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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: aleksander.lobakin@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, elder@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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	sean.wang@mediatek.com, Mark-MC.Lee@mediatek.com,
	lorenzo@kernel.org, taras.chornyi@plvision.eu,
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	kvalo@kernel.org, quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com, leon@kernel.org,
	dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/9] net: free_netdev: exit earlier if dummy
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:46:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240409184625.301e4bc0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240409125738.1824983-2-leitao@debian.org>

On Tue,  9 Apr 2024 05:57:15 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote:
> For dummy devices, exit earlier at free_netdev() instead of executing
> the whole function. This is necessary, because dummy devices are
> special, and shouldn't have the second part of the function executed.
> 
> Otherwise reg_state, which is NETREG_DUMMY for dummy devices, will be
> overwritten and there will be no way to identify that this is a dummy
> device. Also, this device do not need the final put_device(), since
> dummy devices are not registered (through register_netdevice()), where
> the device reference is increased (at netdev_register_kobject() ->
> device_add()).

There's a small fuzz when applying due to the phy topo changes
landing, please rebase, the CI didn't ingest it right.
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-10  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-09 12:57 [PATCH net-next v4 0/9] allocate dummy device dynamically Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/9] net: free_netdev: exit earlier if dummy Breno Leitao
2024-04-10  1:46   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/9] net: create a dummy net_device allocator Breno Leitao
2024-04-10 11:10   ` Ido Schimmel
2024-04-10 12:45     ` Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/9] net: marvell: prestera: allocate dummy net_device dynamically Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/9] net: mediatek: mtk_eth_sock: " Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/9] net: ipa: " Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/9] net: ibm/emac: " Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 7/9] wifi: qtnfmac: Use netdev dummy allocator helper Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 8/9] wifi: ath10k: allocate dummy net_device dynamically Breno Leitao
2024-04-09 12:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 9/9] wifi: ath11k: " Breno Leitao

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