From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>

No need to free it ourselves, just set the "needs_free_netdev" flag
and leave the work to net core.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
index cc4a5b5793fa..0af38bc6d98c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static void nsim_dev_release(struct device *dev)
        struct netdevsim *ns = to_nsim(dev);
 
        nsim_vfs_disable(ns);
-       free_netdev(ns->netdev);
 }
 
 static struct device_type nsim_dev_type = {
@@ -490,6 +489,7 @@ static void nsim_setup(struct net_device *dev)
        eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
 
        dev->netdev_ops = &nsim_netdev_ops;
+       dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
        dev->priv_destructor = nsim_free;
 
        dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
-- 
2.17.2

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