From: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sulli...@intel.com>

We need to lock the client list around the i40e_client_release call to
prevent the release from interrupting the client instances while they are
being added.

Change-Id: I99993f20179aaf8730207833e7d0869d2ccffa1d
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sulli...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bow...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
index 0e6ac84..e1370c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
@@ -980,13 +980,13 @@ int i40e_unregister_client(struct i40e_client *client)
         * a close for each of the client instances that were opened.
         * client_release function is called to handle this.
         */
+       mutex_lock(&i40e_client_mutex);
        if (!client || i40e_client_release(client)) {
                ret = -EIO;
                goto out;
        }
 
        /* TODO: check if device is in reset, or if that matters? */
-       mutex_lock(&i40e_client_mutex);
        if (!i40e_client_is_registered(client)) {
                pr_info("i40e: Client %s has not been registered\n",
                        client->name);
@@ -1005,8 +1005,8 @@ int i40e_unregister_client(struct i40e_client *client)
                       client->name);
        }
 
-       mutex_unlock(&i40e_client_mutex);
 out:
+       mutex_unlock(&i40e_client_mutex);
        return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(i40e_unregister_client);
-- 
2.5.5

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