net: thunder_bgx: Fix netdev structure allocation
Commit 94833add ("net: thunderx: Unembed netdev structure") had a go at dynamically allocating the netdev structures for the thunderx_bgx driver. This change results in my ThunderX box catching fire (to be fair, it is what it does best). The issues with this change are that: - bgx_lmac_enable() is called *after* bgx_acpi_register_phy() and bgx_init_of_phy(), both expecting netdev to be a valid pointer. - bgx_init_of_phy() populates the MAC addresses for *all* LMACs attached to a given BGX instance, and thus needs netdev for each of them to have been allocated. There is a few things to be said about how the driver mixes LMAC and BGX states which leads to this sorry state, but that's beside the point. To address this, go back to a situation where all netdev structures are allocated before the driver starts relying on them, and move the freeing of these structures to driver removal. Someone brave enough can always go and restructure the driver if they want. Fixes: 94833add ("net: thunderx: Unembed netdev structure") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240812141322.1742918-1-maz@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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