Changing switch mode may want to register and unregister devlink ports. Therefore similarly to DEVLINK_CMD_PORT_SPLIT/UNSPLIT it should not take the instance lock. Drivers don't depend on existing locking since it's a very recent addition.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> --- CC: j...@resnulli.us net/core/devlink.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c index 5c8a40e1a01e..475246b355f0 100644 --- a/net/core/devlink.c +++ b/net/core/devlink.c @@ -2756,7 +2756,8 @@ static const struct genl_ops devlink_nl_ops[] = { .doit = devlink_nl_cmd_eswitch_set_doit, .policy = devlink_nl_policy, .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM, - .internal_flags = DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NEED_DEVLINK, + .internal_flags = DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NEED_DEVLINK | + DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NO_LOCK, }, { .cmd = DEVLINK_CMD_DPIPE_TABLE_GET, -- 2.17.0