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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-10-21 10:59:31 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-22 04:33:48 -0700
commita3d1289126e7b14307074b76bf1677015ea5036f (patch)
tree27b60edc21b35d9850daf9875f285c1f814e1939 /net/core
parenta61f80261306ad11d9c8a453307a56417cfeae03 (diff)
rtnetlink: rtnl_setlink() and rtnl_getlink() changes
rtnl_getlink() & rtnl_setlink() run with RTNL held, we can use __dev_get_by_index() and __dev_get_by_name() variants and avoid dev_hold()/dev_put() Adds to rtnl_getlink() the capability to find a device by its name, not only by its index. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c38
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index eb42873f2a3..ba13b0974a7 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -910,9 +910,9 @@ static int rtnl_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
err = -EINVAL;
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
if (ifm->ifi_index > 0)
- dev = dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
+ dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
- dev = dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
+ dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
else
goto errout;
@@ -922,11 +922,9 @@ static int rtnl_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
}
if ((err = validate_linkmsg(dev, tb)) < 0)
- goto errout_dev;
+ goto errout;
err = do_setlink(dev, ifm, tb, ifname, 0);
-errout_dev:
- dev_put(dev);
errout:
return err;
}
@@ -1154,6 +1152,7 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
{
struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
struct ifinfomsg *ifm;
+ char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX+1];
struct net_device *dev = NULL;
struct sk_buff *nskb;
@@ -1163,19 +1162,23 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
if (err < 0)
return err;
+ if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
+ nla_strlcpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
+
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
- if (ifm->ifi_index > 0) {
- dev = dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
- if (dev == NULL)
- return -ENODEV;
- } else
+ if (ifm->ifi_index > 0)
+ dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
+ else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
+ dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
+ else
return -EINVAL;
+ if (dev == NULL)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
nskb = nlmsg_new(if_nlmsg_size(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (nskb == NULL) {
- err = -ENOBUFS;
- goto errout;
- }
+ if (nskb == NULL)
+ return -ENOBUFS;
err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid,
nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0, 0);
@@ -1183,11 +1186,8 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in if_nlmsg_size */
WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
kfree_skb(nskb);
- goto errout;
- }
- err = rtnl_unicast(nskb, net, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid);
-errout:
- dev_put(dev);
+ } else
+ err = rtnl_unicast(nskb, net, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid);
return err;
}