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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:57:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] net: fib6: convert cfg metric to u32 outside of table write
 lock

Do the nla validation earlier, outside the write lock.

This is needed by followup patch which needs to be able to call
request_module (which can sleep) if needed.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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