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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-15 00:13:44 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-15 00:13:44 -0700
commite308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 (patch)
tree294ff654e90950f5162737c26f4799b0b710b748 /include/linux/netdevice.h
parentf1f28aa3510ddb84c966bac65611bb866c77a092 (diff)
netdev: Add netdev->addr_list_lock protection.
Add netif_addr_{lock,unlock}{,_bh}() helpers. Use them to protect operations that operate on or read the network device unicast and multicast address lists. Also use them in cases where the code simply wants to block calls into the driver's ->set_rx_mode() and ->set_multicast_list() methods. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index fd0365219181..570cf7affa72 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1498,6 +1498,26 @@ static inline void netif_tx_disable(struct net_device *dev)
netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
}
+static inline void netif_addr_lock(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_lock(&dev->addr_list_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void netif_addr_lock_bh(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_lock_bh(&dev->addr_list_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void netif_addr_unlock(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_unlock(&dev->addr_list_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void netif_addr_unlock_bh(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_unlock_bh(&dev->addr_list_lock);
+}
+
/* These functions live elsewhere (drivers/net/net_init.c, but related) */
extern void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev);