Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"

This reverts commit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db.

It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock
by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I
can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major
changes to the locking, so revert this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index f85f8a2ad6cf..512718adb0d5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -789,10 +789,6 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
         struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
         int chains_to_skip = cb->args[0];
         int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
-        bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
-
-        if (need_locking)
-                genl_lock();
 
         for (i = chains_to_skip; i < GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE; i++) {
                 n = 0;
@@ -814,9 +810,6 @@ errout:
         cb->args[0] = i;
         cb->args[1] = n;
 
-        if (need_locking)
-                genl_unlock();
-
         return skb->len;
 }