Breno reports following splats on mlx5:
RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (2241)
WARNING: net/core/dev.c:2241 at netif_state_change+0xed/0x130, CPU#5: ethtool/1335
RIP: 0010:netif_state_change+0xf9/0x130
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__linkwatch_sync_dev+0xea/0x120
ethtool_op_get_link+0xe/0x20
__ethtool_get_link+0x26/0x40
linkstate_prepare_data+0x51/0x200
ethnl_default_doit+0x213/0x470
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xdd/0x110
Looks like I missed ethtool_op_get_link() trying to sync linkwatch,
which needs rtnl_lock. Not all drivers do this - bnxt doesn't,
it just returns the link state, so add an opt-in bit.
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fixes: 45079e0013 ("net: ethtool: optionally skip rtnl_lock on Netlink path for GET ops")
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624190439.2521219-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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