netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 14/15] ipv6: anycast: Don't hold RTNL for IPV6_JOIN

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Message-ID: <20250708184053.102109f6@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:40:53 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, David Ahern
 <dsahern@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima
 <kuniyu@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 14/15] ipv6: anycast: Don't hold RTNL for
 IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST.

On Wed,  2 Jul 2025 16:01:31 -0700 Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> -struct net_device *__dev_get_by_flags(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags,
> -				      unsigned short mask)
> +struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags_rcu(struct net *net, unsigned short if_flags,
> +					unsigned short mask)

Could you follow up and toss a netdev tracker in here?
Not sure how much it matters but looks trivial, and we shouldn't really
add APIs that take a bare reference these days..