Re: [PATCH net,v4, 2/3] hv_netvsc: Fix race of register_netdevice_notifier and VF register

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 06:38:59AM -0800, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> If VF NIC is registered earlier, NETDEV_REGISTER event is replayed,
> but NETDEV_POST_INIT is not.
> 
> Move register_netdevice_notifier() earlier, so the call back
> function is set before probing.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: e04e7a7bbd4b ("hv_netvsc: Fix a deadlock by getting rtnl lock earlier in netvsc_probe()")
> Reported-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
> 
> ---
> v3:
>   Divide it into two patches, suggested by Jakub Kicinski.
> v2:
>   Fix rtnl_unlock() in error handling as found by Wojciech Drewek.
> ---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index 5e528a76f5f5..1d1491da303b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -2793,11 +2793,14 @@ static int __init netvsc_drv_init(void)
>  	}
>  	netvsc_ring_bytes = ring_size * PAGE_SIZE;
>  
> +	register_netdevice_notifier(&netvsc_netdev_notifier);
> +
>  	ret = vmbus_driver_register(&netvsc_drv);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		unregister_netdevice_notifier(&netvsc_netdev_notifier);
>  		return ret;
> +	}
>  
> -	register_netdevice_notifier(&netvsc_netdev_notifier);
>  	return 0;
>  }

Hi Haiyang Zhang,

functionally this change looks good to me, thanks!

I'm wondering if we could improve things slightly by using a more idiomatic
form for the error path. Something like the following (completely untested!).

My reasoning is that this way things are less likely go to wrong if more
error conditions are added to this function later.

	...

	register_netdevice_notifier(&netvsc_netdev_notifier);

	ret = vmbus_driver_register(&netvsc_drv);
	if (ret)
		goto err_unregister_netdevice_notifier;

	return 0;

err_unregister_netdevice_notifier:
	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&netvsc_netdev_notifier);
	return ret;
}