netdev - [PATCH] net: set struct net

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Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 23:24:57 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: set struct net_device::name earlier

I've tried debugging networking allocations with bpftrace and doing

	$dev = (struct net_device*)arg0;
	printf("dev %s\n", $dev->name);

doesn't print anything useful in functions called right after netdevice
allocation. The reason is very simple: dev->name has not been set yet.

Make name copying much earlier for smoother debugging experience.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10952,6 +10952,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 	dev = PTR_ALIGN(p, NETDEV_ALIGN);
 	dev->padded = (char *)dev - (char *)p;
 
+	strcpy(dev->name, name);
 	ref_tracker_dir_init(&dev->refcnt_tracker, 128, name);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT
 	dev->pcpu_refcnt = alloc_percpu(int);
@@ -11015,7 +11016,6 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 	if (netif_alloc_rx_queues(dev))
 		goto free_all;
 
-	strcpy(dev->name, name);
 	dev->name_assign_type = name_assign_type;
 	dev->group = INIT_NETDEV_GROUP;
 	if (!dev->ethtool_ops)