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netfilter: nf_conntrack: remove unnecessary RTNL locking 

Locking the rtnl was added to nf_conntrack_l{3,4}_proto_unregister()
for walking the network namespace list. This is not done anymore since
we have proper namespace support in the protocols now, so we don't
need to take the RTNL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Patrick McHardy 2012-08-19 10:16:10 +00:00 committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
parent fe31d1a860
commit 2834a6386b
1 changed files with 0 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto.h>
@ -294,9 +293,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister(struct net *net,
nf_ct_l3proto_unregister_sysctl(net, proto);
/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
rtnl_lock();
nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l3proto, proto);
rtnl_unlock();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister);
@ -502,9 +499,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister(struct net *net,
nf_ct_l4proto_unregister_sysctl(net, pn, l4proto);
/* Remove all contrack entries for this protocol */
rtnl_lock();
nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_l4proto, l4proto);
rtnl_unlock();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_l4proto_unregister);