Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: Do not leave DSA master with NULL netdev_ops

On 5/4/2020 1:34 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

Hi Florian,

On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 23:19, Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] wrote:

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When ndo_get_phys_port_name() for the CPU port was added we introduced
an early check for when the DSA master network device in
dsa_master_ndo_setup() already implements ndo_get_phys_port_name(). When
we perform the teardown operation in dsa_master_ndo_teardown() we would
not be checking that cpu_dp->orig_ndo_ops was successfully allocated and
non-NULL initialized.

With network device drivers such as virtio_net, this leads to a NPD as
soon as the DSA switch hanging off of it gets torn down because we are
now assigning the virtio_net device's netdev_ops a NULL pointer.

Fixes: da7b9e9b00d4 ("net: dsa: Add ndo_get_phys_port_name() for CPU port")
Reported-by: Allen Pais <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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The fix makes complete sense.
But on another note, if we don't overlay an ndo_get_phys_port_name if
the master already has one, doesn't that render the entire mechanism
of having a reliable way for user space to determine the CPU port
number pointless?

For the CPU port I would consider ndo_get_phys_port_name() to be more
best effort than an absolute need unlike the user facing ports, where
this is necessary for a variety of actions (e.g.: determining
queues/port numbers etc.) which is why there was no overlay being done
in that case. There is not a good way to cascade the information other
than do something like pX.Y and defining what the X and Y are, what do
you think?
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Florian