This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: gianfar_ptp: move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area 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-gianfar_ptp-move-set_fipers-to-spinlock-protecting-area.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 Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018 From: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 11:02:33 +0800 Subject: net: gianfar_ptp: move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area From: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 11d827a993a969c3c6ec56758ff63a44ba19b466 ] set_fipers() calling should be protected by spinlock in case that any interrupt breaks related registers setting and the function we expect. This patch is to move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area in ptp_gianfar_adjtime(). Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@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/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c @@ -319,11 +319,10 @@ static int ptp_gianfar_adjtime(struct pt now = tmr_cnt_read(etsects); now += delta; tmr_cnt_write(etsects, now); + set_fipers(etsects); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&etsects->lock, flags); - set_fipers(etsects); - return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-gianfar_ptp-move-set_fipers-to-spinlock-protecting-area.patch