This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled can: dev: can_restart(): don't crash kernel if carrier is OK to the 6.5-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: can-dev-can_restart-don-t-crash-kernel-if-carrier-is.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b0d7288adf846c06fed697cb62d90da1174c783d Author: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 28 21:58:23 2023 +0200 can: dev: can_restart(): don't crash kernel if carrier is OK [ Upstream commit fe5c9940dfd8ba0c73672dddb30acd1b7a11d4c7 ] During testing, I triggered a can_restart() with the netif carrier being OK [1]. The BUG_ON, which checks if the carrier is OK, results in a fatal kernel crash. This is neither helpful for debugging nor for a production system. [1] The root cause is a race condition in can_restart() which will be fixed in the next patch. Do not crash the kernel, issue an error message instead, and continue restarting the CAN device anyway. Fixes: 39549eef3587 ("can: CAN Network device driver and Netlink interface") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231005-can-dev-fix-can-restart-v2-1-91b5c1fd922c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c index 7f9334a8af500..a5bbdfa9a2693 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c @@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ static void can_restart(struct net_device *dev) struct can_frame *cf; int err; - BUG_ON(netif_carrier_ok(dev)); + if (netif_carrier_ok(dev)) + netdev_err(dev, "Attempt to restart for bus-off recovery, but carrier is OK?\n"); /* No synchronization needed because the device is bus-off and * no messages can come in or go out.