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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/filesystems/ext4/attributes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/attributes.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87814696a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/attributes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Extended Attributes +------------------- + +Extended attributes (xattrs) are typically stored in a separate data +block on the disk and referenced from inodes via ``inode.i_file_acl*``. +The first use of extended attributes seems to have been for storing file +ACLs and other security data (selinux). With the ``user_xattr`` mount +option it is possible for users to store extended attributes so long as +all attribute names begin with “user”; this restriction seems to have +disappeared as of Linux 3.0. + +There are two places where extended attributes can be found. The first +place is between the end of each inode entry and the beginning of the +next inode entry. For example, if inode.i_extra_isize = 28 and +sb.inode_size = 256, then there are 256 - (128 + 28) = 100 bytes +available for in-inode extended attribute storage. The second place +where extended attributes can be found is in the block pointed to by +``inode.i_file_acl``. As of Linux 3.11, it is not possible for this +block to contain a pointer to a second extended attribute block (or even +the remaining blocks of a cluster). In theory it is possible for each +attribute's value to be stored in a separate data block, though as of +Linux 3.11 the code does not permit this. + +Keys are generally assumed to be ASCIIZ strings, whereas values can be +strings or binary data. + +Extended attributes, when stored after the inode, have a header +``ext4_xattr_ibody_header`` that is 4 bytes long: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 8 8 24 40 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Offset + - Type + - Name + - Description + * - 0x0 + - __le32 + - h_magic + - Magic number for identification, 0xEA020000. This value is set by the + Linux driver, though e2fsprogs doesn't seem to check it(?) + +The beginning of an extended attribute block is in +``struct ext4_xattr_header``, which is 32 bytes long: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 8 8 24 40 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Offset + - Type + - Name + - Description + * - 0x0 + - __le32 + - h_magic + - Magic number for identification, 0xEA020000. + * - 0x4 + - __le32 + - h_refcount + - Reference count. + * - 0x8 + - __le32 + - h_blocks + - Number of disk blocks used. + * - 0xC + - __le32 + - h_hash + - Hash value of all attributes. + * - 0x10 + - __le32 + - h_checksum + - Checksum of the extended attribute block. + * - 0x14 + - __u32 + - h_reserved[3] + - Zero. + +The checksum is calculated against the FS UUID, the 64-bit block number +of the extended attribute block, and the entire block (header + +entries). + +Following the ``struct ext4_xattr_header`` or +``struct ext4_xattr_ibody_header`` is an array of +``struct ext4_xattr_entry``; each of these entries is at least 16 bytes +long. When stored in an external block, the ``struct ext4_xattr_entry`` +entries must be stored in sorted order. The sort order is +``e_name_index``, then ``e_name_len``, and finally ``e_name``. +Attributes stored inside an inode do not need be stored in sorted order. + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 8 8 24 40 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Offset + - Type + - Name + - Description + * - 0x0 + - __u8 + - e_name_len + - Length of name. + * - 0x1 + - __u8 + - e_name_index + - Attribute name index. There is a discussion of this below. + * - 0x2 + - __le16 + - e_value_offs + - Location of this attribute's value on the disk block where it is stored. + Multiple attributes can share the same value. For an inode attribute + this value is relative to the start of the first entry; for a block this + value is relative to the start of the block (i.e. the header). + * - 0x4 + - __le32 + - e_value_inum + - The inode where the value is stored. Zero indicates the value is in the + same block as this entry. This field is only used if the + INCOMPAT_EA_INODE feature is enabled. + * - 0x8 + - __le32 + - e_value_size + - Length of attribute value. + * - 0xC + - __le32 + - e_hash + - Hash value of attribute name and attribute value. The kernel doesn't + update the hash for in-inode attributes, so for that case this value + must be zero, because e2fsck validates any non-zero hash regardless of + where the xattr lives. + * - 0x10 + - char + - e_name[e_name_len] + - Attribute name. Does not include trailing NULL. + +Attribute values can follow the end of the entry table. There appears to +be a requirement that they be aligned to 4-byte boundaries. The values +are stored starting at the end of the block and grow towards the +xattr_header/xattr_entry table. When the two collide, the overflow is +put into a separate disk block. If the disk block fills up, the +filesystem returns -ENOSPC. + +The first four fields of the ``ext4_xattr_entry`` are set to zero to +mark the end of the key list. + +Attribute Name Indices +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Logically speaking, extended attributes are a series of key=value pairs. +The keys are assumed to be NULL-terminated strings. To reduce the amount +of on-disk space that the keys consume, the beginning of the key string +is matched against the attribute name index. If a match is found, the +attribute name index field is set, and matching string is removed from +the key name. Here is a map of name index values to key prefixes: + +.. list-table:: + :widths: 16 64 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Name Index + - Key Prefix + * - 0 + - (no prefix) + * - 1 + - “user.” + * - 2 + - “system.posix_acl_access” + * - 3 + - “system.posix_acl_default” + * - 4 + - “trusted.” + * - 6 + - “security.” + * - 7 + - “system.” (inline_data only?) + * - 8 + - “system.richacl” (SuSE kernels only?) + +For example, if the attribute key is “user.fubar”, the attribute name +index is set to 1 and the “fubar” name is recorded on disk. + +POSIX ACLs +~~~~~~~~~~ + +POSIX ACLs are stored in a reduced version of the Linux kernel (and +libacl's) internal ACL format. The key difference is that the version +number is different (1) and the ``e_id`` field is only stored for named +user and group ACLs. |