netdev - [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: use synchronize_net() in dev_change

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Date: Fri,  9 Feb 2024 15:30:57 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, 
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: use synchronize_net() in dev_change_name()

dev_change_name() holds RTNL, we better use synchronize_net()
instead of plain synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e52e2888cccd37e0df794155004e77261c812ef9..cb0eaefa0aff79ddf009f0867b440200fa985e54 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
 	netdev_name_node_del(dev->name_node);
 	write_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
 
-	synchronize_rcu();
+	synchronize_net();
 
 	write_lock(&dev_base_lock);
 	netdev_name_node_add(net, dev->name_node);
-- 
2.43.0.687.g38aa6559b0-goog