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authorRoy.Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>2011-10-03 21:43:35 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-10-18 01:27:56 +0200
commit01b7806cdce3d3cf1626a1e79389f30512703069 (patch)
treef4f20f62018d494e63c58f4b7906badbbf25435c /net/ipv6/ndisc.c
parentcan: remove references to berlios mailinglist (diff)
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ipv6: remove a rcu_read_lock in ndisc_constructor
in6_dev_get(dev) takes a reference on struct inet6_dev, we dont need rcu locking in ndisc_constructor() Signed-off-by: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ndisc.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ndisc.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 1f52dd257631..7968bfec6138 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -370,17 +370,14 @@ static int ndisc_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh)
struct neigh_parms *parms;
int is_multicast = ipv6_addr_is_multicast(addr);
- rcu_read_lock();
in6_dev = in6_dev_get(dev);
if (in6_dev == NULL) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
return -EINVAL;
}
parms = in6_dev->nd_parms;
__neigh_parms_put(neigh->parms);
neigh->parms = neigh_parms_clone(parms);
- rcu_read_unlock();
neigh->type = is_multicast ? RTN_MULTICAST : RTN_UNICAST;
if (!dev->header_ops) {