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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Another merge window, another pull full of stuff:
1) Support alternative names for network devices, from Jiri Pirko.
2) Introduce per-netns netdev notifiers, also from Jiri Pirko.
3) Support MSG_PEEK in vsock/virtio, from Matias Ezequiel Vara
Larsen.
4) Allow compiling out the TLS TOE code, from Jakub Kicinski.
5) Add several new tracepoints to the kTLS code, also from Jakub.
6) Support set channels ethtool callback in ena driver, from Sameeh
Jubran.
7) New SCTP events SCTP_ADDR_ADDED, SCTP_ADDR_REMOVED,
SCTP_ADDR_MADE_PRIM, and SCTP_SEND_FAILED_EVENT. From Xin Long.
8) Add XDP support to mvneta driver, from Lorenzo Bianconi.
9) Lots of netfilter hw offload fixes, cleanups and enhancements,
from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
10) PTP support for aquantia chips, from Egor Pomozov.
11) Add UDP segmentation offload support to igb, ixgbe, and i40e. From
Josh Hunt.
12) Add smart nagle to tipc, from Jon Maloy.
13) Support L2 field rewrite by TC offloads in bnxt_en, from Venkat
Duvvuru.
14) Add a flow mask cache to OVS, from Tonghao Zhang.
15) Add XDP support to ice driver, from Maciej Fijalkowski.
16) Add AF_XDP support to ice driver, from Krzysztof Kazimierczak.
17) Support UDP GSO offload in atlantic driver, from Igor Russkikh.
18) Support it in stmmac driver too, from Jose Abreu.
19) Support TIPC encryption and auth, from Tuong Lien.
20) Introduce BPF trampolines, from Alexei Starovoitov.
21) Make page_pool API more numa friendly, from Saeed Mahameed.
22) Introduce route hints to ipv4 and ipv6, from Paolo Abeni.
23) Add UDP segmentation offload to cxgb4, Rahul Lakkireddy"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1857 commits)
libbpf: Fix usage of u32 in userspace code
mm: Implement no-MMU variant of vmalloc_user_node_flags
slip: Fix use-after-free Read in slip_open
net: dsa: sja1105: fix sja1105_parse_rgmii_delays()
macvlan: schedule bc_work even if error
enetc: add support Credit Based Shaper(CBS) for hardware offload
net: phy: add helpers phy_(un)lock_mdio_bus
mdio_bus: don't use managed reset-controller
ax88179_178a: add ethtool_op_get_ts_info()
mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix use of uninitialized adjacency index
mlxsw: spectrum_router: After underlay moves, demote conflicting tunnels
bpf: Simplify __bpf_arch_text_poke poke type handling
bpf: Introduce BPF_TRACE_x helper for the tracing tests
bpf: Add bpf_jit_blinding_enabled for !CONFIG_BPF_JIT
bpf, testing: Add various tail call test cases
bpf, x86: Emit patchable direct jump as tail call
bpf: Constant map key tracking for prog array pokes
bpf: Add poke dependency tracking for prog array maps
bpf: Add initial poke descriptor table for jit images
bpf: Move owner type, jited info into array auxiliary data
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