This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled phylink: ensure we take the link down when phylink_stop() is called 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-take-the-link-down-when-phylink_stop-is-called.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 Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018 From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:59:26 +0000 Subject: phylink: ensure we take the link down when phylink_stop() is called From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2012b7d6b2868c532f22d9172c8b24611637eb48 ] Ensure that we tell the MAC to take the link down when phylink_stop() is called, and that this completes prior to phylink_stop() returns. Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/phy/phylink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -772,6 +772,7 @@ void phylink_stop(struct phylink *pl) sfp_upstream_stop(pl->sfp_bus); set_bit(PHYLINK_DISABLE_STOPPED, &pl->phylink_disable_state); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &pl->resolve); flush_work(&pl->resolve); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_stop); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/sfp-fix-rx_los-signal-handling.patch queue-4.14/drm-armada-fix-leak-of-crtc-structure.patch queue-4.14/arm-8743-1-bl_switcher-add-module_license-tag.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-take-the-link-down-when-phylink_stop-is-called.patch