"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> Paranoid about some driver doing something like:
> rtnl_lock(); register_netdevice(); unregister_netdevice();
> rtnl_unlock() BOOM
>
> These sorts of turds exist at least in two places:
>
> 1) drivers/net/wan/comx.c
> 2) drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
>
> But it is pretty clear that these two drivers have been
> tried by nobody in recent years. They both call into
> {un,}register_netdevice without the RTNL semaphore held.
Not sure about 1), but 2) calls (un)register_netdevice() with rtnl_lock,
from ioctl.
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