Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: xdp: don't call notifiers during driver init

From: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:03:57 +0100

> 
> 
> On 16/03/2023 2:29, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Drivers will commonly perform feature setting during init, if they use
> > the xdp_set_features_flag() helper they'll likely run into an ASSERT_RTNL()
> > inside call_netdevice_notifiers_info().
> > 
> > Don't call the notifier until the device is actually registered.
> > Nothing should be tracking the device until its registered.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4d5ab0ad964d ("net/mlx5e: take into account device reconfiguration for xdp_features flag")
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > CC: [email-masked]
> > ---
> >   net/core/xdp.c | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/core/xdp.c b/net/core/xdp.c
> > index 87e654b7d06c..5722a1fc6e9e 100644
> > --- a/net/core/xdp.c
> > +++ b/net/core/xdp.c
> > @@ -781,6 +781,9 @@ void xdp_set_features_flag(struct net_device *dev, xdp_features_t val)
> >   		return;
> >   	dev->xdp_features = val;
> > +
> > +	if (dev->reg_state < NETREG_REGISTERED)
> > +		return;
> 
> I maybe need to dig deeper, but, it looks strange to still
> call_netdevice_notifiers in cases > NETREG_REGISTERED.
> 
> Isn't it problematic to call it with NETREG_UNREGISTERED ?
> 
> For comparison, netif_set_real_num_tx_queues has this ASSERT_RTNL() only
> under dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED || dev->reg_state ==
> NETREG_UNREGISTERING.

does it make sense to run call_netdevice_notifiers() in xdp_set_features_flag()
just if dev->reg_state is NETREG_REGISTERED?
Moreover, looking at the code it seems netdev code can run with dev->reg_state
set to NETREG_UNREGISTERED and without holding RTNL lock, right?

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> >   	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_XDP_FEAT_CHANGE, dev);
> >   }
> >   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdp_set_features_flag);