netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Updates to netif_index_is

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Date:	Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:39:26 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Updates to netif_index_is_vrf

David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> As Eric noted netif_index_is_vrf is not called with rcu_read_lock held,
> so use dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index_rcu.
> 
> If VRF is not enabled or oif is 0 skip the device lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Why not

>  static inline bool netif_index_is_vrf(struct net *net, int ifindex)
>  {
> -	struct net_device *dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
>  	bool rc = false;
>  
> -	if (dev)
> -		rc = netif_is_vrf(dev);
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NET_VRF)
> +	struct net_device *dev;
> +
> +	if (ifindex == 0)
> +		return false;

	rcu_read_lock();

	dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
	if (dev)
		rc = netif_is_vrf(dev);

	rcu_read_unlock();

> +#endif
>  	return rc;

instead?
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