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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35795f6a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ +====================== +ioctl based interfaces +====================== + +ioctl() is the most common way for applications to interface +with device drivers. It is flexible and easily extended by adding new +commands and can be passed through character devices, block devices as +well as sockets and other special file descriptors. + +However, it is also very easy to get ioctl command definitions wrong, +and hard to fix them later without breaking existing applications, +so this documentation tries to help developers get it right. + +Command number definitions +========================== + +The command number, or request number, is the second argument passed to +the ioctl system call. While this can be any 32-bit number that uniquely +identifies an action for a particular driver, there are a number of +conventions around defining them. + +``include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h`` provides four macros for defining +ioctl commands that follow modern conventions: ``_IO``, ``_IOR``, +``_IOW``, and ``_IOWR``. These should be used for all new commands, +with the correct parameters: + +_IO/_IOR/_IOW/_IOWR + The macro name specifies how the argument will be used. It may be a + pointer to data to be passed into the kernel (_IOW), out of the kernel + (_IOR), or both (_IOWR). _IO can indicate either commands with no + argument or those passing an integer value instead of a pointer. + It is recommended to only use _IO for commands without arguments, + and use pointers for passing data. + +type + An 8-bit number, often a character literal, specific to a subsystem + or driver, and listed in Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst + +nr + An 8-bit number identifying the specific command, unique for a give + value of 'type' + +data_type + The name of the data type pointed to by the argument, the command number + encodes the ``sizeof(data_type)`` value in a 13-bit or 14-bit integer, + leading to a limit of 8191 bytes for the maximum size of the argument. + Note: do not pass sizeof(data_type) type into _IOR/_IOW/IOWR, as that + will lead to encoding sizeof(sizeof(data_type)), i.e. sizeof(size_t). + _IO does not have a data_type parameter. + + +Interface versions +================== + +Some subsystems use version numbers in data structures to overload +commands with different interpretations of the argument. + +This is generally a bad idea, since changes to existing commands tend +to break existing applications. + +A better approach is to add a new ioctl command with a new number. The +old command still needs to be implemented in the kernel for compatibility, +but this can be a wrapper around the new implementation. + +Return code +=========== + +ioctl commands can return negative error codes as documented in errno(3); +these get turned into errno values in user space. On success, the return +code should be zero. It is also possible but not recommended to return +a positive 'long' value. + +When the ioctl callback is called with an unknown command number, the +handler returns either -ENOTTY or -ENOIOCTLCMD, which also results in +-ENOTTY being returned from the system call. Some subsystems return +-ENOSYS or -EINVAL here for historic reasons, but this is wrong. + +Prior to Linux 5.5, compat_ioctl handlers were required to return +-ENOIOCTLCMD in order to use the fallback conversion into native +commands. As all subsystems are now responsible for handling compat +mode themselves, this is no longer needed, but it may be important to +consider when backporting bug fixes to older kernels. + +Timestamps +========== + +Traditionally, timestamps and timeout values are passed as ``struct +timespec`` or ``struct timeval``, but these are problematic because of +incompatible definitions of these structures in user space after the +move to 64-bit time_t. + +The ``struct __kernel_timespec`` type can be used instead to be embedded +in other data structures when separate second/nanosecond values are +desired, or passed to user space directly. This is still not ideal though, +as the structure matches neither the kernel's timespec64 nor the user +space timespec exactly. The get_timespec64() and put_timespec64() helper +functions can be used to ensure that the layout remains compatible with +user space and the padding is treated correctly. + +As it is cheap to convert seconds to nanoseconds, but the opposite +requires an expensive 64-bit division, a simple __u64 nanosecond value +can be simpler and more efficient. + +Timeout values and timestamps should ideally use CLOCK_MONOTONIC time, +as returned by ktime_get_ns() or ktime_get_ts64(). Unlike +CLOCK_REALTIME, this makes the timestamps immune from jumping backwards +or forwards due to leap second adjustments and clock_settime() calls. + +ktime_get_real_ns() can be used for CLOCK_REALTIME timestamps that +need to be persistent across a reboot or between multiple machines. + +32-bit compat mode +================== + +In order to support 32-bit user space running on a 64-bit machine, each +subsystem or driver that implements an ioctl callback handler must also +implement the corresponding compat_ioctl handler. + +As long as all the rules for data structures are followed, this is as +easy as setting the .compat_ioctl pointer to a helper function such as +compat_ptr_ioctl() or