dev_base_lock was the legacy rwlock used to protect netdevice list, and is expected to vanish. We now use RTNL and RCU locking. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static ssize_t show_tallies(struct device *d, struct device_attribute *attr,
CFG_HERMES_TALLIES_STRCT tallies;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
- read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (dev_isalive(dev)) {
wl_lock(lp, &flags);
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static ssize_t show_tallies(struct device *d, struct device_attribute *attr,
}
- read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;