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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-02-12 11:10:14 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-02-12 11:10:14 -0800
commitfd706d6957b3c66ae70b4bbdb9e13993213697f7 (patch)
tree7b035f737c93b8d913c999c9a64eb52488c1f6ca
parentd486dd1fb8573fad5b8dab61a7d1406116fd4baf (diff)
[NETFILTER]: Switch nf_register_hook/nf_unregister_hook to mutex
The spinlock is only used in process context (register/unregister) since RCU is used for the nf_hook lists, switch to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/core.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index 716603f05c0..f61e0c2eece 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -61,28 +61,31 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_unregister_afinfo);
* packets come back: if the hook is gone, the packet is discarded. */
struct list_head nf_hooks[NPROTO][NF_MAX_HOOKS] __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_hooks);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_hook_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(nf_hook_mutex);
int nf_register_hook(struct nf_hook_ops *reg)
{
struct list_head *i;
+ int err;
- spin_lock_bh(&nf_hook_lock);
+ err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&nf_hook_mutex);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
list_for_each(i, &nf_hooks[reg->pf][reg->hooknum]) {
if (reg->priority < ((struct nf_hook_ops *)i)->priority)
break;
}
list_add_rcu(&reg->list, i->prev);
- spin_unlock_bh(&nf_hook_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&nf_hook_mutex);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_register_hook);
void nf_unregister_hook(struct nf_hook_ops *reg)
{
- spin_lock_bh(&nf_hook_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&nf_hook_mutex);
list_del_rcu(&reg->list);
- spin_unlock_bh(&nf_hook_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&nf_hook_mutex);
synchronize_net();
}