net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:42:09 +0000 (19:42 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:55:11 +0000 (23:55 -0800)
All ioctls() implemented by dev_ifsioc_locked() :
SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCGIFMETRIC, SIOCGIFMTU, SIOCGIFHWADDR,
SIOCGIFSLAVE, SIOCGIFMAP, SIOCGIFINDEX & SIOCGIFTXQLEN
can use RCU lock instead of dev_base_lock rwlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c

index 3c40d54..76a1502 100644 (file)
@@ -4315,12 +4315,12 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address);
 
 /*
- *     Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside read_lock(dev_base_lock)
+ *     Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside rcu_read_lock()
  */
 static int dev_ifsioc_locked(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
 {
        int err;
-       struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
+       struct net_device *dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, ifr->ifr_name);
 
        if (!dev)
                return -ENODEV;
@@ -4552,9 +4552,9 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
        case SIOCGIFINDEX:
        case SIOCGIFTXQLEN:
                dev_load(net, ifr.ifr_name);
-               read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
+               rcu_read_lock();
                ret = dev_ifsioc_locked(net, &ifr, cmd);
-               read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+               rcu_read_unlock();
                if (!ret) {
                        if (colon)
                                *colon = ':';