* [PATCH net-next 0/3] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses
@ 2026-09-05 9:39 Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] rtnetlink: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps Yuyang Huang
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From: Yuyang Huang @ 2026-09-05 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yuyang Huang
Cc: David S. Miller, David Ahern, Donald Hunter, Eric Dumazet,
Ido Schimmel, Jakub Kicinski, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
Nikolaos Gkarlis, Paolo Abeni, Sabrina Dubroca, Shuah Khan,
Simon Horman, Stanislav Fomichev, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest,
netdev
"ip maddr show" prints three kinds of entries: link-layer, IPv4 and
IPv6. The IPv4 and IPv6 ones can be read over netlink today: IPv6 has
had RTM_GETMULTICAST for a long time and IPv4 got it in eb4e17a1d915
("netlink: support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses"), with IFA_MC_USERS
added later so the user count no longer has to come from procfs.
The link-layer list is the missing piece. dev->mc, the addresses
programmed into the device filter, is only exported via
/proc/net/dev_mcast, so iproute2 still carries a procfs parser just for
that. This series closes the gap so that "ip maddr show" can be served
from rtnetlink alone.
Patch 1 handles RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps with ifa_family set to AF_PACKET
and walks dev->mc under netif_addr_lock_bh(), no RTNL. The reply reuses
the ifaddrmsg format of the IPv4 and IPv6 dumps: IFA_MULTICAST carries
the raw link-layer address, IFA_MC_USERS the reference count, and
IFA_F_PERMANENT is set for entries added with SIOCADDMULTI, which is the
"static" column /proc/net/dev_mcast has and "ip maddr" prints. A
non-zero ifa_index in a strict request limits the dump to one device.
Patch 2 updates the rt-addr spec and patch 3 adds a selftest that
checks the filter, the user count and the permanent flag on a dummy
device.
Nothing changes for other families. AF_PACKET dumps returned
-EOPNOTSUPP before, so iproute2 can keep the procfs fallback for older
kernels. I have the iproute2 side ready and will post it once this is
in; with it, "ip maddr show" does not open /proc/net at all.
Yuyang Huang (3):
rtnetlink: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps
netlink: specs: rt-addr: document AF_PACKET multicast dumps
selftests: net: test AF_PACKET multicast dumps
Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml | 7 +-
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py | 58 +++++++++-
3 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH net-next 1/3] rtnetlink: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps
2026-09-05 9:39 [PATCH net-next 0/3] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses Yuyang Huang
@ 2026-09-05 9:39 ` Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: rt-addr: document " Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: net: test " Yuyang Huang
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yuyang Huang @ 2026-09-05 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yuyang Huang
Cc: David S. Miller, David Ahern, Donald Hunter, Eric Dumazet,
Ido Schimmel, Jakub Kicinski, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
Nikolaos Gkarlis, Paolo Abeni, Sabrina Dubroca, Shuah Khan,
Simon Horman, Stanislav Fomichev, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest,
netdev
RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps IPv4 and IPv6 multicast group memberships, but
the device multicast list (dev->mc) is only available through
/proc/net/dev_mcast, so "ip maddr show" still has to parse procfs for
its link-layer entries.
Handle RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps with ifa_family set to AF_PACKET and
report every entry of dev->mc in the existing ifaddrmsg format:
- IFA_MULTICAST carries the raw link-layer address
- IFA_MC_USERS carries the entry reference count
- IFA_F_PERMANENT marks entries added with SIOCADDMULTI
(netdev_hw_addr::global_use, "static" in "ip maddr")
- ifa_scope is RT_SCOPE_LINK
This covers every column of /proc/net/dev_mcast. Strict requests are
validated like the IPv4 dump, except that no attributes are accepted;
a non-zero ifa_index restricts the dump to that device. The dump runs
under RCU and netif_addr_lock_bh() and does not need RTNL.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 132 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 81c5a6104dea..5e83232c1504 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -4566,6 +4566,136 @@ static int rtnl_dump_all(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
return skb->len ? : ret;
}
+static int rtnl_fill_mcaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev,
+ const struct netdev_hw_addr *ha, u32 portid,
+ u32 seq, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
+ struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+
+ nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, portid, seq, RTM_GETMULTICAST, sizeof(*ifm),
+ flags);
+ if (!nlh)
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
+
+ ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+ ifm->ifa_family = AF_PACKET;
+ ifm->ifa_prefixlen = 0;
+ ifm->ifa_flags = ha->global_use ? IFA_F_PERMANENT : 0;
+ ifm->ifa_scope = RT_SCOPE_LINK;
+ ifm->ifa_index = dev->ifindex;
+
+ if (nla_put(skb, IFA_MULTICAST, dev->addr_len, ha->addr) ||
+ nla_put_u32(skb, IFA_MC_USERS, ha->refcount)) {
+ nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
+ }
+
+ nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int rtnl_dump_mcaddr_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct netlink_callback *cb, int *s_addr_idx,
+ unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
+ int addr_idx = 0;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
+ netdev_for_each_mc_addr(ha, dev) {
+ if (addr_idx < *s_addr_idx) {
+ addr_idx++;
+ continue;
+ }
+ err = rtnl_fill_mcaddr(skb, dev, ha, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
+ cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, flags);
+ if (err < 0)
+ break;
+ addr_idx++;
+ }
+ netif_addr_unlock_bh(dev);
+
+ *s_addr_idx = err < 0 ? addr_idx : 0;
+
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int rtnl_valid_dump_mcaddr_req(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+ struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
+ int *pifindex)
+{
+ struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
+
+ ifm = nlmsg_payload(nlh, sizeof(*ifm));
+ if (!ifm) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+ "Invalid header for multicast dump request");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen || ifm->ifa_flags || ifm->ifa_scope) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+ "Invalid values in multicast dump header");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ if (nlmsg_attrlen(nlh, sizeof(*ifm))) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+ "Invalid data after multicast dump header");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ *pifindex = ifm->ifa_index;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int rtnl_dump_mcaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
+{
+ struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
+ unsigned int flags = NLM_F_MULTI;
+ struct {
+ unsigned long ifindex;
+ int addr_idx;
+ } *ctx = (void *)cb->ctx;
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ int ifindex = 0;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ if (cb->strict_check) {
+ err = rtnl_valid_dump_mcaddr_req(cb->nlh, cb->extack,
+ &ifindex);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ if (ifindex) {
+ cb->answer_flags |= NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED;
+ flags |= NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED;
+ dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
+ if (!dev) {
+ err = -ENODEV;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ err = rtnl_dump_mcaddr_dev(dev, skb, cb, &ctx->addr_idx, flags);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ for_each_netdev_dump(net, dev, ctx->ifindex) {
+ err = rtnl_dump_mcaddr_dev(dev, skb, cb, &ctx->addr_idx,
+ flags);
+ if (err < 0)
+ break;
+ }
+out:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return err;
+}
+
struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int change,
u32 event, gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid,
@@ -7251,6 +7381,8 @@ static const struct rtnl_msg_handler rtnetlink_rtnl_msg_handlers[] __initconst =
{.msgtype = RTM_SETSTATS, .doit = rtnl_stats_set},
{.msgtype = RTM_NEWLINKPROP, .doit = rtnl_newlinkprop},
{.msgtype = RTM_DELLINKPROP, .doit = rtnl_dellinkprop},
+ {.protocol = PF_PACKET, .msgtype = RTM_GETMULTICAST,
+ .dumpit = rtnl_dump_mcaddr, .flags = RTNL_FLAG_DUMP_UNLOCKED},
{.protocol = PF_BRIDGE, .msgtype = RTM_GETLINK,
.dumpit = rtnl_bridge_getlink},
{.protocol = PF_BRIDGE, .msgtype = RTM_DELLINK,
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: rt-addr: document AF_PACKET multicast dumps
2026-09-05 9:39 [PATCH net-next 0/3] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] rtnetlink: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps Yuyang Huang
@ 2026-09-05 9:39 ` Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: net: test " Yuyang Huang
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yuyang Huang @ 2026-09-05 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yuyang Huang
Cc: David S. Miller, David Ahern, Donald Hunter, Eric Dumazet,
Ido Schimmel, Jakub Kicinski, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
Nikolaos Gkarlis, Paolo Abeni, Sabrina Dubroca, Shuah Khan,
Simon Horman, Stanislav Fomichev, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest,
netdev
Mention that ifa-family AF_PACKET dumps link-layer multicast addresses
and what the permanent flag means for them.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
index 0ecbd24c890c..2a2310cb0df0 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
@@ -168,7 +168,12 @@ operations:
attributes: *ifaddr-all
-
name: getmulticast
- doc: Get / dump IPv4/IPv6 multicast addresses.
+ doc: |
+ Get / dump multicast addresses. ifa-family selects the address
+ family: AF_INET or AF_INET6 for the IP multicast groups joined on
+ a device, AF_PACKET for the link-layer multicast addresses in the
+ device filter. Link-layer entries added with SIOCADDMULTI are
+ reported with the permanent flag set.
