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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2024-02-22 10:50:15 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2024-02-26 11:46:12 +0000
commit386520e0ecc01004d3a29c70c5a77d4bbf8a8420 (patch)
tree8b38b88d2c08478267f7098e060cdbbdb474d0d1 /net/netlink
parente39951d965bf58b5aba7f61dc1140dcb8271af22 (diff)
rtnetlink: add RTNL_FLAG_DUMP_UNLOCKED flag
Similarly to RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED, this new flag allows dump operations registered via rtnl_register() or rtnl_register_module() to opt-out from RTNL protection. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 84cad7be6d43..be5792b638aa 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2261,6 +2261,8 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk, bool lock_taken)
cb->extack = &extack;
+ if (cb->flags & RTNL_FLAG_DUMP_UNLOCKED)
+ extra_mutex = NULL;
if (extra_mutex)
mutex_lock(extra_mutex);
nlk->dump_done_errno = cb->dump(skb, cb);
@@ -2355,6 +2357,7 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
cb->data = control->data;
cb->module = control->module;
cb->min_dump_alloc = control->min_dump_alloc;
+ cb->flags = control->flags;
cb->skb = skb;
cb->strict_check = nlk_test_bit(STRICT_CHK, NETLINK_CB(skb).sk);