Core & protocols
----------------
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets
and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS.
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by
an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions.
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has
some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads
capabilities.
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than
one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for
Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S).
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath.
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts,
this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW.
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds.
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump
operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on
delete.
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge
instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude
faster on large switches.
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation
time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios.
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets.
- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent
TCP autotuning changes.
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down.
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups.
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races.
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing
code duplication.
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP
buffer.
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code
--------------------------------------------
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated
YAML parser.
Driver API
----------
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection.
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing
TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups.
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath.
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the
number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX
ring queries and RSS configuration.
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause.
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling
the average smoothing factor.
Device drivers
--------------
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3).
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC.
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices
(dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to
improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4): support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k_
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets
- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
recent TCP autotuning changes
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser
Driver API:
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor
Device drivers:
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"
* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
...
To leverage the auto-tuning improvements brought by commit 2da35e4b4d
("Merge branch 'tcp-receive-side-improvements'"), the MPTCP stack need
to access the mentioned helper.
Acked-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250927-net-next-mptcp-rcv-path-imp-v1-2-5da266aa9c1a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Some applications are stuck to the 20th century and still use
small SO_RCVBUF values.
After the blamed commit, we can drop packets especially
when using LRO/hw-gro enabled NIC and small MSS (1500) values.
LRO/hw-gro NIC pack multiple segments into pages, allowing
tp->scaling_ratio to be set to a high value.
Whenever the receive queue gets full, we can receive a small packet
filling RWIN, but with a high skb->truesize, because most NIC use 4K page
plus sk_buff metadata even when receiving less than 1500 bytes of payload.
Even if we refine how tp->scaling_ratio is estimated,
we could have an issue at the start of the flow, because
the first round of packets (IW10) will be sent based on
the initial tp->scaling_ratio (1/2)
Relax tcp_can_ingest() to use skb->len instead of skb->truesize,
allowing the peer to use final RWIN, assuming a 'perfect'
scaling_ratio of 1.
Fixes: 1d2fbaad7c ("tcp: stronger sk_rcvbuf checks")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250927092827.2707901-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace
infrastructure of the kernel.
Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct
ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so
on.
We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type
that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new
changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up.
The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every
namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings
from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace
type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a
single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives
the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will
yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy.
The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum()
and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the
network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about.
Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference
counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even
though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open
accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a
very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do
for e.g., files.
In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration
infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes
it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all
mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller
holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts
in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system
call.
Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the
systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a
unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the
concept to all other namespace types.
The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by
their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and
bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate
through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree
works completely locklessly.
This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic
infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct
mnt_namespace itself.
There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for
now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept
introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have
supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very
useful.
This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible
to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common
name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.
As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive,
meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in
able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle.
Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the
kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode
the file handle.
Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
/proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the
namespace based on a pidfd already.
It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
resources and to compare them trivially.
Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
namespace.
The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable
and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace
identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable
format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file
handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already
allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles"
* tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits)
ns: drop assert
ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
nstree: make struct ns_tree private
ns: add ns_debug()
ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
cgroup: add missing ns_common include
ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers
ns: rename to __ns_ref
nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipv4: use check_net()
net: use check_net()
net-sysfs: use check_net()
user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
...
Currently, packets with fixed IDs will be merged only if their
don't-fragment bit is set. This restriction is unnecessary since
packets without the don't-fragment bit will be forwarded as-is even
if they were merged together. The merged packets will be segmented
into their original forms before being forwarded, either by GSO or
by TSO. The IDs will also remain identical unless NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID
is set, in which case the IDs can become incrementing, which is also fine.
Clean up the code by removing the unnecessary don't-fragment checks.
Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-5-richardbgobert@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Currently, NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID indicates that the inner-most ID can
be mangled. Outer IDs can always be mangled.
Make GSO preserve outer IDs by default, with NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID allowing
both inner and outer IDs to be mangled.
This commit also modifies a few drivers that use SKB_GSO_FIXEDID directly.
Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com> # for sfc
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-4-richardbgobert@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Only merge encapsulated packets if their outer IDs are either
incrementing or fixed, just like for inner IDs and IDs of non-encapsulated
packets.
