Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if()

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:40:20 -0800

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:09:07 +0100
Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> add_del_if() is called with RTNL, we can use __dev_get_by_index()
> instead of [dev_get_by_index() + dev_put()]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_ioctl.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c b/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c
> index 6a6433d..2af6e4a 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static int get_fdb_entries(struct net_bridge *br, void __user *userbuf,
>  	return num;
>  }
>  
> +/* called with RTNL */
>  static int add_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, int ifindex, int isadd)
>  {
>  	struct net_device *dev;
> @@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ static int add_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, int ifindex, int isadd)
>  	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
> -	dev = dev_get_by_index(dev_net(br->dev), ifindex);
> +	dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(br->dev), ifindex);
>  	if (dev == NULL)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> @@ -98,7 +99,6 @@ static int add_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, int ifindex, int isadd)
>  	else
>  		ret = br_del_if(br, dev);
>  
> -	dev_put(dev);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  

As part of the general ref count purge sure.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>

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