This reverts commit ce1fdb065695f49ef6f126d35c1abbfe645d62d5. It turned out this actually introduces a race condition. netif_running() is not a suitable check for get_stats. Reported-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327152112.15635-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>