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Florian Westphal says:

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net: core: rcuify rtnl af_ops

None of the rtnl af_ops callbacks sleep, so they can be called while
holding rcu read lock.

Switch handling of af_ops to rcu.

This would allow to later call af_ops functions without holding
the rtnl mutex anymore.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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