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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/net/macsec.c, branch linux-6.15.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-08-15T10:16:36+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>macsec: set IFF_UNICAST_FLT priv flag</title>
<updated>2025-08-15T10:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-23T22:47:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0349659fd72f662c054ff20d432559bfaa228ce4 ]

Cosmin reports the following locking issue:

  # BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
  kernel/locking/mutex.c:275
  #   dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x60
  #   __might_resched+0xeb/0x140
  #   mutex_lock+0x1a/0x40
  #   dev_set_promiscuity+0x26/0x90
  #   __dev_set_promiscuity+0x85/0x170
  #   __dev_set_rx_mode+0x69/0xa0
  #   dev_uc_add+0x6d/0x80
  #   vlan_dev_open+0x5f/0x120 [8021q]
  #  __dev_open+0x10c/0x2a0
  #  __dev_change_flags+0x1a4/0x210
  #  netif_change_flags+0x22/0x60
  #  do_setlink.isra.0+0xdb0/0x10f0
  #  rtnl_newlink+0x797/0xb00
  #  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1cb/0x3f0
  #  netlink_rcv_skb+0x53/0x100
  #  netlink_unicast+0x273/0x3b0
  #  netlink_sendmsg+0x1f2/0x430

Which is similar to recent syzkaller reports in [0] and [1] and triggers
because macsec does not advertise IFF_UNICAST_FLT although it has proper
ndo_set_rx_mode callback that takes care of pushing uc/mc addresses
down to the real device.

In general, dev_uc_add call path is problematic for stacking
non-IFF_UNICAST_FLT because we might grab netdev instance lock under
addr_list_lock spinlock, so this is not a systemic fix.

0: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/686d55b4.050a0220.1ffab7.0014.GAE@google.com
1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68712acf.a00a0220.26a83e.0051.GAE@google.com/
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2aff4342b0f5b1539c02ffd8df4c7e58dd9746e7.camel@nvidia.com
Fixes: 7e4d784f5810 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during rtnetlink operations")
Reported-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723224715.1341121-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: MACsec SCI assignment for ES = 0</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Fernandez</name>
<email>carlos.fernandez@technica-engineering.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-09T07:26:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d9816ec74e6d6aa29219d010bba3f780ba1d9d75 ]

According to 802.1AE standard, when ES and SC flags in TCI are zero,
used SCI should be the current active SC_RX. Current code uses the
header MAC address. Without this patch, when ES flag is 0 (using a
bridge or switch), header MAC will not fit the SCI and MACSec frames
will be discarted.

In order to test this issue, MACsec link should be stablished between
two interfaces, setting SC and ES flags to zero and a port identifier
different than one. For example, using ip macsec tools:

ip link add link $ETH0 macsec0 type macsec port 11 send_sci off
end_station off
ip macsec add macsec0 tx sa 0 pn 2 on key 01 $ETH1_KEY
ip macsec add macsec0 rx port 11 address $ETH1_MAC
ip macsec add macsec0 rx port 11 address $ETH1_MAC sa 0 pn 2 on key 02
ip link set dev macsec0 up

ip link add link $ETH1 macsec1 type macsec port 11 send_sci off
end_station off
ip macsec add macsec1 tx sa 0 pn 2 on key 01 $ETH0_KEY
ip macsec add macsec1 rx port 11 address $ETH0_MAC
ip macsec add macsec1 rx port 11 address $ETH0_MAC sa 0 pn 2 on key 02
ip link set dev macsec1 up

Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Co-developed-by: Andreu Montiel &lt;Andreu.Montiel@technica-engineering.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreu Montiel &lt;Andreu.Montiel@technica-engineering.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Fernandez &lt;carlos.fernandez@technica-engineering.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep &lt;sbhatta@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move misc netdev_lock flavors to a separate header</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:06:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T18:30:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

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

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Use link/peer netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T23:28:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Liang</name>
<email>shaw.leon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T12:50:29+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:cf517ac16ad96f3953d65ea198c0b310a1ffa14f</id>
<content type='text'>
Add two helper functions - rtnl_newlink_link_net() and
rtnl_newlink_peer_net() for netns fallback logic. Peer netns falls back
to link netns, and link netns falls back to source netns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: inherit lower device's TSO limits when offloading</title>
<updated>2024-11-11T22:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-06T23:13:31+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
If macsec is offloaded, we need to follow the lower device's
capabilities, like VLAN devices do.

Leave the limits unchanged when the offload is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8240c0181e851f169d815f59658a01fb9dfc5073.1730929545.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: clean up local variables in macsec_notify</title>
<updated>2024-11-11T22:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-06T23:13:30+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
For all events, we need to loop over the list of secys, so let's move
the common variables out of the switch/case.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9b8996af518fbeb3b7d527feb15d5788495e3108.1730929545.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: add some of the lower device's features when offloading</title>
<updated>2024-11-11T22:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-06T23:13:29+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This commit extends the set of netdevice features supported by macsec
devices when offload is enabled, which increases performance
significantly (for a single TCP stream: 17.5Gbps to 38.5Gbps on my
test machines).

