net: create device lookup API with reference tracking
New users of dev_get_by_index() and dev_get_by_name() keep getting added and it would be nice to steer them towards the APIs with reference tracking. Add variants of those calls which allocate the reference tracker and use them in a couple of places. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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