From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, olteanv@gmail.com, kurt@linutronix.de,
vivien.didelot@gmail.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, kuba@kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, bigeasy@linutronix.de,
kamil.alkhouri@hs-offenburg.de, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:53:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200901.115338.1041117882209940166.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200901163610.GD22807@hoboy>
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:36:10 -0700
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Maybe, at the moment, RTNL is keeping things atomic. But that is
>> because there is no HWMON, or MDIO bus. Those sort of operations don't
>> take the RTNL, and so would be an issue. I've also never audited the
>> network stack to check RTNL really is held at all the network stack
>> entry points to a DSA driver. It would be an interesting excesses to
>> scatter some ASSERT_RTNL() in a DSA driver and see what happens.
>
> Device drivers really aught to protect their state and their devices'
> state from concurrent access.
Completely agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-01 12:50 [PATCH v4 0/7] Hirschmann Hellcreek DSA driver Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] net: dsa: Add tag handling for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver " Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 13:40 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-01 14:05 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 14:22 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-01 15:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-01 16:36 ` Richard Cochran
2020-09-01 18:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2020-09-02 5:59 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 15:11 ` kernel test robot
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add PTP clock support Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add support for hardware timestamping Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add PTP status LEDs Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-03 16:32 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Hirschmann Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-01 12:50 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] dt-bindings: net: dsa: Add documentation for Hellcreek switches Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-09-03 16:27 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-03 16:29 ` Florian Fainelli
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