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devlink: Set device as early as possible
authorLeon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Sun, 8 Aug 2021 18:57:43 +0000 (21:57 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 9 Aug 2021 09:21:40 +0000 (10:21 +0100)
commit919d13a7e455c2e7676042d7a5f94c164e859d8a
tree0b272b82900d1a7760b3cb2838390fa54cbd9a69
parent94c0a6fbd5cfc34d3ce5fea5867123402cdc8794
devlink: Set device as early as possible

All kernel devlink implementations call to devlink_alloc() during
initialization routine for specific device which is used later as
a parent device for devlink_register().

Such late device assignment causes to the situation which requires us to
call to device_register() before setting other parameters, but that call
opens devlink to the world and makes accessible for the netlink users.

Any attempt to move devlink_register() to be the last call generates the
following error due to access to the devlink->dev pointer.

[    8.758862]  devlink_nl_param_fill+0x2e8/0xe50
[    8.760305]  devlink_param_notify+0x6d/0x180
[    8.760435]  __devlink_params_register+0x2f1/0x670
[    8.760558]  devlink_params_register+0x1e/0x20

The simple change of API to set devlink device in the devlink_alloc()
instead of devlink_register() fixes all this above and ensures that
prior to call to devlink_register() everything already set.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
33 files changed:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth-devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.h
drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_dev.c
drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_devlink.h
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/driver.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.c
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
include/net/devlink.h
net/core/devlink.c
net/dsa/dsa2.c