[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.

This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

5 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 721b89b..affea9b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
 	dev = in_dev->dev;
-	if (dev == &loopback_dev)
+	if (dev == loopback_dev)
 		return;
 
 	in_dev->dead = 1;
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
 			in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
 			if (!in_dev)
 				return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
-			if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+			if (dev == loopback_dev) {
 				IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
 				IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
 			}
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
 	case NETDEV_UP:
 		if (dev->mtu < 68)
 			break;
-		if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+		if (dev == loopback_dev) {
 			struct in_ifaddr *ifa;
 			if ((ifa = inet_alloc_ifa()) != NULL) {
 				ifa->ifa_local =
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 4303851..2d2e0cd 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@ static int __init ic_open_devs(void)
 	rtnl_lock();
 
 	/* bring loopback device up first */
-	if (dev_change_flags(&loopback_dev, loopback_dev.flags | IFF_UP) < 0)
-		printk(KERN_ERR "IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", loopback_dev.name);
+	if (dev_change_flags(loopback_dev, loopback_dev->flags | IFF_UP) < 0)
+		printk(KERN_ERR "IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", loopback_dev->name);
 
 	for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
-		if (dev == &loopback_dev)
+		if (dev == loopback_dev)
 			continue;
 		if (user_dev_name[0] ? !strcmp(dev->name, user_dev_name) :
 		    (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index f005a2f..7450326 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ ip_vs_in(unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff **pskb,
 	 *	... don't know why 1st test DOES NOT include 2nd (?)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST
-		     || skb->dev == &loopback_dev || skb->sk)) {
+		     || skb->dev == loopback_dev || skb->sk)) {
 		IP_VS_DBG(12, "packet type=%d proto=%d daddr=%d.%d.%d.%d ignored\n",
 			  skb->pkt_type,
 			  ip_hdr(skb)->protocol,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 006d605..ca2878d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1402,8 +1402,8 @@ static void ipv4_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev,
 {
 	struct rtable *rt = (struct rtable *) dst;
 	struct in_device *idev = rt->idev;
-	if (dev != &loopback_dev && idev && idev->dev == dev) {
-		struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
+	if (dev != loopback_dev && idev && idev->dev == dev) {
+		struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(loopback_dev);
 		if (loopback_idev) {
 			rt->idev = loopback_idev;
 			in_dev_put(idev);
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_mc(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr, __be32 saddr,
 #endif
 	rth->rt_iif	=
 	rth->fl.iif	= dev->ifindex;
-	rth->u.dst.dev	= &loopback_dev;
+	rth->u.dst.dev	= loopback_dev;
 	dev_hold(rth->u.dst.dev);
 	rth->idev	= in_dev_get(rth->u.dst.dev);
 	rth->fl.oif	= 0;
@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr, __be32 saddr,
 	if (res.type == RTN_LOCAL) {
 		int result;
 		result = fib_validate_source(saddr, daddr, tos,
-					     loopback_dev.ifindex,
+					     loopback_dev->ifindex,
 					     dev, &spec_dst, &itag);
 		if (result < 0)
 			goto martian_source;
@@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ local_input:
 #endif
 	rth->rt_iif	=
 	rth->fl.iif	= dev->ifindex;
-	rth->u.dst.dev	= &loopback_dev;
+	rth->u.dst.dev	= loopback_dev;
 	dev_hold(rth->u.dst.dev);
 	rth->idev	= in_dev_get(rth->u.dst.dev);
 	rth->rt_gateway	= daddr;
@@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
 						  RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE),
 				      } },
 			    .mark = oldflp->mark,
-			    .iif = loopback_dev.ifindex,
+			    .iif = loopback_dev->ifindex,
 			    .oif = oldflp->oif };
 	struct fib_result res;
 	unsigned flags = 0;
@@ -2243,9 +2243,9 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
 			fl.fl4_dst = fl.fl4_src = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
 		if (dev_out)
 			dev_put(dev_out);
-		dev_out = &loopback_dev;
+		dev_out = loopback_dev;
 		dev_hold(dev_out);
-		fl.oif = loopback_dev.ifindex;
+		fl.oif = loopback_dev->ifindex;
 		res.type = RTN_LOCAL;
 		flags |= RTCF_LOCAL;
 		goto make_route;
@@ -2290,7 +2290,7 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct rtable **rp, const struct flowi *oldflp)
 			fl.fl4_src = fl.fl4_dst;
 		if (dev_out)
 			dev_put(dev_out);
-		dev_out = &loopback_dev;
+		dev_out = loopback_dev;
 		dev_hold(dev_out);
 		fl.oif = dev_out->ifindex;
 		if (res.fi)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c
index 4ff8ed3..29ab3de 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static void xfrm4_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev,
 
 	xdst = (struct xfrm_dst *)dst;
 	if (xdst->u.rt.idev->dev == dev) {
-		struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
+		struct in_device *loopback_idev = in_dev_get(loopback_dev);
 		BUG_ON(!loopback_idev);
 
 		do {