attribute-set: addr-attrs
fixed-header: ifaddrmsg
do:
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: net: test AF_PACKET multicast dumps
2026-09-05 9:39 [PATCH net-next 0/3] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] rtnetlink: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps Yuyang Huang
2026-09-05 9:39 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: rt-addr: document " Yuyang Huang
@ 2026-09-05 9:39 ` Yuyang Huang
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yuyang Huang @ 2026-09-05 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yuyang Huang
Cc: David S. Miller, David Ahern, Donald Hunter, Eric Dumazet,
Ido Schimmel, Jakub Kicinski, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
Nikolaos Gkarlis, Paolo Abeni, Sabrina Dubroca, Shuah Khan,
Simon Horman, Stanislav Fomichev, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest,
netdev
Dump the link-layer multicast addresses of a dummy device and verify
that ifa_index restricts the dump to that device, that the all-hosts
address joined on link up is listed without IFA_F_PERMANENT and that an
address added with SIOCADDMULTI is listed with IFA_F_PERMANENT and
IFA_MC_USERS. Skip when the kernel does not support AF_PACKET dumps.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py
index 5cc3ebdcf08d..94340dac0e21 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+import errno
import socket
import struct
import time
from lib.py import bkg, ip, ksft_exit, ksft_run, ksft_eq, ksft_ge, ksft_true, KsftSkipEx
-from lib.py import ksft_not_in, ksft_not_none
-from lib.py import CmdExitFailure, NetNS, NetNSEnter, RtnlAddrFamily, RtnlRouteFamily
+from lib.py import ksft_in, ksft_not_in, ksft_not_none
+from lib.py import CmdExitFailure, NetNS, NetNSEnter, NlError, RtnlAddrFamily, RtnlRouteFamily
from lib.py import defer
IPV4_ALL_HOSTS_MULTICAST = b'\xe0\x00\x00\x01'
IPV4_TEST_MULTICAST = b'\xef\x01\x01\x01'
IPV6_TEST_MULTICAST = bytes.fromhex('ff020000000000000000000000000123')
+ETH_ALL_HOSTS_MULTICAST = bytes.fromhex('01005e000001')
+ETH_TEST_MULTICAST_STR = '01:00:5e:01:01:01'
+ETH_TEST_MULTICAST = bytes.fromhex(ETH_TEST_MULTICAST_STR.replace(':', ''))
def _users_for(rtnl: RtnlAddrFamily, family: int, grp: bytes, ifindex: int):
@@ -105,6 +109,53 @@ def dump_mcaddr6_check() -> None:
s2.close()
+def dump_mcaddr_l2_check() -> None:
+ """
+ Verify link-layer multicast addresses in an AF_PACKET RTM_GETMULTICAST
+ dump: the ifa-index filter, mc-users and the permanent flag.
+ """
+
+ with NetNS() as ns:
+ with NetNSEnter(str(ns)):
+ for ifname in ("dummy1", "dummy2"):
+ ip(f"link add name {ifname} type dummy")
+ ip(f"link set {ifname} up")
+ dev_idx = socket.if_nametoindex("dummy1")
+ ip(f"maddr add {ETH_TEST_MULTICAST_STR} dev dummy1")
+
+ rtnl = RtnlAddrFamily()
+ try:
+ addresses = rtnl.getmulticast(
+ {"ifa-family": socket.AF_PACKET, "ifa-index": dev_idx},
+ dump=True)
+ except NlError as e:
+ if e.error == errno.EOPNOTSUPP:
+ raise KsftSkipEx(
+ "kernel does not support AF_PACKET multicast dump")
+ raise
+
+ # dummy2 has entries as well, only dummy1 may be listed
+ ksft_eq({addr['ifa-index'] for addr in addresses}, {dev_idx},
+ "AF_PACKET multicast dump ignored ifa-index filter")
+
+ entries = {addr['multicast']: addr for addr in addresses}
+
+ # Bringing an Ethernet device up joins 224.0.0.1, which maps
+ # to 01:00:5e:00:00:01 in the device multicast list.
+ ksft_in(ETH_ALL_HOSTS_MULTICAST, entries,
+ "dummy1 does not have the all-hosts link-layer address")
+ ksft_not_in('permanent',
+ entries[ETH_ALL_HOSTS_MULTICAST]['ifa-flags'],
+ "protocol entry is permanent")
+
+ ksft_in(ETH_TEST_MULTICAST, entries,
+ "dummy1 does not have the SIOCADDMULTI address")
+ ksft_eq(entries[ETH_TEST_MULTICAST]['mc-users'], 1,
+ "unexpected mc-users for the SIOCADDMULTI address")
+ ksft_in('permanent', entries[ETH_TEST_MULTICAST]['ifa-flags'],
+ "SIOCADDMULTI entry is not permanent")
+
+
def ipv4_devconf_notify() -> None:
"""
Configure an interface and set ipv4-devconf values through netlink
@@ -315,7 +366,8 @@ def ipv6_route_del_reason_absent() -> None:
def main() -> None:
- ksft_run([dump_mcaddr_check, dump_mcaddr6_check, ipv4_devconf_notify,
+ ksft_run([dump_mcaddr_check, dump_mcaddr6_check, dump_mcaddr_l2_check,
+ ipv4_devconf_notify,
ipv6_route_del_reason_expired,
ipv6_route_del_reason_ra_withdrawn,
ipv6_route_del_reason_absent])
--
2.43.0
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