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Upcoming changes to the rate commands need the parent devlink specified. This change adds a nested 'parent-dev' attribute to the API and helpers to obtain and put a reference to the parent devlink instance in info->ctx. To avoid deadlocks, the parent devlink is unlocked before obtaining the main devlink instance that is the target of the request. A reference to the parent is kept until the end of the request to avoid it suddenly disappearing. This means that this reference is of limited use without additional protection. Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701073254.754518-6-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>