kernel/net/dccp/ackvec.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

net: Retire DCCP socket.

2025-04-12T01:58:10Z

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

net: dccp: Simplify the allocation of slab caches in dccp_ackvec_init

2024-02-02T12:19:26Z

Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of direct kmem_cache_create to simplify the creation of SLAB caches. Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dccp: Fix most of the kerneldoc warnings

2020-10-30T19:08:54Z

net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:190: warning: Function parameter or member 'hc' not described in 'ccid2_update_used_window' net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:190: warning: Function parameter or member 'new_wnd' not described in 'ccid2_update_used_window' net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:360: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'ccid2_rtt_estimator' net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c:112: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'ccid3_hc_tx_update_x' net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c:159: warning: Function parameter or member 'hc' not described in 'ccid3_hc_tx_update_s' net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c:268: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet' net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c:667: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'ccid3_first_li' net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c:85: warning: Function parameter or member 'hc' not described in 'ccid3_update_send_interval' net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval.c:85: warning: Function parameter or member 'lh' not described in 'tfrc_lh_update_i_mean' net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval.c:85: warning: Function parameter or member 'skb' not described in 'tfrc_lh_update_i_mean' net/dccp/ccids/lib/packet_history.c:392: warning: Function parameter or member 'h' not described in 'tfrc_rx_hist_sample_rtt' net/dccp/ccids/lib/packet_history.c:392: warning: Function parameter or member 'skb' not described in 'tfrc_rx_hist_sample_rtt' net/dccp/feat.c:1003: warning: Function parameter or member 'dreq' not described in 'dccp_feat_server_ccid_dependencies' net/dccp/feat.c:1040: warning: Function parameter or member 'array_len' not described in 'dccp_feat_prefer' net/dccp/feat.c:1040: warning: Function parameter or member 'array' not described in 'dccp_feat_prefer' net/dccp/feat.c:1040: warning: Function parameter or member 'preferred_value' not described in 'dccp_feat_prefer' net/dccp/output.c:151: warning: Function parameter or member 'dp' not described in 'dccp_determine_ccmps' net/dccp/output.c:242: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'dccp_xmit_packet' net/dccp/output.c:305: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'dccp_flush_write_queue' net/dccp/output.c:305: warning: Function parameter or member 'time_budget' not described in 'dccp_flush_write_queue' net/dccp/output.c:378: warning: Function parameter or member 'sk' not described in 'dccp_retransmit_skb' net/dccp/qpolicy.c:88: warning: Function parameter or member '' not described in 'dccp_qpolicy_operations' net/dccp/qpolicy.c:88: warning: Function parameter or member '{' not described in 'dccp_qpolicy_operations' net/dccp/qpolicy.c:88: warning: Function parameter or member 'params' not described in 'dccp_qpolicy_operations' Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201028011412.931250-1-andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dccp: delete repeated words

2020-08-25T00:31:20Z

Drop duplicated words in /net/dccp/. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Gerrit Renker Cc: dccp@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441

2019-06-05T15:37:17Z

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation version 2 of the license extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 315 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190115.503150771@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: dccp: drop unneeded newline

2018-01-02T18:49:32Z

DCCP_CRIT prints some other text and then a newline after the message string, so the message string does not need to include a newline explicitly. Done using Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dccp: drop null test before destroy functions

2015-09-15T23:49:43Z

Remove unneeded NULL test. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x; @@ -if (x != NULL) \(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x); @@ expression x; @@ -if (x != NULL) { \(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x); x = NULL; -} // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dccp: replace min/casting by min_t

2014-11-18T20:26:32Z

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules

2011-10-31T23:30:30Z

These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence of module.h from everywhere. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

dccp ccid-2: whitespace fix-up

2010-11-18T17:37:07Z

This fixes whitespace noise introduced in commit "dccp ccid-2: Algorithm to update buffer state", 5753fdfe8bd8e9a2ff9e5af19b0ffc78bfcd502a, 14 Nov 2010. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller