linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 280/667] nl80211: dont hold RTNL in color change request

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Message-Id: <20220607164943.183814493@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  7 Jun 2022 18:59:05 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 280/667] nl80211: dont hold RTNL in color change request

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 1b550a0bebfc0b69d6ec08fe6eb58953a8aec48a ]

It's not necessary to hold the RTNL across color change
requests, since all the inner locking needs only the
wiphy mutex which we already hold as well.

Fixes: 0d2ab3aea50b ("nl80211: add support for BSS coloring")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414140402.32e03e8c261b.I5e7dc6bc563a129b938c43298da6bb4e812400a5@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index dafa2c5b71a4..bb46a6a34614 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -15936,8 +15936,7 @@ static const struct genl_small_ops nl80211_small_ops[] = {
 		.validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
 		.doit = nl80211_color_change,
 		.flags = GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM,
-		.internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV_UP |
-				  NL80211_FLAG_NEED_RTNL,
+		.internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV_UP,
 	},
 };
 
-- 
2.35.1