devlink: remove the registration guarantee of references

The objective of exposing the devlink instance locks to
drivers was to let them use these locks to prevent user space
from accessing the device before it's fully initialized.
This is difficult because devlink_unregister() waits for all
references to be released, meaning that devlink_unregister()
can't itself be called under the instance lock.

To avoid this issue devlink_register() was moved after subobject
registration a while ago. Unfortunately the netdev paths get
a hold of the devlink instances _before_ they are registered.
Ideally netdev should wait for devlink init to finish (synchronizing
on the instance lock). This can't work because we don't know if the
instance will _ever_ be registered (in case of failures it may not).
The other option of returning an error until devlink_register()
is called is unappealing (user space would get a notification
netdev exist but would have to wait arbitrary amount of time
before accessing some of its attributes).

Weaken the guarantees of the devlink references.

Holding a reference will now only guarantee that the memory
of the object is around. Another way of looking at it is that
the reference now protects the object not its "registered" status.
Use devlink instance lock to synchronize unregistration.

This implies that releasing of the "main" reference of the devlink
instance moves from devlink_unregister() to devlink_free().

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/devlink/devl_internal.h b/net/devlink/devl_internal.h
index 01a00df81d0e..5d2bbe295659 100644
--- a/net/devlink/devl_internal.h
+++ b/net/devlink/devl_internal.h
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 
 #define DEVLINK_REGISTERED XA_MARK_1
-#define DEVLINK_UNREGISTERING XA_MARK_2
 
 #define DEVLINK_RELOAD_STATS_ARRAY_SIZE \
 	(__DEVLINK_RELOAD_LIMIT_MAX * __DEVLINK_RELOAD_ACTION_MAX)
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ struct devlink {
 	struct lock_class_key lock_key;
 	u8 reload_failed:1;
 	refcount_t refcount;
-	struct completion comp;
 	struct rcu_head rcu;
 	struct notifier_block netdevice_nb;
 	char priv[] __aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN);