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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700
commitde3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch)
treefe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv4/route.c
parent556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff)
downloadlinux-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.bz2
[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic allocation for the loopback. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/route.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/route.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 006d6058a806..ca2878dc6188 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1402,8 +1402,8 @@ static void ipv4_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev,
{
struct rtable *rt = (struct rtable *) dst;
struct in_device *idev = rt->idev;
- if (dev != &loopback_dev && idev && idev->dev == dev) {
- struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
+ if (dev != loopback_dev && idev && idev->dev == dev) {
+ struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(loopback_dev);
if (loopback_idev) {
rt->idev = loopback_idev;
in_dev_put(idev);
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_mc(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr, __be32 saddr,
#endif
rth->rt_iif =
rth->fl.iif = dev->ifindex;
- rth->u.dst.dev = &loopback_dev;
+ rth->u.dst.dev = loopback_dev;
dev_hold(rth->u.dst.dev);
rth->idev = in_dev_get(rth->u.dst.dev);
rth->fl.oif = 0;
@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr, __be32 saddr,
if (res.type == RTN_LOCAL) {
int result;
result = fib_validate_source(saddr, daddr, tos,
- loopback_dev.ifindex,
+ loopback_dev->ifindex,
dev, &spec_dst, &itag);
if (result < 0)
goto martian_source;
@@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ local_input:
#endif
rth->rt_iif =
rth->fl.iif = dev->ifindex;
- rth->u.dst.dev = &loopback_dev;
+ rth->u.dst.dev = loopback_dev;
dev_hold(rth->u.dst.dev);
rth->idev = in_dev_get(rth->u.dst.dev);
rth->rt_gateway = daddr;
@@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE),
} },
.mark = oldflp->mark,
- .iif = loopback_dev.ifindex,
+ .iif = loopback_dev->ifindex,
.oif = oldflp->oif };
struct fib_result res;
unsigned flags = 0;
@@ -2243,9 +2243,9 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
fl.fl4_dst = fl.fl4_src = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
if (dev_out)
dev_put(dev_out);
- dev_out = &loopback_dev;
+ dev_out = loopback_dev;
dev_hold(dev_out);
- fl.oif = loopback_dev.ifindex;
+ fl.oif = loopback_dev->ifindex;
res.type = RTN_LOCAL;
flags |= RTCF_LOCAL;
goto make_route;
@@ -2290,7 +2290,7 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
fl.fl4_src = fl.fl4_dst;
if (dev_out)
dev_put(dev_out);
- dev_out = &loopback_dev;
+ dev_out = loopback_dev;
dev_hold(dev_out);
fl.oif = dev_out->ifindex;
if (res.fi)