net: make netdev_lock() protect netdev->reg_state
Protect writes to netdev->reg_state with netdev_lock(). From now on holding netdev_lock() is sufficient to prevent the net_device from getting unregistered, so code which wants to hold just a single netdev around no longer needs to hold rtnl_lock. We do not protect the NETREG_UNREGISTERED -> NETREG_RELEASED transition. We'd need to move mutex_destroy(netdev->lock) to .release, but the real reason is that trying to stop the unregistration process mid-way would be unsafe / crazy. Taking references on such devices is not safe, either. So the intended semantics are to lock REGISTERED devices. Reviewed-by:Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com> Reviewed-by:
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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