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

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:29:40 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] addrlabel: don't use rtnl locking

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.