netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] icmp: icmp_send() can avoid a dev

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Message-Id: <20091101.235703.105593995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:57:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] icmp: icmp_send() can avoid a dev_put()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:31:03 +0100

> We can avoid touching device refcount in icmp_send(),
> using dev_get_by_index_rcu()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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