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When the host loses heartbeat messages from the device,
the driver calls the device-specific ndo_stop function,
which frees the resources. If the driver is unloaded in
this scenario, it calls ndo_stop again, attempting to free
resources that have already been freed, leading to a host
hang issue. To resolve this, dev_close should be called
instead of the device-specific stop function.dev_close
internally calls ndo_stop to stop the network interface
and performs additional cleanup tasks. During the driver
unload process, if the device is already down, ndo_stop
is not called.
Fixes: 5cb96c29aa ("octeon_ep: add heartbeat monitor")
Signed-off-by: Sathesh B Edara <sedara@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250429114624.19104-1-sedara@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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