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From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: reject ops-locked drivers without ndo_set_rx_mode_async
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2026 11:42:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261002094211.2350702-3-nb@tipi-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261002094211.2350702-1-nb@tipi-net.de>

ndo_set_rx_mode cannot sleep and runs with netif_addr_lock_bh held, so an
ops-locked driver cannot take the instance lock from it.
ndo_set_rx_mode_async is the replacement and runs in process context.

Registration has only warned about this since v7.1, long enough to find
the offenders. Make it an error.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
---
I grepped for potential offenders in the tree using

  for f in $(git grep -lE 'request_ops_lock|queue_mgmt_ops|net_shaper_ops' \
                          -- drivers/net); do
          d=$(dirname $f)
          git grep -q '\.ndo_set_rx_mode\s*=' -- $d &&
          ! git grep -q 'ndo_set_rx_mode_async' -- $d && echo "$d"
  done

but haven't found any. net-next testing will show if I missed something.

 net/core/dev.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a44bcfc29d54..ca7f4844cc40 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -11463,8 +11463,10 @@ static int netdev_check_ops(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 
 	if (netdev_need_ops_lock(dev) && ops->ndo_set_rx_mode &&
-	    !ops->ndo_set_rx_mode_async)
+	    !ops->ndo_set_rx_mode_async) {
 		netdev_WARN(dev, "ops-locked drivers should use ndo_set_rx_mode_async\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-02  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20261002094211.2350702-1-nb@tipi-net.de>
2026-10-02  9:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net: move the netdev_ops checks into a helper Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-10-06  0:10   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-10-02  9:42 ` Nicolai Buchwitz [this message]
2026-10-02  9:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: reject a netdev that implements only one hwtstamp NDO Nicolai Buchwitz

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