[PATCH 03/10 net-next v3] ipv6: remove dynamic ICMPv6 sender registration infrastructure

From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 10:10:50 EST


As IPv6 is built-in only, there is no need to maintain the sender
registration infrastructure used to allow built-in subsystems to send
ICMPv6 messages when IPv6 was compiled as a module.

Drop the registration mechanism and the __icmpv6_send() sender
implementation. While icmpv6_send() users could be converted to
icmp6_send() that doesn't seems necessary as none of them are using the
force_saddr parameter.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <rbm@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/icmpv6.h | 26 ++----------------------
net/ipv6/icmp.c | 6 ------
net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c | 46 +++---------------------------------------
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/icmpv6.h b/include/linux/icmpv6.h
index e3b3b0fa2a8f..bb000dc571f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/icmpv6.h
+++ b/include/linux/icmpv6.h
@@ -21,32 +21,10 @@ typedef void ip6_icmp_send_t(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
void icmp6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
const struct in6_addr *force_saddr,
const struct inet6_skb_parm *parm);
-#if IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_IPV6)
-static inline void __icmpv6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
- const struct inet6_skb_parm *parm)
-{
- icmp6_send(skb, type, code, info, NULL, parm);
-}
-static inline int inet6_register_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
-{
- BUILD_BUG_ON(fn != icmp6_send);
- return 0;
-}
-static inline int inet6_unregister_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
-{
- BUILD_BUG_ON(fn != icmp6_send);
- return 0;
-}
-#else
-extern void __icmpv6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
- const struct inet6_skb_parm *parm);
-extern int inet6_register_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn);
-extern int inet6_unregister_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn);
-#endif

static inline void icmpv6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)
{
- __icmpv6_send(skb, type, code, info, IP6CB(skb));
+ icmp6_send(skb, type, code, info, NULL, IP6CB(skb));
}

int ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhs, int type,
@@ -58,7 +36,7 @@ void icmpv6_ndo_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info);
static inline void icmpv6_ndo_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)
{
struct inet6_skb_parm parm = { 0 };
- __icmpv6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, &parm);
+ icmp6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, NULL, &parm);
}
#endif

diff --git a/net/ipv6/icmp.c b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
index 813d2e9edb8b..8e8d7bd84a4c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
@@ -1288,13 +1288,8 @@ int __init icmpv6_init(void)
if (inet6_add_protocol(&icmpv6_protocol, IPPROTO_ICMPV6) < 0)
goto fail;

- err = inet6_register_icmp_sender(icmp6_send);
- if (err)
- goto sender_reg_err;
return 0;

-sender_reg_err:
- inet6_del_protocol(&icmpv6_protocol, IPPROTO_ICMPV6);
fail:
pr_err("Failed to register ICMP6 protocol\n");
return err;
@@ -1302,7 +1297,6 @@ int __init icmpv6_init(void)

void icmpv6_cleanup(void)
{
- inet6_unregister_icmp_sender(icmp6_send);
inet6_del_protocol(&icmpv6_protocol, IPPROTO_ICMPV6);
}

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c
index 233914b63bdb..e43ea9492332 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c
@@ -7,47 +7,8 @@

#include <net/ipv6.h>

-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)

-#if !IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_IPV6)
-
-static ip6_icmp_send_t __rcu *ip6_icmp_send;
-
-int inet6_register_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
-{
- return (cmpxchg((ip6_icmp_send_t **)&ip6_icmp_send, NULL, fn) == NULL) ?
- 0 : -EBUSY;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_register_icmp_sender);
-
-int inet6_unregister_icmp_sender(ip6_icmp_send_t *fn)
-{
- int ret;
-
- ret = (cmpxchg((ip6_icmp_send_t **)&ip6_icmp_send, fn, NULL) == fn) ?
- 0 : -EINVAL;
-
- synchronize_net();
-
- return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_unregister_icmp_sender);
-
-void __icmpv6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
- const struct inet6_skb_parm *parm)
-{
- ip6_icmp_send_t *send;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- send = rcu_dereference(ip6_icmp_send);
- if (send)
- send(skb, type, code, info, NULL, parm);
- rcu_read_unlock();
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__icmpv6_send);
-#endif
-
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
void icmpv6_ndo_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)
{
@@ -60,7 +21,7 @@ void icmpv6_ndo_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)

ct = nf_ct_get(skb_in, &ctinfo);
if (!ct || !(READ_ONCE(ct->status) & IPS_NAT_MASK)) {
- __icmpv6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, &parm);
+ icmp6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, NULL, &parm);
return;
}

@@ -76,11 +37,10 @@ void icmpv6_ndo_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)
orig_ip = ipv6_hdr(skb_in)->saddr;
dir = CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo);
ipv6_hdr(skb_in)->saddr = ct->tuplehash[dir].tuple.src.u3.in6;
- __icmpv6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, &parm);
+ icmp6_send(skb_in, type, code, info, NULL, &parm);
ipv6_hdr(skb_in)->saddr = orig_ip;
out:
consume_skb(cloned_skb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(icmpv6_ndo_send);
#endif
-#endif
--
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