This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled
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-schedule-napi-when-napi-is-disabled.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 16:23:30 CEST 2017
From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:38:32 +0800
Subject: r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled
From: hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit de9bf29dd6e4a8a874cb92f8901aed50a9d0b1d3 ]
Stop the tx when the napi is disabled to prevent napi_schedule() is
called.
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 | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
@@ -3158,10 +3158,13 @@ static void set_carrier(struct r8152 *tp
if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
tp->rtl_ops.enable(tp);
set_bit(RTL8152_SET_RX_MODE, &tp->flags);
+ netif_stop_queue(netdev);
napi_disable(&tp->napi);
netif_carrier_on(netdev);
rtl_start_rx(tp);
napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+ netif_wake_queue(netdev);
+ netif_info(tp, link, netdev, "carrier on\n");
}
} else {
if (netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
@@ -3169,6 +3172,7 @@ static void set_carrier(struct r8152 *tp
napi_disable(&tp->napi);
tp->rtl_ops.disable(tp);
napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+ netif_info(tp, link, netdev, "carrier off\n");
}
}
}
@@ -3518,12 +3522,12 @@ static int rtl8152_pre_reset(struct usb_
if (!netif_running(netdev))
return 0;
+ netif_stop_queue(netdev);
napi_disable(&tp->napi);
clear_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags);
usb_kill_urb(tp->intr_urb);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&tp->schedule);
if (netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
- netif_stop_queue(netdev);
mutex_lock(&tp->control);
tp->rtl_ops.disable(tp);
mutex_unlock(&tp->control);
@@ -3551,10 +3555,10 @@ static int rtl8152_post_reset(struct usb
rtl_start_rx(tp);
rtl8152_set_rx_mode(netdev);
mutex_unlock(&tp->control);
- netif_wake_queue(netdev);
}
napi_enable(&tp->napi);
+ netif_wake_queue(netdev);
usb_submit_urb(tp->intr_urb, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!list_empty(&tp->rx_done))
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-avoid-start_xmit-to-schedule-napi-when-napi-is-disabled.patch
queue-4.9/r8152-check-rx-after-napi-is-enabled.patch