[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification
All drivers need to unregister their devices in the module unload function.
While doing so they must hold the rtnl and atomically unregister the
rtnl_link ops as well. This makes the rtnl_link_unregister function that
takes the rtnl itself completely useless.
Provide default newlink/dellink functions, make __rtnl_link_unregister and
rtnl_link_unregister unregister all devices with matching rtnl_link_ops and
change the existing users to take advantage of that.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 54c17e4..7b6b163 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@
*/
int __rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
{
+ if (!ops->dellink)
+ ops->dellink = unregister_netdevice;
+
list_add_tail(&ops->list, &link_ops);
return 0;
}
@@ -298,12 +301,16 @@
* __rtnl_link_unregister - Unregister rtnl_link_ops from rtnetlink.
* @ops: struct rtnl_link_ops * to unregister
*
- * The caller must hold the rtnl_mutex. This function should be used
- * by drivers that unregister devices during module unloading. It must
- * be called after unregistering the devices.
+ * The caller must hold the rtnl_mutex.
*/
void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
{
+ struct net_device *dev, *n;
+
+ for_each_netdev_safe(dev, n) {
+ if (dev->rtnl_link_ops == ops)
+ ops->dellink(dev);
+ }
list_del(&ops->list);
}
@@ -1067,7 +1074,10 @@
if (tb[IFLA_LINKMODE])
dev->link_mode = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);
- err = ops->newlink(dev, tb, data);
+ if (ops->newlink)
+ err = ops->newlink(dev, tb, data);
+ else
+ err = register_netdevice(dev);
err_free:
if (err < 0)
free_netdev(dev);