From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kohei Enju <enjuk@amazon.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<bpf@vger.kernel.org>, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Ahmed Zaki" <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Alexander Lobakin" <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>,
Kohei Enju <kohei.enju@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] dev: remove netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() in register_netdevice().
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 14:41:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250308144142.4f68c0be@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250308131813.4f8c8f0d@kernel.org>
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:18:13 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 05:37:18 +0900 Kohei Enju wrote:
> > Both netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() are called before
> > list_netdevice() in register_netdevice().
> > No other context can access the struct net_device, so we don't need these
> > locks in this context.
>
> Doesn't sysfs get registered earlier?
> I'm afraid not being able to take the lock from the registration
> path ties our hands too much. Maybe we need to make a more serious
> attempt at letting the caller take the lock?
Looking closer at the report - we are violating the contract that only
drivers which opted in get their ops called under the instance lock.
iavf had a similar problem but it had to opt in. WiFi doesn't.
Maybe we can bring the address semaphore back?
We just need to take it before the ops lock in do_setlink.
A bit ugly but would work?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-08 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-08 20:37 [PATCH net-next v1] dev: remove netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() in register_netdevice() Kohei Enju
2025-03-08 21:18 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-08 22:41 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-09 21:41 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-08 22:41 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-03-08 22:59 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-08 23:51 ` Stanislav Fomichev
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