This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: dsa: lan9303: Do not disable switch fabric port 0 at .probe to the 4.14-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-dsa-lan9303-do-not-disable-switch-fabric-port-0-at-.probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017 From: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:14:10 +0200 Subject: net: dsa: lan9303: Do not disable switch fabric port 0 at .probe From: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3c91b0c1de8d013490bbc41ce9ee8810ea5baddd ] Make the LAN9303 work when lan9303_probe() is called twice. For some unknown reason the LAN9303 switch fail to forward data when switch fabric port 0 TX is disabled during probe. (Write of LAN9303_MAC_TX_CFG_0 in lan9303_disable_processing_port().) In that situation the switch fabric seem to receive frames, because the ALR is learning addresses. But no frames are transmitted on any of the ports. In our system lan9303_probe() is called twice, first time dsa_register_switch() return -EPROBE_DEFER. As an experiment, modified the code to skip writing LAN9303_MAC_TX_CFG_0, port 0 during the first probe. Then the switch works as expected. Resolve the problem by not calling lan9303_disable_processing_port() on port 0 during probe. Ports 1 and 2 are still disabled. Although unsatisfying that the exact failure mechanism is not known, the patch should not cause any harm. Signed-off-by: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> 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/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int lan9303_disable_processing(st { int p; - for (p = 0; p < LAN9303_NUM_PORTS; p++) { + for (p = 1; p < LAN9303_NUM_PORTS; p++) { int ret = lan9303_disable_processing_port(chip, p); if (ret) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-dsa-lan9303-do-not-disable-switch-fabric-port-0-at-.probe.patch