On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:57:33 +0000 William McVicker wrote: > Instead of open coding it, we could just pass the internal_flags via struct > genl_info to nl80211_vendor_cmds() and then handle the rtnl_unlock() there if > the vendor command doesn't request it. I included the patch below in case > there's any chance you would consider this for upstream. This would at least > add backwards compatibility to the vendor ops API so that existing drivers that > depend on the RTNL being held don't need to be fully refactored. Sorry to step in, Johannes may be AFK already. There's no asterisk next to the "we don't cater to out of tree code" rule, AFAIK. We change locking often, making a precedent like this would be ill-advised.
