[PATCH net-next 2/2] netconsole: remove unnecessary target refcounting from the netdev notifier
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From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-10-06 18:59:10
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Subsystem:
netconsole, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Breno Leitao, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Revision v1 of 2 in this series.
Revisions (2)
- v1 current
- v2 [diff vs current]
Since netconsole_netdev_event() holds target_list_lock, there is no need
to also protect each target with netconsole_target_get/put()
refcounting. There is no way a target reachable from the target_list
would go away while we hold target_list_lock.
This is similar to commit a6d403ac9689 ("netconsole: remove unnecessary
netconsole_target_get/out() from write_msg()").
Since this is the only remaining user of netconsole_target_get/put(),
remove those helpers as well.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 31 -------------------------------
1 file changed, 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 188beacb308d..ddc5fcf19fe6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c@@ -262,23 +262,6 @@ static void __exit dynamic_netconsole_exit(void) configfs_unregister_subsystem(&netconsole_subsys); } -/* - * Targets that were created by parsing the boot/module option string - * do not exist in the configfs hierarchy (and have NULL names) and will - * never go away, so make these a no-op for them. - */ -static void netconsole_target_get(struct netconsole_target *nt) -{ - if (config_item_name(&nt->group.cg_item)) - config_group_get(&nt->group); -} - -static void netconsole_target_put(struct netconsole_target *nt) -{ - if (config_item_name(&nt->group.cg_item)) - config_group_put(&nt->group); -} - static void dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock(void) { mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
@@ -300,18 +283,6 @@ static void __exit dynamic_netconsole_exit(void) { } -/* - * No danger of targets going away from under us when dynamic - * reconfigurability is off. - */ -static void netconsole_target_get(struct netconsole_target *nt) -{ -} - -static void netconsole_target_put(struct netconsole_target *nt) -{ -} - static void populate_configfs_item(struct netconsole_target *nt, int cmdline_count) {
@@ -1979,7 +1950,6 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, mutex_lock(&target_cleanup_list_lock); spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry_safe(nt, tmp, &target_list, list) { - netconsole_target_get(nt); if (nt->np.dev == dev) { switch (event) { case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
@@ -2009,7 +1979,6 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, * notifier. */ queue_work(netconsole_wq, &nt->resume_wq); - netconsole_target_put(nt); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags); mutex_unlock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
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2.55.0