kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/dccp/dccp.h, branch master

net: Retire DCCP socket.

2025-04-12T01:58:10+00:00

DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd05 ("MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer had been inactive for five years. In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that, the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates or adjustments related to TCP. Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit b144fcaf46d4 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice."). Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0] There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license, the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating: "This is not Open Source software." The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further communication since then. Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden. Therefore, it's time to remove it. Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path. Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1] Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3] Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Paul Moore (LSM and SELinux) Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ioctl: Use kernel memory on protocol ioctl callbacks

2023-06-16T05:33:26+00:00

Most of the ioctls to net protocols operates directly on userspace argument (arg). Usually doing get_user()/put_user() directly in the ioctl callback. This is not flexible, because it is hard to reuse these functions without passing userspace buffers. Change the "struct proto" ioctls to avoid touching userspace memory and operate on kernel buffers, i.e., all protocol's ioctl callbacks is adapted to operate on a kernel memory other than on userspace (so, no more {put,get}_user() and friends being called in the ioctl callback). This changes the "struct proto" ioctl format in the following way: int (*ioctl)(struct sock *sk, int cmd, - unsigned long arg); + int *karg); (Important to say that this patch does not touch the "struct proto_ops" protocols) So, the "karg" argument, which is passed to the ioctl callback, is a pointer allocated to kernel space memory (inside a function wrapper). This buffer (karg) may contain input argument (copied from userspace in a prep function) and it might return a value/buffer, which is copied back to userspace if necessary. There is not one-size-fits-all format (that is I am using 'may' above), but basically, there are three type of ioctls: 1) Do not read from userspace, returns a result to userspace 2) Read an input parameter from userspace, and does not return anything to userspace 3) Read an input from userspace, and return a buffer to userspace. The default case (1) (where no input parameter is given, and an "int" is returned to userspace) encompasses more than 90% of the cases, but there are two other exceptions. Here is a list of exceptions: * Protocol RAW: * cmd = SIOCGETVIFCNT: * input and output = struct sioc_vif_req * cmd = SIOCGETSGCNT * input and output = struct sioc_sg_req * Explanation: for the SIOCGETVIFCNT case, userspace passes the input argument, which is struct sioc_vif_req. Then the callback populates the struct, which is copied back to userspace. * Protocol RAW6: * cmd = SIOCGETMIFCNT_IN6 * input and output = struct sioc_mif_req6 * cmd = SIOCGETSGCNT_IN6 * input and output = struct sioc_sg_req6 * Protocol PHONET: * cmd == SIOCPNADDRESOURCE | SIOCPNDELRESOURCE * input int (4 bytes) * Nothing is copied back to userspace. For the exception cases, functions sock_sk_ioctl_inout() will copy the userspace input, and copy it back to kernel space. The wrapper that prepare the buffer and put the buffer back to user is sk_ioctl(), so, instead of calling sk->sk_prot->ioctl(), the callee now calls sk_ioctl(), which will handle all cases. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230609152800.830401-1-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dccp: Call inet6_destroy_sock() via sk->sk_destruct().

2022-10-24T08:40:38+00:00

After commit d38afeec26ed ("tcp/udp: Call inet6_destroy_sock() in IPv6 sk->sk_destruct()."), we call inet6_destroy_sock() in sk->sk_destruct() by setting inet6_sock_destruct() to it to make sure we do not leak inet6-specific resources. DCCP sets its own sk->sk_destruct() in the dccp_init_sock(), and DCCPv6 socket shares it by calling the same init function via dccp_v6_init_sock(). To call inet6_sock_destruct() from DCCPv6 sk->sk_destruct(), we export it and set dccp_v6_sk_destruct() in the init function. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove noblock parameter from recvmsg() entities

