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Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167]) by imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org with ESMTPSA id hzp8LPpeuWmpYwAAD6G6ig (envelope-from ); Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:02:34 +0000 From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fernando Fernandez Mancera , davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, dsahern@kernel.org, rbm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 00/10 net-next v3] Convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in and remove stubs Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20260317140141.5723-1-fmancera@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.80 / 50.00]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[100.00%]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_MISSING_CHARSET(0.50)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-0.999]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; SEM_URIBL_FRESH15_UNKNOWN_FAIL(0.00)[googlesource.com:query timed out]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[suse.de:s=susede2_rsa,suse.de:s=susede2_ed25519]; FUZZY_RATELIMITED(0.00)[rspamd.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; SEM_URIBL_UNKNOWN_FAIL(0.00)[googlesource.com:query timed out]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCPT_COUNT_SEVEN(0.00)[10]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[suse.de:mid,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo] X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.80 X-Spam-Level: Historically, the Linux kernel has supported compiling the IPv6 stack as a loadable module. While this made sense in the early days of IPv6 adoption, modern deployments and distributions overwhelmingly either build IPv6 directly into the kernel (CONFIG_IPV6=y) or disable it entirely (CONFIG_IPV6=n). The modular IPv6 use-case offers image size and memory savings for specific setups, this benefit is outweighed by the architectural burden it imposes on the subsystems on implementation and maintenance. In addition, most of the distributions are already using CONFIG_IPV6=y by default [1], including openWRT [2] and Android gki_defconfig [3]. So this won't have an impact on them. The most impacted architecture would probably be arm64 as their default config is still using CONFIG_IPV6=m. To allow core networking, BPF, Netfilter, and various device drivers to safely interact with a potentially unloaded IPv6 module, the kernel relies on indirect call structures like ipv6_stub, ipv6_bpf_stub, and nf_ipv6_ops, along with dynamic RCU registrations for things like ICMPv6 senders. This patch series addresses this by changing CONFIG_IPV6 from a tristate to a boolean, enforcing that IPv6 is either built-in or disabled. This allows us to completely rip out the stub infrastructures and safely replace them with direct function calls. The bloat-o-meter report the following results for m68k, arm64, x86_64 defconfig. m68k (keep on mind that CONFIG_IPV6 is disabled now): add/remove: 65/938 grow/shrink: 36/254 up/down: 3022/-49692 (-46670) arm64: add/remove: 1251/265 grow/shrink: 81/46 up/down: 448740/-71519 (377221) x86_64: add/remove: 62/98 grow/shrink: 10/39 up/down: 2497/-4357 (-1860) Considering that each new kernel release increases sizes by 30-40KiB on average, this size increase isn't a huge jump for the distributions that are still using CONFIG_IPV6=m. For the ones that are already using CONFIG_IPV6=y, the size is reduced actually. All the patches has been independently build tested. With allmodconfig and allmodconfig + CONFIG_IPV6=n. In addition, net selftest has been run against them on virtme-ng. The series applied as a whole as been tested with allyesconfig and also allyesconfig + CONFIG_IPV6=n but not all patches has been independently tested this way. [1] https://github.com/nyrahul/linux-kernel-configs [2] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/832e7b817221d288df76b763ca12c585365db5d8 [3] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/heads/android-mainline/arch/arm64/configs/gki_defconfig Changes: v3: Patch 1: bring back CONFIG_NET_FOU_IP_TUNNELS on m68k defconfigs and drop unrelated changes. Patch 4: add missing netlink error message indicating IPv6 is disabled Patch 8: use __inet6_bind() instead the alias that was just created. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260310153506.5181-1-fmancera@suse.de/ Patch 1: change fs_initcall() to device_initcall() to avoid race condition and disable CONFIG_IPV6 on m68k defconfigs. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260309022013.5199-1-fmancera@suse.de/ Fernando Fernandez Mancera (10): ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs ipv6: replace IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_IPV6) with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) ipv6: remove dynamic ICMPv6 sender registration infrastructure ipv6: prepare headers for ipv6_stub removal drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls ipv4: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls bpf: remove ipv6_bpf_stub completely and use direct function calls ipv6: remove ipv6_stub infrastructure completely netfilter: remove nf_ipv6_ops and use direct function calls arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 2 +- arch/m68k/configs/amiga_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/apollo_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/atari_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/bvme6000_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/hp300_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/mac_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/multi_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/mvme147_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/mvme16x_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/q40_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/sun3_defconfig | 44 +------- arch/m68k/configs/sun3x_defconfig | 44 +------- drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 3 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/Kconfig | 9 -- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/Kconfig | 2 +- .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/neigh.c | 12 ++- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun.c | 3 +- .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun_encap.c | 2 +- .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c | 1 - .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 1 - .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/Kconfig | 1 - .../ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 9 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_span.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/Kconfig | 1 - .../ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/action.c | 2 +- .../netronome/nfp/flower/tunnel_conf.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tc_counters.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tc_encap_actions.c | 5 +- drivers/net/geneve.c | 1 - drivers/net/gtp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ovpn/udp.c | 3 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 17 +-- drivers/net/vrf.c | 3 +- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 11 +- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_multicast.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireguard/socket.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/scsi/bnx2i/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/dlm/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/gfs2/Kconfig | 2 +- include/linux/icmpv6.h | 26 +---- include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h | 2 +- include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h | 102 ++---------------- include/net/ip.h | 5 - include/net/ip6_fib.h | 35 +++++- include/net/ip6_route.h | 26 +++++ include/net/ipv6.h | 12 +++ include/net/ipv6_stubs.h | 101 ----------------- include/net/ndisc.h | 38 +++---- include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 3 +- net/bridge/Kconfig | 1 - net/bridge/br_arp_nd_proxy.c | 3 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 12 +-- net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c | 7 +- net/core/filter.c | 68 +++++------- net/core/lwt_bpf.c | 10 +- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/Kconfig | 9 +- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 11 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 21 ++-- net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/Kconfig | 6 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 10 +- net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c | 91 ---------------- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 67 +----------- net/ipv6/icmp.c | 6 -- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 10 +- net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c | 46 +------- net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 35 +++--- net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 48 --------- net/ipv6/route.c | 13 +-- net/l2tp/Kconfig | 1 - net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/Kconfig | 8 -- net/netfilter/core.c | 3 - net/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade.c | 21 +--- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 22 +++- net/netfilter/utils.c | 1 - net/openvswitch/actions.c | 3 +- net/rxrpc/Kconfig | 2 +- net/sched/sch_frag.c | 4 +- net/sctp/Kconfig | 1 - net/tipc/Kconfig | 1 - net/tipc/udp_media.c | 9 +- net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 5 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 4 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_output.c | 3 +- 103 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 1286 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 include/net/ipv6_stubs.h -- 2.53.0