# \[PATCH net 0/2\] net: preserve rps\_default\_mask on failed writes

- From: Yingjie Wang \<hidden\>
- Date: 2026-10-28 14:52:09 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/10/17817600
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/10/17817600/t.md

```text
rps_default_mask_sysctl() parses and validates writes in the live
per-netns mask. Both the bitmap parser and housekeeping validation can
modify that mask before returning an error, so a failed write can change
the default applied to RX queues created later.

Parse and validate a temporary mask before publishing it, and add a
regression test for a partially parsed invalid value.

On the base kernel, the new test fails because the mask changes from 1
to 3. With the fix, all ten rps_default_mask selftests pass. Tests with
isolated CPUs also confirm that overflow and housekeeping failures leave
the mask unchanged, while valid writes continue to work.

Yingjie Wang (2):
  net: preserve rps_default_mask on failed writes
  selftests: net: check failed rps_default_mask writes

 net/core/sysctl_net_core.c                    | 23 +++++++++++--------
 .../testing/selftests/net/rps_default_mask.sh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)


base-commit: 94cea342e8915812b45f93c56e134041c7fdb4d7
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2.43.0

```