Re: [PATCH v3] net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 18:22:00 EST


On Thu, 7 May 2026 15:43:32 +0800 faicker.mo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There is netdev_lock_ops() before the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier
> in register_netdevice(), so use the non-locking functions
> in net_failover_slave_register().


net/core/failover.c:227:25: error: implicit declaration of function ‘netdev_unlock_ops’; did you mean ‘netdev_unlock’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
227 | netdev_unlock_ops(dev);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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