netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevsim: Block until all devices are released

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:00:23 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
 pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, horms@...nel.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
 mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevsim: Block until all devices are released

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:33:43 +0300 you wrote:
> Like other buses, devices on the netdevsim bus have a release callback
> that is invoked when the reference count of the device drops to zero.
> However, unlike other buses such as PCI, the release callback is not
> necessarily built into the kernel, as netdevsim can be built as a
> module.
> 
> The above is problematic as nothing prevents the module from being
> unloaded before the release callback has been invoked, which can happen
> asynchronously. One such example can be found in commit a380687200e0
> ("devlink: take device reference for devlink object") where devlink
> calls put_device() from an RCU callback.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] netdevsim: Block until all devices are released
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6aff7cbfe7bf

You are awesome, thank you!
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