netdev - [PATCH v1 net-next 01/11] rtnetlink: Panic when __rtnl_register

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Message-ID: <20241011220550.46040-2-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:05:40 -0700
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
	<pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, Kuniyuki Iwashima
	<kuni1840@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net-next 01/11] rtnetlink: Panic when __rtnl_register_many() fails for builtin callers.

We will replace all rtnl_register() and rtnl_register_module() with
rtnl_register_many().

Currently, rtnl_register() returns nothing and prints an error message
when it fails to register a rtnetlink message type and handlers.

The failure happens only when rtnl_register_internal() fails to allocate
rtnl_msg_handlers[protocol][msgtype], but it's unlikely for built-in
callers on boot time.

rtnl_register_many() unwinds the previous successful registrations on
failure and returns an error, but it will be useless for built-in callers,
especially some subsystems that do not have the legacy ioctl() interface
and do not work without rtnetlink.

Instead of booting up without rtnetlink functionality, let's panic on
failure for built-in rtnl_register_many() callers.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index edcb6d43723e..8f2cdb0de4a9 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -464,6 +464,10 @@ int __rtnl_register_many(const struct rtnl_msg_handler *handlers, int n)
 					     handler->msgtype, handler->doit,
 					     handler->dumpit, handler->flags);
 		if (err) {
+			if (!handler->owner)
+				panic("Unable to register rtnetlink message "
+				      "handlers, %pS\n", handlers);
+
 			__rtnl_unregister_many(handlers, i);
 			break;
 		}
-- 
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)