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Commit 8d44b5cf authored by Leon Romanovsky's avatar Leon Romanovsky Committed by David S. Miller
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liquidio: Overcome missing device lock protection in init/remove flows



The liquidio driver is broken by design. It initialize PCI devices
in separate delayed works. It causes to the situation where device lock
is dropped during initialize and remove sequences.

That lock is part of driver/core and needed to protect from races during
init, destroy and bus invocations.

In addition to lack of locking protection, it has incorrect order of
destroy flows and very questionable synchronization scheme based on
atomic_t.

This change doesn't fix that driver but makes sure that rest of the
netdev subsystem doesn't suffer from such basic protection by adding
device_lock over devlink_*() APIs and by moving devlink_register()
to be last command in setup_nic_devices().

Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5df290e7
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