This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted 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: phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.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 Sat Jan 13 10:51:05 CET 2018 From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:15:12 +0000 Subject: phylink: ensure we report link down when LOS asserted From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ac817f5ad066697e4d4d35ec68c974eba2c5f17a ] Although we disable the netdev carrier, we fail to report in the kernel log that the link went down. Fix this. Fixes: 9525ae83959b ("phylink: add phylink infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -1428,9 +1428,8 @@ static void phylink_sfp_link_down(void * WARN_ON(!lockdep_rtnl_is_held()); set_bit(PHYLINK_DISABLE_LINK, &pl->phylink_disable_state); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &pl->resolve); flush_work(&pl->resolve); - - netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev); } static void phylink_sfp_link_up(void *upstream) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/sfp-fix-sfp-bus-oops-when-removing-socket-upstream.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.patch