[PATCH][GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
From: Pavel Emelyanov <hidden>
Date: 2008-02-12 17:16:11
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases this lock itself. Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() is called from genl_unregister_family() only. I'm not sure, whether this is 2.6.25 material, but the patch looks pretty simple. Should I hold it till 2.6.26? Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted> ---
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 150579a..d16929c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c@@ -230,10 +230,8 @@ static void genl_unregister_mc_groups(struct genl_family *family) { struct genl_multicast_group *grp, *tmp; - genl_lock(); list_for_each_entry_safe(grp, tmp, &family->mcast_groups, list) __genl_unregister_mc_group(family, grp); - genl_unlock(); } /**
@@ -396,10 +394,10 @@ int genl_unregister_family(struct genl_family *family) { struct genl_family *rc; - genl_unregister_mc_groups(family); - genl_lock(); + genl_unregister_mc_groups(family); + list_for_each_entry(rc, genl_family_chain(family->id), family_list) { if (family->id != rc->id || strcmp(rc->name, family->name)) continue;