From 95ae6b228f814fc0528d0506ee9f18ac333d6851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:04:31 +0000 Subject: ipv4: ip_ptr cleanups dev->ip_ptr is protected by rtnl and rcu. Yet some places dont use appropriate primitives and/or locking rules. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/plip.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/plip.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip.c index 7e82a82..ca4df7f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/plip.c +++ b/drivers/net/plip.c @@ -995,8 +995,10 @@ plip_tx_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) static void plip_rewrite_address(const struct net_device *dev, struct ethhdr *eth) { - const struct in_device *in_dev = dev->ip_ptr; + const struct in_device *in_dev; + rcu_read_lock(); + in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev); if (in_dev) { /* Any address will do - we take the first */ const struct in_ifaddr *ifa = in_dev->ifa_list; @@ -1006,6 +1008,7 @@ plip_rewrite_address(const struct net_device *dev, struct ethhdr *eth) memcpy(eth->h_dest+2, &ifa->ifa_address, 4); } } + rcu_read_unlock(); } static int @@ -1088,7 +1091,8 @@ plip_open(struct net_device *dev) when the device address isn't identical to the address of a received frame, the kernel incorrectly drops it). */ - if ((in_dev=dev->ip_ptr) != NULL) { + in_dev=__in_dev_get_rtnl(dev); + if (in_dev) { /* Any address will do - we take the first. We already have the first two bytes filled with 0xfc, from plip_init_dev(). */ -- cgit v1.1