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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8393ec408cd..1e5077d2cca 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -749,7 +749,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_index); * @ha: hardware address * * Search for an interface by MAC address. Returns NULL if the device - * is not found or a pointer to the device. The caller must hold RCU + * is not found or a pointer to the device. + * The caller must hold RCU or RTNL. * The returned device has not had its ref count increased * and the caller must therefore be careful about locking * |