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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-08-22 21:50:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-08-23 09:24:42 -0700
commit748e2d9396a18c3fd3d07d47c1b41320acf1fbf4 (patch)
tree49bde8c370615258baada1d43acda2b3fb3625c2 /net/core/fib_rules.c
parent0fa7fa98dbcc2789409ed24e885485e645803d7f (diff)
downloadlinux-748e2d9396a18c3fd3d07d47c1b41320acf1fbf4.tar.bz2
net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers()
Eric Biederman pointed out that not holding RTNL while calling call_netdevice_notifiers() was racy. This patch is a direct transcription his feedback against commit 0115e8e30d6fc (net: remove delay at device dismantle) Thanks Eric ! Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/fib_rules.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/fib_rules.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c
index 585093755c23..ab7db83236c9 100644
--- a/net/core/fib_rules.c
+++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c
@@ -711,16 +711,15 @@ static int fib_rules_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
struct fib_rules_ops *ops;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_REGISTER:
- ASSERT_RTNL();
list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
attach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
break;
case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
- ASSERT_RTNL();
list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
detach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
break;