4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lars Persson <lars.persson@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 45ab4b13e46325d00f4acdb365d406e941a15f81 ] The mss variable tracks the last max segment size sent to the TSO engine. We do not update the hardware as long as we receive skb:s with the same value in gso_size. During a network device down/up cycle (mapped to stmmac_release() and stmmac_open() callbacks) we issue a reset to the hardware and it forgets the setting for mss. However we did not zero out our mss variable so the next transmission of a gso packet happens with an undefined hardware setting. This triggers a hang in the TSO engine and eventuelly the netdev watchdog will bark. Fixes: f748be531d70 ("stmmac: support new GMAC4") Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -1795,6 +1795,7 @@ static int stmmac_open(struct net_device priv->dma_buf_sz = STMMAC_ALIGN(buf_sz); priv->rx_copybreak = STMMAC_RX_COPYBREAK; + priv->mss = 0; ret = alloc_dma_desc_resources(priv); if (ret < 0) {