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

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Message-ID: <CAAVpQUDNf_pwg+RvcTGCBVF047HX-BfaKa2ddiN_StLeJkNQFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:52:40 -0700
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, "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>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 14/15] ipv6: anycast: Don't hold RTNL for IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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..

Fair enough, will post a followup :)