On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:15:19 -0700 Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> Drivers that are using ops lock and don't depend on RTNL lock
> still need to manage it because udp_tunnel's RTNL dependency.
> Introduce new udp_tunnel_nic_lock and use it instead of
> rtnl_lock. Drop non-UDP_TUNNEL_NIC_INFO_MAY_SLEEP mode from
> udp_tunnel infra (udp_tunnel_nic_device_sync_work needs to
> grab udp_tunnel_nic_lock mutex and might sleep).

There are multiple entry points to this code, basically each member of
struct udp_tunnel_nic_ops and the netdev notifiers. In this patch only
reset and work are locked. I'm a bit confused as to what is the new
lock protecting :S

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