From: Jakub Sitnicki <j...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 17:39:12 +0200
> Calls to rtnl_dump_ifinfo() are protected by RTNL lock. So are the
> {list,unlist}_netdevice() calls where we bump the net->dev_base_seq
> number.
>
> For this reason net->dev_base_seq can't change under out feet while
> we're looping over links in rtnl_dump_ifinfo(). So move the check for
> net->dev_base_seq change (since the last time we were called) out of the
> loop.
>
> This way we avoid giving a wrong impression that there are concurrent
> updates to the link list going on while we're iterating over them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <j...@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
