[PATCH net-next v3 05/13] devlink: support index-based lookup via bus_name/dev_name handle
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: 2026-03-04 16:00:39
Also in:
linux-doc, linux-rdma, linux-trace-kernel
Subsystem:
devlink, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jiri Pirko, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Jiri Pirko <redacted> Devlink instances without a backing device use bus_name "devlink_index" and dev_name set to the decimal index string. When user space sends this handle, detect the pattern and perform a direct xarray lookup by index instead of iterating all instances. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted> --- v2->v3: - unify return value -ENODEV even in case non-numeric dev_name v1->v2: - moved DEVLINK_INDEX_BUS_NAME definition here from patch #7 --- include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 2 ++ net/devlink/netlink.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
index 1ba3436db4ae..7de2d8cc862f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ #define DEVLINK_GENL_VERSION 0x1 #define DEVLINK_GENL_MCGRP_CONFIG_NAME "config" +#define DEVLINK_INDEX_BUS_NAME "devlink_index" + enum devlink_command { /* don't change the order or add anything between, this is ABI! */ DEVLINK_CMD_UNSPEC,
diff --git a/net/devlink/netlink.c b/net/devlink/netlink.c
index e73e39116365..5db931a0091c 100644
--- a/net/devlink/netlink.c
+++ b/net/devlink/netlink.c@@ -208,6 +208,15 @@ devlink_get_from_attrs_lock(struct net *net, struct nlattr **attrs, busname = nla_data(attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_BUS_NAME]); devname = nla_data(attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_DEV_NAME]); + if (!strcmp(busname, DEVLINK_INDEX_BUS_NAME)) { + if (kstrtoul(devname, 10, &index)) + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + devlink = devlinks_xa_lookup_get(net, index); + if (!devlink) + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + goto found; + } + devlinks_xa_for_each_registered_get(net, index, devlink) { if (strcmp(devlink_bus_name(devlink), busname) == 0 && strcmp(devlink_dev_name(devlink), devname) == 0)
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