kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/appletalk/ddp.c, branch master

appletalk: move the protocol out of tree

2026-06-16T21:37:06+00:00

AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing. Let AppleTalk follow AX.25 and hamradio out of the Linux tree. We we will maintain the code at: github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan for anyone interested in playing with it. Retain the uAPI for now. No strong reason, simply because I suspect keeping it will be less controversial. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615222935.947233-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

appletalk: stop storing per-interface state in struct net_device

2026-06-16T21:37:06+00:00

AppleTalk keeps its per-interface control block (struct atalk_iface) directly in struct netdevice (dev->atalk_ptr). This is the only thing tying the protocol into the core net_device layout and is the sole blocker to moving AppleTalk out of tree. Replace dev->atalk_ptr with a small ifindex-keyed hashtable internal to ddp.c. The existing atalk_interfaces list stays the owner of the iface objects; the hashtable is purely a fast dev->iface index and reuses the same atalk_interfaces_lock. AFAICT this patch does not make this code any more racy than it already is, I'm sure Sashiko will point out some basically existing bugs. AFAICT atalk_interfaces_lock is the innermost lock already. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615222935.947233-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()

2025-07-11T01:01:08+00:00

When updating an existing route entry in atrtr_create(), the old device reference was not being released before assigning the new device, leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling dev_put() to release the old device reference before holding the new one. Fixes: c7f905f0f6d4 ("[ATALK]: Add missing dev_hold() to atrtr_create().") Signed-off-by: Kito Xu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_E1A26771CDAB389A0396D1681A90A49E5D09@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

appletalk: Improve handling of broadcast packets

2024-05-08T11:17:19+00:00

When a broadcast AppleTalk packet is received, prefer queuing it on the socket whose address matches the address of the interface that received the packet (and is listening on the correct port). Userspace applications that handle such packets will usually send a response on the same socket that received the packet; this fix allows the response to be sent on the correct interface. If a socket matching the interface's address is not found, an arbitrary socket listening on the correct port will be used, if any. This matches the implementation's previous behavior. Fixes atalkd's responses to network information requests when multiple network interfaces are configured to use AppleTalk. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200722113752.1218-2-vincent.ldev@duvert.net/ Link: https://gist.github.com/VinDuv/4db433b6dce39d51a5b7847ee749b2a4 Signed-off-by: Vincent Duvert Signed-off-by: Doug Brown Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove SOCK_DEBUG leftovers

2023-12-26T20:31:01+00:00

SOCK_DEBUG comes from the old days. Let's move logging to standard net core ratelimited logging functions Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov changes in v2: - remove SOCK_DEBUG macro altogether Signed-off-by: David S. Miller