Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.
The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.
Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Remove CAIF (Communication CPU to Application CPU Interface), the
ST-Ericsson modem protocol. The subsystem has been orphaned since 2013.
The last meaningful changes from the maintainers were in March 2013:
a8c7687bf2 ("caif_virtio: Check that vringh_config is not null")
b2273be8d2 ("caif_virtio: Use vringh_notify_enable correctly")
0d2e1a2926 ("caif_virtio: Introduce caif over virtio")
Not-so-coincidentally, according to "the Internet" ST-Ericsson officially
shut down its modem joint venture in Aug 2013.
If anyone is using this code please yell!
In the 13 years since, the code has accumulated 200 non-merge commits,
of which 71 were cross-tree API changes, 21 carried Fixes: tags, and
the remaining ~110 were cleanups, doc conversions, treewide refactors,
and one partial removal (caif_hsi, ca75bcf0a8).
We are still getting fixes to this code, in the last 10 days there were
3 reports on security@ about CAIF that I have been CCed on.
UAPI constants (AF_CAIF, ARPHRD_CAIF, N_CAIF, VIRTIO_ID_CAIF) and the
SELinux classmap entry are intentionally kept for ABI stability.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416182829.1440262-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
HIPPI has not been relevant for over two decades. It was rapidly
eclipsed by Fibre Channel, and even when it was new, it was
confined to very high-end hardware. The HIPPI code has only
received tree-wide changes and fixes by inspection in the entire
Git history. Remove HIPPI support and the rrunner HIPPI driver,
and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file. Keep the
include/uapi/linux/if_hippi.h header because it is used by the TUN
code, and to avoid breaking userspace, however unlikely that may be.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119022451.22344-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
OpenVPN is a userspace software existing since around 2005 that allows
users to create secure tunnels.
So far OpenVPN has implemented all operations in userspace, which
implies several back and forth between kernel and user land in order to
process packets (encapsulate/decapsulate, encrypt/decrypt, rerouting..).
With `ovpn` we intend to move the fast path (data channel) entirely
in kernel space and thus improve user measured throughput over the
tunnel.
`ovpn` is implemented as a simple virtual network device driver, that
can be manipulated by means of the standard RTNL APIs. A device of kind
`ovpn` allows only IPv4/6 traffic and can be of type:
* P2P (peer-to-peer): any packet sent over the interface will be
encapsulated and transmitted to the other side (typical OpenVPN
client or peer-to-peer behaviour);
* P2MP (point-to-multipoint): packets sent over the interface are
transmitted to peers based on existing routes (typical OpenVPN
server behaviour).
After the interface has been created, OpenVPN in userspace can
configure it using a new Netlink API. Specifically it is possible
to manage peers and their keys.
The OpenVPN control channel is multiplexed over the same transport
socket by means of OP codes. Anything that is not DATA_V2 (OpenVPN
OP code for data traffic) is sent to userspace and handled there.
This way the `ovpn` codebase is kept as compact as possible while
focusing on handling data traffic only (fast path).
Any OpenVPN control feature (like cipher negotiation, TLS handshake,
rekeying, etc.) is still fully handled by the userspace process.
When userspace establishes a new connection with a peer, it first
performs the handshake and then passes the socket to the `ovpn` kernel
module, which takes ownership. From this moment on `ovpn` will handle
data traffic for the new peer.
When control packets are received on the link, they are forwarded to
userspace through the same transport socket they were received on, as
userspace is still listening to them.
Some events (like peer deletion) are sent to a Netlink multicast group.
Although it wasn't easy to convince the community, `ovpn` implements
only a limited number of the data-channel features supported by the
userspace program.
Each feature that made it to `ovpn` was attentively vetted to
avoid carrying too much legacy along with us (and to give a clear cut to
old and probalby-not-so-useful features).
Notably, only encryption using AEAD ciphers (specifically
ChaCha20Poly1305 and AES-GCM) was implemented. Supporting any other
cipher out there was not deemed useful.
Both UDP and TCP sockets are supported.
As explained above, in case of P2MP mode, OpenVPN will use the main system
routing table to decide which packet goes to which peer. This implies
that no routing table was re-implemented in the `ovpn` kernel module.
