diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
index 8fd38ad8113bba6b57839e64ccf01114845b1931..280ea1e1e039d843fb6bca9209ef51b44ac4bd89 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
@@ -190,6 +190,14 @@ struct mlx5e_tc_attr_to_reg_mapping mlx5e_tc_attr_to_reg_mappings[] = {
 	[NIC_ZONE_RESTORE_TO_REG] = nic_zone_restore_to_reg_ct,
 };
 
+/* To avoid false lock dependency warning set the tc_ht lock
+ * class different than the lock class of the ht being used when deleting
+ * last flow from a group and then deleting a group, we get into del_sw_flow_group()
+ * which call rhashtable_destroy on fg->ftes_hash which will take ht->mutex but
+ * it's different than the ht->mutex here.
+ */
+static struct lock_class_key tc_ht_lock_key;
+
 static void mlx5e_put_flow_tunnel_id(struct mlx5e_tc_flow *flow);
 
 void
@@ -5215,6 +5223,8 @@ int mlx5e_tc_nic_init(struct mlx5e_priv *priv)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	lockdep_set_class(&tc->ht.mutex, &tc_ht_lock_key);
+
 	if (MLX5_CAP_FLOWTABLE_NIC_RX(priv->mdev, ignore_flow_level)) {
 		attr.flags = MLX5_CHAINS_AND_PRIOS_SUPPORTED |
 			MLX5_CHAINS_IGNORE_FLOW_LEVEL_SUPPORTED;
@@ -5333,6 +5343,8 @@ int mlx5e_tc_esw_init(struct rhashtable *tc_ht)
 	if (err)
 		goto err_ht_init;
 
+	lockdep_set_class(&tc_ht->mutex, &tc_ht_lock_key);
+
 	return err;
 
 err_ht_init: