From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail•net>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail•com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh•net>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn•ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall•org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia•com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
bridge@lists•linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/5] macsec: move netdev_upper_dev_link() after macsec_changelink_common()
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:58:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ablB_tdLxMPoYtv3@krikkit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260316-offload_compute-v3-3-a5d4a07d86d3@gmail.com>
2026-03-16, 12:26:11 +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> After calling netdev_change_features() in __netdev_upper_dev_link(),
> the call stack looks like:
>
> - netdev_upper_dev_link
> - __netdev_upper_dev_link
> - netdev_change_features
> - notifier_call_chain
> - rtnetlink_event
> - rtmsg_ifinfo_event
> - rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb
>
> In macsec, we call netdev_upper_dev_link() before
> macsec_changelink_common(), which causes the fields of the MACsec
> Security Entity to be uninitialized. Later, macsec_fill_info() returns
> -EMSGSIZE and triggers WARN_ON() in rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb.
>
> Fix this by moving netdev_upper_dev_link() after
> macsec_changelink_common(), and return 0 if secy->key_len is not
> initialized yet.
>
> Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail•net>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail•com>
> ---
> drivers/net/macsec.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
I'm not sure I'll manage to look at the rest of the series before it's
applied, but for this patch:
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail•net>
Thanks Hangbin.
--
Sabrina
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-16 4:26 [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: centralize master device offload feature computation Hangbin Liu
2026-03-16 4:26 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] net: add ndo_update_offloads for offload computation Hangbin Liu
2026-03-17 15:14 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2026-03-18 1:15 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-18 23:29 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2026-03-19 2:02 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-16 4:26 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/5] net: use ndo_update_offloads to set offload features for bonding/bridge/team Hangbin Liu
2026-03-19 9:16 ` [net-next,v3,2/5] " Paolo Abeni
2026-03-16 4:26 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/5] macsec: move netdev_upper_dev_link() after macsec_changelink_common() Hangbin Liu
2026-03-17 11:58 ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
2026-03-16 4:26 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] failover: use ndo_update_offloads for failover offload compute Hangbin Liu
2026-03-16 4:26 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: no need to disable LRO specifically Hangbin Liu
2026-03-19 9:52 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: centralize master device offload feature computation Paolo Abeni
2026-03-19 13:37 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-19 16:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
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