This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: handle state correctly in phy_stop_machine to the 3.18-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-phy-handle-state-correctly-in-phy_stop_machine.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Apr 30 15:50:51 CEST 2017 From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:27:01 -0500 Subject: net: phy: handle state correctly in phy_stop_machine From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 49d52e8108a21749dc2114b924c907db43358984 ] If the PHY is halted on stop, then do not set the state to PHY_UP. This ensures the phy will be restarted later in phy_start when the machine is started again. Fixes: 00db8189d984 ("This patch adds a PHY Abstraction Layer to the Linux Kernel, enabling ethernet drivers to remain as ignorant as is reasonable of the connected PHY's design and operation details.") Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Brad Mouring <brad.mouring@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ void phy_stop_machine(struct phy_device cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue); mutex_lock(&phydev->lock); - if (phydev->state > PHY_UP) + if (phydev->state > PHY_UP && phydev->state != PHY_HALTED) phydev->state = PHY_UP; mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx are queue-3.18/net-phy-handle-state-correctly-in-phy_stop_machine.patch