net: core: introduce __netdev_notify_peers

There are some use cases for netdev_notify_peers in the context
when rtnl lock is already held. Introduce lockless version
of netdev_notify_peers call to save the extra code to call
	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, dev);
After that, convert netdev_notify_peers to call the new helper.

Suggested-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a46334906c94..8fa739259041 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1457,6 +1457,25 @@ void netdev_state_change(struct net_device *dev)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_state_change);
 
 /**
+ * __netdev_notify_peers - notify network peers about existence of @dev,
+ * to be called when rtnl lock is already held.
+ * @dev: network device
+ *
+ * Generate traffic such that interested network peers are aware of
+ * @dev, such as by generating a gratuitous ARP. This may be used when
+ * a device wants to inform the rest of the network about some sort of
+ * reconfiguration such as a failover event or virtual machine
+ * migration.
+ */
+void __netdev_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	ASSERT_RTNL();
+	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
+	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_notify_peers);
+
+/**
  * netdev_notify_peers - notify network peers about existence of @dev
  * @dev: network device
  *
@@ -1469,8 +1488,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_state_change);
 void netdev_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	rtnl_lock();
-	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
-	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, dev);
+	__netdev_notify_peers(dev);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_notify_peers);