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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2017-10-02 23:50:05 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-10-03 15:56:01 -0700
commit6c5570016b972d9b1f0f6c2dca9cc0422b1f92bf (patch)
tree2ee918eba58118a7cd86a97ba07fc26c4a743a2d /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent4d2c0cda07448ea6980f00102dc3964eb25e241c (diff)
net: core: decouple ifalias get/set from rtnl lock
Device alias can be set by either rtnetlink (rtnl is held) or sysfs. rtnetlink hold the rtnl mutex, sysfs acquires it for this purpose. Add an extra mutex for it and use rcu to protect concurrent accesses. This allows the sysfs path to not take rtnl and would later allow to not hold it when dumping ifalias. Based on suggestion from Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index e1d6ef130611..d04424cfffba 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -826,6 +826,11 @@ struct xfrmdev_ops {
};
#endif
+struct dev_ifalias {
+ struct rcu_head rcuhead;
+ char ifalias[];
+};
+
/*
* This structure defines the management hooks for network devices.
* The following hooks can be defined; unless noted otherwise, they are
@@ -1632,7 +1637,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
struct net_device {
char name[IFNAMSIZ];
struct hlist_node name_hlist;
- char *ifalias;
+ struct dev_ifalias __rcu *ifalias;
/*
* I/O specific fields
* FIXME: Merge these and struct ifmap into one
@@ -3275,6 +3280,7 @@ void __dev_notify_flags(struct net_device *, unsigned int old_flags,
unsigned int gchanges);
int dev_change_name(struct net_device *, const char *);
int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *, const char *, size_t);
+int dev_get_alias(const struct net_device *, char *, size_t);
int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *, struct net *, const char *);
int __dev_set_mtu(struct net_device *, int);
int dev_set_mtu(struct net_device *, int);