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>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] netkit: no longer rely on RTNL in netkit_fill_info()
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:19:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916111953.1611574-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
netkit_fill_info() used rtnl_dereference() to fetch nk->peer,
and thus required RTNL.
nk->peer is already an RCU protected pointer, updated with
rcu_assign_pointer() and read from the fast path with
rcu_dereference(). Simply use rcu_dereference() under
rcu_read_lock() instead.
While at it, use READ_ONCE() when reading nk->policy, because
netkit_change_link() can change it at any time (it already uses
WRITE_ONCE()).
Other fields (primary, mode, pair, scrub) are only set from
netkit_new_link(), before the device is visible to dumps.
Also add missing const qualifiers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
---
drivers/net/netkit.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netkit.c b/drivers/net/netkit.c
index a3931cd821321c3e4888edf86efc414199127bcf..82e608e733d9ee70f71c374570211c73da76ae2c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netkit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netkit.c
@@ -1209,12 +1209,12 @@ static size_t netkit_get_size(const struct net_device *dev)
static int netkit_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
{
- struct netkit *nk = netkit_priv(dev);
- struct net_device *peer = rtnl_dereference(nk->peer);
+ const struct netkit *nk = netkit_priv(dev);
+ const struct net_device *peer;
if (nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PRIMARY, nk->primary))
return -EMSGSIZE;
- if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_POLICY, nk->policy))
+ if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_POLICY, READ_ONCE(nk->policy)))
return -EMSGSIZE;
if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_MODE, nk->mode))
return -EMSGSIZE;
@@ -1228,13 +1228,18 @@ static int netkit_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PAIRING, nk->pair))
return -EMSGSIZE;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ peer = rcu_dereference(nk->peer);
if (peer) {
nk = netkit_priv(peer);
- if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_POLICY, nk->policy))
- return -EMSGSIZE;
- if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_SCRUB, nk->scrub))
+ if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_POLICY,
+ READ_ONCE(nk->policy)) ||
+ nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_SCRUB, nk->scrub)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return -EMSGSIZE;
+ }
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return 0;
}
--
2.55.0.1032.g73a4cd73de-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-16 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-16 11:19 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-09-16 12:54 ` [PATCH net-next] netkit: no longer rely on RTNL in netkit_fill_info() Daniel Borkmann
2026-09-16 13:33 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-18 0:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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