netdev - Re: [RTNETLINK 02/04]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks

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Message-Id: <20070416.165920.77404735.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RTNETLINK 02/04]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump
 callbacks

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:51:54 +0200 (MEST)

> [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
> 
> Hold rtnl_mutex during the entire netlink dump operation. This allows
> to simplify locking in the dump callbacks, since they can now rely on
> that no concurrent changes happen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, thanks Patrick.
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