Currently we have the call path:
macvlan_open -> dev_unicast_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
        __dev_set_promiscuity -> ASSERT_RTNL -> mutex_trylock

When mutex debugging is on taking a mutex complains if we are not
allowed to sleep.  At that point we have called netif_tx_lock_bh
so we are clearly not allowed to sleep.  Arguably this is not a
problem for mutex_trylock.

However we can avoid the complaint and make the ASSERT_RTNL code
cheaper, faster and more obvious by simply calling mutex_is_locked.

So this patch adds rtnl_is_locked (which does mutex_is_locked on
the rtnl_mutex) and changes ASSERT_RTNL to use that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 include/linux/rtnetlink.h |    4 ++--
 net/core/rtnetlink.c      |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
index dff3192..9c21e45 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -714,13 +714,13 @@ extern void rtmsg_ifinfo(int type, struct net_device 
*dev, unsigned change);
 extern void rtnl_lock(void);
 extern void rtnl_unlock(void);
 extern int rtnl_trylock(void);
+extern int rtnl_is_locked(void);
 
 extern void rtnetlink_init(void);
 extern void __rtnl_unlock(void);
 
 #define ASSERT_RTNL() do { \
-       if (unlikely(rtnl_trylock())) { \
-               rtnl_unlock(); \
+       if (unlikely(!rtnl_is_locked())) { \
                printk(KERN_ERR "RTNL: assertion failed at %s (%d)\n", \
                       __FILE__,  __LINE__); \
                dump_stack(); \
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 739fbad..8bc68e6 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ int rtnl_trylock(void)
        return mutex_trylock(&rtnl_mutex);
 }
 
+int rtnl_is_locked(void)
+{
+       return mutex_is_locked(&rtnl_mutex);
+}
+
 int rtattr_parse(struct rtattr *tb[], int maxattr, struct rtattr *rta, int len)
 {
        memset(tb, 0, sizeof(struct rtattr*)*maxattr);
-- 
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911

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