net: add net device refcount tracker infrastructure

net device are refcounted. Over the years we had numerous bugs
caused by imbalanced dev_hold() and dev_put() calls.

The general idea is to be able to precisely pair each decrement with
a corresponding prior increment. Both share a cookie, basically
a pointer to private data storing stack traces.

This patch adds dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track().

To use these helpers, each data structure owning a refcount
should also use a "netdevice_tracker" to pair the hold and put.

netdevice_tracker dev_tracker;
...
dev_hold_track(dev, &dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
...
dev_put_track(dev, &dev_tracker);

Whenever a leak happens, we will get precise stack traces
of the point dev_hold_track() happened, at device dismantle phase.

We will also get a stack trace if too many dev_put_track() for the same
netdevice_tracker are attempted.

This is guarded by CONFIG_NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/Kconfig.debug b/net/Kconfig.debug
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fb5c70e01cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/Kconfig.debug
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+config NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER
+	bool "Enable net device refcount tracking"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+	select REF_TRACKER
+	default n
+	help
+	  Enable debugging feature to track device references.
+	  This adds memory and cpu costs.