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cfg80211: rcu-ify rdev and wdev 

Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev
within atomic sections, but currently we need
to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the
list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that
we can look them up in rcu sections instead in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg 2010-01-17 15:49:02 +01:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent c57199bc32
commit 5f2aa25e0e
2 changed files with 17 additions and 12 deletions
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net/wireless/core.c
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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* This is the linux wireless configuration interface.
*
* Copyright 2006-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
* Copyright 2006-2010 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
*/
#include <linux/if.h>
@ -31,15 +31,10 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
/* RCU might be appropriate here since we usually
* only read the list, and that can happen quite
* often because we need to do it for each command */
/* RCU-protected (and cfg80211_mutex for writers) */
LIST_HEAD(cfg80211_rdev_list);
int cfg80211_rdev_list_generation;
/*
* This is used to protect the cfg80211_rdev_list
*/
DEFINE_MUTEX(cfg80211_mutex);
/* for debugfs */
@ -477,7 +472,7 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
/* set up regulatory info */
wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE);
list_add(&rdev->list, &cfg80211_rdev_list);
list_add_rcu(&rdev->list, &cfg80211_rdev_list);
cfg80211_rdev_list_generation++;
mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
@ -554,7 +549,8 @@ void wiphy_unregister(struct wiphy *wiphy)
* it impossible to find from userspace.
*/
debugfs_remove_recursive(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir);
list_del(&rdev->list);
list_del_rcu(&rdev->list);
synchronize_rcu();
/*
* Try to grab rdev->mtx. If a command is still in progress,
@ -670,7 +666,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block * nb,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wdev->event_list);
spin_lock_init(&wdev->event_lock);
mutex_lock(&rdev->devlist_mtx);
list_add(&wdev->list, &rdev->netdev_list);
list_add_rcu(&wdev->list, &rdev->netdev_list);
rdev->devlist_generation++;
/* can only change netns with wiphy */
dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
@ -782,13 +778,21 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block * nb,
*/
if (!list_empty(&wdev->list)) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "phy80211");
list_del_init(&wdev->list);
list_del_rcu(&wdev->list);
rdev->devlist_generation++;
#ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
kfree(wdev->wext.keys);
#endif
}
mutex_unlock(&rdev->devlist_mtx);
/*
* synchronise (so that we won't find this netdev
* from other code any more) and then clear the list
* head so that the above code can safely check for
* !list_empty() to avoid double-cleanup.
*/
synchronize_rcu();
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wdev->list);
break;
case NETDEV_PRE_UP:
if (!(wdev->wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(wdev->iftype)))

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net/wireless/core.h
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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* Wireless configuration interface internals.
*
* Copyright 2006-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
* Copyright 2006-2010 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
*/
#ifndef __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H
#define __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H
@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device {
/* associate netdev list */
struct mutex devlist_mtx;
/* protected by devlist_mtx or RCU */
struct list_head netdev_list;
int devlist_generation;
int opencount; /* also protected by devlist_mtx */