On 9/8/2023 11:17 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Jiri Pirko jiri@nvidia.com
[ Upstream commit 633d76ad01ad0321a1ace3e5cc4fed06753d7ac4 ]
The checks in question were introduced by: commit 6b4db2e528f6 ("devlink: Fix use-after-free after a failed reload"). That fixed an issue of reload with mlxsw driver.
Back then, that was a valid fix, because there was a limitation in place that prevented drivers from registering/unregistering params when devlink instance was registered.
It was possible to do the fix differently by changing drivers to register/unregister params in appropriate places making sure the ops operate only on memory which is allocated and initialized. But that, as a dependency, would require to remove the limitation mentioned above.
Eventually, this limitation was lifted by: commit 1d18bb1a4ddd ("devlink: allow registering parameters after the instance")
Also, the alternative fix (which also fixed another issue) was done by: commit 74cbc3c03c82 ("mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Move devlink param to TCAM code").
Therefore, the checks are no longer relevant. Each driver should make sure to have the params registered only when the memory the ops are working with is allocated and initialized.
So remove the checks.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko jiri@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
I believe my comments on the v5.4 backport apply here as well.
Thanks, Jake