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Diffstat (limited to 'net/devlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/devlink/core.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/devlink/core.c b/net/devlink/core.c index 58093f49c090..6ae62c7f2a80 100644 --- a/net/devlink/core.c +++ b/net/devlink/core.c @@ -178,9 +178,7 @@ int devlink_rel_nested_in_add(u32 *rel_index, u32 devlink_index, * a notification of a change of this object should be sent * over netlink. The parent devlink instance lock needs to be * taken during the notification preparation. - * However, since the devlink lock of nested instance is held here, - * we would end with wrong devlink instance lock ordering and - * deadlock. Therefore the work is utilized to avoid that. + * Since the parent may or may not be locked, 'work' is utilized. */ void devlink_rel_nested_in_notify(struct devlink *devlink) { |