[PATCH net-next v13 1/5] tun/tap: add IFF_BACKPRESSURE flag
From: Simon Schippers <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-30 21:40:20
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Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, tun/tap driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Wang
Add the IFF_BACKPRESSURE flag to the UAPI header and to TUN_FEATURES so that it can be set via TUNSETIFF. The flag has no effect yet, it is the gate for the qdisc backpressure logic added by the following patches. Keeping the flag and its users in separate patches would either leave a window where backpressure is unconditional, or make the gate a later add-on. Adding the flag first lets every following patch be a no-op unless it is set. Signed-off-by: Simon Schippers <redacted> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 3 ++- include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 4 ++++ tools/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 51e80000bd0e..ea8573efb848 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ static void tun_default_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev, #define TUN_FASYNC IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE #define TUN_FEATURES (IFF_NO_PI | IFF_ONE_QUEUE | IFF_VNET_HDR | \ - IFF_MULTI_QUEUE | IFF_NAPI | IFF_NAPI_FRAGS) + IFF_MULTI_QUEUE | IFF_NAPI | IFF_NAPI_FRAGS | \ + IFF_BACKPRESSURE) #define GOODCOPY_LEN 128
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
index 79d53c7a1ebd..a0ddc50a7534 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ #define IFF_NAPI_FRAGS 0x0020 /* Used in TUNSETIFF to bring up tun/tap without carrier */ #define IFF_NO_CARRIER 0x0040 +/* Stop the queue instead of dropping when the internal ring is full, so an + * attached qdisc applies backpressure instead of being bypassed. + */ +#define IFF_BACKPRESSURE 0x0080 #define IFF_NO_PI 0x1000 /* This flag has no real effect */ #define IFF_ONE_QUEUE 0x2000
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
index 2ec07de1d73b..2c85525704c1 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ #define IFF_TAP 0x0002 #define IFF_NAPI 0x0010 #define IFF_NAPI_FRAGS 0x0020 +/* Stop the queue instead of dropping when the internal ring is full, so an + * attached qdisc applies backpressure instead of being bypassed. + */ +#define IFF_BACKPRESSURE 0x0080 #define IFF_NO_PI 0x1000 /* This flag has no real effect */ #define IFF_ONE_QUEUE 0x2000
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