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| author | Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com> | 2026-03-16 17:28:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-03-17 16:18:48 -0700 |
| commit | bb8539e0e60916ef3ed4a92eb2f3cfd8e34061ef (patch) | |
| tree | 69c7271bc3fcb8d7991d241a99a0aee4cd156996 /include | |
| parent | e3f741f587a9826a82304bb5da021e0fe783795d (diff) | |
ppp: require callers of ppp_dev_name() to hold RCU
ppp_dev_name() holds the RCU read lock internally to protect pch->ppp.
However, as it returns netdev->name to the caller, the caller should
also hold either RCU or RTNL lock to prevent the netdev from being
freed.
The only two references of the function is in the L2TP driver, both of
which already hold RCU. So remove the internal RCU lock and document
that callers must hold RCU.
Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316092824.479149-1-dqfext@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ppp_channel.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ppp_channel.h b/include/linux/ppp_channel.h index ca8ad03eeef0..2f63e9a6cc88 100644 --- a/include/linux/ppp_channel.h +++ b/include/linux/ppp_channel.h @@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ extern int ppp_channel_index(struct ppp_channel *); /* Get the unit number associated with a channel, or -1 if none */ extern int ppp_unit_number(struct ppp_channel *); -/* Get the device name associated with a channel, or NULL if none */ +/* Get the device name associated with a channel, or NULL if none. + * Caller must hold RCU read lock. + */ extern char *ppp_dev_name(struct ppp_channel *); /* |