On 9/22/17 12:10 AM, Florian Westphal wrote: > rtnl_fill_ifinfo currently requires caller to hold the rtnl mutex. > Unfortunately the function is quite large which makes it harder to see > which spots need the lock, which spots assume it and which ones could do > without. > > Add helpers to factor out the ifindex dumping. > > One helper can use rcu to remove rtnl dependency. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> > --- > net/core/rtnetlink.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
