From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:02:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1468872171-10009-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> References: <1468626125-31732-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, Florian Fainelli , Michael Chan , Jeffrey Huang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1468626125-31732-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org txr->dev_state was not consistently manipulated with the acquisition of the per-queue lock, after further inspection the lock does not seem necessary, either the value is read as BNXT_DEV_STATE_CLOSING or 0. Reported-by: coverity (CID 1339583) Fixes: c0c050c58d840 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.") Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli --- Changes in v2: - remove locking in bnxt_tx_disable() as recommended by Michael drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index c777cde85ce4..15e1d1885919 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -4580,9 +4580,7 @@ static void bnxt_tx_disable(struct bnxt *bp) for (i = 0; i < bp->tx_nr_rings; i++) { txr = &bp->tx_ring[i]; txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(bp->dev, i); - __netif_tx_lock(txq, smp_processor_id()); txr->dev_state = BNXT_DEV_STATE_CLOSING; - __netif_tx_unlock(txq); } } /* Stop all TX queues */ -- 2.7.4