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| author |   Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> | 2017-12-02 21:44:06 +0100 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-12-04 11:32:31 -0500 |
| commit | e4202511480da5f8e6870d8f6ecbb821aeaa8caf (patch) | |
| tree | e5fadf5d76149f543fc003154f844b2ca19579bd /include/net/rtnetlink.h | |
| parent | net: rtnetlink: use rcu to free rtnl message handlers (diff) | |
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rtnetlink: get reference on module before invoking handlers
Add yet another rtnl_register function. It will be used by modules
that can be removed.
The passed module struct is used to prevent module unload while
a netlink dump is in progress or when a DOIT_UNLOCKED doit callback
is called.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/rtnetlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/rtnetlink.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h index ead018744ff5..e326b3f9eb5f 100644 --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ int __rtnl_register(int protocol, int msgtype, rtnl_doit_func, rtnl_dumpit_func, unsigned int flags); void rtnl_register(int protocol, int msgtype, rtnl_doit_func, rtnl_dumpit_func, unsigned int flags); +int rtnl_register_module(struct module *owner, int protocol, int msgtype, + rtnl_doit_func, rtnl_dumpit_func, unsigned int flags); int rtnl_unregister(int protocol, int msgtype); void rtnl_unregister_all(int protocol); |