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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>vlan: defer real device state propagation to netdev_work</title>
<updated>2026-06-25T17:18:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T18:20:17+00:00</published>
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vlan_device_event() generates nested UP/DOWN, MTU and feature
change events. It executes an event for the VLAN device directly
from the notifier - while the locks of the lower device are held.

This causes deadlocks, for example:

  bond    (3) bond_update_speed_duplex(vlan)
    |           ^                v
  vlan    (2) UP(vlan)    (4) vlan_ethtool_get_link_ksettings()
    |           ^                v
  dummy   (1) UP(dummy)   (5) __ethtool_get_link_ksettings()

The dummy device is ops locked, vlan creates a nested event (2),
then bond wants to ask vlan for link state (3). bond uses the
"I'm already holding the instance lock" flavor of API. But in
this case the lock held refers to vlan itself. We hit vlan's
link settings trampoline (4) and call __ethtool_get_link_ksettings()
which tries to lock dummy. Deadlock. There's no clean way for us
to tell the vlan_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() that the caller
is already in lower device's critical section.

Defer the propagation to the per-netdev work facility instead:
the notifier only schedules netdev_work_sched(vlandev, VLAN_WORK_*),
and ndo_work (vlan_dev_work) applies the change later. Hopefully
nobody expects the VLAN state changes to be instantaneous.

If someone does expect the changes to be instantaneous we will
have to do the same thing Stan did for rx_mode and "strategically"
place sync calls, to make sure such delayed works are executed
after we drop the ops lock but before we drop rtnl_lock.

Stan suggests that if we need that down the line we may
consider reshaping the mechanism into "async notifications".
AFAICT only vlan does this sort of netdev open chaining,
so as a first try I think that sticking the complexity into
the vlan code makes sense.

One corner case is that we need to cancel the event if user
explicitly changes the state before work could run. Consider
the following operations with vlan0 on top of dummy0:

  ip link set dev dummy0 up    # queues work to up vlan0
  ip link set dev vlan0 down   # user explicitly downs the vlan
  ndo_work                     # acts on the stale event

Reported-by: syzbot+09da62a8b78959ceb8bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+cb67c392b0b8f0fd0fc1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+9bb8bd77f3966641f298@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 9f275c2e9020 ("net: ethtool: make sure __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() is ops-locked")
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz &lt;nb@tipi-net.de&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624182018.2445732-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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vlan_device_event() generates nested UP/DOWN, MTU and feature
change events. It executes an event for the VLAN device directly
from the notifier - while the locks of the lower device are held.

This causes deadlocks, for example:

  bond    (3) bond_update_speed_duplex(vlan)
    |           ^                v
  vlan    (2) UP(vlan)    (4) vlan_ethtool_get_link_ksettings()
    |           ^                v
  dummy   (1) UP(dummy)   (5) __ethtool_get_link_ksettings()

The dummy device is ops locked, vlan creates a nested event (2),
then bond wants to ask vlan for link state (3). bond uses the
"I'm already holding the instance lock" flavor of API. But in
this case the lock held refers to vlan itself. We hit vlan's
link settings trampoline (4) and call __ethtool_get_link_ksettings()
which tries to lock dummy. Deadlock. There's no clean way for us
to tell the vlan_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() that the caller
is already in lower device's critical section.

Defer the propagation to the per-netdev work facility instead:
the notifier only schedules netdev_work_sched(vlandev, VLAN_WORK_*),
and ndo_work (vlan_dev_work) applies the change later. Hopefully
nobody expects the VLAN state changes to be instantaneous.

If someone does expect the changes to be instantaneous we will
have to do the same thing Stan did for rx_mode and "strategically"
place sync calls, to make sure such delayed works are executed
after we drop the ops lock but before we drop rtnl_lock.

Stan suggests that if we need that down the line we may
consider reshaping the mechanism into "async notifications".
AFAICT only vlan does this sort of netdev open chaining,
so as a first try I think that sticking the complexity into
the vlan code makes sense.

