This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sfc: provide dummy definitions of vswitch functions 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: sfc-provide-dummy-definitions-of-vswitch-functions.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 29 18:57:46 CEST 2017 From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:45:08 +0100 Subject: sfc: provide dummy definitions of vswitch functions From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> efx_probe_all() calls efx->type->vswitching_probe during probe. For SFC4000 (Falcon) NICs this function is not defined, leading to a BUG with the top of the call stack similar to: ? efx_pci_probe_main+0x29a/0x830 efx_pci_probe+0x7d3/0xe70 vswitching_restore and vswitching_remove also need to be defined. Fixed in mainline by: commit 5a6681e22c14 ("sfc: separate out SFC4000 ("Falcon") support into new sfc-falcon driver") Fixes: 6d8aaaf6f798 ("sfc: create VEB vswitch and vport above default firmware setup") Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon.c @@ -2801,6 +2801,11 @@ const struct efx_nic_type falcon_a1_nic_ .timer_period_max = 1 << FRF_AB_TC_TIMER_VAL_WIDTH, .offload_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM, .mcdi_max_ver = -1, +#ifdef CONFIG_SFC_SRIOV + .vswitching_probe = efx_port_dummy_op_int, + .vswitching_restore = efx_port_dummy_op_int, + .vswitching_remove = efx_port_dummy_op_void, +#endif }; const struct efx_nic_type falcon_b0_nic_type = { @@ -2902,4 +2907,9 @@ const struct efx_nic_type falcon_b0_nic_ .offload_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXHASH | NETIF_F_NTUPLE, .mcdi_max_ver = -1, .max_rx_ip_filters = FR_BZ_RX_FILTER_TBL0_ROWS, +#ifdef CONFIG_SFC_SRIOV + .vswitching_probe = efx_port_dummy_op_int, + .vswitching_restore = efx_port_dummy_op_int, + .vswitching_remove = efx_port_dummy_op_void, +#endif }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bkenward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/sfc-provide-dummy-definitions-of-vswitch-functions.patch