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authorJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>2011-11-16 11:55:54 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-11-16 18:16:17 -0500
commit8c0713a57482ebfadef197c856a38af3a55444c6 (patch)
tree91b1f2f68bc576ef50c1130986b5d4a7f3d59217 /drivers/net
parentd445ba613fe445c8f30733e68089614b40b3df5b (diff)
team: Do not hold rcu_read_lock when running netlink cmds
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/team/team.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team.c b/drivers/net/team/team.c
index 60672bb0996..e5390c73a75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c
@@ -1043,8 +1043,7 @@ err_msg_put:
/*
* Netlink cmd functions should be locked by following two functions.
- * To ensure team_uninit would not be called in between, hold rcu_read_lock
- * all the time.
+ * Since dev gets held here, that ensures dev won't disappear in between.
*/
static struct team *team_nl_team_get(struct genl_info *info)
{
@@ -1057,10 +1056,10 @@ static struct team *team_nl_team_get(struct genl_info *info)
return NULL;
ifindex = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[TEAM_ATTR_TEAM_IFINDEX]);
- rcu_read_lock();
- dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
+ dev = dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex);
if (!dev || dev->netdev_ops != &team_netdev_ops) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (dev)
+ dev_put(dev);
return NULL;
}
@@ -1072,7 +1071,7 @@ static struct team *team_nl_team_get(struct genl_info *info)
static void team_nl_team_put(struct team *team)
{
spin_unlock(&team->lock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ dev_put(team->dev);
}
static int team_nl_send_generic(struct genl_info *info, struct team *team,