On 03/08, Stanislav Fomichev wrote: > On 03/08, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 05:37:18 +0900 Kohei Enju wrote: > > > Both netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() are called before > > > list_netdevice() in register_netdevice(). > > > No other context can access the struct net_device, so we don't need these > > > locks in this context. > > That's technically true, but it will set off a bunch of lockdep > warnings :-( Let me drop it for now from the nipa because it does complain about it: https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-net-dbg/results/24641/67-nl-netdev-py/stderr --- pw-bot: cr