netdev - [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] net: call newid/getid without rtnl mutex held

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Message-Id: <20170809184153.16700-8-fw@strlen.de>
Date:   Wed,  9 Aug 2017 20:41:53 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] net: call newid/getid without rtnl mutex held

Both functions take nsid_lock and don't rely on rtnl lock.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
---
 No changes since v1.

 net/core/net_namespace.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index a7f06d706aa0..6cfdc7c84c48 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -855,9 +855,10 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
 
 	register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops);
 
-	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWNSID, rtnl_net_newid, NULL, 0);
+	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWNSID, rtnl_net_newid, NULL,
+		      RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED);
 	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_GETNSID, rtnl_net_getid, rtnl_net_dumpid,
-		      0);
+		      RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.13.0