Add another ip_fixedid bit for a total of two bits: one for outer IDs (and
for unencapsulated packets) and one for inner IDs.
This commit preserves the current behavior of GSO where only the IDs of the
inner-most headers are restored correctly.
Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-3-richardbgobert@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Remove is_ipv6 from napi_gro_cb and use sk->sk_family instead.
This frees up space for another ip_fixedid bit that will be added
in the next commit.
udp_sock_create always creates either a AF_INET or a AF_INET6 socket,
so using sk->sk_family is reliable. In IPv6-FOU, cfg->ipv6_v6only is
always enabled.
Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-2-richardbgobert@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The kernel forbids the creation of non-FDB nexthop groups with FDB
nexthops:
# ip nexthop add id 1 via 192.0.2.1 fdb
# ip nexthop add id 2 group 1
Error: Non FDB nexthop group cannot have fdb nexthops.
And vice versa:
# ip nexthop add id 3 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
# ip nexthop add id 4 group 3 fdb
Error: FDB nexthop group can only have fdb nexthops.
However, as long as no routes are pointing to a non-FDB nexthop group,
the kernel allows changing the type of a nexthop from FDB to non-FDB and
vice versa:
# ip nexthop add id 5 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
# ip nexthop add id 6 group 5
# ip nexthop replace id 5 via 192.0.2.2 fdb
# echo $?
0
This configuration is invalid and can result in a NPD [1] since FDB
nexthops are not associated with a nexthop device:
# ip route add 198.51.100.1/32 nhid 6
# ping 198.51.100.1
Fix by preventing nexthop FDB status change while the nexthop is in a
group:
# ip nexthop add id 7 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
# ip nexthop add id 8 group 7
# ip nexthop replace id 7 via 192.0.2.2 fdb
Error: Cannot change nexthop FDB status while in a group.
[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000003c0
[...]
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 367 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6-virtme-gb65678cacc03 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:fib_lookup_good_nhc+0x1e/0x80
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
fib_table_lookup+0x541/0x650
ip_route_output_key_hash_rcu+0x2ea/0x970
ip_route_output_key_hash+0x55/0x80
__ip4_datagram_connect+0x250/0x330
udp_connect+0x2b/0x60
__sys_connect+0x9c/0xd0
__x64_sys_connect+0x18/0x20
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x2a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Fixes: 38428d6871 ("nexthop: support for fdb ecmp nexthops")
Reported-by: syzbot+6596516dd2b635ba2350@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68c9a4d2.050a0220.3c6139.0e63.GAE@google.com/
Tested-by: syzbot+6596516dd2b635ba2350@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250921150824.149157-2-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
busylock was protecting UDP sockets against packet floods,
but unfortunately was not protecting the host itself.
Under stress, many cpus could spin while acquiring the busylock,
and NIC had to drop packets. Or packets would be dropped
in cpu backlog if RPS/RFS were in place.
This patch replaces the busylock by intermediate
lockless queues. (One queue per NUMA node).
This means that fewer number of cpus have to acquire
the UDP receive queue lock.
Most of the cpus can either:
- immediately drop the packet.
- or queue it in their NUMA aware lockless queue.
Then one of the cpu is chosen to process this lockless queue
in a batch.
The batch only contains packets that were cooked on the same
NUMA node, thus with very limited latency impact.
Tested:
DDOS targeting a victim UDP socket, on a platform with 6 NUMA nodes
(Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6985P-C)
Before:
nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Udp
Udp6InDatagrams 1004179 0.0
Udp6InErrors 3117 0.0
Udp6RcvbufErrors 3117 0.0
After:
nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Udp
Udp6InDatagrams 1116633 0.0
Udp6InErrors 14197275 0.0
Udp6RcvbufErrors 14197275 0.0
We can see this host can now proces 14.2 M more packets per second
while under attack, and the victim socket can receive 11 % more
packets.
