From d6594193265f10fc5df50601c25efb7cb6e48ba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:18:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [NET]: Do not run netdev todo work from linkwatch code.

---
 net/core/link_watch.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/link_watch.c b/net/core/link_watch.c
index f70eed5889097..ae661b3a31d26 100644
--- a/net/core/link_watch.c
+++ b/net/core/link_watch.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/if.h>
+#include <net/sock.h>
 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
@@ -91,9 +92,11 @@ static void linkwatch_event(void *dummy)
 	linkwatch_nextevent = jiffies + HZ;
 	clear_bit(LW_RUNNING, &linkwatch_flags);
 
-	rtnl_lock();
+	rtnl_shlock();
+	rtnl_exlock();
 	linkwatch_run_queue();
-	rtnl_unlock();
+	rtnl_exunlock();
+	rtnl_shunlock();
 }
 
 
-- 
2.53.0