diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2cd410f103b2..06f7cabe079e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6603a6f25e4bca922a7dfbf0bf03072d98850176
+refs/heads/master: d0e81b7e2246a41d068ecaf15aac9de570816d63
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/trunk/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
index 6db5d763f6b6..25b8dbf6cfd7 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
@@ -1455,16 +1455,16 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	/* handle rlb stuff */
 	if (bond_info->rlb_enabled) {
-		/* the following code changes the promiscuity of the
-		 * the curr_active_slave. It needs to be locked with a
-		 * write lock to protect from other code that also
-		 * sets the promiscuity.
-		 */
-		write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
-
 		if (bond_info->primary_is_promisc &&
 		    (++bond_info->rlb_promisc_timeout_counter >= RLB_PROMISC_TIMEOUT)) {
 
+			/*
+			 * dev_set_promiscuity requires rtnl and
+			 * nothing else.
+			 */
+			read_unlock(&bond->lock);
+			rtnl_lock();
+
 			bond_info->rlb_promisc_timeout_counter = 0;
 
 			/* If the primary was set to promiscuous mode
@@ -1473,9 +1473,10 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
 			 */
 			dev_set_promiscuity(bond->curr_active_slave->dev, -1);
 			bond_info->primary_is_promisc = 0;
-		}
 
-		write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
+			rtnl_unlock();
+			read_lock(&bond->lock);
+		}
 
 		if (bond_info->rlb_rebalance) {
 			bond_info->rlb_rebalance = 0;