This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool pause support and advertise reporting to the 4.9-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-mlx5e-fix-ethtool-pause-support-and-advertise-reporting.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed May 31 09:13:34 JST 2017 From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:35:15 +0300 Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool pause support and advertise reporting From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e3c19503712d6360239b19c14cded56dd63c40d7 ] Pause bit should set when RX pause is on, not TX pause. Also, setting Asym_Pause is incorrect, and should be turned off. Fixes: 665bc53969d7 ("net/mlx5e: Use new ethtool get/set link ksettings API") Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c @@ -751,7 +751,6 @@ static void get_supported(u32 eth_proto_ ptys2ethtool_supported_port(link_ksettings, eth_proto_cap); ptys2ethtool_supported_link(supported, eth_proto_cap); ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, supported, Pause); - ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, supported, Asym_Pause); } static void get_advertising(u32 eth_proto_cap, u8 tx_pause, @@ -761,7 +760,7 @@ static void get_advertising(u32 eth_prot unsigned long *advertising = link_ksettings->link_modes.advertising; ptys2ethtool_adver_link(advertising, eth_proto_cap); - if (tx_pause) + if (rx_pause) ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, advertising, Pause); if (tx_pause ^ rx_pause) ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, advertising, Asym_Pause); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-ethtool-pause-support-and-advertise-reporting.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-use-the-correct-pause-values-for-ethtool-advertising.patch