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| author | Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> | 2012-11-26 05:21:08 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-11-26 17:22:14 -0500 |
| commit | c91f6df2db4972d3cc983e6988b9abf1ad02f5f9 (patch) | |
| tree | cd29f1a068154e6136e54449ed7caa0b2f922318 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | 513777b2435a4b2a551ef57a345d3e6f99ae1508 (diff) | |
sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name
Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which
will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface
name, have it return the name directly.
This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions
the argument being an interface name.
If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero
to indicate there is no interface name present.
Added a seqlock to protect this code path, and dev_ifname(), from someone
changing the device name via dev_change_name().
v2: Added seqlock protection while copying device name.
v3: Fixed word wrap in patch.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index e46c830c88d..e9929abeb93 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1567,6 +1567,8 @@ extern int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev); extern rwlock_t dev_base_lock; /* Device list lock */ +extern seqlock_t devnet_rename_seq; /* Device rename lock */ + #define for_each_netdev(net, d) \ list_for_each_entry(d, &(net)->dev_base_head, dev_list) |