net-sysfs: remove rtnl_trylock from device attributes

There is an ABBA deadlock between net device unregistration and sysfs
files being accessed[1][2]. To prevent this from happening all paths
taking the rtnl lock after the sysfs one (actually kn->active refcount)
use rtnl_trylock and return early (using restart_syscall)[3], which can
make syscalls to spin for a long time when there is contention on the
rtnl lock[4].

There are not many possibilities to improve the above:
- Rework the entire net/ locking logic.
- Invert two locks in one of the paths — not possible.

But here it's actually possible to drop one of the locks safely: the
kernfs_node refcount. More details in the code itself, which comes with
lots of comments.

Note that we check the device is alive in the added sysfs_rtnl_lock
helper to disallow sysfs operations to run after device dismantle has
started. This also help keeping the same behavior as before. Because of
this calls to dev_isalive in sysfs ops were removed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/49A4D5D5.5090602@trash.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/m14oyhis31.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20090226084924.16cb3e08@nehalam/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210928125500.167943-1-atenart@kernel.org/T/

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204170314.146022-2-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
index 4bc2ee0b10b0..ccaaf4c7d5f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern void rtnl_lock(void);
 extern void rtnl_unlock(void);
 extern int rtnl_trylock(void);
 extern int rtnl_is_locked(void);
+extern int rtnl_lock_interruptible(void);
 extern int rtnl_lock_killable(void);
 extern bool refcount_dec_and_rtnl_lock(refcount_t *r);