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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