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-rw-r--r--include/linux/genetlink.h8
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c6
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index b834ef6d59fa..61549b26ad6f 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -80,4 +80,12 @@ enum {
#define CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_MAX - 1)
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/* All generic netlink requests are serialized by a global lock. */
+extern void genl_lock(void);
+extern void genl_unlock(void);
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index a4b6e148c5de..a28fda7420d9 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@
static DEFINE_MUTEX(genl_mutex); /* serialization of message processing */
-static inline void genl_lock(void)
+void genl_lock(void)
{
mutex_lock(&genl_mutex);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_lock);
-static inline void genl_unlock(void)
+void genl_unlock(void)
{
mutex_unlock(&genl_mutex);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_unlock);
#define GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE 16
#define GENL_FAM_TAB_MASK (GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE - 1)
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