Drivers will commonly perform feature setting during init, if they use the xdp_set_features_flag() helper they'll likely run into an ASSERT_RTNL() inside call_netdevice_notifiers_info(). Don't call the notifier until the device is actually registered. Nothing should be tracking the device until its registered. Fixes: 4d5ab0ad964d ("net/mlx5e: take into account device reconfiguration for xdp_features flag") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- CC: ast@xxxxxxxxxx CC: daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: hawk@xxxxxxxxxx CC: john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx CC: lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx CC: tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx CC: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- net/core/xdp.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/xdp.c b/net/core/xdp.c index 87e654b7d06c..5722a1fc6e9e 100644 --- a/net/core/xdp.c +++ b/net/core/xdp.c @@ -781,6 +781,9 @@ void xdp_set_features_flag(struct net_device *dev, xdp_features_t val) return; dev->xdp_features = val; + + if (dev->reg_state < NETREG_REGISTERED) + return; call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_XDP_FEAT_CHANGE, dev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdp_set_features_flag); -- 2.39.2