FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-03-16 to 2026-03-22

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-03-16 to 2026-03-22.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

Highlighted commits Expand section Collapse section

For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

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Userland programs Expand section Collapse section

Commits about commands found in man section 1 (other than networking).

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Documentation Expand section Collapse section

Man pages, release notes, etc.

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Hardware support Expand section Collapse section

Hardware drivers and architecture-specific code.

A race condition in the MII layer causes spurious link down events.
In `statchg`, on link down, check if the PHY reports the link as
actually down using the BMSR register, if not, force the status of the
link to back up and restart TX. Do the same in a MII `linkchg` handler.
On actual link up, restart TX in case it went idle and down.

PR:             https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252165
Signed-off-by:  Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>
Reviewed by:    pouria
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55682

Networking Expand section Collapse section

Network-related commands, library, and kernel.

Added optional system tunable parameter to enable
4-tuple rss udp hashing.

Signed-off-by: bigJ <bigj@solanavibestation.com>
Reviewed by: adrian, pouria
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2057

It should be decreased only when the interface has been successfully
removed from the "active" list.

This prevents vnet_if_return() from potential OOB writes to the
allocated memory "pending".

Reviewed by:    kp, pouria
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a779388f8bb3 if: Protect V_ifnet in vnet_if_return()
MFC after:      3 days
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55873

The ioctls SIOCSIFVNET and SIOCSIFRVNET are for userland only. For
SIOCSIFVNET, if_vmove_loan(), the interface is obtained from current
VNET. For SIOCSIFRVNET, if_vmove_reclaim(), a valid child prison is
held before getting the interface. In both cases the VNET of the
obtained interfaces is stable, so there's no need to check it.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed by:    glebius, jamie (for #jails)
MFC after:      2 weeks
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55828

System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

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Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

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Kernel Expand section Collapse section

Kernel stuff (other than networking, filesystems, and drivers).

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Build system Expand section Collapse section

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Internal organizational stuff Expand section Collapse section

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Testing Expand section Collapse section

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Style, typos, and comments Expand section Collapse section

These could go in other categories, but it's more clear if they're here instead.

The function signature of `crypto_initreq()` was
incorrectly documented.

Signed-off-by:  Zixu Wu <zx@bv3.dev>
Reviewed by:    ziaee, pouria
Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2077

Contrib code Expand section Collapse section

Changes:      https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.99/CHANGES
Obtained from:  https://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-4.99.6.tar.xz
Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55578
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55871

Reverted commits Expand section Collapse section

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Unclassified commits Expand section Collapse section

Not classified automatically, and waiting for manual attention.

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Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual date the commit reaches cgit.freebsd.org/src. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly