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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2022-02-18 20:58:56 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-02-19 19:24:03 +0300
commit8a4fc54b07d756f1884af6c47ec84dfa3da663df (patch)
treebc3ed593f88b94bbb0b210d2ab8ab00a95b2a07f /net/core
parentb3ae2d350ddfd5aeb04de29c333d6639aeb1dae2 (diff)
downloadlinux-8a4fc54b07d756f1884af6c47ec84dfa3da663df.tar.xz
net: get rid of rtnl_lock_unregistering()
After recent patches, and in particular commits faab39f63c1f ("net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration") and e5f80fcf869a ("ipv6: give an IPv6 dev to blackhole_netdev") we no longer need the barrier implemented in rtnl_lock_unregistering(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c42
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index acd884910e12..a1190291c48e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10884,36 +10884,6 @@ static void __net_exit default_device_exit_net(struct net *net)
}
}
-static void __net_exit rtnl_lock_unregistering(struct list_head *net_list)
-{
- /* Return (with the rtnl_lock held) when there are no network
- * devices unregistering in any network namespace in net_list.
- */
- DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(wait, woken_wake_function);
- bool unregistering;
- struct net *net;
-
- ASSERT_RTNL();
- add_wait_queue(&netdev_unregistering_wq, &wait);
- for (;;) {
- unregistering = false;
-
- list_for_each_entry(net, net_list, exit_list) {
- if (atomic_read(&net->dev_unreg_count) > 0) {
- unregistering = true;
- break;
- }
- }
- if (!unregistering)
- break;
- __rtnl_unlock();
-
- wait_woken(&wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
- rtnl_lock();
- }
- remove_wait_queue(&netdev_unregistering_wq, &wait);
-}
-
static void __net_exit default_device_exit_batch(struct list_head *net_list)
{
/* At exit all network devices most be removed from a network
@@ -10930,18 +10900,6 @@ static void __net_exit default_device_exit_batch(struct list_head *net_list)
default_device_exit_net(net);
cond_resched();
}
- /* To prevent network device cleanup code from dereferencing
- * loopback devices or network devices that have been freed
- * wait here for all pending unregistrations to complete,
- * before unregistring the loopback device and allowing the
- * network namespace be freed.
- *
- * The netdev todo list containing all network devices
- * unregistrations that happen in default_device_exit_batch
- * will run in the rtnl_unlock() at the end of
- * default_device_exit_batch.
- */
- rtnl_lock_unregistering(net_list);
list_for_each_entry(net, net_list, exit_list) {
for_each_netdev_reverse(net, dev) {