This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8152: avoid start_xmit to call napi_schedule during autosuspend 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: r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-call-napi_schedule-during-autosuspend.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 Thu Jun 15 15:00:53 CEST 2017 From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:38:31 +0800 Subject: r8152: avoid start_xmit to call napi_schedule during autosuspend From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 26afec39306926654e9cd320f19bbf3685bb0997 ] Adjust the setting of the flag of SELECTIVE_SUSPEND to prevent start_xmit() from calling napi_schedule() directly during runtime suspend. After calling napi_disable() or clearing the flag of WORK_ENABLE, scheduling the napi is useless. Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c @@ -3583,10 +3583,15 @@ static int rtl8152_rumtime_suspend(struc struct net_device *netdev = tp->netdev; int ret = 0; + set_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); + if (netif_running(netdev) && test_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags)) { u32 rcr = 0; if (delay_autosuspend(tp)) { + clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); ret = -EBUSY; goto out1; } @@ -3603,6 +3608,8 @@ static int rtl8152_rumtime_suspend(struc if (!(ocp_data & RXFIFO_EMPTY)) { rxdy_gated_en(tp, false); ocp_write_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, PLA_RCR, rcr); + clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); ret = -EBUSY; goto out1; } @@ -3622,8 +3629,6 @@ static int rtl8152_rumtime_suspend(struc } } - set_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); - out1: return ret; } @@ -3679,12 +3684,13 @@ static int rtl8152_resume(struct usb_int if (netif_running(tp->netdev) && tp->netdev->flags & IFF_UP) { if (test_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags)) { tp->rtl_ops.autosuspend_en(tp, false); - clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); napi_disable(&tp->napi); set_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags); if (netif_carrier_ok(tp->netdev)) rtl_start_rx(tp); napi_enable(&tp->napi); + clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); } else { tp->rtl_ops.up(tp); netif_carrier_off(tp->netdev); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/r8152-fix-rtl8152_post_reset-function.patch queue-4.9/r8152-re-schedule-napi-for-tx.patch queue-4.9/r8152-avoid-start_xmit-to-call-napi_schedule-during-autosuspend.patch queue-4.9/r8152-check-rx-after-napi-is-enabled.patch