This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off 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: bnxt_en-reverse-order-of-tx-disable-and-carrier-off.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. commit 34fc83fa8acb5263e4736bc7e597a1009a9c7e92 Author: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 11 02:24:23 2021 -0500 bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off [ Upstream commit 132e0b65dc2b8bfa9721bfce834191f24fd1d7ed ] A TX queue can potentially immediately timeout after it is stopped and the last TX timestamp on that queue was more than 5 seconds ago with carrier still up. Prevent these intermittent false TX timeouts by bringing down carrier first before calling netif_tx_disable(). Fixes: c0c050c58d84 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.") Signed-off-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index 7c8187d386756..4ae49d92c1eed 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -8347,9 +8347,10 @@ void bnxt_tx_disable(struct bnxt *bp) txr->dev_state = BNXT_DEV_STATE_CLOSING; } } + /* Drop carrier first to prevent TX timeout */ + netif_carrier_off(bp->dev); /* Stop all TX queues */ netif_tx_disable(bp->dev); - netif_carrier_off(bp->dev); } void bnxt_tx_enable(struct bnxt *bp)