From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 01:28:32 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: document NETDEV_CHANGENAME as ops locked X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8dfa196cb978815543a36bbdd077f4a161e160d;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git net: document NETDEV_CHANGENAME as ops locked NETDEV_CHANGENAME is only emitted from netif_change_name(). netif_change_name() has two callers both of which hold netdev_lock_ops() around the call site: - dev_change_name() - do_setlink() Document NETDEV_CHANGENAME as always ops locked. Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603012840.2254293-4-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst index 60492d4df2ee..8fc96975b3bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst @@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ The following netdev notifiers are always run under the instance lock: For devices with locked ops, currently only the following notifiers are running under the lock: * ``NETDEV_CHANGE`` +* ``NETDEV_CHANGENAME`` * ``NETDEV_REGISTER`` * ``NETDEV_UP`` diff --git a/net/core/lock_debug.c b/net/core/lock_debug.c index 14fd8fcdcd56..8a81c5430705 100644 --- a/net/core/lock_debug.c +++ b/net/core/lock_debug.c @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ int netdev_debug_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event, break; case NETDEV_CHANGENAME: + netdev_assert_locked_ops(dev); ASSERT_RTNL_NET(net); break; }