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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


             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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