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| author | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2020-12-08 18:57:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2020-12-08 21:53:48 +0100 |
| commit | 42f1c27120906a54e73101a7d6a12f58813f6a9f (patch) | |
| tree | d42c64bf7b90d5a04d75c39daffdea1991040208 /net/netfilter | |
| parent | 917d80d376ffbaa9725fde9e3c0282f63643f278 (diff) | |
netfilter: nftables: comment indirect serialization of commit_mutex with rtnl_mutex
Add an explicit comment in the code to describe the indirect
serialization of the holders of the commit_mutex with the rtnl_mutex.
Commit 90d2723c6d4c ("netfilter: nf_tables: do not hold reference on
netdevice from preparation phase") already describes this, but a comment
in this case is better for reference.
Reported-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index c2f59879a48d..9a080767667b 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -1723,6 +1723,10 @@ static struct nft_hook *nft_netdev_hook_alloc(struct net *net, } nla_strlcpy(ifname, attr, IFNAMSIZ); + /* nf_tables_netdev_event() is called under rtnl_mutex, this is + * indirectly serializing all the other holders of the commit_mutex with + * the rtnl_mutex. + */ dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname); if (!dev) { err = -ENOENT; |