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From: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
	Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] devlink: Warn on resource ID collision with PARENT_TOP
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:08:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260611070856.889700-6-mmyangfl@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260611070856.889700-1-mmyangfl@gmail.com>

ID 0 serves as the sentinel DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP to mark
top-level resources. While it is technically possible to use 0 as a real
resource ID, a user might be tempted to write:

enum {
    MY_RESOURCE_ID_A,  /* == DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP ! */
    MY_RESOURCE_ID_B,
    MY_RESOURCE_ID_C,
    MY_RESOURCE_ID_D,
    ...
};

register(..., MY_RESOURCE_ID_C, DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP, ...);
register(..., MY_RESOURCE_ID_D, MY_RESOURCE_ID_C, ...);
/* D is a child of C */

register(..., MY_RESOURCE_ID_A, DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP, ...);
register(..., MY_RESOURCE_ID_B, MY_RESOURCE_ID_A, ...);
/* Is B intentionally top-level, or is it actually a child of A? */

Add a WARN_ON() to catch this and prevent confusion.

Signed-off-by: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
---
 net/devlink/resource.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/devlink/resource.c b/net/devlink/resource.c
index 3d2f42bc2fb5..574108ccfe5d 100644
--- a/net/devlink/resource.c
+++ b/net/devlink/resource.c
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@ __devl_resource_register(struct devlink *devlink,
 	struct list_head *resource_list;
 	bool top_hierarchy;
 
+	WARN_ON(resource_id == DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP);
+
 	lockdep_assert_held(&devlink->lock);
 
 	top_hierarchy = parent_resource_id == DEVLINK_RESOURCE_ID_PARENT_TOP;
-- 
2.53.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-11  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-11  7:08 [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] devlink: Warn on resource ID collision with PARENT_TOP David Yang
2026-06-11  7:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] net: dsa: dsa_loop: avoid devlink resource IDs " David Yang
2026-06-11  7:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] net: dsa: b53: " David Yang
2026-06-11  7:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] net: dsa: hellcreek: " David Yang
2026-06-11  7:39   ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2026-06-11  7:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Avoid " David Yang
2026-06-11  7:08 ` David Yang [this message]

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