kernel/net/dccp/sysctl.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

sysctl net: Remove macro checks for CONFIG_SYSCTL

2025-01-20T20:01:34Z

Since dccp and llc makefiles already check sysctl code compilation with xxx-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) we can drop the checks Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119134254.19250-1-kirjanov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

2024-05-03T12:29:41Z

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link : https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/) * Remove sentinel element from ctl_table structs. * Remove the zeroing out of an array element (to make it look like a sentinel) in neigh_sysctl_register and lowpan_frags_ns_sysctl_register This is not longer needed and is safe after commit c899710fe7f9 ("networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz") added the array size to the ctl_table registration. * Replace the for loop stop condition in sysctl_core_net_init that tests for procname == NULL with one that depends on array size * Removed the "-1" in mpls_net_init that adjusted for having an extra empty element when looping over ctl_table arrays * Use a table_size variable to keep the value of ARRAY_SIZE Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

In the sysctl code the proc_dointvec_minmax() function is often used to validate the user supplied value between an allowed range. This function uses the extra1 and extra2 members from struct ctl_table as minimum and maximum allowed value. On sysctl handler declaration, in every source file there are some readonly variables containing just an integer which address is assigned to the extra1 and extra2 members, so the sysctl range is enforced. The special values 0, 1 and INT_MAX are very often used as range boundary, leading duplication of variables like zero=0, one=1, int_max=INT_MAX in different source files: $ git grep -E '\.extra[12].*&(zero|one|int_max)' |wc -l 248 Add a const int array containing the most commonly used values, some macros to refer more easily to the correct array member, and use them instead of creating a local one for every object file. This is the bloat-o-meter output comparing the old and new binary compiled with the default Fedora config: # scripts/bloat-o-meter -d vmlinux.o.old vmlinux.o add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 24/-188 (-164) Data old new delta sysctl_vals - 12 +12 __kstrtab_sysctl_vals - 12 +12 max 14 10 -4 int_max 16 - -16 one 68 - -68 zero 128 28 -100 Total: Before=20583249, After=20583085, chg -0.00% [mcroce@redhat.com: tipc: remove two unused variables] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530091952.4108-1-mcroce@redhat.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c] [arnd@arndb.de: proc/sysctl: make firmware loader table conditional] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617130014.1713870-1-arnd@arndb.de [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/eventpoll.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 389

2019-06-05T15:37:11Z

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 v2 as published by the free software foundation extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 2 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081037.837563564@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dccp: make the request_retries minimum is 1

2014-05-14T19:34:16Z

In Documentation/networking/dccp.txt points that request_retries should be greater than 0. So make the extra1 to be &one instead of &zero. Signed-off-by: Wang Weidong Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Convert all sysctl registrations to register_net_sysctl

2012-04-21T01:22:30Z

This results in code with less boiler plate that is a bit easier to read. Additionally stops us from using compatibility code in the sysctl core, hastening the day when the compatibility code can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Move all of the network sysctls without a namespace into init_net.

2012-04-21T01:21:17Z

This makes it clearer which sysctls are relative to your current network namespace. This makes it a little less error prone by not exposing sysctls for the initial network namespace in other namespaces. This is the same way we handle all of our other network interfaces to userspace and I can't honestly remember why we didn't do this for sysctls right from the start. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dccp: make upper bound for seq_window consistent on 32/64 bit

2011-01-07T11:22:44Z

The 'seq_window' sysctl sets the initial value for the DCCP Sequence Window, which may range from 32..2^46-1 (RFC 4340, 7.5.2). The patch sets the upper bound consistently to 2^32-1 on both 32 and 64 bit systems, which should be sufficient - with a RTT of 1sec and 1-byte packets, a seq_window of 2^32-1 corresponds to a link speed of 34 Gbps. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker

sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code

2009-11-12T10:05:06Z

Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be revmoed. In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not to pass one. Cc: "David Miller" Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman