Merge branch 'rtnetlink-handle-error-of-rtnl_register_module'
authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:39:37 +0000 (15:39 +0200)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:39:38 +0000 (15:39 +0200)
Kuniyuki Iwashima says:

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rtnetlink: Handle error of rtnl_register_module().

While converting phonet to per-netns RTNL, I found a weird comment

  /* Further rtnl_register_module() cannot fail */

that was true but no longer true after commit addf9b90de22 ("net:
rtnetlink: use rcu to free rtnl message handlers").

Many callers of rtnl_register_module() just ignore the returned
value but should handle them properly.

This series introduces two helpers, rtnl_register_many() and
rtnl_unregister_many(), to do that easily and fix such callers.

All rtnl_register() and rtnl_register_module() will be converted
to _many() variant and some rtnl_lock() will be saved in _many()
later in net-next.

Changes:
  v4:
    * Add more context in changelog of each patch

  v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241007124459.5727-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/
    * Move module *owner to struct rtnl_msg_handler
    * Make struct rtnl_msg_handler args/vars const
    * Update mctp goto labels

  v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241004222358.79129-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/
    * Remove __exit from mctp_neigh_exit().

  v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241003205725.5612-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241008184737.9619-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Trivial merge