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 4.4-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:
vmxnet3-do-not-stop-tx-queues-after-netif_device_det.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fc6b20d309382071a2806869aabf13d05f02a3a0
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 419c045d07527..474ee7e723d00 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -3389,7 +3389,6 @@ 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;
