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Kuniyuki Iwashima 2a63dd0edf net: Retire DCCP socket. 
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd ("MAINTAINERS: dccp:
move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer
had been inactive for five years.

In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes
to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot.  Apart from that,
the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates
or adjustments related to TCP.

Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit
b144fcaf46 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").

Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]

There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP.  The repository is hosted
on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream
community.  While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license,
the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:

  "This is not Open Source software."

The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream
the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further
communication since then.

Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.

Therefore, it's time to remove it.

Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP.  It allows
us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which
is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of
cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.

Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested.  [3]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux)
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
 		2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
Documentation net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
arch net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
block treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes reverts the multibuffer hash testing as it is buggy. 2025-04-02 09:14:59 -07:00
drivers net: phy: air_en8811h: Add clk provider for CKO pin 2025-04-11 18:35:04 -07:00
fs CRC cleanups for 6.15 2025-04-08 12:09:28 -07:00
include net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
init Miscellaneous scheduler fixes/updates: 2025-04-06 10:44:58 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: reject zero sized provided buffers 2025-04-07 07:51:23 -06:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel trace: tcp: Add tracepoint for tcp_sendmsg_locked() 2025-04-10 18:34:05 -07:00
lib CRC cleanups for 6.15 2025-04-08 12:09:28 -07:00
mm Disable SLUB_TINY for build testing 2025-04-06 10:00:04 -07:00
net net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.15 2025-04-05 15:46:50 -07:00
samples net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
scripts net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
security net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
sound soundwire fix for 6.15-rc1 2025-04-06 12:04:53 -07:00
tools selftest: net: Remove DCCP bits. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt ARM: 2025-04-08 13:47:55 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's `for_each` macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add an entry for Nicolas Schier 2025-04-01 15:20:45 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
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CREDITS Including fixes from netfilter. 2025-04-04 09:15:35 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: Add '-fno-builtin-wcslen' 2025-04-08 12:03:26 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.