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[PATCH v2 net-next 15/15] ipv6: Remove setsockopt_needs_rtnl().

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From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-24 20:26:46
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

Revision v2 of 3 in this series.

Revisions (3)
  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 current
  3. v3 [diff vs current]
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

We no longer need to hold RTNL for IPv6 socket options.

Let's remove setsockopt_needs_rtnl().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index 702dc33e50ad..e66ec623972e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -117,11 +117,6 @@ struct ipv6_txoptions *ipv6_update_options(struct sock *sk,
 	return opt;
 }
 
-static bool setsockopt_needs_rtnl(int optname)
-{
-	return false;
-}
-
 static int copy_group_source_from_sockptr(struct group_source_req *greqs,
 		sockptr_t optval, int optlen)
 {
@@ -380,9 +375,8 @@ int do_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 {
 	struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
 	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
-	int val, valbool;
 	int retv = -ENOPROTOOPT;
-	bool needs_rtnl = setsockopt_needs_rtnl(optname);
+	int val, valbool;
 
 	if (sockptr_is_null(optval))
 		val = 0;
@@ -547,8 +541,7 @@ int do_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 		return 0;
 	}
 	}
-	if (needs_rtnl)
-		rtnl_lock();
+
 	sockopt_lock_sock(sk);
 
 	/* Another thread has converted the socket into IPv4 with
@@ -954,8 +947,6 @@ int do_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 
 unlock:
 	sockopt_release_sock(sk);
-	if (needs_rtnl)
-		rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return retv;
 
-- 
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