From: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
To: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
Nikolaos Gkarlis <nickgarlis@gmail.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:59:47 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921235951.3214-1-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com> (raw)
"ip maddr show" prints link-layer, IPv4 and IPv6 entries. The IPv4 and
IPv6 ones come over netlink today, with IFA_MC_USERS for the user count.
The link-layer list, dev->mc, is only exported via /proc/net/dev_mcast,
so iproute2 and other users still parse procfs for it.
This series adds the AF_PACKET family to RTM_GETMULTICAST so that the
link-layer multicast addresses are reported the same way. Patch 2 dumps
dev->mc in the ifaddrmsg format of the IPv4 and IPv6 dumps: IFA_MULTICAST
carries the address, IFA_MC_USERS the reference count and a new
IFA_F_GLOBAL flag marks entries added explicitly, the "static" column of
/proc/net/dev_mcast. ifa_index limits the dump to one device and
IFA_TARGET_NETNSID selects another netns. Patches 1 and 3 update the
rt-addr spec and patch 4 adds a selftest.
AF_PACKET dumps returned -EOPNOTSUPP before, so iproute2 can keep the
procfs fallback for older kernels. The iproute2 side is ready and will
be posted once this is in.
Changes in v6:
- Move the dump to net/core/dev_addr_lists.c next to the dev->mc
helpers
- Stamp cb->seq from dev_base_seq and check dump consistency
- Let an unexpected dump error propagate instead of skipping
- Check for an address only present in the peer netns in the
target-netnsid selftest, the peer and local ifindex can be equal
- Document the ifa-index filter and the zero header fields in the spec
Changes in v5:
- Filter the target-netnsid selftest dump by ifa-index, a new netns
also contains the fallback tunnel devices
Changes in v4:
- Reset the resume offset when the device the dump stopped at is gone
- Use a tracked netns reference (put_net_track)
- Say ifa-family must be set in the spec doc, drop the AF_UNSPEC remark
- Close the netlink socket and guard the checks in the selftest
- Drop the Fixes tag
Changes in v3:
- Report the static bit as a new IFA_F_GLOBAL flag in IFA_FLAGS
instead of IFA_F_PERMANENT
- Support IFA_TARGET_NETNSID and test it
- Describe global_use accurately, it is also set by dev_mc_add_excl()
- Fix the target-netnsid type in the rt-addr spec, as its own patch
Changes in v2:
- Always validate the request header, not only with strict checking
- Use a single "with" statement in the selftest (ruff)
Yuyang Huang (4):
netlink: specs: rt-addr: fix the type of target-netnsid
net: 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 | 19 ++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h | 1 +
net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.py | 73 +++++++++-
6 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 23:59 Yuyang Huang [this message]
2026-09-21 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] netlink: specs: rt-addr: fix the type of target-netnsid Yuyang Huang
2026-09-21 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps Yuyang Huang
2026-09-22 7:20 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2026-09-22 8:44 ` Yuyang Huang
2026-09-21 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/4] netlink: specs: rt-addr: document " Yuyang Huang
2026-09-21 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/4] selftests: net: test " Yuyang Huang
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