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        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.17 329/772] nl80211: dont hold RTNL in color change request
Date:   Tue,  7 Jun 2022 18:58:41 +0200
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

[ 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@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 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 ba53bc820d81..0aad974f17a7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -16194,8 +16194,7 @@ 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