[PATCH net-next v3 2/7] netvsc: fix warnings reported by lockdep

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 08:59 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This includes a bunch of fixups for issues reported by
> lockdep.
>    * ethtool routines can assume RTNL
>    * send is done with RCU lock (and BH disable)
>    * avoid refetching internal device struct (netvsc)
>      instead pass it as a parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>

The subject and the commit message are inconsistent — is this fixing
*warnings* (i.e. shut up a false positive), or is it fixing *issues*?
It looks like it's actually fixing issues, not just warnings?

It's really useful to get that right.

FWIW the reason I'm looking in my netdev@ folder for lockdep warning
fixes is because I was trying to confirm whether the commit message in
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4372391/ is actually telling the
truth or not — in that case I think it *is* just a false positive being
shut up (and thus it's OK to say "fix warning"), not really fixing a
true issue.
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