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netif_device_attach() will unpause the queues so we can't call
it before __alx_open(). This went undetected until
commit b0999223 ("alx: add ability to allocate and free
alx_napi structures") but now if stack tries to xmit immediately
on resume before __alx_open() we'll crash on the NAPI being null:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000198
 CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G           OE 5.10.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 5.10.13-1
 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77-D3H, BIOS F15 11/14/2013
 RIP: 0010:alx_start_xmit+0x34/0x650 [alx]
 Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 83 ec 20 0f b7 57 7c 8b 8e b0
0b 00 00 39 ca 72 06 89 d0 31 d2 f7 f1 89 d2 48 8b 84 df
 RSP: 0018:ffffb09240083d28 EFLAGS: 00010297
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa04d80ae7800 RCX: 0000000000000004
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa04d80afa000 RDI: ffffa04e92e92a00
 RBP: 0000000000000042 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffa04ea3146700
 R10: 0000000000000014 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa04e92e92100
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffa04e92e92a00 R15: ffffa04e92e92a00
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0508f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 i915 0000:00:02.0: vblank wait timed out on crtc 0
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000198 CR3: 000000004460a001 CR4: 00000000001706f0
 Call Trace:
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc7/0x1e0
  sch_direct_xmit+0x10f/0x310

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+
Fixes: bc2bebe8

 ("alx: remove WoL support")
Reported-by: Zbynek Michl <zbynek.michl@gmail.com>
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983595

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Zbynek Michl <zbynek.michl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>