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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-02-12 11:09:55 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-02-12 11:09:55 -0800
commitd486dd1fb8573fad5b8dab61a7d1406116fd4baf (patch)
treef9cbb12e031beb6d0038846b731a62c0b85804d7 /net
parente4ba13088de7fa384087af398df6629fadb363ba (diff)
[NETFILTER]: Switch nf_register_afinfo/nf_unregister_afinfo to mutex
The spinlock is only used in process context (register/unregister), switch to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/core.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index a66bd6af44fa..716603f05c02 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -22,29 +22,34 @@
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include "nf_internals.h"
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(afinfo_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(afinfo_mutex);
struct nf_afinfo *nf_afinfo[NPROTO] __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_afinfo);
int nf_register_afinfo(struct nf_afinfo *afinfo)
{
- spin_lock(&afinfo_lock);
+ int err;
+
+ err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&afinfo_mutex);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
rcu_assign_pointer(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], afinfo);
- spin_unlock(&afinfo_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&afinfo_mutex);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_register_afinfo);
void nf_unregister_afinfo(struct nf_afinfo *afinfo)
{
- spin_lock(&afinfo_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&afinfo_mutex);
rcu_assign_pointer(nf_afinfo[afinfo->family], NULL);
- spin_unlock(&afinfo_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&afinfo_mutex);
synchronize_rcu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_unregister_afinfo);