nl80211: fix locking for wireless device netns change
We have all the network interfaces marked as netns-local since the only reasonable thing to do right now is to set a whole device, including all netdevs, into a different network namespace. For this reason, we also have our own way of changing the network namespace. Unfortunately, the RTNL locking changes broke this, and it now results in many RTNL assertions. The trivial fix for those (just hold RTNL for the changes) however leads to deadlocks in the cfg80211 netdev notifier. Since we only need the wiphy, and that's still protected by the RTNL, add a new NL80211_FLAG_NO_WIPHY_MTX flag to the nl80211 ops and use it to _not_ take the wiphy mutex but only the RTNL. This way, the notifier does all the work necessary during unregistration/registration of the netdevs from the old and in the new namespace. Reported-by: Sid Hayn <sidhayn@gmail.com> Fixes: a05829a7 ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210310215839.eadf7c43781b.I5fc6cf6676f800ab8008e03bbea9c3349b02d804@changeidSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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