netdev - [PATCH] net/ncsi: Fix re-registering ncsi device

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Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:10:21 +1030
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Fix re-registering ncsi device

If a user unbinds and re-binds a ncsi aware driver, the kernel will
attempt to register the netlink interface at runtime. The structure is
marked __ro_after_init so this fails at this point.

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80bb588c
 pgd = 0ff284bb
 [80bb588c] *pgd=80a1941e(bad)
 Internal error: Oops: 80d [#1] SMP ARM
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 128 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.8.14-00191-g79e816b77665 #223
 Hardware name: Generic DT based system
 PC is at genl_register_family+0x1d4/0x648
 LR is at 0xfe46ffff
 pc : [<807f575c>]    lr : [<fe46ffff>]    psr: 20000013
 sp : b52c9d10  ip : bcc125d4  fp : b52c9d5c
 r10: 8090fedc  r9 : 80bb57a8  r8 : 80bb5894
 r7 : 00000013  r6 : 00000000  r5 : 00000018  r4 : 80bb588c
 r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : bcc124c0  r0 : 00000018
 Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
 Control: 10c5387d  Table: b4dcc06a  DAC: 00000051
 Process sh (pid: 128, stack limit = 0xe54c9aea)

 Backtrace:
 [<807f5588>] (genl_register_family) from [<80913720>] (ncsi_init_netlink+0x20/0x48)
  r10:8090fedc r9:80e6c590 r8:b4db4800 r7:00000000 r6:b52dc478 r5:b4db4800
  r4:b52dc000
 [<80913700>] (ncsi_init_netlink) from [<8090f128>] (ncsi_register_dev+0x1d8/0x238)
  r5:b52dc444 r4:b52dc000
 [<8090ef50>] (ncsi_register_dev) from [<8064f43c>] (ftgmac100_probe+0x6e0/0x838)
  r10:00000004 r9:80a5d898 r8:bd141410 r7:bd140900 r6:bd7f2c84 r5:b4dbdb88
  r4:b4db4800
 [<8064ed5c>] (ftgmac100_probe) from [<805d4d90>] (platform_drv_probe+0x58/0xa8)
  r9:80e527cc r8:00000000 r7:80eb4bcc r6:80e527cc r5:bd141410 r4:00000000

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
---
 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
index adddc7707aa4..1641ecbb5b1f 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static const struct genl_small_ops ncsi_ops[] = {
 	},
 };
 
-static struct genl_family ncsi_genl_family __ro_after_init = {
+static struct genl_family ncsi_genl_family = {
 	.name = "NCSI",
 	.version = 0,
 	.maxattr = NCSI_ATTR_MAX,
-- 
2.28.0