From: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org
commit c269a24ce057abfc31130960e96ab197ef6ab196 upstream.
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 Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru --- net/8021q/vlan.c | 4 +--- net/core/dev.c | 11 +++++++++++ net/core/rtnetlink.c | 23 ++++++----------------- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c index 15bbfaf943fd..8b644113715e 100644 --- a/net/8021q/vlan.c +++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c @@ -284,9 +284,7 @@ static int register_vlan_device(struct net_device *real_dev, u16 vlan_id) return 0;
out_free_newdev: - if (new_dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED || - new_dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED) - free_netdev(new_dev); + free_netdev(new_dev); return err; }
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8fa739259041..adde93cbca9f 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -10631,6 +10631,17 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) struct napi_struct *p, *n;
might_sleep(); + + /* When called immediately after register_netdevice() failed the unwind + * handling may still be dismantling the device. Handle that case by + * deferring the free. + */ + if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING) { + ASSERT_RTNL(); + dev->needs_free_netdev = true; + return; + } + netif_free_tx_queues(dev); netif_free_rx_queues(dev);
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 79f514afb17d..3d6ab194d0f5 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3439,26 +3439,15 @@ static int __rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
dev->ifindex = ifm->ifi_index;
- if (ops->newlink) { + if (ops->newlink) err = ops->newlink(link_net ? : net, dev, tb, data, extack); - /* Drivers should set dev->needs_free_netdev - * and unregister it on failure after registration - * so that device could be finally freed in rtnl_unlock. - */ - if (err < 0) { - /* If device is not registered at all, free it now */ - if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED || - dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED) - free_netdev(dev); - goto out; - } - } else { + else err = register_netdevice(dev); - if (err < 0) { - free_netdev(dev); - goto out; - } + if (err < 0) { + free_netdev(dev); + goto out; } + err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm); if (err < 0) goto out_unregister;