From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:18:45 +0200
> get_bridge_ifindices() is used from the old "deviceless" bridge ioctl > calls which aren't called with rtnl held. The comment above says that it is > called with rtnl but that is not really the case. > Here's a sample output from a test ASSERT_RTNL() which I put in > get_bridge_ifindices and executed "brctl show": ... > Since it only reads bridge ifindices, we can use rcu to safely walk the net > device list. Also remove the wrong rtnl comment above. > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> > --- > AFAICT this has been present since the beginning of git history thus no > fixes tag. Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
