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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/ipv4/devinet.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/ipv4/devinet.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 6a5e6e4b142c..adf273f8ad2e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1147,12 +1147,8 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
void *ptr)
{
struct net_device *dev = ptr;
- struct in_device *in_dev;
-
- if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL)
- goto out;
+ struct in_device *in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
- in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
ASSERT_RTNL();
if (!in_dev) {