This kernel module can be enabled by selecting the CONFIG_OVPN entry
in the networking drivers section.
NOTE: this first patch introduces the very basic framework only.
Features are then added patch by patch, however, although each patch
will compile and possibly not break at runtime, only after having
applied the full set it is expected to see the ovpn module fully working.
Cc: steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Cc: antony.antony@secunet.com
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-1-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Stephen reported that he was unable to get the dsa_loop driver to get
probed, and the reason ended up being because he had CONFIG_FIXED_PHY=y
in his kernel configuration. As Masahiro explained it:
"obj-m += dsa/" means everything under dsa/ must be modular.
If there is a built-in object under dsa/ with CONFIG_NET_DSA=m,
you cannot do "obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA) += dsa/".
You need to change it back to "obj-y += dsa/".
This was the case here whereby CONFIG_NET_DSA=m, and so the
obj-$(CONFIG_FIXED_PHY) += dsa_loop_bdinfo.o rule is not executed and
the DSA loop mdio_board info structure is not registered with the
kernel, and eventually the device is simply not found.
To preserve the intention of the original commit of limiting the amount
of folder descending, conditionally descend into drivers/net/dsa when
CONFIG_NET_DSA is enabled.
Fixes: 227d72063f ("dsa: simplify Kconfig symbols and dependencies")
Reported-by: Stephen Langstaff <stephenlangstaff1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) is a 3GPP Protocol
used between the control plane and the user plane function.
It is specified in TS 29.244[1].
Note that this module is not designed to support this Protocol
in the kernel space. There is no support for parsing any PFCP messages.
There is no API that could be used by any userspace daemon.
Basically it does not support PFCP. This protocol is sophisticated
and there is no need for implementing it in the kernel. The purpose
of this module is to allow users to setup software and hardware offload
of PFCP packets using tc tool.
When user requests to create a PFCP device, a new socket is created.
The socket is set up with port number 8805 which is specific for
PFCP [29.244 4.2.2]. This allow to receive PFCP request messages,
response messages use other ports.
Note that only one PFCP netdev can be created.
Only IPv4 is supported at this time.
[1] https://portal.3gpp.org/desktopmodules/Specifications/SpecificationDetails.aspx?specificationId=3111
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit"
(former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The
core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine
and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer
to the source.
One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to
move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing
earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program
determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to
the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU
backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq
to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see
measurements in the slides).
In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to
extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair
comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically
residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The
peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach
BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy
to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached.
Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The
management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is
supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls
as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f23 ("bpf: Add generic
attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided,
so that existing programs can be easily migrated.
Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device
type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to
simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default
drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is
brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent.
Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are
using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the
latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use
bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device
directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up
work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net
devices into a single one.
An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program
and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series.
Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit
Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
We will be adding tracepoints to the driver so instead of littering the
main network driver directory, move the driver into its own directory.
While there, rename the module to thunderbolt_net (with underscore) to
match with the thunderbolt_dma_test convention.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This framework was create with intention to provide support for Ethernet PSE
(Power Sourcing Equipment) and PDs (Powered Device).
At current step this patch implements generic PSE support for PoDL (Power over
Data Lines 802.3bu) specification with reserving name space for PD devices as
well.
This framework can be extended to support 802.3af and 802.3at "Power via the
Media Dependent Interface" (or PoE/Power over Ethernet)
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
vxlan.c has grown too long. This patch moves
it to its own directory. subsequent patches add new
functionality in new files.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It adds definitions and control plane code for AMT.
this is very similar to udp tunneling interfaces such as gtp, vxlan, etc.
In the next patch, data plane code will be added.
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The MBIM protocol has now been integrated in a proper WWAN driver. We
can then revert back to a simpler driver for mhi_net, which is used
for raw IP or QMAP protocol (via rmnet link).
- Remove protocol management
- Remove WWAN framework usage (only valid for mbim)
- Remove net/mhi directory for simpler mhi_net.c file
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are very few ISA drivers left that rely on the static probing from
drivers/net/Space.o. Make them all select a new CONFIG_NETDEV_LEGACY_INIT
symbol, and drop the entire probe logic when that is disabled.
The 9 drivers that are called from Space.c are the same set that
calls netdev_boot_setup_check().
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This change introduces initial support for a WWAN framework. Given the
complexity and heterogeneity of existing WWAN hardwares and interfaces,
there is no strict definition of what a WWAN device is and how it should
be represented. It's often a collection of multiple devices that perform
the global WWAN feature (netdev, tty, chardev, etc).
One usual way to expose modem controls and configuration is via high
level protocols such as the well known AT command protocol, MBIM or
QMI. The USB modems started to expose them as character devices, and
user daemons such as ModemManager learnt to use them.
This initial version adds the concept of WWAN port, which is a logical
pipe to a modem control protocol. The protocols are rawly exposed to
user via character device, allowing straigthforward support in existing
tools (ModemManager, ofono...). The WWAN core takes care of the generic
part, including character device management, and relies on port driver
operations to receive/submit protocol data.
Since the different devices exposing protocols for a same WWAN hardware
do not necessarily know about each others (e.g. two different USB
interfaces, PCI/MHI channel devices...) and can be created/removed in
different orders, the WWAN core ensures that all WAN ports contributing
to the 'whole' WWAN feature are grouped under the same virtual WWAN
device, relying on the provided parent device (e.g. mhi controller,
USB device). It's a 'trick' I copied from Johannes's earlier WWAN
subsystem proposal.
This initial version is purposely minimalist, it's essentially moving
the generic part of the previously proposed mhi_wwan_ctrl driver inside
a common WWAN framework, but the implementation is open and flexible
enough to allow extension for further drivers.
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1. Remove CONFIG_HAVE_NET_DSA.
CONFIG_HAVE_NET_DSA is a legacy leftover from the times when drivers
should have selected CONFIG_NET_DSA manually.
Currently, all drivers has explicit 'depends on NET_DSA', so this is
no more needed.
2. CONFIG_HAVE_NET_DSA dependencies became CONFIG_NET_DSA's ones.
- dropped !S390 dependency which was introduced to be sure NET_DSA
can select CONFIG_PHYLIB. DSA migrated to Phylink almost 3 years
ago and the PHY library itself doesn't depend on !S390 since
commit 870a2b5e4f ("phylib: remove !S390 dependeny from Kconfig");
- INET dependency is kept to be sure we can select NET_SWITCHDEV;
- NETDEVICES dependency is kept to be sure we can select PHYLINK.
3. DSA drivers menu now depends on NET_DSA.
Instead on 'depends on NET_DSA' on every single driver, the entire
menu now depends on it. This eliminates a lot of duplicated lines
from Kconfig with no loss (when CONFIG_NET_DSA=m, drivers also can
be only m or n).
This also has a nice side effect that there's no more empty menu on
configurations without DSA.
4. Kbuild will now descend into 'drivers/net/dsa' only when
CONFIG_NET_DSA is y or m.
This is safe since no objects inside this folder can be built without
DSA core, as well as when CONFIG_NET_DSA=m, no objects can be
built-in.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Create a dedicated mhi directory for mhi-net, mhi-net is going to
be split into differente files (for additional protocol support).
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these
have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether.
As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining
networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly
run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack.
NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
www.linuxwimax.org
site had already shut down earlier.
WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.
Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
to make it possible to port patches across the move.
Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
list and website.
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Move all the MDIO drivers and multiplexers into drivers/net/mdio. The
mdio core is however left in the phy directory, due to mutual
dependencies between the MDIO core and the PHY core.
Take this opportunity to sort the Kconfig based on the menuconfig
strings, and move the multiplexers to the end with a separating
comment.
v2:
Fix typo in commit message
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Create drivers/net/pcs and move the Synopsys DesignWare XPCS into the
new directory. Move the header file into a subdirectory
include/linux/pcs
Start a naming convention of all PCS files use the prefix pcs-, and
rename the XPCS files to fit.
v2:
Add include/linux/pcs
v4:
Fix include path in stmmac.
Remove PCS_DEVICES to avoid new prompts
Cc: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add build and Kconfig support for the Qualcomm IPA driver.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation
tunnelling module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,
IP,NSH etc inside a UDP tunnel.
Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
