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| author | Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> | 2012-12-18 18:50:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> | 2013-01-26 16:58:59 +0100 |
| commit | bf03a5379cd3492fbeca42111340581ba9dee0b8 (patch) | |
| tree | c4a4a93c0645d66a0dcb8f718739696b4240c8ab /drivers/net/can/dev.c | |
| parent | 996a953de02ffb852c9ac736f4e892008ed68884 (diff) | |
can: export a safe netdev_priv wrapper for candev
In net_device notifier calls, it was impossible to determine
if a CAN device is based on candev in a safe way.
This patch adds such test in order to access candev storage
from within those notifiers.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/can/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/can/dev.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c index 8233e5ed293..13e738098fb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c @@ -794,6 +794,19 @@ void unregister_candev(struct net_device *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_candev); +/* + * Test if a network device is a candev based device + * and return the can_priv* if so. + */ +struct can_priv *safe_candev_priv(struct net_device *dev) +{ + if ((dev->type != ARPHRD_CAN) || (dev->rtnl_link_ops != &can_link_ops)) + return NULL; + + return netdev_priv(dev); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(safe_candev_priv); + static __init int can_dev_init(void) { int err; |