Revision c269a24ce057abfc31130960e96ab197ef6ab196 authored by Jakub Kicinski on 06 January 2021, 18:40:06 UTC, committed by Jakub Kicinski on 09 January 2021, 03:27:41 UTC
There are two flavors of handling netdev registration:
 - ones called without holding rtnl_lock: register_netdev() and
   unregister_netdev(); and
 - those called with rtnl_lock held: register_netdevice() and
   unregister_netdevice().

While the semantics of the former are pretty clear, the same can't
be said about the latter. The netdev_todo mechanism is utilized to
perform some of the device unregistering tasks and it hooks into
rtnl_unlock() so the locked variants can't actually finish the work.
In general free_netdev() does not mix well with locked calls. Most
drivers operating under rtnl_lock set dev->needs_free_netdev to true
and expect core to make the free_netdev() call some time later.

The part where this becomes most problematic is error paths. There is
no way to unwind the state cleanly after a call to register_netdevice(),
since unreg can't be performed fully without dropping locks.

Make free_netdev() more lenient, and defer the freeing if device
is being unregistered. This allows error paths to simply call
free_netdev() both after register_netdevice() failed, and after
a call to unregister_netdevice() but before dropping rtnl_lock.

Simplify the error paths which are currently doing gymnastics
around free_netdev() handling.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst.
#
mainmenu "Linux/$(ARCH) $(KERNELVERSION) Kernel Configuration"

source "scripts/Kconfig.include"

source "init/Kconfig"

source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"

source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"

source "mm/Kconfig"

source "net/Kconfig"

source "drivers/Kconfig"

source "fs/Kconfig"

source "security/Kconfig"

source "crypto/Kconfig"

source "lib/Kconfig"

source "lib/Kconfig.debug"

source "Documentation/Kconfig"
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