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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net/ipv6] net/ipv6: avoid possible dead locking on
 addr_gen_mode sysctl
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:24:42 -0500 (EST)
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From: Felix Jia <felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:41:23 +1300

> The addr_gen_mode variable can be accessed by both sysctl and netlink.
> Repleacd rtnl_lock() with rtnl_trylock() protect the sysctl operation to
> avoid the possbile dead lock.`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Jia <felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.