[PATCH net] net: airoha: Move net_devs registration in a dedicated routine

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo at kernel.org
Mon Dec 15 06:33:01 PST 2025


> On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 10:30:07AM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > Since airoha_probe() is not executed under rtnl lock, there is small race
> > where a given device is configured by user-space while the remaining ones
> > are not completely loaded from the dts yet. This condition will allow a
> > hw device misconfiguration since there are some conditions (e.g. GDM2 check
> > in airoha_dev_init()) that require all device are properly loaded from the
> > device tree. Fix the issue moving net_devices registration at the end of
> > the airoha_probe routine.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9cd451d414f6e ("net: airoha: Add loopback support for GDM2")
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>
> 
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> As a fix this patch looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>

Hi Simon,

thx for the review.

> 
> But I am somewhat surprised that the netdev isn't unregistered earlier
> both in airoha_remove() and the unwind ladder of airoha_probe().

do you mean moving unregister_netdev() before
airoha_qdma_stop_napi()/airoha_hw_cleanup()? I was thinking about it to be
honest :)
Since it is not related to this fix, I will post a patch as soon as net-next is
open again.

Regards,
Lorenzo

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 228 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mediatek/attachments/20251215/f2095c0d/attachment.sig>


More information about the Linux-mediatek mailing list