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[3/3] netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove unnecessary RTNL locking

Message ID 1345407370-30009-4-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net
State Accepted
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Commit Message

Patrick McHardy Aug. 19, 2012, 8:16 p.m. UTC
Locking the rtnl was added to nf_conntrack_l{3,4}_proto_unregister()
for walking the network namespace list. This is not done anymore since
we have proper namespace support in the protocols now, so we don't
need to take the RTNL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Pablo Neira Ayuso Aug. 20, 2012, 2:53 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:16:10PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Locking the rtnl was added to nf_conntrack_l{3,4}_proto_unregister()
> for walking the network namespace list. This is not done anymore since
> we have proper namespace support in the protocols now, so we don't
> need to take the RTNL anymore.

Applied, thanks. Also enqueued to net-next.
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
index 0dc6385..51e928d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ 
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
-#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto.h>
@@ -294,9 +293,7 @@  void nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister(struct net *net,
 	nf_ct_l3proto_unregister_sysctl(net, proto);
 
 	/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
-	rtnl_lock();
 	nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l3proto, proto);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister);
 
@@ -502,9 +499,7 @@  void nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister(struct net *net,
 	nf_ct_l4proto_unregister_sysctl(net, pn, l4proto);
 
 	/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
-	rtnl_lock();
 	nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l4proto, l4proto);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister);