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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:42:09 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> CC: Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: RCU locking for simple ioctl() All ioctls() implemented by dev_ifsioc_locked() : SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCGIFMETRIC, SIOCGIFMTU, SIOCGIFHWADDR, SIOCGIFSLAVE, SIOCGIFMAP, SIOCGIFINDEX & SIOCGIFTXQLEN can use RCU lock instead of dev_base_lock rwlock Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> --- net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index f54d8b8..c0f27ad 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4315,12 +4315,12 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa) EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address); /* - * Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside read_lock(dev_base_lock) + * Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside rcu_read_lock() */ static int dev_ifsioc_locked(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd) { int err; - struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name); + struct net_device *dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, ifr->ifr_name); if (!dev) return -ENODEV; @@ -4552,9 +4552,9 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) case SIOCGIFINDEX: case SIOCGIFTXQLEN: dev_load(net, ifr.ifr_name); - read_lock(&dev_base_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); ret = dev_ifsioc_locked(net, &ifr, cmd); - read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); if (!ret) { if (colon) *colon = ':'; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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