I used a small bpftrace program measuring time (in us) spent in
__udp_enqueue_schedule_skb().
Before:
@udp_enqueue_us[398]:
[0] 24901 |@@@ |
[1] 63512 |@@@@@@@@@ |
[2, 4) 344827 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[4, 8) 244673 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[8, 16) 54022 |@@@@@@@@ |
[16, 32) 222134 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[32, 64) 232042 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[64, 128) 4219 | |
[128, 256) 188 | |
After:
@udp_enqueue_us[398]:
[0] 5608855 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[1] 1111277 |@@@@@@@@@@ |
[2, 4) 501439 |@@@@ |
[4, 8) 102921 | |
[8, 16) 29895 | |
[16, 32) 43500 | |
[32, 64) 31552 | |
[64, 128) 979 | |
[128, 256) 13 | |
Note that the remaining bottleneck for this platform is in
udp_drops_inc() because we limited struct numa_drop_counters
to only two nodes so far.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922104240.2182559-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Today, once an inet_bind_bucket enters a state where fastreuse >= 0 or
fastreuseport >= 0 after a socket is explicitly bound to a port, it remains
in that state until all sockets are removed and the bucket is destroyed.
In this state, the bucket is skipped during ephemeral port selection in
connect(). For applications using a reduced ephemeral port
range (IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option), this can cause faster port
exhaustion since blocked buckets are excluded from reuse.
The reason the bucket state isn't updated on port release is unclear.
Possibly a performance trade-off to avoid scanning bucket owners, or just
an oversight.
Fix it by recalculating the bucket state when a socket releases a port. To
limit overhead, each inet_bind2_bucket stores its own (fastreuse,
fastreuseport) state. On port release, only the relevant port-addr bucket
is scanned, and the overall state is derived from these.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917-update-bind-bucket-state-on-unhash-v5-1-57168b661b47@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
synflood_warned had to be u32 for xchg(), but ensuring
atomicity is not really needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-9-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tp->tcp_clean_acked is fetched in tx path when snd_una is updated.
This field thus belongs to tcp_sock_read_tx group.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-7-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tcp_ack() writes this field, it belongs to tcp_sock_write_txrx.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Maintaining the CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_SIZE() uses
for struct tcp_sock has been painful.
This had little benefit, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
sk->sk_sndbuf is read-mostly in tx path, so move it from
sock_write_tx group to more appropriate sock_read_tx.
sk->sk_err_soft was not identified previously, but
is used from tcp_ack().
Move it to sock_write_tx group for better cache locality.
Also change tcp_ack() to clear sk->sk_err_soft only if needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.
Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.
The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
inet_unhash() checks sk_unhashed() twice at the entry and after locking
ehash/lhash bucket.
The former was somehow added redundantly by commit 4f9bf2a2f5 ("tcp:
Don't acquire inet_listen_hashbucket::lock with disabled BH.").
inet_unhash() is called for the full socket from 4 places, and it is
always under lock_sock() or the socket is not yet published to other
threads:
1. __sk_prot_rehash()
-> called from inet_sk_reselect_saddr(), which has
lockdep_sock_is_held()
2. sk_common_release()
-> called when inet_create() or inet6_create() fail, then the
socket is not yet published
3. tcp_set_state()
-> calls tcp_call_bpf_2arg(), and tcp_call_bpf() has
sock_owned_by_me()
4. inet_ctl_sock_create()
-> creates a kernel socket and unhashes it immediately, but TCP
socket is not hashed in sock_create_kern() (only SOCK_RAW is)
So we do not need to check sk_unhashed() twice before/after ehash/lhash
lock in inet_unhash().
Let's remove the 2nd one.
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919083706.1863217-4-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
inet_hash() and inet6_hash() are exactly the same.
Also, we do not need to export inet6_hash().
Let's consolidate the two into __inet_hash() and rename it to inet_hash().
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919083706.1863217-3-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
__inet_hash() is called from inet_hash() and inet6_hash with osk NULL.
Let's remove the 2nd arg from __inet_hash().
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919083706.1863217-2-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This converts the only path not returning drop reasons in
ip_rcv_finish_core.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915091958.15382-4-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Instead of setting the drop reason to SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED
early and having to reset it each time it is overridden by a function
returned value, just set the drop reason to the expected value before
returning from ip_rcv_finish_core.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915091958.15382-3-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
udp_v4_early_demux already returns drop reasons as it either returns 0
or ip_mc_validate_source, which itself returns drop reasons. Its return
value is also already used as a drop reason itself.
Makes this explicit by making it return drop reasons.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915091958.15382-2-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Replace two calls to kfree_skb_reason() with sk_skb_reason_drop().
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918132007.325299-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Don't directly acess the namespace count. There's even a dedicated
helper for this.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7).
No conflicts.
