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Shivaji Kant 6a2108c780 net: devmem: refresh devmem TX dst in case of route invalidation
The zero-copy Device Memory (Devmem) transmit path
relies on the socket's route cache (`dst_entry`) to
validate that the packet is being sent via the network
device to which the DMA buffer was bound.

However, this check incorrectly fails and returns `-ENODEV`
if the socket's route cache entry (`dst`) is merely missing
or expired (`dst == NULL`). This scenario is observed during
network events, such as when flow steering rules are deleted,
leading to a temporary route cache invalidation.

This patch fixes -ENODEV error for `net_devmem_get_binding()`
by doing the following:

1.  It attempts to rebuild the route via `rebuild_header()`
if the route is initially missing (`dst == NULL`). This
allows the TCP/IP stack to recover from transient route
cache misses.
2.  It uses `rcu_read_lock()` and `dst_dev_rcu()` to safely
access the network device pointer (`dst_dev`) from the
route, preventing use-after-free conditions if the
device is concurrently removed.
3.  It maintains the critical safety check by validating
that the retrieved destination device (`dst_dev`) is
exactly the device registered in the Devmem binding
(`binding->dev`).

These changes prevent unnecessary ENODEV failures while
maintaining the critical safety requirement that the
Devmem resources are only used on the bound network device.

Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Vedant Mathur <vedantmathur@google.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: bd61848900 ("net: devmem: Implement TX path")
Signed-off-by: Shivaji Kant <shivajikant@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029065420.3489943-1-shivajikant@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 19:23:21 -07:00
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