netdev - [RFC PATCH v5 0/7] net: wwan: add NMEA port type support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20260109010909.4216-1-ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2026 03:09:02 +0200
From: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>
To: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@....qualcomm.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Slark Xiao <slark_xiao@....com>,
	Muhammad Nuzaihan <zaihan@...ealasia.net>,
	Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@...il.com>,
	Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@...cinc.com>,
	Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v5 0/7] net: wwan: add NMEA port type support

The series introduces a long discussed NMEA port type support for the
WWAN subsystem. There are two goals. From the WWAN driver perspective,
NMEA exported as any other port type (e.g. AT, MBIM, QMI, etc.). From
user space software perspective, the exported chardev belongs to the
GNSS class what makes it easy to distinguish desired port and the WWAN
device common to both NMEA and control (AT, MBIM, etc.) ports makes it
easy to locate a control port for the GNSS receiver activation.

Done by exporting the NMEA port via the GNSS subsystem with the WWAN
core acting as proxy between the WWAN modem driver and the GNSS
subsystem.

The series starts from a cleanup patch. Then three patches prepares the
WWAN core for the proxy style operation. Followed by a patch introding a
new WWNA port type, integration with the GNSS subsystem and demux. The
series ends with a couple of patches that introduce emulated EMEA port
to the WWAN HW simulator.

The series is the product of the discussion with Loic about the pros and
cons of possible models and implementation. Also Muhammad and Slark did
a great job defining the problem, sharing the code and pushing me to
finish the implementation. Daniele has caught an issue on driver
unloading and suggested an investigation direction. What was concluded
by Loic. Many thanks.

Slark, if this series with the unregister fix suits you, please bundle
it with your MHI patch, and (re-)send for final inclusion.

Changes RFCv1->RFCv2:
* Uniformly use put_device() to release port memory. This made code less
  weird and way more clear. Thank you, Loic, for noticing and the fix
  discussion!
Changes RFCv2->RFCv5:
* Fix premature WWAN device unregister; new patch 2/7, thus, all
  subsequent patches have been renumbered
* Minor adjustments here and there

CC: Slark Xiao <slark_xiao@....com>
CC: Muhammad Nuzaihan <zaihan@...ealasia.net>
CC: Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@...il.com>
CC: Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@...cinc.com>
CC: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
CC: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

Sergey Ryazanov (7):
  net: wwan: core: remove unused port_id field
  net: wwan: core: explicit WWAN device reference counting
  net: wwan: core: split port creation and registration
  net: wwan: core: split port unregister and stop
  net: wwan: add NMEA port support
  net: wwan: hwsim: refactor to support more port types
  net: wwan: hwsim: support NMEA port emulation

 drivers/net/wwan/Kconfig      |   1 +
 drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c  | 280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/net/wwan/wwan_hwsim.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/wwan.h          |   2 +
 4 files changed, 396 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)

-- 
2.52.0