netdev - [PPATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: inetdev_by

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Date:	Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:23:04 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PPATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: inetdev_by_index() switch to RCU

Use dev_get_by_index_rcu() instead of __dev_get_by_index() and
dev_base_lock rwlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 5df2f6a..ccccaae 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -405,11 +405,12 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct in_device *in_dev = NULL;
-	read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
-	dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex);
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
 	if (dev)
 		in_dev = in_dev_get(dev);
-	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return in_dev;
 }
 
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