After commit 1215e51edad1 ("ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control")
we always take RTNL lock for ip_ra_control() which is the only place
we update the list ip_ra_chain, so the ip_ra_lock is no longer needed.

As Eric points out, BH does not need to disable either, RCU readers
don't care.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 1d46d05..4c25458 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c

@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ int ip_cmsg_send(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, struct ipcm_cookie *ipc,
    sent to multicast group to reach destination designated router.
  */
 struct ip_ra_chain __rcu *ip_ra_chain;
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ip_ra_lock);
 

 static void ip_ra_destroy_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)

@@ -352,21 +351,17 @@ int ip_ra_control(struct sock *sk, unsigned char on,
 
 	new_ra = on ? kmalloc(sizeof(*new_ra), GFP_KERNEL) : NULL;
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
 	for (rap = &ip_ra_chain;
-	     (ra = rcu_dereference_protected(*rap,
-			lockdep_is_held(&ip_ra_lock))) != NULL;
+	     (ra = rtnl_dereference(*rap)) != NULL;
 	     rap = &ra->next) {
 		if (ra->sk == sk) {
 			if (on) {
-				spin_unlock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
 				kfree(new_ra);
 				return -EADDRINUSE;
 			}
 			/* dont let ip_call_ra_chain() use sk again */
 			ra->sk = NULL;
 			RCU_INIT_POINTER(*rap, ra->next);
-			spin_unlock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
 
 			if (ra->destructor)
 				ra->destructor(sk);

@@ -381,7 +376,6 @@ int ip_ra_control(struct sock *sk, unsigned char on,
 		}
 	}
 	if (!new_ra) {
-		spin_unlock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
 		return -ENOBUFS;
 	}