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[PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: reject ops-locked drivers without ndo_set_rx_mode_async

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From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Date: 2026-10-02 09:42:32
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

ndo_set_rx_mode cannot sleep and runs with netif_addr_lock_bh held, so an
ops-locked driver cannot take the instance lock from it.
ndo_set_rx_mode_async is the replacement and runs in process context.

Registration has only warned about this since v7.1, long enough to find
the offenders. Make it an error.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
---
I grepped for potential offenders in the tree using

  for f in $(git grep -lE 'request_ops_lock|queue_mgmt_ops|net_shaper_ops' \
                          -- drivers/net); do
          d=$(dirname $f)
          git grep -q '\.ndo_set_rx_mode\s*=' -- $d &&
          ! git grep -q 'ndo_set_rx_mode_async' -- $d && echo "$d"
  done

but haven't found any. net-next testing will show if I missed something.

 net/core/dev.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a44bcfc29d54..ca7f4844cc40 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -11463,8 +11463,10 @@ static int netdev_check_ops(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 
 	if (netdev_need_ops_lock(dev) && ops->ndo_set_rx_mode &&
-	    !ops->ndo_set_rx_mode_async)
+	    !ops->ndo_set_rx_mode_async) {
 		netdev_WARN(dev, "ops-locked drivers should use ndo_set_rx_mode_async\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.53.0
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