act_mirred: get rid of mirred_list_lock spinlock
authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Wed, 6 Dec 2017 00:17:27 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 6 Dec 2017 19:50:13 +0000 (14:50 -0500)
TC actions are no longer freed in RCU callbacks and we should
always have RTNL lock, so this spinlock is no longer needed.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/sched/act_mirred.c

index ff497909c0ada39b838642aeb0c81b0a9aeaf995..cee2d413bf5738eab5dff0b6b1a0a8de6f9a9bd5 100644 (file)
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #include <net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h>
 
 static LIST_HEAD(mirred_list);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mirred_list_lock);
 
 static bool tcf_mirred_is_act_redirect(int action)
 {
@@ -55,13 +54,10 @@ static void tcf_mirred_release(struct tc_action *a)
        struct tcf_mirred *m = to_mirred(a);
        struct net_device *dev;
 
-       /* We could be called either in a RCU callback or with RTNL lock held. */
-       spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
        list_del(&m->tcfm_list);
-       dev = rcu_dereference_protected(m->tcfm_dev, 1);
+       dev = rtnl_dereference(m->tcfm_dev);
        if (dev)
                dev_put(dev);
-       spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
 }
 
 static const struct nla_policy mirred_policy[TCA_MIRRED_MAX + 1] = {
@@ -147,9 +143,7 @@ static int tcf_mirred_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
        }
 
        if (ret == ACT_P_CREATED) {
-               spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
                list_add(&m->tcfm_list, &mirred_list);
-               spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
                tcf_idr_insert(tn, *a);
        }
 
@@ -293,7 +287,6 @@ static int mirred_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
 
        ASSERT_RTNL();
        if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER) {
-               spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
                list_for_each_entry(m, &mirred_list, tcfm_list) {
                        if (rcu_access_pointer(m->tcfm_dev) == dev) {
                                dev_put(dev);
@@ -303,7 +296,6 @@ static int mirred_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
                                RCU_INIT_POINTER(m->tcfm_dev, NULL);
                        }
                }
-               spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
        }
 
        return NOTIFY_DONE;