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h
9536fbe10c ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX")
7601a0a462 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
PSP eats 40B of header space. Adjust MSS appropriately.
We can either modify tcp_mtu_to_mss() / tcp_mss_to_mtu()
or reuse icsk_ext_hdr_len. The former option is more TCP
specific and has runtime overhead. The latter is a bit
of a hack as PSP is not an ext_hdr. If one squints hard
enough, UDP encap is just a more practical version of
IPv6 exthdr, so go with the latter. Happy to change.
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-10-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Provide a callback to validate skb's originating from tcp timewait
socks before passing to the device layer. Full socks have a
sk_validate_xmit_skb member for checking that a device is capable of
performing offloads required for transmitting an skb. With psp, tcp
timewait socks will inherit the crypto state from their corresponding
full socks. Any ACKs or RSTs that originate from a tcp timewait sock
carrying psp state should be psp encapsulated.
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-8-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Add validation points and state propagation to support PSP key
exchange inline, on TCP connections. The expectation is that
application will use some well established mechanism like TLS
handshake to establish a secure channel over the connection and
if both endpoints are PSP-capable - exchange and install PSP keys.
Because the connection can existing in PSP-unsecured and PSP-secured
state we need to make sure that there are no race conditions or
retransmission leaks.
On Tx - mark packets with the skb->decrypted bit when PSP key
is at the enqueue time. Drivers should only encrypt packets with
this bit set. This prevents retransmissions getting encrypted when
original transmission was not. Similarly to TLS, we'll use
sk->sk_validate_xmit_skb to make sure PSP skbs can't "escape"
via a PSP-unaware device without being encrypted.
On Rx - validation is done under socket lock. This moves the validation
point later than xfrm, for example. Please see the documentation patch
for more details on the flow of securing a connection, but for
the purpose of this patch what's important is that we want to
enforce the invariant that once connection is secured any skb
in the receive queue has been encrypted with PSP.
Add GRO and coalescing checks to prevent PSP authenticated data from
being combined with cleartext data, or data with non-matching PSP
state. On Rx, check skb's with psp_skb_coalesce_diff() at points
before psp_sk_rx_policy_check(). After skb's are policy checked and on
the socket receive queue, skb_cmp_decrypted() is sufficient for
checking for coalescable PSP state. On Tx, tcp_write_collapse_fence()
should be called when transitioning a socket into PSP Tx state to
prevent data sent as cleartext from being coalesced with PSP
encapsulated data.
This change only adds the validation points, for ease of review.
Subsequent change will add the ability to install keys, and flesh
the enforcement logic out
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-5-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Add pointers to psp data structures to core networking structs,
and an SKB extension to carry the PSP information from the drivers
to the socket layer.
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Move skb freeing from udp recvmsg() path to the cpu
which allocated/received it, as TCP did in linux-5.17.
This increases max thoughput by 20% to 30%, depending
on number of BH producers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-11-edumazet@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
While having all spinlocks packed into an array was a space saver,
this also caused NUMA imbalance and hash collisions.
UDPv6 socket size becomes 1600 after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-10-edumazet@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Generic sk_drops_inc() reads sk->sk_drop_counters.
We know the precise location for UDP sockets.
Move sk_drop_counters out of sock_read_rxtx
so that sock_write_rxtx starts at a cache line boundary.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-9-edumazet@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Avoid piling too many producers on the busylock
by updating sk_rmem_alloc before busylock acquisition.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-7-edumazet@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Commit 5a465a0da1 ("udp: Fix multiple wraparounds
of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.") allowed to slightly overshoot
sk->sk_rmem_alloc, when many cpus are trying
to feed packets to a common UDP socket.
This patch, combined with the following one reduces
false sharing on the victim socket under DDOS.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916160951.541279-6-edumazet@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
As SACK blocks tend to eat all option space when there are
many holes, it is useful to compromise on sending many SACK
blocks in every ACK and attempt to fit the AccECN option
there by reducing the number of SACK blocks. However, it will
never go below two SACK blocks because of the AccECN option.
