Rtnl lock is encapsulated in netlink and cannot be accessed by other
modules directly. This means that reference counted objects that rely on
rtnl lock cannot use it with refcounter helper function that atomically
releases decrements reference and obtains mutex.
This patch implements simple wrapper function around refcount_dec_and_lock
that obtains rtnl lock if reference counter value reached 0.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vla...@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
---
include/linux/rtnetlink.h | 1 +
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
index 5225832bd6ff..dffbf665c086 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern void rtnl_unlock(void);
extern int rtnl_trylock(void);
extern int rtnl_is_locked(void);
extern int rtnl_lock_killable(void);
+extern bool refcount_dec_and_rtnl_lock(refcount_t *r);
extern wait_queue_head_t netdev_unregistering_wq;
extern struct rw_semaphore pernet_ops_rwsem;
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index e4ae0319e189..ad9d1493cb27 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ int rtnl_is_locked(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtnl_is_locked);
+bool refcount_dec_and_rtnl_lock(refcount_t *r)
+{
+ return refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock(r, &rtnl_mutex);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(refcount_dec_and_rtnl_lock);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
bool lockdep_rtnl_is_held(void)
{
--
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