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Commit b4f79e5c authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by David S. Miller
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ethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock 



Commit e52ac339 ('net: Use device
model to get driver name in skb_gso_segment()') removed the only
in-tree caller of ethtool ops that doesn't hold the RTNL lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 44c14c1d

include/linux/ethtool.h

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@@ -896,8 +896,7 @@ static inline u32 ethtool_rxfh_indir_default(u32 index, u32 n_rx_rings) 
 *

 * All operations are optional (i.e. the function pointer may be set

 * to %NULL) and callers must take this into account.  Callers must

 * hold the RTNL, except that for @get_drvinfo the caller may or may

 * not hold the RTNL.

 * hold the RTNL lock.

 *

 * See the structures used by these operations for further documentation.

 *