was use L2CAP_CR_LE_INVALID_PARAMS which is invalid/reserved for reconf when running test like L2CAP/ECFC/BI-03-C: > ACL Data RX: Handle 64 flags 0x02 dlen 14 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Request (0x19) ident 2 len 6 MTU: 64 MPS: 64 Source CID: 64 < ACL Data TX: Handle 64 flags 0x00 dlen 10 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Respond (0x1a) ident 2 len 2 ! Result: Reserved (0x000c) Result: Reconfiguration failed - one or more Destination CIDs invalid (0x0003) Fiix L2CAP/ECFC/BI-04-C which expects L2CAP_RECONF_INVALID_MPS (0x0002) when more than one channel gets its MPS reduced: > ACL Data RX: Handle 64 flags 0x02 dlen 16 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Request (0x19) ident 2 len 8 MTU: 264 MPS: 99 Source CID: 64 ! Source CID: 65 < ACL Data TX: Handle 64 flags 0x00 dlen 10 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Respond (0x1a) ident 2 len 2 ! Result: Reconfiguration successful (0x0000) Result: Reconfiguration failed - reduction in size of MPS not allowed for more than one channel at a time (0x0002) Fix L2CAP/ECFC/BI-05-C when SCID is invalid (85 unconnected): > ACL Data RX: Handle 64 flags 0x02 dlen 14 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Request (0x19) ident 2 len 6 MTU: 65 MPS: 64 ! Source CID: 85 < ACL Data TX: Handle 64 flags 0x00 dlen 10 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Respond (0x1a) ident 2 len 2 ! Result: Reconfiguration successful (0x0000) Result: Reconfiguration failed - one or more Destination CIDs invalid (0x0003) Fix L2CAP/ECFC/BI-06-C when MPS < L2CAP_ECRED_MIN_MPS (64): > ACL Data RX: Handle 64 flags 0x02 dlen 14 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Request (0x19) ident 2 len 6 MTU: 672 ! MPS: 63 Source CID: 64 < ACL Data TX: Handle 64 flags 0x00 dlen 10 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Respond (0x1a) ident 2 len 2 ! Result: Reconfiguration failed - reduction in size of MPS not allowed for more than one channel at a time (0x0002) Result: Reconfiguration failed - other unacceptable parameters (0x0004) Fix L2CAP/ECFC/BI-07-C when MPS reduced for more than one channel: > ACL Data RX: Handle 64 flags 0x02 dlen 16 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Request (0x19) ident 3 len 8 MTU: 84 ! MPS: 71 Source CID: 64 ! Source CID: 65 < ACL Data TX: Handle 64 flags 0x00 dlen 10 LE L2CAP: Enhanced Credit Reconfigure Respond (0x1a) ident 2 len 2 ! Result: Reconfiguration successful (0x0000) Result: Reconfiguration failed - reduction in size of MPS not allowed for more than one channel at a time (0x0002) Link: https://github.com/bluez/bluez/issues/1865 Fixes: 15f02b910562 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Add initial code for Enhanced Credit Based Mode") Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: annotate data-races in ip6_multipath_hash_{policy,fields}()

2026-03-04T12:20:45Z

[ Upstream commit 03e9d91dd64e2f5ea632df5d59568d91757efc4d ] Add missing READ_ONCE() when reading sysctl values. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115094141.3124990-5-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line

2026-03-04T12:20:23Z

[ Upstream commit 87b08913a9ae82082e276d237ece08fc8ee24380 ] icmp_global_credit was meant to be changed ~1000 times per second, but if an admin sets net.ipv4.icmp_msgs_per_sec to a very high value, icmp_global_credit changes can inflict false sharing to surrounding fields that are read mostly. Move icmp_global_credit and icmp_global_stamp to a separate cacheline aligned group. Fixes: b056b4cd9178 ("icmp: move icmp_global.credit and icmp_global.stamp to per netns storage") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216142832.3834174-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netns-ipv4: reorganize netns_ipv4 fast path variables

