From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
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")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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 711061cd02d1..087ad3accad8 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -16272,8 +16272,7 @@ 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,
},
{
.cmd = NL80211_CMD_SET_FILS_AAD,
--
2.35.1
