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net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers()

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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 0115e8e30d (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>
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Eric Dumazet 2012-08-22 21:50:59 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent 0fa7fa98db
commit 748e2d9396
5 changed files with 12 additions and 19 deletions
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net/core/fib_rules.c
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@ -711,16 +711,15 @@ static int fib_rules_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
struct fib_rules_ops *ops;
ASSERT_RTNL();
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_REGISTER:
ASSERT_RTNL();
list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
attach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
break;
case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
ASSERT_RTNL();
list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
detach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
break;