ipv6: mcast: Don't hold RTNL for IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and MCAST_JOIN_GROUP.

In __ipv6_sock_mc_join(), per-socket mld data is protected by lock_sock(),
and only __dev_get_by_index() requires RTNL.

Let's use dev_get_by_index() and drop RTNL for IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and
MCAST_JOIN_GROUP.

Note that we must call rt6_lookup() and dev_hold() under RCU.

If rt6_lookup() returns an entry from the exception table, dst_dev_put()
could change rt->dev.dst to loopback concurrently, and the original device
could lose the refcount before dev_hold() and unblock device registration.

dst_dev_put() is called from NETDEV_UNREGISTER and synchronize_net() follows
it, so as long as rt6_lookup() and dev_hold() are called within the same
RCU critical section, the dev is alive.

Even if the race happens, they are synchronised by idev->dead and mcast
addresses are cleaned up.

For the racy access to rt->dst.dev, we use dst_dev().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702230210.3115355-7-kuni1840@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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