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| author | Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> | 2010-04-20 01:45:37 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-20 01:45:37 -0700 |
| commit | ab9304717f7624c41927f442e6b6d418b2d8b3e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ade11020c85e201b54caad9e929fc795d99487e /net | |
| parent | b249dcb82d327e419d3cb45773b146ebb5faf419 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ab9304717f7624c41927f442e6b6d418b2d8b3e4.tar.bz2 | |
net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiers
Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be
present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers
does the locking properly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0d78e0454a6d..b31d5d69a467 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_notifier); int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev) { + ASSERT_RTNL(); return raw_notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, val, dev); } |