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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ipv6: addrconf: don't use rtnl mutex in
 RTM_GETNETCONF
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:17:20 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:28:00 +0200

> Instead of relying on rtnl mutex bump device reference count.
> After this change, values reported can change in parallel, but thats not
> much different from current state, as anyone can change the settings
> right after rtnl_unlock (and before userspace processed reply).
> 
> While at it, switch to GFP_KERNEL allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Applied.