Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 13/14] net: ethtool: optionally skip rtnl_lock on IOCTL path

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 12:10:38 -0700

On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:17:56 -0700 Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> GVE's gve_get_ethtool_stats (ETHTOOL_GSTATS) still has ASSERT_RTNL and
> is now reachable with only ops lock?

Good catch, thanks! I'll just delete it, we could switch it to
netdev_assert_locked() but TBH seems like a rather arbitrary
place to add such an assert in the first place.