netdev - [PATCH net-next] ethtool: do not use rtnl in ethnl_default

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Message-ID: <20240207153514.3640952-1-edumazet@google.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Feb 2024 15:35:14 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: do not use rtnl in ethnl_default_dumpit()

for_each_netdev_dump() can be used with RCU protection,
no need for rtnl if we are going to use dev_hold()/dev_put().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/ethtool/netlink.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index fe3553f60bf39e64602d932505a0851e692348a0..bd04f28d5cf4bbe368e0eb64717a4f7438e66924 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -477,11 +477,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_dump_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* Default ->dumpit() handler for GET requests. Device iteration copied from
- * rtnl_dump_ifinfo(); we have to be more careful about device hashtable
- * persistence as we cannot guarantee to hold RTNL lock through the whole
- * function as rtnetnlink does.
- */
+/* Default ->dumpit() handler for GET requests. */
 static int ethnl_default_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				struct netlink_callback *cb)
 {
@@ -490,14 +486,14 @@ static int ethnl_default_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	for_each_netdev_dump(net, dev, ctx->pos_ifindex) {
 		dev_hold(dev);
-		rtnl_unlock();
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		ret = ethnl_default_dump_one(skb, dev, ctx, genl_info_dump(cb));
 
-		rtnl_lock();
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		dev_put(dev);
 
 		if (ret < 0 && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) {
@@ -507,7 +503,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		}
 		ret = 0;
 	}
-	rtnl_unlock();
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.43.0.594.gd9cf4e227d-goog