From 3710becf8a58a5c6c4e797e3a3c968c161abdb41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:42:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 3c40d545a035..76a1502efe67 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 = ':';