[PATCH NET-PREV 13/51] infiniband_ipoib: Use __register_netdevice in .newlink

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Sat Mar 22 2025 - 10:42:51 EST


The objective is to conform .newlink with its callers,
which already assign nd_lock (and matches master nd_lock
if there is one).

Here are two path to __register_netdevice().
One is from .newlink, other is from store method.

Also, use __unregister_netdevice() since we know
there is held lock in that path.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c | 2 +-
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c | 12 ++++++++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c
index 2dd3231df36c..b8add59c6c69 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static int ipoib_new_child_link(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
if (data) {
err = ipoib_changelink(dev, tb, data, extack);
if (err) {
- unregister_netdevice(dev);
+ __unregister_netdevice(dev);
return err;
}
}
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
index 562df2b3ef18..970f344260df 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int __ipoib_vlan_add(struct ipoib_dev_priv *ppriv, struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv,
goto out_early;
}

- result = register_netdevice(ndev);
+ result = __register_netdevice(ndev);
if (result) {
ipoib_warn(priv, "failed to initialize; error %i", result);

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ int __ipoib_vlan_add(struct ipoib_dev_priv *ppriv, struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv,
return 0;

sysfs_failed:
- unregister_netdevice(priv->dev);
+ __unregister_netdevice(priv->dev);
return -ENOMEM;

out_early:
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ int ipoib_vlan_add(struct net_device *pdev, unsigned short pkey)
struct ipoib_dev_priv *ppriv, *priv;
char intf_name[IFNAMSIZ];
struct net_device *ndev;
+ struct nd_lock *nd_lock;
int result;

if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
@@ -200,8 +201,15 @@ int ipoib_vlan_add(struct net_device *pdev, unsigned short pkey)

ndev->rtnl_link_ops = ipoib_get_link_ops();

+ lock_netdev(pdev, &nd_lock);
+ attach_nd_lock(ndev, nd_lock);
+
result = __ipoib_vlan_add(ppriv, priv, pkey, IPOIB_LEGACY_CHILD);

+ if (result)
+ detach_nd_lock(ndev);
+ unlock_netdev(nd_lock);
+
if (result && ndev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
free_netdev(ndev);