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net: core: fix lockdep splat on device unregister
authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:50:52 +0000 (20:50 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:27:20 +0000 (19:27 -0700)
commit7f0fddd817ba6daebea1445ae9fab4b6d2294fa8
tree27b1c64bd9b69c7acffb5cbf653165231c60b413
parentdf5a1f4aeb6ff5e7c5ac47d16a347f03509dd441
net: core: fix lockdep splat on device unregister

Since blamed commit, unregister_netdevice_many_notify() takes the netdev
mutex if the device needs it.

If the device list is too long, this will lock more device mutexes than
lockdep can handle:

unshare -n \
 bash -c 'for i in $(seq 1 100);do ip link add foo$i type dummy;done'

BUG: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low!
turning off the locking correctness validator.
depth: 48  max: 48!
48 locks held by kworker/u16:1/69:
 #0: ..148 ((wq_completion)netns){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work
 #1: ..d40 (net_cleanup_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work
 #2: ..bd0 (pernet_ops_rwsem){++++}-{4:4}, at: cleanup_net
 #3: ..aa8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: default_device_exit_batch
 #4: ..cb0 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: unregister_netdevice_many_notify
[..]

Add a helper to close and then unlock a list of net_devices.
Devices that are not up have to be skipped - netif_close_many always
removes them from the list without any other actions taken, so they'd
remain in locked state.

Close devices whenever we've used up half of the tracking slots or we
processed entire list without hitting the limit.

Fixes: 7e4d784f5810 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during rtnetlink operations")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013185052.14021-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/core/dev.c