netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] addrlabel: don't use rtnl locking

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     fw@...len.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] addrlabel: don't use rtnl locking

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:29:40 +0200

> addrlabel doesn't appear to require rtnl lock as the addrlabel
> table uses a spinlock to serialize add/delete operations.
> 
> Also, entries are reference counted so it should be safe
> to call the rtnl ops without the rtnl mutex.

Series applied.