This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ravb: Start TX queues after HW initialization succeeded
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-ravb-start-tx-queues-after-hw-initialization-suc.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 86ac4e5fe3bd507d355d9581d990e9f78427494c
Author: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 28 10:04:37 2023 +0200
net: ravb: Start TX queues after HW initialization succeeded
[ Upstream commit 6f32c086602050fc11157adeafaa1c1eb393f0af ]
ravb_phy_start() may fail. If that happens, the TX queues will remain
started. Thus, move the netif_tx_start_all_queues() after PHY is
successfully initialized.
Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
index 4db3495ef3370..b97d450214dfd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
@@ -1429,13 +1429,13 @@ static int ravb_open(struct net_device *ndev)
if (priv->chip_id == RCAR_GEN2)
ravb_ptp_init(ndev, priv->pdev);
- netif_tx_start_all_queues(ndev);
-
/* PHY control start */
error = ravb_phy_start(ndev);
if (error)
goto out_ptp_stop;
+ netif_tx_start_all_queues(ndev);
+
return 0;
out_ptp_stop:
