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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	 Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	 Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] netdevsim: psp: serialize calls to nsim_psp_uninit()
Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 15:31:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.15fa63687b81@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260505-psd-rcu-v1-2-a8f69ec1ab96@gmail.com>

Daniel Zahka wrote:
> The debugfs write handler, nsim_psp_rereg_write(), can race against
> nsim_destroy() and against itself, causing nsim_psp_uninit() to run
> more than once concurrently. Two complementary changes serialize all
> callers:

nit: sounds and looks as if this would be simpler as two patches.
but no need to respin just for that.

> 
> 1. Delete the psp_rereg debugfs file from nsim_psp_uninit() before
>    doing the actual teardown. debugfs_remove() drains any in-flight
>    writers and prevents new ones from starting.
> 
> 2. Add a mutex around the body of nsim_psp_rereg_write() so that two
>    concurrent userspace writers cannot both enter the teardown path
>    at once.
> 
> The teardown work itself is moved into a new __nsim_psp_uninit() that
> the rereg handler calls under the mutex, while the public
> nsim_psp_uninit() wraps it with the debugfs_remove()/mutex_destroy()
> pair so nsim_destroy() doesn't have to know about the psp internals.
> 
> Fixes: f857478d6206 ("netdevsim: a basic test PSP implementation")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-06 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-05 10:42 [PATCH net 0/3] netdevsim: psp: fix init and uninit bugs Daniel Zahka
2026-05-05 10:42 ` [PATCH net 1/3] netdevsim: psp: only call nsim_psp_uninit() on PFs Daniel Zahka
2026-05-06 19:30   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-05-05 10:42 ` [PATCH net 2/3] netdevsim: psp: serialize calls to nsim_psp_uninit() Daniel Zahka
2026-05-06 19:31   ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-05-05 10:42 ` [PATCH net 3/3] netdevsim: psp: rcu protect psp_dev reference Daniel Zahka
2026-05-06 19:34   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-05-06 20:14     ` Daniel Zahka
2026-05-06 20:43       ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-05-07  0:50 ` [PATCH net 0/3] netdevsim: psp: fix init and uninit bugs patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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