Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.10 08/27] rtnetlink: move rtnl_lock handling out of af_netlink

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:01:23 -0700

On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:52:51 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 5380d64f8d766576ac5c0f627418b2d0e1d2641f ]
> 
> Now that we have an intermediate layer of code for handling
> rtnl-level netlink dump quirks, we can move the rtnl_lock
> taking there.
> 
> For dump handlers with RTNL_FLAG_DUMP_SPLIT_NLM_DONE we can
> avoid taking rtnl_lock just to generate NLM_DONE, once again.

Not really a fix, FWIW, but not scary either so your call.