[PATCH net-next v7 0/4] gtp: ynl spec for the GTP netlink family, two fixes, and a selftest
From: Anil Kaushik
Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 05:33:44 EST
This adds a ynl spec for the gtp genetlink family, two small driver
fixes, and a selftest.
Patch 1: the GET and dump replies carried the family id in the command
field, so ynl dropped them. Use GTP_CMD_GETPDP instead.
Patch 2: new in v7. On the netdev CI debug kernel, the selftest hit an
RCU warning: adding a PDP context looks up the device without the RCU
read lock. Hold it around the lookup.
Patch 3: the spec (NEWPDP/DELPDP/GETPDP/ECHOREQ), no uapi change.
Patch 4: a selftest that adds, dumps and deletes PDP contexts.
The multicast notifications are not in the spec: they reuse the request
command values, which the ynl C generator can't express with the
current uapi header.
v7:
- new patch 2: fix the RCU warning the selftest found on debug kernels
- selftest: add a docstring to GtpFamily (pylint)
- Cc Stanislav for lib/py
v6:
- spec: use the gtp_version uapi enum for the version attribute
- spec: family only applies to the MS address, fix its doc
- selftest: also skip on "Unknown device type", printed by iproute2
with extack support when the kernel has no gtp
v5:
- ynl: add CFLAGS_gtp so the generated code builds with older headers
- spec: doc fixes, min-len for the IPv6 attributes
- selftest: only skip when GTP is unavailable, close the ynl handle
v4:
- spec: request/reply attributes now match the handlers
- selftest: fix the gtp.ko autoload crash, check ENOENT, delete by
TEI and by MS address
v6: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261013031000.528393-1-anilkaushikwireless@xxxxxxxxx/
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261012024800.400616-1-anilkaushikwireless@xxxxxxxxx/
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261010105740.223992-1-anilkaushikwireless@xxxxxxxxx/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261009060615.4177402-1-anilkaushikwireless@xxxxxxxxx/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261008181031.4129029-1-anilkaushikwireless@xxxxxxxxx/
Anil Kaushik (4):
gtp: set a valid genl command in PDP context get and dump replies
gtp: hold RCU for the device lookup when adding a PDP context
netlink: specs: add genetlink-legacy spec for GTP
selftests: net: add a test for the gtp netlink family
Documentation/netlink/specs/gtp.yaml | 196 ++++++++++++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 2 +
drivers/net/gtp.c | 7 +-
tools/net/ynl/Makefile.deps | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/config | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/gtp.py | 123 +++++++++++
.../testing/selftests/net/lib/py/__init__.py | 5 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ynl.py | 9 +-
9 files changed, 340 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/gtp.yaml
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/gtp.py
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