Re: [PATCH net-next v10 14/22] io_uring/zcrx: grab a net device

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On Wed,  8 Jan 2025 14:06:35 -0800 David Wei wrote:
> From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Zerocopy receive needs a net device to bind to its rx queue and dma map
> buffers. As a preparation to following patches, resolve a net device
> from the if_idx parameter with no functional changes otherwise.

How do you know if someone unregisters this netdevice?
The unregister process waits for all the refs to be released,
for *ekhm* historic reasons. Normally ref holders subscribe
to netdev events and kill their dependent objects. Perhaps
it is somewhere else/later in the series...

> +#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>

Do you need anything more than rtnl_lock from this header?




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