[PATCH 1/4] netconsole: remove unnecessary netconsole_target_get/out() from write_msg()

Tejun Heo
2015-05-11T16:41:52Z

write_msg() grabs target_list_lock and walks target_list invoking
netpool_send_udp() on each target. Curiously, it protects each
iteration with netconsole_target_get/put() even though it never
releases target_list_lock which protects all the members.

While this doesn't harm anything, it doesn't serve any purpose either.
The items on the list can't go away while target_list_lock is held.
Remove the unnecessary get/put pair.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 15731d1..30c0524 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -744,7 +744,6 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *con, const char *msg, unsigned int len)

spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags);
list_for_each_entry(nt, &target_list, list) {
- netconsole_target_get(nt);
if (nt->enabled && netif_running(nt->np.dev)) {
/*
* We nest this inside the for-each-target loop above
@@ -760,7 +759,6 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *con, const char *msg, unsigned int len)
left -= frag;
}
}
- netconsole_target_put(nt);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
}
--
2.1.0