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authorStanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>2025-07-17 10:23:28 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-07-18 17:27:46 -0700
commitaf1d017377c1c1931bfb898e719ab712cf79f944 (patch)
treeb68aa226d019f1e2e4e57dcdecd2aec19d820e90 /net
parentnet: s/dev_get_port_parent_id/netif_get_port_parent_id/ (diff)
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net: s/dev_get_mac_address/netif_get_mac_address/
Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality") introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate. netif_get_mac_address is used only by tun/tap, so move it into NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-3-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c4
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev_ioctl.c3
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 4979a9197b18..d71f03874057 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -9765,7 +9765,7 @@ int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr_storage *ss,
DECLARE_RWSEM(dev_addr_sem);
/* "sa" is a true struct sockaddr with limited "sa_data" member. */
-int dev_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name)
+int netif_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name)
{
size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data_min);
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -9791,7 +9791,7 @@ unlock:
up_read(&dev_addr_sem);
return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_mac_address);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(netif_get_mac_address, "NETDEV_INTERNAL");
int netif_change_carrier(struct net_device *dev, bool new_carrier)
{
diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
index 616479e71466..ceb2d63a818a 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -728,7 +728,8 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, struct ifreq *ifr,
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCGIFHWADDR:
dev_load(net, ifr->ifr_name);
- ret = dev_get_mac_address(&ifr->ifr_hwaddr, net, ifr->ifr_name);
+ ret = netif_get_mac_address(&ifr->ifr_hwaddr, net,
+ ifr->ifr_name);
if (colon)
*colon = ':';
return ret;
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index f7a6cc7aea79..e41ad1890e49 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static ssize_t name_assign_type_show(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name_assign_type);
-/* use same locking rules as GIFHWADDR ioctl's (dev_get_mac_address()) */
+/* use same locking rules as GIFHWADDR ioctl's (netif_get_mac_address()) */
static ssize_t address_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{