From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <horms@kernel.org>, <jdamato@fastly.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 02/11] net: make netdev_lock() protect netdev->reg_state
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:18:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250115061820.4d6d03a9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250115083023.31347-1-kuniyu@amazon.com>
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:30:23 +0900 Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > @@ -10668,7 +10668,9 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
> >
> > ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev);
> >
> > + netdev_lock(dev);
> > WRITE_ONCE(dev->reg_state, ret ? NETREG_UNREGISTERED : NETREG_REGISTERED);
> > + netdev_unlock(dev);
>
> Do we need the lock before list_netdevice() ?
Fair point, we don't. I couldn't decide whether it's more logical
to skip the locking since device is not listed, or lock it, just
because we say that @reg_state is supposed to be write protected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-15 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-15 3:53 [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] net: use netdev->lock to protect NAPI Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/11] net: add netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() helpers Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 8:21 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 8:36 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-01-15 9:24 ` Ido Schimmel
2025-01-15 14:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 14:24 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/11] net: make netdev_lock() protect netdev->reg_state Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 8:30 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 14:18 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/11] net: add helpers for lookup and walking netdevs under netdev_lock() Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 8:41 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/11] net: add netdev->up protected by netdev_lock() Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 8:45 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/11] net: protect netdev->napi_list with netdev_lock() Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 8:57 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-17 22:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2025-01-17 22:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/11] net: protect NAPI enablement " Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:02 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-21 8:32 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-01-21 8:50 ` David Laight
2025-01-21 15:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/11] net: make netdev netlink ops hold netdev_lock() Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:07 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/11] net: protect threaded status of NAPI with netdev_lock() Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:09 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/11] net: protect napi->irq " Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:12 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/11] net: protect NAPI config fields " Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:15 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-15 3:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/11] netdev-genl: remove rtnl_lock protection from NAPI ops Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-15 9:18 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-16 3:30 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] net: use netdev->lock to protect NAPI patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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