Commit ab930471 authored Apr 20, 2010 by Jiri Pirko Committed by David S. Miller Apr 20, 2010

net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiers



Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be
present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers
does the locking properly.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent b249dcb8

net/core/dev.c

+1 −0

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		@@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_notifier);

		int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev)
		{
		ASSERT_RTNL();
		return raw_notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, val, dev);
		}