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{ "id": 2218427, "url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/patches/2218427/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20260401074509.1897527-3-dwmw2@infradead.org/", "project": { "id": 26, "url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/projects/26/?format=api", "name": "Netfilter Development", "link_name": "netfilter-devel", "list_id": "netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org", "list_email": "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org", "web_url": null, "scm_url": null, "webscm_url": null, "list_archive_url": "", "list_archive_url_format": "", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<20260401074509.1897527-3-dwmw2@infradead.org>", "list_archive_url": null, "date": "2026-04-01T07:44:16", "name": "[2/6] net: Add CONFIG_LEGACY_IP option", "commit_ref": null, "pull_url": null, "state": "awaiting-upstream", "archived": false, "hash": "4f9d0797e6637799b195875dcd0d34d2ab8b0618", "submitter": { "id": 26, "url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/people/26/?format=api", "name": "David Woodhouse", "email": "dwmw2@infradead.org" }, "delegate": null, "mbox": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20260401074509.1897527-3-dwmw2@infradead.org/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 498288, "url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/series/498288/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/list/?series=498288", "date": "2026-04-01T07:44:20", "name": "Deprecate Legacy IP", "version": 1, "mbox": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/series/498288/mbox/" } ], "comments": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/patches/2218427/comments/", "check": "pending", "checks": "http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/patches/2218427/checks/", "tags": {}, "related": [], "headers": { "Return-Path": "\n <netfilter-devel+bounces-11534-incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@vger.kernel.org>", "X-Original-To": [ "incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org", "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" ], "Delivered-To": "patchwork-incoming@legolas.ozlabs.org", "Authentication-Results": [ "legolas.ozlabs.org;\n\tdkim=pass (2048-bit key;\n secure) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.a=rsa-sha256\n header.s=desiato.20200630 header.b=cGXZEtGH;\n\tdkim-atps=neutral", "legolas.ozlabs.org;\n spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org\n (client-ip=2600:3c0a:e001:db::12fc:5321; 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b=cGXZEtGHD9fH3O9CZN4XP5sxfi\n\tH8mHOXi9NQOmDZi4ip1Y6phk85JdqIAuKBx+xqD+WQReEjlWnndfUL9yz3LdeD4sCBOas46aF6W7I\n\tbcK3LJaLrEDUmYK/7fg7uR0BRH2pbgTxQ+v5yl8oq1vkTYgnLYVTxyv/FeydxPJBssY88jdSgioW1\n\tz/wT7xqPFDUMM4Dl+GgRna90n+n9hKzCX0Dl3jB1kbs1WJj/8I/LUPqb2AVjuUjpFAPdQxAK1Qbdf\n\tDA9oYeheAcq/IUqUFSNZDQ4DHMmZs7leRaYMlDeIgUiYAuD9OTc1d7rGbKsGbXvAbd4nM7pX41kUC\n\tpoZKL3SA==;", "From": "David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>", "To": "Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,\n\tLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,\n\tTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,\n\tMark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,\n\tAndrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,\n\t\"David S. Miller\" <davem@davemloft.net>,\n\tEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,\n\tJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,\n\tPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,\n\tSimon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,\n\tNikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,\n\tIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,\n\tMartin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,\n\tDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,\n\tJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,\n\tStanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,\n\tAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,\n\tAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,\n\tEduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,\n\tSong Liu <song@kernel.org>,\n\tYonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,\n\tKP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,\n\tHao Luo <haoluo@google.com>,\n\tJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,\n\tKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,\n\tWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,\n\tDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,\n\tNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,\n\tJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,\n\tPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,\n\tFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,\n\tPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,\n\tGuillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>,\n\tDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,\n\tKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,\n\tAlexei Lazar <alazar@nvidia.com>,\n\tGal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,\n\tPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,\n\tnetdev@vger.kernel.org,\n\tlinux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,\n\tlinux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,\n\toss-drivers@corigine.com,\n\tbridge@lists.linux.dev,\n\tbpf@vger.kernel.org,\n\tlinux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,\n\tnetfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,\n\tcoreteam@netfilter.org,\n\ttorvalds@linux-foundation.org,\n\tjon.maddog.hall@gmail.com", "Subject": "[PATCH 2/6] net: Add CONFIG_LEGACY_IP option", "Date": "Wed, 1 Apr 2026 08:44:16 +0100", "Message-ID": "<20260401074509.1897527-3-dwmw2@infradead.org>", "X-Mailer": "git-send-email 2.51.0", "In-Reply-To": "<20260401074509.1897527-1-dwmw2@infradead.org>", "References": "<20260401074509.1897527-1-dwmw2@infradead.org>", "Precedence": "bulk", "X-Mailing-List": "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org", "List-Id": "<netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org>", "List-Subscribe": "<mailto:netfilter-devel+subscribe@vger.kernel.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<mailto:netfilter-devel+unsubscribe@vger.kernel.org>", "MIME-Version": "1.0", "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "8bit", "Sender": "David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>", "X-SRS-Rewrite": "SMTP reverse-path rewritten from <dwmw2@infradead.org> by\n desiato.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html" }, "content": "From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>\n\nAdd a new CONFIG_LEGACY_IP boolean option under CONFIG_INET that will\ngate Legacy IP functionality. When disabled, the kernel will not\nregister the AF_INET socket family, IPv4 packet handler, ARP, or IPv4\nrouting, while the shared TCP/UDP/INET socket infrastructure remains\navailable for IPv6.\n\nThis is the first step toward making Legacy IP optional. The option\ndefaults to y and currently has no effect — subsequent patches will use\nit to guard IPv4 entry points.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>\n---\n net/ipv4/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++\n 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)", "diff": "diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig\nindex df922f9f5289..aef2c5349e62 100644\n--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig\n+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig\n@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@\n #\n # IP configuration\n #\n+config LEGACY_IP\n+\tbool \"The IPv4 protocol (Legacy IP)\"\n+\thelp\n+\t Support for IP version 4 (IPv4).\n+\n+\t Legacy IP is the protocol used by the early ARPANET, before IPv6\n+\t was standardised in the final decade of the 1900s. It should only\n+\t be necessary these days to interoperate with legacy networks.\n+\n+\t If unsure, say N.\n+\n config IP_MULTICAST\n \tbool \"IP: multicasting\"\n \thelp\n", "prefixes": [ "2/6" ] }