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From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Subject: Does rtnl_lock inhibit incoming traffic?
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 21:08:29 +0200
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Hello,

AFAIK the rtnl_lock is used (at least) to protect the configuration of
netdevices and routing tables.

Is the reception of incoming traffic inhibited while the rtnl_lock is set, or
would i need to protect the data structures to be modified with an additional
spinlock_bh() / write_lock_bh()?

Like this one here:

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.9.4/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c#L1573

Regards,
Oliver