packet: less dev_put() calls
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:43:32 +0000 (10:43 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:41:29 +0000 (03:41 -0800)
- packet_sendmsg_spkt() can use dev_get_by_name_rcu() to avoid touching device refcount.

- packet_getname_spkt() & packet_getname() can use dev_get_by_index_rcu() to
  avoid touching device refcount too.

tpacket_snd() & packet_snd() can not use RCU yet because they can sleep when
allocating skb.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/packet/af_packet.c

index 95ef64e..91d246d 100644 (file)
@@ -437,7 +437,8 @@ static int packet_sendmsg_spkt(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
         */
 
        saddr->spkt_device[13] = 0;
-       dev = dev_get_by_name(sock_net(sk), saddr->spkt_device);
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(sock_net(sk), saddr->spkt_device);
        err = -ENODEV;
        if (dev == NULL)
                goto out_unlock;
@@ -500,14 +501,13 @@ static int packet_sendmsg_spkt(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
         */
 
        dev_queue_xmit(skb);
-       dev_put(dev);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
        return len;
 
 out_free:
        kfree_skb(skb);
 out_unlock:
-       if (dev)
-               dev_put(dev);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
        return err;
 }
 
@@ -1518,12 +1518,13 @@ static int packet_getname_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        uaddr->sa_family = AF_PACKET;
-       dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex);
-       if (dev) {
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex);
+       if (dev)
                strlcpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 15);
-               dev_put(dev);
-       } else
+       else
                memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, 14);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
        *uaddr_len = sizeof(*uaddr);
 
        return 0;
@@ -1543,16 +1544,17 @@ static int packet_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
        sll->sll_family = AF_PACKET;
        sll->sll_ifindex = po->ifindex;
        sll->sll_protocol = po->num;
-       dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), po->ifindex);
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), po->ifindex);
        if (dev) {
                sll->sll_hatype = dev->type;
                sll->sll_halen = dev->addr_len;
                memcpy(sll->sll_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
-               dev_put(dev);
        } else {
                sll->sll_hatype = 0;    /* Bad: we have no ARPHRD_UNSPEC */
                sll->sll_halen = 0;
        }
+       rcu_read_unlock();
        *uaddr_len = offsetof(struct sockaddr_ll, sll_addr) + sll->sll_halen;
 
        return 0;