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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2014-09-11 15:35:09 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-13 16:38:42 -0400
commit6c555490e0ce885a9caf0a045db69382a3ccbc9c (patch)
treebf9d222108cd0c0c8257d8a42551bb9c1eaba48a /net/core
parent8801d48cbde6ddd275c1e6b866e434a72cafeabd (diff)
ipv6: drop useless rcu_read_lock() in anycast
These code is now protected by rtnl lock, rcu read lock is useless now. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b3d6dbc0c696..e916ba8caccf 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -897,23 +897,25 @@ struct net_device *dev_getfirstbyhwtype(struct net *net, unsigned short type)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_getfirstbyhwtype);
/**
- * dev_get_by_flags_rcu - find any device with given flags
+ * __dev_get_by_flags - find any device with given flags
* @net: the applicable net namespace
* @if_flags: IFF_* values
* @mask: bitmask of bits in if_flags to check
*
* Search for any interface with the given flags. Returns NULL if a device
* is not found or a pointer to the device. Must be called inside
- * rcu_read_lock(), and result refcount is unchanged.
+ * rtnl_lock(), and result refcount is unchanged.
*/
-struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags,
- unsigned short mask)
+struct net_device *__dev_get_by_flags(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags,
+ unsigned short mask)
{
struct net_device *dev, *ret;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
ret = NULL;
- for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev) {
+ for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
if (((dev->flags ^ if_flags) & mask) == 0) {
ret = dev;
break;
@@ -921,7 +923,7 @@ struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags
}
return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_flags_rcu);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_flags);
/**
* dev_valid_name - check if name is okay for network device