2026-03-04T12:20:22Z

[ Upstream commit 18fd64d2542292713b0322e6815be059bdee440c ] Reorganize fast path variables on tx-txrx-rx order. Fastpath cacheline ends after sysctl_tcp_rmem. There are only read-only variables here. (write is on the control path and not considered in this case) Below data generated with pahole on x86 architecture. Fast path variables span cache lines before change: 4 Fast path variables span cache lines after change: 2 Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Wei Wang Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Coco Li Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: 87b08913a9ae ("inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp: Set pingpong threshold via sysctl

2026-03-04T12:20:22Z

[ Upstream commit 562b1fdf061bff9394ccd884456ed1173c224fdc ] TCP pingpong threshold is 1 by default. But some applications, like SQL DB may prefer a higher pingpong threshold to activate delayed acks in quick ack mode for better performance. The pingpong threshold and related code were changed to 3 in the year 2019 in: commit 4a41f453bedf ("tcp: change pingpong threshold to 3") And reverted to 1 in the year 2022 in: commit 4d8f24eeedc5 ("Revert "tcp: change pingpong threshold to 3"") There is no single value that fits all applications. Add net.ipv4.tcp_pingpong_thresh sysctl tunable, so it can be tuned for optimal performance based on the application needs. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1697056244-21888-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 87b08913a9ae ("inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp: defer regular ACK while processing socket backlog

2026-03-04T12:20:22Z

[ Upstream commit 133c4c0d37175f510a10fa9bed51e223936073fc ] This idea came after a particular workload requested the quickack attribute set on routes, and a performance drop was noticed for large bulk transfers. For high throughput flows, it is best to use one cpu running the user thread issuing socket system calls, and a separate cpu to process incoming packets from BH context. (With TSO/GRO, bottleneck is usually the 'user' cpu) Problem is the user thread can spend a lot of time while holding the socket lock, forcing BH handler to queue most of incoming packets in the socket backlog. Whenever the user thread releases the socket lock, it must first process all accumulated packets in the backlog, potentially adding latency spikes. Due to flood mitigation, having too many packets in the backlog increases chance of unexpected drops. Backlog processing unfortunately shifts a fair amount of cpu cycles from the BH cpu to the 'user' cpu, thus reducing max throughput. This patch takes advantage of the backlog processing, and the fact that ACK are mostly cumulative. The idea is to detect we are in the backlog processing and defer all eligible ACK into a single one, sent from tcp_release_cb(). This saves cpu cycles on both sides, and network resources. Performance of a single TCP flow on a 200Gbit NIC: - Throughput is increased by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit). - Number of generated ACK per second shrinks from 240,000 to 40,000. - Number of backlog drops per second shrinks from 230 to 0. Benchmark context: - Regular netperf TCP_STREAM (no zerocopy) - Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8481C (Saphire Rapids) - MAX_SKB_FRAGS = 17 (~60KB per GRO packet) This feature is guarded by a new sysctl, and enabled by default: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_backlog_ack_defer Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Acked-by: Dave Taht Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 87b08913a9ae ("inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: icmp_msgs_per_sec and icmp_msgs_burst sysctls become per netns

2026-03-04T12:20:21Z

[ Upstream commit f17bf505ff89595df5147755e51441632a5dc563 ] Previous patch made ICMP rate limits per netns, it makes sense to allow each netns to change the associated sysctl. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829144641.3880376-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 034bbd806298 ("icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: move icmp_global.credit and icmp_global.stamp to per netns storage

2026-03-04T12:20:21Z

[ Upstream commit b056b4cd9178f7a1d5d57f7b48b073c29729ddaa ] Host wide ICMP ratelimiter should be per netns, to provide better isolation. Following patch in this series makes the sysctl per netns. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829144641.3880376-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 034bbd806298 ("icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: fix a race in ip6_sock_set_v6only()

2026-03-04T12:20:20Z

[ Upstream commit 452a3eee22c57a5786ae6db5c97f3b0ec13bb3b7 ] It is unlikely that this function will be ever called with isk->inet_num being not zero. Perform the check on isk->inet_num inside the locked section for complete safety. Fixes: 9b115749acb24 ("ipv6: add ip6_sock_set_v6only") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216102202.3343588-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin