[PATCH 2/3] cnic: Don't take cnic_dev_lock in cnic_alloc_uio_rings()
From: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: 2014-05-30 21:59:17
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
We are allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL under spinlock. Since this is the only call manipulating the cnic_udev_list and it is always under rtnl_lock, cnic_dev_lock can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c
index 7f40a2c..4ebab75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c@@ -1039,21 +1039,17 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev *dev, int pages) struct cnic_local *cp = dev->cnic_priv; struct cnic_uio_dev *udev; - read_lock(&cnic_dev_lock); list_for_each_entry(udev, &cnic_udev_list, list) { if (udev->pdev == dev->pcidev) { udev->dev = dev; if (__cnic_alloc_uio_rings(udev, pages)) { udev->dev = NULL; - read_unlock(&cnic_dev_lock); return -ENOMEM; } cp->udev = udev; - read_unlock(&cnic_dev_lock); return 0; } } - read_unlock(&cnic_dev_lock); udev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cnic_uio_dev), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!udev)
@@ -1067,9 +1063,7 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev *dev, int pages) if (__cnic_alloc_uio_rings(udev, pages)) goto err_udev; - write_lock(&cnic_dev_lock); list_add(&udev->list, &cnic_udev_list); - write_unlock(&cnic_dev_lock); pci_dev_get(udev->pdev);
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