From ab9304717f7624c41927f442e6b6d418b2d8b3e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:45:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net: emphasize rtnl lock required in call_netdevice_notifiers Since netdev_chain is guarded by rtnl_lock, ASSERT_RTNL should be present here to make sure that all callers of call_netdevice_notifiers does the locking properly. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0d78e0454a6..b31d5d69a46 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_notifier); int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev) { + ASSERT_RTNL(); return raw_notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, val, dev); } -- 2.41.0