openwrt/target/linux/generic/backport-6.6/900-v6.11-net-free_netdev-exit-earlier-if-dummy.patch
Felix Fietkau fa6bd065dd kernel: backport upstream commit that allows leaving out .ndo_get_stats64
Fixes mac80211 backport device statistics.

Fixes: #16642
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
2024-10-09 10:44:44 +02:00

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From f8d05679fb3faae478d604177b0c188b340371cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:38:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net: free_netdev: exit earlier if dummy
For dummy devices, exit earlier at free_netdev() instead of executing
the whole function. This is necessary, because dummy devices are
special, and shouldn't have the second part of the function executed.
Otherwise reg_state, which is NETREG_DUMMY, will be overwritten and
there will be no way to identify that this is a dummy device. Also, this
device do not need the final put_device(), since dummy devices are not
registered (through register_netdevice()), where the device reference is
increased (at netdev_register_kobject()/device_add()).
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10968,7 +10968,8 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
dev->xdp_bulkq = NULL;
/* Compatibility with error handling in drivers */
- if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) {
+ if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED ||
+ dev->reg_state == NETREG_DUMMY) {
netdev_freemem(dev);
return;
}