[PATCH] net: vxge: Remove unnecessary synchronize_irq() before free_irq()

From: cgel . zte
Date: Mon May 16 2022 - 04:22:01 EST


From: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Calling synchronize_irq() right before free_irq() is quite useless. On one
hand the IRQ can easily fire again before free_irq() is entered, on the
other hand free_irq() itself calls synchronize_irq() internally (in a race
condition free way), before any state associated with the IRQ is freed.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c
index d2de8ac44f72..fa5d4ddf429b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c
@@ -2405,7 +2405,6 @@ static void vxge_rem_msix_isr(struct vxgedev *vdev)
for (intr_cnt = 0; intr_cnt < (vdev->no_of_vpath * 2 + 1);
intr_cnt++) {
if (vdev->vxge_entries[intr_cnt].in_use) {
- synchronize_irq(vdev->entries[intr_cnt].vector);
free_irq(vdev->entries[intr_cnt].vector,
vdev->vxge_entries[intr_cnt].arg);
vdev->vxge_entries[intr_cnt].in_use = 0;
@@ -2427,7 +2426,6 @@ static void vxge_rem_isr(struct vxgedev *vdev)
vdev->config.intr_type == MSI_X) {
vxge_rem_msix_isr(vdev);
} else if (vdev->config.intr_type == INTA) {
- synchronize_irq(vdev->pdev->irq);
free_irq(vdev->pdev->irq, vdev);
}
}
--
2.25.1