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authorJames Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>2010-04-02 06:19:05 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-03 14:56:05 -0700
commitf408e0ce40270559ef80f231843c93baa9947bc5 (patch)
tree0a71cda13657bd3c058ed110714f4ac829a50ad2
parent0d76751fad7739014485ba5bd388d4f1b4fd4143 (diff)
netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modules
This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink processing. Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/genetlink.h8
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c6
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index b834ef6d59f..61549b26ad6 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -80,4 +80,12 @@ enum {
#define CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX - 1)
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/* All generic netlink requests are serialized by a global lock. */
+extern void genl_lock(void);
+extern void genl_unlock(void);
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index a4b6e148c5d..a28fda7420d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@
static DEFINE_MUTEX(genl_mutex); /* serialization of message processing */
-static inline void genl_lock(void)
+void genl_lock(void)
{
mutex_lock(&genl_mutex);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_lock);
-static inline void genl_unlock(void)
+void genl_unlock(void)
{
mutex_unlock(&genl_mutex);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_unlock);
#define GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE 16
#define GENL_FAM_TAB_MASK (GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE - 1)