This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: macb: ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL control registers to the 4.14-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: net-macb-ensure-the-device-is-available-before-acces.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1b73b64191af040f51d764783f7479f45b0ef900 Author: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 22 17:16:11 2021 +0800 net: macb: ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL control registers [ Upstream commit 5eff1461a6dec84f04fafa9128548bad51d96147 ] If runtime power menagement is enabled, the gigabit ethernet PLL would be disabled after macb_probe(). During this period of time, the system would hang up if we try to access GEMGXL control registers. We can't put runtime_pm_get/runtime_pm_put/ there due to the issue of sleep inside atomic section (7fa2955ff70ce453 ("sh_eth: Fix sleeping function called from invalid context"). Add netif_running checking to ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL device. Changed in v2: - Use netif_running instead of its own flag Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c index 4d2a996ba446..b07ea8a26c20 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c @@ -2330,6 +2330,9 @@ static struct net_device_stats *gem_get_stats(struct macb *bp) struct gem_stats *hwstat = &bp->hw_stats.gem; struct net_device_stats *nstat = &bp->dev->stats; + if (!netif_running(bp->dev)) + return nstat; + gem_update_stats(bp); nstat->rx_errors = (hwstat->rx_frame_check_sequence_errors +