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| author |   Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv6/route.c | |
| parent | [NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.xz linux-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.zip | |
[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/route.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/route.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 104070e92cea..a7a21a7ba790 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ struct rt6_info ip6_null_entry = { .dst = { .__refcnt = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .__use = 1, - .dev = &loopback_dev, .obsolete = -1, .error = -ENETUNREACH, .metrics = { [RTAX_HOPLIMIT - 1] = 255, }, @@ -164,7 +163,6 @@ struct rt6_info ip6_prohibit_entry = { .dst = { .__refcnt = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .__use = 1, - .dev = &loopback_dev, .obsolete = -1, .error = -EACCES, .metrics = { [RTAX_HOPLIMIT - 1] = 255, }, @@ -184,7 +182,6 @@ struct rt6_info ip6_blk_hole_entry = { .dst = { .__refcnt = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .__use = 1, - .dev = &loopback_dev, .obsolete = -1, .error = -EINVAL, .metrics = { [RTAX_HOPLIMIT - 1] = 255, }, @@ -224,8 +221,8 @@ static void ip6_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev, struct rt6_info *rt = (struct rt6_info *)dst; struct inet6_dev *idev = rt->rt6i_idev; - if (dev != &loopback_dev && idev != NULL && idev->dev == dev) { - struct inet6_dev *loopback_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev); + if (dev != loopback_dev && idev != NULL && idev->dev == dev) { + struct inet6_dev *loopback_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev); if (loopback_idev != NULL) { rt->rt6i_idev = loopback_idev; in6_dev_put(idev); @@ -1188,12 +1185,12 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg) if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) || (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) { /* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */ - if (dev != &loopback_dev) { + if (dev != loopback_dev) { if (dev) { dev_put(dev); in6_dev_put(idev); } - dev = &loopback_dev; + dev = loopback_dev; dev_hold(dev); idev = in6_dev_get(dev); if (!idev) { @@ -1897,13 +1894,13 @@ struct rt6_info *addrconf_dst_alloc(struct inet6_dev *idev, if (rt == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - dev_hold(&loopback_dev); + dev_hold(loopback_dev); in6_dev_hold(idev); rt->u.dst.flags = DST_HOST; rt->u.dst.input = ip6_input; rt->u.dst.output = ip6_output; - rt->rt6i_dev = &loopback_dev; + rt->rt6i_dev = loopback_dev; rt->rt6i_idev = idev; rt->u.dst.metrics[RTAX_MTU-1] = ipv6_get_mtu(rt->rt6i_dev); rt->u.dst.metrics[RTAX_ADVMSS-1] = ipv6_advmss(dst_mtu(&rt->u.dst)); |