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Vitaly Kuznetsov committed 3d541ac5a92
hv_netvsc: untangle the pointer mess
We have the following structures keeping netvsc adapter state:
- struct net_device
- struct net_device_context
- struct netvsc_device
- struct rndis_device
- struct hv_device
and there are pointers/dependencies between them:
- struct net_device_context is contained in struct net_device
- struct hv_device has driver_data pointer which points to
'struct net_device' OR 'struct netvsc_device' depending on driver's
state (!).
- struct net_device_context has a pointer to 'struct hv_device'.
- struct netvsc_device has pointers to 'struct hv_device' and
'struct net_device_context'.
- struct rndis_device has a pointer to 'struct netvsc_device'.
Different functions get different structures as parameters and use these
pointers for traveling. The problem is (in addition to keeping in mind
this complex graph) that some of these structures (struct netvsc_device
and struct rndis_device) are being removed and re-created on mtu change
(as we implement it as re-creation of hyper-v device) so our travel using
these pointers is dangerous.
Simplify this to a the following:
- add struct netvsc_device pointer to struct net_device_context (which is
a part of struct net_device and thus never disappears)
- remove struct hv_device and struct net_device_context pointers from
struct netvsc_device
- replace pointer to 'struct netvsc_device' with pointer to
'struct net_device'.
- always keep 'struct net_device' in hv_device driver_data.
We'll end up with the following 'circular' structure:
net_device:
[net_device_context] -> netvsc_device -> rndis_device -> net_device
-> hv_device -> net_device
On MTU change we'll be removing the 'netvsc_device -> rndis_device'
branch and re-creating it making the synchronization easier.
There is one additional redundant pointer left, it is struct net_device
link in struct netvsc_device, it is going to be removed in a separate
commit.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>