linux/drivers
Daniel Borkmann 2544447057 netkit: Add netkit notifier to check for unregistering devices
Add a netdevice notifier in netkit to watch for NETDEV_UNREGISTER events.
If the target device is indeed NETREG_UNREGISTERING and previously leased
a queue to a netkit device, then collect the related netkit devices and
batch-unregister_netdevice_many() them.

If this were not done, then the netkit device would hold a reference on
the physical device preventing it from going away. However, in case of
both io_uring zero-copy as well as AF_XDP this situation is handled
gracefully and the allocated resources are torn down.

In the case where mentioned infra is used through netkit, the applications
have a reference on netkit, and netkit in turn holds a reference on the
physical device. In order to have netkit release the reference on the
physical device, we need such watcher to then unregister the netkit ones.

This is generally quite similar to the dependency handling in case of
tunnels (e.g. vxlan bound to a underlying netdev) where the tunnel device
gets removed along with the physical device.

  # ip a
  [...]
  4: enp10s0f0np0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
      link/ether e8:eb:d3:a3:43:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
      inet 10.0.0.2/24 scope global enp10s0f0np0
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  [...]
  8: nk@NONE: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  [...]

  # rmmod mlx5_ib
  # rmmod mlx5_core
  [...]
  [  309.261822] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.0 mlx5_0: Port: 1 Link DOWN
  [  344.235236] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Unload vfs: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.246948] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.463754] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
  [  344.770155] mlx5_core 0000:0a:00.1: E-Switch: cleanup
  [...]

  # ip a
  [...]
  [ both enp10s0f0np0 and nk gone ]
  [...]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Co-developed-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402231031.447597-13-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-09 18:21:47 -07:00
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