The caller must hold the RTNL so let's check it in unregister_netdevice. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
@@ -3971,6 +3971,8 @@ void synchronize_net(void)
void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
{
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
rollback_registered(dev);
/* Finish processing unregister after unlock */
net_set_todo(dev);