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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2023-12-04 21:47:07 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-12-05 20:16:45 -0800
commitfacd15dfd69122042502d99ab8c9f888b48ee994 (patch)
tree1e84133ba27f60f62134588c7cce46dc73badc31 /net/core
parentfaf4cf7495431d396147d5c73a84ccfddc458c9d (diff)
net: core: synchronize link-watch when carrier is queried
There are multiple ways to query for the carrier state: through rtnetlink, sysfs, and (possibly) ethtool. Synchronize linkwatch work before these operations so that we don't have a situation where userspace queries the carrier state between the driver's carrier off->on transition and linkwatch running and expects it to work, when really (at least) TX cannot work until linkwatch has run. I previously posted a longer explanation of how this applies to wireless [1] but with this wireless can simply query the state before sending data, to ensure the kernel is ready for it. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/346b21d87c69f817ea3c37caceb34f1f56255884.camel@sipsolutions.net/ Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204214706.303c62768415.I1caedccae72ee5a45c9085c5eb49c145ce1c0dd5@changeid Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c2
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.h1
-rw-r--r--net/core/link_watch.c2
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c8
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c8
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c5679dfbaa70..0432b04cf9b0 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10548,7 +10548,7 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
write_lock(&dev_base_lock);
dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;
write_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
- linkwatch_forget_dev(dev);
+ linkwatch_sync_dev(dev);
}
while (!list_empty(&list)) {
diff --git a/net/core/dev.h b/net/core/dev.h
index 7795b8ad841d..cf93e188785b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.h
+++ b/net/core/dev.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ int __init dev_proc_init(void);
#endif
void linkwatch_init_dev(struct net_device *dev);
-void linkwatch_forget_dev(struct net_device *dev);
void linkwatch_run_queue(void);
void dev_addr_flush(struct net_device *dev);
diff --git a/net/core/link_watch.c b/net/core/link_watch.c
index c469d1c4db5d..a19f21403339 100644
--- a/net/core/link_watch.c
+++ b/net/core/link_watch.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void __linkwatch_run_queue(int urgent_only)
spin_unlock_irq(&lweventlist_lock);
}
-void linkwatch_forget_dev(struct net_device *dev)
+void linkwatch_sync_dev(struct net_device *dev)
{
unsigned long flags;
int clean = 0;
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index fccaa5bac0ed..d9b33e923b18 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -194,8 +194,14 @@ static ssize_t carrier_show(struct device *dev,
{
struct net_device *netdev = to_net_dev(dev);
- if (netif_running(netdev))
+ if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+ /* Synchronize carrier state with link watch,
+ * see also rtnl_getlink().
+ */
+ linkwatch_sync_dev(netdev);
+
return sysfs_emit(buf, fmt_dec, !!netif_carrier_ok(netdev));
+ }
return -EINVAL;
}
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 592164c2a540..5e0ab4c08f72 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3853,6 +3853,14 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
if (nskb == NULL)
goto out;
+ /* Synchronize the carrier state so we don't report a state
+ * that we're not actually going to honour immediately; if
+ * the driver just did a carrier off->on transition, we can
+ * only TX if link watch work has run, but without this we'd
+ * already report carrier on, even if it doesn't work yet.
+ */
+ linkwatch_sync_dev(dev);
+
err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, net,
RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid,
nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0, 0, ext_filter_mask,