One corner case is that we need to cancel the event if user
explicitly changes the state before work could run. Consider
the following operations with vlan0 on top of dummy0:

  ip link set dev dummy0 up    # queues work to up vlan0
  ip link set dev vlan0 down   # user explicitly downs the vlan
  ndo_work                     # acts on the stale event

Reported-by: syzbot+09da62a8b78959ceb8bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+cb67c392b0b8f0fd0fc1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+9bb8bd77f3966641f298@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 9f275c2e9020 ("net: ethtool: make sure __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() is ops-locked")
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz &lt;nb@tipi-net.de&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624182018.2445732-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>8021q: delete cleared egress QoS mappings</title>
<updated>2026-04-23T10:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Longxuan Yu</name>
<email>ylong030@ucr.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T03:18:46+00:00</published>
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vlan_dev_set_egress_priority() currently keeps cleared egress
priority mappings in the hash as tombstones. Repeated set/clear cycles
with distinct skb priorities therefore accumulate mapping nodes until
device teardown and leak memory.

Delete mappings when vlan_prio is cleared instead of keeping tombstones.
Now that the egress mapping lists are RCU protected, the node can be
unlinked safely and freed after a grace period.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Longxuan Yu &lt;ylong030@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ecfa6f6ce2467a42647ff4c5221238ae85b79a59.1776647968.git.yuantan098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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vlan_dev_set_egress_priority() currently keeps cleared egress
priority mappings in the hash as tombstones. Repeated set/clear cycles
with distinct skb priorities therefore accumulate mapping nodes until
device teardown and leak memory.

Delete mappings when vlan_prio is cleared instead of keeping tombstones.
Now that the egress mapping lists are RCU protected, the node can be
unlinked safely and freed after a grace period.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Longxuan Yu &lt;ylong030@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ecfa6f6ce2467a42647ff4c5221238ae85b79a59.1776647968.git.yuantan098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>8021q: use RCU for egress QoS mappings</title>
<updated>2026-04-23T10:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Longxuan Yu</name>
<email>ylong030@ucr.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T03:18:45+00:00</published>
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The TX fast path and reporting paths walk egress QoS mappings without
RTNL. Convert the mapping lists to RCU-protected pointers, use RCU
reader annotations in readers, and defer freeing mapping nodes with an
embedded rcu_head.

This prepares the egress QoS mapping code for safe removal of mapping
nodes in a follow-up change while preserving the current behavior.

Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Longxuan Yu &lt;ylong030@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9136768189f8c6d3f824f476c62d2fa1111688e8.1776647968.git.yuantan098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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The TX fast path and reporting paths walk egress QoS mappings without
RTNL. Convert the mapping lists to RCU-protected pointers, use RCU
reader annotations in readers, and defer freeing mapping nodes with an
embedded rcu_head.

This prepares the egress QoS mapping code for safe removal of mapping
nodes in a follow-up change while preserving the current behavior.

Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Longxuan Yu &lt;ylong030@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9136768189f8c6d3f824f476c62d2fa1111688e8.1776647968.git.yuantan098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: vlan: don't propagate flags on open</title>
<updated>2025-03-20T08:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-13T10:06:57+00:00</published>
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With the device instance lock, there is now a possibility of a deadlock:

