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While the network device is registered, it is published to userspace, and thus userspace can change its state. This means calling functions such as stmmac_stop_all_dma() and stmmac_mac_set() are racy. Moreover, unregister_netdev() will unpublish the network device, and then if appropriate call the .ndo_stop() method, which is stmmac_release(). This will first call phylink_stop() which will synchronously take the link down, resulting in stmmac_mac_link_down() and stmmac_mac_set(, false) being called. stmmac_release() will also call stmmac_stop_all_dma(). Consequently, neither of these two functions need to called prior to unregister_netdev() as that will safely call paths that will result in this work being done if necessary. Remove these redundant racy calls. Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Furong Xu <0x1207@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/E1trcI1-005rn2-CZ@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.