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| author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2007-04-20 14:14:21 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-25 22:29:03 -0700 |
| commit | af65bdfce98d7965fbe93a48b8128444a2eea024 (patch) | |
| tree | e6ac5ff82a0d5067213135cdf049b912b02e824d /include | |
| parent | b076deb8498e26c9aa2f44046fe5e9936ae2fb5a (diff) | |
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[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netlink.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index 0d11f6a7389c..f41688f56632 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -157,7 +157,10 @@ struct netlink_skb_parms #define NETLINK_CREDS(skb) (&NETLINK_CB((skb)).creds) -extern struct sock *netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups, void (*input)(struct sock *sk, int len), struct module *module); +extern struct sock *netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups, + void (*input)(struct sock *sk, int len), + struct mutex *cb_mutex, + struct module *module); extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err); extern int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group); extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 pid, int nonblock); |
