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From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:02:13 -0700 (PDT)

> Hold rtnl_lock to get the right link state.
> 
> While asynchronously resetting the device, hold rtnl_lock to get the
> right value from netif_running. If a reset is scheduled, and the device
> goes thru close and open, it may happen that reset and open may run in
> parallel. Holding rtnl_lock will avoid this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

Applied.