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Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state

From Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state
Date 2016-07-18 22:10 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Thanks Florian.

Acked-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>

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[PATCH net] bnxt_en: Fix potential race condition in bnxt_tx_enable() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 01:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Fix potential race condition in  bnxt_tx_enable() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-07-16 08:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Fix potential race condition in bnxt_tx_enable() Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> - 2016-07-18 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> - 2016-07-18 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 22:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Remove locking around txr->dev_state David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-07-20 04:30 +0200

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