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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2013-03-20 17:06:20 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2013-04-04 22:09:40 (GMT)
commit18b4ed55ef83e77e8df2c45f1a99ffc6e5c07db6 (patch)
treee8441a32ac099c5b1a44507bdc0c499ece030c18 /net
parent14e27282bb54af3db98aa29fcd83895438a3bc98 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-18b4ed55ef83e77e8df2c45f1a99ffc6e5c07db6.tar.xz
net: make devnet_rename_seq a mutex
On RT write_seqcount_begin() disables preemption and device_rename() allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL and grabs later the sysfs_mutex mutex. Since I don't see a reason why this can't be a mutex, make it one. We probably don't have that much reads at the same time in the hot path. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c23
-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3ef02a1..454b151 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static struct list_head offload_base __read_mostly;
DEFINE_RWLOCK(dev_base_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_base_lock);
-seqcount_t devnet_rename_seq;
+DEFINE_MUTEX(devnet_rename_mutex);
static inline void dev_base_seq_inc(struct net *net)
{
@@ -1093,10 +1093,11 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
return -EBUSY;
- write_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
+
+ mutex_lock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
if (strncmp(newname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
- write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
return 0;
}
@@ -1104,7 +1105,7 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, newname);
if (err < 0) {
- write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
return err;
}
@@ -1112,11 +1113,11 @@ rollback:
ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
if (ret) {
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
- write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
return ret;
}
- write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
hlist_del_rcu(&dev->name_hlist);
@@ -1135,7 +1136,7 @@ rollback:
/* err >= 0 after dev_alloc_name() or stores the first errno */
if (err >= 0) {
err = ret;
- write_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_lock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
goto rollback;
} else {
@@ -4214,7 +4215,6 @@ static int dev_ifname(struct net *net, struct ifreq __user *arg)
{
struct net_device *dev;
struct ifreq ifr;
- unsigned seq;
/*
* Fetch the caller's info block.
@@ -4223,19 +4223,18 @@ static int dev_ifname(struct net *net, struct ifreq __user *arg)
if (copy_from_user(&ifr, arg, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
return -EFAULT;
-retry:
- seq = read_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_lock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
rcu_read_lock();
dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifr.ifr_ifindex);
if (!dev) {
rcu_read_unlock();
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
return -ENODEV;
}
strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, dev->name);
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (read_seqcount_retry(&devnet_rename_seq, seq))
- goto retry;
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
if (copy_to_user(arg, &ifr, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
return -EFAULT;
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 45a50ee..2754c99 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -571,7 +571,6 @@ static int sock_getbindtodevice(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval,
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
struct net_device *dev;
char devname[IFNAMSIZ];
- unsigned seq;
if (sk->sk_bound_dev_if == 0) {
len = 0;
@@ -582,20 +581,19 @@ static int sock_getbindtodevice(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval,
if (len < IFNAMSIZ)
goto out;
-retry:
- seq = read_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ mutex_lock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
rcu_read_lock();
dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
ret = -ENODEV;
if (!dev) {
rcu_read_unlock();
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
goto out;
}
strcpy(devname, dev->name);
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (read_seqcount_retry(&devnet_rename_seq, seq))
- goto retry;
+ mutex_unlock(&devnet_rename_mutex);
len = strlen(devname) + 1;