From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
andy@greyhouse.net, fbl@redhat.com, jzupka@redhat.com,
ivecera@redhat.com
Subject: [patch net-next 1/3] team: Do not hold rcu_read_lock when running netlink cmds
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:09:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321477749-1877-2-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321477749-1877-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/team/team.c | 12 ++++--------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team.c b/drivers/net/team/team.c
index 60672bb..e0cf11c 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)
{
@@ -1057,12 +1056,9 @@ 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);
- if (!dev || dev->netdev_ops != &team_netdev_ops) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ dev = dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex);
+ if (!dev || dev->netdev_ops != &team_netdev_ops)
return NULL;
- }
team = netdev_priv(dev);
spin_lock(&team->lock);
@@ -1072,7 +1068,7 @@ 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,
--
1.7.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-16 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 21:09 [patch net-next 0/3] team: bug fixes Jiri Pirko
2011-11-16 21:09 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2011-11-16 21:17 ` [patch net-next 1/3] team: Do not hold rcu_read_lock when running netlink cmds Eric Dumazet
2011-11-16 21:55 ` [patch net-next 1/3 v2] " Jiri Pirko
2011-11-17 1:36 ` David Miller
2011-11-16 21:09 ` [patch net-next 2/3] team: convert overall spinlock to mutex Jiri Pirko
2011-11-17 1:36 ` David Miller
2011-11-16 21:09 ` [patch net-next 3/3] team: replicate options on register Jiri Pirko
2011-11-17 1:36 ` David Miller
2011-11-17 8:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-17 9:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-11-17 10:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-17 10:03 ` Eric Dumazet
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