As the AccECN option is often not put to every ACK, the space
hijack is usually only temporary. Depending on the reuqired
AccECN fields (can be either 3, 2, 1, or 0, cf. Table 5 in
AccECN spec) and the NOPs used for alignment of other
TCP options, up to two SACK blocks will be reduced. Please
find below tables for more details:
+====================+=========================================+
| Number of | Required | Remaining | Number of | Final |
| SACK | AccECN | option | reduced | number of |
| blocks | fields | spaces | SACK blocks | SACK blocks |
+===========+==========+===========+=============+=============+
| x (<=2) | 0 to 3 | any | 0 | x |
+-----------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------------+
| 3 | 0 | any | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | <4 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | >=4 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | <8 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | >=8 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | <12 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | >=12 | 0 | 3 |
+-----------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------------+
| y (>=4) | 0 | any | 0 | y |
| y (>=4) | 1 | <4 | 1 | y-1 |
| y (>=4) | 1 | >=4 | 0 | y |
| y (>=4) | 2 | <8 | 1 | y-1 |
| y (>=4) | 2 | >=8 | 0 | y |
| y (>=4) | 3 | <4 | 2 | y-2 |
| y (>=4) | 3 | <12 | 1 | y-1 |
| y (>=4) | 3 | >=12 | 0 | y |
+===========+==========+===========+=============+=============+
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-11-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The AccECN option ceb/cep heuristic algorithm is from AccECN spec
Appendix A.2.2 to mitigate against false ACE field overflows. Armed
with ceb delta from option, delivered bytes, and delivered packets it
is possible to estimate how many times ACE field wrapped.
This calculation is necessary only if more than one wrap is possible.
Without SACK, delivered bytes and packets are not always trustworthy in
which case TCP falls back to the simpler no-or-all wraps ceb algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-10-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
AccECN option may fail in various way, handle these:
- Attempt to negotiate the use of AccECN on the 1st retransmitted SYN
- From the 2nd retransmitted SYN, stop AccECN negotiation
- Remove option from SYN/ACK rexmits to handle blackholes
- If no option arrives in SYN/ACK, assume Option is not usable
- If an option arrives later, re-enabled
- If option is zeroed, disable AccECN option processing
This patch use existing padding bits in tcp_request_sock and
holes in tcp_sock without increasing the size.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-9-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Instead of sending the option in every ACK, limit sending to
those ACKs where the option is necessary:
- Handshake
- "Change-triggered ACK" + the ACK following it. The
2nd ACK is necessary to unambiguously indicate which
of the ECN byte counters in increasing. The first
ACK has two counters increasing due to the ecnfield
edge.
- ACKs with CE to allow CEP delta validations to take
advantage of the option.
- Force option to be sent every at least once per 2^22
bytes. The check is done using the bit edges of the
byte counters (avoids need for extra variables).
- AccECN option beacon to send a few times per RTT even if
nothing in the ECN state requires that. The default is 3
times per RTT, and its period can be set via
sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch,
in which the group size of tcp_sock_write_tx is increased
from 89 to 97 due to the new u64 accecn_opt_tstamp member:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */
struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2496 16 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2521: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2521: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Force alignment to the next boundary: */
u8 :0;
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */
u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2628 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */
u64 accecn_opt_tstamp; /* 2596 8 */
struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2504 16 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2529 0 */
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2529 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2529: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2529: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Force alignment to the next boundary: */
u8 :0;
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2530: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2530: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2531: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 2 1 */
u8 accecn_opt_demand:2; /* 2531: 4 1 */
u8 prev_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 6 1 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2636 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 173 */
}
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-8-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The Accurate ECN allows echoing back the sum of bytes for
each IP ECN field value in the received packets using
AccECN option. This change implements AccECN option tx & rx
side processing without option send control related features
that are added by a later change.
Based on specification:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt
(Some features of the spec will be added in the later changes
rather than in this one).
A full-length AccECN option is always attempted but if it does
not fit, the minimum length is selected based on the counters
that have changed since the last update. The AccECN option
(with 24-bit fields) often ends in odd sizes so the option
write code tries to take advantage of some nop used to pad
the other TCP options.
The delivered_ecn_bytes pairs with received_ecn_bytes similar
to how delivered_ce pairs with received_ce. In contrast to
ACE field, however, the option is not always available to update
delivered_ecn_bytes. For ACK w/o AccECN option, the delivered
bytes calculated based on the cumulative ACK+SACK information
are assigned to one of the counters using an estimation
heuristic to select the most likely ECN byte counter. Any
estimation error is corrected when the next AccECN option
arrives. It may occur that the heuristic gets too confused
when there are enough different byte counter deltas between
ACKs with the AccECN option in which case the heuristic just
gives up on updating the counters for a while.
tcp_ecn_option sysctl can be used to select option sending
mode for AccECN: TCP_ECN_OPTION_DISABLED, TCP_ECN_OPTION_MINIMUM,
and TCP_ECN_OPTION_FULL.
