[PATCH net-next 4/4] netconsole: remove unnecessary target refcounting from the netdev notifier

[Gustavo Luiz Duarte]

Since netconsole_netdev_event() holds target_list_lock, there is no need
to also protect each target with netconsole_target_get/put()
refcounting. There is no way a target reachable from the target_list
would go away while we hold target_list_lock.

This is similar to commit a6d403ac9689 ("netconsole: remove unnecessary
netconsole_target_get/out() from write_msg()").

Since this is the only remaining user of netconsole_target_get/put(),
remove those helpers as well.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 31 -------------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 627475f16383..6c938e37b2f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -262,23 +262,6 @@ static void __exit dynamic_netconsole_exit(void)
 	configfs_unregister_subsystem(&netconsole_subsys);
 }
 
-/*
- * Targets that were created by parsing the boot/module option string
- * do not exist in the configfs hierarchy (and have NULL names) and will
- * never go away, so make these a no-op for them.
- */
-static void netconsole_target_get(struct netconsole_target *nt)
-{
-	if (config_item_name(&nt->group.cg_item))
-		config_group_get(&nt->group);
-}
-
-static void netconsole_target_put(struct netconsole_target *nt)
-{
-	if (config_item_name(&nt->group.cg_item))
-		config_group_put(&nt->group);
-}
-
 static void dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock(void)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
@@ -300,18 +283,6 @@ static void __exit dynamic_netconsole_exit(void)
 {
 }
 
-/*
- * No danger of targets going away from under us when dynamic
- * reconfigurability is off.
- */
-static void netconsole_target_get(struct netconsole_target *nt)
-{
-}
-
-static void netconsole_target_put(struct netconsole_target *nt)
-{
-}
-
 static void populate_configfs_item(struct netconsole_target *nt,
 				   int cmdline_count)
 {
@@ -1982,7 +1953,6 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 	mutex_lock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(nt, tmp, &target_list, list) {
-		netconsole_target_get(nt);
 		if (nt->np.dev == dev) {
 			switch (event) {
 			case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
@@ -2012,7 +1982,6 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 			 * notifier.
 			 */
 			queue_work(netconsole_wq, &nt->resume_wq);
-		netconsole_target_put(nt);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
 	mutex_unlock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);

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2.55.0