Eric Biederman pointed out that not holding RTNL while calling
call_netdevice_notifiers() was racy.
This patch is a direct transcription his feedback
against commit 
0115e8e30d6fc (net: remove delay at device dismantle)
Thanks Eric !
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 
 int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev)
 {
-       if (val != NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL)
-               ASSERT_RTNL();
+       ASSERT_RTNL();
        return raw_notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, val, dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_netdevice_notifiers);
 
                        /* Rebroadcast unregister notification */
                        call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
+
+                       __rtnl_unlock();
                        rcu_barrier();
+                       rtnl_lock();
+
                        call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, dev);
                        if (test_bit(__LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING,
                                     &dev->state)) {
                        = list_first_entry(&list, struct net_device, todo_list);
                list_del(&dev->todo_list);
 
+               rtnl_lock();
                call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, dev);
+               __rtnl_unlock();
 
                if (unlikely(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERING)) {
                        pr_err("network todo '%s' but state %d\n",
 
        struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
        struct fib_rules_ops *ops;
 
+       ASSERT_RTNL();
 
        switch (event) {
        case NETDEV_REGISTER:
-               ASSERT_RTNL();
                list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
                        attach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
                break;
 
        case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
-               ASSERT_RTNL();
                list_for_each_entry(ops, &net->rules_ops, list)
                        detach_rules(&ops->rules_list, dev);
                break;
 
                         void *ptr)
 {
        struct net_device *dev = ptr;
-       struct in_device *in_dev;
-
-       if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL)
-               goto out;
+       struct in_device *in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
 
-       in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
        ASSERT_RTNL();
 
        if (!in_dev) {
 
                return NOTIFY_DONE;
        }
 
-       if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL)
-               return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
        in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
 
        switch (event) {
                fib_sync_up(dev);
 #endif
                atomic_inc(&net->ipv4.dev_addr_genid);
-               rt_cache_flush(dev_net(dev), -1);
+               rt_cache_flush(net, -1);
                break;
        case NETDEV_DOWN:
                fib_disable_ip(dev, 0, 0);
                break;
        case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
        case NETDEV_CHANGE:
-               rt_cache_flush(dev_net(dev), 0);
+               rt_cache_flush(net, 0);
                break;
        }
        return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
                           void *data)
 {
        struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) data;
-       struct inet6_dev *idev;
+       struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
        int run_pending = 0;
        int err;
 
-       if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL)
-               return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
-       idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
        switch (event) {
        case NETDEV_REGISTER:
                if (!idev && dev->mtu >= IPV6_MIN_MTU) {