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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/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b6b4481e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst @@ -0,0 +1,315 @@ +.. _embargoed_hardware_issues: + +Embargoed hardware issues +========================= + +Scope +----- + +Hardware issues which result in security problems are a different category +of security bugs than pure software bugs which only affect the Linux +kernel. + +Hardware issues like Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF etc. must be treated +differently because they usually affect all Operating Systems ("OS") and +therefore need coordination across different OS vendors, distributions, +hardware vendors and other parties. For some of the issues, software +mitigations can depend on microcode or firmware updates, which need further +coordination. + +.. _Contact: + +Contact +------- + +The Linux kernel hardware security team is separate from the regular Linux +kernel security team. + +The team only handles the coordination of embargoed hardware security +issues. Reports of pure software security bugs in the Linux kernel are not +handled by this team and the reporter will be guided to contact the regular +Linux kernel security team (:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/ +<securitybugs>`) instead. + +The team can be contacted by email at <hardware-security@kernel.org>. This +is a private list of security officers who will help you to coordinate an +issue according to our documented process. + +The list is encrypted and email to the list can be sent by either PGP or +S/MIME encrypted and must be signed with the reporter's PGP key or S/MIME +certificate. The list's PGP key and S/MIME certificate are available from +the following URLs: + + - PGP: https://www.kernel.org/static/files/hardware-security.asc + - S/MIME: https://www.kernel.org/static/files/hardware-security.crt + +While hardware security issues are often handled by the affected hardware +vendor, we welcome contact from researchers or individuals who have +identified a potential hardware flaw. + +Hardware security officers +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The current team of hardware security officers: + + - Linus Torvalds (Linux Foundation Fellow) + - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation Fellow) + - Thomas Gleixner (Linux Foundation Fellow) + +Operation of mailing-lists +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The encrypted mailing-lists which are used in our process are hosted on +Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure. By providing this service, members +of Linux Foundation's IT operations personnel technically have the +ability to access the embargoed information, but are obliged to +confidentiality by their employment contract. Linux Foundation IT +personnel are also responsible for operating and managing the rest of +kernel.org infrastructure. + +The Linux Foundation's current director of IT Project infrastructure is +Konstantin Ryabitsev. + + +Non-disclosure agreements +------------------------- + +The Linux kernel hardware security team is not a formal body and therefore +unable to enter into any non-disclosure agreements. The kernel community +is aware of the sensitive nature of such issues and offers a Memorandum of +Understanding instead. + + +Memorandum of Understanding +--------------------------- + +The Linux kernel community has a deep understanding of the requirement to +keep hardware security issues under embargo for coordination between +different OS vendors, distributors, hardware vendors and other parties. + +The Linux kernel community has successfully handled hardware security +issues in the past and has the necessary mechanisms in place to allow +community compliant development under embargo restrictions. + +The Linux kernel community has a dedicated hardware security team for +initial contact, which oversees the process of handling such issues under +embargo rules. + +The hardware security team identifies the developers (domain experts) who +will form the initial response team for a particular issue. The initial +response team can bring in further developers (domain experts) to address +the issue in the best technical way. + +All involved developers pledge to adhere to the embargo rules and to keep +the received information confidential. Violation of the pledge will lead to +immediate exclusion from the current issue and removal from all related +mailing-lists. In addition, the hardware security team will also exclude +the offender from future issues. The impact of this consequence is a highly +effective deterrent in our community. In case a violation happens the +hardware security team will inform the involved parties immediately. If you +or anyone becomes aware of a potential violation, please report it +immediately to the Hardware security officers. + + +Process +^^^^^^^ + +Due to the globally distributed nature of Linux kernel development, +face-to-face meetings are almost impossible to address hardware security +issues. Phone conferences are hard to coordinate due to time zones and +other factors and should be only used when absolutely necessary. Encrypted +email has been proven to be the most effective and secure communication +method for these types of issues. + +Start of Disclosure +""""""""""""""""""" + +Disclosure starts by contacting the Linux kernel hardware security team by +email. This initial contact should contain a description of the problem and +a list of any known affected hardware. If your organization builds or +distributes the affected hardware, we encourage you to also consider what +other hardware could be affected. + +The hardware security team will provide an incident-specific encrypted +mailing-list which will be used for initial discussion with the reporter, +further disclosure and coordination. + +The hardware security team will provide the disclosing party a list of +developers (domain experts) who should be informed initially about the +issue after confirming with the developers that they will adhere to this +Memorandum of Understanding and the documented process. These developers +form the initial response team and will be responsible for handling the +issue after initial contact. The hardware security team is supporting the +response team, but is not necessarily involved in the mitigation +development process. + +While individual developers might be covered by a non-disclosure agreement +via their employer, they cannot enter individual non-disclosure agreements +in their role as Linux kernel developers. They will, however, agree to +adhere to this documented process and the Memorandum of Understanding. + +The disclosing party should provide a list of contacts for all other +entities who have already been, or should be, informed about the issue. +This serves several purposes: + + - The list of disclosed entities allows communication across the + industry, e.g. other OS vendors, HW vendors, etc. + + - The disclosed entities can be contacted to name experts who should + participate in the mitigation development. + + - If an expert which is required to handle an issue is employed by an + listed entity or member of an listed entity, then the response teams can + request the disclosure of that expert from that entity. This ensures + that the expert is also part of the entity's response team. + +Disclosure +"""""""""" + +The disclosing party provides detailed information to the initial response +team via the specific encrypted mailing-list. + +From our experience the technical documentation of these issues is usually +a sufficient starting point and further technical clarification is best +done via email. + +Mitigation development +"""""""""""""""""""""" + +The initial response team sets up an encrypted mailing-list or repurposes +an existing one if appropriate. + +Using a mailing-list is close to the normal Linux development process and +has been successfully used in developing mitigations for various hardware +security issues in the past. + +The mailing-list operates in the same way as normal Linux development. +Patches are posted, discussed and reviewed and if agreed on applied to a +non-public git repository which is only accessible to the participating +developers via a secure connection. The repository contains the main +development branch against the mainline kernel and backport branches for +stable kernel versions as necessary. + +The initial response team will identify further experts from the Linux +kernel developer community as needed. Bringing in experts can happen at any +time of the development process and needs to be handled in a timely manner. + +If an expert is employed by or member of an entity on the disclosure list +provided by the disclosing party, then participation will be requested from +the relevant entity. + +If not, then the disclosing party will be informed about the experts +participation. The experts are covered by the Memorandum of Understanding +and the disclosing party is requested to acknowledge the participation. In +case that the disclosing party has a compelling reason to object, then this +objection has to be raised within five work days and resolved with the +incident team immediately. If the disclosing party does not react within +five work days this is taken as silent acknowledgement. + +After acknowledgement or resolution of an objection the expert is disclosed +by the incident team and brought into the development process. + + +Coordinated release +""""""""""""""""""" + +The involved parties will negotiate the date and time where the embargo +ends. At that point the prepared mitigations are integrated into the +relevant kernel trees and published. + +While we understand that hardware security issues need coordinated embargo +time, the embargo time should be constrained to the minimum time which is +required for all involved parties to develop, test and prepare the +mitigations. Extending embargo time artificially to meet conference talk +dates or other non-technical reasons is creating more work and burden for +the involved developers and response teams as the patches need to be kept +up to date in order to follow the ongoing upstream kernel development, +which might create conflicting changes. + +CVE assignment +"""""""""""""" + +Neither the hardware security team nor the initial response team assign +CVEs, nor are CVEs required for the development process. If CVEs are +provided by the disclosing party they can be used for documentation +purposes. + +Process ambassadors +------------------- + +For assistance with this process we have established ambassadors in various +organizations, who can answer questions about or provide guidance on the +reporting process and further handling. Ambassadors are not involved in the +disclosure of a particular issue, unless requested by a response team or by +an involved disclosed party. The current ambassadors list: + + ============= ======================================================== + AMD Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> + Ampere Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com> + ARM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> + IBM Power Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com> + IBM Z Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> + Intel Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> + Qualcomm Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org> + + Microsoft James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> + VMware + Xen Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> + + Canonical John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> + Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> + Oracle Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> + Red Hat Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> + SUSE Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> + + Amazon + Google Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> + + GCC + LLVM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> + ============= ======================================================== + +If you want your organization to be added to the ambassadors list, please +contact the hardware security team. The nominated ambassador has to +understand and support our process fully and is ideally well connected in +the Linux kernel community. + +Encrypted mailing-lists +----------------------- + +We use encrypted mailing-lists for communication. The operating principle +of these lists is that email sent to the list is encrypted either with the +list's PGP key or with the list's S/MIME certificate. The mailing-list +software decrypts the email and re-encrypts it individually for each +subscriber with the subscriber's PGP key or S/MIME certificate. Details +about the mailing-list software and the setup which is used to ensure the +security of the lists and protection of the data can be found here: +https://korg.wiki.kernel.org/userdoc/remail. + +List keys +^^^^^^^^^ + +For initial contact see :ref:`Contact`. For incident specific mailing-lists +the key and S/MIME certificate are conveyed to the subscribers by email +sent from the specific list. + +Subscription to incident specific lists +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Subscription is handled by the response teams. Disclosed parties who want +to participate in the communication send a list of potential subscribers to +the response team so the response team can validate subscription requests. + +Each subscriber needs to send a subscription request to the response team +by email. The email must be signed with the subscriber's PGP key or S/MIME +certificate. If a PGP key is used, it must be available from a public key +server and is ideally connected to the Linux kernel's PGP web of trust. See +also: https://www.kernel.org/signature.html. + +The response team verifies that the subscriber request is valid and adds +the subscriber to the list. After subscription the subscriber will receive +email from the mailing-list which is signed either with the list's PGP key +or the list's S/MIME certificate. The subscriber's email client can extract +the PGP key or the S/MIME certificate from the signature so the subscriber +can send encrypted email to the list. + |