This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: phylink: don't call netif_carrier_off() with NULL netdev
to the 5.14-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-phylink-don-t-call-netif_carrier_off-with-null-n.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9fb763e760d24cd445ba1036486ca27ce2c19140
Author: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 17 14:36:31 2021 +0100
net: phylink: don't call netif_carrier_off() with NULL netdev
[ Upstream commit cbcca2e3961eac736566ac13ef0d0bf6f0b764ec ]
Dan Carpenter points out that we have a code path that permits a NULL
netdev pointer to be passed to netif_carrier_off(), which will cause
a kernel oops. In any case, we need to set pl->old_link_state to false
to have the desired effect when there is no netdev present.
Fixes: f97493657c63 ("net: phylink: add suspend/resume support")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
index 0d3d9c3ee83c8..6e96d7b7ee445 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
@@ -1332,7 +1332,10 @@ void phylink_suspend(struct phylink *pl, bool mac_wol)
* but one would hope all packets have been sent. This
* also means phylink_resolve() will do nothing.
*/
- netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev);
+ if (pl->netdev)
+ netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev);
+ else
+ pl->old_link_state = false;
/* We do not call mac_link_down() here as we want the
* link to remain up to receive the WoL packets.
