net: remove type_check from dev_get_nest_level()

The idea for type_check in dev_get_nest_level() was to count the number
of nested devices of the same type (currently, only macvlan or vlan
devices).
This prevented the false positive lockdep warning on configurations such
as:

eth0 <--- macvlan0 <--- vlan0 <--- macvlan1

However, this doesn't prevent a warning on a configuration such as:

eth0 <--- macvlan0 <--- vlan0
eth1 <--- vlan1 <--- macvlan1

In this case, all the locks end up with a nesting subclass of 1, so
lockdep thinks that there is still a deadlock:

- in the first case we have (macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key, 1) and then
  take (vlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key, 1)
- in the second case, we have (vlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key, 1) and then
  take (macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key, 1)

By removing the linktype check in dev_get_nest_level() and always
incrementing the nesting depth, lockdep considers this configuration
valid.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 076df5360ba5..3a788bf0affd 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3891,8 +3891,7 @@ void netdev_default_l2upper_neigh_destroy(struct net_device *dev,
 extern u8 netdev_rss_key[NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN] __read_mostly;
 void netdev_rss_key_fill(void *buffer, size_t len);
 
-int dev_get_nest_level(struct net_device *dev,
-		       bool (*type_check)(const struct net_device *dev));
+int dev_get_nest_level(struct net_device *dev);
 int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb);
 struct sk_buff *__skb_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				  netdev_features_t features, bool tx_path);