tree 8206fd7c4508d8eb16f0d00fc1e7437110f938b7
parent 685c7944055b9de51ff509719070afae92b3dbe1
author Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> 1257104529 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1257148511 -0800

net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()

All ioctls() implemented by dev_ifsioc_locked() :
SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCGIFMETRIC, SIOCGIFMTU, SIOCGIFHWADDR,
SIOCGIFSLAVE, SIOCGIFMAP, SIOCGIFINDEX & SIOCGIFTXQLEN
can use RCU lock instead of dev_base_lock rwlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>