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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/genetlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/genetlink.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h index 61549b26ad6..73c28dea10a 100644 --- a/include/linux/genetlink.h +++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h @@ -85,6 +85,30 @@ enum { /* All generic netlink requests are serialized by a global lock. */ extern void genl_lock(void); extern void genl_unlock(void); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING +extern int lockdep_genl_is_held(void); +#endif + +/** + * rcu_dereference_genl - rcu_dereference with debug checking + * @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing + * + * Do an rcu_dereference(p), but check caller either holds rcu_read_lock() + * or genl mutex. Note : Please prefer genl_dereference() or rcu_dereference() + */ +#define rcu_dereference_genl(p) \ + rcu_dereference_check(p, lockdep_genl_is_held()) + +/** + * genl_dereference - fetch RCU pointer when updates are prevented by genl mutex + * @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing + * + * Return the value of the specified RCU-protected pointer, but omit + * both the smp_read_barrier_depends() and the ACCESS_ONCE(), because + * caller holds genl mutex. + */ +#define genl_dereference(p) \ + rcu_dereference_protected(p, lockdep_genl_is_held()) #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ |