linux.git/kernel/time/posix-clock.c, branch v6.18.22

Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-03-27T04:48:21+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
     (IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls)

   - Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
     opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
     operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.

   - Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in
     BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
     overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.

   - Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
     Rx via io_uring.

   - Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.

   - Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
     for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream
     performance up to 2x.

   - Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for
     an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an
     additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.

   - Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
     performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.

   - Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
     ping flood.

   - Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.

   - Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
     identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4
     namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments,
     interpreted differently based on context.

   - Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
     deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.

   - Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in
     TCP.

   - Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.

   - Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.

   - Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
     sockets.

   - Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin
     users.

   - Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.

   - Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
     which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a
     module.

   - Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to
     normal bridging.

   - Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.

   - netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to
     messages as metadata

  Driver API:

   - Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
     the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where
     possible. Improve its handling in phylib.

   - Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.

   - Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.

   - Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.

  Device drivers:

   - Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390

   - Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver

   - Add support for SFP module access over SMBus

   - Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB

   - Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD
           platforms
         - support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
         - opt into instance locking
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
         - ice: support for E830 devices
         - iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
         - iavf: opt into instance locking
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
         - mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
         - mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
         - mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
      - AMD/Solarflare:
         - support FW flashing via devlink
      - Cisco (enic):
         - use page pool memory allocator for Rx
         - enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
         - get max rx/tx ring size from the device
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - support flow steering and RSS configuration
         - report queue stats
         - support TCP segmentation
         - support IRQ coalescing
         - support ring size configuration
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support AF_XDP
      - Wangxun:
         - support for PTP clock and timestamping
      - Huawei (hibmcge):
         - checksum offload
         - add more statistics

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96%
           with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
         - expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
      - Google (gve):
         - support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
         - opt into instance locking
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - support BIG TCP

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused
           cleanups
         - enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
         - support Sophgo SG2044
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support for BCM53101
      - TI:
         - iep: add perout configuration support
         - icssg: support XDP
      - Cadence (macb):
         - implement BQL
      - Xilinx (axinet):
         - support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at
           runtime
         - implement BQL
         - report standard stats
      - MediaTek:
         - support phylink managed EEE
      - Intel:
         - igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
         - increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
         - enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
      - Tehuti (tn40xx):
         - support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
      - dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
      - dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
      - support for LEDs on 88q2xxx

   - CAN:
      - canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
      - flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC

   - WiFi:
      - remove cooked monitor support
      - strict mode for better AP testing
      - basic EPCS support
      - OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
      - batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
         - add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
         - improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - continued work on MLO
      - Silabs (wfx):
         - Wake-on-WLAN support

   - Bluetooth:
      - add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
      - hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
      - coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel: add support to configure TX power
      - nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7"

* tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits)
  unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation"
  mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c
  net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size
  net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string
  net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum
  net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets
  atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards
  net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card
  net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus
  net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver
  net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode
  net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading
  net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan
  gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ
  gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting
  gve: merge packet buffer size fields
  gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size
  gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP
  gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics
  ...

ptp: Add PHC file mode checks. Allow RO adjtime() without FMODE_WRITE.

2025-03-05T12:43:54+00:00

Many devices implement highly accurate clocks, which the kernel manages
as PTP Hardware Clocks (PHCs). Userspace applications rely on these
clocks to timestamp events, trace workload execution, correlate
timescales across devices, and keep various clocks in sync.

The kernel’s current implementation of PTP clocks does not enforce file
permissions checks for most device operations except for POSIX clock
operations, where file mode is verified in the POSIX layer before
forwarding the call to the PTP subsystem. Consequently, it is common
practice to not give unprivileged userspace applications any access to
PTP clocks whatsoever by giving the PTP chardevs 600 permissions. An
example of users running into this limitation is documented in [1].
Additionally, POSIX layer requires WRITE permission even for readonly
adjtime() calls which are used in PTP layer to return current frequency
offset applied to the PHC.

Add permission checks for functions that modify the state of a PTP
device. Continue enforcing permission checks for POSIX clock operations
(settime, adjtime) in the POSIX layer. Only require WRITE access for
dynamic clocks adjtime() if any flags are set in the modes field.

[1] https://lists.nwtime.org/sympa/arc/linuxptp-users/2024-01/msg00036.html

Changes in v4:
- Require FMODE_WRITE in ajtime() only for calls modifying the clock in
  any way.

Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko 
Signed-off-by: Wojtek Wasko 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

posix-clock: Store file pointer in struct posix_clock_context

2025-03-05T12:43:54+00:00

File descriptor based pc_clock_*() operations of dynamic posix clocks
have access to the file pointer and implement permission checks in the
generic code before invoking the relevant dynamic clock callback.

Character device operations (open, read, poll, ioctl) do not implement a
generic permission control and the dynamic clock callbacks have no
access to the file pointer to implement them.

Extend struct posix_clock_context with a struct file pointer and
initialize it in posix_clock_open(), so that all dynamic clock callbacks
can access it.

Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Wojtek Wasko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

posix-clock: Remove duplicate compat ioctl() handler

2025-02-26T15:53:58+00:00

The normal and compat ioctl handlers are identical,
which is fine as compat ioctls are detected and handled dynamically
inside the underlying clock implementation.
The duplicate definition however is unnecessary.

Just reuse the regular ioctl handler also for compat ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250225-posix-clock-compat-cleanup-v2-1-30de86457a2b@weissschuh.net

posix-clock: posix-clock: Fix unbalanced locking in pc_clock_settime()

2024-10-23T14:05:01+00:00

If get_clock_desc() succeeds, it calls fget() for the clockid's fd,
and get the clk->rwsem read lock, so the error path should release
the lock to make the lock balance and fput the clockid's fd to make
the refcount balance and release the fd related resource.

However the below commit left the error path locked behind resulting in
unbalanced locking. Check timespec64_valid_strict() before
get_clock_desc() to fix it, because the "ts" is not changed
after that.

Fixes: d8794ac20a29 ("posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime()")
Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan 
Acked-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen 
[pabeni@redhat.com: fixed commit message typo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime()

2024-10-15T00:22:43+00:00

As Andrew pointed out, it will make sense that the PTP core
checked timespec64 struct's tv_sec and tv_nsec range before calling
ptp->info->settime64().

As the man manual of clock_settime() said, if tp.tv_sec is negative or
tp.tv_nsec is outside the range [0..999,999,999], it should return EINVAL,
which include dynamic clocks which handles PTP clock, and the condition is
consistent with timespec64_valid(). As Thomas suggested, timespec64_valid()
only check the timespec is valid, but not ensure that the time is
in a valid range, so check it ahead using timespec64_valid_strict()
in pc_clock_settime() and return -EINVAL if not valid.

There are some drivers that use tp->tv_sec and tp->tv_nsec directly to
write registers without validity checks and assume that the higher layer
has checked it, which is dangerous and will benefit from this, such as
hclge_ptp_settime(), igb_ptp_settime_i210(), _rcar_gen4_ptp_settime(),
and some drivers can remove the checks of itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0606f422b453 ("posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks")
Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn 
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241009072302.1754567-2-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out

2024-09-27T15:18:43+00:00

no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441
("fs: remove no_llseek")

To quote that commit,

  At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -

  git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
	sed -i '/\/d' $i
  done

  would do it.

Unfortunately, that hadn't been done.  Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
	.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open()

2024-03-27T16:03:22+00:00

If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the
pccontext we allocated for this clock.

Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.

Reported-by: Rohit Keshri 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Fixes: 60c6946675fc ("posix-clock: introduce posix_clock_context concept")
Cc: Jakub Kicinski 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

posix-clock: introduce posix_clock_context concept

2023-10-15T19:07:52+00:00

Add the necessary structure to support custom private-data per
posix-clock user.

The previous implementation of posix-clock assumed all file open
instances need access to the same clock structure on private_data.

The need for individual data structures per file open instance has been
identified when developing support for multiple timestamp event queue
users for ptp_clock.

Signed-off-by: Xabier Marquiegui 
Suggested-by: Richard Cochran 
Suggested-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec()

2020-01-14T11:20:49+00:00

The upcoming support for time namespaces requires to have access to:

 - The time in a task's time namespace for sys_clock_gettime()
 - The time in the root name space for common_timer_get()

That adds a valid reason to finally implement a separate callback which
returns the time in ktime_t format, rather than in (struct timespec).

Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec() as a preparation
for introducing clock_get_ktime().

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov 
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin 
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-6-dima@arista.com