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Message-ID: <20211101064440.57a587bf@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 06:44:40 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] devlink: expose get/put functions
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 08:29:20 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> I really like this series, but your latest netdevsim RFC made me worry.
>
> It is important to make sure that these devlink_put() and devlink_get()
> calls will be out-of-reach from the drivers. Only core code should use
> them.
get/put symbols are not exported so I think we should be safe
from driver misuse at this point. If we ever export them we
should add a
WARN_ON(!(devlink->lock_flags & DEVLINK_LOCK_USE_REF));
> Can you please add it as a comment above these functions?
Will do if the RFC sinks.
> At least for now, till we discuss your RFC.
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