netdev - [PATCH net v2] net: Lock lower level devices when updating features

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Message-ID: <20250508145459.1998067-1-cratiu@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 17:54:59 +0300
From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
To: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <cratiu@...dia.com>
CC: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev
	<sdf@...ichev.me>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Tariq Toukan
	<tariqt@...dia.com>, Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: Lock lower level devices when updating features

__netdev_update_features() expects the netdevice to be ops-locked, but
it gets called recursively on the lower level netdevices to sync their
features, and nothing locks those.

This commit fixes that, with the assumption that it shouldn't be possible
for both higher-level and lover-level netdevices to require the instance
lock, because that would lead to lock dependency warnings.

Without this, playing with higher level (e.g. vxlan) netdevices on top
of netdevices with instance locking enabled can run into issues:

WARNING: CPU: 59 PID: 206496 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:17 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x753/0xa60
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mlx5e_open_channel+0xc09/0x3740 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_open_channels+0x1f0/0x770 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_safe_switch_params+0x1b5/0x2e0 [mlx5_core]
 set_feature_lro+0x1c2/0x330 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_handle_feature+0xc8/0x140 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_set_features+0x233/0x2e0 [mlx5_core]
 __netdev_update_features+0x5be/0x1670
 __netdev_update_features+0x71f/0x1670
 dev_ethtool+0x21c5/0x4aa0
 dev_ioctl+0x438/0xae0
 sock_ioctl+0x2ba/0x690
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa78/0x1700
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>

Fixes: 7e4d784f5810 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during rtnetlink operations")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 1be7cb73a602..4b5df59d6246 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10454,7 +10454,9 @@ static void netdev_sync_lower_features(struct net_device *upper,
 			netdev_dbg(upper, "Disabling feature %pNF on lower dev %s.\n",
 				   &feature, lower->name);
 			lower->wanted_features &= ~feature;
+			netdev_lock_ops(lower);
 			__netdev_update_features(lower);
+			netdev_unlock_ops(lower);
 
 			if (unlikely(lower->features & feature))
 				netdev_WARN(upper, "failed to disable %pNF on %s!\n",
-- 
2.45.0