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[195.231.47.232]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4a1e3ebb3aasm193231875e9.0.2026.10.19.04.19.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8dcd9564-e9a3-4b00-93b8-3cb023d68047@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:19:13 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v11 3/6] net: add a generation counter for dev->mc changes To: Yuyang Huang , netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org Cc: ajay.kathat@microchip.com, aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev, davem@davemloft.net, dsahern@kernel.org, donald.hunter@gmail.com, edumazet@google.com, idosch@nvidia.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com, kuba@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, kees@kernel.org, kory.maincent@bootlin.com, kuniyu@google.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, nickgarlis@gmail.com, sd@queasysnail.net, shuah@kernel.org, horms@kernel.org, sdf.kernel@gmail.com, vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev, willemb@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20261012011707.3378-4-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com> <179185709988.434549.15422498299449004512@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Paolo Abeni In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 10/13/26 12:25, Yuyang Huang wrote: >> - [Low] The commit message misdescribes the precedent it copies. > > Looks like a nit, will adjust it if need new revision. > >> - [Low] The patch adds an 8-byte 'struct net_device *mc_dev' to every >> struct netdev_hw_addr_list (include/linux/netdevice.h:253), but only… > > It seems to me this issue by itself doesn't deserve a revision. Will > fix it if new revision is required. I agree this is not a blocker, but I think it would be nice if you could follow-up on this one. The solution proposed by the LLM LGTM. > >> - [Low] __hw_addr_changed() (net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:22-26) reads the >> device netns with plain dev_net(list->mc_dev). > > This was raised on earlier versions. Every dev->mc writer already > reads dev_net() under only the address lock, so this adds no new race. Same here. Also, still speaking of possible follow-up, I think it would be nice if you could change the addr list lifecycle to RCU (no idea of how much complex would be that). Thanks, Paolo