The rtnl lock is no longer needed to protect the control buffer and
command VQ.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <dani...@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 27 +++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 41f8dc16ff38..d09ea20b16be 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2639,14 +2639,12 @@ static void virtnet_stats(struct net_device *dev,
 
 static void virtnet_ack_link_announce(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 {
-       rtnl_lock();
        if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE,
                                  VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE_ACK, NULL))
                dev_warn(&vi->dev->dev, "Failed to ack link announce.\n");
-       rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
-static int _virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
+static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
 {
        struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq *mq __free(kfree) = NULL;
        struct scatterlist sg;
@@ -2677,16 +2675,6 @@ static int _virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, 
u16 queue_pairs)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
-{
-       int err;
-
-       rtnl_lock();
-       err = _virtnet_set_queues(vi, queue_pairs);
-       rtnl_unlock();
-       return err;
-}
-
 static int virtnet_close(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -3268,7 +3256,7 @@ static int virtnet_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
                return -EINVAL;
 
        cpus_read_lock();
-       err = _virtnet_set_queues(vi, queue_pairs);
+       err = virtnet_set_queues(vi, queue_pairs);
        if (err) {
                cpus_read_unlock();
                goto err;
@@ -3558,14 +3546,11 @@ static void virtnet_rx_dim_work(struct work_struct 
*work)
        struct dim_cq_moder update_moder;
        int i, qnum, err;
 
-       if (!rtnl_trylock())
-               return;
-
        /* Each rxq's work is queued by "net_dim()->schedule_work()"
         * in response to NAPI traffic changes. Note that dim->profile_ix
         * for each rxq is updated prior to the queuing action.
         * So we only need to traverse and update profiles for all rxqs
-        * in the work which is holding rtnl_lock.
+        * in the work.
         */
        for (i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; i++) {
                rq = &vi->rq[i];
@@ -3587,8 +3572,6 @@ static void virtnet_rx_dim_work(struct work_struct *work)
                        dim->state = DIM_START_MEASURE;
                }
        }
-
-       rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 static int virtnet_coal_params_supported(struct ethtool_coalesce *ec)
@@ -4036,7 +4019,7 @@ static int virtnet_xdp_set(struct net_device *dev, struct 
bpf_prog *prog,
                synchronize_net();
        }
 
-       err = _virtnet_set_queues(vi, curr_qp + xdp_qp);
+       err = virtnet_set_queues(vi, curr_qp + xdp_qp);
        if (err)
                goto err;
        netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(dev, curr_qp + xdp_qp);
@@ -4852,7 +4835,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
        virtio_device_ready(vdev);
 
-       _virtnet_set_queues(vi, vi->curr_queue_pairs);
+       virtnet_set_queues(vi, vi->curr_queue_pairs);
 
        /* a random MAC address has been assigned, notify the device.
         * We don't fail probe if VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is not there
-- 
2.42.0


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