Commit c850240b6c41 ("net: macsec: report real_dev features when HW
offloading is enabled") previously attempted something similar, but
had to be reverted (commit 8bcd560ae878 ("Revert "net: macsec: report
real_dev features when HW offloading is enabled"")) because the set of
features it exposed was too large.

During initialization, all features are set, and they're then removed
via ndo_fix_features (macsec_fix_features). This allows the
offloadable features to be automatically enabled if offloading is
turned on after device creation.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8b32c3011d269d6f149724e80c1ffe67c9534067.1730929545.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: convert to nla_get_*_default()</title>
<updated>2024-11-11T18:32:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-08T10:41:45+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Most of the original conversion is from the spatch below,
but I edited some and left out other instances that were
either buggy after conversion (where default values don't
fit into the type) or just looked strange.

    @@
    expression attr, def;
    expression val;
    identifier fn =~ "^nla_get_.*";
    fresh identifier dfn = fn ## "_default";
    @@
    (
    -if (attr)
    -  val = fn(attr);
    -else
    -  val = def;
    +val = dfn(attr, def);
    |
    -if (!attr)
    -  val = def;
    -else
    -  val = fn(attr);
    +val = dfn(attr, def);
    |
    -if (!attr)
    -  return def;
    -return fn(attr);
    +return dfn(attr, def);
    |
    -attr ? fn(attr) : def
    +dfn(attr, def)
    |
    -!attr ? def : fn(attr)
    +dfn(attr, def)
    )

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241108114145.0580b8684e7f.I740beeaa2f70ebfc19bfca1045a24d6151992790@changeid
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>macsec: Fix use-after-free while sending the offloading packet</title>
<updated>2024-10-28T23:13:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jianbo Liu</name>
<email>jianbol@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-21T10:03:09+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
KASAN reports the following UAF. The metadata_dst, which is used to
store the SCI value for macsec offload, is already freed by
metadata_dst_free() in macsec_free_netdev(), while driver still use it
for sending the packet.

To fix this issue, dst_release() is used instead to release
metadata_dst. So it is not freed instantly in macsec_free_netdev() if
still referenced by skb.

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlx5e_xmit+0x1e8f/0x4190 [mlx5_core]
 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88813e42e038 by task kworker/7:2/714
 [...]
 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
  print_report+0xc1/0x600
  kasan_report+0xab/0xe0
  mlx5e_xmit+0x1e8f/0x4190 [mlx5_core]
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x120/0x530
  sch_direct_xmit+0x149/0x11e0
  __qdisc_run+0x3ad/0x1730
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1196/0x2ed0
  vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit+0x32e/0x510 [8021q]
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x120/0x530
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x14a7/0x2ed0
  macsec_start_xmit+0x13e9/0x2340
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x120/0x530
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x14a7/0x2ed0
  ip6_finish_output2+0x923/0x1a70
  ip6_finish_output+0x2d7/0x970
  ip6_output+0x1ce/0x3a0
  NF_HOOK.constprop.0+0x15f/0x190
  mld_sendpack+0x59a/0xbd0
  mld_ifc_work+0x48a/0xa80
  process_one_work+0x5aa/0xe50
  worker_thread+0x79c/0x1290
  kthread+0x28f/0x350
  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 Allocated by task 3922:
  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
  kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x77/0x90
  __kmalloc_noprof+0x188/0x400
  metadata_dst_alloc+0x1f/0x4e0
  macsec_newlink+0x914/0x1410
  __rtnl_newlink+0xe08/0x15b0
  rtnl_newlink+0x5f/0x90
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x667/0xa80
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360
  netlink_unicast+0x551/0x770
  netlink_sendmsg+0x72d/0xbd0
  __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x52e/0x6a0
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170
  __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140
  do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

 Freed by task 4011:
  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
  kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
  kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x50
  poison_slab_object+0x10c/0x190
  __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x30
  kfree+0xe0/0x290
  macsec_free_netdev+0x3f/0x140
  netdev_run_todo+0x450/0xc70
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x66f/0xa80
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360
  netlink_unicast+0x551/0x770
  netlink_sendmsg+0x72d/0xbd0
  __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x52e/0x6a0
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170
  __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140
  do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Fixes: 0a28bfd4971f ("net/macsec: Add MACsec skb_metadata_dst Tx Data path support")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu &lt;jianbol@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrisious Haddad &lt;phaddad@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Mi &lt;cmi@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241021100309.234125-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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