From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:39:31 -0700

> Also, earlier in the method it does a __dev_get_by_index(parm->ifindex),
> and continues to use the returned value after that.  Couldn't this lead
> to a reference-after-free, or does external locking prohibit this?

Probably the RTNL semaphore helps ensure this is OK.
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