mpls: Hold dev refcnt for mpls_nh.

MPLS uses RTNL

  1) to guarantee the lifetime of struct mpls_nh.nh_dev
  2) to protect net->mpls.platform_label

, but neither actually requires RTNL.

If we do not call dev_put() in find_outdev() and call it
just before freeing struct mpls_route, we can drop RTNL for 1).

Let's hold the refcnt of mpls_nh.nh_dev and track it with
netdevice_tracker.

Two notable changes:

If mpls_nh_build_multi() fails to set up a neighbour, we need
to call netdev_put() for successfully created neighbours in
mpls_rt_free_rcu(), so the number of neighbours (rt->rt_nhn)
is now updated in each iteration.

When a dev is unregistered, mpls_ifdown() clones mpls_route
and replaces it with the clone, so the clone requires extra
netdev_hold().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029173344.2934622-3-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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