Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:32:57 +0000 (15:32 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:32:57 +0000 (15:32 -0700)
This reverts commit aab4f8d490ef8c184d854d5f630438c10406765c, commit
58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db upstream, as it causes
problems.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netlink/genetlink.c

index ba6e55d1ca448e605186ee5bcc31d742a3e53ccd..1076fe16b1228b09581b9a355b13855e761ee1ce 100644 (file)
@@ -789,10 +789,6 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
        struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
        int chains_to_skip = cb->args[0];
        int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
-       bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
-
-       if (need_locking)
-               genl_lock();
 
        for (i = chains_to_skip; i < GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE; i++) {
                n = 0;
@@ -814,9 +810,6 @@ errout:
        cb->args[0] = i;
        cb->args[1] = n;
 
-       if (need_locking)
-               genl_unlock();
-
        return skb->len;
 }