Re: Issue with rtnl_lock in wg_pm_notification

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups com.zx2c4.lists.wireguard,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:44:56 +0530 Sharath Chandra Vurukala wrote:
> I do not understand fully what wireguard functionality is, but
> considering that rtnl_lock is a global one, it does not seem to be a
> good design to have notification callback acquire this lock.

I'm not very familiar with the PM locks, but isn't the PM notification
lock also a global one? Again, not an expert but having PM lock outside
the rtnl_lock would be more intuitive to me.
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