net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()

All ioctls() implemented by dev_ifsioc_locked() :
SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCGIFMETRIC, SIOCGIFMTU, SIOCGIFHWADDR,
SIOCGIFSLAVE, SIOCGIFMAP, SIOCGIFINDEX & SIOCGIFTXQLEN
can use RCU lock instead of dev_base_lock rwlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3c40d545a035..76a1502efe67 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4315,12 +4315,12 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address);
 
 /*
- *      Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside read_lock(dev_base_lock)
+ *      Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside rcu_read_lock()
  */
 static int dev_ifsioc_locked(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
 {
         int err;
-        struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
+        struct net_device *dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, ifr->ifr_name);
 
         if (!dev)
                 return -ENODEV;
@@ -4552,9 +4552,9 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
         case SIOCGIFINDEX:
         case SIOCGIFTXQLEN:
                 dev_load(net, ifr.ifr_name);
-                read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
+                rcu_read_lock();
                 ret = dev_ifsioc_locked(net, &ifr, cmd);
-                read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+                rcu_read_unlock();
                 if (!ret) {
                         if (colon)
                                 *colon = ':';