This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ethoc: enable NAPI before poll may be scheduled 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-ethoc-enable-napi-before-poll-may-be-scheduled.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 Thu Jun 8 09:17:40 CEST 2017 From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 18:31:16 -0700 Subject: net: ethoc: enable NAPI before poll may be scheduled From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d220b942a4b6a0640aee78841608f4aa5e8e185e ] ethoc_reset enables device interrupts, ethoc_interrupt may schedule a NAPI poll before NAPI is enabled in the ethoc_open, which results in device being unable to send or receive anything until it's closed and reopened. In case the device is flooded with ingress packets it may be unable to recover at all. Move napi_enable above ethoc_reset in the ethoc_open to fix that. Fixes: a1702857724f ("net: Add support for the OpenCores 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC.") Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/ethernet/ethoc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c @@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ static int ethoc_open(struct net_device if (ret) return ret; + napi_enable(&priv->napi); + ethoc_init_ring(priv, dev->mem_start); ethoc_reset(priv); @@ -718,7 +720,6 @@ static int ethoc_open(struct net_device } phy_start(priv->phy); - napi_enable(&priv->napi); if (netif_msg_ifup(priv)) { dev_info(&dev->dev, "I/O: %08lx Memory: %08lx-%08lx\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/net-ethoc-enable-napi-before-poll-may-be-scheduled.patch