netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] net: Lock lower level devices when updating features

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 02:00:28 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: Lock lower level devices when updating features

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 10:28:50 +0300 you wrote:
> __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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v3] net: Lock lower level devices when updating features
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/af5f54b0ef9e

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