This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: lan78xx: fix "softirq work is pending" error
to the 6.1-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-lan78xx-fix-softirq-work-is-pending-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6f99a4e190b500d9c894c9264e3cf22578c93797
Author: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 26 12:08:20 2024 +0100
net: lan78xx: fix "softirq work is pending" error
[ Upstream commit e3d5d70cb483df8296dd44e9ae3b6355ef86494c ]
Disable BH around the call to napi_schedule() to avoid following
error:
NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!!
Fixes: ec4c7e12396b ("lan78xx: Introduce NAPI polling support")
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240226110820.2113584-1-o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
index 7b9d480e44fe4..4fd4563811299 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
@@ -1501,7 +1501,9 @@ static int lan78xx_link_reset(struct lan78xx_net *dev)
lan78xx_rx_urb_submit_all(dev);
+ local_bh_disable();
napi_schedule(&dev->napi);
+ local_bh_enable();
}
return 0;