This patch increases the size of tcp_info struct, as there is
no existing holes for new u32 variables. Below are the pahole
outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_info {
[...]
__u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */
/* size: 248, cachelines: 4, members: 61 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_info {
[...]
__u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_ce; /* 248 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_e1_bytes; /* 252 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_e0_bytes; /* 256 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_ce_bytes; /* 260 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_e1_bytes; /* 264 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_e0_bytes; /* 268 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_ce_bytes; /* 272 4 */
/* size: 280, cachelines: 5, members: 68 */
}
This patch uses the existing 1-byte holes in the tcp_sock_write_txrx
group for new u8 members, but adds a 4-byte hole in tcp_sock_write_rx
group after the new u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3] member. Therefore, the
group size of tcp_sock_write_rx is increased from 96 to 112. Below
are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 received_ce_pending:4; /* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
[...]
u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2728 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 167 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */
u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */
[...]
u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */
u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3];/* 2672 12 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2744 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-7-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
1) Don't early return when sack doesn't fit. AccECN code will be
placed after this fragment so no early returns please.
2) Make sure opts->num_sack_blocks is not left undefined. E.g.,
tcp_current_mss() does not memset its opts struct to zero.
AccECN code checks if SACK option is present and may even
alter it to make room for AccECN option when many SACK blocks
are present. Thus, num_sack_blocks needs to be always valid.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-6-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
AccECN byte counter estimation requires delivered bytes
which can be calculated while processing SACK blocks and
cumulative ACK. The delivered bytes will be used to estimate
the byte counters between AccECN option (on ACKs w/o the
option).
Accurate ECN does not depend on SACK to function; however,
the calculation would be more accurate if SACK were there.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-5-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
These three byte counters track IP ECN field payload byte sums for
all arriving (acceptable) packets for ECT0, ECT1, and CE. The
AccECN option (added by a later patch in the series) echoes these
counters back to sender side; therefore, it is placed within the
group of tcp_sock_write_txrx.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch, in which
the group size of tcp_sock_write_txrx is increased from 95 + 4 to
107 + 4 and an extra 4-byte hole is created but will be exploited
in later patches:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u32 delivered_ce; /* 2576 4 */
u32 received_ce; /* 2580 4 */
u32 app_limited; /* 2584 4 */
u32 rcv_wnd; /* 2588 4 */
struct tcp_options_received rx_opt; /* 2592 24 */
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2616 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 166 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u32 delivered_ce; /* 2576 4 */
u32 received_ce; /* 2580 4 */
u32 received_ecn_bytes[3];/* 2584 12 */
u32 app_limited; /* 2596 4 */
u32 rcv_wnd; /* 2600 4 */
struct tcp_options_received rx_opt; /* 2604 24 */
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2628 0 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 167 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-4-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Accurate ECN negotiation parts based on the specification:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt
Accurate ECN is negotiated using ECE, CWR and AE flags in the
TCP header. TCP falls back into using RFC3168 ECN if one of the
ends supports only RFC3168-style ECN.
The AccECN negotiation includes reflecting IP ECN field value
seen in SYN and SYNACK back using the same bits as negotiation
to allow responding to SYN CE marks and to detect ECN field
mangling. CE marks should not occur currently because SYN=1
segments are sent with Non-ECT in IP ECN field (but proposal
exists to remove this restriction).
Reflecting SYN IP ECN field in SYNACK is relatively simple.
Reflecting SYNACK IP ECN field in the final/third ACK of
the handshake is more challenging. Linux TCP code is not well
prepared for using the final/third ACK a signalling channel
which makes things somewhat complicated here.
tcp_ecn sysctl can be used to select the highest ECN variant
(Accurate ECN, ECN, No ECN) that is attemped to be negotiated and
requested for incoming connection and outgoing connection:
TCP_ECN_IN_NOECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_ECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ACCECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ECN, and TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_NOECN.
