linux/net/openvswitch
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 052e5db5be net: openvswitch: Avoid needlessly taking the RTNL on vport destroy
[ Upstream commit 5498227676 ]

The openvswitch teardown code will immediately call
ovs_netdev_detach_dev() in response to a NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.
It will then start the dp_notify_work workqueue, which will later end up
calling the vport destroy() callback. This callback takes the RTNL to do
another ovs_netdev_detach_port(), which in this case is unnecessary.
This causes extra pressure on the RTNL, in some cases leading to
"unregister_netdevice: waiting for XX to become free" warnings on
teardown.

We can straight-forwardly avoid the extra RTNL lock acquisition by
checking the device flags before taking the lock, and skip the locking
altogether if the IFF_OVS_DATAPATH flag has already been unset.

Fixes: b07c26511e ("openvswitch: fix vport-netdev unregister")
Tested-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211115006.228876-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-01-19 13:09:56 +01:00
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actions.c net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields 2025-12-07 06:09:31 +09:00
conntrack.c netfilter: nf_conncount: rework API to use sk_buff directly 2026-01-19 13:09:35 +01:00
conntrack.h net/sched: act_api: fix miss set post_ct for ovs after do conntrack in act_ct 2021-03-16 15:22:18 -07:00
datapath.c openvswitch: use RCU protection in ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info() 2025-03-13 12:50:44 +01:00
datapath.h openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch 2021-07-16 11:06:33 -07:00
dp_notify.c net: openvswitch: use netif_ovs_is_port() instead of opencode 2019-07-08 15:53:25 -07:00
flow.c net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse 2025-06-27 11:05:14 +01:00
flow.h treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
flow_netlink.c net: openvswitch: fix middle attribute validation in push_nsh() action 2026-01-19 13:09:43 +01:00
flow_netlink.h net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields 2025-12-07 06:09:31 +09:00
flow_table.c openvswitch: Optimize operation for key comparison 2021-07-01 11:13:10 -07:00
flow_table.h net: openvswitch: fix to make sure flow_lookup() is not preempted 2020-10-18 12:29:36 -07:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
meter.c net: openvswitch: fix possible memory leak in ovs_meter_cmd_set() 2023-02-22 12:57:09 +01:00
meter.h net: openvswitch: use u64 for meter bucket 2020-04-23 18:26:11 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.c openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.h openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
vport-geneve.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
vport-gre.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport-internal_dev.c net: openvswitch: use core API to update/provide stats 2020-11-14 16:59:32 -08:00
vport-internal_dev.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport-netdev.c net: openvswitch: Avoid needlessly taking the RTNL on vport destroy 2026-01-19 13:09:56 +01:00
vport-netdev.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport-vxlan.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 269 2019-06-05 17:30:29 +02:00
vport.c ovs: clear skb->tstamp in forwarding path 2021-08-18 11:31:13 +01:00
vport.h openvswitch: Fix a typo 2021-03-22 12:59:46 -07:00