From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 078e0d596f7b5952dad8662ace8f20ed2165e2ce ] qca8k_phy_eth_command() is used to probe the child MDIO bus while the parent MDIO is locked. This causes lockdep splat, reporting a possible deadlock. It is not an actually deadlock, because different locks are used. By making use of mutex_lock_nested() we can avoid this false positive. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241110175955.3053664-1-andrew@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c index 641692f716f86..47e9b2c303831 100644 --- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ qca8k_phy_eth_command(struct qca8k_priv *priv, bool read, int phy, * We therefore need to lock the MDIO bus onto which the switch is * connected. */ - mutex_lock(&priv->bus->mdio_lock); + mutex_lock_nested(&priv->bus->mdio_lock, MDIO_MUTEX_NESTED); /* Actually start the request: * 1. Send mdio master packet -- 2.43.0
