This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nl80211: don't hold RTNL in color change request
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nl80211-don-t-hold-rtnl-in-color-change-request.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7426a657c7cfe7f3d03ec16c4f218d748d560404
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 14 14:04:02 2022 +0200
nl80211: don't hold RTNL in color change request
[ 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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
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,
},
};