After this patch, the size of tcp_request_sock remains unchanged
and no new holes are added. Below are the pahole outcomes before
and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
[...]
u32 rcv_nxt; /* 352 4 */
u8 syn_tos; /* 356 1 */
/* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 16 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
[...]
u32 rcv_nxt; /* 352 4 */
u8 syn_tos; /* 356 1 */
bool accecn_ok; /* 357 1 */
u8 syn_ect_snt:2; /* 358: 0 1 */
u8 syn_ect_rcv:2; /* 358: 2 1 */
u8 accecn_fail_mode:4; /* 358: 4 1 */
/* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 20 */
}
After this patch, the size of tcp_sock remains unchanged and no new
holes are added. Also, 4 bits of the existing 2-byte hole are exploited.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 dup_ack_counter:2; /* 2761: 0 1 */
u8 tlp_retrans:1; /* 2761: 2 1 */
u8 unused:5; /* 2761: 3 1 */
u8 thin_lto:1; /* 2762: 0 1 */
u8 fastopen_connect:1; /* 2762: 1 1 */
u8 fastopen_no_cookie:1; /* 2762: 2 1 */
u8 fastopen_client_fail:2; /* 2762: 3 1 */
u8 frto:1; /* 2762: 5 1 */
/* XXX 2 bits hole, try to pack */
[...]
u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2765 1 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 164 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 dup_ack_counter:2; /* 2761: 0 1 */
u8 tlp_retrans:1; /* 2761: 2 1 */
u8 syn_ect_snt:2; /* 2761: 3 1 */
u8 syn_ect_rcv:2; /* 2761: 5 1 */
u8 thin_lto:1; /* 2761: 7 1 */
u8 fastopen_connect:1; /* 2762: 0 1 */
u8 fastopen_no_cookie:1; /* 2762: 1 1 */
u8 fastopen_client_fail:2; /* 2762: 2 1 */
u8 frto:1; /* 2762: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
[...]
u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2765 1 */
u8 accecn_fail_mode:4; /* 2766: 0 1 */
/* XXX 4 bits hole, try to pack */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 166 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-3-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This change implements Accurate ECN without negotiation and
AccECN Option (that will be added by later changes). Based on
AccECN specifications:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt
Accurate ECN allows feeding back the number of CE (congestion
experienced) marks accurately to the sender in contrast to
RFC3168 ECN that can only signal one marks-seen-yes/no per RTT.
Congestion control algorithms can take advantage of the accurate
ECN information to fine-tune their congestion response to avoid
drastic rate reduction when only mild congestion is encountered.
With Accurate ECN, tp->received_ce (r.cep in AccECN spec) keeps
track of how many segments have arrived with a CE mark. Accurate
ECN uses ACE field (ECE, CWR, AE) to communicate the value back
to the sender which updates tp->delivered_ce (s.cep) based on the
feedback. This signalling channel is lossy when ACE field overflow
occurs.
Conservative strategy is selected here to deal with the ACE
overflow, however, some strategies using the AccECN option later
in the overall patchset mitigate against false overflows detected.
The ACE field values on the wire are offset by
TCP_ACCECN_CEP_INIT_OFFSET. Delivered_ce/received_ce count the
real CE marks rather than forcing all downstream users to adapt
to the wire offset.
This patch uses the first 1-byte hole and the last 4-byte hole of
the tcp_sock_write_txrx for 'received_ce_pending' and 'received_ce'.
Also, the group size of tcp_sock_write_txrx is increased from
91 + 4 to 95 + 4 due to the new u32 received_ce member. Below are
the trimmed pahole outcomes before and after this patch.
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2521: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2521: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
u32 delivered_ce; /* 2576 4 */
u32 app_limited; /* 2580 4 */
u32 rcv_wnd; /* 2684 4 */
struct tcp_options_received rx_opt; /* 2688 24 */
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2612 0 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 161 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2521: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2521: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Force alignment to the next boundary: */
u8 :0;
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
[...]
u32 delivered_ce; /* 2576 4 */
u32 received_ce; /* 2580 4 */
u32 app_limited; /* 2584 4 */
u32 rcv_wnd; /* 2588 4 */
struct tcp_options_received rx_opt; /* 2592 24 */
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2616 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 164 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-2-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The following patches will modify ECN helpers and add AccECN herlpers,
and this patch moves the existing ones into a separated include file.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250911110642.87529-5-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds