History log of /linux/include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h (Results 1 – 25 of 39)
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7b26952a 08-Jun-2023 Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>

net: core: add getsockopt SO_PEERPIDFD

Add SO_PEERPIDFD which allows to get pidfd of peer socket holder pidfd.
This thing is direct analog of SO_PEERCRED which allows to get plain PID.

Cc: "David S

net: core: add getsockopt SO_PEERPIDFD

Add SO_PEERPIDFD which allows to get pidfd of peer socket holder pidfd.
This thing is direct analog of SO_PEERCRED which allows to get plain PID.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 5e2ff670 08-Jun-2023 Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>

scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD

Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS,
but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not
to care about

scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD

Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS,
but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not
to care about PID reuse problem.

We mask SO_PASSPIDFD feature if CONFIG_UNIX is not builtin because
it depends on a pidfd_prepare() API which is not exported to the kernel
modules.

Idea comes from UAPI kernel group:
https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/

Big thanks to Christian Brauner and Lennart Poettering for productive
discussions about this.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 6fd1d51c 27-Apr-2022 Erin MacNeil <lnx.erin@gmail.com>

net: SO_RCVMARK socket option for SO_MARK with recvmsg()

Adding a new socket option, SO_RCVMARK, to indicate that SO_MARK
should be included in the ancillary data returned by recvmsg().

Renamed the

net: SO_RCVMARK socket option for SO_MARK with recvmsg()

Adding a new socket option, SO_RCVMARK, to indicate that SO_MARK
should be included in the ancillary data returned by recvmsg().

Renamed the sock_recv_ts_and_drops() function to sock_recv_cmsgs().

Signed-off-by: Erin MacNeil <lnx.erin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427200259.2564-1-lnx.erin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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# 26859240 31-Jan-2022 Akhmat Karakotov <hmukos@yandex-team.ru>

txhash: Add socket option to control TX hash rethink behavior

Add the SO_TXREHASH socket option to control hash rethink behavior per socket.
When default mode is set, sockets disable rehash at initi

txhash: Add socket option to control TX hash rethink behavior

Add the SO_TXREHASH socket option to control hash rethink behavior per socket.
When default mode is set, sockets disable rehash at initialization and use
sysctl option when entering listen state. setsockopt() overrides default
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Akhmat Karakotov <hmukos@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 2bb2f5fb 29-Sep-2021 Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>

net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM

This socket option provides a mechanism for users to reserve a certain
amount of memory for the socket to use. When this option is set, kernel
charges the u

net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM

This socket option provides a mechanism for users to reserve a certain
amount of memory for the socket to use. When this option is set, kernel
charges the user specified amount of memory to memcg, as well as
sk_forward_alloc. This amount of memory is not reclaimable and is
available in sk_forward_alloc for this socket.
With this socket option set, the networking stack spends less cycles
doing forward alloc and reclaim, which should lead to better system
performance, with the cost of an amount of pre-allocated and
unreclaimable memory, even under memory pressure.

Note:
This socket option is only available when memory cgroup is enabled and we
require this reserved memory to be charged to the user's memcg. We hope
this could avoid mis-behaving users to abused this feature to reserve a
large amount on certain sockets and cause unfairness for others.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 04190bf8 04-Aug-2021 Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>

sock: allow reading and changing sk_userlocks with setsockopt

SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags disable automatic socket
buffers adjustment done by kernel (see tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() and
tcp_s

sock: allow reading and changing sk_userlocks with setsockopt

SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags disable automatic socket
buffers adjustment done by kernel (see tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() and
tcp_sndbuf_expand()). If we've just created a new socket this adjustment
is enabled on it, but if one changes the socket buffer size by
setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) it becomes disabled.

CRIU needs to call setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) on each socket on
restore as it first needs to increase buffer sizes for packet queues
restore and second it needs to restore back original buffer sizes. So
after CRIU restore all sockets become non-auto-adjustable, which can
decrease network performance of restored applications significantly.

CRIU need to be able to restore sockets with enabled/disabled adjustment
to the same state it was before dump, so let's add special setsockopt
for it.

Let's also export SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags to uAPI so
that using these interface one can reenable automatic socket buffer
adjustment on their sockets.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# e8b9eab9 23-Jun-2021 Martynas Pumputis <m@lambda.lt>

net: retrieve netns cookie via getsocketopt

It's getting more common to run nested container environments for
testing cloud software. One of such examples is Kind [1] which runs a
Kubernetes cluster

net: retrieve netns cookie via getsocketopt

It's getting more common to run nested container environments for
testing cloud software. One of such examples is Kind [1] which runs a
Kubernetes cluster in Docker containers on a single host. Each container
acts as a Kubernetes node, and thus can run any Pod (aka container)
inside the former. This approach simplifies testing a lot, as it
eliminates complicated VM setups.

Unfortunately, such a setup breaks some functionality when cgroupv2 BPF
programs are used for load-balancing. The load-balancer BPF program
needs to detect whether a request originates from the host netns or a
container netns in order to allow some access, e.g. to a service via a
loopback IP address. Typically, the programs detect this by comparing
netns cookies with the one of the init ns via a call to
bpf_get_netns_cookie(NULL). However, in nested environments the latter
cannot be used given the Kubernetes node's netns is outside the init ns.
To fix this, we need to pass the Kubernetes node netns cookie to the
program in a different way: by extending getsockopt() with a
SO_NETNS_COOKIE option, the orchestrator which runs in the Kubernetes
node netns can retrieve the cookie and pass it to the program instead.

Thus, this is following up on Eric's commit 3d368ab87cf6 ("net:
initialize net->net_cookie at netns setup") to allow retrieval via
SO_NETNS_COOKIE. This is also in line in how we retrieve socket cookie
via SO_COOKIE.

[1] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis <m@lambda.lt>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 7c951caf 30-Nov-2020 Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>

net: Add SO_BUSY_POLL_BUDGET socket option

This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel

net: Add SO_BUSY_POLL_BUDGET socket option

This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

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# 7fd3253a 30-Nov-2020 Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>

net: Introduce preferred busy-polling

The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That

net: Introduce preferred busy-polling

The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
regular softirq handling.

One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.

This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
introduced in commit 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.

If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
regular softirq handling will resume.

In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
softirq processing should use this option.

Example usage:

$ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
$ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout

Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
softirq processing.

Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

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# 99f3a064 13-Jun-2019 Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

bpf: net: Add SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF

There is SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF but there is no DETACH.
This patch adds SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF sockopt. The same
sockopt can be used to undo both SO_ATTA

bpf: net: Add SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF

There is SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF but there is no DETACH.
This patch adds SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF sockopt. The same
sockopt can be used to undo both SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF.

reseport_detach_prog() is added and it is mostly a mirror
of the existing reuseport_attach_prog(). The differences are,
it does not call reuseport_alloc() and returns -ENOENT when
there is no old prog.

Cc: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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# a623a7a1 11-Mar-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

y2038: fix socket.h header inclusion

Referencing the __kernel_long_t type caused some user space applications
to stop compiling when they had not already included linux/posix_types.h,
e.g.

s/multic

y2038: fix socket.h header inclusion

Referencing the __kernel_long_t type caused some user space applications
to stop compiling when they had not already included linux/posix_types.h,
e.g.

s/multicast.c -o ext/sockets/multicast.lo
In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/main/php.h:468,
from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:27:
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c: In function 'zm_startup_sockets':
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:776:40: error: '__kernel_long_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
776 | REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT("SO_SNDTIMEO", SO_SNDTIMEO, CONST_CS | CONST_PERSISTENT);

It is safe to include that header here, since it only contains kernel
internal types that do not conflict with other user space types.

It's still possible that some related build failures remain, but those
are likely to be for code that is not already y2038 safe.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Fixes: a9beb86ae6e5 ("sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# a9beb86a 02-Feb-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW

Add new socket timeout options that are y2038 safe.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.c

sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW

Add new socket timeout options that are y2038 safe.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 45bdc661 02-Feb-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes

SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches

socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes

SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 9718475e 02-Feb-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW

Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW variant of socket timestamp options.
This is the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Deepa D

socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW

Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW variant of socket timestamp options.
This is the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: chris@zankel.net
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: ubraun@linux.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 887feae3 02-Feb-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMP[NS]_NEW

Add SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_NEW variants of
socket timestamp options.
These are the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMP_OLD
and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_OLD fo

socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMP[NS]_NEW

Add SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_NEW variants of
socket timestamp options.
These are the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMP_OLD
and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_OLD for all architectures.

