Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ppp: remove ppp->closing check

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-ppp,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 11/4/24 10:24, Qingfang Deng wrote:
> ppp->closing was used to test if an interface is closing down. But upon
> .ndo_uninit() where ppp->closing is set to 1, dev_close() is already
> called to bring down an interface and a synchronize_net() guarantees
> that no pending TX/RX can take place, so the check is unnecessary.
> Remove the check.

I'm unsure we can remote such check. The TX callback can be triggered
even from a write on the controlling file, and it looks like such file
will be untouched by uninit.

Cheers,

Paolo
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