From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> 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 <f.faine...@gmail.com> Applied.