kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/ax25/ax25_in.c, branch master

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

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 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

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

ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()

2025-09-04T00:06:30+00:00

Bernard Pidoux reported a regression apparently caused by commit c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains"). skb->dev becomes NULL and we crash in __netif_receive_skb_core(). Before above commit, different kind of bugs or corruptions could happen without a major crash. But the root cause is that ax25_kiss_rcv() can queue/mangle input skb without checking if this skb is shared or not. Many thanks to Bernard Pidoux for his help, diagnosis and tests. We had a similar issue years ago fixed with commit 7aaed57c5c28 ("phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()"). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Bernard Pidoux Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1713f383-c538-4918-bc64-13b3288cd542@free.fr/ Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Joerg Reuter Cc: David Ranch Cc: Folkert van Heusden Reviewed-by: Dan Cross Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902124642.212705-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ax25: constify dev_addr passing

2021-10-13T16:40:45+00:00

In preparation for netdev->dev_addr being constant make all relevant arguments in AX25 constant. Modify callers as well (netrom, rose). Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog

2019-11-07T00:14:48+00:00

Writers are holding a lock, but many readers do not. Following patch will add appropriate barriers in sk_acceptq_removed() and sk_acceptq_added(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al: PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*' sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \ $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h) to do the replacement at the end of the merge window. Requested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ax25: Stop using sock->sk_protinfo.

2015-06-28T23:55:44+00:00

Just make a ax25_sock structure that provides the ax25_cb pointer. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: Remove spurios included of netfilter.h

2015-06-18T19:14:32+00:00

While testing my netfilter changes I noticed several files where recompiling unncessarily because they unncessarily included netfilter.h. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.

2014-04-11T20:15:36+00:00

Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like: skb_queue_tail(&sk->s_receive_queue, skb); sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len); But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it can be consumed and freed up. So this skb->len access is potentially to freed up memory. Furthermore, the skb->len can be modified by the consumer so it is possible that the value isn't accurate. And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses the length argument. And since nobody actually cared about it's value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and even '1'. So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get fixed as a side effect. Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this issue tree-wide. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller