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net: add net device refcount tracker infrastructure

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net device are refcounted. Over the years we had numerous bugs
caused by imbalanced dev_hold() and dev_put() calls.

The general idea is to be able to precisely pair each decrement with
a corresponding prior increment. Both share a cookie, basically
a pointer to private data storing stack traces.

This patch adds dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track().

To use these helpers, each data structure owning a refcount
should also use a "netdevice_tracker" to pair the hold and put.

netdevice_tracker dev_tracker;
...
dev_hold_track(dev, &dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
...
dev_put_track(dev, &dev_tracker);

Whenever a leak happens, we will get precise stack traces
of the point dev_hold_track() happened, at device dismantle phase.

We will also get a stack trace if too many dev_put_track() for the same
netdevice_tracker are attempted.

This is guarded by CONFIG_NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Eric Dumazet
2021-12-04 20:21:57 -08:00
committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 914a7b5000
commit 4d92b95ff2
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@@ -9864,6 +9864,7 @@ static void netdev_wait_allrefs(struct net_device *dev)
netdev_unregister_timeout_secs * HZ)) {
pr_emerg("unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d\n",
dev->name, refcnt);
ref_tracker_dir_print(&dev->refcnt_tracker, 10);
warning_time = jiffies;
}
}
@@ -10154,6 +10155,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
dev = PTR_ALIGN(p, NETDEV_ALIGN);
dev->padded = (char *)dev - (char *)p;
ref_tracker_dir_init(&dev->refcnt_tracker, 128);
#ifdef CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT
dev->pcpu_refcnt = alloc_percpu(int);
if (!dev->pcpu_refcnt)
@@ -10270,6 +10272,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &dev->napi_list, dev_list)
netif_napi_del(p);
ref_tracker_dir_exit(&dev->refcnt_tracker);
#ifdef CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT
free_percpu(dev->pcpu_refcnt);
dev->pcpu_refcnt = NULL;