s390/qeth: call dev_close() during recovery
When resetting an interface ("recovery"), qeth currently attempts to elide the call to dev_close(). We initially only call .ndo_close to quiesce the data path, and then offline & online the ccwgroup device. If the reset succeeded, a call to .ndo_open then resumes the data path along with some internal setup (dev_addr validation, RX modeset) that dev_open() would have usually triggered. dev_close() only gets called (via the close_dev worker) if the reset action fails. It's unclear whether this was initially done due to locking concerns, or rather to execute the reset transparently. Either way, temporarily closing the interface without dev_close() is fragile, and means we're susceptible to various races and unexpected behaviour. For instance: - Bypassing dev_deactivate_many() means that the qdiscs are not set to __QDISC_STATE_DEACTIVATED. Consequently any intermittent TX completion can wake up the txq, resulting in calls to .ndo_start_xmit while the data path is down. We have custom state checking to detect this case and drop such packets. - Because the IFF_UP flag doesn't reflect the interface's actual state during a reset, we have custom state checking in .ndo_open and .ndo_close to guard against invalid calls. - Considering that the reset might take a considerable amount of time (in particular if an IO fails and we end up waiting for its timeout), we _do_ want NETDEV_GOING_DOWN and NETDEV_DOWN events so that components like bonding, team, bridge, macvlan, vlan, ... can take appropriate action. Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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