netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ipv6: addrconf: don't use rtnl mutex in RTM

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Message-Id: <20171011.201725.646380607630686644.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     fw@...len.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ipv6: addrconf: don't use rtnl mutex in
 RTM_GETADDR

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:28:01 +0200

> Similar to the previous patch, use the device lookup functions
> that bump device refcount and flag this as DOIT_UNLOCKED to avoid
> rtnl mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Applied.