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net: Lock lower level devices when updating features
authorCosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Fri, 9 May 2025 07:28:50 +0000 (10:28 +0300)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 May 2025 01:44:33 +0000 (18:44 -0700)
commitaf5f54b0ef9ef72d5fc7d57f0406372e8f317958
tree2c199c4024bef04f7b03520cc793cec888c76449
parentc92d6089d8ad7d4d815ebcedee3f3907b539ff1f
net: Lock lower level devices when updating features

__netdev_update_features() expects the netdevice to be ops-locked, but
it gets called recursively on the lower level netdevices to sync their
features, and nothing locks those.

This commit fixes that, with the assumption that it shouldn't be possible
for both higher-level and lover-level netdevices to require the instance
lock, because that would lead to lock dependency warnings.

Without this, playing with higher level (e.g. vxlan) netdevices on top
of netdevices with instance locking enabled can run into issues:

WARNING: CPU: 59 PID: 206496 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:17 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x753/0xa60
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mlx5e_open_channel+0xc09/0x3740 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_open_channels+0x1f0/0x770 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_safe_switch_params+0x1b5/0x2e0 [mlx5_core]
 set_feature_lro+0x1c2/0x330 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_handle_feature+0xc8/0x140 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_set_features+0x233/0x2e0 [mlx5_core]
 __netdev_update_features+0x5be/0x1670
 __netdev_update_features+0x71f/0x1670
 dev_ethtool+0x21c5/0x4aa0
 dev_ioctl+0x438/0xae0
 sock_ioctl+0x2ba/0x690
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa78/0x1700
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>

Fixes: 7e4d784f5810 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during rtnetlink operations")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250509072850.2002821-1-cratiu@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/core/dev.c