Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
     default value allows for better BIG TCP performances

   - Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers

   - RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when
     possible

   - Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and
     unneeded softirq avoidance

   - Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
     sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking

   - Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft]

   - Optimize again the skb struct layout

   - Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
     subsystems

   - Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts

  BPF:

   - Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
     ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and
     variable-sized accesses

   - Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
     BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward

   - Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types

   - Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device
     operating in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for
     controlling encap params

   - Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular
     kfunc exists or not, and also add support for this in light
     skeleton

   - Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming
     BPF open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping
     capabilities

   - Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce
     BPF programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc

   - Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and
     in local storage maps

   - Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
     tasks to be stored in BPF maps

   - Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
     shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
     rbtree

   - Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in
     convert_ctx_access() which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to
     start emitting them

   - Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf

   - Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
     flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations

  Protocols:

   - IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
     indicates the provenance of the IP address

   - IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition

   - Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space to
     implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf

   - Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
     resilience to nodes failures

   - SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
     schedulers

   - MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
     will allow for later better LSM interaction

   - xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
     not needed anymore

   - WiFi:
      - reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
      - HW timestamping support
      - support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
      - per-link debugfs for multi-link
      - TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
      - mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support

  Netfilter:

   - Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
     instead of being bridged

   - Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle IPv6
     Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length from
     hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP support

   - The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
     anymore

   - Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one. This has
     the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
     iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used

   - Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
     netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
     basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device

  Driver API:

   - Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
     has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time

   - Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
     then bridge to use them

   - Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
     localized NAPI

   - Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
     further code de-duplication and sanitization

   - Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs

   - Add partial YNL specification for devlink

   - Add partial YNL specification for ethtool

   - Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes

   - Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
     of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
     underlying device

   - Add basic LED support for switch/phy

   - Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links

   - Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a
     preparatory work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable
     by user space

   - Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
     controllers

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - AMD/Pensando core device support
      - MediaTek MT7981 SoC
      - MediaTek MT7988 SoC
      - Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
      - Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
      - Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
      - StarFive JH7110 SoC
      - NXP CBTX ethernet PHY

   - WiFi:
      - Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
      - RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
      - RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset

   - Bluetooth:
      - Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
      - Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
      - NXP w8997
      - Actions Semi ATS2851
      - QTI WCN6855
      - Marvell 88W8997

   - Can:
      - STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (1G, icg):
         - add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors
         - add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
         - GNSS interface optimization
      - Intel (i40e):
         - support XDP multi-buffer
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
         - enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
         - add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
         - extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
         - support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
         - extend XDP multi-buffer support
         - support MACsec VLAN offload
         - add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
         - drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
         - implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
      - Netronome/Corigine:
         - add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
      - Solarflare/Xilinx:
         - support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
         - support TC decap rules
         - support unicast PTP

   - Other NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only on
        shared PHC NIC
      - RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll
      - Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
      - Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
      - Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
      - virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
      - veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
      - vxlan: add MDB data path support
      - gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
      - geneve: accept every ethertype
      - macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
      - mana: add support for jumbo frame

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Broadcom (b54):
         - configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - faster C45 bus scan
      - Microchip:
         - lan966x:
            - add support for IS1 VCAP
            - better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
         - ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
         - ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
         - sama7g5: add PTP capability
      - NXP (ocelot):
         - add support for external ports
         - add support for preemptible traffic classes
      - Texas Instruments:
         - add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
      - hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
      - TX beacon protection on newer hardware

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - MU-MIMO parameters support
      - ack signal support for management packets

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
      - SDIO bus support
      - better support for some SDIO devices (e.g. MAC address from
        efuse)

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - HW scan support for 8852b
      - better support for 6 GHz scanning
      - support for various newer firmware APIs
      - framework firmware backwards compatibility

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - P2P support
      - mesh A-MSDU support
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
      - coredump support"

* tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2078 commits)
  net: phy: hide the PHYLIB_LEDS knob
  net: phy: marvell-88x2222: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
  net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
  net: phy: marvell: Fix inconsistent indenting in led_blink_set
  lan966x: Don't use xdp_frame when action is XDP_TX
  tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy TX support
  tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy RX support
  tsnep: Move skb receive action to separate function
  tsnep: Add functions for queue enable/disable
  tsnep: Rework TX/RX queue initialization
  tsnep: Replace modulo operation with mask
  net: phy: dp83867: Add led_brightness_set support
  net: phy: Fix reading LED reg property
  drivers: nfc: nfcsim: remove return value check of `dev_dir`
  net: phy: dp83867: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  net: ethtool: coalesce: try to make user settings stick twice
  net: mana: Check if netdev/napi_alloc_frag returns single page
  net: mana: Rename mana_refill_rxoob and remove some empty lines
  net: veth: add page_pool stats
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index 4a75686d35ab4a..f73ac9e175a8dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Finally, the vX.Y gets released, and the whole cycle starts over.
 netdev patch review
 -------------------
 
+.. _patch_status:
+
 Patch status
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -143,6 +145,33 @@ Asking the maintainer for status updates on your
 patch is a good way to ensure your patch is ignored or pushed to the
 bottom of the priority list.
 
+Changes requested
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Patches :ref:`marked<patch_status>` as ``Changes Requested`` need
+to be revised. The new version should come with a change log,
+preferably including links to previous postings, for example::
+
+  [PATCH net-next v3] net: make cows go moo
+
+  Even users who don't drink milk appreciate hearing the cows go "moo".
+
+  The amount of mooing will depend on packet rate so should match
+  the diurnal cycle quite well.
+
+  Signed-of-by: Joe Defarmer <joe@barn.org>
+  ---
+  v3:
+    - add a note about time-of-day mooing fluctuation to the commit message
+  v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/123themessageid@barn.org/
+    - fix missing argument in kernel doc for netif_is_bovine()
+    - fix memory leak in netdev_register_cow()
+  v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/456getstheclicks@barn.org/
+
+The commit message should be revised to answer any questions reviewers
+had to ask in previous discussions. Occasionally the update of
+the commit message will be the only change in the new version.
+
 Partial resends
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -155,11 +184,18 @@ Handling misapplied patches
 
 Occasionally a patch series gets applied before receiving critical feedback,
 or the wrong version of a series gets applied.
-There is no revert possible, once it is pushed out, it stays like that.
+
+Making the patch disappear once it is pushed out is not possible, the commit
+history in netdev trees is immutable.
 Please send incremental versions on top of what has been merged in order to fix
 the patches the way they would look like if your latest patch series was to be
 merged.
 
+In cases where full revert is needed the revert has to be submitted
+as a patch to the list with a commit message explaining the technical
+problems with the reverted commit. Reverts should be used as a last resort,
+when original change is completely wrong; incremental fixes are preferred.
+
 Stable tree
 ~~~~~~~~~~~