blkdev_compat_ptr_ioctl(). + +compat_ptr() +------------ + +On the s390 architecture, 31-bit user space has ambiguous representations +for data pointers, with the upper bit being ignored. When running such +a process in compat mode, the compat_ptr() helper must be used to +clear the upper bit of a compat_uptr_t and turn it into a valid 64-bit +pointer. On other architectures, this macro only performs a cast to a +``void __user *`` pointer. + +In an compat_ioctl() callback, the last argument is an unsigned long, +which can be interpreted as either a pointer or a scalar depending on +the command. If it is a scalar, then compat_ptr() must not be used, to +ensure that the 64-bit kernel behaves the same way as a 32-bit kernel +for arguments with the upper bit set. + +The compat_ptr_ioctl() helper can be used in place of a custom +compat_ioctl file operation for drivers that only take arguments that +are pointers to compatible data structures. + +Structure layout +---------------- + +Compatible data structures have the same layout on all architectures, +avoiding all problematic members: + +* ``long`` and ``unsigned long`` are the size of a register, so + they can be either 32-bit or 64-bit wide and cannot be used in portable + data structures. Fixed-length replacements are ``__s32``, ``__u32``, + ``__s64`` and ``__u64``. + +* Pointers have the same problem, in addition to requiring the + use of compat_ptr(). The best workaround is to use ``__u64`` + in place of pointers, which requires a cast to ``uintptr_t`` in user + space, and the use of u64_to_user_ptr() in the kernel to convert + it back into a user pointer. + +* On the x86-32 (i386) architecture, the alignment of 64-bit variables + is only 32-bit, but they are naturally aligned on most other + architectures including x86-64. This means a structure like:: + + struct foo { + __u32 a; + __u64 b; + __u32 c; + }; + + has four bytes of padding between a and b on x86-64, plus another four + bytes of padding at the end, but no padding on i386, and it needs a + compat_ioctl conversion handler to translate between the two formats. + + To avoid this problem, all structures should have their members + naturally aligned, or explicit reserved fields added in place of the + implicit padding. The ``pahole`` tool can be used for checking the + alignment. + +* On ARM OABI user space, structures are padded to multiples of 32-bit, + making some structs incompatible with modern EABI kernels if they + do not end on a 32-bit boundary. + +* On the m68k architecture, struct members are not guaranteed to have an + alignment greater than 16-bit, which is a problem when relying on + implicit padding. + +* Bitfields and enums generally work as one would expect them to, + but some properties of them are implementation-defined, so it is better + to avoid them completely in ioctl interfaces. + +* ``char`` members can be either signed or unsigned, depending on + the architecture, so the __u8 and __s8 types should be used for 8-bit + integer values, though char arrays are clearer for fixed-length strings. + +Information leaks +================= + +Uninitialized data must not be copied back to user space, as this can +cause an information leak, which can be used to defeat kernel address +space layout randomization (KASLR), helping in an attack. + +For this reason (and for compat support) it is best to avoid any +implicit padding in data structures. Where there is implicit padding +in an existing structure, kernel drivers must be careful to fully +initialize an instance of the structure before copying it to user +space. This is usually done by calling memset() before assigning to +individual members. + +Subsystem abstractions +====================== + +While some device drivers implement their own ioctl function, most +subsystems implement the same command for multiple drivers. Ideally the +subsystem has an .ioctl() handler that copies the arguments from and +to user space, passing them into subsystem specific callback functions +through normal kernel pointers. + +This helps in various ways: + +* Applications written for one driver are more likely to work for + another one in the same subsystem if there are no subtle differences + in the user space ABI. + +* The complexity of user space access and data structure layout is done + in one place, reducing the potential for implementation bugs. + +* It is more likely to be reviewed by experienced developers + that can spot problems in the interface when the ioctl is shared + between multiple drivers than when it is only used in a single driver. + +Alternatives to ioctl +===================== + +There are many cases in which ioctl is not the best solution for a +problem. Alternatives include: + +* System calls are a better choice for a system-wide feature that + is not tied to a physical device or constrained by the file system + permissions of a character device node + +* netlink is the preferred way of configuring any network related + objects through sockets. + +* debugfs is used for ad-hoc interfaces for debugging functionality + that does not need to be exposed as a stable interface to applications. + +* sysfs is a good way to expose the state of an in-kernel object + that is not tied to a file descriptor. + +* configfs can be used for more complex configuration than sysfs + +* A custom file system can provide extra flexibility with a simple + user interface but adds a lot of complexity to the implementation. |