Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] checkpatch: Discourage a new use of rtnl_lock() variants.
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-02-13 11:03:57
On 2/11/25 8:04 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
rtnl_lock() is a "Big Kernel Lock" in the networking slow path and still serialises most of RTM_(NEW|DEL|SET)* rtnetlink requests. Commit 76aed95319da ("rtnetlink: Add per-netns RTNL.") started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock scope per network namespace. However, there are still some patches that newly use rtnl_lock(), which is now discouraged, and we need to revisit it later. Let's warn about the case by checkpatch. The target functions are as follows: * rtnl_lock() * rtnl_trylock() * rtnl_lock_interruptible() * rtnl_lock_killable() and the warning will be like: WARNING: A new use of rtnl_lock() variants is discouraged, try to use rtnl_net_lock(net) variants #18: FILE: net/core/rtnetlink.c:79: + rtnl_lock(); Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <redacted> --- It would be nice if this patch goes through net-next.git to catch new rtnl_lock() users by netdev CI. --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7b28ad331742..09d5420436cc 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl@@ -6995,6 +6995,12 @@ sub process { # } # } +# A new use of rtnl_lock() is discouraged as it's being converted to rtnl_net_lock(net). + if ($line =~ /^\+.*\brtnl_(try)?lock(_interruptible|_killable)?\(\)/) {
I think you need to add '\s*' just before '\(' to avoid the test being
fooled by some bad formatting.
Also I'm unsure if the '^\+.*' header is strictly required - it should
but some/most existing tests don't use it, do you know why?
Thanks,
Paolo