netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: stmmac: add support for RZ/N1 GMAC

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Message-ID: <36a4a94f-494f-2fef-11e1-8b45011c1263@bootlin.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:04:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
cc: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>, 
    "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: stmmac: add support for RZ/N1 GMAC

Hello Russell,

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

> > I'm afraid that this fails at one of the most basic principles of kernel
> > multi-threaded programming. stmmac_dvr_probe() as part of its work calls
> > register_netdev() which publishes to userspace the network device.
> > 
> > Everything that is required must be setup _prior_ to publication to
> > userspace to avoid races, because as soon as the network device is
> > published, userspace can decide to bring that interface up. If one
> > hasn't finished the initialisation, the interface can be brought up
> > before that initialisation is complete.
...
> 
> I'm not going to say that the two patches threaded to this email are
> "sane" but at least it avoids the problem. socfpga still has issues
> with initialisation done after register_netdev() though.

Thanks a lot for providing a fix to this issue, introducing new pcs_init/exit() 
hooks seems like the best solution at this time, I'll make sure to integrate 
those patches in the v2 for this series.

Thanks,

-- 
Romain Gantois, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com