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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Allow live renaming when an interface is up

   - Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
     performances of complex queue discipline configurations

   - Add inet drop monitor support

   - A few GRO performance improvements

   - Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
     data races

   - De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
     infrastructure

   - A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements

   - Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets

   - Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
     workload with the number of available CPUs

   - Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload

  BPF:

   - Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
     own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
     blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
     lists in BPF

   - Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
     programs

   - Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
     storage helpers

   - A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements

   - Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
     and replay of results

   - Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code

   - Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps

   - Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs

   - Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
     access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs

   - Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps

   - Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
     values

   - Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions

  Protocols:

   - TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links

   - TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
     to fast[er]-path

   - UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table

   - IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal

   - Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
     operation

   - MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support

   - MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events

   - SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices

   - Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

   - Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
     support multicast scenarios

   - More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
     existing drivers to internal TX queue usage

   - IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
     complete header processing and crypto offloading

   - IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
     reporting

   - RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
     per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
     required locking

   - IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
     initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks

   - Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

   - Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support

  Driver API:

   - PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
     the higher power levels

   - New API for netdev <-> devlink_port linkage

   - PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
     implementation

   - DSA: add support for rx offloading

   - Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol

   - Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging

   - Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed

   - Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
     migratable

   - Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
     queuing

   - Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory

   - New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem

   - New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
      - Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
      - WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
      - Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
      - Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
      - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
      - Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter

   - PHY:
      - Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
      - Motorcomm YT8531S

   - PTP:
      - Orolia ART-CARD

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
      - RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
        devices

   - Bluetooth:
      - Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
      - Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
      - Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device

  Drivers:

   - CAN:
      - gs_usb: bus error reporting support
      - kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G):
         - extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
         - implement devlink-rate support
         - support direct read from memory
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
         - Support for enhanced events compression
         - extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
         - implement IPSec packet offload mode
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
         - better big TCP support
      - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
         - IPsec offload support
         - add support for multicast filter
      - Broadcom:
         - RSS and PTP support improvements
      - AMD/SolarFlare:
         - netlink extened ack improvements
         - add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
      - Virtual NICs:
         - ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
      - small / embedded:
         - FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
         - Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
         - TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
         - Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
         - Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
           default

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
      - Mellanox mlxsw:
         - add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
         - add ip6gre support

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
         - improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
         - enable flow offload support
      - Renesas:
         - add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
      - Microchip (lan966x):
         - add full XDP support
         - add TC H/W offload via VCAP
         - enable PTP on bridge interfaces
      - Microchip (ksz8):
         - add MTU support for KSZ8 series

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - support configuring channel dwell time during scan

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
      - add ack signal support
      - enable coredump support
      - remain_on_channel support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
      - 320 MHz channels support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - new dynamic header firmware format support
      - wake-over-WLAN support"

* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
  ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
  net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
  net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
  dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
  bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
  IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
  selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
  selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
  bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
  bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
  bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
  bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
  bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
  bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
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The BTF_ID macro does not cause a function to become part of the ABI
any more than does the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro.

Q: What is the compatibility story for special BPF types in map values?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Q: Users are allowed to embed bpf_spin_lock, bpf_timer fields in their BPF map
values (when using BTF support for BPF maps). This allows to use helpers for
such objects on these fields inside map values. Users are also allowed to embed
pointers to some kernel types (with __kptr and __kptr_ref BTF tags). Will the
kernel preserve backwards compatibility for these features?

A: It depends. For bpf_spin_lock, bpf_timer: YES, for kptr and everything else:
NO, but see below.

For struct types that have been added already, like bpf_spin_lock and bpf_timer,
the kernel will preserve backwards compatibility, as they are part of UAPI.

For kptrs, they are also part of UAPI, but only with respect to the kptr
mechanism. The types that you can use with a __kptr and __kptr_ref tagged
pointer in your struct are NOT part of the UAPI contract. The supported types can
and will change across kernel releases. However, operations like accessing kptr
fields and bpf_kptr_xchg() helper will continue to be supported across kernel
releases for the supported types.

For any other supported struct type, unless explicitly stated in this document
and added to bpf.h UAPI header, such types can and will arbitrarily change their
size, type, and alignment, or any other user visible API or ABI detail across
kernel releases. The users must adapt their BPF programs to the new changes and
update them to make sure their programs continue to work correctly.

NOTE: BPF subsystem specially reserves the 'bpf\_' prefix for type names, in
order to introduce more special fields in the future. Hence, user programs must
avoid defining types with 'bpf\_' prefix to not be broken in future releases.
In other words, no backwards compatibility is guaranteed if one using a type
in BTF with 'bpf\_' prefix.

Q: What is the compatibility story for special BPF types in allocated objects?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Q: Same as above, but for allocated objects (i.e. objects allocated using
bpf_obj_new for user defined types). Will the kernel preserve backwards
compatibility for these features?

A: NO.

Unlike map value types, there are no stability guarantees for this case. The
whole API to work with allocated objects and any support for special fields
inside them is unstable (since it is exposed through kfuncs).
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Submitting patches
==================

Q: How do I run BPF CI on my changes before sending them out for review?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A: BPF CI is GitHub based and hosted at https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf.
While GitHub also provides a CLI that can be used to accomplish the same
results, here we focus on the UI based workflow.

The following steps lay out how to start a CI run for your patches:

- Create a fork of the aforementioned repository in your own account (one time
action)

- Clone the fork locally, check out a new branch tracking either the bpf-next
or bpf branch, and apply your to-be-tested patches on top of it

- Push the local branch to your fork and create a pull request against
kernel-patches/bpf's bpf-next_base or bpf_base branch, respectively

Shortly after the pull request has been created, the CI workflow will run. Note
that capacity is shared with patches submitted upstream being checked and so
depending on utilization the run can take a while to finish.

Note furthermore that both base branches (bpf-next_base and bpf_base) will be
updated as patches are pushed to the respective upstream branches they track. As
such, your patch set will automatically (be attempted to) be rebased as well.
This behavior can result in a CI run being aborted and restarted with the new
base line.

Q: To which mailing list do I need to submit my BPF patches?
------------------------------------------------------------
A: Please submit your BPF patches to the bpf kernel mailing list:
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