Merge branch 'devlink-locking'

Jakub Kicinski says:

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improve ethtool/rtnl vs devlink locking

During ethtool netlink development we decided to move some of
the commmands to devlink. Since we don't want drivers to implement
both devlink and ethtool version of the commands ethtool ioctl
falls back to calling devlink. Unfortunately devlink locks must
be taken before rtnl_lock. This results in a questionable
dev_hold() / rtnl_unlock() / devlink / rtnl_lock() / dev_put()
pattern.

This method "works" but it working depends on drivers in question
not doing much in ethtool_ops->begin / complete, and on the netdev
not having needs_free_netdev set.

Since commit 437ebfd90a25 ("devlink: Count struct devlink consumers")
we can hold a reference on a devlink instance and prevent it from
going away (sort of like netdev with dev_hold()). We can use this
to create a more natural reference nesting where we get a ref on
the devlink instance and make the devlink call entirely outside
of the rtnl_lock section.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index 1b1317d378de..aab3d007c577 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -1726,9 +1726,12 @@ devlink_trap_policers_unregister(struct devlink *devlink,
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK)
 
-void devlink_compat_running_version(struct net_device *dev,
+struct devlink *__must_check devlink_try_get(struct devlink *devlink);
+void devlink_put(struct devlink *devlink);
+
+void devlink_compat_running_version(struct devlink *devlink,
 				    char *buf, size_t len);
-int devlink_compat_flash_update(struct net_device *dev, const char *file_name);
+int devlink_compat_flash_update(struct devlink *devlink, const char *file_name);
 int devlink_compat_phys_port_name_get(struct net_device *dev,
 				      char *name, size_t len);
 int devlink_compat_switch_id_get(struct net_device *dev,
@@ -1736,13 +1739,22 @@ int devlink_compat_switch_id_get(struct net_device *dev,
 
 #else
 
+static inline struct devlink *devlink_try_get(struct devlink *devlink)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void devlink_put(struct devlink *devlink)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void
-devlink_compat_running_version(struct net_device *dev, char *buf, size_t len)
+devlink_compat_running_version(struct devlink *devlink, char *buf, size_t len)
 {
 }
 
 static inline int
-devlink_compat_flash_update(struct net_device *dev, const char *file_name)
+devlink_compat_flash_update(struct devlink *devlink, const char *file_name)
 {
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }