We don't have a consistent state yet, but document where we think
we are and where we wanna be.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401163452.622454-8-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
There is a couple of places from which we can arrive to ndo_setup_tc
with TC_SETUP_BLOCK/TC_SETUP_FT:
- netlink
- netlink notifier
- netdev notifier
Locking netdev too deep in this call chain seems to be problematic
(especially assuming some/all of the call_netdevice_notifiers
NETDEV_UNREGISTER) might soon be running with the instance lock).
Revert to lockless ndo_setup_tc for TC_SETUP_BLOCK/TC_SETUP_FT. NFT
framework already takes care of most of the locking. Document
the assumptions.
ndo_setup_tc TC_SETUP_BLOCK
nft_block_offload_cmd
nft_chain_offload_cmd
nft_flow_block_chain
nft_flow_offload_chain
nft_flow_rule_offload_abort
nft_flow_rule_offload_commit
nft_flow_rule_offload_commit
nf_tables_commit
nfnetlink_rcv_batch
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch
nfnetlink_rcv
nft_offload_netdev_event
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier
ndo_setup_tc TC_SETUP_FT
nf_flow_table_offload_cmd
nf_flow_table_offload_setup
nft_unregister_flowtable_hook
nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks
nft_flowtable_update
nf_tables_newflowtable
nfnetlink_rcv_batch (.call NFNL_CB_BATCH)
nft_flowtable_update
nf_tables_newflowtable
nft_flowtable_event
nf_tables_flowtable_event
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier
__nft_unregister_flowtable_net_hooks
nft_unregister_flowtable_net_hooks
nf_tables_commit
nfnetlink_rcv_batch (.call NFNL_CB_BATCH)
__nf_tables_abort
nf_tables_abort
nfnetlink_rcv_batch
__nft_release_hook
__nft_release_hooks
nf_tables_pre_exit_net -> module unload
nft_rcv_nl_event
netlink_register_notifier (oh boy)
nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks
nft_flowtable_update
nf_tables_newflowtable
nf_tables_newflowtable
Fixes: c4f0f30b42 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during nft ndo_setup_tc")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reported-by: syzbot+0afb4bcf91e5a1afdcad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250308044726.1193222-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Also clarify ndo_get_stats (that read and write paths can run
concurrently) and mention only RCU.
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305163732.2766420-14-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linus suggested during one of past maintainer summits (in context of
a DMA_BUF discussion) that symbol namespaces can be used to prevent
unwelcome but in-tree code from using all exported functions.
Create a namespace for netdev.
Export netdev_rx_queue_restart(), drivers may want to use it since
it gives them a simple and safe way to restart a queue to apply
config changes. But it's both too low level and too actively developed
to be used outside netdev.
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
NETIF_F_LLTX can't be changed via Ethtool and is not a feature,
rather an attribute, very similar to IFF_NO_QUEUE (and hot).
Free one netdev_features_t bit and make it a "hot" private flag.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Change comments incorrectly mentioning dev_base_lock.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All other user triggered operations are gone from ndo_ioctl, so move
the SIOCBOND family into a custom operation as well.
The .ndo_ioctl() helper is no longer called by the dev_ioctl.c code now,
but there are still a few definitions in obsolete wireless drivers as well
as the appletalk and ieee802154 layers to call SIOCSIFADDR/SIOCGIFADDR
helpers from inside the kernel.
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In order to further reduce the scope of ndo_do_ioctl(), move
out the SIOCWANDEV handling into a new network device operation
function.
Adjust the prototype to only pass the if_settings sub-structure
in place of the ifreq, and remove the redundant 'cmd' argument
in the process.
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: "Jan \"Yenya\" Kasprzak" <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Kevin Curtis <kevin.curtis@farsite.co.uk>
Cc: Zhao Qiang <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>
Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-x25@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Most users of ndo_do_ioctl are ethernet drivers that implement
the MII commands SIOCGMIIPHY/SIOCGMIIREG/SIOCSMIIREG, or hardware
timestamping with SIOCSHWTSTAMP/SIOCGHWTSTAMP.
Separate these from the few drivers that use ndo_do_ioctl to
implement SIOCBOND, SIOCBR and SIOCWANDEV commands.
This is a purely cosmetic change intended to help readers find
their way through the implementation.
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl commands are mainly used in really old
drivers, and they have a number of problems:
- They hide behind the normal .ndo_do_ioctl function that
is also used for other things in modern drivers, so it's
hard to spot a driver that actually uses one of these
- Since drivers use a number different calling conventions,
it is impossible to support compat mode for them in
a generic way.
- With all drivers using the same 16 commands codes, there
is no way to introspect the data being passed through
things like strace.
Add a new net_device_ops callback pointer, to address the
first two of these. Separating them from .ndo_do_ioctl
makes it easy to grep for drivers with a .ndo_siocdevprivate
callback, and the unwieldy name hopefully makes it easier
to spot in code review.
By passing the ifreq structure and the ifr_data pointer
separately, it is no longer necessary to overload these,
and the driver can use either one for a given command.
Cc: Cong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix calling context.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- add SPDX header;
- adjust title markup;
- mark lists as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
