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From: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] netconsole: resume previously deactivated target
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:05:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251109-netcons-retrigger-v3-5-1654c280bbe6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251109-netcons-retrigger-v3-0-1654c280bbe6@gmail.com>

Attempt to resume a previously deactivated target when the associated
interface comes back (NETDEV_UP event is received) by calling
__netpoll_setup_hold on the device.

Depending on how the target was setup (by mac or interface name), the
corresponding field is compared with the device being brought up.

Targets that are candidates for resuming are removed from the target list
and added to a temporarily list, as __netpoll_setup_hold might allocate.
__netpoll_setup_hold assumes RTNL is held (which is guaranteed to be the
case when handling the event) and holds a reference to the device in case
of success. This reference will be removed upon target (or netconsole)
removal by netpoll_cleanup.

Target transitions to STATE_DISABLED in case of failures resuming it to
avoid retrying the same target indefinitely.

Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 5a374e6d178d..50d6df101c20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -135,10 +135,12 @@ enum target_state {
  * @stats:	Packet send stats for the target. Used for debugging.
  * @state:	State of the target.
  *		Visible from userspace (read-write).
- *		We maintain a strict 1:1 correspondence between this and
- *		whether the corresponding netpoll is active or inactive.
+ *		From a userspace perspective, the target is either enabled or
+ *		disabled. Internally, although both STATE_DISABLED and
+ *		STATE_DEACTIVATED correspond to inactive netpoll the latter is
+ *		due to interface state changes and may recover automatically.
  *		Also, other parameters of a target may be modified at
- *		runtime only when it is disabled (state == STATE_DISABLED).
+ *		runtime only when it is disabled (state != STATE_ENABLED).
  * @extended:	Denotes whether console is extended or not.
  * @release:	Denotes whether kernel release version should be prepended
  *		to the message. Depends on extended console.
@@ -1445,17 +1447,50 @@ static int prepare_extradata(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC */
 
+/* Attempts to resume logging to a deactivated target. */
+static void maybe_resume_target(struct netconsole_target *nt,
+				struct net_device *ndev)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = __netpoll_setup_hold(&nt->np, ndev);
+	if (ret) {
+		/* netpoll fails setup once, do not try again. */
+		nt->state = STATE_DISABLED;
+	} else {
+		nt->state = STATE_ENABLED;
+		pr_info("network logging resumed on interface %s\n",
+			nt->np.dev_name);
+	}
+}
+
+/* Check if the target was bound by mac address. */
+static bool bound_by_mac(struct netconsole_target *nt)
+{
+	return is_valid_ether_addr(nt->np.dev_mac);
+}
+
+/* Checks if a target matches a device. */
+static bool target_match(struct netconsole_target *nt, struct net_device *ndev)
+{
+	if (bound_by_mac(nt))
+		return !memcmp(nt->np.dev_mac, ndev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+	return !strncmp(nt->np.dev_name, ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
+}
+
 /* Handle network interface device notifications */
 static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 				   unsigned long event, void *ptr)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct netconsole_target *nt, *tmp;
 	struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
+	struct netconsole_target *nt, *tmp;
+	LIST_HEAD(resume_list);
 	bool stopped = false;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (!(event == NETDEV_CHANGENAME || event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER ||
-	      event == NETDEV_RELEASE || event == NETDEV_JOIN))
+	      event == NETDEV_RELEASE || event == NETDEV_JOIN ||
+	      event == NETDEV_UP))
 		goto done;
 
 	mutex_lock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
@@ -1475,11 +1510,26 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 				stopped = true;
 			}
 		}
+		if (nt->state == STATE_DEACTIVATED && event == NETDEV_UP &&
+		    target_match(nt, dev))
+			list_move(&nt->list, &resume_list);
 		netconsole_target_put(nt);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
 	mutex_unlock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
 
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(nt, tmp, &resume_list, list) {
+		maybe_resume_target(nt, dev);
+
+		/* At this point the target is either enabled or disabled and
+		 * was cleaned up before getting deactivated. Either way, add it
+		 * back to target list.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags);
+		list_move(&nt->list, &target_list);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
+	}
+
 	if (stopped) {
 		const char *msg = "had an event";
 

-- 
2.51.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-09 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-09 11:05 [PATCH net-next v3 0/6] netconsole: support automatic target recovery Andre Carvalho
2025-11-09 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] netconsole: add target_state enum Andre Carvalho
2025-11-09 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/6] netconsole: convert 'enabled' flag to enum for clearer state management Andre Carvalho
2025-11-09 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/6] netconsole: add STATE_DEACTIVATED to track targets disabled by low level Andre Carvalho
2025-11-09 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/6] netpoll: add wrapper around __netpoll_setup with dev reference Andre Carvalho
2025-11-09 11:05 ` Andre Carvalho [this message]
2025-11-09 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] selftests: netconsole: validate target resume Andre Carvalho

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