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

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Date: 2016-07-18 20:06:52
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] 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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