2022-04-12T13:00:25+00:00

The internal recvmsg() functions have two parameters 'flags' and 'noblock' that were merged inside skb_recv_datagram(). As a follow up patch to commit f4b41f062c42 ("net: remove noblock parameter from skb_recv_datagram()") this patch removes the separate 'noblock' parameter for recvmsg(). Analogue to the referenced patch for skb_recv_datagram() the 'flags' and 'noblock' parameters are unnecessarily split up with e.g. err = sk->sk_prot->recvmsg(sk, msg, size, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, &addr_len); or in err = INDIRECT_CALL_2(sk->sk_prot->recvmsg, tcp_recvmsg, udp_recvmsg, sk, msg, size, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, &addr_len); instead of simply using only flags all the time and check for MSG_DONTWAIT where needed (to preserve for the formerly separated no(n)block condition). Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220411124955.154876-1-socketcan@hartkopp.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

dccp: remove max48()

2022-01-27T13:53:27+00:00

Not used since v2.6.37. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: switch orphan_count to bare per-cpu counters

2021-10-15T10:28:34+00:00

Use of percpu_counter structure to track count of orphaned sockets is causing problems on modern hosts with 256 cpus or more. Stefan Bach reported a serious spinlock contention in real workloads, that I was able to reproduce with a netfilter rule dropping incoming FIN packets. 53.56% server [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath | ---queued_spin_lock_slowpath | --53.51%--_raw_spin_lock_irqsave | --53.51%--__percpu_counter_sum tcp_check_oom | |--39.03%--__tcp_close | tcp_close | inet_release | inet6_release | sock_close | __fput | ____fput | task_work_run | exit_to_usermode_loop | do_syscall_64 | entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe | __GI___libc_close | --14.48%--tcp_out_of_resources tcp_write_timeout tcp_retransmit_timer tcp_write_timer_handler tcp_write_timer call_timer_fn expire_timers __run_timers run_timer_softirq __softirqentry_text_start As explained in commit cf86a086a180 ("net/dst: use a smaller percpu_counter batch for dst entries accounting"), default batch size is too big for the default value of tcp_max_orphans (262144). But even if we reduce batch sizes, there would still be cases where the estimated count of orphans is beyond the limit, and where tcp_too_many_orphans() has to call the expensive percpu_counter_sum_positive(). One solution is to use plain per-cpu counters, and have a timer to periodically refresh this cache. Updating this cache every 100ms seems about right, tcp pressure state is not radically changing over shorter periods. percpu_counter was nice 15 years ago while hosts had less than 16 cpus, not anymore by current standards. v2: Fix the build issue for CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CHELSIO_TLS=m, reported by kernel test robot Remove unused socket argument from tcp_too_many_orphans() Fixes: dd24c00191d5 ("net: Use a percpu_counter for orphan_count") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Stefan Bach Cc: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dccp: add do-while-0 stubs for dccp_pr_debug macros

2021-08-09T09:00:02+00:00

GCC complains about empty macros in an 'if' statement, so convert them to 'do {} while (0)' macros. Fixes these build warnings: net/dccp/output.c: In function 'dccp_xmit_packet': ../net/dccp/output.c:283:71: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an 'if' statement [-Wempty-body] 283 | dccp_pr_debug("transmit_skb() returned err=%d\n", err); net/dccp/ackvec.c: In function 'dccp_ackvec_update_old': ../net/dccp/ackvec.c:163:80: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement [-Wempty-body] 163 | (unsigned long long)seqno, state); Fixes: dc841e30eaea ("dccp: Extend CCID packet dequeueing interface") Fixes: 380240864451 ("dccp ccid-2: Update code for the Ack Vector input/registration routine") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: dccp@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Gerrit Renker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt

2020-07-24T22:41:54+00:00

Rework the remaining setsockopt code to pass a sockptr_t instead of a plain user pointer. This removes the last remaining set_fs(KERNEL_DS) outside of architecture specific code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt [ieee802154] Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/ipv6: remove compat_ipv6_{get,set}sockopt

2020-07-20T01:16:41+00:00

Handle the few cases that need special treatment in-line using in_compat_syscall(). This also removes all the now unused compat_{get,set}sockopt methods. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dccp: remove unused inline function dccp_set_seqno

2020-04-26T03:42:57+00:00

There's no callers in-tree since commit 792b48780e8b ("dccp: Implement both feature-local and feature-remote Sequence Window feature") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing Signed-off-by: David S. Miller