From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:14:26 -0700
> We can enter a deadlock situation because there is no sufficient protection
> when ndo_get_stats64() runs in process context to guard against RX or TX NAPI
> contexts running in softirq, this can lead to the following lockdep splat and
> actual deadlock was experienced as well with an iperf session in the
> background
> and a while loop doing ifconfig + ethtool.
...
> So just remove the u64_stats_update_begin()/end() pair in ndo_get_stats64()
> since it does not appear to be useful for anything. No inconsistency was
> observed with either ifconfig or ethtool, global TX counts equal the sum of
> per-queue TX counts on a 32-bit architecture.
>
> Fixes: 10377ba7673d ("net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Applied.
