netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/10] CAN: use dev_get_by_index

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:34:06 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Lothar Wassmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] CAN: use dev_get_by_index_rcu

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> Use new function to avoid doing read_lock().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> --- a/net/can/bcm.c	2009-11-10 09:45:16.301376272 -0800
> +++ b/net/can/bcm.c	2009-11-10 09:46:30.125005956 -0800
> @@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ static char *bcm_proc_getifname(char *re
>  	if (!ifindex)
>  		return "any";
>  
> -	read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
> -	dev = __dev_get_by_index(&init_net, ifindex);
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, ifindex);
>  	if (dev)
>  		strcpy(result, dev->name);
>  	else
>  		strcpy(result, "???");
> -	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>  	return result;
>  }
> 

I was pretty sure I had already done this one...

Ah yes, that was planned after a bugfix for net-2.6.

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

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