This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vmxnet3: do not stop tx queues after netif_device_detach() to the 4.9-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: vmxnet3-do-not-stop-tx-queues-after-netif_device_det.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 63866fd32bac9dcbcfd69a9411bc853f09f1117a Author: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 26 14:50:31 2021 -0700 vmxnet3: do not stop tx queues after netif_device_detach() [ Upstream commit 9159f102402a64ac85e676b75cc1f9c62c5b4b73 ] The netif_device_detach() conditionally stops all tx queues if the queues are running. There is no need to call netif_tx_stop_all_queues() again. Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c index c999b10531c59..56a8031b56b37 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c @@ -3622,7 +3622,6 @@ vmxnet3_suspend(struct device *device) vmxnet3_free_intr_resources(adapter); netif_device_detach(netdev); - netif_tx_stop_all_queues(netdev); /* Create wake-up filters. */ pmConf = adapter->pm_conf;