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>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
---
v2:
  * Remove unnecessary "^\+.*"
  * Match "rtnl_lock	 ()"

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250211070447.25001-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/ (local)
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7b28ad331742..eca4f082ac3f 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)?\s*\(\)/) {
+			WARN("rtnl_lock()",
+			     "A new use of rtnl_lock() variants is discouraged, try to use rtnl_net_lock(net) variants\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # strcpy uses that should likely be strscpy
 		if ($line =~ /\bstrcpy\s*\(/) {
 			WARN("STRCPY",

-- 
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)