David Miller said the following on 2008-7-15 17:11:
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> From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:52:31 +0800
> 
>> As my understanding, packet_dev_mclist() is the only reader who doesn't
>> use same lock as writers(actually it doesn't use any lock).
>> My proposal is that use RTNL to prevent synchronous access to po->mclist.
>> Because packet_dev_mclist() is only called when device be unregistered,
>> the lock will not affect speed too much. 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> I took a look and it turns out that the RTNL lock is already held when
> that notifier runs, so it seems everything is fine here already.
> 
> So I'll ignore this patch :)

Yes. register_netdevice() holds the lock ;)

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