[    1.211455] ============================================
[    1.211571] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[    1.211687] 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 Not tainted
[    1.211823] --------------------------------------------
[    1.211936] ip/184 is trying to acquire lock:
[    1.212032] ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0
[    1.212207]
[    1.212207] but task is already holding lock:
[    1.212332] ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[    1.212487]
[    1.212487] other info that might help us debug this:
[    1.212626]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[    1.212626]
[    1.212751]        CPU0
[    1.212815]        ----
[    1.212871]   lock(&amp;dev-&gt;lock);
[    1.212944]   lock(&amp;dev-&gt;lock);
[    1.213016]
[    1.213016]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[    1.213016]
[    1.213143]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[    1.213143]
[    1.213294] 3 locks held by ip/184:
[    1.213371]  #0: ffffffff838b53e0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x1b/0xa0
[    1.213543]  #1: ffffffff84e5fc70 (&amp;net-&gt;rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x37/0xa0
[    1.213727]  #2: ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[    1.213895]
[    1.213895] stack backtrace:
[    1.213991] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5
[    1.213993] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
[    1.213994] Call Trace:
[    1.213995]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[    1.213996]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd0
[    1.214000]  print_deadlock_bug+0x28b/0x2a0
[    1.214020]  lock_acquire+0xea/0x2a0
[    1.214027]  __mutex_lock+0xbf/0xd40
[    1.214038]  dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0 # real_dev-&gt;flags &amp; IFF_ALLMULTI
[    1.214040]  vlan_dev_open+0xa5/0x170 # ndo_open on vlandev
[    1.214042]  __dev_open+0x145/0x270
[    1.214046]  __dev_change_flags+0xb0/0x1e0
[    1.214051]  netif_change_flags+0x22/0x60 # IFF_UP vlandev
[    1.214053]  dev_change_flags+0x61/0xb0 # for each device in group from dev-&gt;vlan_info
[    1.214055]  vlan_device_event+0x766/0x7c0 # on netdevsim0
[    1.214058]  notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x120
[    1.214062]  netif_open+0x6d/0x90
[    1.214064]  dev_open+0x5b/0xb0 # locks netdevsim0
[    1.214066]  bond_enslave+0x64c/0x1230
[    1.214075]  do_set_master+0x175/0x1e0 # on netdevsim0
[    1.214077]  do_setlink+0x516/0x13b0
[    1.214094]  rtnl_newlink+0xaba/0xb80
[    1.214132]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x440/0x490
[    1.214144]  netlink_rcv_skb+0xeb/0x120
[    1.214150]  netlink_unicast+0x1f9/0x320
[    1.214153]  netlink_sendmsg+0x346/0x3f0
[    1.214157]  __sock_sendmsg+0x86/0xb0
[    1.214160]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1c8/0x220
[    1.214164]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x28f/0x2d0
[    1.214179]  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xef/0x140
[    1.214184]  do_syscall_64+0xec/0x1d0
[    1.214190]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[    1.214191] RIP: 0033:0x7f2d1b4a7e56

Device setup:

     netdevsim0 (down)
     ^        ^
  bond        netdevsim1.100@netdevsim1 allmulticast=on (down)

When we enslave the lower device (netdevsim0) which has a vlan, we
propagate vlan's allmuti/promisc flags during ndo_open. This causes
(re)locking on of the real_dev.

Propagate allmulti/promisc on flags change, not on the open. There
is a slight semantics change that vlans that are down now propagate
the flags, but this seems unlikely to result in the real issues.

Reproducer:

  echo 0 1 &gt; /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device

  dev_path=$(ls -d /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim0/net/*)
  dev=$(echo $dev_path | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev)

  ip link set dev $dev name netdevsim0
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 up

  ip link add link netdevsim0 name netdevsim0.100 type vlan id 100
  ip link set dev netdevsim0.100 allmulticast on down
  ip link add name bond1 type bond mode 802.3ad
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 down
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 master bond1
  ip link set dev bond1 up
  ip link show

Reported-by: syzbot+b0c03d76056ef6cd12a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z9CfXjLMKn6VLG5d@mini-arch/T/#m15ba130f53227c883e79fb969687d69d670337a0
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250313100657.2287455-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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With the device instance lock, there is now a possibility of a deadlock:

[    1.211455] ============================================
[    1.211571] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[    1.211687] 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 Not tainted
[    1.211823] --------------------------------------------
[    1.211936] ip/184 is trying to acquire lock:
[    1.212032] ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0
[    1.212207]
[    1.212207] but task is already holding lock:
[    1.212332] ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[    1.212487]
[    1.212487] other info that might help us debug this:
[    1.212626]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[    1.212626]
[    1.212751]        CPU0
[    1.212815]        ----
[    1.212871]   lock(&amp;dev-&gt;lock);
[    1.212944]   lock(&amp;dev-&gt;lock);
[    1.213016]
[    1.213016]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[    1.213016]
[    1.213143]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[    1.213143]
[    1.213294] 3 locks held by ip/184:
[    1.213371]  #0: ffffffff838b53e0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x1b/0xa0
[    1.213543]  #1: ffffffff84e5fc70 (&amp;net-&gt;rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x37/0xa0
[    1.213727]  #2: ffff8881024a4c30 (&amp;dev-&gt;lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[    1.213895]
[    1.213895] stack backtrace:
[    1.213991] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5
[    1.213993] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
[    1.213994] Call Trace:
[    1.213995]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[    1.213996]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd0
[    1.214000]  print_deadlock_bug+0x28b/0x2a0
[    1.214020]  lock_acquire+0xea/0x2a0
[    1.214027]  __mutex_lock+0xbf/0xd40
[    1.214038]  dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0 # real_dev-&gt;flags &amp; IFF_ALLMULTI
[    1.214040]  vlan_dev_open+0xa5/0x170 # ndo_open on vlandev
[    1.214042]  __dev_open+0x145/0x270
[    1.214046]  __dev_change_flags+0xb0/0x1e0
[    1.214051]  netif_change_flags+0x22/0x60 # IFF_UP vlandev
[    1.214053]  dev_change_flags+0x61/0xb0 # for each device in group from dev-&gt;vlan_info
[    1.214055]  vlan_device_event+0x766/0x7c0 # on netdevsim0
[    1.214058]  notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x120
[    1.214062]  netif_open+0x6d/0x90
[    1.214064]  dev_open+0x5b/0xb0 # locks netdevsim0
[    1.214066]  bond_enslave+0x64c/0x1230
[    1.214075]  do_set_master+0x175/0x1e0 # on netdevsim0
[    1.214077]  do_setlink+0x516/0x13b0
[    1.214094]  rtnl_newlink+0xaba/0xb80
[    1.214132]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x440/0x490
[    1.214144]  netlink_rcv_skb+0xeb/0x120
[    1.214150]  netlink_unicast+0x1f9/0x320
[    1.214153]  netlink_sendmsg+0x346/0x3f0
[    1.214157]  __sock_sendmsg+0x86/0xb0
[    1.214160]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1c8/0x220
[    1.214164]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x28f/0x2d0
[    1.214179]  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xef/0x140
[    1.214184]  do_syscall_64+0xec/0x1d0
[    1.214190]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[    1.214191] RIP: 0033:0x7f2d1b4a7e56

