This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled devlink: remove reload failed checks in params get/set callbacks to the 6.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: devlink-remove-reload-failed-checks-in-params-get-se.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 092971e3bc31c372733fe0e60d7fed43c19827c8 Author: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 13 11:44:19 2023 +0200 devlink: remove reload failed checks in params get/set callbacks [ Upstream commit 633d76ad01ad0321a1ace3e5cc4fed06753d7ac4 ] The checks in question were introduced by: commit 6b4db2e528f6 ("devlink: Fix use-after-free after a failed reload"). That fixed an issue of reload with mlxsw driver. Back then, that was a valid fix, because there was a limitation in place that prevented drivers from registering/unregistering params when devlink instance was registered. It was possible to do the fix differently by changing drivers to register/unregister params in appropriate places making sure the ops operate only on memory which is allocated and initialized. But that, as a dependency, would require to remove the limitation mentioned above. Eventually, this limitation was lifted by: commit 1d18bb1a4ddd ("devlink: allow registering parameters after the instance") Also, the alternative fix (which also fixed another issue) was done by: commit 74cbc3c03c82 ("mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Move devlink param to TCAM code"). Therefore, the checks are no longer relevant. Each driver should make sure to have the params registered only when the memory the ops are working with is allocated and initialized. So remove the checks. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/devlink/leftover.c b/net/devlink/leftover.c index bfed7929a904f..5277eb3c7d0a1 100644 --- a/net/devlink/leftover.c +++ b/net/devlink/leftover.c @@ -3946,7 +3946,7 @@ static int devlink_param_get(struct devlink *devlink, const struct devlink_param *param, struct devlink_param_gset_ctx *ctx) { - if (!param->get || devlink->reload_failed) + if (!param->get) return -EOPNOTSUPP; return param->get(devlink, param->id, ctx); } @@ -3955,7 +3955,7 @@ static int devlink_param_set(struct devlink *devlink, const struct devlink_param *param, struct devlink_param_gset_ctx *ctx) { - if (!param->set || devlink->reload_failed) + if (!param->set) return -EOPNOTSUPP; return param->set(devlink, param->id, ctx); }