This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ibmvnic: Fix TX completion error handling to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ibmvnic-fix-tx-completion-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Dec 6 10:20:28 AM CET 2020 From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:52:11 -0600 Subject: ibmvnic: Fix TX completion error handling From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ba246c175116e2e8fa4fdfa5f8e958e086a9a818 ] TX completions received with an error return code are not being processed properly. When an error code is seen, do not proceed to the next completion before cleaning up the existing entry's data structures. Fixes: 032c5e82847a ("Driver for IBM System i/p VNIC protocol") Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -3003,11 +3003,9 @@ restart_loop: next = ibmvnic_next_scrq(adapter, scrq); for (i = 0; i < next->tx_comp.num_comps; i++) { - if (next->tx_comp.rcs[i]) { + if (next->tx_comp.rcs[i]) dev_err(dev, "tx error %x\n", next->tx_comp.rcs[i]); - continue; - } index = be32_to_cpu(next->tx_comp.correlators[i]); if (index & IBMVNIC_TSO_POOL_MASK) { tx_pool = &adapter->tso_pool[pool]; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/ibmvnic-ensure-that-scrq-entry-reads-are-correctly-ordered.patch queue-5.4/ibmvnic-fix-tx-completion-error-handling.patch