Note that the format of scm_timestamping.ts[0] is not changed
in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 7f1bc6e9 02-Feb-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

sockopt: Rename SO_TIMESTAMP* to SO_TIMESTAMP*_OLD

SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SO_TIMESTAMPING options, the
way they are currently defined, are not y2038 safe.
Subsequent patches in the series

sockopt: Rename SO_TIMESTAMP* to SO_TIMESTAMP*_OLD

SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SO_TIMESTAMPING options, the
way they are currently defined, are not y2038 safe.
Subsequent patches in the series add new y2038 safe versions
of these options which provide 64 bit timestamps on all
architectures uniformly.
Hence, rename existing options with OLD tag suffixes.

Also note that kernel will not use the untagged SO_TIMESTAMP*
and SCM_TIMESTAMP* options internally anymore.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# f5dd3d0c 15-Jan-2019 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

net: introduce SO_BINDTOIFINDEX sockopt

This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
SO_BINDTOIFINDEX. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a
network interface ind

net: introduce SO_BINDTOIFINDEX sockopt

This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
SO_BINDTOIFINDEX. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a
network interface index as argument, rather than the network interface
name.

User-space often refers to network-interfaces via their index, but has
to temporarily resolve it to a name for a call into SO_BINDTODEVICE.
This might pose problems when the network-device is renamed
asynchronously by other parts of the system. When this happens, the
SO_BINDTODEVICE might either fail, or worse, it might bind to the wrong
device.

In most cases user-space only ever operates on devices which they
either manage themselves, or otherwise have a guarantee that the device
name will not change (e.g., devices that are UP cannot be renamed).
However, particularly in libraries this guarantee is non-obvious and it
would be nice if that race-condition would simply not exist. It would
make it easier for those libraries to operate even in situations where
the device-name might change under the hood.

A real use-case that we recently hit is trying to start the network
stack early in the initrd but make it survive into the real system.
Existing distributions rename network-interfaces during the transition
from initrd into the real system. This, obviously, cannot affect
devices that are up and running (unless you also consider moving them
between network-namespaces). However, the network manager now has to
make sure its management engine for dormant devices will not run in
parallel to these renames. Particularly, when you offload operations
like DHCP into separate processes, these might setup their sockets
early, and thus have to resolve the device-name possibly running into
this race-condition.

By avoiding a call to resolve the device-name, we no longer depend on
the name and can run network setup of dormant devices in parallel to
the transition off the initrd. The SO_BINDTOIFINDEX ioctl plugs this
race.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 80b14dee 03-Jul-2018 Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>

net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.

This patch introduces SO_TXTIME. User space enables this option in
order to pass a desired future transmit time in a CMSG when calling
sendms

net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.

This patch introduces SO_TXTIME. User space enables this option in
order to pass a desired future transmit time in a CMSG when calling
sendmsg(2). The argument to this socket option is a 8-bytes long struct
provided by the uapi header net_tstamp.h defined as:

struct sock_txtime {
clockid_t clockid;
u32 flags;
};

Note that new fields were added to struct sock by filling a 2-bytes
hole found in the struct. For that reason, neither the struct size or
number of cachelines were altered.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 6f52b16c 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# 76851d12 03-Aug-2017 Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

sock: add SOCK_ZEROCOPY sockopt

The send call ignores unknown flags. Legacy applications may already
unwittingly pass MSG_ZEROCOPY. Continue to ignore this flag unless a
socket opts in to zerocopy.

sock: add SOCK_ZEROCOPY sockopt

The send call ignores unknown flags. Legacy applications may already
unwittingly pass MSG_ZEROCOPY. Continue to ignore this flag unless a
socket opts in to zerocopy.

Introduce socket option SO_ZEROCOPY to enable MSG_ZEROCOPY processing.
Processes can also query this socket option to detect kernel support
for the feature. Older kernels will return ENOPROTOOPT.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 28b5ba2a 21-Jun-2017 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

net: introduce SO_PEERGROUPS getsockopt

This adds the new getsockopt(2) option SO_PEERGROUPS on SOL_SOCKET to
retrieve the auxiliary groups of the remote peer. It is designed to
naturally extend SO_

net: introduce SO_PEERGROUPS getsockopt

This adds the new getsockopt(2) option SO_PEERGROUPS on SOL_SOCKET to
retrieve the auxiliary groups of the remote peer. It is designed to
naturally extend SO_PEERCRED. That is, the underlying data is from the
same credentials. Regarding its syntax, it is based on SO_PEERSEC. That
is, if the provided buffer is too small, ERANGE is returned and @optlen
is updated. Otherwise, the information is copied, @optlen is set to the
actual size, and 0 is returned.

