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[PATCH net-next] net: macb: detach netdev before closing on shutdown

From: Vineeth Karumanchi <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-01 14:26:09
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: atmel macb ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Théo Lebrun, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

macb_shutdown() calls netif_device_detach() after dev_close().
netif_device_detach() only stops the TX queues when the device is
still running:

	if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state) &&
	    netif_running(dev))
		netif_tx_stop_all_queues(dev);

By that point dev_close() has already cleared the running state, so the
detach only clears __LINK_STATE_PRESENT and the netif_tx_stop_all_queues()
step is skipped.

Reorder so the device is detached while still running, letting
netif_device_detach() mark it absent and stop the TX queues as intended,
before dev_close() tears the interface down.

This is a cleanup with no functional change: dev_close() stops the queues
and quiesces the DMA/HW via macb_close() regardless of ordering, so the
reboot/kexec safety path is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Vineeth Karumanchi <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 76ee4f506033..21ebaee00f9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -6246,12 +6246,11 @@ static void macb_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct net_device *netdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	rtnl_lock();
+	netif_device_detach(netdev);
 
 	if (netif_running(netdev))
 		dev_close(netdev);
 
-	netif_device_detach(netdev);
-
 	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
-- 
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