decnet: avoid touching device refcount in dn_dev_by_index()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
git-mirror · Nov 4, 2009 · b4d745d · b4d745d
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commit b4d745d
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
@@ -600,15 +600,17 @@ static void dn_dev_check_default(struct net_device *dev)
 		dev_put(dev);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Called with RTNL
+ */
 static struct dn_dev *dn_dev_by_index(int ifindex)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct dn_dev *dn_dev = NULL;
-	dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, ifindex);
-	if (dev) {
+
+	dev = __dev_get_by_index(&init_net, ifindex);
+	if (dev)
 		dn_dev = dev->dn_ptr;
-		dev_put(dev);
-	}
 
 	return dn_dev;
 }