From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: dummy: do not acquire RTNL for too long
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:10:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427091016.737015-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
Instead of holding RTNL for an arbitrary amount of time,
call register_netdev() for each dummy device created
at module loading time.
Tested:
modprobe dummy numdummies=10000
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
drivers/net/dummy.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dummy.c b/drivers/net/dummy.c
index f8a4eb365c3d068399c7af9305785aea1a5a7aac..f6732eab5923f02d0164f2a47258b87740f8c593 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dummy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dummy.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int __init dummy_init_one(void)
return -ENOMEM;
dev_dummy->rtnl_link_ops = &dummy_link_ops;
- err = register_netdevice(dev_dummy);
+ err = register_netdev(dev_dummy);
if (err < 0)
goto err;
return 0;
@@ -176,15 +176,11 @@ static int __init dummy_init_module(void)
if (err < 0)
return err;
- rtnl_net_lock(&init_net);
-
for (i = 0; i < numdummies && !err; i++) {
err = dummy_init_one();
cond_resched();
}
- rtnl_net_unlock(&init_net);
-
if (err < 0)
rtnl_link_unregister(&dummy_link_ops);
--
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog
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