From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:16:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove unnecessary RTNL locking
X-Git-Tag: v3.7-rc1~145^2~299^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2834a6386b86a5dd20380aadb01897c525448aa7;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove unnecessary RTNL locking

Locking the rtnl was added to nf_conntrack_l{3,4}_proto_unregister()
for walking the network namespace list. This is not done anymore since
we have proper namespace support in the protocols now, so we don't
need to take the RTNL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
index 0dc6385..51e928d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
-#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto.h>
@@ -294,9 +293,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister(struct net *net,
 	nf_ct_l3proto_unregister_sysctl(net, proto);
 
 	/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
-	rtnl_lock();
 	nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l3proto, proto);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister);
 
@@ -502,9 +499,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister(struct net *net,
 	nf_ct_l4proto_unregister_sysctl(net, pn, l4proto);
 
 	/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
-	rtnl_lock();
 	nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l4proto, l4proto);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister);