dev: Pass netdevice_tracker to dev_get_by_flags_rcu().

JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-115325
Upstream Status: net.git commit 2a683d0

commit 2a683d0
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 11 05:10:59 2025 +0000

    dev: Pass netdevice_tracker to dev_get_by_flags_rcu().

    This is a follow-up for commit eb1ac9f ("ipv6: anycast: Don't
    hold RTNL for IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST.").

    We should not add a new device lookup API without netdevice_tracker.

    Let's pass netdevice_tracker to dev_get_by_flags_rcu() and rename it
    with netdev_ prefix to match other newer APIs.

    Note that we always use GFP_ATOMIC for netdev_hold() as it's expected
    to be called under RCU.

    Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250708184053.102109f6@kernel.org/
    Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
    Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711051120.2866855-1-kuniyu@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <haliu@redhat.com>

Author: Hangbin Liu

include/linux/netdevice.h

@@ -3160,8 +3160,6 @@ int dev_get_iflink(const struct net_device *dev);
 int dev_fill_metadata_dst(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
 int dev_fill_forward_path(const struct net_device *dev, const u8 *daddr,
 			  struct net_device_path_stack *stack);
-struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, unsigned short flags,
-					unsigned short mask);
 struct net_device *dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name);
 struct net_device *dev_get_by_name_rcu(struct net *net, const char *name);
 struct net_device *__dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name);
@@ -3222,6 +3220,8 @@ struct net_device *netdev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex,
 				       netdevice_tracker *tracker, gfp_t gfp);
 struct net_device *netdev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name,
 				      netdevice_tracker *tracker, gfp_t gfp);
+struct net_device *netdev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, netdevice_tracker *tracker,
+					   unsigned short flags, unsigned short mask);
 struct net_device *dev_get_by_index_rcu(struct net *net, int ifindex);
 void netdev_copy_name(struct net_device *dev, char *name);
 

net/core/dev.c

@@ -1102,8 +1102,9 @@ struct net_device *dev_getfirstbyhwtype(struct net *net, unsigned short type)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_getfirstbyhwtype);
 
 /**
- * dev_get_by_flags_rcu - find any device with given flags
+ * netdev_get_by_flags_rcu - find any device with given flags
  * @net: the applicable net namespace
+ * @tracker: tracking object for the acquired reference
  * @if_flags: IFF_* values
  * @mask: bitmask of bits in if_flags to check
  *
@@ -1112,21 +1113,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_getfirstbyhwtype);
  * Context: rcu_read_lock() must be held.
  * Returns: NULL if a device is not found or a pointer to the device.
  */
-struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags,
-					unsigned short mask)
+struct net_device *netdev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, netdevice_tracker *tracker,
+					   unsigned short if_flags, unsigned short mask)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 
 	for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev) {
 		if (((READ_ONCE(dev->flags) ^ if_flags) & mask) == 0) {
-			dev_hold(dev);
+			netdev_hold(dev, tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
 			return dev;
 		}
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
 }
-EXPORT_IPV6_MOD(dev_get_by_flags_rcu);
+EXPORT_IPV6_MOD(netdev_get_by_flags_rcu);
 
 /**
  *	dev_valid_name - check if name is okay for network device

net/ipv6/anycast.c

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ int ipv6_sock_ac_join(struct sock *sk, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *addr)
 	struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
 	struct ipv6_ac_socklist *pac = NULL;
 	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
+	netdevice_tracker dev_tracker;
 	struct net_device *dev = NULL;
 	struct inet6_dev *idev;
 	int err = 0, ishost;
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ int ipv6_sock_ac_join(struct sock *sk, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *addr)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (ifindex)
-		dev = dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex);
+		dev = netdev_get_by_index(net, ifindex, &dev_tracker, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags(net, addr, dev, true, 0, IFA_F_TENTATIVE)) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
@@ -104,16 +105,16 @@ int ipv6_sock_ac_join(struct sock *sk, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *addr)
 		rt = rt6_lookup(net, addr, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
 		if (rt) {
 			dev = dst_dev(&rt->dst);
-			dev_hold(dev);
+			netdev_hold(dev, &dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
 			ip6_rt_put(rt);
 		} else if (ishost) {
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 			err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 			goto error;
 		} else {
 			/* router, no matching interface: just pick one */
-			dev = dev_get_by_flags_rcu(net, IFF_UP,
-						   IFF_UP | IFF_LOOPBACK);
+			dev = netdev_get_by_flags_rcu(net, &dev_tracker, IFF_UP,
+						      IFF_UP | IFF_LOOPBACK);
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ int ipv6_sock_ac_join(struct sock *sk, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *addr)
 error_idev:
 	in6_dev_put(idev);
 error:
-	dev_put(dev);
+	netdev_put(dev, &dev_tracker);
 
 	if (pac)
 		sock_kfree_s(sk, pac, sizeof(*pac));