While SO_PEERCRED (and thus `struct ucred') already returns the primary
group, it lacks the auxiliary group vector. However, nearly all access
controls (including kernel side VFS and SYSVIPC, but also user-space
polkit, DBus, ...) consider the entire set of groups, rather than just
the primary group. But this is currently not possible with pure
SO_PEERCRED. Instead, user-space has to work around this and query the
system database for the auxiliary groups of a UID retrieved via
SO_PEERCRED.

Unfortunately, there is no race-free way to query the auxiliary groups
of the PID/UID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED. Hence, the current user-space
solution is to use getgrouplist(3p), which itself falls back to NSS and
whatever is configured in nsswitch.conf(3). This effectively checks
which groups we *would* assign to the user if it logged in *now*. On
normal systems it is as easy as reading /etc/group, but with NSS it can
resort to quering network databases (eg., LDAP), using IPC or network
communication.

Long story short: Whenever we want to use auxiliary groups for access
checks on IPC, we need further IPC to talk to the user/group databases,
rather than just relying on SO_PEERCRED and the incoming socket. This
is unfortunate, and might even result in dead-locks if the database
query uses the same IPC as the original request.

So far, those recursions / dead-locks have been avoided by using
primitive IPC for all crucial NSS modules. However, we want to avoid
re-inventing the wheel for each NSS module that might be involved in
user/group queries. Hence, we would preferably make DBus (and other IPC
that supports access-management based on groups) work without resorting
to the user/group database. This new SO_PEERGROUPS ioctl would allow us
to make dbus-daemon work without ever calling into NSS.

Cc: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# aad9c8c4 19-May-2017 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>

net: add new control message for incoming HW-timestamped packets

Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_PKTINFO option to request a new control message
for incoming packets with hardware timestamps. It contains t

net: add new control message for incoming HW-timestamped packets

Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_PKTINFO option to request a new control message
for incoming packets with hardware timestamps. It contains the index of
the real interface which received the packet and the length of the
packet at layer 2.

The index is useful with bonding, bridges and other interfaces, where
IP_PKTINFO doesn't allow applications to determine which PHC made the
timestamp. With the L2 length (and link speed) it is possible to
transpose preamble timestamps to trailer timestamps, which are used in
the NTP protocol.

While this information could be provided by two new socket options
independently from timestamping, it doesn't look like they would be very
useful. With this option any performance impact is limited to hardware
timestamping.

Use dev_get_by_napi_id() to get the device and its index. On kernels
with disabled CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL or drivers not using NAPI, a zero
index will be returned in the control message.

CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 5daab9db 06-Apr-2017 Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>

New getsockopt option to get socket cookie

Introduce a new getsockopt operation to retrieve the socket cookie
for a specific socket based on the socket fd. It returns a unique
non-decreasing cookie

New getsockopt option to get socket cookie

Introduce a new getsockopt operation to retrieve the socket cookie
for a specific socket based on the socket fd. It returns a unique
non-decreasing cookie for each socket.
Tested: https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/358163/

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 6d433902 24-Mar-2017 Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>

net: Introduce SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID

This socket option returns the NAPI ID associated with the queue on which
the last frame is received. This information can be used by the apps to
split the incomin

net: Introduce SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID

This socket option returns the NAPI ID associated with the queue on which
the last frame is received. This information can be used by the apps to
split the incoming flows among the threads based on the Rx queue on which
they are received.

If the NAPI ID actually represents a sender_cpu then the value is ignored
and 0 is returned.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# a2d133b1 20-Mar-2017 Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>

sock: introduce SO_MEMINFO getsockopt

Allows reading of SK_MEMINFO_VARS via socket option. This way an
application can get all meminfo related information in single socket
option call instead of mul

sock: introduce SO_MEMINFO getsockopt

Allows reading of SK_MEMINFO_VARS via socket option. This way an
application can get all meminfo related information in single socket
option call instead of multiple calls.

Adds helper function, sk_get_meminfo(), and uses that for both
getsockopt and sock_diag_put_meminfo().

Suggested by Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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