Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: stmmac: remove redundant racy tear-down in stmmac_dvr_remove()

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:31:25 +0000

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 <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Furong Xu <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index fa1d7d3a2f43..c2ee6c0af3fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -7768,8 +7768,6 @@ void stmmac_dvr_remove(struct device *dev)
 
 	pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
 
-	stmmac_stop_all_dma(priv);
-	stmmac_mac_set(priv, priv->ioaddr, false);
 	unregister_netdev(ndev);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
-- 
2.30.2