Device setup:

     netdevsim0 (down)
     ^        ^
  bond        netdevsim1.100@netdevsim1 allmulticast=on (down)

When we enslave the lower device (netdevsim0) which has a vlan, we
propagate vlan's allmuti/promisc flags during ndo_open. This causes
(re)locking on of the real_dev.

Propagate allmulti/promisc on flags change, not on the open. There
is a slight semantics change that vlans that are down now propagate
the flags, but this seems unlikely to result in the real issues.

Reproducer:

  echo 0 1 &gt; /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device

  dev_path=$(ls -d /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim0/net/*)
  dev=$(echo $dev_path | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev)

  ip link set dev $dev name netdevsim0
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 up

  ip link add link netdevsim0 name netdevsim0.100 type vlan id 100
  ip link set dev netdevsim0.100 allmulticast on down
  ip link add name bond1 type bond mode 802.3ad
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 down
  ip link set dev netdevsim0 master bond1
  ip link set dev bond1 up
  ip link show

Reported-by: syzbot+b0c03d76056ef6cd12a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z9CfXjLMKn6VLG5d@mini-arch/T/#m15ba130f53227c883e79fb969687d69d670337a0
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250313100657.2287455-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move misc netdev_lock flavors to a separate header</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:06:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T18:30:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=8ef890df4031121a94407c84659125cbccd3fdbe'/>
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: hold netdev instance lock during ioctl operations</title>
<updated>2025-03-06T20:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@fomichev.me</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T16:37:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ffb7ed19ac0a9fa9ea79af1d7b42c03a10da98a5'/>
<id>ffb7ed19ac0a9fa9ea79af1d7b42c03a10da98a5</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert all ndo_eth_ioctl invocations to dev_eth_ioctl which does the
locking. Reflow some of the dev_siocxxx to drop else clause.

Cc: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeed@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305163732.2766420-8-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert all ndo_eth_ioctl invocations to dev_eth_ioctl which does the
locking. Reflow some of the dev_siocxxx to drop else clause.

Cc: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeed@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305163732.2766420-8-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netpoll: remove ndo_netpoll_setup() second argument</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T11:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-18T05:21:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e44ef3f66c5472c2cbc6957c684d7279c26b0db1'/>
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npinfo is not used in any of the ndo_netpoll_setup() methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241018052108.2610827-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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npinfo is not used in any of the ndo_netpoll_setup() methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241018052108.2610827-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdev_features: remove NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE</title>
<updated>2024-09-03T09:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>aleksander.lobakin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T12:33:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a61fec1c87be682b5c0fdba6074649c469c675a3'/>
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NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE is used only in vlan_dev.c, 2 times. Now that it's only
2 bits, open-code it and remove the definition from netdev_features.h.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE is used only in vlan_dev.c, 2 times. Now that it's only
2 bits, open-code it and remove the definition from netdev_features.h.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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