Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/23] net: add preliminary netdev refcount tracking

On Sat,  4 Dec 2021 20:21:54 -0800 Eric Dumazet wrote:

Two first patches add a generic infrastructure, that will be used
to get tracking of refcount increments/decrements.

The general idea is to be able to precisely pair each decrement with
a corresponding prior increment. Both share a cookie, basically
a pointer to private data storing stack traces.

The third patch adds dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track() helpers
(CONFIG_NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER)

Then a series of 20 patches converts some dev_hold()/dev_put()
pairs to new hepers : dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track().

Hopefully this will be used by developpers and syzbot to
root cause bugs that cause netdevice dismantles freezes.

With CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT=n option, we were able to detect
some class of bugs, but too late (when too many dev_put()
were happening).

Applied with minor fixes to patches 3 and 20. Thanks!