devlink: Set device as early as possible

All kernel devlink implementations call to devlink_alloc() during
initialization routine for specific device which is used later as
a parent device for devlink_register().

Such late device assignment causes to the situation which requires us to
call to device_register() before setting other parameters, but that call
opens devlink to the world and makes accessible for the netlink users.

Any attempt to move devlink_register() to be the last call generates the
following error due to access to the devlink->dev pointer.

[    8.758862]  devlink_nl_param_fill+0x2e8/0xe50
[    8.760305]  devlink_param_notify+0x6d/0x180
[    8.760435]  __devlink_params_register+0x2f1/0x670
[    8.760558]  devlink_params_register+0x1e/0x20

The simple change of API to set devlink device in the devlink_alloc()
instead of devlink_register() fixes all this above and ensures that
prior to call to devlink_register() everything already set.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
index cd520e4c5522..c7d0e195d176 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct ionic *ionic_devlink_alloc(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct devlink *dl;
 
-	dl = devlink_alloc(&ionic_dl_ops, sizeof(struct ionic));
+	dl = devlink_alloc(&ionic_dl_ops, sizeof(struct ionic), dev);
 
 	return devlink_priv(dl);
 }
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int ionic_devlink_register(struct ionic *ionic)
 	struct devlink_port_attrs attrs = {};
 	int err;
 
-	err = devlink_register(dl, ionic->dev);
+	err = devlink_register(dl);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_warn(ionic->dev, "devlink_register failed: %d\n", err);
 		return err;